Jamshid (name)
Appearance
Jamshēd or Jamshīd[1] (Persian: جمشید[pronunciation?]), also spelled as Jamshed, Jamshid, Jamshaid, Jamsheed, Cemşid, Jamshet, or Jamset, is a Persian masculine given name. It is a common name in Iran, Central Asia and among Muslims and Parsis of South Asia. It may refer to the following:
Given name
- Jamshed (reigned 1342-1344), second Sultan of Kashmir
- Jamshid, Iranian mythical king
- Jamshid Amouzegar, Iranian politician
- Jamshed Ansari, Pakistani film actor
- Jamshed Anwar, Pakistani footballer
- Jamshid Askar, American journalist
- Jamshid Behnam, Iranian writer
- Jamshed Bharucha, Indian-American educator
- Jamshed Dasti, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Jamshid Delshad, Iranian-American politician
- Jamshid Ghalib, Afghan Minister of Justice
- Jamshyd Godrej, billionaire Indian industrialist
- Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, 1st Baronet, Indian merchant and philanthropist
- Jamshid Javed, Graphic Designer in Pakistan
- Jamshid Kashani, Iranian medieval mathematician
- Jamshid Karimov, Uzbek journalist
- Jamshed Khokhar, a Pakistani American
- Jamshid Maharramov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Jamshid Moghadam, popular Iranian singer
- Jamshid Momtaz, Iranian academic
- Jamshid Nassiri, Iranian footballer
- Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrial pioneer
- Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar
See also
- Jamshed Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Jamshedpur, India
Notes
- ^ In Early New Persian there are two long vowels "ē" and "ī" which are both shown by the Perso-Arabic letter "ی". Their distinction is lost in western varieties of Persian (spoken in Iran), but more or less preserved in eastern varieties (spoken in Afghanistan and Central Asia).