Famous People with Name Fathullah

Fathullah Shirazi            Origin/Culture/Country: Parsi

Fathullah Shirazi: was a Persian-Indian polymath—a scholar, Islamic jurist, finance minister, mechanical engineer, inventor, mathematician, astronomer, physician, philosopher and artist—who worked for Akbar the Great, ruler of the Mughal Empire.[2][3][4] Shirazi was given the title of 'Azuddudaulah, translated as "the arm of the empire."[5]Mir Fathullah Shirazi was a polymath who worked as an imperial finance minister for Akbar the Great. According to Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak's Akbarnama, when Shirazi passed away, Akbar mourned his death:[3]Among the inventions credited to him was a military weapon, fashioned for killing infantry: the first known autocannon. As opposed to the polybolos and repeating crossbows used earlier in Ancient Greece and China, respectively, Shirazi's rapid-firing machine had multiple gun barrels that fired hand cannon.[2]