Khayyam (disambiguation)

khayyam (خيام) means tentmaker.

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer.

Omar Khayyam or Khayyam may also refer to:

Places

Iran

• Khayyam, Nishapur, village, site of 2004 Nishapur train disaster
• Khayyam, Kermanshah, former village, now borough of the city of Kermanshah
• Khayam Metro Station, station on Tehran Metro Line at Khayam Street
• Khayyam Expressway, an expressway in Esfahan
• Omar Khayyam Square, a city square in Nishapur

Iraq

• Khayyam, Nineveh, village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq 35°54′09″N 042°25′43″E / 35.90250°N 42.42861°E
• Khayam, Saladin, village in Saladin Governorate, Iraq 33°52′58″N 043°50′10″E / 33.88278°N 43.83611°E

Other places

• Omar Khayyam (crater), a lunar crater on the far side from the Earth

People

• Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (born 1927), commonly credited as 'Khayyam', Indian music composer
• Khayyam Mirzazade (born 1935), an Azerbaijani composer and professor
• Kerry Wendell Thornley (1938-1998), co-founder of Discordianism, who wrote as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
• Amina Khayyam (born 1980), British dancer
• Omar Khayam (protester) (born 1983), British protester who dressed as a suicide bomber

Film, television and books

• Omar Khayyam (film), 1957 film in color with Cornel Wilde as Omar Khayyam
• Omar Khaiyyam, 1946 Bollywood film
• Omar the Tentmaker (film), 1922 film directed by James Young and featuring Boris Karloff
• The Omar Khayyam Show, Spike Milligan's BBC remake of his ABC series, The Idiot Weekly

Other

• Omar Khayyam (horse) (1914–1938), British-born thoroughbred racehorse

See also

• Khayyam triangle
• Khayyam quadrilateral