Malak Ghorbany

Malak Ghorbany

female
Malak Ghorbany is the name of an Iranian woman under sentence of death by stoning. On June 28, 2006, a court in the northwestern Iranian city of...
Mar Dinkha IV

Mar Dinkha IV

male, 74 years old
Mar Dinkha IV is the current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born on September 15, 1935 in the village of...
Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins

male, deceased (1869)
Justin Perkins (Holyoke, Massachusetts,1805-Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1869) was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He undertook a...
Agha Petros

Agha Petros

male, deceased (1932)
Agha Petros Elia of Baz was an Assyrian General during World War I. Petros was born in the Lower Baz village, Ottoman Empire. He completed his...
Rosie Malek-Yonan

Rosie Malek-Yonan

female
Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. She is a descendant...
Paul Bedjan

Paul Bedjan

male, deceased (1920)
Paul Bedjan was a priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and an orientalist. The son of a Chaldean Catholic family, Bedjan was enrolled a pupil at...
Richard Nelson Frye

Richard Nelson Frye

male, 89 years old
Richard Nelson Frye (c. 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at...
Joseph Cochran

Joseph Cochran

male
Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D. (January 14, 1855, Urmia, Iran - August 18, 1905, Urmia, Iran), was an American Presbyterian missionary. He is credited...
Freydun Atturaya

Freydun Atturaya

male, deceased (1926)
Dr. Freydun Bit Abram (or Freydun Atturaya) (1891-1926) was an Assyrian physicist born in the town of Charbash in the district of Urmia in Iran. He...

Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn

male, deceased (1610)
Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn (transliterated: Amir Khan Lapzerin) was a Kurdish ruler of Beradost near Urmia. In 1609 he build up the ruined structure of the...