Steve Oda
Steve Oda( born July 20, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a sarod player, composer and teacher of the Hindustani classical music.
A Canadian of Japanese ancestry, Steve Oda, began his musical education at the age of seven, learning to play slide guitar and then jazz guitar.
His love of creativity through musical expression led him to the classic music of North India and the sarode.
His classical training started in 1971 under the guidance of Aashish Khan, and from 1973 under Aashish's father, Ali Akbar Khan.
In 1996, Steve received a Canada Council Artists Grant to pursue intensive studies at and advanced level with Ali Akbar Khan and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998.
There he served for two years as Executive Director of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California.
Among the many performances Steven has given include special invitations from the Ali Akbar College of Music, the Asian Art Museum, the Ragmala Association of Canada, the University of Toronto, and the Spirit of India Festival.
He has performed with Sharda Sahai, Bob Becker( Nexus), Anubrata Chatterjee, Vineet Vyas, Ravi Naimpally( TASA), Ty Burhoe, Stephen Bacchus and Betty Moon.
Steven has accompanied Ali Akbar Khan, Aashish Khan and Anindo Chatterjee.
Steve has performed at his teachers college in California as well as numerous Canadian cities from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia.
The demand for his playing, continues to increase in places like Chicago, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Spain, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and now in Japan.
He currently resides in San Rafael, California, actively teaching and performing music of North India.
Following Ali Akbar ’s passing in 2009, Steve has continued his music studies with Rajeev Taranath, a senior student of Ali Akbar Khan.
Ebrahim Forouzesh
Ebrahim Forouzesh( persian: ابراهیم فروزش, born 1939, in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, and a former manager of the cinema department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults( 1971- 1978) where he oversaw the production of many films, shorts, features and animations.
He has collaborated with Ali Akbar Sadeghi and Abbas Kiarostami.
His second movie The Jar( خمره) won the Golden Leopard for the best Movie at Locarno Film Festival.
Ali-Akbar Davar
Ali- Akbar Dāvar( also known as Mirza Ali- Akbar Khan -e Dāvar, 1885 – 9 February 1937) was an Iranian politician and judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran.
Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini( also known as Seyed Ali Akbar Mosavi) is a notable Iranian human rights activist and politician.
He was an active member of Tahkim vahdat before he was elected as a Member of Parliament in the 6th Parliament of Iran.
In the parliament, he made a significant attempt to defend the rights of political prisoners during the 1990s.
He is currently the president of Advar Tahkim Vahdat.
Ali-Akbar Shahnazi
Ali- Akbar Shahnazi( 1897 – March 1985) was an Iranian musician and master of the tar.
Ali Akbar (academic)
Ali Akbar( born 10 March 1950) is a Bangladeshi academic.
He is the current vice- chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University( BAU).
Ali Akbar Bahman
Ali Akbar Bahman( also Mirza Ali Akbar Khan; b. 1883- d. 1967) was an Iranian employee of the Foreign Ministry, diplomat and politician under the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties.
Ali Akbar Bahman was during the rule of the Qajar dynasty as well as at the time of Reza Shah Pahlavi ambassador and minister.
Khanit Sinlapasorn
Khanit Sinlapasor( born 12 July 1994) is a member of the Thailand men's national volleyball team.
Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Ali Akbar Sadeghi( born 1937) a graduate of the College of Art, University of Tehran, is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists.
As a child, Ali Akbar Sadeghi reminisces that he would be lost in the chants of narrators that gave account of Shahnameh stories; accounts of Siavash riding on horseback, still- armored Bijan, Rostam ’s arrow hitting Ashkboos in the heart, Faramarz, elephant rider, and bravery of other heroes whose names remain in Persian literature and folklore forever.
In general, the lyrical, heroic world of legends is an indispensable part of Ali Akbar Sadeghi ’s worldview, a world whose figurative representations sometimes appear in old miniature paintings or more popular forms of art, including coffeehouse painting, reverse painting on glass, imprints on wood and paper, and stunning images in lithographed books.
He began to teach painting in high school in the 1950s, before entering the university in 1958.
His early works were with watercolor, but as of 1959, soon after entering college, he began oil painting and drawing.
He initiated a particular style in Persian painting, influenced by Coffee House painting, iconography, and traditional Iranian portrait painting, following the Qajar tradition – a mixture of a kind of surrealism, influenced by the art of stained glass.
He did his early works in graphics and illustration.
He is among the first individuals involved in the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and the Youth, and was among the founders of the Film Animation department of this institute.
Aside from illustration, he has published number of books for the Center for the Development of Children and the Youth, and has made seven films by using his style in painting.
Films produced by Sadeghi have won more than 15 awards at International Film Festivals.
Also, for his book illustrations he has won four international awards.
After the Iranian Revolution, Sadeghi seriously pursued painting.
In 1989 he founded Sabz Gallery, which was actively and continuously exhibiting the works of Iranian painters until 2003.
In 2011 His permanent works space and atelier established that continuously showcases works belonging to different periods of Sadeghi's long professional life.
In total, he has participated in over 50 individual and group exhibitions, over 7 volumes of books of the collection of his works have been published, and he has been a member of jury panels in over 10 international biennial exhibitions.
Sadeghi has been artistically active in the past 60 years.
His style is a Persian surrealism, based on Iranian forms and compositions of traditional paintings, the use of Iranian iconography, and the use of Persian cultural motifs, signs and myths, full of movement and action, in prominent and genuine oil colors, in large frames, very personal, reminiscent of epic traditional Persian paintings and illustrations.
Akbar Sadeghi
Akbar Sadeghi is an Iranian footballer, who currently plays for Padideh in Iran Pro League.
He usually plays as a midfielder.

Question: Do Ali Akbar Sadeghi and Khanit Sinlapasorn share the same nationality?
Answer: no