NPR producer and author, whose mother Mary Laleh Bakhtiar is a Bakhtiari. Sardar Assad, Bakhtiari Haft Lang Chieftain and Constitutionalist. Laleh Bakhtiar, author and former professor at the University of Chicago, who wrote a feminist re-interpretation of the Koran. Rostam Amir Bakhtiar, Chief of Imperial Protocol (1953–1979). Abbasgholi Bakhtiar, Minister of Industries & Mines (1979). Abdolhamid Bakhtiar, Majles Deputy. Abolhassan Bakhtiar, Iranian Ambassador to Canada (1979). Agha Khan Bakhtiar, Minister of Labor (1957–1958), Head of the National Iranian Oil Company. Gholam-Reza Bakhtiar, Sardar Bakhtiar, Deputy Governor of Esfahan. Rudi Bakhtiar, former CNN and FOX TV news anchor and journalist. Shahpour Bakhtiar, politician and Prime Minister of Iran (1979). Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak. Behnoosh Bakhtiari, Iranian actress. David Bakhtiari, NFL player and offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers. Behrouz Bakhtiar Successful businessman and owner of Crosskeys Vineyards Gholam-Hossein Bakhtiari (Sardar Mohtashem), Minister of War (1911–13, 1918). Pezhman Bakhtiari, poet (1900–1974). Shaghayegh Dehghan, Iranian television actress, half Bakhtiari. Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Iranian Ambassador to West Germany (1952–1961). Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Empress of Iran (1951–58). Mirza Hideyatu'llah Ashtiani Bakhtiari (d.1892), Iran's finance minister during the Qajar period. Eman Mobali, football player. Fereydoon Moshiri, contemporary Persian poet. Zargham Saltaneh, Ebrahim, commander and instrumental figure in the Constitutional Revolution of 1909. Nasir Khan, Sardar Jang, Governor of Yazd. Niloufar Bakhtiar Bakhtiari, founder of NBB Design London, Interior Architecture. Mohsen Rezaei, former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Bijan Allipour, CEO of NISOC. Bahram Akasheh, Iran's leading experts on earthquakes See also Demographics of Iran Ethnic minorities in Iran Siege of Kandahar Yaylag References Further reading Ali Quli Khan Sardar Assad and A. Sepehr. Tarikhe Bakhtiari: Khulasat al-asar fi tarikh al-Bakhtiyar (Intisharat-i Asatir) (The History of Bakhtiari). 766 pages. . Asatir, Iran, 1997. In Persian. Bakhtiari language summary Shapour Bakhtiar. Memoirs of Shapour Bakhtiar. Habib Ladjevardi, ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1996. 140 Pages. In Persian. . Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary. Le Palais des Solitudes. France Loisirs, Paris, 1991. . Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari. The Last of the Khans: The life of Morteza Quli Khan Samsam Bakhtiari. iUniverse, New York, 2006. 215 pages. . in particular bullet point 2 on the role of Soraya Bakhtiari; compare with her account in Le Palais des Solitudes cited above. Arash Khazeni, The Bakhtiyari Tribes in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25, 2, Duke University Press, 2005. Pierre