Parveen
Parveen is a Persian-Kurdish given name meaning Pleiades. It is commonly used in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and India. It is also used as a last name.
Spellings and / or transcriptions might differ depending on the country: Parvin, Perveen, Pervin or Parween.
Given name
Females
- Parvin Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician
- Parvin Ardalan, Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist
- Parveen Babi, Indian actress
- Pervin Buldan, Turkish politician
- Parvin Darabi, Iranian born American activist, writer and defender of women's rights
- Parvin Dowlatabadi, Iranian children's author and poet
- Parvin E'tesami, Iranian poet
- Parween Hayat, Pakistani politician
- Parveen Atif, Pakistani Urdu fiction writer, short story writer, columnist, and a pioneer of women's field hockey
- Shama Parveen Magsi, politician from Balochistan province of Pakistan
- Pervin Özdemir, Turkish ceramic artist
- Parween Pazhwak, Afghan artist and poet and writer in the Persian language
- Parveen Shakir Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher and civil servant
- Parvin Soleimani, Iranian actress of theater and cinema
- Parveen Sultana, Indian Hindustani classical singer
Males
- Parvin Dabas, Indian actor and model
- Parvin Darabadi, professor at the International Relations Department, Baku State University
- Parvin Mammadov, Azerbaijani Paralympic powerlifter
Surname
- Alfred Parvin, English cricketer
- Ali Parvin, Iranian football player and coach
- Farida Parveen, Bangladeshi singer
- Landon Parvin, American political speechwriter
- Selina Parvin, Bangladeshi journalist
Places
- Parvin Bridge, Lane County, Oregon, US
- Parvin State Park, New Jersey, US
Other uses
- PARVA gene, encodes the protein alpha-parvin in humans
- Parvin (mango), mango