Kermanshahis

Kermanshahi

Regions with significant populations
Kermanshah province in Iran
Languages
Kurdish Persian (Kermanshahi dialect and Standard Persian)
Religion
Shi'a Islam, Sunni Islam, Yarsan
Related ethnic groups
Kurdish people, Persian people

Kermanshahi (Kurdish: Kirmaşanî‎, Persian: کرمانشاهی‎‎) refers to Iranian people who live mainly in Kermanshah province. Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian are spoken in and around the city of Kermanshah and in Kermanshah province.

Notable figures

Scientists

• Massoud Azarnoush, archaeologist
• Shahram Amiri, nuclear scientist
• Mohammad Reza Behrangi, doctorate of educational administration from the University of Southern California, translator, and member of the academic staff of Kharazmi University of Tehran
• Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī scientist born at Dinawar north-east of Kermanshah

Musicians

• Kayhan Kalhor, musician
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, songwriter
• Ali Akbar Moradi, musician and tanbour player
• Roknoddin Mokhtari, violin player
• Mojtaba Mirzadeh, violin player
• Shahram Nazeri, master of Persian classical music and Kurdish music
• Sohrab Pournazeri, musician
• Susan (Golandam Taherkhani), singer

Actors and film directors

• Nozar Azadi, actor
• Pouran Derakhshandeh, film director, producer, screenwriter
• Reza Shafiei Jam, actor
• Alexis Kouros, writer, documentary-maker, director and producer
• Reza Fieze Norouzi, actor

Politics

• Ebrahim Azizi, member and spokesman of the Guardian Council
• Abdolreza Mesri, MP from Kermanshah constituency in the 7th, and 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly, former minister of welfare and Iran's ambassador to Venezuela
• Mohammad Mokri, politician, writer, poet, linguist, researcher
• Karim Sanjabi, Iran's attorney in the oil's national movement, former foreign minister
• Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, oil minister.

Sports

• Kourosh Bagheri, World weightlifting champion
• Homa Hosseini, rower
• Ali Mazaheri, Asian amateur boxing champion and Olympic boxer
• Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi, light heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Iran's national team coach
• Mohammad Ranjbar, footballer and coach
• Kianoush Rostami, World champion in weightlifting 85 kg
• Neda Shahsavari, table tennis player

Writers and poets

• Ali Mohammad Afghani, novelist
• Mahshid Amirshahi, writer
• Ali Ashraf Darvishian, novelist and writer
• Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi, writer
• Abolghasem Lahouti, poet
• Hajj Nematollah, mystic
• Rashid Yasemi, one of the Five-Masters of Persian Literature

Artists

• Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor, calligrapher
• Guity Novin, painter and graphic designer

Others

• Farhad, architect
• Andre Molitor, former clerk Belgium and former chief of staff of the king Baudouin I of Belgium, professor of public administration at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain)

See also

• Kalhor tribe
• Kermanshah

References

External links

• Past Heritage in the Land of Farhad