Famous People with Name Ziya

Ziya Tong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ziya Tong: is a television personality and television producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1] She was born in London, England and then lived in Hong Kong,[2] and is of Chinese and Macedonian descent.[3]

Ziya Dogan            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Ziya Dogan: a Turkish football manager. As a football player he functioned as a striker.He has played at Besiktas (1979-1987), Ankaragücü (1987-1990), Kocaelispor (1990-1992) and Zeytinburnuspor (1992-1993).Dogan coached many teams including Malatyaspor, Gençlerbirligi, Konyaspor and Trabzonspor.

Ziya Gökalp            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Ziya Gökalp: was a Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet. In 1908, after a Young Turk revolution, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("sky hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the overhaul of religious percep

Ziyad Al-Kord            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Ziyad Al-Kord: is a Palestinian Footballer who has played with various clubs in Palestine, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. He is Palestine's all-time leading scorer with 15 goals in 33 games

Ziyafet Asgarov Abbas Oglu            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Ziyafet Asgarov Abbas Oglu: is a professor and an Azerbaijani politician serving as the First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan. Asgarov was elected deputy to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan in 1995 parliamentary elections and subsequently re-elected in 2000

Rimikhan Ziyadkhadovich Ziyadov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Rimikhan Ziyadkhadovich Ziyadov: is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Dagdizel Kaspiysk.

Zhao Ziyang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhao Ziyang: was a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking government official, he was a leading reformer who implemented market reforms that greatly increased production and sought measures to streamline the bloated bureaucracy and fight corruption. Once slated as Deng Xiaoping's successor, Zhao Ziyang was purged for his sympathetic stance toward the student demonstrators in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and spent the last fifteen years of his life under house arrest.

Paul Lin Ziyang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Paul Lin Ziyang: is a writer, composer and head of a political discussion online forum in Hong Kong. He currently host a programme, "Headline" (????) of Radio Television Hong Kong. He is also a Christian and belongs to the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He was educated in St. Paul's College and graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1990s, he composed more than 60 songs for the TV programmes of TVB and for singers such as Sammi Cheng. Since 2000s, he started to compose songs that satire on politics. Besides, he is currently a piano teacher and a columnist of Apple Daily. He also wrote a book called "If One Country no Two System then there is no Hong Kong ???????????" in 2004. He helped a Christian organization to record the songs in the Sharing Hymns(????) in 2005.

Ilya Dmitriyevich Ziyangirov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Ilya Dmitriyevich Ziyangirov: is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Dynamo Barnaul.