Born the son of Abdul Haqhas, a Pashtun and native of the Sarobi district in Kabul province, Ahady holds a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) and a Ph. D in political science from the post-graduate faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, north of Chicago.

Born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein ( simplified into Max Wallach, ) into a wealthy Jewish banking family in Białystok, Grodno Governorate in Podlasie Region of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at that time part of the Russian Empire ( Northwestern Krai ), the son of Moses and Anna Wallach, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( SDLP ) in 1898.

Born in the Chicago area, he graduated Niles West High School in 1981, then graduated with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and an MBA from Stanford University in 1989.

Born in Massena, New York, McPhee broke into professional baseball in as a catcher with the Davenport Brown Stockings of the Northwestern League.

Born Allan Solomon in Chicago, Illinois, he attended Lake Forest College and Northwestern University, but his interest was always in show business.

Born in Montreal, Kirby earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Mathematics from Dalhousie University where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and, also a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University.

Born in New York City, Oberg was awarded a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, a MS from Northwestern University and a MS from University of New Mexico.

Born in Naperville, Illinois, Rall attended North Central College and received his BS degree in 1946 where his father was president ; his MS in Pharmacology from Northwestern University in 1948 ; his M. D.

Born in Superior, Wisconsin, Bazelon grew up in Chicago and earned a B. S. L from Northwestern University in 1931.

Born and raised in Iran, Saidi went to the United States in 1931 and attended college there.

Born in Isfahan, Iran, Soraya was the eldest child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary, a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl.

Born in Tus in Persia ( modern Iran ), and initially serving the Ghaznavid sultans, Nizam al-Mulk became chief administrator of the entire Khorasan province by 1059 C. E.

* Born in 1928 – Kashan – Iran

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel through Iran.

Born in Iran in 1975, Hossein Derakhshan, commonly referred to as the " blogging godfather " or the " blogfather ," moved to Canada in 2000.

Born in the Iraqi Kurdistan in 1983 during the Iran – Iraq War, she witnessed the death of her family and thousands of others from a chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's government troops against the rebellious Kurds when she was five years old.

Born and raised in Iran, Peseschkian came in 1954 to Germany for his studies in medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz.

Born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari immigrated to the United States before the Iranian Revolution.

Born in Astrabad, Iran, he was strongly drawn to Sufism and the teachings of Mansur Al-Hallaj and Rumi at an early age.

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh () ( Born in 1936 – September 15, 1982 ) was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and Iranian Foreign Minister ( November 30, 1979 – August, 1980 ) during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution.

Born in Osaka to missionary parents of Assyrian background who themselves were born in northwest Iran, Dooman knew Japanese as a native language.

Born in 1888, he began his career in the judiciary in Iran, after having completed his studies at the élite school of Dar ol-Fonoon ( House of Sciences ) in Tehran.

Born on 25 June 1923 in Tehran, Iran, he first climbed his way to college graduating with degrees in Law and Engineering from Tehran University.

Born in Hokmabad ( Hohmavar ), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary.

Born in Hamadan, Persia, Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iran philology ( Old and Middle Iranian ) at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London with Walter Bruno Henning.

Born in Islington, Browne is the son of British diplomat Sir Nicholas Browne, and, as a child, lived in many different countries, including Iran, Zimbabwe, and Belgium.

Born in Shiraz, Tabatabaee came to power in a coup d ' état with the help of Reza Khan Mirpanj, who later became the Shah of Persia ( which then came to be formally recognized as Iran by the international community ), as Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Peyman Nasehpour comes from a long line of musicians: his father is the famous vocalist Nasrollah Nasehpoor (" Nasehpoor " is romanization used by the rest of his family ), and his grandfather was garmon-player Agha Shakour.

Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India.

Moslem Bahadori ( Born 1927, Tonekabon, Iran ) is a contemporary Iranian medical scientist, distinguished pathologist and a university lecturer .< ref >

Born in the Armenian quarter of Iran, Blade came to London when he was 7.

Royal interest in England began with Henry V ( reigned 1413 – 22 ) but it was Henry VIII ( reigned 1509 – 47 ) who made the biggest impact as a young monarch, playing the game with gusto at Hampton Court on a court he had built in 1530, when he was in his late thirties ( Born 28 June 1491 ) and on several other courts in his palaces.

Born in Kuala Terengganu, he was the fifth, but third surviving, son of Sultan Zainal Abidin III ibni Almarhum Sultan Ahmad II ( reigned 1881 – 1918 ).

Born Tengku Ahmad Shah, he was the only son of Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Al-Mutassimu Billah Shah ( reigned 1932 – 1974 ) by his official and royal consort, Tengku Ampuan Besar Fatimah binti Almarhum Sultan Sir Alang Iskandar Shah II Kaddasullah.

Born in India, the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles, Shah grew up mainly in England.

Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan and Princess Andrée Aga Khan.

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, he was the only child of Pakistani Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III and his French-born second wife, the former Andrée Joséphine Carron.

Born in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, he ascended to the throne at the age of five, upon the death of his father, King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, and crowned on 20 February 1913 at the Nasal Chowk, Hanuman Dhoka Palace in Kathmandu, with his mother acting as regent.

Born on 4 December 1933 in Kuala Terengganu, she is the fourth child of HRH Tengku Muhammad ibni Almarhum Sultan Ahmad Al-Mu ’ adzam Shah and HRH Tengku Hajah Mandak binti Tengku Mustafa, and the granddaughter of HRH Almarhum Sultan Ahmad Shah I, the Sultan of Terengganu.

Born at Istana Hinggap, Pekan Lama, he was the second son of Sultan Abdullah Al-Mutassim Billah Shah by his wife, Che Kalsom binti Tun Abdullah.

Born on 7 August 1917 in Kelantan, she was the consort of Sultan Yahya Petra and the mother of the 28th Sultan of Kelantan, HRH Sultan Ismail Petra.

Born Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman () in Bombay, he was the son of Hazra ( née Memon ) and Noormohamed Haji Abdul Rehman, a Mumbai Memon textile dealer.