Famous People with Name Bahman

Bahman Sholevar            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bahman Sholevar: is an Iranian-American novelist, poet, translator, critic, psychiatrist and political activist. He began writing and translating at age 13. At ages 18 and 19 he translated William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land into Persian, and these still are renowned as two classics of translation in modern Persian literature.

Bahman Farmanara            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bahman Farmanara: an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Bahman Farmanara is the second son in a family of four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later on to US to study acting and directing. He graduated from University of Southern California with a BA in Cinema in 1966.After returning to Iran and doing military service, he joined the National Iranian Radio and Television.

Bahman Ghobadi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bahman Ghobadi: a Kurdish Iranian film director. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Iran. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.[1][2]He was born in Baneh, in northwestern Kurdistan Province of Iran. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from the Iranian Broadcasting College. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards. Bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us.

Bahman Kiarostami            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bahman Kiarostami: an Iranian film director, cinematographer, film editor and film producer, son of the critically acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami.In 1996 he made his first film " Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design".

Bahman Panahi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bahman Panahi: the youngest son of a large, cultivated family of artists, was introduced to music, painting, theatre and calligraphy through the work of his brothers and developed his own talents in the fields of music and calligraphy. To Bahman Panahi, music stands for the history of Iran, for its culture and its civilization, while calligraphy provides an image of Iranian artistic spontaneity and taste. The relationship between these two artistic domains provides a launching point for Panahi's ongoing philosophical contemplation and creative production.

Angelika Bahmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Angelika Bahmann: is an East German slalom canoer who competed in the early 1970s.

Christian Bahmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christian Bahmann: is a German slalom canoer who competed in the mid first decade of the 21st century. He won a gold in the C-2 event at the 2005 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Penrith.

Nizami Bahmanov            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Nizami Bahmanov: Bahmanov graduated from the Azerbaijan Technical University. He has two sons and two daughters. He has been Chief Executive of Shusha since 1992, and leader of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh in exile.