Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian
Prince Manucher Mirza( 1917–2003) was born in Tehran in 1917.
He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.
He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran.
On his return he joined the military rising to the rank of second lieutenant and left in the weeks surrounding January 1943.
He went on to work in the Ministry of Finance until he was appointed to become the director general of Petroleum, Concessions, and Mines in April 1949.
In 1958 he became the director of sales for the National Iranian Oil Company.
A key signatory in the 1959 Cairo Agreement that resulted in OPEC, he was Iran's first ambassador to Venezuela.
In 1979 during the Iranian Revolution, Manucher escaped across the Iran- Turkey border with the help of Kurdish smugglers.
After fleeing from Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in the 1979 revolution, Manucher Mirza permanently relocated to Venezuela, establishing a new life and a new business( potato crisp manufacturer) for himself.
In his later life he co-authored Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince with his daughter Roxane Farman Farmaian, which was published in 1997.
In 2003, Manucher died in Caracas and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, NY next to his brother Abol- Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian.
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Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian
Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (8 May 1928 – 16 December 2015) was the son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum.
During the Pahlavi dynasty era, he held the post of governor of the Central Bank of Iran.
He was a loving family man and was the chief architect of the 1960s Persian economic boom.
He however often dismissed the Shah as incompetent.
He fled during the 1979 revolution in Iran to the West and to London.
He died of lung cancer at the age of 87 in London, United Kingdom, on 16 December 2015.
Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma
Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma (1857 – November, 1939) was one of the most prominent Qajar princes, and one of the most influential politicians of his time in Persia.
He was born in Tehran to Prince Nosrat Dowleh Firouz in 1857, and died in November 1939 at the age of 82.
He was the 16th grandson of the Qajar crown prince Abbas Mirza.
He fathered 26 sons and 13 daughters by 8 wives.
He lived to see four sons of his first wife die within his lifetime.
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian
Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān( December 23, 1921 – May 23, 2012), also Sattareh Farman- Farmaian, was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of the Qajar dynasty.
Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian
Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian( 1912–2006)
The first son of Persian Qajar nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma through Masoumeh Khanoum.
He was born in 1912 in Tehran.
He quickly decided on medicine, becoming a doctor and specialising in malaria and studying it to great extent.
Dr Sabar Farmanfarmaian participated in a number of projects initiated by the World Health Organization.
He was a staunch supporter of Mossadegh during Iran's oil nationalisation in 1953.
He held the post of Minister of Health during Mossadegh's second cabinet.
Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian
Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian Qajar( or Kadjar)( 1890 – 1935) Iranian royal prince of the Qajar dynasty, was the second son of Prince Abdol- Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of Persia, one of the most preeminent political figures of his time and of the royal Princess Ezzat ed- Dowleh Qajar, the daughter of king Mozaffar- al- Din Shah.
He was named after his great- grand father, crown prince Abbas Mirza son of Fath Ali Shah Qajar.
Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian
Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian born 1929 is the son of the deceased Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum.
He studied at Reed College undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University.
A prominent academic in the United States he was a professor and head of the Biology department at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
He has two daughters:
Maryam Farman Farmaian
Maryam Firouz or Princess Maryam Farman Farmaian( 1914, in Kermanshah, Iran – 23 March 2008, in Tehran, Iran) was a daughter of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Batoul Khanoum.
She founded the women's section of the Tudeh( communist) party of Iran.
She received a liberal education for the Iranian women of her time, and attended university later in life while living in exile.
She was a linguist, fluent in Kurdish, Persian, Arabic, French, Russian, German, and English.
An independent thinker, she appreciated communist theory.
Later in life she said that the reason she chose to become a member of the Tudeh party was that when she decided to actively engage in the women's rights movement, the only party who was willing to accept her[ as a woman] and give her a chance to do something at that time was the Tudeh Party.
Maryam chose to use the surname Firouz in her political struggles; her grandfather's name.
She became known as Maryam Firouz in the political arena.
She retained her legal name as Maryam Farman Farmaian with pride.
She first married General army Abbassgholi Esfandiary[ son of Mohtashem Saltaneh] in a marriage arranged by her father.
They had two daughters, Afsaneh and Afsar.
They divorced on the death of her father.
In 1949 Maryam married Noureddin Kianouri, a member and later general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran.
In cooperation with Noureddin Kianouri, Farman Farmaian established a women's division of the Tudeh Party.
Following the attempted assassination of Mohammad Reza Shah on 4 February 1949, the Tudeh party was blamed and her husband was imputed to have been one of the masterminds of the operation.
She and her husband were forced into exile in 1956.
She started her life in exile in the USSR and then lived in East Berlin, in the former German Democratic Republic.
During her years of exile she completed her university studies and later taught French in the universities of Leipzig and Berlin.
The couple returned to Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the deposition of the Shah.
The Tudeh party was reinstituted with Noureddin Kianouri as General Secretary.
In 1983, the Tudeh Party was again banned following accusations of espionage for the Soviet Union.
Noureddin Kianouri and Farman Farmaian were imprisoned.
Maryam Firouz spent all of her imprisonment in solitary confinement.
She was the only member of the Tudeh Party's imprisoned leadership who did not make a forced confession on TV at the time.
She was released from prison in 1994 and placed under house arrest for a couple more years before being released to the custody of her eldest daughter in Tehran.
After his release in the mid 90's, Kianouri wrote an open letter detailing the torture of himself and his wife while in prison.
Dr. Noureddin Kianouri died on 5 November 1999.
Maryam Farman Farmaian, a.k.a. Maryam Firouz, died in Tehran on March 23, 2008.
and was buried at Beheshteh Zahra
Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian
Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian is the son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Batoul Khanoum.
Abol-Bashar attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied law.
He later moved to Janatabad, one of the Farman-Farma villages, and became the il-Khan, or leader, of the Zuleh Tribe in an effort to aid in their recent settlement in the area.
Initially planning to stay indefinitely, he left within a few years, after having raised the living conditions in the area.

Question: Where was the place of death of Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian's father?
Answer: Tehran