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This is an alphabetic list of notable people from the Islamic Republic of Iran or its historical predecessors.
In the news
- Akbar Ganji
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Ali Dizaei, Senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
- Alireza Jafarzadeh, FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst
- Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the Ansari X Prize
- Bahar Soomekh, Iranian-American actor
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, UK's Women of the Year 2006 Award winner, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
- Daryush Shokof, Artist, Film Director, Iran Zendan
- Farzan Athari, International Model
- Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
- Jimmy Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills
- Kamshad Kooshan, Iranian American Film Director
- Kia Joorabchian, businessman
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani
- Mohammad Khatami, former president of Iran
- Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; Miss Canada 2003
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
- Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Sharmita vox, International Model
- Sheikh Haron
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel prize in Peace
- Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian American actress
- Zahra Kazemi
Artists
See also: List of Iranian artists
Calligraphists
- Abolhassan Etessami
- Jalil Rasouli
- Mehdi Saeedi
- Mir Ali Tabrizi
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Mishkín-Qalam
- Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
- Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Ali Asghar Moghtadaei
Cartoonists
Cinema artists
Actors and actresses
- Ahmad Najafi
- Akbar Abdi
- Ali Mosaffa
- Ali Nassirian
- Amin Hayaee
- Azita Hajian
- Bahar Soomekh
- Bahram Radan
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Behzad Farahani
- Bijan Daneshmand
- Bita Farrahi
- Bizhan Emkanian
- Catherine Bell
- Christiana Amanpour
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Daryush Shokof
- Davoud Rashidi
- Delkash
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Farimah Farjami
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
- Golab Adineh
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Googoosh
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Homa Rousta
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Jahangir Almasi
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Kazem HajirAzad
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Leila Forouhar
- Leila Hatami
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Majid Majidi
- Maz Jobrani
- Mehdi Fat'hi
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Mehran Modiri
- Merila Zarei
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam
- Niki Karimi
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Parviz Parastouee
- Parviz Sayyad
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Reza Kianian
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Roxanne Pallett
- Roya Nonahali
- Saeed Rad
- Sarah Shahi
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Sussan Taslimi
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Directors and filmmakers
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Akbar Golrang
- Ali Hatami
- Amir Naderi
- Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
- Babak Payami
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
- Bahman Maghsoudlou
- Bahram Beizai
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Darius Khondji
- Darius Mehrjui
- Daryush Shokof, director of Seven Servants,Iran Zendan
- David Mahmoudieh
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Emud Mokhberi, Academy Award nominated director/animator
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Kami Asgar
- Kamran Shirdel
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kiarash Anvari
- Mahdi Bemani Naeini
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Masoud Kimiai
- Mehran Modiri
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Morteza Avini
- Nasser Taghvai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Parviz Nouri
- Parviz Shahbazi
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Ramin Farahani
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- Samuel Khachikian
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
Film score composers
Designers
Fashion designers
Graphic designers
Entertainers
Comedians
- Ebrahim Nabavi*
- Hadi Khorsandi
- Max Amini
- Maz Jobrani
- Nasim Pedrad
- Negin Farsad
- Omid Djalili
- Shahin Jamie*
- Shaparak Khorsandi
Dancers
- Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
- Jamileh, pop
- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric
Music video directors
Musicians and singers
Classical
See also: List of Iranian composers
Iranian Classical/traditional
- Abolhasan Saba
- Alinaghi Vaziri
- Dariush Eghbali
- Delkash
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Hossein Khaje Amiri
- Hossein Tehrani
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Javad Maroofi
- Kamkarha
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Mahmoud Zoulfonoun
- Marzieh
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Mohammad Mousavi
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Mohammad Shams
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Mohsen Namjoo
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Parisa
- Parviz Meshkatian
- Parviz Yahaghi
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Shahram Nazeri
- Sima Bina
- Zyriab
Modern / traditional
Western Classical
- Ali Rahbari
- Alireza Mashayekhi
- Aminollah Hossein
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Armik
- Heshmat Sandjari
- Lily Afshar
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Mahan Esfahani
- Mehdi Hosseini
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Shahin Farhat
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Tania Eshaghoff
Electronic
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Deep Dish
- Leila Arab
- Nami
- Omid Nourizadeh
- Steve Naghavi from And One
Pop
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
- Afshin
- Alireza Assar
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili
- Arash
- Aref
- Arian Band
- Arian Band
- Christopher Den formerly of the band 'Pork Faggots'
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Darius Danesh
- Dariush Eghbali
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad
- Fereidoun Foroughi
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hassan Sattar
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hayadeh
- Hodi
- Homeyra
- Jamshid (musician)
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Moein
- Mohammad Esfahani
- Mohammad Nouri
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam
- Nooshafarin
- Omid
- Pyruz
- Reza Sadeghi
- Sandy
- Senadee
- Sepideh
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Shahrokh
- Shahrum K
- Shohreh Solati
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
- Siavash
- Simin
- Susan Roshan
- Vigen
Lyricists
Rock/metal
- Agah Bahari
- Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
- Barad
- Kiosk
- Meera
- O-Hum
- Reza Yazdani
Painters, illustrators and sculptors
See also: List of Iranian painters
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Bahram Soroush
- Daryush Shokof
- Farhad Sadeghi Amini
- Freydoon Rassouli
- Hossein Behzad
- Hossein Valamanesh
- Hossein Zenderoudi
- Iran Darroudi
- Jazeh Tabatabai
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Mani
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari
- Noreen Motamed
- Parviz Tanavoli
- Reza Abbasi
- Shirazeh Houshiary
- Siah Armajani
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Zhaleh Kazemi
Photographers
- Aalaeddin Melmasi
- Abbas
- Alfred Yaghobzadeh
- Ali Ghanbari
- Ali Khan Vali
- Jahangir Razmi, Pulitzer prize winner
- Kaveh Golestan
- Maryam Zandi
- Morteza Avini
- Nader Davoodi
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Reza Deghati
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Shahram Entekhabi
Theatre artists
Stage actors and actresses
- Ahmad Saatchian
- Ali Nassirian
- Behzad Farahani
- Hayley Tamaddon
- Kazem HajirAzad
- Maryam Davari
- Mehdi Bajestani
- Mohammad Reza Jozi
- Ramin Karimloo
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Roya Teymourian
- Shamsi Fazlollahi
- Shiva Boloorian
Theatre directors
- Akbar Radi
- Bahram Bayzai
- Behrouz Gharibpour
- Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
- Hengameh Mofid
- Mohammad Yaghoubi
- Mostafa Oskooyi
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Shiva Boloorian
- Vahid Evazzadeh
Journalism/media
Bloggers
- Hossein Derakhshan
- Massoumeh Ebtekar
- Mehdi Jami
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi
- Mojtaba Saminejad
- Omid Memarian
- Sina Motalebi
Journalists
- Abolmohsen Salemi
- Ahmad Shamlou
- Akbar Ganji
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
- Alireza Jafarzadeh
- Alireza Nourizadeh
- Arash Markazi
- Azadeh Ensha The New York Times
- Azadeh Moaveni
- Christiane Amanpour
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Fardad Farahzad, BBC
- Farrokhi Yazdi, pahlavi era.
- Hashem Aghajari
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Kaveh Golestan, BBC
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Masih Alinejad
- Masoud Dehnamaki
- Massoud Behnoud
- Mehran Ghassemi
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Mohammad Ghouchani
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Omid Memarian
- Rudi Bakhtiar
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Shadi Sadr
- Sina Motallebi
- Youness Shokrkhah
Television personalities
- Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, Correspondent, Commentator, Anchorman.
- Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News
- Asieh Namdar, news anchor at CNN
- Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
- Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazirah (English section)
- Reza Fazeli
- Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News
Leaders and politicians
The list here excludes the royalty. An extensive list of Persian royalty appears further down in this page.
See also Ministerial Head of Government in Iran Heads of Government of Iran (1699-1907) and List of Prime Ministers of Iran.
Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)
- Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, prime minister, multiple other roles.
- Abu Muslim, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Amir-Kabir, Grand Vizier.
- Babak Khorram Din, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs
- Bagher Khan, constitutionalist leader
- Bozorgmehr Sage and Grand Vizier of Sasanids.
- Colonel Pesian
- Dr Talequani Heshmat, jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan.
- Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitunalists, hanged.
- Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader.
- Hosein Dadgar, parliament speaker.
- Kaveh the Blacksmith, Legendary Leader and Liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king.
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general.
- Maziar son of Karan,Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan.
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister.
- Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah.
- Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution.
- Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Prime Minister.
- Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor.
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili, Spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty.
- Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader.
Modern (post-Qajar)
Pahlavi period
- Ali Akbar Davar, Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
- Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father.
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
- Ardeshir Zahedi
- Bahram Aryana, military commander
- Colonel Pesian, military leader
- Dr Ahmad Ahmadi, notorious prison interrogator
- Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
- George Malek-Yonan, procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
- Hasan Arfa, Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
- Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis Fars Province
- Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
- Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
- Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[1]
- Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
- Mahmoud Khayami, leading industrialist.
- Mahmud Mahmud, politician
- Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, Director of Sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
- Mohammad Hosein Airom, senior military leader
- Nader Jahanbani, air force general, pilot
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
- Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Established first social worker schools in Iran.
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
- Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian Statesman
Served in Islamic Republic government
- Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
- Ahmad Khatami
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ahmad Motamedi, minister of communications
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
- Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
- Ali Akbar Salehi
- Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Ali Younessi, minister of information
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
- Asadollah Lajevardi
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
- Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
- Ayatollah Sane'i
- Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
- Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
- Emad Afrough, member of parliament
- Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Gholam Hossein Elham
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- Hassan Habibi, first vice president
- Hassan Rowhani, deputy speaker of parliament
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Iraj Fazel, minister of health
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Kazem Jalali, politician
- Kazem Rajavi, politician
- Kazem Seddiqi, politician
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mayor of Tehran, now president of Iran
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, current head of judiciary
- Majead Ansari, member of parliament
- Manuchehr Eliasi, Jewish member of parliament
- Maoud Dehnamaki
- Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
- Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Mohammad Ali Najafi, minister of education
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Mohammad Emami-Kashani
- Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
- Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
- Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
- Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
- Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
- Mohseni-Ezhe'i
- Morteza Motahhari
- Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Rahim Safavi
- Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairst
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
- Sadegh Larijani
- Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Head of Central Bank of Iran, Ambassador to United Kingdom
See also: List of current Iranian officials
Not served or opposition
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Ahmad Zirakzadeh
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Alireza Jafarzadeh
- Alireza Rajaei
- Asghar Parsa
- Azam Taleghani
- Bijan Jazani
- Dariush Forouhar
- Daryush Shokof
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
- Habibollah Peiman
- Hashem Aghajari
- Jafar Pishevari
- Jalaleddin Farsi
- Karim Sanjabi
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Mansoor Hekmat
- Maryam Rajavi
- Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Mousa Sadr
- Nasser Zarafshan
- Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
- Parviz Varjavand
- Reza Alamouti, Central Committee Member of Fedayan Guerillas & founder of Radio Aras
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Yadollah Sahabi
Other nations
- Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, half-Iranian (mother)
- Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
- Goli Ameri, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Maryam Yazdanfar, member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), Sweden
- Moshe Katsav, Former President of Israel
- Nusrat Bhutto, Former first lady of Pakistan
- Omid Nouripour, member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Germany
- Reza Moridi, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
- Sharmita vox, International Model
- Shaul Mofaz, Current Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense
Literature figures
Authors and poets
Main article: Persian literature
- See main list: List of Persian poets and authors
Translators
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
- Karim Emami, author and translator
- Majid M. Naini, author and translator
- Mohammad Ghazi, translator
- Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator
Religious figures
See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.
- Majlesi
- Báb, prophet
- Bahá'u'lláh, prophet
- Dhikru'llah Khadem, prominent Hand of the Cause
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
- Mani, founder of Manichaeism
- Mazdak,Religious and Social Reformer
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
- Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
- Mulla Sadra
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili
- Salman the Persian
- Zahed Gilani
- Zoroaster, prophet
Royalty
See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.
Scientists, scholars, and academics
See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the pre-modern age.
See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the modern age.
Architects and Mi'mars
See full List of Iranian architects.
Explorers and travellers
- Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists
- Abbas Alizadeh
- Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
- Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
- Ezzatolah Neghban
- Kaveh Farrokh
- Mehrdad Bahar
- Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
- Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
- Touraj Atabaki
- Touraj Daryaee
Linguists
- Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
- Ahmad Tafazzoli
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
- Ehsan Yarshater
- Jaleh Amouzgar
- Mehrdad Bahar
- Parviz Natel-Khanlari
- Zabihollah Safa
Theorists and philosophers
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
- Dariush Shayegan
- Daryush Shokof
- Ehsan Naraghi
- Hossein Elahi Ghomshei
- Hamid Dabashi
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Technology
Video Game, Visual Effects, Computer Imagery
- Habib Zargarpour Visual effects specialist, Video game art director
- Reza Mohammady Human-Computer Interaction engineer
Sports
See also: category:Iranian sportspeople
- Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Adel Kolahkaj, footballer
- Alex Agase, American football player
- Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
- Ali Karimi, football player
- Ali Parvin, football player and coach
- Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
- Andre Agassi, tennis player – his father was Assyrian-Armenian
- Arash Miresmaili, Judo World Champion
- Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
- Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
- Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
- Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
- George Issabeg, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
- George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathlon
- Ghasem Dehnavi, footballer
- Ghasem Hadadifar, footballer
- Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004,
- Javad Nekounam, football player
- Khodadad Azizi, football player
- Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
- Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
- Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
- Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
- Rahman Rezaei, football player
- Rasoul Khadem, Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler
- Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
- Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
- Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
- Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
- Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
- Vahid Hashemian, football player
- Yossef Karami, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
- Yu Darvish, Iranian-Japanese baseball player
world record holder
- Andranik Teymourian, football player
- Fereydoon Zandi, football player
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hadi Saei, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
- Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
- Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
- Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
Iranian women
See separate articles: Persian woman and List of Persian women.
Other
- Ali Dashti
- Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and Philanthropist, founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
- Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. [2]
- Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[3]
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California
- Mehran Karimi Nasseri
- Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
- Nicholas Jackson (born 1989), Popular street performer turned philanthropist in Tanzania
- Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
- Saadat Khan, First Nawab of Oudh in India.
- Saeed Asgar, assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
- Shahram Entekhabi,Iranian born artist and architect.[4]
- Shahram Jazayeri
- Shahram Dabiri, the Lead Producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft.
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
- Wajid Ali Shah, Last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company.
- Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
Famous Armenians of Iran
See also: List of Armenian-Iranians
- Andranik Teymourian
- Andre Agassi, Tennis Champion
- Anik, actress
- Emmanuel Agassi, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran, Father of Andre Agassi
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Loris Tjeknavorian
- Marcos Grigorian artist, scholar and actor
- Mushegh Soruri
- Ovannes Ohanian, first Iranian film director
- Samuel Khachikian, film director
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi, film editor/director
- Vigen Derderian, singer
- Yeprem Khan
Famous Assyrians of Iran
See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians
- Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
- George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- George Malek-Yonan, politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
- Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
- Ivan Kakovitch, (1933–2006) activist and author Mount Semele (2001)
- Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted Rice
- Paulus Khofri, composer, painter
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
- Rosie Malek-Yonan, actor, activist and author of The Crimson Field
- Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- Andre Agassi – Assyrian-Armenian Tennis Star
- Shoura Osipov – Olympic Boxer
Famous Chaldeans of Iran
- Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran
- Paul Caldani, composer, writer, music researcher
Famous Americans in Iran
- Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr
- Joseph Cochran, 2nd generation American missionary in Urmiah/established first Iranian
medical college
- Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia
- Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian Culture revivalists
- David Stronach
- Elgin Groseclose, Treasury General, Persia
- John Limbert
- Justin Perkins, First American resident of Iran 1835
- Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia
- Richard Nelson Frye
- Samuel M. Jordan whom "Jordan Ave." in Tehran is named after
- William M. Miller
Famous Germans in Iran
- Annemarie Schimmel, German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
- Wilhelm Wassmuss, German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, first World War
Famous Iranians in America
See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.
Famous Iranians in Britain
Famous Iranians in Canada
See article: Iranian-Canadian
Famous Iranians in Pakistan
- Nusrat Bhutto, Iranian father and mother moved with family to Karachi, British India before partition; married Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; father of Benazir Bhutto.
Famous Iranians in India
See articles: Parsis or Iranian peoples
- Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian talkie Alam Ara; born in India to Iranian
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master, parents were from Kerman.
immigrant parents
- Sir Dinshah Irani, Zoroastrian leader
Persian Roman Catholic saints
See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints
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