[custom_adv] He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while. He is particularly famous for writing the opera Rastakhiz iran, which was a reflection of his patriotic spirit. [custom_adv] Parvin E'tesami was born in 1907 in Tabriz to Mirza Yusuf Etesami Ashtiani ), who in turn was the son of Mirza Ebrahim Khan Mostawfi Etesam-al-Molk. Mirza Ebrahim Khan Mostawfi Etesam-al-Molk was originally from Ashtiyan, but moved to Tabriz and was appointed financial controller of the province of Azerbaijan by the Qajar administration. Parvin had four brothers and her mother died in 1973. [custom_adv] Forough Farrokhzad was born in 1935, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (originally from Tafresh city) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar. The third of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun, Pooran, Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girls' school for the manual arts. [custom_adv] Samad Behrangi (June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1967) was a teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer. He is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish. Influenced by predominantly leftist ideologies that were common among the persian intelligentsia of his era, his books typically portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and encouraged the individual to change his/ her circumstances by her own initiatives. [custom_adv] Gholamreza Takhti (August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani practitioner. Popularly nicknamed Jahān Pahlevān ("The World Champion") because of his chivalrous behavior and sportsmanship, he was the most popular athlete of homeland in the 20th century, although dozens of persian athletes have won more international medals than he did. [custom_adv] Ali Shariati Mazinani (23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential persian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the "ideologue of the persian Revolution", although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic. [custom_adv] Varoujan Hakhbandian , mostly known as Varoujan (1936 - 1977) was an songwriter, composer and arranger of Armenian descent.He has composed and written songs for Ebi, Googoosh, Dariush, and Farhad Mehrad. [custom_adv] Maryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.
