Famous People with Name Majid

Majid Namjoo-Motlagh            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Majid Namjoo-Motlagh: a former Iranian football player and now manager.Namjoo-Moltagh debuted for the Iran national football team on May 28, 1986 in a friendly match against China in Beijing.Namjoo-Motlagh signed as head-coach of newly formed Shahrdari Bandar Abbas F.C. in August 2006. Near the end of the season he was replaced by former Mes Kerman head coach, Nader Dastneshan.

Majid Farahani            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Majid Farahani: is an Iranian progressive/reformist politician, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) that is active for democracy and human rights in Iran. As of the early 2000s, till 2004 Farahani was the manager of the central Youth Branch of the IIPF.

Majid Samii            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Majid Samii: is a distinguished Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist.Samii was president of International Society for Neurosurgery. He was elected as the founding president for the Congress of International Neurosurgeons (MASCIN) in 2003. [1] Majid Samii received the "World Physician' award by the north German city of Hanover. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder hailed the 70-year-old Samii for his medical contribution to neuroscience as head of the world renowned International Neuroscience Institute (INI), based in Hanover.

Majid Majidi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Majid Majidi: an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter.After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.As of 2004[update], Majidi was the only Iranian director who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with the film Children of Heaven in 1998. He lost the award to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni.

Majid Musisi Mukiibi            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Majid Musisi Mukiibi: is regarded by many as Uganda's best football player of all-time. Musisi inspired Villa to four league titles, the CECAFA Championships, the Hedex Cup and the most memorable ones, taking them to the finals of the Abiola Cup in 1992 and African Club Championships in 1991; he scored an equalizer in the dying minutes of the game against Nigeria’s Iwuanyanwu Nationale in the African club championship to take his team to the finals where he was top goalscorer in the tournament with 10 goals. In this same year, he was among the nominees for the African Footballer of the Year award.

Ahmed Bin Majid            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Ahmed Bin Majid: was an Arab navigator and cartographer born in 1421 in Julphar, which is now known as Ras Al Khaimah. This city makes up one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. He was raised with a family famous for seafaring; at the age of 17 he was able to navigate ships. He was so famous that he was known as the first Arab seaman. The exact date is not known, but bin Majid probably died in 1500. He became famous in the West as the navigator who has been associated with helping Vasco da Gama find his way from Africa to India. He was the author of nearly forty works of poetry and prose.

Imran Majid            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Imran Majid: is an English professional pool player. Majid is of Pakistani descent as his parents are from Lahore, Punjab. He made his Mosconi Cup debut in the 2006 edition in Rotterdam. He and the other rookie of the tournament, David Alcaide, upset the American top