Famous People with Name Bijan

Bijan Kamkar            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bijan Kamkar: is an Iranian Kurdish musician.He is a member of Kamkarha and is the lead singer for the group. He also plays tar, robab, tombak and daf—the Kurdish drum which he has introduced to the classical Iranian repertoire. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran.

Bijan Mortazavi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bijan Mortazavi: is a popular Iranian violinist, singer and songwriter. Although his albums are banned in Iran his instrumental pieces aired many times in Iran TV.After release of the album "Bijan Mortazavi 3" most of Iranian considered Bijan as a talented violinist and singer. His next album "Fire on Ice (instrumental) which was a combination of Persian violin style and New Age instrumental music brought him fame but he never composed a separate instrumental album again, so the success didn`t repeat.

Bijan Emkanian            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bijan Emkanian: an Iranian actor.

Bijan Daneshmand            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bijan Daneshmand: a writer, director, actor based in England. He has been trained at the London Centre for Theatre Studies.He was educated in England at Eastbourne College, a graduate of King's College London, and trained at the London Centre For Theatre Studies. Daneshmand has appeared in a number of films and television shows.

Bijan Zarnegar            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Bijan Zarnegar: is an Iranian practitioner of fencing. He started fencing when he was 18 years old in Tehran while studying at the Police University in Tehran. He worked as a police officer while he was practicing fencing. He became Asian fencing champion in 1968 in the

Laleh Bijani            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian Law

Laleh Bijani: They were born in Shiraz, a city in southwest Iran, to Dadollah Bijani and Maryam Safari, members of a farming family from Lohrasb. The Bijani sisters were lost in a hospital in 1979 after the doctors responsible for them fled back to the United States during the Islamic revolution. The Bijanis' parents did not find the sisters again until several years later in Karaj, where Dr. Alireza Safaian adopted them. Even though Dadollah Bijani won the custody against Safaian, the sisters chose to spend their childhood with Safaian.They faced some difficulties because of their conjoined nature. Since they had to study together, they needed to choose a common career path. Ladan wanted to be a lawyer, while Laleh wished to become a journalist; in the end, they settled on Ladan's choice.