Mehrdad () is a common

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

male given name in

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and other Persian speaking countries. Mehrdad is a Persian name for boys that means "given by sun" or "given by love". ''Mehr'' means "sun" or "love," and ''Dad'' means "given." It comes from the Old Persian name "Mithradatha" and the Middle Persian name "Mehrdat", which is a theophoric name that means "given by Mithra" or "given by Mehr". "Mehr" comes from

Avestan Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family and was First language, originally spoken during the Avestan period, Old ...

Mithra, the Zoroastrian divinity and hypo-stasis of covenant. In modern-day Iran, the name Mehrdad is also retroactively applied to several historic Persian figures that appear in western literature as

Mithridates Mithridates or Mithradates (Old Persian 𐎷𐎡𐎰𐎼𐎭𐎠𐎫 ''Miθradāta'') is the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic form of an Iranian languages, Iranian theophoric name, meaning "given by Mithra". Its Modern Persian form is Mehrdad. It ...

, a Hellenized or philhellenic form of Mehrdad.

People

Mehrdad Pahlbod Mehrdad Pahlbod (; 16 March 1917 – 9 August 2018), born as Ezatollah Minbashian (), was an Iranian politician who served as the first culture minister of Iran from 1964 until 1978. Biography Pahlbod was born in Tehran into the musical family o ...

(1917–2018), Iranian politician *

Mehrdad Kia Mehrdad Kia (Persian: مهرداد کیا) is a Professor of History and Director of the Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center at the University of Montana. He focusses on the history of the Middle East and Central Asia. Kia also holds interes ...

, Iranian-American historian *

Mehrdad Pooladi Mehrdad Pooladi (, born 26 February 1987) is an Iranian former professional footballer. He was also an Iranian international, where he played as a left back. Pooladi is a utility player, formerly playing as a forward and attacking midfielder ...

(1987), Iranian professional football player *

Mehrdad Bazrpash Mehrdad Bazrpash (; born 1980) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, principlist politician, and the former Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Iran), Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 2022 to 2024. He was also the Supreme Audit Cou ...

(1980), Iranian politician *

Mehrdad Raissi Ardali Mehrdad Raissi Ardali (), born ) is a prolific Iranian voice actor, dubbing director, founder, director, CEO and Quality Control Manager of Glory Entertainment (The Association of Tehran Young Voice Actors). He has also provided Persian voices fo ...

(1987), Iranian voice actor

References

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