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Prof. Ali Javan, physicist, inventor of gas laser, Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT (Read more.

Prof. Lotfi Asker Zadeh, mathematician and computer scientist, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley; father of Fuzzy Logic (Read more...)

Shiva Rose (Shiva Gharib-Afshar), actress (Read more...)

Dr. Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize (Read more...)

Lily Afshar, female classical guitarist (Read more...)

Dr. Shahriar Afshar, physicist, namesake of Afshar experiment (Read more...)

Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani, youngest professor of mathematics, Princeton University (Read more...)

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Alexander Tabrizi, director (Read more...)

Sarah Shahi (Read more...)

Sona Babai, one of the oldest women to naturalize and become a U.S. citizen at age 105 (Read more...)

Rustam Ibragimbekov, Oscar winning screenwriter and director (Read more...)

Dr. John C. Vafai, a Delegate to the GOP Convention in 2008 (Read more...)

Prof. Firuz Kazemzadeh, Professor Emeritus of Yale University, author of the 1951 "Struggle for Transcaucasia" (Read more...)

The "Baku brothers" (Rufat and Emil), professional boxers (Read more...)

Dr. Shireen Hunter, distinguished scholar at Georgetown University and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Read more...)

Sara Racey Tabrizi, model and actress (Read more...)

Paul Murad, realtor and TV personality (Read more...)

Prof. S. Rob Sobhani, professor at Georgetown University, frequent contributor to The Washington Times, and other publications (Read more...)

Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Farrah (Read more...)



The ancestral homeland of Azerbaijani-Americans, the land of Azerbaijan, has some noteworthy achievements, boasting the following "first's" in the region (Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East and the Turkic and Muslim World):

First parliamentary republic in the entire Greater Middle East (ADR, the democratic nation-state founded in May 1918)

First Greater Middle East nation to give women the right to vote (1919)

First opera

First balet

First cinematography in the Muslim world (1897)

First Latin-based alphabet among Turkic nations (1920s)

First women's college

First Christian Church in the Caucasus (Kish village, near Sheki)

First cosmonaut

First in the world:

First Space General (see Lt-Gen. Kerim Kerimov)

First oil well drilled (1848, in Bibi-Heybat)

First kerosene plant (1863)

First offshore oil field developed (1923)

First monotheism (the worship of one God, as in Zoroastrianism/Zoroastrian religion)

First Christian nation in Caucasus and one of the first in the world (313 A.D. under King Urnayir)



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