List of Iranians
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This is a list of famous or important Iranians (Persians):
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In the news
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2nd place, Miss World 2003. Miss Canada.
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Goli Ameri
- Anousheh Ansari: X Prize named after her.
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani
- Shirin Ebadi
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Zahra Kazemi
- Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Mostafa Moin
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005.[1] (http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/March/miss.html)
- David Khalili, Billionaire.[2] (http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/March/dk.html)
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
- Iraj Mirza
- 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, traveller, writer and poet
- Rahi Mo'ayeri
- 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
- Saeed 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
See also List of Persian Language poets
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] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333694/)
- Bahram Beizaee
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Rabeah Ghaffari. director. [4] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1699687/)
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Akbar Golrang
- 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
- Hashem Agha-Jari
- Masih Alinejad
- Christiane Amanpour
- Rudi Bakhtiar
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar
- Massoud Behnoud
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
- Masoud Dehnamaki
- Hossein Derakhshan
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Akbar Ganji
- Mohammad Ghouchani
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Ashkan Khajehnoori
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Sina Motallebi
- Omid Memarian
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Ali Reza Nourizadeh
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Shadi Sadr
- Ahmad Shamlou
- Mashallah Shams-ol-vaezin
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil
- Amin Zarghami
- Kaveh Golestan, BBC Late photographer, Pulitzer Prize winner.[5] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2911419.stm)
Leaders and politicians
Historical (pre-Pahlavi)
- Abu Muslim
- Amir-Kabir, prime minister
- Bagher Khan
- Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Hassan-i-Sabah
- Kaveh the Blacksmith
- Mirza Reza Kermani
- Mohammad Khiabani
- Nizam al-Mulk, statesman and vizier
- Fazlollah Noori
- Safi Al-Din
- Sattar Khan
Modern (post-Qajar)
Pahlavi period
- Asadollah Alam, prime minister
- Ali Amini, prime minister
- Farah Pahlavi
- Jamshid Amouzegar, prime minister
- Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[6] (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/author/jahangir-amuzegar/index.html)
- 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
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Reza Shah
- 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
- Ahmad Mofti Zadeh
- Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
- Sadegh Sharafkandi
- Hashem Aghajari
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Mohammad Hossein Boroujerdi
- Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
- Jalaleddin Farsi
- Dariush Forouhar
- Mansoor Hekmat
- Bijan Jazani
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Lotfollah Meisami
- Farrokh Negahdar
- Habibollah Peiman
- Jafar Pishevari
- Alireza Rajaei
- Maryam Rajavi
- Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Mousa Sadr
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Yadollah Sahabi
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Azam Taleghani
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Nasser Zarafshan
- Asghar Parsa
- Karim Sanjabi
- Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
- Parviz Varjavand
- Abdolali Adib Baroumand
- Kazem Hassibi
- Allahyar Saleh
- Jahangir Haghshenas
- Ahmad Zirakzadeh
- Shapour Bakhtiar
- Bagher Kazemi
- Hossein Fatemi
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)
- Arian Band
- Andy (Andranik Madadian)
- Anousheh Khalili, was the singer in the Deep Dish - Flashdance Song.
- Delkash
- Ebi
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
- Fereydoon Foroughi
- Freddie Mercury, of the rock band Queen.[7] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3593532.stm)
- Golpa (Akbar Golpaygani)
- Googoosh
- Hayadeh
- Hodi
- Homeirah
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti.
- Mansoor
- Mohammad Esfehani
- Morteza
- Shahram Shabpare
Traditional
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina, folkloric music
- Delkash
- Akbar Golpaygani
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Marzieh
- Shahram Nazeri
- Parisa Khosravi
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Bahman Panahi
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Abolhasan Saba
Western Classical
- Lily Afshar
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Alexander (Ali) Rahbari
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
Religious figures
- Báb, prophet
- Bahá'u'lláh, prophet
- Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
- Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic / politician
- Mani, founder of Manichaeism
- Zoroaster, prophet
- Grand Ayatollah Shirazi
- Mulla Sadra
- Allameh Tabatabaei
- Zahed Gilani
- Safi Al-Din
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.
Explorers and travellers
- Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
- Issa Omidvar
- Abdollah Omidvar
- Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
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] (http://www2.onunterhaltung.t-online.de/dyn/c/16/29/07/1629076.html)
- 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] (http://www.iranianamericanpac.org/leadership/p_hosseini.shtml)
- Merhan Karimi Nasseri
- Doris Lessing
- Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
- Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[10] (http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830327/life.htm)
- Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
- Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[11] (http://www.mandana-naderian.de/)
- Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. [12] (http://www.prismadesign.com/bijan/home.html)
- Mori Hosseini, Distinguished community leader. [13] (http://www.iranianamericanpac.org/leadership/p_hosseini.shtml)
Famous Americans in Iran
- Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr.
- Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian Culture revivalists.
- Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia.
- Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia.
- Annemarie Schimmel, German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
- Edward G Browne, Iranologist.
- Richard Nelson Frye
Famous Iranians in America
See the separate List of Iranian Americans.