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List of Iranians
This is a list of famous or important Iranians (Persians):
In the news
Authors and poets
- Ali Mohammad Afghani , writer
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
- Bozorg Alavi, novelist
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, writer
- Zhaleh Amouzegar
- Attar, poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
- Simin Behbahani, poet
- Samad Behrangi, writer
- Massoud Behnoud, historian
- Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
- Sadegh Choubak , writer
- Simin Daneshvar , writer
- Abu Mansur Daqiqi, early poet
- Najaf Daryabandari , translator and writer
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi , writer
- Mirzadeh Eshghi , poet
- Forough Farrokhzad, poet
- Ferdowsi, poet
- Hassan Ghaznavi , poet
- Hafez, poet
- Hatef Esfehani , poet
- Abdollah Hatefi , poet
- Hazin Lahiji
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat , poet and historian
- Sadegh Hedayat, writer
- Mohammad Hejazi , novelist and playwright
- Houshang Golshiri , writer
- Houshang Moradi-Kermani , writer
- Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer
- Jami, poet
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
- Emad Khorasani
- Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
- Zabihollah Mansoori , translator
- Yar-Ali Pour-Moghaddam , writer and playwright
- Mohammad Mokhtari
- Houshang Moradi-Kermani
- Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
- Fereydoun Moshiri , poet
- Morteza Motahhari , theologian
- Ebrahim Nabavi , satirist
- Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
- Said Nafisi, Scholar, poet and writer
- Nezami, poet
- Iraj Pezeshkzad
- Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
- Yasmina Reza
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi), poet
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Sa'di, poet
- Gholamhossein Sa'edi , writer
- Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
- Sohrab Sepehri, poet
- Mohammad Reza Shafii Kadkani , poet
- Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet
- Ahmad Shamlou, poet
- Ali Shariati, sociologist and theologian
- Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher
- Goli Taraghghi
- Nima Yushij, poet
Painters
- Mani
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Reza Abbasi
- Aidin Aghdashloo
- Hanibal Alkhas
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Hossein Behzad
- Iran Darroudi
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Mansoureh Hosseini
- Shaikh Mohammad Shirazi
- Ali Akbar Tajvidi
- Farrukh Beg
- Dust-Mohammad Mosawwar
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Aqa Buzurg
- Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
- Farshid Maleki
- Manouchehr Atash
- Majid Fadaeian
Calligraphists
Cinema artists
Actors
- Akbar Abdi
- Golab Adineh
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Jahangir Almasi
- Fariborz Arabnia
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Asal Badiee
- Delkash
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Hadi Eslami
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Behzad Farahani
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Farimah Farjami
- Bita Farrahi
- Hamid Farrokhnezhad
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Leila Forouhar
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Garsha
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Sorayya Ghasemi
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Googoosh
- Azita Hajian
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Jamshid Hashempour
- Leila Hatami
- Amin Hayaee
- Rambod Javan
- Hamid Jebeli
- Niki Karimi
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Reza Kianian
- Gowhar Kheirandish
- Fakhri Khorvash
- Majid Majidi
- Nasser Malekmoti'ee
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Parvaneh Ma'soumi
- Bahman Mofid
- Ali Mosaffa
- Fatemeh Mo'tamed-Aria
- Ahmad Najafi
- Ali Nassirian
- Roya Nonahali
- Hossien Panahi
- Parviz Parastouee
- Atila Pesyani
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Pourhosseini
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Saeed Rad
- Bahram Radan
- Davoud Rashidi
- Habib Rezaee
- Homa Rousta
- Reza Rouygari
- Hossein Sarshar
- Parviz Sayyad
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Mozhdeh Shamsaee
- Mehraveh Sharifinia
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Soroush Sehhat
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Amin Tarokh
- Sussan Taslimi
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Merila Zare'i
Directors and Filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Shoja Azari , director.[3]
- Bahram Beizaee
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Rabeah Ghaffari . director. [4]
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Ali Hatami
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Hassan Hedayat
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiaee
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Daryoush Mehrjouee (aka Dariush Mehrjui), director of Leila
- Jalal Moghaddam
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Babak Payami, director of Silence between Two Thoughts
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Khosrow Sinaee
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvaee
- Shahin Yazdani
Journalists
Leaders and politicians
Historical (pre-Pahlavi)
Modern (post-Qajar)
Served in Pahlavi government
- Asadollah Alam , prime minister
- Ali Amini, prime minister
- Jamshid Amouzegar, prime minister
- Jahangir Amouzegar , former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[6]
- Gholam Reza Azhari , prime minister
- Shapour Bakhtiar , prime minister
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Ali Akbar Davar, Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
- Manouchehr Eghbal , prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
- Hossein Fardoust , deputy head of SAVAK
- Hossein Fatemi , Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Ahmad Ghavam os-Saltaneh , Prime Minister
- Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
- Hassan-Ali Mansour , prime minister
- Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
- Nematollah Nassiri , head of SAVAK
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Abdollah Riazi , first speaker of parliament
- Jafar Sharif-Emami , first speaker of senate and prime minister
- Hasan Toufanian , four-star army general
- Fazlollah Zahedi, prime minister
Served in Islamic Republic government
- Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
- Ali Abdolalizadehh , minister of housing and urban development
- Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard , vice speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Emad Afrough , member of parliament
- Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad , mayor of Tehran
- Abbasali Alizadeh
- Hossein Allah-Karam
- Ayatollah Amini , deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
- Majead Ansari, member of parliament
- Hossein Ansari-Rad , member of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
- Mohsen Armin , member of parliament
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- Habibollah Asgarowladi , member of parliament
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Ayatollah Azari-Ghomi
- Hassan Ayat
- Asadollah Badamchian
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Ala'eddin Boroujerdi , member of parliament
- Maoud Dehnamaki
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
- Masoumeh Ebtekar , vice president
- Gholam Hossein Elham
- Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
- Mohammad Emami-Kashani
- Ali Fallahian , minister of intelligence
- Nafiseh Fayyazbakhsh , parliament representative
- Iraj Fazel , minister of health
- Hassan Ghafourifard , minister of energy
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairs
- Shahabeddin Gonabadi , minister of housing and urban development
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Hassan Habibi, first vice president
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Morteza Haji , minister of education
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani , member of parliament
- Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
- Gholamreza Hassani , Friday Prayer Imam of Urmia
- Elias Hazrati , member of parliament
- Mahmoud Hojjati , minister of roads and transportation
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Nasrollah Jahangard , chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Ahmad Jannati , chair of Council of Guardians
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi , mayor of Tehran
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Hadi Khamenei , member of parliament
- Ahmad Khatami
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Abolghasem Khaz'ali
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Elaheh Koulai , member of parliament
- Asadollah Lajevardi
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Sadegh Larijani
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Alireza Mahjoub
- Hossein Mahlouji , minister of mining and metals
- Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Mohsen Mirdamadi , member of parliament
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
- Mohseni-Ezhe'i
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour , member of parliament
- Rasoul Montajebnia , member of parliament
- Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Morteza Motahhari
- Ahmad Motamedi, minister of communications
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
- Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari , minister of interior
- Hossein Mousavi-Tabrizi
- Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Morteza Nabavi
- Mohammad Reza Naghdi
- Mohammd Ali Najafi , minister of education
- Hadi Namazi
- Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh , minister of oil
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri , speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Niazi
- Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh , head of Central Bank of Iran
- Ali Parvaresh
- Masoud Pezeshkian , minister of health
- Mohsen Rafighdoust
- Ebrahim Raisi , first deputy of head of judiciary system
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Ali Razini
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohsen Rezaee , member of Expediency Discernment Council
- Hassan Rowhani , deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Saeedikia , minister of roads and transportation
- Mohsen Safaee-Farahani , member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
- Rahim Safavi
- Mohammad Salamati
- Ali Akbar Salehi
- Ayatollah Sane'i
- Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh , member of parliament
- Mohammad Sattarifar , vice president
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Jalaleddin Taheri
- Hamid Reza Taraghghi
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Akbar Torkan , minister of roads and transportation
- Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
- Ali Younessi , minister of information
- Ezzatollah Zarghami , president of IRIB
- General Zolghadr
See also: List of current Iranian officials
Not served or opposition
Musicians and Singers
Electronic
- Leila Arab
- Fred Maslaki
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Behrouz Nazari
- Omid Nourizadeh
- Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
- Ali 'Dubfire' Shirazinia
- Shahram Tayebi
- Deep Dish
- Steve Naghavi (of german industrial group And One )
Pop
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
Traditional
Western Classical
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Loris Tjeknavorian
- Lily Afshar
Religious figures
Royalty
See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.
Scientists & Philosophers
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.
Sports
- Andre Agassi, tennis player
- Khodadad Azizi , football player
- Mansour Bahrami , tennis player
- Ali Daei, football player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin , wrestler
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami , chess grandmaster
- Ali Karimi, football player
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- Hadi Saei Bonehkohal , Taekwondo
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler
- Khosrow Vaziri, wrestler
- Fereydoon Zandi , football player
Iranian women
See special section and list of Iranian women.
Other
- Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
- Anousheh Ansari
- Saeed Asgar , assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
- Minoo Barati , wife of Joschka Fischer, the German Foreign Minister.[8]
- Touri Bolourchi
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California
- Zahra Eshraghi , granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Shahram Jazayeri
- Mori Hosseini , Distinguished community leader. [9]
- Merhan Karimi Nasseri
- Doris Lessing
- Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
- Farah Karimi , Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[10]
- Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
- Mandana Naderian , German TV hostess.[11]
- Bijan Pakzad , World famous designer. [12]
- Mori Hosseini , Distinguished community leader. [13]
Famous Americans in Iran
Famous Iranians in America
See the separate List of Iranian Americans.
See also
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