Parveen

Parvin or Parveen or Pervin or Parween (خوشه پروین) is a unisex name meaning the Pleiades,^[1] also used as a last name.

Parvin or Parveen can also refer to:

Males

• Alfred Parvin (1859–1916), English cricketer
• G. R. Parvin (1917-1997), English businessman and writer
• Ali Parvin (born 1947), Iranian football player
• Landon Parvin (born 1948), American political speech writer
• Parvin Dabas (born 1974), Indian actor and model
• Parvin Darabadi, professor at the International Relations Department, Baku State University

Females

• Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), Iranian poet
• Parvin Dowlatabadi (1924-2008), Iranian children's author and poet
• Parveen Shakir (1952–1994) Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant
• Parvin Soleimani (1922-2009), Iranian actress of theater and cinema
• Selina Parvin (1931-1971), Bangladeshi journalist
• Parveen Babi (1949 –2005), Indian actress
• Parvin Darabi (born 1941), Iranian born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights
• Parween Pazhwak (born 1967), Afghan artist and poet and writer in the Persian language
• Parveen Sultana (born 1950), Indian Hindustani classical singer
• Shama Parveen Magsi (born 1950), politician from Balochistan province of Pakistan
• Abida Parveen (born 1954), Pakistani singer
• Farida Parveen (born 1954), Bangladeshi singer
• Parvin Ardalan (born 1967), Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist
• Parvin Ahmadinejad (born 1962), Iranian politician
• Parween Hayat, Pakistani politician
• Pervin Buldan (born 1967), Turkish politician
• Pervin Özdemir (born 1951), Turkish ceramic artist

Other

• Parvin (mango), mango
• Parvin Bridge, Lane County, Oregon, USA
• Parvin State Park, New Jersey, USA
• Alpha-parvin, a protein that in humans is encoded by the PARVA gene

References

1. http://www.behindthename.com/name/parveen