List of Zoroastrians

This is a list of Zoroastrians with a Wikipedia article.

From Greater Iran

  • Cyrus the Great, (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; Kourosh; New Persian: کوروش Kuruš; Hebrew: כורש, Modern: Kōréš, Tiberian: Kōréš; c. 600–530 BC) : commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia
  • Darius the Great, (Old Persian: Dārayava(h)uš, New Persian: داریوش Dāryuš; Hebrew: דָּרְיָוֶשׁ, Modern: Darəyaveš, Tiberian: Dāryāwéš; c. 550–486 BCE) : was the fourth Persian king of the Achaemenid Empire
  • Farhang Mehr, (1923-2018): former Deputy Prime Minister of Iran
  • Jamshid Bahman Jamshidian, (1851–1933): pioneer of modern banking in Iran
  • Keikhosrow Shahrokh, (1864–1929): proponent of the Iranian civil calendar and designer of the Ferdowsi mausoleum
  • Xerxes I, (/ˈzɜːrksiːz/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 Xšayaṛša (About this soundKhshāyarsha (help·info)) "ruling over heroes",Greek Ξέρξης Xérxēs [ksérksɛːs]; 519–465 BC): called Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia


In science and industry

In academia

Military

In entertainment, religion, sports

  • Aban Marker Kabraji (born 1953): Pakistani ecologist, Asian regional director of IUCN
  • Amyra Dastur (born 1993): model, film actress, television presenter
  • Alaya Furniturewala (born 1998): model and film actresses
  • Aneela Mirza, or Anila Mirza (born 8 October 1974), Danish singer who has found success as a member of the pop group Toy-Box and as a solo artist under the name of Aneela
  • Ardeshir Cowasjee (1926–2012): investigative journalist and newspaper columnist

\* Bapsi Sidhwa (born 1938): author and screenwriter; vocal proponent of women's rights

Politicians, activists and bureaucrats

Indian independence movement

Law

Others

In arts

Fictional characters

  • The Cake "Parsee" (colloquial British spelling of Parsi) in "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin", a chapter in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Kipling names him as Pestonjee Bomonjee in the illustration accompanying the story.[1]

See also

References

  1. Kipling, Rudyard (1942). "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin". Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2022 via Lit2Go.
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