Parveen

Parvin or Parveen or Parween (Persian and Urdu: پروین ) is a unisex given name in the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Azerbaijan and beyond. Parvin means star in the Persian and Urdu languages but in reality refers to the star cluster Pleiades (or خوشه پروین). It is also used as a unisex last name.

Parvin or Parveen can also refer to:

Males

• Alfred Parvin (1859–1916), English cricketer
• G. R. Parvin (1917-1997), English businessman and writer
• Ali Parvin (born 1947), Iranian football player
• Landon Parvin (born 1948), American political speech writer
• Parvin Dabas (born 1974), Indian actor and model
• Parvin Darabadi, professor at the International Relations Department, Baku State University

Females

• Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), Iranian poet
• Parvin Dowlatabadi (1924-2008), Iranian children's author and poet
• Parveen Shakir (1952–1994) Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant
• Parvin Soleimani (1922-2009), Iranian actress of theater and cinema
• Selina Parvin (1931-1971), Bangladeshi journalist
• Parveen Babi (1949 –2005), Indian actress
• Parvin Darabi (born 1941), Iranian born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights
• Parween Pazhwak (born 1967), Afghan artist and poet and writer in the Persian language
• Parveen Sultana (born 1950), Indian Hindustani classical singer
• Shama Parveen Magsi (born 1950), politician from Balochistan province of Pakistan
• Abida Parveen (born 1954), Pakistani singer
• Farida Parveen (born 1954), Bangladeshi singer
• Parvin Ardalan (born 1967), Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist
• Parvin Ahmadinejad (born 1962), Iranian politician
• Parween Hayat, Pakistani politician

Other

• Parvin (mango), mango
• Parvin Bridge, Lane County, Oregon, USA
• Parvin State Park, New Jersey, USA
• Alpha-parvin, a protein that in humans is encoded by the PARVA gene