Kermanshahis
Kermanshahi (Kurdish: Kirmashanî, Persian: کرمانشاهی) refers to Iranian people who live mainly in Kermanshah province.
Kermanshahi Kurdish (sometimes called Kalhori for most parts of the province) has one of the greatest speakers in the southern branch. Kermanshahi Kurdish is spoken in and around the city of Kermanshah and in Kermanshah province.[1] The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims. Kermanshah is populated by both ethnic Persians and Shia Kurdish people and both Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian languages are spoken in the city. But today only the older generation speak Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian and the majority of the citys inhabitants speak Standard Persian which is based on the dialect/accent of Tehran.[2]
Notable figures
Scientists
- Al-Dinawari scientist born at Dinawar north-east of Kermanshah.
- Massoud Azarnoush, archaeologist
- Shahram Amiri, nuclear scientist
Musicians
- Shahram Nazeri - master of Persian classical music and Kurdish music.
- Susan (singer) (Golandam Taherkhani)- singer
- Kayhan Kalhor- musician
- Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi- songwriter
- Ali Akbar Moradi- musician and tanbour player
- Roknoddin Mokhtari- violin player
- Sohrab Pournazeri, musician
Actors and movie directors
Political figures
- Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Oil minister.
- Karim Sanjabi, Iran's attorney in the oil's national movement, former foreign minister
- Mohammad Mokri, politician, kurdologist, writer, poet, linguist, researcher
- Ebrahim Azizi, member and spokesman of the Guardian Council
Sportspeople
Writers and poets
- Doris Lessing, writer, 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born in Kermanshah to British parents)
- Rashid Yasemi, one of the Five-Masters of Persian Literature
- Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi, writer
- Abolghasem Lahouti, poet
- Ali Mohammad Afghani, novelist
- Ali Ashraf Darvishian, novelist and writer
- Nasser Zarafshan, novelist, translator, and attorney
- Javad Sharifi, poet
- Hajj Nematollah, mystic
- Mahshid Amirshahi, writer
Artists
Others
- Andre Molitor, former clerk of the great Belgian State and former chief of staff of the king Baudouin I of Belgium, professor of public administration at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain)
- Hayedeh Shirzadi, director general of Kermanshah recycling & organic fertilizer production company
- Frangis Heydarpour, civilian war heroine
See also
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