Kharazmy (8th)

• The Spanish word guarismo and the Portuguese word algarismo are originated from him, both meaning digit.
• the word algebra is derived gebra The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing is a mathematical book written approximately 830 AD.

Rudaky (9th)

• He was totally blind.
• 1,300,000 verses.
• He well deserves the title of father of Persian literature.

Jabir Ibn Hayyan (9th)

The discovery and description of many now-commonplace chemical substances and processes such as the hydrochloric and nitric acids, distillation, and crystallisation.

Zakariya Razi (9th)

Fundamental and enduring contributions to the fields of medicine, alchemy, and philosophy, recorded in over 184 books and articles in various fields of science. Sulfuric acid, ethanol, the first known description of smallpox, measles, allergic asthma.

Biruni (11th)

“One of the great scientific minds in all history”

• Biruni's books number 146 in total including astronomy, geography, mathematics to philosophy and literary works.

• “Rotation of the earth would in no way invalidate astronomical calculations, for all the astronomical data are as explicable in terms of the one theory as of the other
• Estimate of 6,339.9 km for the Earth radius

Omar Khayyam (12th)

• Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer.
• Calendar reform.
• Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra.

Ibn Sina /Avicenna (11th)

• Ibn sina is regarded as a father of early modern medicine.
• 17 cured the king Ibn Sīnā's works numbered almost 450 volumes on a wide range of subjects including theology, philology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, and music.
• The best-known amongst them, and that to which Ibn Sina owed his European reputation, is his 14-volume The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world up until the 18th century.

Ferdowsi (11th)

Ferdowsi is one of the undisputed giants of Persian literature.

who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century.

Book of Kings: starts 7,000 years ago, narrating the story of Persian kings, Persian knights, Persian system of laws, Persian Religion, Persian victories and Persian tragedies.

Saadi (13th)

• Saadi is very much like Marco Polo who traveled in the region from 1271 to 1294. While Marco Polo gravitated to the potentates and the good life, Saadi mingled with the ordinary survivors of the Mongol holocaust.
• The poem is used to grace the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building with this call for breaking all barriers

Of one Essence is the human race,

Thusly has Creation put the Base;

One Limb impacted is sufficient,

For all others to feel the Mace

Hafez (14th)

The history of the translation of Hafez has been a complicated one, and few English translations have been truly successful, in large part due to the fact that the figurative gesture for which he is most famous is ambiguity, and therefore interpreting of him correctly requires intuitive perception.