Shirin (Persian: شِيرِين, romanized: shīrīn) was the wife of Sassanid Persian king Khosrow II.
Shirin may also refer to:
People
edit- Shirin Akiner (1943–2019), British historian
- Shirin Bina (born 1964), Iranian actress
- Shirin Darasha (1938–2012), Indian educator
- Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Iranian lawyer and Nobel Prize winner
- Shirin Guha (born 1986), Indian actress
- Shirin Guild (born 1946), Iranian fashion designer
- Shirin Mirzayev (1942–1992), Azeri military officer
- Shirin Neshat (born 1957), Iranian artist
- Shirin Nezammafi (born 1979), Iranian writer
- Shirin Oskooi (born 1983), former senior executive at Yahoo!
- Shirin M. Rai (born 1960), Indian political scientist
- Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli (born 1944), American political scientist and diplomat
Places
edit- Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province, Iran
- Shirin, Eqlid, Iran
- Shirin, Fars, Iran
- Shirin, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran
- Shirin, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
- Shirin, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran
- Shirin, Uzbekistan
Other uses
edit- Shirin Farhad (disambiguation), story about the Sassanid queen
- Shirin (crater), a crater located on Saturn's moon Enceladus
- Shirin (film), an Iranian film
- USS Shirin (SP-915), a United States Navy ship