Famous People with Name Amir

Amir Ansari            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Ansari: is co-founder of venture capital firm Prodea Systems, Inc. Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multi-million dollar contribution to the X PRIZE foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X PRIZE was officially renamed the Ansari X PRIZE in honour of their donation.Amir, along with his brother Hamid and sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, founded Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI) in 1993, and served as the company's CTO. TTI was acquired by Sonus Networks, Inc. in 2000.

Amir Esbati            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Esbati: a cinematic art director. He earned a B.A. in architecture from Tehran University, and started his career with The Treasure (1984, M. Sadjadi).He has been nominated five times for the International Fajr Film Festival, and won the award for the films The Land of the Sun (1996, A. Darvish) and The May Lady (1997, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad). He works also as a graphist. He was the Chairman of the Association of Art Directors in Iranian cinema.

Amir Naderi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Naderi: a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema.Naderi developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films at the theater where he worked as a boy, reading film criticism, and making relationships with leading film critics. He began his career with still photography for some notable Iranian features. In the 1970s, Naderi turned to directing, and made some of the most important features of the New Iranian Cinema. In 1971, his directorial debut, Goodbye Friend was released in Iran. Mr. Naderi first came into the international spotlight with films that are now known as cinema classics, The Runner (1985), and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). The Runner is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century

Amir-Shahab Razavian            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir-Shahab Razavian: an Iranian film director, filmmaker and producer.Razavian began his cinematic activities at Hamedan Amateur Film-making Centre in 1980 while still studying at high-school (at Ebn-e Sina [1] High School in Hamadan). He obtained his degree in film directing from College of Theatre and Cinema of Art University in 1990. From the same College he received in 1995 his post-graduate degree in animation. Since then he has produced seventy short films, directed thirty documentary and short films, and three feature films. The latter are The Journey of the Grey Men (Safar-e Mardan-e Khakestari), Tehran, Seven O'clock in the Morning (Tehran Sa'at-e Haft-e Sobh) and Colors of Memory (with the original title Mina-ye Shahr-e Khamoush, The Mina of the Extinguished Town).[2] [3]

Amir Katz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Amir Katz: a pianist, who lives in Germany.Katz began piano lessons at the age of 11. At the age of 15 he won his first national competitions, received various scholarships to further studies in Europe, among others at the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como where he had lessons with Leon Fleisher, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Murray Perahia. His studies led him to Munich, Germany, where he finished his studies with Elisso Wirssaladse and Michael Schäfer.

Eli Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Eli Amir: an Israeli writer and activist.He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1950 and went to school in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1964 to 1968 he served as adviser on Arab affairs to the Prime Minister of

Mustafa Ahmad Abdul-Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Mustafa Ahmad Abdul-Amir: an Iraqi football (soccer) Striker playing for the Al-Zawraa football club in Iraq.

Daisy Al Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Daisy Al Amir: an Iraqi writer, poet and novelist.[1] She is author of The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation has renowned her as one of the leading female writers of Iraq.Daisy al-Amir was born in Basra, Iraq in 1935. After earning her Bachelor’s Degree from the Teachers’ Training College of Baghdad, Daisy al-Amir went to Cambridge to study and write her thesis on Arabic Literature. Her father refused to pay tuition, however, and on her trip home, she stopped in Beirut where she found a job as a secretary in the Iraqi embassy. She chose to remain in Beirut