- male
- Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. As...
- male
- Bagoas (in Old Persian "Bagoi"; died 336 BC) was a eunuch who became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the...
- male
- Bagoas (in Old Persian "Bagoi") was an eunuch in the Persian Empire in the 4th Century BCE. He was reportedly the lover of Darius III and after...
- male
- Arsames (Aršāma, modern Persian: ارشام‎, Greek: ; - ca. 520 BC) was the son of Ariaramnes and perhaps briefly the king of Persia during the Ach...
- male
- Karl Hoffmann (26 February 1915 - 21 May 1996) was a German historian who specialized in Indo-European and Indo-Iranian studies. He is most...
- male, deceased (1905)
- Friedrich (von) Spiegel was a German orientalist.
- male, deceased (2006)
- Mark Roderick Vendrell Southern (March 3, 1961 - March 15, 2006) was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics. His research and...
- male, deceased (1544)
- Pedro Damiano (in Portuguese, Pedro Damião; "Damiano" is the Italian form, much like the Latin "Damianus") was a Portuguese chess player who lived f...
- male
- Artaxerxes I (Latin; Greek Ἀρταξέρξης; corruption of Old Persian
- male
- Darius the Great (c. 549 BC– 486/485 BC; "Darayavahu" : "Possessing goodness", was the son of Hystaspes, and king of Persia from 522 BC to 48...
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