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Nazarian
Nazarian or Nazaryan ( hy, Նազարյան) is an Armenian surname, and its meaning can be roughly translated into "son of Nazar." It can refer to the following people: Nazarian * Angella Nazarian, Iranian-born author * Bruce Nazarian, an American musician * David Nazarian, Iranian-born businessman * Eric Nazarian, an Armenian-American film director * Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-born American billionaire and entrepreneur * John James Nazarian, an American private investigator * Sam Nazarian, an Iranian born American entrepreneur * Santiago Nazarian, a Brazilian writer * Sharon Nazarian, Iranian-born Senior Vice President of International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League * Stepanos Nazarian, an Armenian publisher, historian of literature and orientalist * Vera Nazarian, a Russian-born American writer of Armenian ancestry * Younes Nazarian, Iranian born American entrepreneur Nazaryan * Armen Nazaryan, an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler * Armen Nazaryan (judoka), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Nazarian
John James Nazarian (born July 9, 1952), is an American private investigator and security expert with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Florida. Nazarian is best known as a celebrity guest commentator on crime- and divorce-related television programming, as well as making appearances in documentaries or docudramas in a reality or fictional setting. Biography Early years John James Nazarian was born July 9, 1952, in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. He moved to California at the age of 16. Nazarian graduated from William S. Hart High School in Newhall, California. Nazarian entered the U.S. Navy right after high school for four years, leaving the service with an honorable discharge. Nazarian attended the Los Angeles City College and received an AA degree in Police Science, after being discharged from the Navy. Nazarian received training during his law enforcement career. He also holds two degrees, one in Administration of Justice, and one in Criminology. Upon returning from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrand Nazariantz
Hrand Nazariantz (Հրանտ Նազարեանց, January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an Ottoman Armenian poet and translator who lived most of his life in Italy. Biography Born in the Üsküdar district of Constantinople on January 8, 1880, he was the son of Diran Nazariantz, a businessman and member of the Armenian National Assembly from the district of Kumkapı, and Azniv Merametdjian. He attended the Berberian College from 1898, but he was expelled because of a relationship with another future writer, Mannig Berberian, daughter of Reteos Berberian, founder and owner of the college, and for asking her to marry him. In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, and was hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy." In the same year he completed the first draft of his collection ''Crucified Dreams''. In 1905 he matriculated at the Sorbonne in Paris and joined the Armenian liberation movement. In 1907 he went back to the Ottoman Empire because o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younes Nazarian
Younes Nazarian (January 26, 1931 March 18, 2022) was a Jewish Iranian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. An early investor in Qualcomm, he was the Chairman of Nazarian Enterprises. He was also a major donor to charitable causes in California and Israel. Early life Younes Nazarian was born in Iran on January 26, 1931, the son of Golbahar and Davoud Nazarian.Briefs: Scholarships memorialize fallen Israeli troops, Prizant and Federation settle suit, Teriton residents block evictions ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', August 9, 2007 His father died when he was three years old. After losing his fortune amassed as a cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Nazarian
Dr. Sharon Nazarian is an Iranian-born American social activist, academic and philanthropist. She is currently the Senior Vice President, International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League. Early life Dr. Sharon Nazarian was born in Tehran, Iran. Her father, Younes Nazarian, was a businessman, philanthropist, and an early investor in the satellite technology company Qualcomm. Her mother, Soraya Nazarian, is a sculptor. She has two brothers, Sam Nazarian, David Nazarian, and a sister, Shulamit Nazarian. During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Beverly Hills, California with her parents and siblings. She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC), where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and International Relations. She then received a master's degree and a PhD in political science from USC. Career In 2017, Dr. Nazarian joined the executive team of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as Senior Vice Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Nazarian
Bruce Nazarian (March 27, 1949 – October 8, 2015) was an American funk and rock musician, recording artist and music producer from Detroit, Michigan. Nazarian was an Apple Certified Trainer and Certified Pro on various professional applications, including DVD Studio Pro and Logic Pro. He authored several books on music and technology and served as President of Digital Media Consulting Group, Inc. as well as TDG Foundation, Inc., his non-profit charitable foundation. Nazarian was also President of the International Digital Media Alliance (IDMA), formerly known as the DVD Association (DVDA). Biography and early music influences Bruce Nazarian began his musical career as a singer at the age of four, performing regularly on local television (WXYZ-TV) and in USO musical variety shows in his hometown of Detroit. During his grade school years, he studied piano and vocals, and at age 13 took up tenor saxophone and played in the Mackenzie High School band under director Craig Strain. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nazarian
David Nazarian is an Iranian American businessman, investor and philanthropist. Early life David Nazarian was born circa 1961 in Iran.Dana BartholomewDavid Nazarian, 1982 CSUN graduate, gives university $10 million, aims to raise $15 million more ''Los Angeles Daily News'', March 27, 2014Q&A: David Nazarian on Giving Back to His Alma Mater '''', April 3, 2014 His father, , was a businessman and philanthropist. His mother, Soraya Nazarian, is a philanthropist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izak Parviz Nazarian
Izak Parviz Nazarian ( ''Is'ḥaq Parvêz Nazariyân''; February 24, 1929 – August 23, 2017) was an Iranian-born American billionaire, businessman, investor, real-estate developer, and philanthropist. He was the managing partner of Omninet Capital, an investment vehicle and the first major investor in Qualcomm. Early life Izak Parviz Nazarian was born to a Persian-Jewish family in 1929 in Tehran, Iran.Tel Aviv University American Friends: "Passing the Torch: Izak Parviz Nazarian" July 3, 2013Niv Elis [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angella Nazarian
Angella Nazarian is an Iranian-born American former academic, non-fiction author, conference organizer and philanthropist. Early life Angella Nazarian was born as Angella Maddahi in Tehran, Iran in the late 1960s, to a Jewish family.JIMENA-Voice of Forgotten RefugeesVoice of Angella Nazarian- From Revolutionary Tehran to Beverly Hills in One Lifetime ''The Jerusalem Post'', 06/10/2013Michele DarganAuthor Angella Nazarian explains concealing both Jewish, Iranian heritage, ''Palm Beach Daily News'', October 21, 2010 Her father was a bazaar trader from Rasht. Her family name was originally Yacobzadeh; he changed it to Maddahi to obviate anti-Semitic discrimination. Moreover, they did not tell other people they were Jewish. She has a sister and three brothers. She was educated at Ettefagh, a Jewish school in Tehran. During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, she immigrated to the United States with her family, settling in Beverly Hills, California, where her uncle and brothers lived. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Nazarian
Sam Nazarian (; born 1975) is a Persian-American businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group. Biography Early life Nazarian was born to a Persian Jewish family in Tehran in 1975. The Nazarian family immigrated to the United States following the Iranian Revolution.Bloomberg: "Sam Nazarian Wants You to Sleep with Him" By Karl Taro Greenfeld December 01, 2011 He is the son of who made a fortune along with his brother I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Nazarian
Eric Nazarian is an Armenian-American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Armenia and moved to the United States as a child, growing up in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Inspired by his father Haik's love of world cinema, Nazarian apprenticed at his father's photo lab where Haik taught him the fundamentals of visual storytelling through photojournalism and screenwriting. After graduating from Verdugo Hills High School, Nazarian traveled extensively, exploring the Southwest and Baja California, inspired by the photography of Robert Frank and the travelogues of Sam Shepard and John Steinbeck across America and the Sea of Cortez. With a Minolta 35mm. camera gifted to him by Haik, Nazarian photographed Southern California street cultures, immigrant communities, Los Angeles gangs and iconographies of underworld cultures pouring in from the former Soviet bloc. During his undergraduate years at USC Film Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepanos Nazarian
Stepanos Nazarian (, , , in Tiflis – , in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist. Biography He was born in the family of a priest. Graduated from the department of philosophy in the University of Tartu in 1840. In 1849 he became a professor of Persian and Arab literature in Moscow in the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. He published a number of scholarly works and earned his doctoral dissertation on a work analyzing Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Under the influence of the European enlightenment movement and the Russian social movement of the 1840s, Nazarian increasingly began writing against the feudal system and its ideology. In the 1850s he became the leader of the Armenian enlightenment movement. Between 1858 and 1864 he published in Moscow the influential magazine ''Hyusisapayl'' (Aurora Borealis), that had a great effect on the development of progressive public thought in Armenia. He criticized serfdom and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian (born 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-Russian (by ethnicity) American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of ten novels, including ''Dreams of the Compass Rose'', a "collage" novel structured as a series of related and interlinked stories similar in arabesque flavor to '' The One Thousand and One Nights'', ''Lords of Rainbow'', a standalone epic fantasy about a world without color, the ''Cobweb Bride'' trilogy, and ''The Atlantis Grail'' books. Crowdfunding controversy In 2014 controversy erupted when she started an Indiegogo campaign to try to raise money for her authors; although the campaign was canceled after three days. As a result of "personal misfortunes", she had stopped paying royalties to the authors publishing books with Norilana Books, and hoped to raise eno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
