- Mir Taqi Mir
Mohammed Taqi (Urdu: محمد تقی, better known by his nom de plume of Mir Taqi Mir (Urdu: میر تقی میر) (sometimes also spelled as Meer Taqi Meer), was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of Delhi school of Urdu ghazal and remains arguably the foremost name in Urdu poetry.
- Pervez Mir
Pervez Jamil Mir (born September 24, 1953, Sutrapur, Dacca, East Pakistan) is a Pakistani TV anchorperson and retired cricketer. Mir hosts "Q & A With PJ Mir" from London, a popular (and controversial) current affairs talk-show on Ary One World. He is said to be a pioneer of live TV transmission and of private television in Pakistan. His cricket career included three One-day Internationals for Pakistan, two of those appearances at the 1975 World Cup, …
- Aleksandra Mir
Aleksandra Mir (b.1967, Lubin, Poland) is an artist based in New York City and Palermo, Sicily. She has Swedish citizenship. Mir studied Communication and Media Studies at Schillerska/Gothenburg University (1986-1987) and attained her BFA in Media Arts (1992) from the School of Visual Arts in New York before completing her post graduate work in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1996.
- Mushaf Ali Mir
Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (5 March, 1947 - 20 February, 2003) was the former chief of air staff of the Pakistan Air Force from 20 November, 2000 until his death when the PAF Fokker F-27 he was in crashed near Kohat, Pakistan As air chief, Mushaf Ali Mir was responsible for the decision to replace the PAF's F-6 aircraft with F-7s.
- Aasmah Mir
Aasmah Mir is a BBC reporter born on 7 October 1971 and brought up in Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993. Mir presents the Weekend News on BBC’s Radio Five Live, Saturdays and Sundays, 8.00-10.00pm.She began her career in broadcasting aged 21 when she started reading the news for Scottish Television. In 1995 she then went on to work for the "Daily Record" and "Sunday Mail", …
- Ali M. Mir
Ali M. Mir is the Vice President of the Population Association of Pakistan. He was previously the Secretary General of the Association. He serves as Director Programs at the Population Council’s Pakistan Office. He is a medical graduate from the Rawalpindi Medical College, and obtained Masters of Public Health from the University of Leeds UK. He was awarded the prestigious Britannia/Chevening scholarship to pursue studies in the UK.
- Sardar Rasool Mir
Sardar Rasool Mir is from the tribal area of Jaglot in Pakistan. He is the chieftain of his own tribe popularly known as the Mirs of Jaglot.He is a popular political figure of northern areas. He was elected as youngest member of the northern areas council in 1975. He had been a staunch advocate of the rights of the people of northern areas, for which he kept his struggle alive under different political and military regimes of Pakistan.
- Samad Mir
Samad Mir (1894-1959), known for his work Akanandun (The Only Son), continued the Sufi-mystic tradition in Kashmiri poetry in the 20th century. Samad Mir has used the folk tale of Akanandun to give expression to his own mystical ideas. samad mir was born at Narwara Srinagar and migrated at the age of 10 years to Nambalhar
- Tariq M. Mir
Tariq M. Mir has served as a career diplomat in the Pakistan Foreign Service. He served as Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Iraq and Head of Mission in Iran in 1978, 80-81. He began his career in the Pakistan Army and was later transferred into the civil service. He obtained his early education from the Prince of Wales Military Academy. He attended the Staff College at Camberley UK.
- P. J. Mir
PJ MIR is a cricketer turned broadcaster who hosts Q & A With PJ Mir a popular and controversial news shows on Ary One World He is one of the pioneers of Live TV in Pakistan and is remains a widely watched show.
- Sher Jehan Mir
Sher Jehan Mir is the Chief Executive Officer of Karakuram Bank Northern Areas Gilgit and Chairman of Pak-China barter trading corporation Ltd. He is also a fellow of http://ibp.org.pk/cdetails.asp?id=119 Institute of Bankers Pakistan and member of the executive committee of National Co-operative Union of Pakistan. He secured first position award in co-operative banking from Institute of Bankers Pakistan in 1985.
- Mian Mir
Mir Mohammed Muayyinul Islam, (c. 1550-August 11, 1635) popularly known as Mian Mir is a famous Sufi saint who resided in Lahore, specifically in the town of "Begampura" (in present-day Pakistan). He belonged to the Qadiri order of Sufism. He is famous for being a spiritual instructor of Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. He is identified as the founder of the Mian Khail branch of the Qadiri order.
- Pedro Mir
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry. His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery.
- Frank Mir
Francisco Santos Mir III (born May 24, 1979 in Las Vegas, Nevada), popularly known as Frank Mir, is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He is a former Heavyweight Champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Commentator for the WEC.
- Shannon Lucid
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American astronaut who previously held the record for the longest duration stay in space by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station. Lucid was born in Shanghai, China, to Baptist missionary parents Oscar and Myrtle Wells, but grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- Thomas Reiter
Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an astronaut with the European Space Agency and is a colonel ("Oberst") in the Luftwaffe. As of 2006, he was one of the top 50 astronauts in terms of total time in space. He lives in Rastede (near Oldenburg) in Lower Saxony. In 1982, Reiter received his diploma in astronautics from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich. He completed his training as a pilot in Germany and Texas.
- Michael Foale
Colin Michael 'Mike' Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and holds the record for most time spent in space by a UK and US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. Born in Louth and raised in Cambridge, Foale was educated at The King's School, …
- Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of six space flights. He has been dubbed by many "the last Citizen of the USSR " as in 1991–1992 he spent 311 days, 20 hours and 1 minute aboard the Mir space station whilst back on Earth the Soviet Union collapsed. Krikalyov has spent more time in space than any other human being. On August 16, 2005 at 1:44 a.m. EDT he passed the record of 748 days held by Sergei Avdeyev.
- David Wolf
David Alexander Wolf (born 23 August 1956) is an American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the Mir space station. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he graduated from North Central High School, Wolf earned a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and, in 1982, a medical degree from Indiana University. He subsequently trained as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force.
- Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne, (born Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo on February 18 1934 in San Sebastian (Donostia in Basque) in the Spanish Basque Country), is a fashion designer. He fled Spain for France with his mother when the Spanish Civil War broke out. He originally had an architect's education but became known as the "enfant terrible" of French fashion world in the 1960s. Rabanne started his career in fashion by creating jewellery for Givenchy, …
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré
Jean-Pierre Haigneré is a French Air Force officer and a CNES astronaut. Haigneré was born in Paris, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He flew on two missions to the Mir space station in 1993 and 1999. The Mir Altair long-duration mission (186 days) in 1993 also included an EVA. He is married to former French astronaut Claudie Haigneré. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour.
- Michael Lopez-Alegria
Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. Miguel López-Alegría, born in Madrid (Spain) and raised in Mission Viejo, California, joined the United States Navy and earned engineering degrees in 1980 and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School.
- Helen Sharman
Born in Sheffield's Jessop Hospital in 1963, Helen's family originally lived in Grenoside where she attended Grenoside Junior and Infant School and then moved to Greenhill. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive, Helen gained a Chemistry degree at Sheffield University.
- Nikolai Budarin
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003.
- Sergei Avdeyev
Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev is a Russian cosmonaut. Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya. He was selected as a cosmonaut as part of the Energia Engineer Group 9 on 26 March 1987. His basic cosmonaut training was from December 1987 through to July 1989.
- Reinhold Ewald
Reinhold Ewald is a German physicist and and ESA astronaut. Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, he received diploma in experimental physics from the University of Cologne in 1983 and the Ph.D. in 1986, with a minor degree in human physiology. In 1990, he was selected to the German astronaut team, training for the Mir '92 mission. He was the backup of Klaus-Dietrich Flade for the Soyuz TM-14 mission. In 1995 he began training for the second German Mir mission.
- Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario. He attended Montclair Senior School in Oakville and White Oaks High School in Oakville, both near Toronto. In 2005, Colonel Hadfield revisited Montclair to talk to the students about dreams and determination. In Milton, Hadfield was a Wolf Cub and later joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets' 820 Blue Thunder Squadron.
- Vladimir Dezhurov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov was born on July 30, 1962 in the settlement of Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia. He attended and graduated from the S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s diploma. After graduating, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training.
- Gennady Padalka
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters: Yulia, Ekaterina and Sonya. Gennady enjoys the theater, parachute sport and diving. Padalka is a recipient of the Hero Star of the Russian Federation and the title of Russian Federation Test-Cosmonaut. He has logged 1500 flight hours in six types of aircraft as a First Class Pilot in the Russian Air Force.
- Claudie Haigneré
Claudie Haigneré is a French rheumatologist with a doctorate in science, majoring neurosciences, a politician, and a former astronaut with CNES (1985-1999) and ESA (1999-2002). She was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altair mission in which her husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré participated. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named in their combined honour. Haigneré visited the Mir space station for 16 days in 1996, …
- Osvaldo Romo
Osvaldo Romo Mena was an agent of the Chilean Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) from 1973 to 1990, during the rule of Augusto Pinochet. Known as "Guatón Romo" ("Fatso Romo") or "Comandante Raúl", he was one of DINA's most important torturers, and one of the few officials who was explicitly aware of the human rights violations being committed by Pinochet's intelligence organizations. On April 11, 1995, in an interview televised by Univisión, …
- Wendy B. Lawrence
Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a Captain in the US Navy, a helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a Former NASA astronaut. She is the first female graduate of the US Naval Academy to fly in space and she has also visited the Russian Space Station "Mir". She was a mission specialist on STS-114, the first Shuttle flight since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Captain Lawrence retired from NASA in June 2006.
- Toyohiro Akiyama
Toyohiro Akiyama is a Japanese TV journalist best known for his trip to the Mir space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 1990. Born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, he became a reporter for the Japanese TV company TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), and also worked for the BBC World Service between 1967 and 1971. He was selected for cosmonaut training on August 17, 1989, as a journalist sponsored by TBS.
- Yuri Onufrienko
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko is a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001-2002. Born in Ryasne, Zolochiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Graduated from the V.M. Komarov Eisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots in 1982 with a pilot-engineer's diploma and served as a pilot in the Soviet (later Russian) Air Force, …
- Sergei Zalyotin
Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of a two space missions. Zalyotin was born in Tula and attended the Borisoglebsk Higher Military School before becoming a fighter pilot in the Russian Air Force. He also holds a degree in ecological management. Zalyotin was selected as a cosmonaut candidate in 1990. In 2000, Zalyotin was a member of the final resident crew aboard the Mir space station.
- Terrence W. Wilcutt
Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born 31 October 1949) is an American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Wilcutt earned a degree in mathematics from Western Kentucky University and taught high school math for two years before entering the United States Marine Corps. He trained as a pilot and flew the F/A-18 before being assigned to the Naval Aircraft Test Center, where he worked on classified aircraft programs.
- Ivan Bella
Ivan Bella (b. 25 May1964, Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia)) is a Slovak cosmonaut. He was the first Slovak to enter outer space if not considering U.S. astronaut of Slovak origin Eugene Cernan. He participated in 9 days joined Russian-French-Slovak mission on spacestation Mir in 1999.
- Raúl Iturriaga
General Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann is a former deputy director of the DINA, the Chilean secret police under the Pinochet regime. As of 2007, he rebelled against the 10-year prison sentence handed out to him by judge Alejandro Solís (reduced to 5 years by the Chilean Supreme Court) for the sequestration of MIR member Luis San Martín during Pinochet's dictatorship
- Franz Viehböck
Franz Artur Viehböck is an Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first astronaut. Together with Clemens Lothaller, he was selected for the Soviet-Austrian space project "Austromir 91". After two years of training he was chosen for the mission, and launched on October 2 1991 together with the Russian cosmonauts Alexander A. Volkov and the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur cosmodrome spaceport.
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Abdul Ahad Mohmand became the first cosmonaut from Afghanistan. He spent nine days in space aboard the Mir space station in 1988. This historical mission has earned him and his country the title of being the first to space before anyone from the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Israel, South Africa, and many other nations of the world.