List of Famous people born in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Hossein Vafaei

First Name Hossein
Last Name Vafaei
Born on September 14, 1994 (age 30)

Hossein Vafaei is an Iranian professional snooker player. He was the first Iranian professional snooker player in the history of the game. His attempts to travel to the United Kingdom to qualify for the major tournaments on the snooker calendar were denied due to visa problems, but he gained a UK visa in February 2015.

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Abu Nuwas

First Name Abu
Last Name Nuwas
Died on January 1, 0814

Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī was a classical Arabic poet. Born in the city of Ahvaz, in modern-day Iran, to an Arab father and a Persian mother, he became a master of all the contemporary genres of Arabic poetry. He also entered the folkloric tradition, appearing several times in One Thousand and One Nights. He died during the Great Abbasid Civil War before al-Ma’mūn advanced from Khurāsān in either 199 or 200 AH.

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Mehran Karimi Nasseri

First Name Mehran
Born on January 1, 1942 (age 82)

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized. His autobiography was published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004.

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Hamed Haddadi

First Name Hamed
Last Name Haddadi
Born on May 19, 1985 (age 39)
Height 218 cm | 7'2

Hamed Haddadi is an Iranian professional basketball player for Sichuan Blue Whales of the Chinese Basketball Association. He plays at the center position and is 7'2" tall and weighs 280 lbs. Haddadi was the first Iranian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he debuted with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008. He'd also continue playing with the Grizzlies there until 2013, where he'd get traded to first the Toronto Raptors and then the Phoenix Suns before returning to Iran and then play in China soon afterwards in the next months.

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Abbas Bouazar

First Name Abbas
Last Name Bouazar
Born on July 8, 1992 (age 32)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Abbas Bouazar is an Iranian midfielder who currently plays for Iranian football club Naft Masjed Soleyman in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

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Sajad Gharibi

First Name Sajad
Born on December 19, 1991 (age 32)

Sajad Gharibi is an Iranian bodybuilder and practitioner of mixed martial arts.

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Abie Nathan

First Name Abie
Born on April 29, 1927
Died on August 27, 2008 (aged 81)

Avraham "Abie" Nathan was an Israeli humanitarian and peace activist. He founded the Voice of Peace radio station. When he died the president of Israel Shimon Peres said about him: "He was one of the most prominent and special people in the country... He is the man who dedicated his life for other people and for a better humanity."

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Sahl al-Tustari

First Name Sahl
Last Name Al-Tustari
Born on January 1, 0818
Died on January 1, 0896 (aged 78)

Sahl al-Tustarī or Sahl Shushtarī according to Persian custom, born Abū Muḥammad Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh, was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and early classical Sufi mystic. He founded the Salimiyah Muslim theological school, which was named after his disciple Muhammad ibn Salim.

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Patrik Baboumian

First Name Patrik
Born on July 1, 1979 (age 45)

Patrik Baboumian is an Iranian-born German-Armenian retired strongman and former bodybuilder. He promotes veganism.

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Kaveh Golestan

First Name Kaveh
Born on July 8, 1950
Died on April 2, 2003 (aged 52)

Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi, was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War.

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