Iranians in Germany include immigrants from Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 to Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background. There are 100 000 to 120 000 ethnic Iranians living in Germany. With around 25.000 people of Iranian descent, Hamburg is the main center of the Iranian Diaspora http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article1061344/Nieder-mit-dem-Diktator-3000-Exiliraner-demonstrieren-in-Hamburg.html There are a lot of Iranian restaurants, cultural centres and mosques in the city. In contrast to other muslim communities in Germany, Iranians are mostly well educated and relatively wealthy.

There are considerable number of notable Iranians in each of the following categories who live and work in Germany:

Academia/Science

• Prof. Dr. Amir Reza Foroushani,
• Prof. Dr. Pourya Amini
• Nossrat Peseschkian
  Nossrat Peseschkian
  Nossrat Peseschkian, M.D., Doctor of Medicine , Hon. Professor lived in Germany since 1954. He was a specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine...
  
  
• Majid Samii
  Majid Samii
  Madjid Samii is a distinguished German-Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist.Professor Samii was born in Rasht, Iran and got his professor degree in neurosurgery at the age of 33...
  
  
• Gholamreza Sinambari, environmental engineer
• Hadi Tehrani, architect
• Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor, Physicist, Informatics, Law, Environmental Technology and Medical Studies

Arts/Entertainment

• Navid Akhavan
  Navíd Akhavan
  Navíd Akhavan is an Iranian-German actor best known for his role as Hakan in the German comedy television series König von Kreuzberg....
  
  , actor
• Peyman Amin, on the jury of "Germany's Next Top Model", and model agent
• Minu Barati, film-producer
• Akbar Behkalam
  Akbar Behkalam
  - Biography :Akbar Behkalam was born in Tabriz in 1944, the capital of the Iranian province East Azerbaijan. From 1961 until 1964 he studied art at Tabriz art school. After his military service he moved to Istanbul, where he enrolled at the Mimar Sinan University in Fine Arts and became the...
  
  , Painter
• Niloofar Beyzaie
  Niloofar Beyzaie
  -Work:Central themes of her theater work are "woman", "the suffering of individuals among the crowd" and "being a stranger either in the own or in the foreign society"...
  
  , Playwright, Theatre director
• Shaghayegh Dehghan
  Shaghayegh Dehghan
  Shaghayegh Dehghan is an Iranian actress. She is most famous for her appearances in television series made by Mehran Modiri.-Filmography:*Fekr-e Palid *Zir-e noor-e-mah...
  
  , actress
• Shahram Entekhabi, Video Artist, Painter

• Majid Fallahzadeh, Theater director
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh
  Mohammad Farokhmanesh
  Mohammad Farokhmanesh is a Gerd Ruge-Prize winning Iranian film director, scriptwriter and producer, residing in Germany.-Career:...
  
  
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad
  Fereydoun Farrokhzad
  Fereydoun Farrokhzad PhD. was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and political opposition activist. He was the younger brother of the acclaimed Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad....
  
  , actor, entertainer
• Taies Farzan, actress, Producer in film Breathful
  Breathful
  Breathful is a gangster-comedy film with an all-woman cast made by Daryush Shokof in 2007 in Berlin, Germany.The title was used previously by Shokof for another movie in 1990 in New York, called:...
  
  
• Yasmina Mahmoudieh
• Naveed Nour, photographer
• Narges Rashidi, actress in film breathful
  Breathful
  Breathful is a gangster-comedy film with an all-woman cast made by Daryush Shokof in 2007 in Berlin, Germany.The title was used previously by Shokof for another movie in 1990 in New York, called:...
  
   and A2Z
  A2Z
  A2Z is a 2006 USA-German drama film by Daryush Shokof. The film is shot entirely in Berlin, Germany in 2004.-Plot:The old man and his lolita are lovers. They have decided to end it all by a dramatic "shoot-out" finale this very day...
  
  
• Akbar Safaian
• Shermin Sharivar, Miss Europe 2005, actress
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  , film-producer-director Seven Servants
  Seven Servants
  Seven Servants is a USA - Germany co-production 1996 German drama -comedy film made by Daryush Shokof. The movie is about a man who wants to unite and "connect" the races until his last breath.-Plot:...
  
  , Iran Zendan
  Iran Zendan
  Iran Zendan is a feature film by Daryush Shokof about the situations of political prisoners currently in Iran. The film is a semi-documentary picture with images taken from the actual events during the mass protests of the 2009 Iranian presidential election and what happens to some of protesters...
  
  , artist Maximalism
  Maximalism
  The term maximalism is sometimes associated with post-modern novels, such as by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text....
  
  , philosopher Yekishim
• Jasmin Tabatabai
  Jasmin Tabatabai
  Jasmin Tabatabai is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress.- Life and work :...
  
  , actress, singer
• Farhad Yavari, director of the film "Dolphin"
• naghmeh Roomi, Painter, Artist, Interior designer
• Mohsen Mirhosseini, Food Stylist, Photo Stylist, Art Director
• Mona Hakimi-Schüler, Artist: Painter

Business/technology

• Hossein Sabet
  Hossein Sabet
  Hossein Sabet Baktash is an Iranian businessman and Persian carpet dealer who owns Sabet International Trading Co.. Sabet has a BSc in engineering and resides in Berlin, Germany.In 1981 Sabet bought the Berlin newspaper Der Abend....
  
  , entrepreneur
  Entrepreneur
  An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
  
  , hotel owner worldwide.
• Hamid Akhavan
  Hamid Akhavan
  Hamid Akhavan-Malayeri is the CEO of Siemens Enterprise Communications since February 2010. Hamid has overall responsibility for the performance of the company, including its subsidiary businesses like ....
  
  , CEO of T-Mobile
  T-Mobile
  T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
  
  

Music

• Mehrzad Marashi
  Mehrzad Marashi
  Mehrzad Marashi; is an Iranian-German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar season 7.-DSDS Performances:- Albums :-Singles:-External links:...
  
   "pop singer"

• Navid Akhavan, Iranian pop singer

• Amos

• Ateed

• Mahyar Bahraminasab "Master of Tombak"

• Jasmin Shakeri, pop singer

• Ramin Djawadi
  Ramin Djawadi
  Ramin Djawadi is a German composer of orchestral music for film and television. He was born in Duisburg, Germany to an Iranian father and German mother...
  
  , "composer"

• Monika Jalili, "vocalist"

• Pooyan Nassehpoor

• Parham Nassehpoor

• Sima Bina, "singer" of Iranian Folklore music

• Mehrpuja Bahraminasab (Master Puja) "Rapper"

Personalities

• Soraya Esfandiary
  Soraya Esfandiary
  Princess Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari was the second wife and Queen Consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran.-Birth:...
  
  , second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...
  
   and Queen Consort of Iran

Politics

• Omid Nouripour, "Green Party"

• Bahman Niroumand, many years of association with the German Green Party, and in 2009 signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com
  Iranian.com
  Iranian.com, also known as The Iranian and The Iranian Times, is an online English language magazine.Founded in July 1995 by entrepreneur/journalist Jahanshah Javid, Iranian.com has the largest online following among Iranians residing in North America, with about 68,000 visitors per month-Awards...
  
   along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Persecution of Bahá'ís
  Persecution of Bahá'ís
  The persecution of Bahá'ís is the religious persecution of Bahá'ís in various countries, especially in Iran, where the Bahá'í Faith originated and the location of one of the largest Bahá'í populations in the world...
  
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• Mehran Barati

Sports

• Ashkan Dejagah
  Ashkan Dejagah
  Ashkan Dejagah is an Iranian-German footballer who Currently plays for VfL Wolfsburg, usually as a striker or a winger. He has represented Germany at youth levels.-Club career:...
  
  , Soccer Player
• Mehdi Mahdavikia
  Mehdi Mahdavikia
  Mehdi Mahdavikia is an Iranian football player who plays for Damash Gilan in the Iranian Pro League. He has won Asian Young Footballer of the Year award in 1997, as well as Asian Footballer of the Year in 2003. He was the captain of the Iran national football team from 2006 to 2009, and currently...
  
  , Soccer Player
• Alireza Marzban
• Babak Rafati
  Babak Rafati
  Babak Rafati is an Iranian-German football referee.As of February 2010, he has officiated more than 150 matches in the 1. Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. As of November 2011, he has officiated 84 top-flight German league games.-Suicide attempt:...
  
  
• Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
  Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
  Shervin Radjabali-Fardi is anIranian-German footballer who plays for German 2. Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen and the German U-19 team. He is a left back.-Career:...
  
  
• Amir Shapourzadeh
  Amir Shapourzadeh
  Amir Shapourzadeh is an Iranian-German footballer who plays as a striker for Azadegan League side Steel Azin and the Iranian national team.-Club career:...
  
  
• Leila Vaziri
  Leila Vaziri
  Leila Vaziri is an Iranian American swimmer and former world record holder in the 50 m backstroke.-Collegiate career:Vaziri completed her collegiate swimming career at Indiana University. She was 2005 Big Ten Champion in the 100 yard backstroke and the 2007 NCAA bronze medalist in the 100 yard...
  
  , World record holder "swimmer"
• Fereydoun Zandi, Soccer player