The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 389 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 (b. 1966)
With an HPI of 50.51, Anousheh Ansari is the most famous Iranian Engineer. Her biography has been translated into 51 different languages on wikipedia.
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems, and her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and chief executive officer of Telecom Technologies, Inc. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian person to be in outer 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 American engineer Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. She is also the chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the Ansari family is the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iranian engineers born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Iranian engineers include Anousheh Ansari.
