Siavash () is an
Iranian
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male given name. It was popularized by
Siyâvash
Siyâvash (), also spelled Siyâvoš or Siavash (), is a major figure in the ''Shahnameh''. He is introduced by Ferdowsi as the son of Kay Kāvus, who reigns as Shah in the earliest days of Greater Iran for over a century. His name means "the o ...
() or Siyavash (), a legendary prince who is a major figure in
Ferdowsi
Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a single poet, and the gre ...
's epic, the ''
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couple ...
''.
Notable people with the name Siavash, Siyâvash, or various other transliterations from Persian/Azerbaijani languages include:
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Siyawush
Siyawush (also spelled Siyavash), known in Byzantine sources as Seoses (Σεόσης), was an Iranian officer, who served as the head of the Sasanian army ('' arteshtaran-salar'') during the second reign of the Sasanian king (shah) Kavad I (). In ...
, Iranian officer who served as the head of the Sasanian army during the second reign of the Sasanian shah Kavad I (r. 498–531)
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Siyavakhsh
Siyavakhsh (also spelled Siyavash) was an Iranian aristocrat from the House of Mihran who was descended from Bahram Chobin, the famous ''spahbed'' of the Sasanian Empire.
Biography
Siyavakhsh was the son of Mihran Bahram-i Chubin, whose fath ...
, Iranian aristocrat from the House of Mihran who was descended from Bahram Chobin, the famous spahbed of the Sasanian Empire
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Siavash Akbarpour, Iranian football player and coach
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Siavash Alamouti, Iranian scientist
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Siavash Daneshvar, Iranian activist
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Siavash Ghomayshi, Iranian musician, singer and song writer
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Siavash Hagh Nazari, Iranian professional footballer
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Siavash Kasrai, Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist
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Siavash Shahshahani
Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani (; born May 31, 1942) is an Iranian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Department at Sharif University of Technology. He headed up the IRNIC registry for the .ir ccT ...
, Iranian mathematician
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Siavash Shams, Iranian singer, songwriter, record producer
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Siavash Yazdani, Iranian professional footballer
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Siyâvush Beg Gorji, Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin
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Siyavush Novruzov, Azerbaijani politician
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Baktash Siawash, Afghan Politician
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Siyavuş Pasha, several Ottoman persons
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