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{{Short description|none}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} This is an alphabetic list of notable people from [[Iran]] or its historical predecessors. {{dynamic list|date=July 2014}} ==In the news== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ali Khamenei]], supreme leader of Iran * [[Ebrahim Raisi]], former president of Iran, former Chief Justice of Iran. Died in a famous helicopter crash. * [[Hassan Rouhani]], former president of Iran (2013–2021) * [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], former president of Iran (2005–2013) * [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]], former politician * [[Qasem Soleimani]], former commander of the Quds Force * [[Ali Larijani]], former Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. * [[Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf]], former Mayor of [[Tehran]], Speaker of the [[Islamic Consultative Assembly]] * [[Ali Dizaei]], senior officer in the [[London Metropolitan Police]] * [[Anousheh Ansari]], first female [[space tourist]] in the world, [[telecommunication]] [[entrepreneur]] and [[namesake]] of the [[Ansari X Prize]] * [[Bahar Soomekh]], Iranian-American actor * [[Camila Batmanghelidjh]], founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company * [[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran|Reza Pahlavi]], son of the deposed Shah of Iran, crown prince in exile. * [[Shirin Ebadi]], recipient of 2003 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] * [[Akbar Ganji]], Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political * [[Hossein Ronaghi]], Iranian human rights activist and bloggerdissident".{{div col end}} ==Artists== {{See also|List of Iranian artists}} ===Calligraphists=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Gholam Hossein Amirkhani]] * [[Abolhassan Etessami]] * [[Mir Emad Hassani]] * [[Seyyed Jafar Kashfi]] * [[Yadollah Kaboli Khansari]] * [[Mishkín-Qalam]] * [[Jalil Rasouli]] * [[Mehdi Saeedi]] * [[Mir Ali Tabrizi]] {{div col end}} ===Cartoonists=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Golnar Servatian]] * [[Javad Alizadeh]] * [[Maziyar Bizhani]] * [[Nikahang Kowsar]] * [[Mana Neyestani]] * [[Touka Neyestani]] {{div col end}} ===Painters, illustrators and sculptors=== {{See also|List of Iranian painters}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abolhassan Khan Sadighi]] * [[Ali Akbar Sadeghi]] * [[Amir Shayesteh Tabar]] * [[Aydin Aghdashloo]] * [[Bahram Soroush]] * [[Daryush Shokof]] * [[Farhad Sadeghi Amini]] * [[Gholamhossein Saber]] * [[Haydar Hatemi]] * [[Hossein Behzad]] * [[Hossein Valamanesh]] * [[Hossein Zenderoudi]] * [[Iran Darroudi]] * [[Jazeh Tabatabai]] * [[Kamal ol-Molk]] * [[Kamaleddin Behzad]] * [[Mahmoud Farshchian]] * [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]] * [[Maryam Hashemi]] (Maryam Sandjari) * [[Mohammad Ali Taraghijah]] * [[Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam]] * [[Mokarrameh Ghanbari]] * [[Noreen Motamed]] * [[Afshin Naghouni]] * [[Parviz Tanavoli]] * [[Reza Abbasi]] * [[Shahla Aghapour]] * [[Shahla Arbabi]] * [[Shirazeh Houshiary]] * [[Siah Armajani]] * [[Sohrab Sepehri]] * [[Zhaleh Kazemi]] {{div col end}} ===Photographers=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abbas (photographer)|Abbas]] * [[Abbas Kiarostami]] * [[Alfred Yaghobzadeh]] * [[Ali Ghanbari]] * [[Ali Khan Vali]] * [[Jahangir Razmi]] * [[Kaveh Golestan]] * [[Maryam Zandi]] * [[Mitra Tabrizian]] * [[Morteza Avini]] * [[Nader Davoodi]] * [[Nasrollah Kasraian]] * [[Newsha Tavakolian]] * [[Reza Deghati]] * [[Hossein Rajabian]] * [[Sadegh Tirafkan]] * [[Shadi Ghadirian]] * [[Shahram Entekhabi]] * [[Shirana Shahbazi]] * [[Shirin Neshat]] {{div col end}} == Designers == === Architects === {{see also|List of Iranian architects|List of historical Iranian architects}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Hossein Amanat]] * [[Kamran Diba]] * [[Heydar Ghiai|Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou]] * [[Fariborz Sahba]] {{div col end}} === Fashion designers === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Pegah Anvarian]] * [[Bijan (designer)|Bijan]] * [[Shirin Guild]] * [[Arefeh Mansouri]] * [[Behnaz Sarafpour]] * [[Mahla Zamani]] * [[Mike Amiri]] {{div col end}} === Graphic designers === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Reza Abedini]] * [[Farshid Mesghali]] * [[Morteza Momayez]] * [[Mehdi Saeedi]] * [[Ghobad Shiva]] {{div col end}} === Industrian designers === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Nader Faghihzadeh]] * [[Alexander Kostellow]] * [[Iman Maghsoudi]] * [[Mona Paad]] * [[Sohrab Vossoughi]] {{div col end}} ==Business== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Kia Joorabchian]], businessman * [[Hooman Radfar]], entrepreneur * [[Nasser David Khalili]], billionaire and art collector {{div col end}} == Entertainers == ===Comedians=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Baba Ali]], Islamic comedy * [[Max Amini]] * [[Omid Djalili]] * [[Negin Farsad]] * [[Shahin Jamie]] * [[Maz Jobrani]] * [[Shaparak Khorsandi]] * [[Hadi Khorsandi]] * [[Ebrahim Nabavi]] * [[Nasim Pedrad]] {{div col end}} ===Dancers and choreographers=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Jamileh (dancer)|Jamileh]] * [[Farzaneh Kaboli]], folkloric * [[Nima Kiann]] * [[Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam]], folkloric {{div col end}} === Models, beauty pageant === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Nazanin Afshin-Jam]], actress, singer-songwriter, human-rights activist; Miss World 2003 first runner-up; Miss Canada 2003 * [[Ramona Amiri]], Miss Canada 2005 * [[Sahar Biniaz]] (born 1985), Miss Universe Canada 2012 * [[Aylar Lie]] (born 1984), [[Norwegian Iranians|Iranian-born Norwegian]] actress, model, singer, former pornographic actress * [[Shermine Shahrivar]], Miss Europe 2005 * [[Samantha Tajik]] (born 1983), Miss Universe Canada 2008 {{div col end}} ===Film actors=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Akbar Abdi]] * [[Alan Mehdizadeh]] * [[Ali Mosaffa]] * [[Ali Nassirian]] * [[Amin Hayaee]] * [[Amirhossein Arman]] * [[Artemis Pebdani]] * [[Asghar Farhadi]] * [[Azita Hajian]] * [[Bahar Soomekh]] * [[Bahram Radan]] * [[Behrouz Vossoughi]] * [[Behzad Farahani]] * [[Bijan Daneshmand]] * [[Bita Farrahi]] * [[Bizhan Emkanian]] * [[Catherine Bell (actress)|Catherine Bell]] * [[Christiane Amanpour]] * [[Daryoush Arjmand]] * [[Daryush Shokof]] * [[Davoud Rashidi]] * [[Delkash]] * [[Elnaaz Norouzi]] * [[Ezzatollah Entezami]] * [[Faramarz Gharibian]] * [[Farimah Farjami]] * [[Fatemeh Motamed-Aria]] * [[Golab Adineh]] * [[Golshifteh Farahani]] * [[Googoosh]] * [[Hamed Behdad]] * [[Hedyeh Tehrani]] * [[Homa Rousta]] * [[Homayoun Ershadi]] * [[Jahangir Forouhar]] * [[Jamileh Sheykhi]] * [[Jamshid Mashayekhi]] * [[Kamshad Kooshan]] * [[Kazem HajirAzad]] * [[Khosrow Shakibaee]] * [[Leila Forouhar]] * [[Leila Hatami]] * [[Mahaia Petrosian]] * [[Mahnaz Afshar]] * [[Majid Majidi]] * [[Mandana Karimi]] * [[Maz Jobrani]] * [[Mehdi Fat'hi]] * [[Mehdi Hashemi (actor)]] * [[Mehran Modiri]] * [[Merila Zarei]] * [[Mohammad Ali Fardin]] * [[Mohammad Ali Keshavarz]] * [[Mohammad Reza Foroutan]] * [[Mohammad Reza Golzar]] * [[Mohammad Reza Sharifinia]] * [[Navid Mohammadzadeh]] * [[Nazanin Afshin-Jam]] * [[Nematollah Aghasi]] * [[Niki Karimi]] * [[Omid Ahangar]] * [[Parsa Pirouzfar]] * [[Parviz Fannizadeh]] * [[Parviz Parastouee]] * [[Parviz Sayyad]] * [[Pegah Ahangarani]] * [[Reza Kianian]] * [[Reza Rahardian]] * [[Roxanne Pallett]] * [[Roya Nonahali]] * [[Saeed Rad]] * [[Sam Asghari]] * [[Sarah Shahi]] * [[Shaghayegh Farahani]] * [[Shahab Hosseini]] * [[Shohreh Aghdashloo]] * [[Sussan Taslimi]] * [[Taraneh Alidousti]] * [[Zahra Amir Ebrahimi]]{{div col end}} === Theatre and stage actors === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Mehdi Bajestani]] * [[Taha Behbahani]] * [[Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi]] * [[Behzad Farahani]] * [[Shamsi Fazlollahi]] * [[Alan Mehdizadeh]] * [[Ali Nassirian]] * [[Hayley Tamaddon]] * [[Kazem HajirAzad]] * [[Ahmad Saatchian]] * [[Mohammad Reza Jozi]] * [[Ramin Karimloo]] * [[Roya Teymourian]] * [[Shiva Boloorian]] {{div col end}} == Filmmakers, directors == === Filmmakers === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abbas Kiarostami]], director of ''[[Taste of Cherry]]'' * [[Abdolhossein Sepanta]] * [[Hassan Hajgozar]] * [[Abolfazl Jalili]] * [[Baba Ali|Ali Ardekani]] * [[Ali Hatami]] * [[Ali Sajadi Hoseini]] * [[Amir Naderi]] * [[Asghar Farhadi]], director of ''[[A Separation]]'' * [[Babak Payami]] * [[Bahman Farman-Ara]] * [[Bahman Ghobadi]], director of ''[[A Time for Drunken Horses]]'' * [[Bahman Maghsoudlou]] * [[Bahram Beizai]] * [[Behrooz Gharibpoor]] * [[Daryush Shokof]] * [[Darius Khondji]] * [[Darius Mehrjui]] * [[Desiree Akhavan]], director of ''[[Appropriate Behavior]]'' * [[Ebrahim Hatamikia]] * [[Emud Mokhberi]], Academy Award-nominated director and animator * [[Esma'il Kooshan]] * [[Houman Seyyedi]] * [[Iraj Ghaderi]] * [[Jafar Panahi]], director of ''[[The Circle (2000 film)|The Circle]]'' * [[Kamal Tabrizi]] * [[Kami Asgar]] * [[Kamran Shirdel]] * [[Kamshad Kooshan]] * [[Khosrow Sinai]] * [[Kiarash Anvari]] *[[Kiumars Pourahmad]] * [[Mahdi Bemani Naeini]] * [[Majid Majidi]], director of ''[[Children of Heaven]]'' * [[Masoud Kimiai]] * [[Mehran Modiri]] * [[Mohsen Makhmalbaf]], director of ''[[Kandahar (2001 film)|Kandahar]]'' *[[Mostafa Keshvari]] * [[Nasser Taghvai]] * [[Parviz Kimiavi]] * [[Hossein Rajabian]], director of ''[[The Upside-down Triangle]]'' * [[Parviz Nouri]] * [[Shabnam Rezaei]] * [[Parviz Shahbazi]] * [[Parviz Sayyad]] * [[Bob Yari]], Iranian-born American film producer * [[Pouran Derakhshandeh]], award-winning film director and producer * [[Rakhshan Bani-Etemad]] * [[Ramin Farahani]] * [[Rasoul Mollagholipour]] * [[Reza Badiyi]] * [[Sadaf Foroughi]] * [[Samira Makhmalbaf]], director of ''[[At Five in the Afternoon]]'' * [[Samuel Khachikian]] * [[Sohrab Shahid-Sales]] * [[Saeed Roustayi]] * [[Tina Gharavi]] {{div col end}} === Theatre and stage directors === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Akbar Radi]] * [[Bahram Bayzai]] * [[Behrouz Gharibpour]] * [[Ghotbeddin Sadeghi]] * [[Hengameh Mofid]] * [[Hossein Rajabian]] * [[Mostafa Oskooyi]] * [[Reza Shirmarz]] * [[Shiva Boloorian]] {{div col end}} ==Musicians and singers== {{see also|List of Iranian musicians}} === Classical === {{See also|List of Iranian composers}} ==== Iranian classical traditional ==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abolhasan Saba]] * [[Alireza Eftekhari]] * [[Alinaghi Vaziri]] * [[Dariush Eghbali]] * [[Elaheh]] * [[Gholam-Hossein Banan]] * [[Homayoun Shajarian]] * [[Hossein Khaje Amiri]] * [[Hossein Tehrani]] * [[Hossein Alizadeh]] * [[Jalal Zolfonun]] * [[Javad Maroofi]] * [[Kamkarha]] * [[Kayhan Kalhor]] * [[Mahmoud Zoulfonoun]] * [[Marzieh (singer)|Marzieh]] * [[Maryam Akhondy]] * [[Mirza Abdollah|Mirza Abdollah Farahani]] * [[Mohammad Reza Lotfi]] * [[Mohammad Shams]] * [[Mohammad-Reza Shajarian]] * [[Mohsen Namjoo]] * [[Morteza Hannaneh]] * [[Mehdi Rajabian]] * [[Nashit]] * [[Nur Ali Elahi]] * [[Parisa]] * [[Parviz Meshkatian]] * [[Parviz Yahaghi]] * [[Ruhollah Khaleghi]] * [[Shahram Nazeri]] * [[Sima Bina]] * [[Zyriab]] {{div col end}} ==== Modern traditional ==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ahmad Pejman]] * [[Axiom of Choice (band)|Axiom of Choice]] * [[Farhad Fakhreddini]] * [[Morteza Hannaneh]] * [[Niyaz]] * [[Ramin Rahimi]] * [[Zohreh Jooya]] * [[Mehdi Rajabian]]{{div col end}} ==== Western classical ==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ali Rahbari]] * [[Alireza Mashayekhi]] * [[Amin Homaei]] * [[Aminollah Hossein]] * [[Anoushiravan Rohani]] * [[Armik]] * [[Ashkan Saberi]] * [[Hangi Tavakoli]] * [[Heshmat Sandjari]] * [[Loris Tjeknavorian]] (Loris Cheknavarian) * [[Lotfi Mansouri]] * [[Mahan Esfahani]] * [[Sahba Aminikia]] * [[Mehdi Hosseini]] * [[Nader Mashayekhi]] * [[Reza Najfar]] * [[Shahrdad Rohani]] * [[Hooman Khalatbari]] {{div col end}} === Electronic === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia]] * [[Ali Movasat]] (DJ Aligator) * [[Ashkan Kooshanejad]] * [[Deep Dish (band)|Deep Dish]] * [[Leila Arab]] * [[Sharam Tayebi]] * [[Steve Naghavi]] from [[And One]] {{div col end}} === Pop === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Alireza Assar]] * [[Alireza Talischi]] * [[Andy Madadian]] * [[Anousheh Khalili]] * [[Arash (artist)|Arash]] * [[Aref Arefkia|Aref]] * [[Arian Band]] * [[Benyamin Arefi]] * [[Bijan Mortazavi]] * [[Darius Danesh]] * [[Dariush Eghbali]] * [[Delkash]] * [[Ebi]] * [[Faramarz Aslani]] * [[Farhad Mehrad|Farhad]] * [[Fereidoun Foroughi]] * [[Googoosh]] * [[Habib (singer)|Habib]] * [[Hassan Sattar]] * [[Hassan Shamaizadeh]] * [[Hayadeh]] * [[Homeyra]] * [[Kouros]] * [[Leila Forouhar]] * [[Mahasti]] * [[Mansour (singer)|Mansour]] * [[May J.]] * [[Mehrdad]] * [[Moein (singer)|Moein]] * [[Mohammad Esfahani]] * [[Mohammad Nouri (singer)|Mohammad Nouri]] * [[Pyruz]] * [[Reza Sadeghi]] * [[Sepideh (singer)|Sepideh]] * [[Sevdaliza]] * [[Siavash Ghomeyshi]] * [[Shadmehr Aghili]] * [[Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh]] * [[Shahram Shabpareh]] * [[Shahrum K]] * [[Shahram BozorgMehr]] * [[Shohreh Solati]] * [[Snoh Aalegra]] * [[Susan Roshan]] * [[Vigen Derderian|Vigen]] {{div col end}} === Rap music === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Amir Tataloo]] * [[Hichkas]] * [[Hiphopologist]] * [[pishro]] * [[Yas (rapper)|Yas]] * [[Zedbazi]] * [[Shahin Najafi]] * [[Bahram Nouraei|Bahram]] * [[Erfan]] * [[Hangi Tavakoli]], Multi-Platinum music producer and songwriter {{div col end}} ==== Lyricists ==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Aref Ghazvini]] * [[Hangi Tavakoli]] * [[Hossein Monzavi]] * [[Leila Kasra]] * [[Maryam Heydarzadeh]] * [[Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi]] * [[Shahyar Ghanbari]] {{div col end}} === Rock and metal === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Amir Derakh]], from the band Orgy * [[Angband (band)|Angband]] * [[Barad (band)|Barad]] * [[Kiosk (band)|Kiosk]] {{div col end}} === Film score composers === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ahmad Pejman]] * [[Fariborz Lachini]] * [[Hangi Tavakoli]] * [[Hossein Alizadeh]] * [[Majid Entezami]] * [[Mehdi Rajabian]] * [[Peyman Yazdanian]] * [[Ramin Djawadi]] {{div col end}} ==Journalists, media== ===Bloggers=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Hossein Derakhshan]] * [[Massoumeh Ebtekar]] * [[Mehdi Jami]] * [[Mohammad Ali Abtahi]] * [[Mohammad Reza Pourshajari]] * [[Mojtaba Saminejad]] * [[Omid Memarian]] * [[Sina Motalebi]] {{div col end}} ===Journalists=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[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]] * [[Farjam Behnam]] * [[Farrokhi Yazdi]], Pahlavi era * [[Hashem Aghajari]] * [[Hossein Shariatmadari]] * [[Mostafa Javadi Pour Moradi]]<ref>https://philpeople.org/profiles/dr-mostafa-javadi-pour-moradi {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> * [[Kaveh Golestan]], [[BBC]] * [[Kioumars Saberi Foumani]] * [[Mahshid Amirshahi]] * [[Masih Alinejad]] * [[Masoud Dehnamaki]] * [[Massoud Behnoud]] * [[Mehran Ghassemi]] * [[Mirzadeh Eshghi]] * [[Hossein Rajabian]] * [[Mohammad Taghi Bahar]] * [[Nikahang Kowsar]] * [[Omid Memarian]] * [[Rudi Bakhtiar]] * [[Saeed Hajjarian]] * [[Saeed Kamali Dehghan]] * [[Shadi Sadr]] * [[Sina Motallebi]] * [[Youness Shokrkhah]] * [[Maziar Bahari]] * [[Saeed Kamali Dehghan]] * [[Kasra Nouri]] * [[Mohammad Mosaed]] {{div col end}} ===News anchors=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Adel Ferdosipour]], football announcer, [[Navad]] program * [[Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi]], correspondent, commentator, anchorman * [[PMC (TV channel)|Mehrdad Kia]], T.V. and Radio Broadcaster and executive producer in television and music industry. * [[Alireza Jafarzadeh]], Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News * [[Christiane Amanpour]], television journalist, CNN * [[Fereydoun Farrokhzad]], TV personality and opposition figure * [[Jian Ghomeshi]], musician, writer, and former CBC radio broadcaster * [[Maryam Namazi]], news anchor at Al Jazeera (English section) * [[Reza Fazeli]], actor, film director and opposition figure * [[Rudi Bakhtiar]], news anchor, formerly with CNN and Fox News {{div col end}} ==Leaders, politicians, activists== {{Main|List of grand viziers of Persia|List of prime ministers of Iran|List of monarchs of Persia}} This list excludes royalty, which can be accessed by the main article link above. === Historical === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Cyrus the Great]], Iranian emperor and the founder of Iran * [[Darius the Great]], Iranian emperor * [[Mithridates I of Parthia]], Iranian emperor * [[Ismail I]], Iranian king * [[Fazlollah Noori]], conservative clergy opposing Constitutionalists; hanged * [[Ghaem Magham Farahani]], prime minister * [[Hassan-e-Sabbah]], sectarian political leader * [[Kaveh the Blacksmith]], mythical 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 uprising 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 * [[Mohammad Mossadegh]], prime minister * [[Mostowfi ol-Mamalek]], prime minister * [[Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza]], provincial governor * [[Safi-ad-din Ardabili]], spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty * [[Sattar Khan]], constitutionalist leader * [[Heshmat Taleqani]], Jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan {{div col end}} * [[Abbas the Great]] === Modern (post-Qajar) === ====Pahlavi period==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abdol Hossein Hamzavi]], Iranian diplomat, author and representative to the United Nations * [[Abdol Karim Ayadi]], personal physician to Reza Pahlavi * [[Ali Akbar Davar]], minister, and founder of Iran's modern judiciary system * [[Ali Akbar Siassi]], Chancellor of Tehran University * [[Ali Gholi Ardalan]], Iranian ambassador to the US, West Germany and the USSR * [[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 * [[Ahmad Ahmadi]], 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]] * [[Karim Buzarjomehri]], Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran * [[Mahmoud Jafarian]], head of [[National Iranian Radio and Television]] and [[Pars News Agency]] * [[Mahmoud Khayami]], industrialist * [[Mahmud Mahmud]], politician * [[Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian]], director of sales for [[NIOC]] and Ambassador to Venezuela * [[Mohammad Ali Keshavarz Sadr]], [[Mohammad Mossadegh|Mossadegh's]] Deputy and a leader of the [[National Front (Iran)|Second National Front]] * [[Nader Jahanbani]], air force general, pilot * [[Nasser Moghaddam]], head of SAVAK * [[Nematollah Nassiri]], head of SAVAK * [[Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian|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 * [[Teymourtash|Abdolhossein Teymourtash]], Iranian statesman * [[Mirza Javad Khan Ameri]], Minister, MP {{div col end}} ====Served in Islamic Republic government==== {{see also|List of current Iranian officials}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[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 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]] *{{ill|Ata’allah Hakimi|fa|عطاءالله حکیمی}} * [[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 * [[Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani]], member of parliament * [[Fatemeh Haghighatjou]], member of parliament * [[Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel]], speaker of parliament * [[Gholam Hossein Elham]] * [[Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi]], minister of intelligence *{{ill|Habiballah Dahamardeh|fa|حبیبالله دهمرده}} * [[Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri]] * [[Hadi Khamenei]], member of parliament * [[Hamid Reza Assefi]], foreign affairs spokesman * [[Hassan Habibi]], first vice president * [[Hassan Rouhani]], former president *{{ill|Hojjatallah Firouzi|fa|حجتالله فیروزی}} * [[Hossein Shariatmadari]] * [[Iraj Fazel]], minister of health *{{ill|Izzatallah Akbari Talarpashti|fa|عزتالله اکبری تالارپشتی}} * [[Ezzatollah Zarghami]], president of [[IRIB]] * [[Kamal Daneshyar]], member of the [[Islamic Consultative Assembly]] * [[Kamal Kharrazi]], minister of foreign affairs * [[Kazem Jalali]], politician * [[Kazem Rajavi]], politician * [[Kazem Seddiqi]], politician *[[Lotfollah Forouzandeh]] (born 1961) Iranian Politician *{{ill|Lotfallah Siahkali|fa|لطفالله سیاهکلی}} *{{ill|Lotfallah Zara’i Qanawati|fa|لطفالله زارعی قنواتی}} * [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], former president * [[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]], former chief justice * [[Majid Ansari]], member of parliament * [[Manuchehr Eliasi]], Jewish member of parliament * [[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]] *{{ill|Moin al-Din Saeedi|fa|معینالدین سعیدی}} * [[Morteza Motahhari]] * [[Mostafa Chamran]], Minister of Defense * [[Mostafa Tajzadeh]], deputy minister of interior * [[Nasrollah Jahangard]], chair of [[Supreme Council of ICT of Iran|Supreme Council of ICT]] *{{ill|Nimatallah Manuchehri|fa|نعمتالله منوچهری}}, Iranian Politician *{{ill|Qodratallah Hamzeh|fa|قدرتالله حمزه}}, Iranian politician *{{ill|Qodratallah Hussaynipour|fa|سید قدرتالله حسینیپور}}, Iranian Politician *{{ill|Qodratallah Imani|fa|قدرتالله ایمانی}} *{{ill|Qodratallah Intazami|fa|قدرتالله انتظامی}}, Iranian politician *[[Ghodratollah Norouzi]], Iranian politician * [[Rahim Safavi]] *{{ill|Rahmatallah Firouzi Pourbadi|fa|رحمتالله فیروزی پوربادی}} * [[Rasoul Montajebnia]], member of parliament *{{ill|Ruhallah Abbaspour|fa|روحالله عباسپور}}, Iranian Politician *{{ill|Ruhallah Baba’i Saleh|fa|روحالله بابایی صالح}} *{{ill|Ruhallah Hazratpour Talahieh|fa|روحالله حضرتپور طلائیه}} * [[Ruhollah Hosseinian]] *{{ill|Ruhallah Izadkhahzadeh|fa|روحالله ایزدخواه}} *[[Ruhollah Khomeini]], supreme leader, founder of the [[Islamic Republic]] *{{ill|Ruhallah Motfikar Azad|fa|روحالله متفکر آزاد}} *{{ill|Ruhallah Najabat|fa|روحالله نجابت}} * [[Sadegh Ghotbzadeh]], minister of foreign affairs * [[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 *{{ill|Waliallah Farzanah|fa|ولیالله فرزانه}}, Iranian Politician *{{ill|Zabihallah Azami Sardoui|fa|ذبیحالله اعظمی ساردویی}}, Iranian Politician *[[Zia-Allah Ezazi Maleki]], Iranian Politician {{div col end}} ==== Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition ==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abbas Amir-Entezam]] * [[Abdolrahman Ghasemlou]] * [[Abolghasem Kashani]] * [[Ahmad Zirakzadeh]] * [[Ali Shariati]], sociologist * [[Ali Latifiyan]], Iranian writer * [[Alireza Rajaei]] * [[Asghar Parsa]] * [[Azam Taleghani]] * [[Bijan Jazani]] * [[Dariush Forouhar]] * [[Ezzatollah Sahabi]] * [[Gholam-Hossein Sadighi]] * [[Habibollah Peiman]] * [[Hashem Aghajari]] * [[Jafar Pishevari]] * [[Mahmoud Taleghani]] * [[Mansoor Hekmat]] * [[Maryam Rajavi]] * [[Massoud Rajavi]], militant opposition leader * [[Mehdi Khalaji]] * [[Mohsen Sazegara]] * [[Mousa Sadr]] * [[Nasser Zarafshan]] * [[Navvab Safavi]], militant cleric * [[Parviz Varjavand]] * [[Roozbeh Farahanipour]], founder of [[Marze Por Gohar]] * [[Shirin Ebadi]], recipient of 2003 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] * [[Yadollah Sahabi]] {{div col end}} ===Politicians in other nations=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Goli Ameri]], United States [[Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs]] * [[Benazir Bhutto]], former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]; half-[[Iran]]ian (mother [[Nusrat Bhutto]]) * [[Nusrat Bhutto]], former [[first lady]] of Pakistan * [[Jimmy Delshad]], [[mayor]] of [[Beverly Hills]], California * [[George Deukmejian]], former [[Governor of California]] * [[Dan Halutz]], Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces * [[Saadat Ali Khan I|Saadat Khan]], first [[Nawab of Oudh]] in India * [[Farah Karimi]], Iranian female [[Netherlands|Dutch]] Member of Parliament<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830327/life.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629090129/http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830327/life.htm|archive-date=2007-06-29|title=Shargh Newspaper|language=fa|access-date=2023-08-09}}</ref> * [[Moshe Katsav]], former President of Israel * [[Tahia Kazem]], former first lady of Egypt, wife of President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] * [[Omid Nouripour]], member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Germany * [[Ross Mirkarimi]], former member of [[San Francisco City Council]] from [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]]; American of Iranian and Russian descent. * [[Reza Moridi]], member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada * [[Shaul Mofaz]], Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense * [[Darya Safai]], member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. * [[Wajid Ali Shah]], last Nawab of [[Oudh]], disposed of by the British [[East India Company]] * [[Maryam Yazdanfar]], member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), Sweden {{div col end}} === Activists === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Mahnaz Afkhami]] (born 1941), politician and human rights and women's rights activist, served in the [[Cabinet of Iran]] (1976–1978) * [[Neda Agha-Soltan]] (1983–2009), shot during the [[2009 Iranian election protests]]; her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition * [[Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi]] (1858/9 – 1921), author and pioneer of the Persian women's movement in modern Iran * [[Shiva Nazar-Ahari]], human-rights activist * [[Elham Modaressi]] (born 1990), artist and activist {{div col end}} === Prisoners and detainees === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Zahra Bani Ameri]] (1980–2007), physician, died in a prison in [[Hamedan]] after being arrested for breaching modesty laws by sitting in a park with her fiancée. * [[Zahra Amir Ebrahimi]] (born 1981), photographer, television actress, subject of a 2006 sex tape scandal in Iran * [[Zeynab Jalaliyan]], Kurdish prisoner * [[Zahra Kazemi]], Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, who according to the medical examiner was raped, tortured and killed by Iranian officials following her arrest in Iran. * [[Hossein Rajabian]], imprisoned filmmaker * [[Nasser Fahimi]], a doctor from Kurdistan, a political and ideological prisoner * [[Mehdi Rajabian]], imprisoned musician {{div col end}} ==Literature figures== ===Authors and poets=== {{Main|Persian literature}} * ''See main list: [[List of Persian-language poets and authors]]'' * [[Adam Khaze]], author, researcher * [[Jamshid Behnam]], author * Allameh [[Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda|Dehkhoda]], author * [[Mahyar Amouzegar]], author, academic * [[Badiozzaman Forouzanfar]], author * [[Mohammad-Taqi Bahar]], author * [[Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh]], author * [[Jalal Homaei]], author * [[Parviz Natel-Khanlari]], author * [[Sadeq Hedayat]], author * [[Shahrokh Meskoob]], author *{{ill|Saeed Shamloo|fa|سعید شاملو}}, academic, author * [[Ali Abdolrezaei]], author *{{ill|Parirokh Dadsetan|fa|پریرخ دادستان}}, academic, author * [[Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob|Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub]], author *{{ill|Haraton Davidian|fa|هاراطون داویدیان}}, academic, author * [[Levon Davidian]], academic, author *{{ill|Heidarali Hooman|fa|حیدرعلی هومن}}, academic, author * [[Saeed Nafisi]], author *{{ill|Aliakbar ShoariNezhad|fa|علی اکبر شعاری نژاد}}, academic, author * [[Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi]], academic, author * [[Seyed Amir Mirbagheri]], academic, author * [[Abbas Shafiee]], academic, author * [[Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh]], academic, author * [[Karim Taie]], academic, author * [[Mohammad Moin]], author * [[Alireza Norouzi]], academic, author<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26360802.Alireza_Norouzi | title=Alireza Norouzi }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL13115728A/Dr._Alireza_Norouzi | title=Dr. Alireza Norouzi }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://plus.wikimonde.com/wiki/Alireza_Norouzi | title=Alireza Norouzi – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus }}</ref> * [[Abolghasem Ghasemi]], academic, author * [[Ahmad Kasravi]], author * [[Gholamreza Sarabi]], academic, author * [[Karim Emami]], author * [[Mehdi Khanbani]], academic, author * [[Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh]] * [[Sadeq Hedayat]] * [[Nazi Safavi]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Mansour|fa|محمود منصور}}, academic, author * [[Shahriyar Mandanipour]] * [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285067.Abutorab_Khosravi Abutorab Khosravi] * [[Morteza Nesfat]], academic, author *{{ill|Hamzeh Ganji|fa|حمزه گنجی}}, academic, author * [[Reza Ghassemi]] * [[Zoya Pirzad]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Golzari|fa|محمود گلزاری}}, academic, author *{{ill|Behrooz Birashk|fa|بهروز بیرشک}}, academic, author * [[Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]] *{{ill|Shiva Dolatabadi|fa|شیوا دولت آبادی}}, academic, author * [[Hamideh Jahangiri]], academic, author<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20217863.Hamideh_Jahangiri | title=Hamideh Jahangiri }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7981979A/Hamideh_Jahangiri | title=Hamideh Jahangiri }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://plus.wikimonde.com/wiki/Hamideh_Jahangiri | title=Hamideh Jahangiri – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus }}</ref> * [[Bahman Forsi]] *{{ill|Reza Zamani|fa|رضا زمانی}}, academic, author * [[Houshang Golshiri]] * [[Reza Baraheni]] *{{ill|Abbasgholi Daneshvar|fa|عباسقلی دانشور}}, academic, author * [[Abbas Maroufi]] * [[Alireza. Norouzi]], academic, author * [[Bozorg Alavi]] *{{ill|Ahmad Siadati|fa|احمد سیادتی}}, academic, author * [[Majid M. Naini]], author * [[Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini]], academic, author * [[Mahmoud Matin]], academic, author * [[Bahram Sadeghi]] * [[Reza Shapurian]], academic, author * [[Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi]] * [[Ghazaleh Alizadeh]] * [[Bagher Hejazi]], academic, author * [[Ahmad Mahmoud]] * [[Jalal Al-e-Ahmad]] *{{ill|Kazem Amoli|fa|کاظم آملی}}, academic, author * [[Javad Nurbakhsh]], academic, author * [[Simin Daneshvar]] *{{ill|Aliakbar Seif|fa|علی اکبر سیف}}, academic, author * [[Siamak Yaghoubi]], academic, author * [[Ebrahim Golestan]] * [[Bahman Sholevar]] * [[Neda Aria]], author, researcher * [[Safoura Navaei]], academic, author * [[Niloofar Akbarzadeh]], academic, author * [[Sadeq Chubak]] *{{ill|Karim Haddadian|fa|کریم حدادیان}}, academic, author ===Translators=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abdolmajid Eskandari]], academic and translator * [[Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi]], author and translator *{{ill|Saeed Shamloo|fa|سعید شاملو}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Parirokh Dadsetan|fa|پریرخ دادستان}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Haraton Davidian|fa|هاراطون داویدیان}}, academic, author and translator * [[Levon Davidian]], academic, author and translator *{{ill|Heidarali Hooman|fa|حیدرعلی هومن}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Aliakbar ShoariNezhad|fa|علی اکبر شعاری نژاد}}, academic, author and translator * [[Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi]], academic, author and translator * [[Seyed Amir Mirbagheri]], academic, author and translator * [[Abbas Shafiee]], academic, author and translator * [[Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh]], academic, author and translator * [[Karim Taie]], academic, author and translator * [[Alireza Mobaraki]], academic, author and translator * [[Abolghasem Ghasemi]], academic, author and translator * [[Gholamreza Sarabi]], academic, author and translator * [[Karim Emami]], author and translator * [[Mehdi Khanbani]], academic, author and translator *{{ill|Mahmoud Mansour|fa|محمود منصور}}, academic, author and translator * [[Morteza Nesfat]], academic, author and translator * [[Mohammad Ghazi (translator)|Mohammad Ghazi]], translator *{{ill|Hamzeh Ganji|fa|حمزه گنجی}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Mahmoud Golzari|fa|محمود گلزاری}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Behrooz Birashk|fa|بهروز بیرشک}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Shiva Dolatabadi|fa|شیوا دولت آبادی}}, academic, author and translator * [[Hamideh Jahangiri]], academic, author and translator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20198377._%D8%AD%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C | title=حمیده جهانگیری }}</ref> *{{ill|Reza Zamani|fa|رضا زمانی}}, academic, author and translator *{{ill|Abbasgholi Daneshvar|fa|عباسقلی دانشور}}, academic, author and translator * [[Alireza. Norouzi]], academic, author and translator<ref>{{cite web | url=https://plus.wikimonde.com/wiki/Dr._Alireza_Norouzi | title=Dr. Alireza Norouzi – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus }}</ref> *{{ill|Ahmad Siadati|fa|احمد سیادتی}}, academic, author and translator * [[Majid M. Naini]], author and translator * [[Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini]], academic, author and translator * [[Mahmoud Matin]], academic, author and translator * [[Reza Shapurian]], academic, author and translator * [[Bagher Hejazi]], academic, author and translator *{{ill|Kazem Amoli|fa|کاظم آملی}}, academic, author and translator * [[Javad Nurbakhsh]], academic, author and translator *{{ill|Aliakbar Seif|fa|علی اکبر سیف}}, academic, author and translator * [[Siamak Yaghoubi]], academic, author and translator * [[Safoura Navaei]], academic, author and translator * [[Niloofar Akbarzadeh]], academic, author and translator *{{ill|Karim Haddadian|fa|کریم حدادیان}}, author and translator * [[Shahrokh Meskoob]], author and translator {{div col end}} ==Religious figures== {{see also|List of maraji|List of ayatollahs}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Allamah al-Majlisi|Majlesi]] * [[The Báb]], Prophet-Founder of the Bábi Faith * [[Bahá'u'lláh]], Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith * [['Abdu'l-Bahá]], Centre of the Covenant of the Bahá'í Faith * [[Ganzibra]] [[Jabbar Choheili]] (1923–2014), head of the [[Mandaeans|Mandaean]] community in Iran until his death in 2014. * [[Rishama]] [[Rishama#Notable rishama|Salah Choheili]], Iranian [[Mandaeans|Mandaean]] who is the current patriarch and head of the [[Mandaean Australians|Mandaean community in Australia]] * [[Haik Hovsepian Mehr]], bishop and Christian martyr * [[Jamal al-Din Asadabadi]] * [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]], founder of [[Manichaeism]] * [[Mazdak]], Religious and Social Reformer * [[Meher Baba]], Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents * [[Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad]], founder of the [[Druze]] * [[Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi]] * [[Mulla Sadra]] * [[Saeed Abedini]], Iranian American Christian pastor * [[Safi-ad-din Ardabili]] * [[Salman the Persian]] * [[Zahed Gilani]] * [[Zayn al-Din Taybadi]] (died 1389) mystic and Sufi * [[Zoroaster]], prophet * [[Imam Tawhidi]], Australian Iman of Arabian and Iranian descent ===Contemporary Shia Clergy=== *[[Abbas Ali Akhtari]] *[[Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani]] *{{ill|Abbas Ali Karamatlu|fa|عباسعلی کرامتلو}} *{{ill|Abbas Ali Rostami Sani|fa|عباسعلی رستمی ثانی}} *[[Abbas-Ali Soleimani]] *[[Abbas Amirifar]] *[[Abbas Hosseini Kashani]] *[[Abbas Ka'bi]] *[[Abbas Mahfouzi]] *{{ill|Abbas Matin|fa|عباس متین}} *[[Abbas Almohri]] *[[Mohammad Montazeri]] *{{ill|Abbas Mousaviyan|fa|سید عباس موسویان}} *[[Abbas Tabrizian]] *[[Abbas Vaez-Tabasi]] *[[Abdul Fattah Nawab]] *{{ill|Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi|fa|سید عبدالهادی حسینی شاهرودی}} *{{ill|Abdul Hamid Khodri|fa|عبدالحمید خدری}} *[[Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani]] *[[Abdol Hossein Dastgheib]] *[[Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi]] *[[Abdol Javad Alamolhoda]] *{{ill|Abdul Javad Ibrahimi Far|fa|عبدالجواد ابراهیمی فر}} *{{ill|Abdul Karim Abidini|fa|عبدالکریم عابدینی}} *[[Abdul Karim Farhani]] *[[Abdolkarim Hasheminejad]] *[[Abdul Karim Haghshenas]] *[[Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili]] *[[Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia]] *{{ill|Abdullah Haji Sadiqi|fa|عبدالله حاجی صادقی}} *{{ill|Abdullah Hajiani|fa|عبدالله حاجیانی}} *{{ill|Abdullah Hussayni|fa|سید عبدالله حسینی}} *{{ill|Abdullah Keyvani Hafshejani|fa|عبدالله کیوانی هفشجانی}} *[[Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari]] *[[Abdollah Javadi-Amoli]] *[[Abdullah Musawi Shirazi]] *[[Abdollah Nouri]] *{{ill|Abdul Mahmoud Abdullahi|fa|عبدالمحمود عبداللهی}} *[[Abdul-Majid al-Khoei]] *{{ill|Abdul Mohammad Rastad|fa|عبدالمحمد رستاد}} *[[Abdolmoghim Nasehi]] *[[Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard]] *[[Abdul-Nabi Namazi]] *[[Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi]] *[[Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami]] *{{ill|Abdul Rasoul Mousavi|fa|سید عبدالرسول موسوی}} *{{ill|Abdul Reza Pourzahabi|fa|عبدالرضا پورذهبی}} *[[Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari]] *{{ill|Abu al-Fazl Mir Mohammedi|fa|سید ابوالفضل میرمحمدی}} *[[Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi]] *{{ill|Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani|fa|سید ابوفاضل رضوی اردکانی}} *{{ill|Abu al-Hassan Hassanzadeh|fa|سید ابوالحسن حسن زاده}} *[[Abulhassan Navab]] *[[Abolghasem Khazali]] *{{ill|Abu al-Qasem|ar|أبو القاسم الكوكبي}} *[[Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei]] *[[Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi]] *{{ill|Abu al-Qasim Yaqoubi|fa|ابوالقاسم یعقوبی}} *{{ill|Ahad Azadikhah|fa|احد آزادیخواه}} *[[Ahmad Alamolhoda]] *[[Ahmad Azari Qomi]] *[[Ahmad Beheshti]] *{{ill|Ahmad Daneshzadeh Mo’min|fa|احمد دانشزاده مؤمن}} *{{ill|Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini|fa|احمد همتی مشگینی}} *{{ill|Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi|fa|احمدحسین فلاحی}} *[[Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani]] *[[Ahmad Jannati]] *[[Ahmad Khatami]] *[[Ahmad Khomeini]] *[[Ahmad Khonsari]] *[[Ahmad Marvi]] *[[Ahmad Mazani]] *[[Ahmad Moballeghi]] *[[Ahmad Mohseni Garakani]] *[[Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani]] *{{ill|Ahmad Motahari Asl|fa|احمد مطهری اصل}} *{{ill|Sayyid Ahmad Mousavi|fa|سید احمد موسوی (سیاستمدار)}} *{{ill|Ahmad Parvai'i Rik|fa|احمد پروایی ریک}} *[[Ahmad Ghabel]] *[[Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati]] *[[Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi]] *{{ill|Ahmad Sabiri Hamedani|fa|احمد صابری همدانی}} *[[Ahmad Salek]] *{{ill|Ahmad Sheikh Baha’i|fa|احمد شیخبهائی}} *[[Ahmad Vaezi]] *{{ill|Akbar Ahmadpour|fa|اکبر احمدپور}} *{{ill|Akbar Ghaffari Qarabagh|fa|میراکبر غفاری قرهباغ}} *[[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] *{{ill|Allah Nour Karimi Tabar|fa|اللهنور کریمیتبار}} *{{ill|Ali Abbasi (Cleric)|fa|علی عباسی (روحانی)}} *{{ill|Ali Ahmadi Mianji|fa|میرزا علی احمدی میانجی}} *[[Ali Akbar al-Modarresi]] *[[Ali Meshkini]] *[[Ali-Akbar Hosseini]] *[[Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini]] *[[Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur]] *{{ill|Ali Akbar Kalantari|fa|علی اکبر کلانتری}} *[[Ali Akbar Ghoreishi]] *{{ill|Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh|fa|علیاکبر حمیدزاده}} *{{ill|Ali Akbar Mousavi Hussayni|fa|سید علیاکبر موسوی حسینی}} *{{ill|Ali Akbar Nasseri|fa|علیاکبر ناصری}} *[[Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri]] *[[Ali Akbar Rashad]] *[[Ali al-Sabziwari]] *{{ill|Ali Asghar Baghani|fa|علیاصغر باغانی}} *[[Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib]] *{{ill|Ali Asghar Hussayni|fa|سید علیاصغر حسینی}} *{{ill|Ali Asghar Masoumi Shahroudi|fa|علیاصغر معصومی شاهرودی}} *[[Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad]] *[[Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili]] *[[Ali Banaei]] *[[Ali Fallahian]] *[[Ali Davani]] *{{ill|Ali Gharavi|ar|علي الغروي}} *{{ill|Ali Ghiouri|fa|سید علی غیوری}} *[[Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri]] *{{ill|Ali Hussayni Ashkevari|fa|سید علی حسینی اشکوری}} *[[Ali al-Sistani]] *{{ill|Ali Islami|fa|علی اسلامی}} *{{ill|Ali Kazemi Gilani|fa|علی کاظمی گیلانی}} *{{ill|Ali al-Kazemi Momendi|fa|علی آل کاظمی}} *[[Ali Khamenei]] *{{ill|Ali Khatami (Zanjan)|fa|علی خاتمی}} *{{ill|Ali Mirkhalili|fa|سید علی میرخلیلی}} *{{ill|Ali Mo’alemi|fa|علی معلمی}} *{{ill|Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari|fa|سید علیمحمد بزرگواری}} *[[Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi]] *{{ill|Ali Momenpour|fa|علی مؤمن}} *{{ill|Ali Nazari Monfard|fa|علی نظری منفرد}} *[[Ali Orumian]] *[[Ali Qazi Askar]] *[[Ali Qoddusi]] *{{ill|Ali Razini|fa|علی رازینی}} *{{ill|Ali Reza Afqahi|fa|سید علیرضا افقهی}} *[[Alireza Arafi]] *{{ill|Ali Reza Dana|fa|سید علیرضا دانا}} *{{ill|Ali Reza Ebadi|fa|سید علیرضا عبادی}} *{{ill|Ali Reza Islamian|fa|علیرضا اسلامیان}} *[[Alireza Panahian]] *[[Alireza Qaeminia]] *[[Alireza Salimi (politician)]] *[[Ali Safi Golpaygani]] *[[Seyyed Ali Shafiei]] *{{ill|Sheikh Ali Shahrokhi|fa|علی شاهرخی}} *[[Ali Shirazi]] *{{ill|Ali Tahiri Gorgani|fa|سید علی طاهری}} *{{ill|Ali Zadsar Jirofti|fa|علی زادسر}} *{{ill|Amanallah Alimoradi|fa|امانالله علیمرادی}} *{{ill|Aman Narimani|fa|امان نریمانی}} *{{ill|Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni|fa|امیرقلی جعفری بروجنی}} *{{ill|Amir Reza Heda’i|fa|امیررضا هدائی}} *[[Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani]] *[[Assad-Allah Imani]] *{{ill|Asadallah Kian-Arasi|fa|اسدالله کیانارثی}} *[[Mir Asadollah Madani]] *[[Asgar Dirbaz]] *[[Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani]] *[[Azizollah Khoshvaght]] *{{ill|Baqir Seyyedi Bonabi|fa|سید باقر سیدی بنابی}} *{{ill|Dakhil Abbas Zarazadeh Mehrizi|fa|دخیلعباس زارعزاده مهریزی}} *{{ill|Davoud Samadi Amoli|fa|داوود صمدی آملی}} *{{ill|Fakhraddin Hashemi|fa|سید فخرالدین هاشمی}} *[[Fakhreddin Mousavi]] *{{ill|Fakhraddin Sabiri|fa|فخرالدین صابری}} *{{ill|Fathallah Omid Najafabadi|fa|فتحالله امید نجفآبادی}} *{{ill|Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi|fa|غیاثالدین طاهامحمدی}} *{{ill|Gholam Ali Naim Abadi|fa|غلامعلی نعیمآبادی}} *[[Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri]] *[[Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani]] *[[Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i]] *{{ill|Gholam Hussayn Nadi|fa|غلامحسین نادی}} *{{ill|Gholam Reza Fayazi|fa|غلامرضا فیاضی}} *[[Gholamreza Hassani]] *[[Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam]] *{{ill|Gholam Reza Moghiseh|fa|غلامرضا مغیسه}} *[[Gholamreza Rezvani]] *{{ill|Gholam Reza Sultani|fa|غلامرضا سلطانی}} *[[Habibollah Ashouri]] *{{ill|Habiballah Ghafouri Barjini|fa|حبیبالله غفوری}} *{{ill|Habiballah Mehman Navaz|fa|حبیبالله مهماننواز}} *{{ill|Habiballah Sha’bani Movasaqi|fa|حبیبالله شعبانی موثقی}} *[[Habib Boromand Dashghapu]] *[[Hadi al-Modarresi]] *{{ill|Hadi Barikbin|fa|هادی باریکبین}} *{{ill|Hadi Doust Mohammadi|fa|هادی دوست محمدی}} *[[Hadi Ghaffari]] *[[Hadi Khamenei]] *[[Hadi Khosroshahi]] *[[Hadi Ghabel]] *[[Hadi Rohani]] *[[Hamid Rasai]] *[[Hamid Shahriari]] *[[Mirza Hashem Amoli]] *[[Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani]] *{{ill|Hashem Hamidi|fa|سید هاشم حمیدی}} *[[Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi]] *{{ill|Hashem Hejazifar|fa|هاشم حجازیفر}} *[[Hashem Hosseini Bushehri]] *{{ill|Hashem Niazi|fa|هاشم نیازی}} *{{ill|Hassan Abtahi|fa|سید حسن ابطحی}} *{{ill|Hassan Alemi|fa|حسن عالمی}} *{{ill|Hassan Ali Akhlaqi Amiri|fa|حسنعلی اخلاقی امیری}} *{{ill|Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani|fa|حسن علیدادی سلیمانی}} *[[Hasanali Morvarid]] *[[Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi]] *[[Hassan Ameli]] *{{ill|Hassan Aqa Hussayni Tabataba’i|fa|سید حسن آقا حسینی طباطبایی}} *[[Hassan Emami]] *[[Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli]] *[[Hassan Eslami Ardakani]] *[[Hassan Khomeini]] *{{ill|Hassan Malek Mohammadi|fa|حسن ملکمحمدی}} *{{ill|Hassan Mamduhi|fa|حسن ممدوحی}} *[[Hassan Namazi]] *{{ill|Hassan Nowrouzi|fa|حسن نوروزی}} *[[Hassan Rouhani]] *[[Hassan Sanei]] *[[Hassan Shariati Niyasar]] *{{ill|Hassan Shahcheraghi|fa|سید حسن شاهچراغی}} *{{ill|Hassan Shuja’i Aliabadi|fa|حسن شجاعی علیآبادی}} *{{ill|Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari|fa|سید حسن شجاعی کیاسری}} *[[Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi]] *{{ill|Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi|fa|سید حسن طاهری خرمآبادی}} *[[Heydar Moslehi]] *[[Hussein-Ali Montazeri]] *{{ill|Hussayn Ali Sa'adi|fa|حسینعلی سعدی}} *[[Hossein Borujerdi]] *[[Hossein Ansarian]] *{{ill|Hussayn Ansari Rad|fa|حسین انصاریراد}} *[[Hossein Ayatollahi]] *{{ill|Hussayn Hashemian|fa|حسین هاشمیان}} *{{ill|Hussayn Irani|fa|حسین ایرانی}} *{{ill|Hussayn Jalali|fa|حسین جلالی}} *[[Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi]] *[[Hossein Lankarani]] *[[Hossein Mazaheri]] *{{ill|Hussayn Mirza'i|fa|حسین میرزایی}} *[[Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi]] *{{ill|Hussayn Muzzafari|fa|حسین مظفری (روحانی)}} *[[Hossein Noori Hamedani]] *{{ill|Hussayn Rafia’i|fa|حسین رفیعی (روحانی)}} *{{ill|Hussayn Rasti Kashani|fa|حسین راستی کاشانی}} *{{ill|Hussayn Sobhani Nia|fa|حسین سبحانینیا}} *[[Hossein Taeb]] *[[Hossein Wahid Khorasani]] *[[Ebrahim Amini]] *[[Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami]] *[[Ebrahim Raisi]] *{{ill|Isa Tarafi|fa|عیسی طرفی}} *{{ill|Ismail Ferdowsipour|fa|اسماعیل فردوسیپور}} *[[Esmaeil Khatib]] *[[Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani]] *{{ill|Ismail Salehi Mazandarani|fa|اسماعیل صالحی مازندرانی}} *{{ill|Jafar Karimi Divkola'i|fa|سید جعفر کریمی دیوکلایی}} *[[Jafar Sobhani]] *[[Jafar Shojouni]] *{{ill|Jalaladdin Faqih Imani|fa|جلالالدین فقیه ایمانی}} *[[Jalaleddin Taheri]] *{{ill|Jalal Yahyazadeh Firouzabadi|fa|سید جلال یحییزاده فیروزآبادی}} *{{ill|Jalil Mohebi|fa|جلیل محبی}} *{{ill|Javad Alavi Boroujerdi|fa|سید جواد علوی بروجردی}} *[[Javad Gharavi Aliari]] *{{ill|Javad Hajizadeh Kalajahi|fa|جواد حاجی زاده کلجاهی}} *{{ill|Javad Hussayni Kia|fa|سید جواد حسینی کیا}} *{{ill|Javad Jafari|fa|جواد جعفری (روحانی)}} *[[Javad Khamenei]] *[[Jawad Tabrizi]] *{{ill|Javad Marvi|fa|جواد مروی}} *[[Javad Mojtahed Shabestari]] *{{ill|Javad Nikbin|fa|جواد نیکبین}} *{{ill|Kamel Khairkhah|fa|کامل خیرخواه}} *{{ill|Karamatallah Emadi|fa|کرامتالله عمادی}} *[[Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini]] *[[Khalil Boyukzadeh]] *[[Khalil Mobasher Kashani]] *[[Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri]] *{{ill|Kazem Mousavi|fa|سید کاظم موسوی}} *[[Kazem Nourmofidi]] *[[Kazem Seddiqi]] *[[Lotfollah Dezhkam]] *[[Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani]] *[[Mahmoud Taleghani]] *[[Mahmoud Alavi]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Da’ai|fa|سید محمود دعایی}} *[[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi|fa|سید محمود حسینی دولتآبادی}} *{{ill|Mahmoud Madani Bajestani|fa|سید محمود مدنی بجستانی}} *[[Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi|fa|محمود محمدی عراقی}} *[[Mahmoud Nabavian]] *{{ill|Mahmoud Nourizadeh|fa|سید محمود نوریزاده}} *{{ill|Mahmoud Rajabi|fa|محمود رجبی}} *[[Mahmoud Salavati]] *[[Mahdi al-Modarresi]] *{{ill|Mahdi Baqiri|fa|مهدی باقری}} *[[Mahdi Hosseini Rohani]] *[[Mehdi Karroubi]] *{{ill|Mahdi Mousavinejad|fa|سید مهدی موسوینژاد}} *[[Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi]] *[[Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi]] *{{ill|Mahdi Sheikh|fa|مهدی شیخ}} *{{ill|Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani|fa|سید مهدی یثربی}} *{{ill|Majdaddin Ghazi Dezfuli|fa|سید مجدالدین قاضی دزفولی}} *[[Majid Ansari]] *{{ill|Majid Nasserinejhad|fa|مجید ناصرینژاد}} *{{ill|Majid Nasira'i|fa|مجید نصیرایی}} *{{ill|Majid Talkhabi|fa|مجید تلخابی}} *[[Mansour Leghaei]] *[[Masoud Khamenei]] *[[Ali Younesi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Aba’i Khorasani|fa|محمد عبایی خراسانی}} *[[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]] *[[Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali "Mokhtar" Aminian|fa|مختار امینیان}} *[[Mohammad-Ali Angaji]] *[[Mohammad Ali Araki]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Ayazi|fa|سید محمدعلی ایازی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani|fa|محمدعلی فیض لاهیجی}} *[[Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi|fa|محمدعلی هادی نجفآبادی}} *[[Mohammad Alavi Gorgani]] *[[Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheie]] *[[Mohammad Ali Naseri]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Nekounam|fa|محمدعلی نکونام}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Modarresi Tabataba’i|fa|سید محمد علی مدرسی طباطبایی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Mousavi|fa|سید محمدعلی موسوی}} *[[Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi|fa|سید محمدعلی موحد ابطحی}} *[[Ali Movahedi-Kermani]] *[[Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei]] *[[Mohammad-Ali Rahmani]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Reza'i|fa|محمدعلی رضایی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Sadouqi|fa|محمدعلی صدوقی}} *[[Mohammad-Ali Shahidi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Shar’ai|fa|محمدعلی شرعی}} *[[Mohammad Ali Shomali]] *[[Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ali Zam|fa|محمدعلی زم}} *{{ill|Mohammad Amin Khorasani|fa|سید محمد امین خراسانی}} *{{ill|Mirza Mohammad Anvari|fa|میرزامحمد انواری}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ashrafi Isfahani Khozani|fa|محمد اشرفی اصفهانی}} *{{ill|Mohammed Bahrami Khoshkar|fa|محمد بهرامی خوشکار}} *[[Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri]] *{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Ebadi|fa|سید محمدباقر عبادی}} *[[Mohammad Bagher Kharazi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini|fa|محمدباقر محمدی لائینی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Movahed Abtahi|fa|سید محمدباقر موحد ابطحی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ebadizadeh|fa|محمد عبادیزاده}} *[[Mohammed Emami-Kashani]] *{{ill|Mohammad Faqih|fa|سید محمد فقیه}} *[[Mohammad Fazel Lankarani]] *[[Mohammad Feyz Sarabi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hadi Abdekhodai|fa|محمدهادی عبدخدایی}} *[[Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari]] *[[Mohammad-Hadi Ma'refat]] *[[Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hadi Rabbani|fa|محمدهادی ربانی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi|fa|محمد ابوالقاسمی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hashemian|fa|محمد هاشمیان}} *[[Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard]] *[[Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hassan Jamshidi Ardeshiri|fa|محمدحسن جمشیدی اردشیری}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hassan Mar’ashi|fa|سید محمدحسن مرعشی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hassan Nabavi|fa|سید محمدحسن نبوی}} *[[Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki]] *[[Mohammad Hassan Rahimian]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hassan Zali|fa|محمدحسن زالی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi|fa|محمدحسین احمدی شاهرودی}} *[[Mohammad Beheshti]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Bayati|fa|محمدحسین بیاتی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini|fa|محمدحسین حسینزاده بحرینی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi|fa|سید محمد روحانی}} *[[Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayni Shahroudi|fa|سید محمد حسینی شاهرودی (نماینده ولی فقیه)}} *[[Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani]] *[[Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Zarandi|fa|محمدحسین زرندی}} *[[Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati]] *{{ill|Mohammad Ibrahim Nekounam|fa|محمدابراهیم نکونام}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ismail Shushtri|fa|محمداسماعیل شوشتری}} *[[Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani]] *{{ill|Mohammad Jafari Gilani|fa|محمد جعفری گیلانی}} *[[Mohammad Jafar Montazeri]] *[[Muhammad Jafar Moravej]] *{{ill|Mohammad Jafar Sadat Mousavi|fa|محمدجعفر سادات موسوی}} *[[Muhammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari]] *[[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]] *[[Mohammad Javad Pishvai]] *{{ill|Mohammad Karim Marouji|fa|محمدکریم مروجی}} *[[Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Kazim Movahedi Azad|fa|محمد موحدی آزاد}} *[[Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari]] *[[Mohammad Khamenei]] *[[Mohammad Khatami]] *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Aftakhari|fa|محمدمهدی افتخاری}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Hussayni Hamedani|fa|سید محمدمهدی حسینی همدانی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Mir Baqeri|fa|سید محمدمهدی میرباقری}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Pourfatimi|fa|سید محمدمهدی پورفاطمی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlishi|fa|محمدمهدی ربانی املشی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mahdi Shahrokhi|fa|سید محمدمهدی شاهرخی}} *[[Mehdi Tabatabaei]] *[[Mohammad Mofatteh]] *{{ill|Mohammad Mo’adebpour|fa|محمد مؤدبپور}} *{{ill|Mohammad Mohad|fa|سید حاجی محمد موحد}} *[[Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani]] *[[Mohammad Momen]] *[[Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha]] *[[Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi]] *[[Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari]] *{{ill|Mohammad Naqi Lotfi|fa|محمدنقی لطفی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi|fa|سید محمدنقی شاهرخی خرمآبادی}} *[[Nasser Biria]] *[[Mohammad Qomi]] *[[Mohammad Rahmati Sirjani]] *{{ill|Mohammad Rajaei Baghsiai|fa|محمد رجایی باغسیایی}} *[[Mohammad Reyshahri]] *{{ill|Mohammad Razavi Yazdi|fa|سید محمد رضوی یزدی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Abbasi Fard|fa|محمدرضا عباسیفرد}} *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Amiri Kohnuj|fa|محمدرضا امیری کهنوج}} *[[Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Baqiri Bonabi|fa|رضا باقری بنابی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi|fa|محمدرضا دولتآبادی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Faker|fa|محمدرضا فاکر}} *[[Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani]] *[[Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani]] *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Meghari Moruji|fa|محمدرضا مبلغی}} *[[Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini]] *[[Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi]] *[[Mohammad Reza Naseri Yazdi]] *[[Mohammad Reza Nekoonam]] *[[Mohammed Ridha al-Sistani]] *[[Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli]] *{{ill|Mohammad Reza Za’iri|fa|محمدرضا زائری}} *{{ill|Mohammad Rouhani Qomi|fa|سید محمد روحانی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Sabzi|fa|محمد سبزی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Sadat Ibrahimi|fa|سید محمد سادات ابراهیمی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Sa’id Mahdavi Kani|fa|محمدسعید مهدوی کنی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Sadiq "Mohiaddin" Haeri Shirazi|fa|محیالدین حائری شیرازی}} *[[Sadegh Khalkhali]] *[[Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani]] *[[Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh]] *[[Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani]] *[[Mohammad Sadoughi]] *[[Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Safari Molkmian|fa|محمد صفری ملکمیان}} *[[Mohammad Shahcheraghi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Shahi Arablu|fa|محمد شاهی عربلو}} *[[Mohammad-Taher Shubayr al-Khaqani]] *[[Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi]] *[[Mohammad Taqi al-Khoei]] *[[Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani]] *[[Mohammad Taghi Falsafi]] *[[Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari]] *[[Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji]] *[[Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Taqi Mohassil Hamadani|fa|سید محمدتقی محصل همدانی}} *[[Mohammed Taqi Morvarid]] *{{ill|Mohammad Taqi Naqd Ali|fa|محمدتقی نقدعلی}} *[[Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Taqi Rahbar|fa|محمدتقی رهبر}} *[[Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari]] *[[Mohammad Taghi Vaezi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Waezzadeh Khorasani|fa|محمد واعظزاده خراسانی}} *[[Mohammad Vaez Mousavi]] *{{ill|Mohammad Yasrebi|fa|محمد یثربی}} *[[Mohammad Yazdi]] *[[Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi]] *{{ill|Mohiaddin Fazl Harandi|fa|محیالدین فاضل هرندی}} *[[Mohsen Araki]] *[[Mohsen Faqihi]] *[[Mohsen Heidari Alekasir]] *{{ill|Mohsen Ibrahimi|fa|محسن ابراهیمی}} *{{ill|Mohsen Kazeroni|fa|محسن کازرونی}} *[[Mohsen Kharazi]] *[[Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi]] *[[Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari]] *[[Mohsin Qara'ati]] *[[Mohsen Qomi]] *[[Mohsen Rohami]] *{{ill|Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani|fa|سید محسن سعیدی گلپایگانی}} *{{ill|Mohsen Tahiri|fa|سید محسن طاهری}} *[[Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini]] *{{ill|Mojtaba Mo’adpour|fa|مجتبی مؤدبپور}} *[[Mujtaba Musavi Lari]] *[[Mojtaba Tehrani]] *[[Mojtaba Zonnour]] *{{ill|Mokhtar Waziri|fa|مختار وزیری}} *[[Morteza Aghatehrani]] *{{ill|Morteza Fahim Kermani|fa|مرتضی فهیم کرمانی}} *{{ill|Morteza Mahmoudi Golpayegani|fa|سید مرتضی محمودی گلپایگانی}} *{{ill|Morteza Mati’ayi|fa|مرتضی مطیعی}} *[[Morteza Moghtadai]] *[[Morteza Motahhari]] *{{ill|Morteza Mousavi|fa|سید مرتضی موسوی}} *{{ill|Morteza Razavi|fa|مرتضی رضوی}} *[[Morteza Sadouqi Mazandarani]] *{{ill|Morteza Salehi Khvansari|fa|سید مرتضی صالحی خوانساری}} *{{ill|Mousa Ahmadi|fa|موسی احمدی}} *{{ill|Mousa Ghazanfarabadi|fa|موسی غضنفرآبادی}} *{{ill|Mousa Mousavi |fa|سید موسی موسوی}} *{{ill|Mousa Mousavi Qahdarijani|fa|سید موسی موسوی قهدریجانی}} *{{ill|Mousa Qorbani|fa|موسی قربانی}} *[[Mousa Shubairi Zanjani]] *[[Mostafa Boroujerdi]] *{{ill|Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli|fa|مصطفی فارغ}} *{{ill|Mustafa Hassanti|fa|مصطفی حسناتی}} *[[Mostafa Khamenei]] *[[Mostafa Khomeini]] *{{ill|Mustafa Mohami|fa|مصطفی محامی}} *[[Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad]] *[[Mostafa Mousavi Faraz]] *[[Mostafa Pourmohammadi]] *{{ill|Mustafa Tabataba’inejhad|fa|سید مصطفی طباطبایینژاد}} *{{ill|Mustafa Ulama|fa|مصطفی علماء}} *{{ill|Mustafa Zu al-Qadir|fa|سید مصطفی ذوالقدر}} *[[Moslem Malakouti]] *{{ill|Motahar Kazimi|fa|سید مطهر کاظمی}} *[[Nasir Hosseini]] *[[Nasrollah Pejmanfar]] *[[Nasrallah Shah-Abadi]] *[[Naser Makarem Shirazi]] *[[Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani]] *{{ill|Nasser Mousavi|fa|سید ناصر موسوی}} *{{ill|Nasser Qawami|fa|ناصر قوامی}} *[[Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi]] *{{ill|Nourallah Tabresi|fa|نورالله طبرسی}} *[[Qasem Ravanbakhsh]] *[[Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl]] *[[Ghodratollah Alikhani]] *{{ill|Qodratallah Najafi|fa|قدرتالله نجفی}} *{{ill|Qodratallah Nazari Nia|fa|قدرتالله نظرینیا}} *[[Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi]] *{{ill|Qorban Ali Qandahari|fa|قربانعلی قندهاری}} *{{ill|Rahim Tavakol|fa|سید رحیم توکل}} *{{ill|Rasoul Fallahati Gilani|fa|رسول فلاحتی}} *[[Rasul Jafarian]] *[[Rasoul Montajabnia]] *{{ill|Reza Akrami|fa|سید رضا اکرمی}} *[[Seyed Reza Bahaadini]] *[[Reza Hosseini Nassab]] *[[Reza Mohammadi Langroudi]] *[[Reza Nouri]] *[[Reza Ostadi]] *[[Reza Ramezani Gilani]] *{{ill|Reza Taqvi|fa|سید رضا تقوی}} *[[Ruhollah Beigi]] *[[Ruhollah Hosseinian]] *[[Ruhollah Khatami]] *[[Ruhollah Khomeini]] *{{ill|Ruhallah Sadr al-Sadati|fa|سید روحالله صدرالساداتی}} *{{ill|Sabir Jabbari|fa|سید صابر جباری}} *[[Sadeq Larijani]] *{{ill|Sadiq Pishnamazi|fa|سید صادق پیشنمازی}} *{{ill|Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad|fa|سید صادق طباطبایینژاد}} *[[Saied Reza Ameli]] *{{ill|Sa’id Saleh Mirza’i|fa|سعید صلح میرزایی}} *[[Seyed Sajjad Izdehi]] *{{ill|Salman Zakir|fa|سید سلمان ذاکر}} *{{ill|Shahab al-Din Ishraqi|fa|شهابالدین اشراقی}} *[[Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi]] *[[Shahab Moradi]] *{{ill|Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi|fa|شمس الدین محمد مجتهدی نجفی}} *{{ill|Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni|fa|سید شرفالدین ملکحسینی}} *{{ill|Sirajaddin Mousavi|fa|سید سراجالدین موسوی}} *{{ill|Taha Hashemi|fa|سید طه هاشمی}} *[[Taher Ahmadzadeh]] *[[Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi]] *{{ill|Teymour Ali Asgari|fa|تیمور علیعسگری}} *{{ill|Wahid Ahmadi|fa|وحید احمدی}} *{{ill|Vaed Moradbeygi|fa|وعد مرادبیگی}} *[[Yadollah Duzduzani]] *{{ill|Yadallah Safari|fa|یدالله صفری}} *{{ill|Yahya Ansari Shirazi|fa|یحیی انصاری شیرازی}} *[[Yahya Nouri]] *[[Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari]] *{{ill|Younis Mousavi Sarcheshmeh|fa|سید یونس موسوی سرچشمه}} *[[Yousef Madani Tabrizi]] *[[Yousef Saanei]] *[[Yousef Tabatabai Nejad]] *{{ill|Zakrallah Ahmadi|fa|ذکرالله احمدی}} *[[Zaynolabideen Ghorbani]] ===Contemporary Sunni Clergy=== *[[Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi]] *[[Abdolqader Zahedi]] *{{ill|Abdul Rahman Arefi|fa|عبدالرحمان عارفی}} *{{ill|Abdul Rahman Khoda'i|fa|عبدالرحمن خدایی}} *{{ill|Abdul Rahman Mullazahi|fa|مولانا عبدالرحمن}} *{{ill|Ali Ahmad Salami|fa|علیاحمد سلامی}} *{{ill|Burhan Ealla|fa|ماموستا برهان عالی}} *{{ill|Faiq Rostami|fa|فایق رستمی}} *{{ill|Hosamaddin Mujtahidi|fa|حسام الدین مجتهدی}} *{{ill|Iqbal Bahmani|fa|اقبال بهمنی}} *{{ill|Kamal Akhund Gharavi|fa|کمال آخوند غراوی}} *{{ill|Mohammad Ishaq Madani|fa|محمد اسحاق مدنی}} *{{ill|Mohmmad Sheikh al-Islami|fa|محمد شیخالاسلام}} {{div col end}} ==Royalty== {{Main|List of monarchs of Persia}} ==Scientists, scholars, and academics== {{Main|List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars|List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers}} ===Explorers and travellers=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ahmad ibn Rustah]], 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia {{div col end}} ===Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Abbas Alizadeh]] * [[Abbas Amanat]] * [[Abdolhossein Zarinkoob]] * [[Ahmad Kasravi]] * [[Alireza Shapour Shahbazi]] * [[Badiozzaman Forouzanfar]] * [[Iraj Bashiri]] * [[Ezzat Negahban|Ezzatolah Neghban]] * [[Fereydun Adamiyat]] * [[Habiballah Esmaili]] * [[Hamdallah Mustawfi]] * [[Kaveh Farrokh]] * [[Majid Adibzadeh]] * [[Mehrdad Bahar]] * [[Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan]] * [[Nasser Fakouhi]] * [[Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi]] * [[Touraj Atabaki]] * [[Touraj Daryaee]] {{div col end}} ===Linguists=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak]] * [[Ahmad Tafazzoli]] * [[Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi]] * [[Ehsan Yarshater]] * [[Jaleh Amouzgar]] * [[Mehrdad Bahar]] * [[Parviz Natel-Khanlari]] * [[Zabihollah Safa]] {{div col end}} ===Intellectuals and philosophers=== * ''See main list: [[List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars]]'' * ''See main list: [[List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers]]'' {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh]] * [[Mohammad-Ali Foroughi]] * [[Mostafa Malekian]] * [[Mirza Malkam Khan]] * [[Abbas Milani]] * [[Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari]] * [[Seyyed Hossein Nasr]] * [[Ali Shariati]] * [[Sadegh Zibakalam]] * [[Ali Abdolrezaei]] {{div col end}} ===Technology and computer engineering=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Shane Dabiri|Shahram Dabiri]], lead producer responsible for the [[massively multiplayer online role-playing game]] (MMORPG) ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' * [[Dara Khosrowshahi]], CEO of [[Uber]], former CEO of [[Expedia]] * [[Amir Taaki]], [[hacker]], [[computer programmer]] and early developer for [[Bitcoin]] * [[Pierre Omidyar]], founder of [[eBay]] * [[Rouzbeh Yassini]], Inventor of the Cable Modem * [[Habib Zargarpour]], visual effects specialist, video game art director {{div col end}} ==Sports== {{See also|Category:Iranian sportspeople}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Mojtaba Abedini]] (born 1984), Olympic fencer *[[Yu Darvish]], [[MLB]] baseball player for the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] *[[Ariajasuru Hasegawa]], professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for [[Nagoya Grampus]] * [[Ali Azari Karki]], footballer * [[Sardar Azmoun]], soccer player, Iran's National Team player * [[Farhad Ghaemi]], volleyball player, Iran's National Team player * [[Abbas Jadidi]], wrestler, Olympic silver medalist * [[Abdollah Movahed]], wrestler, Olympic gold medalist * [[Adel Kolahkaj]], football player * [[Alex Agase]], [[American football]] player * [[Ali Daei]], football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder * [[Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1978)]] * [[Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1982)]] * [[Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1994)]] * [[Ali Parvin]], football player and coach * [[Alireza Dabir]], wrestler, Olympic gold medalist * [[Alireza Heidari]], wrestler, Olympic bronze Mmdalist * [[Alireza Rezaei]], wrestler, Olympic silver medalist * [[Taghi Rezaei]], bodybuilder * [[Amir Abedzadeh]], Iranian Football Player * [[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 * [[Behdad Salimi]], [[weightlifter]] World Champion * [[Bijan Kangarloo]], cross-country skier * [[Ebrahim Javadi]], wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist * [[Ehsan Ghaemmaghami]], [[chess]] [[International Grandmaster|grandmaster]] * [[Ehsan Hadadi]], discus thrower, Asian record holder * [[Elshan Moradi]], chess grandmaster * [[Emamali Habibi Goudarzi]], wrestler, first Iranian Olympic gold medalist (Melbourne 1956) * [[Emmanuel Agassi]], boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of [[Andre Agassi]] * [[Ezzatollah Pourghaz]], Iranian-[[Turkmens|Turkmen]] Football Player * [[George Issabeg]], boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics * [[George Malek-Yonan]], Iran's ''Champion of Champions'' in track & field and pentathlon * [[Ghasem Dehnavi]], football player * [[Ghasem Hadadifar]], football player * [[Ghasem Rezaei]], wrestler * [[Hooman Tavakolian]], Sport Diplomat and Lobbyist, Hall of Fame, wrestler * [[Hossein Rezazadeh]], weightlifter, double [[Olympic champion]] (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004) * [[Javad Nekounam]], football player * [[Khodadad Azizi]], [[soccer|football]] player * [[Kianoush Rostami]], weightlifter, world champion * [[Kimia Alizadeh]], [[Taekwondo]] player, the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games (Rio de Janeiro 2016) * [[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 Haghizadeh, football player * [[Mehdi Mahdavikia]], football player * [[Mehdi Taremi]], Iranian Football Player * [[Mohammad Ali Fardin]], wrestler and actor * [[Mohammad Khadem]], wrestler * [[Mohammad Mousavi Eraghi|Mohammad Mousavi]], volleyball player [[Marziyeh Karimi]],volleyball player and coach * [[Mohammad Nassiri]], weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist * [[Mohammad Reza Heidarian]], [[futsal]] player * [[Mohammad Reza Tupchi]], wrestler * [[Rahman Rezaei]], football player * [[Ramin Rezaeian]], Iranian Football Player * [[Rasoul Khadem]], Olympic gold medalist wrestler * Reza Shafiei, jiujitsu athlete * [[Rouzbeh Cheshmi]], Iranian Football Player * [[Ruhollah Bigdeli]], football player * [[Shima Mehri]], Motorcycle Biker * [[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 * [[Andranik Teymourian]], football player * [[Fereydoon Zandi]], football player * [[Gholamreza Takhti]], wrestler, Olympic gold medalist * [[Hadi Saei Bonehkohal|Hadi Saei]], taekwondo world champion, Olympic gold medalist * [[Hossein Tavakoli]], weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist * [[Jaber Rouzbahani]], basketball player * [[The Iron Sheik|Khosrow Vaziri]], professional wrestler * [[Leila Vaziri]], swimmer, World Champion, world record holder * [[Vahid Shamsaei]], futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer * [[Mika Zibanejad]], ice hockey player for [[Ottawa Senators]] of the [[NHL]] * [[Daniel Rahimi]], ice hockey player for [[San Jose Sharks]] of the NHL * [[Zabihollah Poursheib]], [[Kurds|Kurdish]] Iranian Martial Artist {{div col end}} ==Iranian women== ''See separate articles: [[Persian woman]] and [[List of Persian women]].'' == Military == === Aviation === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[[Abbas Doran]], fighter pilot *[[Fereidoon Izadseta]], Colonel of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force]] *[[Houshang Seddigh]] *[[Jalil Zandi]], fighter pilot *[[Manouchehr Khosrodad]], general *[[Nader Jahanbani]], general, distinguished fighter pilot *[[Shapour Azarbarzin]], fighter pilot === Combat Veterans === *[[Abbas Ka'bi]] *[[Abbas Mohtaj]] *{{ill|Abu al-Fazl Hassan Baygi|fa|ابوالفضل حسنبیگی}} *[[Ahmad Salek]] *{{ill|Ali Asghar Baghani|fa|علیاصغر باغانی}} *{{ill|Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari|fa|سید علیمحمد بزرگواری}} *[[Alireza Tangsiri]] *[[Bahram Hooshyar]] *[[Bijan Najdi]] *[[Gholam Ali Jafarzadeh]] *[[Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi]] *[[Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli]] *[[Hossein Alaei]] *[[Hossein Lashkari]] *[[Kavous Seyed-Emami]] *{{ill|Kazem Mousavi|fa|سید کاظم موسوی}} *[[Mehdi Khazali]] *[[Mansour Haghdoust]] *[[Mohammad-Ali Rahmani]] *[[Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf]] *[[Mohammad Forouzandeh]] *{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi|fa|محمدحسین احمدی شاهرودی}} *[[Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan]] *[[Mohammad Marandi]] *[[Nader Ghazipour]] *[[Nasir Hosseini]] *{{ill|Sabir Jabbari|fa|سید صابر جباری}} *[[Sajjad Kouchaki]] *[[Shahram Rostami]] === Generals === *[[Abdolrahim Mousavi]] *[[Ahmad Kazemi]] *[[Ahmad Meyghani]] *[[Ahmad Reza Pourdastan]] *[[Ali Abdollahi]] *[[Ali Fadavi]] *[[Ali Sayad Shirazi]] *[[Ali Shahbazi]] *[[Ali Shamkhani]] *[[Alireza Afshar]] *[[Alireza Sabahifard]] *[[Amir Ali Hajizadeh]] *[[Ataollah Salehi]] *[[Esmaeil Kousari]] *[[Esmail Qaani]] *[[Farzad Esmaili]] *[[Gholam Ali Rashid]] *[[Gholamhossein Gheybparvar]] *[[Habibollah Sayyari]] *[[Hassan Firouzabadi]] *[[Hossein Dehghan]] *[[Hossein Hassani Sa'di]] *[[Hossein Nejat]] *[[Hossein Salami]] *[[Kioumars Heydari]] *[[Mansour Sattari]] *[[Mohammad Ali Jafari]] *[[Mohammad-Hassan Nami]] *[[Mohammad Hejazi]] *[[Mohammad-Hossein Dadras]] *{{ill|Mohammad Kazimi|fa|محمد کاظمی}} *[[Mohammad Jafar Asadi]] *[[Mohammad Pakpour]] *[[Mohammad Reza Zahedi]] *[[Mohammad Salimi]] *[[Mohsen Rezaee]] *[[Mostafa Izadi]] *[[Nasser Shabani]] *[[Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad]] *[[Qasem Soleimani]] *[[Yahya Rahim Safavi]] === War Martyrs === *[[Abdolbaghi Darvish]] *[[Ahmad Keshvari]] *[[Ahmad Motevasselian]] *[[Ali Eghbali Dogahe]] *[[Hamid Taqavi]] *[[Hassan Abshenasan]] *[[Hasan Aghareb Parast]] *[[Hassan Shateri]] *[[Hossein Hamadani]] *[[Hossein Khalatbari]] *[[Hossein Kharrazi]] *[[Hossein Qajeyi]] *[[Javad Fakoori]] *[[Mehdi Bakeri]] *[[Mehdi Zeinoddin]] *[[Masoud Monfared Niyaki]] *[[Mohammad Ali Allahdadi]] *[[Mohammad Boroujerdi]] *[[Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh]] *[[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat]] *[[Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh]] *[[Mohsen Gheytaslou]] *[[Mohsen Hojaji]] *{{ill|Qodratollah Mansouri|fa|قدرتالله منصوری}} *[[Valiollah Fallahi]] {{div col end}} ==Misc== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Alireza Afzalipour]], businessman and philanthropist; founder of [[Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman]] * [[Alireza Azmandian]], self-help motivational speaker * [[Ali Dashti]], Iranian senator * [[Zahra Eshraghi]], granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami * [[Ramezan Hajjimashhadi]], lawyer * [[Eiman Jahangir]], first Iranian-born man to be an astronaut * [[Amin Jazayeri]], Iranian Dj and YouTuber in India * [[Mehran Karimi Nasseri]], Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport for many years. * [[Reza Zadeh]], computer science {{div col end}} ==Afro-Iranians== * [[Abdolreza Barzegari]], footballer * [[Abdul Karim Farhani]], Iranian Shia Cleric * [[Ali Firouzi]], footballer and coach * [[Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri]], Iranians Shia Cleric (Afro-Ahwazi Arab) * [[Mehrab Shahrokhi]], footballer * [[Shanbehzadeh Ensemble]], Iranian folk band * [[Dennis Walker (footballer)|Dennis Walker]], footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/30/dennis-walker-manchester-united-first-and-only-black-busby-babe |title=Dennis Walker: Manchester United's first and only black Busby Babe |last1=Hern |first1=Bill|last2=Gleave |first2=David |date=30 October 2020 |website=The Guardian|access-date=31 October 2020}}</ref> ==Iranians of Armenian Descent== {{See also|List of Armenian-Iranians}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Alenush Terian]], scientist * [[Andranik Eskandarian]], footballer * [[Andranik Teymourian]], footballer * [[Andre Agassi]], tennis champion * [[Arefeh Mansouri]], Inventor, Designer * [[Arakel of Tabriz]], historian * [[Armik]], flamenco guitarist and composer * [[Arsen Minasian]], philanthropist, pharmacologist * [[Bogdan Saltanov]], painter * [[Emmanuel Agassi]], 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran; father of Andre Agassi * [[Gegard Mousasi]], MMA fighter * [[George Bournoutian]], historian * [[Haik Hovsepian Mehr]], bishop and Christian martyr * [[Hakob Melik Hakobian|Raffi]], prominent writer * [[Hayk Bzhishkyan]], Soviet military commander * [[Hovhannes Masehyan]], diplomat and translator * [[Hrant Markarian]], politician * [[Irene Zazians]], actress * [[Ivan Galamian]], violin teacher * [[Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev]], jeweler * [[Khosrow Khan Gorji]], influential figure from the Qajar era * [[Leon Khachatourian]], boxer * [[Loris Tjeknavorian]], artist * [[Marcos Grigorian]] artist, scholar and actor * [[Mirza Malkam Khan]], modernist and politician * [[Mkhitar Heratsi]], physician * [[Mushegh Soruri]] * [[Ovannes Ohanian]], first Iranian film director * [[Robert Beglarian]], MP * [[Samuel Khachikian]], film director * [[Sarkis Djanbazian]], artist * [[Sayat-Nova]], poet * [[Vartan Gregorian]], academic * [[Varuzh Karim-Masihi]], film editor and director * [[Vigen Derderian]], singer * [[Viguen]] (see Vigen Derderian) * [[Yeprem Khan]], revolutionary hero {{div col end}} ==Iranians of Assyrian descent== {{See also|List of Assyrian-Iranians}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[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 writer (novel ''Mount Semele'' (2001)) * [[Milton Malek-Yonan]], inventor of converted rice * [[Paulus Khofri]], composer and painter * [[Ramona Amiri]], Miss Canada 2005 * [[Shoura Osipov]], 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran * [[Shoura Osipov]], Olympic boxer * [[Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi]], Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran {{div col end}} ==Emigrants and immigrants== ===Americans in Iran=== {{See also|Category:American expatriates in Iran}}{{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Howard Baskerville]], Iran's first American martyr * [[Joseph Gallup Cochran]], American missionary in [[Urmia]] and [[Sir, West Azerbaijan|Seer]], translator * [[Joseph Cochran|Joseph Plumb Cochran]], second-generation American missionary in [[Urmia]] and medical doctor; established first Iranian medical college * [[Arthur Millspaugh]], Treasury General, Persia * [[Arthur Upham Pope]] (1881–1969) and [[Phyllis Ackerman]] (1893–1977), Persian culture revivalists, scholars of Persian art and architecture history * [[David Stronach]] * [[Elgin Groseclose]], Treasury General, Persia * [[John Limbert]] * [[Justin Perkins]], first American resident of Iran (1835), Presbyterian missionary in Urmia. * [[Morgan Shuster]], Treasury General, Persia * [[Richard Nelson Frye]] (1920–2014), former Harvard University professor, scholar of Persian art history * [[Samuel M. Jordan]], namesake of [[Jordan, Tehran|Jordan Ave.]] in Tehran * [[William M. Miller]] {{div col end}} ===Germans in Iran=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Annemarie Schimmel]], German-born Harvard expert on Iranian literature * [[Wilhelm Wassmuss]], German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, [[World War I]] {{div col end}} ===Iranians in America=== ''See separate article: [[List of Iranian Americans]].'' ===Iranians in Canada=== ''See article: [[Iranian-Canadian]]'' ===Iranians in Britain=== [[List of British Iranians]] ===Iranians in Germany=== [[Iranians in Germany]] ===Iranians in Australia=== [[Iranian Australian]] ===Iranians in the Netherlands=== [[Iranians in the Netherlands]] ===Iranians in Finland=== [[Finnish Iranians|Iranians in Finland]] ===Iranians in Sweden=== [[Iranians in Sweden]] ===Iranians in Egypt=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Tahia Kazem]], wife of president [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]; born in Egypt to Iranian parents {{div col end}} ===Iranians in Pakistan=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Nusrat Bhutto]], Iranian father and mother moved with family to Karachi, British India, before partition; married [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]; father of [[Benazir Bhutto]] {{div col end}} ===Persian Roman Catholic saints=== ''See article [[List of Persian Roman Catholic saints]]'' ==See also== {{portal|Biography|Iran|Lists}} * [[List of Iran-related topics]] * [[List of people by nationality]] * [[Iranian peoples]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Iranians}} [[Category:Lists of Iranian people|*]] [[Category:Iranian people|*]]
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