List of Azerbaijani Americans

This is a list of notable Americans of Azerbaijani descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

List

Shahriar Afshar, Iranian-American physicist
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Canadian-American theoretical physicist
Sona Aslanova, Soviet and Azerbaijani soprano
Abdolhassan Astaneh-Asl, academic
Durdana Nazim Balakishiyeva, physicist
Semyon Bilmes, Azerbaijani-American painter
Max Black, philosopher, physicist, mathematician
Sibel Edmonds, former Federal Bureau of Investigation translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC)
Dariush Eghbali, Iranian musician
Googoosh, Iranian singer and actress, known for her contributions to Iranian pop music
Haydar Hatemi, Iranian artist
Shireen Hunter, academic
Rustam Ibragimbekov, Soviet-Azerbaijani screenwriter, dramatist and producer
Ali Javan, professor of physics, inventor of gas laser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ella Leya, composer, singer, and writer, born in Baku
Mansour, Iranian musician
Habib Mohebian, Iranian musician
Hamid Mowlana, Iranian-American advisor to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Spencer Nelson, basketball player for the Azerbaijani national team
Uzeyir Novruzov, circus performer, season 10 performer on America's Got Talent
Stepan Pachikov, businessman
Farah Pahlavi, former Queen and exiled Empress of Iran
Ali Partovi, investor
Firouz Partovi, physicist
Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor, cellist
Chingiz Sadykhov, pianist from Azerbaijan
Hassan Sattar, Iranian musician
Zecharia Sitchin, Azerbaijani-born American author
Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Inc
Behrouz Vossoughi, Iranian actor
Norm Zada, founder of Perfect 10 magazine
Lotfi A. Zadeh, mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California,Berkeley
Tony Zarrindast, artist

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