Siavash or Siyavash ( fa, سياوش) is an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

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Siyâvash Siyâvash ( fa, سیاوش, via Middle Persian Siyâwaxš, from Avestan Syâvaršan) or Siyâvoš or Siavash ( fa, سياووش), is a major figure in Ferdowsi's epic, the ''Shahnameh''. He was a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest days ...

( fa, سیاوش) or Siavash ( fa, سياووش), a legendary prince, a major figure in Ferdowsi's epic, the ''

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50 ...

''. The name Siavash, Siyâvash, or various other transliterations from Persian/Farsi/Azerbaijani languages may also refer to: *

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) *

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 Mihran Bahram-i Chubin, whose father was ...

, Iranian aristocrat from the House of Mihran who was descended from Bahram Chobin, the famous spahbed of the Sasanian Empire *

Siavash Akbarpour Siavash Akbarpour ( fa, سیاوش اکبرپور, born January 21, 1985 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian former footballer and current coach . Club career He started his professional career in Fajr Sepasi, and moved to Iranian giants Esteghlal in ...

, Iranian football player and coach *

Siavash Alamouti Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, and entrepreneur. and electrical engineer. He is the Executive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo, and the executive chairman of Mimik Technology, Inc. He is known for the 1998 ...

, Iranian scientist *

Siavash Daneshvar Siavash Daneshvar is an Iranian communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is ...

, Iranian activist * Siavash Ghomayshi, Iranian musician, singer and song writer *

Siavash Hagh Nazari Siavash Hagh Nazari ( fa, سیاوش حق‌نظری; born 3 August 1995) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a attacking midfielder for Uzbekistan Super League club Navbahor Namangan. Hagh Nazari became the first Iranian football ...

, Iranian professional footballer *

Siavash Kasrai Siavash Kasrai ( fa, سیاوش کسرائی; February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of ...

, Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist *

Siavash Shahshahani Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani (Persian: سیاوش میرشمس شهشهانی) (born 1942) is an Iranian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics and head of Mathematical Sciences Department at Sharif University of Technology. He headed ...

, Iranian mathematician * Siavash Shams, Iranian singer, songwriter, record producer * Siavash Yazdani, Iranian professional footballer *

Siyâvush Beg Gorji Siyâvash, Siyavush, or Siyavush Beg (c. 1536 — pre-1616) was an Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin known for his miniatures with dramatic landscape elements and well-organized compositions. He was active at the court of the Safavid shahs o ...

, Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin *

Siyavush Novruzov Siyavush Dunyamali oghlu Novruzov ( az, Siyavuş Dünyamalı oğlu Novruzov, b. 17 February 1969, Jahri village, Babek region in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan) is a Member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan is the second, ...

, Azerbaijani politician

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