Welcome. I am new here, and just about everyday I am learning something new. As long as this place is an educational resource then I will always come back!
Thanks, Wikipedia!
Contributions I've Made
edit- Amazing Vacation Homes-Homes are neat
- Didiayer Snyder-A very amazing person!!!
- Notable Iranians
Notable Iranians
edit- Abbas Kiarostami -former president of the Cannes Film Festival
- Abdol-Hossein Sardari -charge d'affaires in Paris who issued hundreds of visas to non-Iranian Jews to save them from the Nazis
- Abu-Rayhan Biruni -great contributer to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and science
- Ali Daei -first male soccer player to score 100 goals in international play
- Andre Agassi -former World #1 professional tennis player
- Anoushe Ansari -world's first female space tourist
- Camila Batmanghelidjh -founder of Kid's Company, winner of UK's Woman of the Year 2006 award
- Christiane Amanpour -chief international correspondent for CNN
- Farabi -second only to Aristotle in knowledge
- Farshid Moussavi -world leader in architectural engineering
- Fariborz Sahba -designer of the Lotus Temple, the most visited building in the world
- Farzad Nazem -chief technical officer and executive vice president of Yahoo!
- Firouz Naderi -associate director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Freddie Mercury -lead singer of Queen
- Hossein Amanat -architect of the Azadi Tower
- Lily Afshar -one of the world's best female classical guitarists
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam -Miss World Canada 2003
- Omar Khayyam -poet, mathematician, philospher, astronomer; triangle=b(squared)-4ac
- Omar Djalili -the only Iranian comedian in the world, which is technically 3 more than Germany
- Omid Kordestani -senior VP of worldwide sales and field operations for Google
- Parisa Khosravi -senior VP and managing editor, international news gathering, of CNN
- Pierre Omidyar -founder and chairman of Ebay
- Ramona Amiri -Miss World Canada 2005
- Razi -chemist, physicist, and philospher; discoverer of the medicinal aspects of alcohol
- Rumi -poet
- Saadi -poet; one on the hall of the UN
- Shahrdad Rohani -conductor
- Shirin Ebadi -2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Shohreh Aghdashloo -2003 Academy Award nominee