Famous People with Name Darvish

Darvish Khan            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Darvish Khan: was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.His teachers included his father and Aqa Hossein-Qoli Farahani a respected musician of the 19th century in Iran. He was a member of the Aziz Soltan music group. Later, he attended the Dar ol-Fonoon Music School.

Yu Darvish            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yu Darvish: a starting pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team.[2] At just 22 years of age, he is already considered the Fighters' staff ace as well as one of the best pitchers in all of Japanese professional baseball.[3][4]Darvish was born in Habikino, Osaka, to an Iranian father, Farzad Darvishsefad, and a Japanese mother, Ikuyo.[5] His parents met at Eckerd College, a liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his father played for the college soccer team as well as the Iranian national team.[6][7] His grandfather was a travel agent in Iran, and sent Farzad to the United States in 1977 to attend high school in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he also raced competitively in motocross.