The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 323 Engineers, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 42nd most number of Engineers behind South Africa and Syria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Engineers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Anousheh Ansari (1966 - )
With an HPI of 50.08, Anousheh Ansari is the most famous Iranian Engineer. Her biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space. Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. She is the CEO of the X Prize Foundation.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as engineers born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living engineers include Anousheh Ansari.
