Famous People with Name Morteza

Morteza Mohammadkhan            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Morteza Mohammadkhan: was the Minister of Economic Affair and Finance of Iran from 1993 to 1997.Mohammadkhan was born in Tehran. He is an economist at Khaje Nasir University of Technology. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from San Jose State University and also a MS in Economics From San Jose State University and a PhD from Ponna University.

Morteza Momayez            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Morteza Momayez: was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society (IGDS)[1]and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) [2]. He was the president of Tehran International Poster Biennial and Editor-in-chief of “Neshan”

Morteza Hannaneh            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Morteza Hannaneh: was a Persian (Iranian) composer and horn player. He studied Horn at the Tehran Conservatory of Music and basic composition with Parviz Mahmoud, founder of Tehran Symphony Orchestra. For a short period he was the principal conductor of this orchestra in 1940s. Hannaneh also studied composition in Italy and established Farabi Orchestra in Radio Tehran in 1963s.

Morteza Mahjoubi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Morteza Mahjoubi: was a celebrated Iranian pianist.Morteza was only ten years old when he first played alongside Aref Qazvini, a renowned Persian singer and poet, in a concert. Morteza developed a unique style of playing Persian classical music, Sonati, on the piano, which truly did the monophonic and ornamental nature of the music justice.

Mortezâ Varzi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Mortezâ Varzi: was an Iranian musician and kamancheh player. He was born in Tehran of an artistically-inclined family. He started his music lessons on the violin at age 15 with Morteza Neydavoud, one of the greatest Persian instrumentalists of the twentieth century.