Elie Tahari is a designer of woman's clothing. He has evolved a $500 million business, with a presence on five continents, in more than 600 US stores and in five free-standing boutiques.
Tahari grew up in an Israeli orphanage and immigrated to the United States in the 1970s with little money. After his arrival in New York, he was desperate for work and went from showroom to showroom in looking for employment. Things turned around for him when he learned about retail. His position selling clothing from a boutique was an introduction to his first love – designing women’s fashion. Tahari’s determination to learn and his auspicious attraction to New York’s famed club scene, inspired the designs that propelled him into the ‘who’s who’ of fashion.
Elie Tahari survived the ‘70s and stayed focused on fashion. His designs were so well received, he was one of the first fashion designers who opened a boutique on Madison Avenue in 1974.
Parlaying his keen ability to predict what a woman wants from fashion before she even knows it, he turned his attentions in the 80’s to the tailored suit — a design effort that redefined a decade. Today, Elie Tahari continues to empower women with designs inspired by his belief that smart women can look sexy.
Even with these accomplishments, Elie Tahari felt something was missing. Just after he blew out the candles on his 46th birthday he met his wife. In his own words, “Rory is my greatest love, and therefore, my greatest inspiration.” In a truly collaborative effort, this unique husband-wife team has tripled the size of the company in the last five years, injecting the brand with new meaning and vigor with the launch of the Elie Tahari Collection.
Women have been drawn to Elie Tahari designs for over three decades, and this devoted following continues to revel in the feminine embellishments, sensual fabrics, and subtle textures that have come to define the Elie Tahari collection.
In the United States, Tahari has boutiques in New York, Boston, East Hampton, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. In the 2007 movie Enchanted, two characters are shown shopping at Tahari's New York City store.
Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer. Sina reports directly to Steve Jobs.
Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President, Applications (age 48), joined Apple in September 1997. Tamaddon has also served with the company in the position of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Service and Support, and Vice President and General Manager, Newton Group. Before joining the Company, Tamaddon held the position of Vice President, Europe with NeXT from September 1996 through March 1997. From August 1994 to August 1996, Tamaddon held the position of Vice President, Professional Services with NeXT.
Born 1948) is an Iranian Bahá'í architect, now living in Canada.
He has a Masters degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran. Among his designs are:
Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi (born 1959 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California who has won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets.
Bonyadi moved from Iran to America in 1983, where he worked as an executive host in the LA Commerce Casino and as a shift manager at Hollywood Park Casino.
Bonyadi first came to the attention of poker players when he won the $2,000 limit hold'em event at the 1998 World Series of Poker (WSOP), defeating a final table that included Mimi Tran and John Cernuto on the way to a $429,940 first prize. In the same WSOP, he also made the final table of the $1,500 seven card stud split event, and placed in the money in the $10,000 no limit hold'em main event.
Bonyadi also made a final table in the second season World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker event, where he finished 5th at a final table featuring Mel Judah, Paul Phillips, T.J. Cloutier, Chip Jett and Phil Laak.
Bonyadi has also won WSOP bracelets in the 2004 $1,000 deuce to seven triple draw and the 2005 no limit hold'em tournaments.
As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,300,000.
Bonyadi is an exclusive professional poker player at Full Tilt Poker.
Generally known simply as Bijan(born 1944) is a well-known Iranian American designer of menswear and fragrances.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Bijan immigrated to the United States in 1973. His exclusive boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills was established in 1976 and can be visited by "appointment only". It has been described as "the most expensive store in the world".
Bijan dresses some of the world's most powerful men: President of the United States George W. Bush, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor Tom Cruise, German TV host Thomas Gottschalk, British actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, U.S. Senator John Kerry, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, Paul Allen, Jay Leno, Giorgio Armani, Usher, Carlos Slim Helu, Steve Wynn, Oscar De La Renta, Tom Ford, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan have all been dressed by Bijan.
Born June 6, 1985, is an Iranian-American swimmer. She was the world record holder in the 50 m women's backstroke, set on March 28, 2007 in the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, with a time of 28.16 seconds, until her time was bettered by Li Yang on October 19, 2007.[3] She equalled the record in the finals race the day after.
She has an Iranian father and a mother of German ancestry.
Vaziri completed her collegiate swimming career at Indiana University. The 2007 NCAA bronze medalist in the 100-yard backstroke, Vaziri had already left an indelible mark in IU history prior to her World Championship heroics. Vaziri earned 15 All-America certificates during her Hoosier career, the most in school history.
Christiane Amanpour was born to an English mother, Patricia and an Iranian father Mohammed, in London, England, on January 12th 1958. When Christiane and her sister Lizzy were still young their parents moved them to Tehran, Iran. At that time country was under the regime of the Shah of Iran and Christiane’s family led a privileged life with her father working as an Iranian Airline executive.
In 1979, when Christiane was just eleven years old her family had to leave Iran with the founding of the Islamic Revolution in the county. When she returned to her birth country she attended the Holy Cross Convent School in Buckinghamshire and then the exclusive Roman Catholic, New Hall School. Amanpour’s university days were spent in America at the University of Rhode Island where she studied journalism. One of her college housemates was John F Kennedy Jr, with whom she remained close friends until his death in 1999. When she graduated, with a bachelor of arts in journalism she was instantly employed by NBC affiliate, WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. But by 1993 she had been spotted by CNN and was sent on assignments around the world, including covering the conflicts in Sarajevo, Kuwait and Iraq. The first Persian Gulf War in 1990, saw Christiane covering the Iraqi occupation of neighbouring Kuwait and it was during this period that she became the face of CNN while covering the atrocities that Saddam Hussein inflicted on the civilians of Kuwait. She has been recognized as one of the top 100 Most Powerful Women.
Shiva Rose Gharibafshar (born 8 February 1969 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress.
Of Irish and Persian descent, she is married to American actor Dylan McDermott. 
They have two daughters, Colette and Charlotte. On September 27, 2007, People magazine confirmed that Rose and McDermott have separated.
Her father, Parviz Gharibafshar, was a popular television personality in his native Iran and now a personality on the Persian Broadcasting Company, Tapesh.
Rudi Bakhtiar joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as a general correspondent in January 2006, and held that role until July 2007. Prior to joining FNC, Bakhtiar worked for 9 years at CNN, joining the network in 1996. During her time at the network, she held multiple different positions, including anchoring on the CNN's spin-off network, Headline News, and as a co-anchor of CNN Student News, a 30-minute commercial free news program designed for use in the classroom. Throughout her cable news career, she has reported on assignments from numerous countries, in addition to anchoring the start of coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Prior to working as a news anchor, Bakhtiar worked at a pharmaceutical company doing pharmaceutical sales.
In 1981, the young Yasmin was discovered by a local modeling agency while working a part-time sales job.
In mid 1984 Yasmin Parvaneh met Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran. The couple married on December 27, 1985.
Yasmin Le Bon took a brief hiatus from modeling in 1986 to recover from a miscarriage. Soon she returned to the business and in April 1987 was hired by GUESS? for a key advertising campaign. In the late 1980s She appeared on the cover of the first American and British issues of Elle. She has also been on the covers of Vogue, V, I.D., Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and many others.
After several more miscarriages Le Bon eventually gave birth to a daughter, Amber Rose, in August 1989. She was back on the catwalks within weeks. In September 1991, Le Bon had her second daughter, Saffron Sahara, and then, three years later, had her third, Tallulah Pine. In the spring of 2001, Le Bon, a 36-year-old mother of three, modeled bikinis for Marks & Spencer. In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with designer Matthew Williamson and his sponsor, Ariel Essential. During this period she was managed in the U.S. by Elite Model Management.
As a model Le Bon has represented Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Bergdorf Goodman, Biotherm, Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior, Clairol, Escada, Filene's, Freemans, Frasercard and Gianfranco Ferre, amongst others.
Farzan Athari ( born June 26, 1984 in Tehran, Iran. Is a Swedish fashion model, and also actor, TV host and TV personality. He is credited to be one of the well recognized International male models in the world. He was the first International Model in the history to sign a modeling contract in Iran.
Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi, also known as Sarah Shahi (born January 10, 1980, in Euless, Texas, U.S.), is an American actress and model of Iranian and Spanish descent. former NFL Cheerleader and a great-great-granddaughter of the 19th century Persian Shah Fath Ali Shah Qajar by Begom Khanom (daughter of Hossein Qoli Khan Afshar, niece of Begom Khanom, daughter of Emam Qoli Khan Afshar), through their son Jahansouz Shah. Shahi was named #90 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" ; she moved up to #66 in 2006.
Sarah Shahi was born in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish mother, Abbas and Mahmonir Jahansouz Shahi. She attended Trinity High School and Dallas' Southern Methodist University, majoring in English and Opera . Shahi started her career as a beauty queen during her teen years. She won the Miss Fort Worth USA pageant in 1997. She joined the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 1999-2000 squad and appeared on the cover of their 2000 calendar.
An Iranian-American scientist (born in Iran) and the Associate Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) responsible for Project Formulation and Strategy.
He received his Ph.D.from the University of Southern California in electrical engineering (writing his dissertation in the area of digital image processing) and joined JPL in 1979.
His career at JPL has spanned system engineering, technology development and, program and project management for satellite communications systems, Earth remote sensing observatories, astrophysical observatories and planetary systems
He was named head of the Mars Exploration Program at JPL in 2000 after the Program had suffered two consecutive failures. In summer of 2000 he helped replan the Program as a chain of scientifically, technologically and operationally interrelated missions with a spacecraft launch to Mars every two years. He led the Program for the next five years, a span of time that included the successful landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
Before Mars, he managed the Origins program, NASA’s ambitious technology-rich plan, to search for Earth-like planets in other planetary systems.
He joined JPL in September of 1979. His early work at JPL was on system design of large satellite-based systems for nationwide cellular phone coverage. He went to NASA Headquarters for two years in the mid-80s to serve as the program manager for the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), the front-runner of today’s multi-beam space-switching commercial satellites. Upon his return to JPL, he became the project manager for the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Project aimed at space-based measurement of winds over the global oceans with application to weather forecasting. He was a co-founder of a startup company in the mid-‘80s and consultant to other startup companies in the same period. Dr. Naderi is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautic and Astronautic (AIAA).
Bell was born in London, England, the daughter of Mina, a personal assistant and nurse, and Peter Bell, an architect. Her mother was Iranian and her father English. Her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California when she was three years old. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States at the age of twelve.[citation needed] A self-described "geek", Bell thrived in math and biology classes in school, and in junior high school once programmed a computer video game.
She acted in various television advertisements as a child. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an interest in becoming either a biomedical engineer or a physician but dropped out to become a full-time model.
One of Bell's first modeling jobs was an extended assignment in Japan. When she returned to California, she studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas. Her first television acting role was one line on the sitcom "Sugar and Spice" (1990).Her first appearance in a film was as a partially nude body double for Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992).
From 1997 to 2005, Bell starred as U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie on the television series JAG as a practicing attorney in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps. Her earlier TV work included an appearance in a late night adult series called "Hot line" which aired in the U.K. From 1994 to 1996. Bell was featured in "The Brunch Club" episode.
In 2003, the actress had a supporting role as a television news anchor in the comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey. She reprised the role with a cameo in the 2007 sequel Evan Almighty.
Bell appeared in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries The Triangle, presented in December 2005, playing an ocean engineer. In 2006, she was nominated in Saturn Award of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Supporting Actress on Television (The Triangle).
In 2007, Bell starred in Lifetime's ensemble drama series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood, the wife of a US Army major, who is enduring physical abuse at the hands of her teenage son.
Born Kamran on 9 April 1978 in Tehran, Iran, is a pop singer and songwriter.
At was eight years old, his family left Tehran to spend a year in Barcelona, after which they moved to Malmö in southern Sweden. Cartio and his family ended up in Rosengård.
He made his debut in Melodifestivalen 2005 with his song Roma. The song was written in a language he made himself.
Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a communist family who was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Islamic Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.
Satrapi is a great-granddaughter of Nasser al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 until 1896. However, Satrapi points out that "the kings of the Qajar dynasty...had hundreds of wives. They made thousands of kids. If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, ten to fifteen thousand princes and princesses. There's nothing extremely special about that."[4]
In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she lived there during her high school years, returning to Iran for college. At college, she met a man named Reza, whom she married at age 21 and divorced roughly a year later. She then studied Visual Communication, eventually obtaining a Master's Degree in Visual Communication from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran Azad University. Satrapi then moved to Strasbourg, France. She currently lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of children's books.
Satrapi's career began in earnest when she met David B., a French comics artist. She adopted a style similar to his, especially in her earliest works. Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her later publication, Broderies (Embroideries) was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award which was won by her most recent novel, Poulet aux prunes.[5][6] She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times.[7]
Persepolis was adapted into an animated film of the same name, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 and shared a Special Jury Prize with Still Light (Luz silenciosa) by Carlos Reygadas. Co-written and co-directed by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, the French-language picture stars the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Simon Abkarian. The English version, starring the the voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, and Iggy Pop, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in January 2008. [8][9]
Although Queen were not always popular with rock music critics,[2][3][4] estimates of the band's worldwide record sales to date have been placed as high as 300 million.[5] The band has also spent more collective weeks on the UK Album Charts than any other musical act, including The Beatles.[6] On the other hand, Queen's level of popularity often lagged in the United States relative to many other countries, especially during the 1980s. In 2006, Time Asia named Mercury as one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years.[7] However, he has also been criticised for having kept his ethnicity, as well as his HIV status, a secret from the public.[8][9]
