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Mirza


  • The title Mirza(ميرزا), from Persian/ Kurdish languages during the Moghul Emperor times of India, means, literally, a Prince.

The name is today in use mainly in the South Asian sub-continent, although the diaspora is wide and stretches across the world. When prefixed to a last name it is a title of honor, but when annexed to the last name it means a prince of blood royal.


Some people with this name include:

    • Mirza Ghalib, a famous Urdu and Persian poet from India who
  adorned the Mughal court.
    • Mirza Hasan Askari, prominent Lollywood writer & journalist.
    • Mirza Baig, Former member of the Indian Parliament, Secretary to the
  All India Congress Committee.

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  basketball player.
    • Diya Mirza, Bollywood actress and a Miss India
    • Waseem Mirza, A BBC Reporter in England
    • Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
    • Adam Mirza, Persian poet
    • Shirwan Mirza,MD: A Kurdish physician and author in the USA.
   Specialist in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, 
   in Auburn, New York, USA. Among his publication is the landmark  
   translation of the poems of the great Kurdish poet 
   Sherko Bekas into German:
    • Shirwan Mirza, Geheimnisse der Nacht pflücken,Unionverlag, Switzerland, 1993.
  He published the English translation of the same book in Australia   
  under the title: The secret diary of a rose, Translated by Shirwan Mirza.


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Source:

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrases and Fable, 16th edition  
  Revised by Adrian Room, 1999
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