Famous People with Name Amir

Amir Lavi            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Lavi: an Israeli footballer. He recently made the jump from the youth ranks at F.C. Ashdod to the first team. A cousin of club owner, Haim Revivo, he has represented Israel at the Jetix Kids Cup where he guided Israel to a first place finish and received MVP honours.

Amir Turgeman            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Turgeman: an Israeli former football player and manager and the current deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. Turk was the first Arab to play for the Israel national team and to represent the country at the Olympic Games.After leaving Hapoel Tel Aviv in 1984, Turk signed for Hapoel Jerusalem. He retired from playing in 1987,[1] and went on to manage several clubs, including Hapoel Tayibe, the first Arab club to play in the top division.

Amir Pnueli            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Pnueli: is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification.

Amir Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Peretz: is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007.

Amir Hadad            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Hadad: is a professional tennis player. His highest singles ATP ranking was # 180, in 2003. His highest doubles ranking was # 87, also in 2003. Most of his success has been on the challenger and future circuits. In May 2002, in the first round of the French Open

Abbas Amir-Enteza            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Abbas Amir-Enteza: was the spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic government in Iran. He is now "the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran".[1] According to Fariba Amini, as of 2006 he has "been in jail for 17 years and in and out of jail for the last ten years, altogether for 27 years."

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