Famous People with Name Jahan

Rashid Jahan            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Rashid Jahan: was an Indian writer who inaugurated a new era of Urdu literature written by women. She wrote short-stories and plays and is perhaps best remembered for her involvement with the explosive Angarey (1931), a collection of groundbreaking and unconventional short stories written by young writers in Urdu like Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali.

Rounaq Jahan            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Rounaq Jahan: one of the leading political scientist, feminist leader and author of Bangladesh. A former faculty of Dhaka University, Professor Jahan teaches and researches at Columbia University since 1990. She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1977.[1] She founded Women for Women, one of the first feminist research centres in Bangladesh, in 1973,[2] and is the director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB).

Nasreen Jahan            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Nasreen Jahan: a modern Bangladeshi author and literary editor. She became famous with the publication of her award-wiining novel Urukku in 1993.Nasreen Jahan Beauty was born and brought up in Mymensingh. She joined the Chander Hat, a national children's and juvenile organizaiton in 1974 and started to write rhymes and short stories in the children's page of daily Purbadesh. She was profusely encouraged by writer-editor Rafiqul Haque who was also a top-brass rhymer of Bangladesh. Later she concentrated on short stories and published in all leading literary papers and magazines of the country including the Kishore Bangla. She got married to poet Anwar Ahmed in 1984. She has a daughter.

Marine Jahan            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marine Jahan: is a French actress most widely known for having doubled for Jennifer Beals in the 1983 movie Flashdance.[1] At the time of its release, Jahan's role in the movie was controversial for several reasons. Beals was an unknown actress when Flashdance came out, and throughout the movie there were a lot of close up shots of what was implied to be Beals' body. However, because Marine Jahan's role was not listed on the movie's opening or ending credits, and because the movie was a huge hit by the time the truth had come out, some felt deceived to find out it was neither Beals' body nor her dancing.