Khomeini () is an

Iranian Iranian () may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Iran ** Iranian diaspora, Iranians living outside Iran ** Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia ** Iranian cuisine, cooking traditions and practic ...

name, derived from the Iranian city of Khomeyn. The name is strongly associated with Iranian Islamic revolutionary

Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and religious leader. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian ...

. Notable people named Khomeini include: *

Khomeini family The Khomeini family (, ), also transliterated as Khomeyni, is an Iranian religious Shia family that migrated from Nishapur, to Awadh in the 18th-century, and then finally settling in Khomeyn in the early 19th-century.Ahmad Khomeini Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini (;‎ 14 March 1946 – 17 March 1995) was the younger son of Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini. He was the "right-hand" of his father before, during and after the Iranian Revolution. He was a link between R ...

, son of Ruhollah Khomeini * Mostafa Khomeini, son of Ruhollah Khomeini * Hussein Khomeini, grandson of Ruhollah Khomeini * Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ruhollah Khomeini, son of Ahmad Khomeini

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