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List Of Parsis
This is a list of notable Parsis. The Parsis constitute one of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent, the other being Irani. __TOC__ In science and industry * Aban Pestonjee: Sri Lankan entrepreneur * Adi Bulsara (born 1952): physicist * Adi Kanga (1923–2013): Indian Civil engineer, planned city of Navi Mumbai and Vashi bridge * Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808–1877) of the Wadia shipbuilding family: first Indian elected Fellow of the Royal Society * Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (1899–1965): Indian economist; delegate at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference; co-author of the Bombay Plan; founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India; first Indian chairman of the Bank of India * Ardeshir Godrej (1868–1936): Indian inventor; co-founder (with his brother Piroj) of the Godrej industries which does not include Godrej & Boyce, His son now runs Godrej Properties an aggregator model based real estate development firm. * Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy (bo ...
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Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
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Cyrus Chothia
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Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney
Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, CSI (24 May 1812 – 19 July 1878) was a Parsi community leader, philanthropist and industrialist of Bombay, India. Family and background Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney came from a wealthy Parsi family. His great-grandfather and two great-uncles had moved in the early 18th century from Navsari near Surat to Bombay and had become pioneers in the lucrative opium trade with China. The brothers were cash-rich and worked as bankers to various British clients, and they earned for themselves the sobriquet "Readymoney," which they later adopted as a surname. Among the three brothers, only Hirji Jewanji Readymoney was blessed with surviving issue, two daughters. He arranged in the usual Indian way for them to marry into families of their own community and similar background. The girls were married into wealthy Parsi families; the elder married a Banaji, the younger a Dady Sett (or Dadiseth). In the next generation, the son of the elder daughter, Jehangir ...
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Cowasji Dinshaw Adenwalla
Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw (Adenwalla) (1827–1900) was a trader who emigrated from Surat/Bombay. The family name ''Adenwalla'' ("from Aden") was a later addition, and is the name by which he is today remembered. Cowasji travelled extensively and set up trading posts in other British possessions/protectorates, most notably on the east-African coast in Zanzibar and Mombasa. He was however best known for his business acumen, and the foresight that Aden would become an important port within the framework of the (modern-day) Suez Canal. He had an entire floating dock shipped from Britain in 1895 and was known locally as "Dinshaw Pontoon". Although of the Zoroastrian faith (and founder of the Fire Temple in Aden), he also financed the construction of a mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ...
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Cowasjee Jehangir
Sir Cowasji Jehangir, 2nd Baronet, (16 February 1879 – 17 October 1962) was a prominent member of the Bombay Parsi community. He was the son of Sir Jehangir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, 1st Bt. (1853–1934) and grand-nephew of Sir Cowasji Jehangir ''Readymoney'' (1812–1878). He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Cowasji Jehangir campaigned for a prominent role for the Parsi Zoroastrian community in independent India. He had become a member of the "Western India National Liberation Federation", at its founding in 1919, and was elected its president in 1936 and 1937. He was also active in the reactionary "Parsee Central Committee", which was critical of Congress Parsis like Dadabhai Naoroji and Pherozeshah Mehta. At the second "Round Table Conference" in London during 1930–1932, where the framework for the political and constitutional future of India was laid down, he was one of the three political "liberals" to represent the Parsi community. To the Minoritie ...
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Byramjee Jeejeebhoy
Byramjee Jeejeebhoy CSI (1822–1890) was an Indian businessman and philanthropist who founded several education institutions in Bombay. The Byramjee Jeejeebhoy College and the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Parsee Charitable Institution in Charni Road, South Mumbai, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College in Pune and the B. J. Medical College Ahmedabad are four of the notable schools and colleges founded by him. In October 1830, the British East India Company leased Byramjee seven villages between Jogeshwari and Borivali, that totalled over . Also given to Byramjee was Land's End, Bandra, a cape with the Bandra Fort Castella de Aguada (corruption of ''Castelo da Aguada'', Portuguese for "Fort of the Waterpoint"), also known as the Bandra Fort, is a fort located in Bandra, Mumbai. "Castella" is a misspelling for Portuguese "Castelo" (castle), although it se ... that became known as the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Point for an annual rent of Rs. 2800. Byramjee built a beautiful, large mansion a ...
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Dinshaw Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel is an Indian-American structural biologist who holds the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Therapeutics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Early life and education Patel was born in 1942 in Mumbai, India and was raised in the Zoroastrian tradition. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Mumbai in 1961 and then moved to the United States for graduate school, completing a master's degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. He later recalled this experience, working in the laboratory of John D. Roberts, as his first exposure to NMR spectroscopy, a technique that would become a key part of his research program. Patel then joined the laboratory of David Schuster at New York University, from which he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1968. After completing his Ph.D., Patel became interested in moving from chemistry to biology and worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Robert Chambers at ...
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