# Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody

> Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American then-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country Iran and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.

*Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/sayed-bozorg-mahmoody

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1939
- **Died:** 2009-08-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 25.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 4.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 15.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 41.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #188

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21095619)
- [Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Bozorg_Mahmoody)
- [سید بزرگ محمودی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C)

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