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Amir Eid (أمير عيد)

Amir Eid (أمير عيد), born 1983, Egyptian singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist, lead vocalist of Cairokee (كايروكي), the band behind "Sout El Horeya"; solo album Roxi and the RIVO series.

Oct 22, 2026

Amir Gilboa

Amir Gilboa (אמיר גלבוע, born Berl Feldman, 1917–1984) was an Israeli Hebrew poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1937 and won the 1982 Israel Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Amir H. Hoveyda is an organic chemist and the Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College since 1998, known for the Hoveyda–Grubbs olefin metathesis catalysts and Z-selective metathesis.

Sep 27, 2026

Amir H. M. Ali

Amir H. M. Ali, also known as Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Washington, D.C. since 2024.

Oct 22, 2026

Amir Hamzah

Amir Hamzah, full name Tengku Amir Hamzah, was an Indonesian poet who co-founded the journal Poedjangga Baroe and wrote the collections Nyanyi Sunyi and Buah Rindu.

Sep 27, 2026

Amir Hamzah Azizan

Amir Hamzah Azizan is a Malaysian politician who serves as Minister of Finance II, leading Budget 2027 preparations, including nationwide consultation tours and public engagement sessions.

Oct 22, 2026

Amir Hassan Cheheltan

Amir Hassan Cheheltan (امیرحسن چهلتن), born 1956 in Tehran, is an Iranian novelist and essayist known for the Tehran trilogy and The Calligrapher of Isfahan.

Amir Husayn (امیر حسین)

Amir Husayn (امیر حسین), Chagatai amir and ruler of Transoxiana, grandson of Qazaghan, Timur's brother-in-law and rival; defeated and killed at Balkh on 10 April 1370, enabling Timur's rise.

Amir ibn Abd Allah al-Asadi

Amir ibn Abd Allah al-Asadi was a Medinan hadith transmitter and ascetic of the Zubayrid house, unanimously graded trustworthy, who died around 126 AH (744 CE).

Amir ibn Rabi'a

Amir ibn Rabi'a (عامر بن ربيعة) was a companion of Muhammad and an early convert who performed both migrations, fought at Badr, and died in Medina.

Amir ibn Tahir

Amir ibn Tahir (عامر بن طاهر), regnal name al-Malik al-Zafir, was a Tahirid sultan of Yemen from 1454 until he was killed in battle against the Zaydis.

Sep 24, 2026

Amir II ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Amir II ibn Abd al-Wahhab (أمير بن عبد الوهاب), titled al-Malik al-Zafir, was the last sultan of Yemen's Tahirid dynasty, reigning from 1489 to 1517.

Sep 19, 2026

Amir Jan Saboori

Amir Jan Saboori (امیرجان صبوری) is an Afghan singer, composer, and poet born in Herat province, credited with promoting Herati-dialect song; after years of exile he returned in 2005 with the album Zindagi Hameen Ast.

Amir Johnson

Amir Johnson, born 1987, is an American forward-center, the last high-school player drafted straight to the NBA (Pistons, 2005, 56th pick); 14 NBA seasons with Detroit, Toronto, Boston, and Philadelphia, plus two BIG3 titles with Trilogy.

Amir Kabir

Amir Kabir (امیرکبیر), born Mirza Taqi Khan, was chief minister of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1851, remembered for reforming the army and founding Dar al-Fonun.

Amir Kabir's reform edicts

Amir Kabir's reform edicts (فرمان‌های اصلاحی امیرکبیر) were fiscal, administrative, military, and cultural reforms issued by grand vizier Amir Kabir in Qajar Iran, 1848 to 1851.

Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan is a British retired professional boxer from Bolton, England, who won Olympic silver at 17, became a unified light-welterweight world champion, and retired in 2022.

Amir Khan (Pindari)

Amir Khan (आमिर खान), born in the late 1760s at Sambhal, was a Pathan soldier of fortune who rose from Pindari-linked freebooter to founding Nawab of Tonk.

Amir Khusrau

Amir Khusrau (Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, 1253–1325), the 'Parrot of India,' was a Delhi Sultanate Persian and Hindavi poet, Sufi disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, author of the first Persian Khamsa, and figure credited with founding qawwali.

Oct 21, 2026

Amir Kumar

Amir Kumar (Amir Chand Kumar, 1923–1980), Indian field hockey player born in Lahore, won Olympic gold with India in men's hockey at London 1948 and Melbourne 1956, two titles in non-consecutive Games.

Amir Lerman

Amir Lerman (1956–2026) was an Israeli-born cardiovascular physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who established coronary endothelial dysfunction as a measurable marker of early coronary artery disease.

Amir Minai

Amir Minai (امیر مینائی) was an Urdu and Persian poet and scholar born in Lucknow in 1829, known for his naat poetry and the dictionary Amir-ul Lughat.

Amir Nashat

Amir Nashat is an entrepreneur partner at Polaris Partners in Boston, known for serving as the initial chief executive of several biotechnology companies he invests in.

Amir Ohana (אמיר אוחנה)

Amir Ohana (אמיר אוחנה), born 1976 in Beersheba, is a Likud politician and former Shin Bet official serving as Speaker of the Knesset since 2022; Israel's first openly gay minister and speaker.

Amir Pnueli

Amir Pnueli (אמיר פנואלי) was an Israeli computer scientist who introduced temporal logic into computing and won the 1996 A.M. Turing Award for program and system verification.

Amir Qaseem

Amir Qaseem is a physician, health economist, and clinical methodologist who leads the American College of Physicians' guidelines program and first authored its 2017 low back pain guideline.

Amir Ronen

Amir Ronen is a computer scientist who, with Noam Nisan, founded the field of algorithmic mechanism design in a 1999 paper and posed the Nisan–Ronen conjecture.

Amir Safavi-Naeini

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini is a quantum physicist and Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, known for pioneering work in quantum optomechanics and quantum acoustics.