Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (8 May 1928 – 16 December 2015) was the son of the

Qajar Qajar Iran (), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, '. Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran ( fa, دولت علیّه ایران ') and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran ( fa, ممالک م ...

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

nobleman

Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma ( fa, عبدالحسین فرمانفرما 1857 – November, 1939) was one of the most prominent Qajar dynasty, Qajar princes, and one of the most influential politicians of his time in Persia. He was born ...

and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. During the

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty ( fa, دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty, ruling for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier in modern times, who ...

era, he held the post of governor of the

Central Bank of Iran The Central Bank of Iran (CBI), also known as ''Bank Markazi'', officially the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( fa, بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ايران, Bank Markazi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān; SWIFT Code: B ...

. He was the chief architect of the 1960s Iranian economic boom. However, he often dismissed the Shah as incompetent. He fled during the

1979 revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

in Iran to

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. He died of lung cancer at the age of 87 in London, United Kingdom, on 16 December 2015.Khodadad Farmanfarmaian
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The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages
Turkoman dynasty of Shahs of Iran

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*Daughter of Persia;

Sattareh Farman Farmaian Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān ( fa, ستاره فرمانفرمائیان; December 23, 1921 – May 21, 2012), also Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, was an Iranian author, social worker, and was of Qajar nobility. She was one of the daughters of Persia ...

with Dona Munker; Crown Publishers,Inc.,New York,1992 * Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince;

Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian Prince Manucher Mirza (1917–2003) was born in Tehran in 1917. He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma and of Batoul Khanoum. He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran. O ...

. Random House, New York, 1997. Qajar princes 1928 births 2015 deaths Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United Kingdom Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom Governors of the Central Bank of Iran Farmanfarmaian family {{iran-politician-stub

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