Famous People with Name Kouros

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh: (also written as “Kalantarzadeh” or “Kalantar-zadeh”) is an Australian (of Iranian ethnicity) scientist, educator, consultant and investigator in nanotechnology science, electrical engineering, decision science, business, and microsensor engineering. He currently an associate professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University).

Kourosh Taghavi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Kourosh Taghavi: is an Iranian musician, noted for playing setar. He is a member of the Namaad Ensemble.

Yiannis Kouros            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Yiannis Kouros: He holds every men's world record from 100 to 1,000 miles, from 200 to 1,600 km, and from 24 hours to 10 days. In 1991, Yiannis starred as Pheidippides in the movie A Hero's Journey about the history of marathon running.

Alexis Kouros            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Alexis Kouros: is a Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director and producer.His first book, Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997. His first film was the 2000 documentary, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle, the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri.He also directed a documentary called Without My Daughter in response to the 1991 Hollywood movie, Not Without My Daughter. He started his production company Dream Catcher. The company started publishing Finland's first English language monthly called SixDegrees in 2003. Helsinki Times, a weekly English newspaper was established by Dream Catcher in April 2007.