Calligraphists

• Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
  Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
  Gholam Hossein Amirkhani is a Persian calligrapher, born in 1939 in Taleghan, Iran.-External links:*...
  
  
• Abolhassan Etessami
  Abolhassan Etessami
  Abolhassan Etessami, Iranian architect, calligrapher, painter, and novelist, was born in 1903 and died in 1978. His father Ebrahim Etessami was the head of finance of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan; and his brother Yussef Etessami was the founder of the Bahar journal, and the father of the...
  
  
• Mir Emad Hassani
  Mir Emad Hassani
  Mir Emad is perhaps the most celebrated Persian calligrapher. It is believed that the Nasta'liq style reached its highest elegance in Mir Emad's works...
  
  
• Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
  Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
  Seyed Jafar Kashfi is an Iranian calligrapher and cultural worker, who lives in Qom in Iran. He was resident in Sweden for many years where he worked as an imam, religious leader, and taught Islamic calligraphy. He was also instrumental in the publishing of translations of classical Persian poetry...
  
  
• Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
  Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
  Yadollah Kaboli Khansari is a calligrapher from Khansar, Iran. He is a member of the board of The Trustees of the Society of Iranian Calligraphists and also a holds a First Degree art's Certificate.-Published books:...
  
  
• Mishkín-Qalam
  Mishkín-Qalam
  Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Isfahání surnamed Mishkín-Qalam , was a prominent Bahá'í and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th century Persia...
  
  
• Jalil Rasouli
  Jalil Rasouli
  Mohammad Jalil Rasouli is a notable Iranian artist and Persian calligrapher.He is one of the pioneering figure in modernist movement of Persian calligraphy.-External links:*...
  
  
• Mehdi Saeedi
  Mehdi Saeedi
  Mehdi Saeedi, , Iran. He studied graphic design in the Art Academy and afterwards majored in Art and Design at England’s Cambridge University....
  
  
• Mir Ali Tabrizi
  Mir Ali Tabrizi
  Mir Ali Tabrizi also known as Mir Ali Heravi is distinguished Persian. The precision of tradition still allows for creativity, and there is a telling story of a famous Persian calligrapher, Mir Ali Tabrizi Mir Ali Tabrizi also known as Mir Ali Heravi (b. in Herat Afghanistan and d. in Tabriz in...
  
  
• Towhidi Tabari
  Towhidi Tabari
  Towhidi Tabari is an Iranian calligrapher, painter and Persian style illuminator. He was born in Babol, Iran and currently lives in Paris, France....
  
  

Cartoonists

• Javad Alizadeh
• Ardeshir Mohassess
  Ardeshir Mohassess
  Ardeshir Mohasses was an Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, residing in New York.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari is an Iranian Cartoonist, Painter, Graphic Designer, Sculptor and Journalist.- Biography :Divandari studied Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University. He began his career as Graphic Designer and Cartoonist in 1975. In 1997, He directed a new International Cartoon...
  
  
• Nikahang Kowsar
  Nikahang Kowsar
  Nikahang Kowsar, also known as Nik Kowsar is an Iranian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Toronto, Canada. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehran in 2003, an election won by the conservative candidates of Abadgaran.He studied...
  
  
• Mana Neyestani
  Mana Neyestani
  Mana Neyestani is an Iranian cartoonist. He is the brother of Touka Neyestani, who is also a cartoonist.-Biography:He is of Iranian Azeri ethnicity. Riots erupted by ethnic Azeris in Iran when they took offense in Mana Neyestani's , published in the children's section of the 12 May 2006 supplement...
  
  
• Touka Neyestani
  Touka Neyestani
  Touka Neyestani, is an award-winning Iranian cartoonist who lives in Tehran, Iran. He is the brother of Mana Neyestani, who is also a cartoonist.-Career:...
  
  

Actors and Actresses

• Akbar Abdi
  Akbar Abdi
  Akbar Abdi , born in 1960, Tehran, Iran is an Iranian actor and comedian. Akbar Abdi proved his talent through a TV series consisting of children's programming ....
  
  
• Bizhan Emkanian
  Bizhan Emkanian
  -Selected filmography:* Bijan and Dream and Shoes -Short Film, 1969* Liegemen, 1981* The Daisy Flowers, 1984* Longing for Marriage, 1990-External links:...
  
  
• Golab Adineh
  Golab Adineh
  Golab Adineh is an Iranian actress.She is daughter of Iranian novelist Hosseingholi Mosta'an and is married to Iranian actor Mehdi Hashemi.-Selected filmography:* Rusari Abi * Fasl-e panjom...
  
  
• Mahnaz Afshar
  Mahnaz Afshar
  Mahnaz Afshar was born in Tehran on 21st of Khordad year 1356 .She got her high school degree in natural science course. After graduation of high school one of her relatives who was the theater affairs assistant ion Soureh college introduced her to Hannaneh Art institute.She studied video edition...
  
  
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
  Shohreh Aghdashloo
  Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Iranian American actress.After establishing a theatre and film career in Iran, Aghdashloo moved to England during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and subsequently became a citizen of the United States...
  
  
• Pegah Ahangarani
  Pegah Ahangarani
  Pegah Ahangarani is an Iranian actress. She is the daughter of actress and director Manijeh Hekmat and movie director Jamshid Ahangarani. She has acted in 11 Iranian feature films since 2001 and made at least one documentary.- Filmography:...
  
  
• Taraneh Alidousti
• Jahangir Almasi
  Jahangir Almasi
  Djahangir Almasi is an Iranian actor. He has played different roles in his career, but he’s known mainly as an actor who plays serious and intellectual roles...
  
  
• Daryoush Arjmand
• Delkash
  Delkash
  Delkash born, Esmat Bagherpour Baboli , was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.-Biography:...
  
  
• Omid Djalili
  Omid Djalili
  Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian, actor, television producer and writer.-Personal life:Djalili was born in Chelsea, London to Iranian Bahá'í parents and is a Bahá'í himself...
  
  
• Ezzatollah Entezami
• Homayoun Ershadi
  Homayoun Ershadi
  Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor.Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry...
  
  
• Parviz Fannizadeh
• Behzad Farahani
  Behzad Farahani
  Behzad Farahani is an Iranian actor and screenwriter. He is the father of actresses Shaghayegh Farahani and Golshifteh Farahani.-Biography:Farahani was born in Farahan, Iran...
  
  
• Golshifteh Farahani
  Golshifteh Farahani
  Golshifteh Farahani is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Iranian actress and pianist.- Early life :Golshifteh Farahani was born on 10 July 1983 in Tehran, the daughter of actor/theater director Behzad Farahani and his spouse, Fahime Rahiminia and sister of actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She started studying...
  
  
• Shaghayegh Farahani
  Shaghayegh Farahani
  Shaghayegh Farahani is an Iranian actress. She is the daughter of actor Behzad Farahani and sister of actress Golshifteh Farahani.-Selected filmography:* Leila, 1996* Totia* Love is not Enough, 1998* Nights of Tehran...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Fardin
  Mohammad Ali Fardin
  Mohammad Ali Fardin was an Iranian wrestler and actor.-Life:Fardin was a popular leading man in scores of movies and was given the title, King of Hearts after his lead role in an Iranian film of the same title. He was a former wrestler who came to fame in the 1960s...
  
  
• Farimah Farjami
  Farimah Farjami
  -Career:She graduated in Dramatic Literature from Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Tehran in 1977, and has worked on stage since 1976. She began acting in films in 1980....
  
  
• Bita Farrahi
  Bita Farrahi
  Bita Farrahi is an Iranian actress.BiographyBita Farrahi بيتا فرهی ,born 1958 in Tehran,she is an Iranian actress,one of the most famous, internationally acclaimed Actress in Iran.-Career:...
  
  
• Hamid Farrokhnezhad
  Hamid Farrokhnezhad
  Hamid Farrokhnezhad is an Iranian actor, writer and director. He graduated from the Theatre Director program in Tehran University's Fine Arts Department...
  
  
• Jahangir Forouhar
  Jahangir Forouhar
  Jahangir Forouhar was an Iranian actor, and the father of Iranian entertainer Leila Forouhar. He was born in Esfahan, Iran in 1916. He started playing in theater at the age of eighteen and in cinema at the age of 50.-External links:...
  
  
• Leila Forouhar
  Leila Forouhar
  Leila Forouhar is a singer and actress from Iran. She relocated to Los Angeles after the Iranian Revolution.-Career:Leila is the daughter of the late Iranian actor Jahangir Forouhar, who had already established a solid background in the Iranian entertainment industry by the early 1970s. She speaks...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Foroutan
• Faramarz Gharibian
  Faramarz Gharibian
  Faramarz Gharibian , Actor and Director, Born November 17, 1941, Tehran, Iran.Learning film acting in the School of Visual Arts, US , he started his career with a short role in Come Stranger . His first professional debut was Soil Faramarz Gharibian , Actor and Director, Born November 17, 1941,...
  
  
• Googoosh
  Googoosh
  Faegheh Atashin also known by her stage name Googoosh is an Iranian singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Golzar
  Mohammad Reza Golzar
  Mohammad Reza Golzar , is a Persian Iranian actor and musician.-Early life:He was born on 21 March 1974 in Tehran, Iran. He is graduate in mechanical engineering from the Azad University.-Careers:...
  
  
• Azita Hajian
  Azita Hajian
  -Early life:She was born on 10 January 1958 in Narmak, Tehran. She Graduated in theatre acting and directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Tehran, Azita Hajian started stage acting in 1975 and film acting in 1989 with Thief of Dolls . Due to her theatrical background in the field of children...
  
  
• Kazem HajirAzad
  Kazem HajirAzad
  Kazem HajirAzad Iranian cinema, television, and stage actorHe is a member of I.F.A.A and Iranian actors of Theater Forum and also the Theater Forum executive committee.-Education:...
  
  
• Mehdi Hashemi
  Mehdi Hashemi
  Mehdi Hashemi was an Iranian Shi'a cleric, and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards; he was executed by the new Islamic Republic in its first decade...
  
  
• Leila Hatami
  Leila Hatami
  Leila Hatami is an award-winning Iranian actress. She is the daughter of director Ali Hatami and actress Zari Khoshkam, and is married to actor Ali Mosaffa.- Biography :...
  
  
• Amin Hayaee
• Niki Karimi
  Niki Karimi
  Niki Karimi , born 10 November 1971 in Tehran, is a multi-award–winning Iranian actress and movie director.- Biography :Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran. She participated in theatrical work while she was in elementary school. Her hobby of reading and watching movies from an early age...
  
  
• Kamshad Kooshan
  Kamshad Kooshan
  Kamshad Kooshan is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director. Iranian-born & Bay Area film director, screenwriter and film producer, , immigrated to the United States at the age of Sixteen. He has been involved with photography since the age of 12 and has had many exhibitions...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
• Reza Kianian
  Reza Kianian
  Reza Kianian is an Iranian actor. In an early age he and his family moved to Mashhad; he,however, moved back to Tehran later to study fine arts at the University of Tehran.-Selected filmography:*Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine, 2000...
  
  
• Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Jamshid Mashayekhi
  Jamshid Mashayekhi
  Jamshid Mashayekhi is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.-Career:Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror. After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow and Kaiser...
  
  
• Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri in Tehran, Iran) is a prolific Iranian actor, television director and musician. His artistic career began in his teenage years as he was acting in local plays...
  
  
• Bahman Mofid
  Bahman Mofid
  Bahman Mofid is an Iranian actor.-Filmography:# Veiled Threat as Haji Firuz# Hejrat as Abdol# Nafas-borideh as Jalil# Faryad-e mojahed # Tuti # Agha Mehdi vared mishavad # Jooje fokoli...
  
  
• Ali Mosaffa
  Ali Mosaffa
  -Career:He has played in movies such as Pari , Leila , and Borj-e Minoo and a TV series, Keef-e Englisi . In 2005, he directed his first film called Sima-ye zani dar doordast ....
  
  
• Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
  Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
  -Selected filmography:* Reyhaneh * Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema * Mosaferan * Honarpisheh * Hamsar...
  
  
• Ahmad Najafi
  Ahmad Najafi
  Ahmad Nadjafi Shoushtari is an Iranian actor and producer. He has a B.A. in Economics from the Woodbury University in Burbank, California. In 1976, he entered cinema by assisting Massoud Kimiayee in Ghazal. In 1976, he founded a movie distributing company in U.S., and he was the vice-president of...
  
  
• Ali Nassirian
  Ali Nassirian
  Ali Nassirian is an Iranian film and theater actor, respected for both character and leading roles.-Acting career:He first appeared in a supporting role in Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow , which was also the first film of Ezatollah Entezami, another famous Iranian actor. Nasirian then shined in the...
  
  
• Roya Nonahali
  Roya Nonahali
  Royā Nonahāli , Actress, Born 1964, Tehran, Iran. Studied painting; worked in theatre since 1984 and started film acting with The Beloved Is at Home . Then she was selected by Mohsen Makhmalbaf for 'Marriage of the Blessed' and received the prize from Fajr Intl. Film Festival...
  
  
• Roxanne Pallett
  Roxanne Pallett
  Roxanne Pallett is a British actress most famous for playing the role of Jo Sugden in ITV soap opera Emmerdale.-Early life :...
  
  
• Parviz Parastouee
• Mahaia Petrosian
• Parsa Pirouzfar
  Parsa Pirouzfar
  Parsa Pirouzfar is an Iranian actor and theater director.-Biography:Parsa Pirouzfar was born on 13 September 1972 in Tehran.During 1984 to 1990 when he was at school he designed comic strips without publishing them....
  
  
• Saeed Rad
  Saeed Rad
  Saeed Raad is an Iranian actor and playwright. He started his career in 1967. Rad left Iran in 1986 and lived in Canada but he returned to his homeland in 2000 to continue his career....
  
  
• Bahram Radan
  Bahram Radan
  Bahram Radan is an award-winning Iranian actor.He was born on April 28, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. After attending Farhangian School for his primary education, Hejrat Middle School, and Borhan & Matin High Schools, he started studying Business Management. While attending the university, Radan signed...
  
  
• Davoud Rashidi
• Homa Rousta
  Homa Rousta
  Homa Rousta is an Iranian actress. She is the wife of stage director Hamid Samandarian.She graduated in theatre from the School of Dramatic Arts in Bucharest.-Selected filmography:* Report on a Murder, 1986* The Little Bird of Happiness, 1987...
  
  
• Parviz Sayyad
• Khosrow Shakibaee
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
• Jamileh Sheykhi
  Jamileh Sheykhi
  -Career:She made her stage debut in 1957 and began film acting with Shipwreck . As a pioneer and veteran character actress of Iranian theatre and cinema, she performed in a number of films with reputable directors...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Sussan Taslimi
• Hedyeh Tehrani
  Hedyeh Tehrani
  Hedieh Tehrāni is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Iranian actress. She is most noted for willingness to play mysterious, stony-faced and cold-hearted women. She began her acting career with Masoud Kimiai's Soltan...
  
  
• Behrouz Vossoughi
  Behrouz Vossoughi
  -Career:He started acting in films with Samuel Khachikian's Toofan dar shahr-e ma. He has over 40 years of experience in the motion picture industry, with featured appearances in more than 90 films. His work has earned him recognition at several international film festivals...
  
  
• Merila Zarei
  Merila Zarei
  - Biography :Graduated from Azad University of Tehran, during her studies she became interested in acting through Ezatollah Entezami's acting courses.Her first movie was Patak by Ali Asghar Shadravan in 1994...
  
  

Directors and Filmmakers

• Morteza Avini
  Morteza Avini
  Sayyed Morteza Avini was an Iranian photographer of the Iran-Iraq war.Avini was born in 1947 in Rey, south of Tehran...
  
  
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Bahram Beizai
• Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi , born 1963, is an Iranian-born video and installation artist. He studied graphic design at the University of Tehran, Iran and architecture, urbanism at state University in Reggio Calabria, Italy.-Work:...
  
  
• Bahman Farman-Ara
• Mitra Farahani
  Mitra Farahani
  Mitra Farahani is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and painter who lives in Paris.She was arrested on June 17, 2009 by the Iranian government, on her arrival in Tehran from Paris and held in Evin prison...
  
  
• Ramin Farahani
  Ramin Farahani
  Ramin Farahani is an Iranian-Dutch filmmaker.Born in 1969 in Tehran, Farahani started with photography short films in 1987, and studied film directing at the Cinema and Theater department of the Art University of Tehran between 1989 and 1993....
  
  
• Iraj Ghaderi
  Iraj Ghaderi
  Iradj Ghaderi is an Iranian director and actor.- Director :* I Want to Live * Sam and Narges * Aquarium * Pato zamin nazar -External links:...
  
  
• Behrooz Gharibpoor
• Bahman Ghobadi
  Bahman Ghobadi
  Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian film director of Kurdish ethnicity. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of Iranian cinema.-Biography:...
  
  
• Akbar Golrang
  Akbar Golrang
  Akbar Golrang, born April 12, 1945, is an Iranian author and film director. He was born in Abadan and has directed over 20 films. In 1972 qualified as Film Director from The London Film School. 1976 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Lund University in Sweden...
  
  
• Ali Hatami
  Ali Hatami
  Ali Hatami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, art Director and costume designer.-Background:Graduated in cinema from Faculty of Dramatic Arts, his debut was Hasan Kachal , the first Iranian musical film...
  
  
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
  Ebrahim Hatamikia
  -Biography:Ebrahim Hatamikia, who is internationally renowned for his role in the cinema of Iran in the 1990s, was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He left the Art University where he studied script writing. He began his directing career with the film "The Identity" in 1986 and some short films and...
  
  
• Ardeshir Irani
  Ardeshir Irani
  Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani ; popularly known as Ardeshir Irani, was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema. He was renowned for making films in Hindi, Telugu, English, German, Indonesian, Persian,...
  
  
• Abolfazl Jalili
  Abolfazl Jalili
  Abolfazl Jalili is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He belongs to Iranian new wave movement.Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, then worked for national television where he produced several children's films. His 'Det' Means Girl won prizes in...
  
  
• Varuzh Karim-Masihi
  Varuzh Karim-Masihi
  Varuzh Karim-Masihi is an Iranian - Armenian film director, film editor and screenplay writer.-Filmography:As director:*Parde-ye Akhar *Tardid As editor:*Tardid*SaraAs writer:*Tardid*Parde-ye Akhar...
  
  
• Samuel Khachikian
  Samuel Khachikian
  Samuel Khachikian was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor of Armenian descent. He was one of the most influential figures in Iran's movie industry and was nicknamed "Iran's Hitchcock"....
  
  
• Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
  
• Masoud Kimiai
  Masoud Kimiai
  Masoud Kimiai is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1941 in Tehran, Iran.- Biography :Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Kaiser , he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film Cow, caused a...
  
  
• Parviz Kimiavi
  Parviz Kimiavi
  Parviz Kimiavi is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, editor and one of the most prominent figures of Persian cinema of the 20th century....
  
  
• Kamshad Kooshan
  Kamshad Kooshan
  Kamshad Kooshan is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director. Iranian-born & Bay Area film director, screenwriter and film producer, , immigrated to the United States at the age of Sixteen. He has been involved with photography since the age of 12 and has had many exhibitions...
  
  
• Esma'il Kooshan
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...
  
  
• Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...
  
  
• David Mahmoudieh
  David Mahmoudieh
  David Mahmoudieh is an Iranian film and music video director, screenwriter and guest film critic. He directs music videos under a variety of pseudonyms, including "R&D", "Merlin", "Uncle Rumple" and "Jury & Executioner"....
  
  
• Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Darius Mehrjui
  Darius Mehrjui
  Dariush Mehrju'i , also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor....
  
  
• Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri
  Mehran Modiri in Tehran, Iran) is a prolific Iranian actor, television director and musician. His artistic career began in his teenage years as he was acting in local plays...
  
  
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Amir Naderi
  Amir Naderi
  Amir Naderi is a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema. Mr Naderi is currently in Japan working on CUT, his new feature film, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Takako Tokiwa, due to be released in 2011.Naderi developed his...
  
  
• Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the...
  
  
• Babak Payami
  Babak Payami
  -Biography:Born in Tehran in 1966, Baback Payami studied cinema at the University of Toronto during the early 90's. In 1998, he returned to Iran after an almost two decade to produce and direct his debut "One More Day" or “Secret Ballot”. This flim describes what happens on election day when an...
  
  
• Amir Shahab Razavian
  Amir Shahab Razavian
  Amir-Shahāb Razaviān , born in 1965 in Hamadan, Iran, is an Iranian film director, filmmaker and producer.Razavian began his cinematic activities at Hamedan Amateur Film-making Centre in 1980 while still studying at high-school...
  
  
• Abdolhossein Sepanta
  Abdolhossein Sepanta
  Abdolhossein Sepanta was a noted Iranian film director and producer. He was born in Tehran, Persia, and died of a heart attack in Esfahan, Iran.-Early years:...
  
  
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales
• Kamran Shirdel
  Kamran Shirdel
  Kamran Shirdel is a renowned Iranian documentarist.He studied architecture and urbanism at the University of Rome and film direction at the of Rome, graduating in 1964. He worked as an assistant director with John Huston on The Bible before making his diploma film, Gli Specchi , in Rome...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai is an Iranian film director. His works are usually based on social documentations. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran...
  
  
• Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi
  Kamal Tabrizi is an Iranian film director. He was born in Tehran . A newly released picture shows that he was as a photographer & reporter among the 1979 hostage takers at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.- Filmography as a director :-External links:...
  
  
• Nasser Taghvai

Film score composers

• Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
  
  
• Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini is a film score composer originally from Iran based in Canada.-Career:He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attention of royal family of the time. The title of national Iranian TV's children...
  
  
• Ahmad Pejman
  Ahmad Pejman
  Ahmad Pejman , also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian classical composer who resides in the United States.-Biography:Born in 1937 in Lar, Iran, Pejman was exposed to the sounds and rhythms of southern Iran from early childhood...
  
  
• Peyman Yazdanian
  Peyman Yazdanian
  Peyman Yazdanian is a famous and awarded Iranian pianist and music composer. As a composer, he has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed a lot for national and foreign featured films. He has also written original soundtracks for plays and multimedia. He has introduced a new...
  
  

Fashion designers

• Pegah Anvarian
  Pegah Anvarian
  Pegah Anvarian is an American fashion designer. She is designer of the Pegah Anvarian Collection.Anvarian grew up in Richardson, Texas , the daughter of a photographer father and educator mother, who taught her how to sew at the age of six. Her family encouraged creativity in the home, prompting...
  
  
• Shirin Guild
  Shirin Guild
  Shirin Guild is a contemporary British Iranian fashion designer. Her label was established in London, in 1991. Shirin Guild was born in 1946 and grew up in Iran...
  
  
• Behnaz Sarafpour
  Behnaz Sarafpour
  Behnaz Sarafpour is a New York City-based designer who introduced a line of women's apparel bearing her name in 2001.She attended Parsons School of Design, where she was honored with the Golden Thimble Award, and has held design positions at Isaac Mizrahi, Narciso Rodriguez, Richard Tyler, Anne...
  
  
• Bijan Pakzad
• Mahla Zamani
  Mahla Zamani
  Mahla Zamani is an Iranian fashion designer, journalist and expert on Iranian traditional clothing.She established the first fashion exhibition after the Iranian revolution and put significant effort in popularizing Iranian stylish clothing. In her view, Iranians need to revive their past and...
  
  

Graphic designers

• Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari is an Iranian Cartoonist, Painter, Graphic Designer, Sculptor and Journalist.- Biography :Divandari studied Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University. He began his career as Graphic Designer and Cartoonist in 1975. In 1997, He directed a new International Cartoon...
  
  
• Reza Abedini
  Reza Abedini
  Reza Abedini, is a world renowned Iranian designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University.Abedini is one of the most famous graphics designer in Iran because of his modern Persian typography...
  
  
• Martin Armand
• Farshid Mesghali
  Farshid Mesghali
  Farshid Mesghali is an Iranian graphic designer, illustrator, animator and author.- Biography :Studying painting at Tehran University, he began his professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1964. After his graduation, he joined the Institute for the Intellectual Development for...
  
  
• Morteza Momayez
  Morteza Momayez
  Morteza Momayez was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale...
  
  
• Mehdi Saeedi
  Mehdi Saeedi
  Mehdi Saeedi, , Iran. He studied graphic design in the Art Academy and afterwards majored in Art and Design at England’s Cambridge University....
  
  
• Ghobad Shiva
  Ghobad Shiva
  - Career :He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art before earning a master's degree from Pratt University, New York, in 1980...
  
  
• Reza Abbasi
  Reza Abbasi
  Riza Abbasi, Riza yi-Abbasi or Reza-e Abbasi, رضا عباسی in Persian, usually "Riza" or Reza Abbasi also Aqa Riza or Āqā Riżā Kāshānī was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I...
  
  

Comedians

• Omid Djalili
  Omid Djalili
  Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian, actor, television producer and writer.-Personal life:Djalili was born in Chelsea, London to Iranian Bahá'í parents and is a Bahá'í himself...
  
  
• Negin Farsad
  Negin Farsad
  Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American comedian, writer and actor based in New York City. She has also produced and directed feature films and television programming, most notably the documentary Nerdcore Rising, which follows around Damian Hess a.k.a. MC Frontalot, on his 2006 Nerdcore Rising...
  
  
• Maz Jobrani
  Maz Jobrani
  Maziar “Maz” Jobrani is an Iranian-born American comedian who is part of the "Axis of Evil" comedy group. The group appeared on a comedy special on Comedy Central. Jobrani has also appeared in numerous films, television shows, including Better Off Ted, on radio and in comedy clubs...
  
  
• Hadi Khorsandi
  Hadi Khorsandi
  Hadi Khorsandi is a contemporary Iranian poet and satirist. Since 1979, he has been the editor and writer of the Persian-language satirical journal Asghar Agha ....
  
  
• Shaparak Khorsandi
  Shaparak Khorsandi
  Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi is an Iranian-born comedian based in the United Kingdom.- Background and personal life :...
  
  
• Ebrahim Nabavi
  Ebrahim Nabavi
  Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi is a prolific Iranian satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher. , he is the most widely known and active Iranian satirist, currently living in Belgium...
  
  

Iranian Classical/Traditional

• Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh
  Hossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
  
  
• Axiom of Choice
  Axiom of Choice (band)
  Axiom of Choice is a southern California based world music group of Iranian émigrés who perform a fusion style incorporating Persian classical music and Western classical music.- History :...
  
  
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Sima Bina
  Sima Bina
  Simā Binā is notable Persian classical musician and Iran's researcher, composer, singer and song-writer of Iranian folk music...
  
  , folkloric music
• Delkash
  Delkash
  Delkash born, Esmat Bagherpour Baboli , was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mirza Abdollah Farahani
  Mirza Abdollah
  Mirza Abdollah, also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani , was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history...
  
  
• Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh ‎ was a well-known Persian composer and horn player.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Kayhan Kalhor
  Kayhan Kalhor
  Kayhan Kalhor , born 24 November 1963, is an Iranian kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Persian music.-Youth and studies:...
  
  
• Kamkarha
• Ruhollah Khaleghi
  Ruhollah Khaleghi
  Rūhollāh Khāleqi , also spelled as Khaleghi, was a prominent Iranian musician, composer, conductor and author.-Education:...
  
  
• Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini
  Fariborz Lachini is a film score composer originally from Iran based in Canada.-Career:He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attention of royal family of the time. The title of national Iranian TV's children...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Lotfi
• Javad Maroofi
  Javad Maroofi
  Javād Ma'roufi , was a celebrated ethnic Persian composer and pianist.-Biography:Javād Ma'roufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Musā Ma'roufi and mother Ozrā Ma'roufi who both were distinguished pupils of Darvish Khan, a renowned music master of the time in Iran...
  
  
• Marzieh
• Mohammad Mousavi
  Mohammad Mousavi
  Mohammad Mousavi is an Iranian musician noted for his ney work.Born in Ahvaz, south of Iran, he studied ney initially with Hassan Kassai. In 1966, he started performing for Iranian national radio programs.-External links:* ....
  
  
• Shahram Nazeri
  Shahram Nazeri
  Shahram Nazeri is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish ancestry who sings classical Persian music from Kermanshah. He is one of Iran's most respected vocalists...
  
  
• Parisa
  Parisa
  Fātemeh Vā'ezi , commonly known by her stage name Parīsā , is a Persian Classical vocalist and musician.----...
  
  
• Abolhasan Saba
  Abolhasan Saba
  Abol Hasan Sabā , was a renowned Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and setar player.-Biography:He was born in Tehran to Abul Qasim Khan Kamal ol-Saltaneh, son of Mohammad Jafar Khan Sadr ol-Hekma, son of Mahmud Khan Kashi Malak ol-Shoara Sadr ol-Shoara Saba ol-Shoara, son of Mohammad Hossain...
  
  
• Mohammad Shams
  Mohammad Shams
  Mohammad Shams is an Iranian composer and conductor. Born in a family of musicians, he has composed more than 650 pieces of traditional, classical and modern music....
  
  
• Homayoun Shajarian
  Homayoun Shajarian
  Homayoun Shajarian is a renowned Persian classical music vocalist, as well as a Tombak and Kamancheh player.- Biography :...
  
  
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• Alinaghi Vaziri
• Jalal Zolfonun
  Jalal Zolfonun
  Jalal Zolfonun is a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mahmoud Zoufonoun
  Mahmoud Zoufonoun
  Ostad Mahmoud Zoufonoun is an accomplished musician in the art of Persian traditional music.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Zyriab

Western Classical

• Lily Afshar
  Lily Afshar
  - Awards and recognition :Afshar has been praised for her performances.She won the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist. as well as the Tenth, Eleventh, and the Twelfth Annual "Premier Guitarist" awards by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts &...
  
  
• Shahin Farhat
  Shahin Farhat
  Shahin Farhat is a prolific Iranian composer studied in the University of Tehran where he got bachelor's degree in music, later he studied with the well-known American composer Ezea Laderman in the state University of New York in Binghamton, where he got his master's degree in composition.He...
  
  
• Aminollah Hossein
  Aminollah Hossein
  André Hossein, born Aminoullah Husseinoff was a celebrated Iranian composer of Neo-Romantic music and a tar soloist residing in France....
  
  
• Mehdi Hosseini
  Mehdi Hosseini
  Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lotfi Mansouri
  Lotfi Mansouri
  Lotfollah “Lotfi” Mansouri is an Iranian-born opera director and manager. He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is most well known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001...
  
  
• Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi
  Nader Mashayekhi is a Persian composer.Since 2006 until July 2007 he was conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra.In 1990s he was music director of an Austrian new music ensemble named "Wien 2001"....
  
  
• Amir Teymuri
• Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari
  Ali Rahbari is a Persian composer and conductor, who played with more than 120 European orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anoushiravan Rohani
  Anoushiravan Rohani
  Anoushirvan Rohani also spelled Anooshiravan Rowhani is an Iranian pianist and songwriter.Born in Rasht, Iran in 1939, Anoushiravan received music lessons from his father Reza Rohani, himself a poet and violinist...
  
  
• Shahrdad Rohani
• Heshmat Sandjari
• Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...
  
   (Loris Cheknavarian)

Electronic

• Leila Arab
  Leila Arab
  Leila is an Iranian recording artist, producer and dj based in London.She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk, and has released music on Rephlex Records, XL Recordings and Warp Records....
  
  
• Deep Dish
  Deep Dish
  Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...
  
  
• Ali Movasat
  Ali Movasat
  Aliasghar Movasat), on 10 March 1975, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Danish eurodance producer and DJ. He enjoyed worldwide success with the single "The Whistle Song" from his 2000 debut album Payback Time. It peaked at #5 in the United Kingdom in January 2002, and subsequently, he performed it on...
  
   (DJ Aligator)
• Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One
  And One
  AND ONE is a German New Wave, synthpop and EBM band founded by Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz.-History:The band formed after Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz met in 1989 at a Berlin club. Being fans of early EBM music, Naghavi and Ruiz decided to follow in the footsteps of New Wave/synthpop band Depeche...
  
  )
• Omid Nourizadeh
• Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
  Deep Dish
  Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...
  
   (of Deep Dish)
• Shahram Tayebi
  Deep Dish
  Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...
  
   (of Deep Dish)

Pop

• Afshin
  Afshin
  Afshin is a common Persian and Turkish given name, derived from the princely title of the rulers of Ošrūsana at the time of the Muslim conquest...
  
  
• Arash
  Arash (artist)
  Arash Labaf is an Iranian-Swedish singer, dancer, entertainer and producer.- Early life :Arash Labaf was born in Tehran, Iran. At age ten, he and his family moved to Sweden, where he still resides. In an interview with BBC Persian Television, he has mentioned that his mother and father are from...
  
  
• Arian Band
  Arian Band
  Arian is the first pop band consisting of both male and female singers and players in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Pahlavan and Salehi are the band's lead vocalists, and the songwriters are Pahlavan, Salehi, Amirkhas, Khahani and Farnejad. Their second, third and forth albums were the...
  
  
• Aref
• Alireza Assar
  Alireza Assar
  -Biography:The oldest child of a 4 member family in Tehran, His studiedthe piano under the supervision of Kavous Samandar, Javad Maaroufi and Mostafa Pourtorab. His first concert was in "Aboureihan-e Birooni " Hall in Shahid Beheshti University at age 16. Since then he had several concerts...
  
  
• Andy Madadian
  Andy Madadian
  Andranik Madadian , better known by his stage name, Andy , is a famous Iranian-Armenian singer-songwriter. He is a naturalized American and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anousheh Khalili
  Anousheh Khalili
  Anousheh Khalili , born 1983, is an Iranian-American singer-songwriter. She is known for providing vocal talent and appearing in the videos for Deep Dish's "Flashdance" and "Say Hello," the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 in the Best Dance Recording category.She recorded her...
  
  
• Benyamin Bahadori
  Benyamin Bahadori
  Benyamin Bahadori is an Iranian singer of Persian pop music from tonekabon, Iran. His 2006 album 85 was a commercial success within Iran and with the Iranian diaspora abroad...
  
  
• Bijan Mortazavi
  Bijan Mortazavi
  Bijan Mortazavi , born on November 16, 1957 in Babol, is a popular Iranian violinist, singer and songwriter. Although his albums are banned in Iran his instrumental pieces aired many times in Iran TV.- Background :...
  
  
• Cameron Cartio
  Cameron Cartio
  Kamran Sabahi better known by his stage name Cameron Cartio , born on 9 April 1978) is an Iranian-born Swedish pop singer and songwriter....
  
  
• Darius Danesh
  Darius Danesh
  Darius Campbell , also known as Darius Danesh or simply Darius, is a British Iranian platinum-selling singer-songwriter, a West End stage actor, operatic baritone, Sunday Times best-selling author, and an Ambassador for The Prince's Trust.He established himself as a popular West End leading...
  
  
• Dariush Eghbali
  Dariush Eghbali
  Dariush Eghbali better known by his stage name Dariush is a famous Iranian pop singer best known for his warm and plaintive bass voice heard in both ballads and political songs. He is also a social activist who directs a recovery center.-Early life:...
  
  
• Delkash
  Delkash
  Delkash born, Esmat Bagherpour Baboli , was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ebi
  Ebi
  Ebi is a Persian Singer-songwriter and performer currently living in Marbella, Spain. He has combined musical influences from traditional Persian music, western pop and sometimes Latino style rhythms and is a major name in Persian music...
  
   (Ebrahim Hamedi)
• Faramarz Aslani
  Faramarz Aslani
  -Biography:He was born in Tehran and later moved to England to get his bachelor's degree from London University's college of Journalism. After graduation he moved back to Tehran and worked for several publications, including Tehran Journal and CBS. After the Iranian Revolution he moved back to...
  
  
• Farhad
  Farhad
  Farhad is a Persian name meaning elation or happiness, and may refer to:*Farhad or Phraates, the name of 5 kings in the Arsacid Empire**Phraates I of Parthia**Phraates II of Parthia**Phraates III of Parthia**Phraates IV of Parthia...
  
   (Farhad Mehrad)
• Siavash Ghomayshi
• Googoosh
  Googoosh
  Faegheh Atashin also known by her stage name Googoosh is an Iranian singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s...
  
  
• Habib
  Habib
  Habib is an Arabic male name with the meaning "beloved", or "darling", it also appears as a surname. The name is popular in the Middle East, Africa, and France.-Given name:* Habib Beye , French-Senegalese footballer...
  
  
• Hayadeh
• Hassan Shamaizadeh
  Hassan Shamaizadeh
  Hassan Shamaizadeh is a famous pioneering and respected Persian singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, saxophonist, pianist. He is maestro in playing Saxophone and also play the Flute, Oboe and Clarinet with complete virtuosity. He is mostly known for his composition...
  
  
• Hodi
• Jamshid
• Kouros
  Kouros
  A kouros is the modern term given to those representations of male youths which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece. The term kouros, meaning youth, was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I...
  
  
• Leila Forouhar
  Leila Forouhar
  Leila Forouhar is a singer and actress from Iran. She relocated to Los Angeles after the Iranian Revolution.-Career:Leila is the daughter of the late Iranian actor Jahangir Forouhar, who had already established a solid background in the Iranian entertainment industry by the early 1970s. She speaks...
  
  
• Mahasti
  Mahasti
  Mahasti bornEftekhar Dadehbala was a legendary Persian Pop and classical singer and diva and the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.- Background :...
  
  
• Mansour
• Mehrdad
  Mehrdad
  Mehrdad is a Persian male given name.'Mehrdad' derives from Middle Persian Mihrdat, a theophoric name meaning "Given by Mihr." 'Mihr' in turn derives from Avestan Mithra, the Zoroastrian divinity and hypostasis of covenant....
  
  
• Mohammad Nouri
  Mohammad Nouri
  Mohammad Nouri may refer to:* Mohammad Nouri , Iranian folk and pop singer* Mohammad Nouri , Iranian footballer...
  
  
• Moein
  Moein
  Nasrollah Moein known as Moein is an Iranian singer known for his love songs. Born in 1951 in Najaf Abad in Esfahan, he has played lots of concerts across the world...
  
  
• Nooshafarin
  Nooshafarin
  Nooshafarin is a popular Iranian singer. She is part of a large network of Iranian singer, composer, and songwriter exiles of the 1970s era who live and work in Southern California. Her name means "creator of joy" in Persian.-Early years:...
  
  
• Omid
  Omid
  Omid is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope...
  
  
• Pyruz
  Pyruz
  Pyruz Payandeh Azad is a famous Persian pop singer, songwriter, guitarist and former frontman and leadsinger of Black Cats.- Biography :Pyruz came to the United States in 1977 to finish school but because he had a passion for music, he and his best friend Ebi Hamidieh started a band called Shish O...
  
  
• Reza Sadeghi
  Reza Sadeghi
  Reza Sadeghi is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter.Sadeghi belongs to the new generation of pop singers who emerged in post revolutionary Iran. He gained popularity among young Iranians. His most famous song is "Black is the color of love" . His first song was created in 1992...
  
  
• Hassan Sattar
• Sepideh
  Sepideh
  Sepideh is a common female Iranian name that means "Dawn" or "Before the Sunrise". The word "Sepid" also means "white" and is a type of Persian Poetry.- Abbreviations and Various Forms of Spelling :* Sep* Sepi* Sepee* Sepid* Sepeed* Sepide* Sepeede...
  
  
• Shadmehr Aghili
  Shadmehr Aghili
  Shadmehr Aghili born 27 January 1973 in Tehran, Iran) is the most favorite Iranian pop singer, musician, composer, music arranger, producer and song-writer, and formerly an actor. He emigrated to Canada first, but currently resides in Los Angeles, California.-Career:Shadmehr was a child prodigy...
  
  
• Susan Roshan
  Susan Roshan
  Susan Roshan , born September 23, 1967 in Hamedan, Iran is an American singer of Iranian origin.-Biography:Susan born in Tehran and her family moved to the United States when she was 9 years old. She entered the Iranian music scene with her first album " Khakestar" only released on tape. Her...
  
  
• Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
• Saeed
• Shahram Shabpareh
  Shahram Shabpareh
  Shahram Shabpareh , is a famous Iranian pop singer, songwriter. His career spans more than 4 decades, he has had countless hits and sold many albums worldwide. -Career:...
  
  
• Shahrum K
  Shahrum K
  Shahrum Kashani better known as Shahrum K or SK is a Iranian pop singer. He has released 8 commercially successful albums with notable hits.-Biography:...
  
  
• Vigen
  Vigen Derderian
  Vigen or Viguen, born Vigen Derderian , known as "Sultan of Pop" and "Sultan of Persian jazz", was a hugely popular Iranian pop music singer and actor...
  
  

Lyricists

• Shahriar Ghanbary
• Maryam Heydarzadeh
  Maryam Heydarzadeh
  Maryam Heydarzadeh is a contemporary Iranian poet, lyricist, and singer.She is a blind young woman who attracted Iranian nation with her poems and voice...
  
  
• Leila Kasra
  Leila Kasra
  Leila Kasra also known as Hadieh or Hedieh , was a legendary Persian poet, writer and lyricist who wrote many hits for many famous Persian artists like Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Mahasti, Andy, Homeyra, Hassan Shamaizadeh, Siavash Shams, Shohreh, Shahram Solati, Nooshafarin, Habib,...
  
  
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi

Rock/Metal

• Agah Bahari
  Agah Bahari
  Agah Bahari , born July 3, 1983, is an Iranian Rock musician.Agah's works are Instrumental Progressive metal/Rock. He has been deemed one of "Iran's guitar monsters" according to Iranian Rock magazine "Zirzamin"....
  
  
• Angband
  Angband (band)
  Angband is a Persian power metal/ progressive musical group, formed in 2004 in Tehran.-Band history:Angband was formed in 2004 in Tehran by Mahyar Dean, a classically trained musician and author who is known for writing books about the bands Death and Testament...
  
  
• Barad
  Barad (band)
  Barad were an Iranian rock band from Tehran. The main language for their lyrics is Persian, although English has appeared in their lyrics as well.-History:The history of Barad reaches back to the early 2002...
  
  
• Amir Derakh
  Amir Derakh
  Amir Davidson is an American musician. He is currently guitar/synthesizer player for the band Orgy and guitar player for the band Dead by Sunrise...
  
  
• Kahtmayan
• Kiosk
  Kiosk (band)
  -Introduction:Kiosk is an underground Iranian music band founded in 2003 by Arash Sobhani in Tehran. Like many other bands in Iran, they had to set up their studios in the underground basements of friends and families, fearing of the Islamic regime’s constant surveillance and strict censorship...
  
  
• Meera
  Meera (band)
  Meera is an Iranian rock band based in Tehran.Band members are Babak Akhondi , Dara Daraee , Farzam Rahimi , Reza Moghaddas , and Kasra Ebrahimi ....
  
  
• O-Hum
  O-Hum
  O-Hum is an Iranian underground rock band fronted by singer/songwriter Shahram Sharbaf. Their style is what they call "Persian Rock", combining rock with Persian instruments and modes, together with lyrics drawn from the works of Hafez, the esteemed fourteenth century Persian poet.-Biography:The...
  
  
• Karmandan
• Kaveh Yaghmaei

Painters and Sculptors

• Reza Abbasi
  Reza Abbasi
  Riza Abbasi, Riza yi-Abbasi or Reza-e Abbasi, رضا عباسی in Persian, usually "Riza" or Reza Abbasi also Aqa Riza or Āqā Riżā Kāshānī was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I...
  
  
• Aydin Aghdashloo
  Aydin Aghdashloo
  Aydin Aghdashloo is an Iranian painter, author, art critic, art historian and graphic designer.He currently lives in Tehran, Iran and lectures in different Iranian Universities besides his professional work.- Early life :...
  
  
• Kamrooz Aram
  Kamrooz Aram
  -Biography:Kamrooz Aram is a contemporary artist whose work explores themes relating to systems of belief, including nationalist, religious, and artistic ideologies...
  
  
• Siah Armajani
  Siah Armajani
  Siah Armajani is an Iranian-born American sculptor.Siah Armajani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States...
  
  
• Manouchehr Atashi
  Manouchehr Atashi
  Manouchehr Atashi was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist.He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province His poetry is the poetry of the revolting warrior of the humiliated southern tribesman. He takes his work seriously and although attached to his native birthplace his poems are...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hossein Behzad
  Hossein Behzad
  Hossein Behzad was a prominent painter from Tehran, Iran.He became internationally known and won many awards.In honor of this artist, the "Behzad Museum", located in Tehran's Sa'd Abad Palace holds the collection of most of his works.- References :* Omar Khayyam: Vierzeiler übersetzt von...
  
  
• Kamaleddin Behzad
• Iran Darroudi
  Iran Darroudi
  -Education:Darroudi studied at Ecole Superier des Beaux-Arts in Paris, history of art at the École du Louvre in Paris, stained glass at the Royal Academy of Brussels, and television direction and production at the R.C.A. Institute in New York.-Career:...
  
  
• Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari
  Ali Divandari is an Iranian Cartoonist, Painter, Graphic Designer, Sculptor and Journalist.- Biography :Divandari studied Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran University. He began his career as Graphic Designer and Cartoonist in 1975. In 1997, He directed a new International Cartoon...
  
  
• Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi , born 1963, is an Iranian-born video and installation artist. He studied graphic design at the University of Tehran, Iran and architecture, urbanism at state University in Reggio Calabria, Italy.-Work:...
  
  
• Ahmad Esfandiari
• Mahmoud Farshchian
  Mahmoud Farshchian
  Mahmoud Farshchian is a master of Persian painting and miniatures. He was born in the city of Isfahan in Iran, a place famed for its art and artists, and it was here where he started to learn art, painting and sculpting....
  
  
• Bita Fayyazi
  Bita Fayyazi
  Bita Fayyazi is an Iranian artist born in 1962 in Tehran. She is a pioneer in the field of Iranian public art projects.Fayyazi has 15 years work experience in the fields of ceramics and sculpture. She lived in England for a period of 7 years and returned to Iran in 1980...
  
  
• Mokarrameh Ghanbari
  Mokarrameh Ghanbari
  Mokarrameh Ghanbari was a heuristic and self made Iranian painter who won several international talent prizes.Mokarrameh was born in the village of Darikandeh between Shahi and Babol, in Mazanderan, and despite her great talent, she never received any formal training in painting.She began painting...
  
  
• Maryam Hashemi
  Maryam Hashemi
  Maryam Hashemi is an Iranian painter, based in London, UK since 2002. She grew up in Tehran and graduated in Graphic Design from Azad University in 2001. Her first solo exhibition was at the Haft Samar Gallery in Tehran in 2001 which was followed by a group exhibition of "Ten Iranian Female...
  
  
• Khosrow Hassanzadeh
  Khosrow Hassanzadeh
  Khosrow Hassanzadeh is an Iranian painter. He is known for his "Terrorist" collection.Hassanzadeh lives and works in Tehran, where he works as an actor and visual artist. His work featured in many exhibitions in Europe and the Middle East. Hassanzadeh works primarily with painting, silkscreen and...
  
  
• Haydar Hatemi
  Haydar Hatemi
  Haydar Hatemi is an Iranian artist whose work is based on blends of classical oriental styles such as miniature and tazhib, with some modern elements. His early studies in art started at Tabriz's Art Academy after finishing high school in Tabriz, Iran. Haydar Hatemi is a graduate of the...
  
  
• Roshan Houshmand
• Mahmoud Javadipour
• Tannaz Lahiji
  Tannaz Lahiji
  Tannaz Lahiji is an Iranian-born artist, currently residing in Florence, Italy. In addition to working as an independent artist, she teaches at Florence's L.A.B.A...
  
  
• Kamal ol-Molk
• Zhaleh Kazemi
  Zhaleh Kazemi
  Zhaleh Kazemi was a famous Iranian television producer, news anchor and painter. She was also a voice actress for Persian-dubbed films in Iranian cinema.- Source :*...
  
  
• Iman Maleki
  Iman Maleki
  Imān Maleki is an Iranian Realist painter.Iman Maleki's fascination with painting began as a child. He started taking lessons in painting at the age of fifteen. His first and only teacher in painting was the celebrated Iranian painter Mortezā Kātouziān. His career as a professional painter began...
  
  
• Mani
  Mani (prophet)
  Mani , of Iranian origin was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct...
  
  
• Farhad Moshiri
  Farhad Moshiri
  Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian artist.He was born in Shiraz, Iran, and studied fine arts at CalArts in California. In America he first started experimenting with installations, video art and painting before coming back to Tehran in 1991...
  
  
• Noreen Motamed
  Noreen Motamed
  Noreen Motamed is a Persian painter.Daughter of Fereydoun Motamed, she was born in Abadan, Iran and attended primary and secondary school in Tehran and graduated in first place from University of Tehran with a B.A. degree in Arts...
  
  
• Freydoon Rassouli
  Freydoon Rassouli
  Rassouli is an Iranian-Born, American abstract surrealist painter. He was raised in a home decorated with murals and intricate floral designs. Inspired and encouraged by an uncle, he began painting and learning poetry from early age...
  
  
• Ali Akbar Sadeghi
  Ali Akbar Sadeghi
  Ali Akbar Sadeghi a graduate of the College of Art, University of Tehran, is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists....
  
  
• Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
  Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
  Abolhassan Sadighi was one of the most prominent Iranian sculptors and painters and was known as the Master Sadighi.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sohrab Sepehri
  Sohrab Sepehri
  Sohrab Sepehri was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province....
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
  Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
  Mohammad Ali Taraghijah was an Iranian painter. Even though he graduated from College of Science & Technology in mechanical engineering, his heart was set on art. He went on to become one of the most distinct figures of Iran's contemporary art scene.His beautiful works have been exhibited in...
  
  
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
  Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
  Mohsen Vaziri is an Iranian painter and a professor of art.-Education:In 1946 he received Diploma of Fine Arts Academy from the University of Tehran. In 1955 he moved to Italy for further studies...
  
  
• Towhidi Tabari
  Towhidi Tabari
  Towhidi Tabari is an Iranian calligrapher, painter and Persian style illuminator. He was born in Babol, Iran and currently lives in Paris, France....
  
  
• Manoucher Yektai
  Manoucher Yektai
  Manoucher Yektai belongs to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists.-Biography:He dropped out of Tehran University, Fine Arts Faculty, without obtaining degree...
  
  

Photographers

• Parham Taghioff
• Ahmad Aali
  Ahmad Aali
  Ahmad Aali is an Iranian photographer and artist. On September 24, 2010, a collection of Aali's pictures taken between 1961 and 2009 went on display at the Mah-e Mehr Gallery in Tehran.- Solo Exhibitions :* 1963 Talar e Farhang...
  
  
• Abbas
  Abbas (photographer)
  Abbas Attar is an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra, Vietnam and South Africa in the 1970s, and for his extensive essays on religions in later years...
  
  
• Ali Khan Vali
  Ali Khan Vali
  Ali Khan Vali the Governor' علی خان والی was a notable 19th-century Iranian photographer. He is best known for his photograph album documenting his career as governor at various places in Azerbaijan between 1879 and 1896....
  
  
• Morteza Avini
  Morteza Avini
  Sayyed Morteza Avini was an Iranian photographer of the Iran-Iraq war.Avini was born in 1947 in Rey, south of Tehran...
  
  
• Nader Davoodi
  Nader Davoodi
  Nader Davoodi is an award winning Iranian photojournalist. For the past two decades, he has been working to produce ethnographically detailed works that document a very important period in contemporary Iranian history...
  
  
• Reza Deghati
  Reza Deghati
  Reza Deghati, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza .-Biography:Reza has covered much of the globe for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline...
  
  
• Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi
  Shahram Entekhabi , born 1963, is an Iranian-born video and installation artist. He studied graphic design at the University of Tehran, Iran and architecture, urbanism at state University in Reggio Calabria, Italy.-Work:...
  
  
• Kaveh Golestan
  Kaveh Golestan
  Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi , was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. Golestan was educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England....
  
  
• Nasrollah Kasraian
  Nasrollah Kasraian
  -Biography:A graduate in law from Tehran University, Nasrollah Kasraian has been engaged in photography since 1966. The Kasraian family is an influential Iranian family...
  
  
• Naveed Nour
  Naveed Nour
  Naveed Nour was born in Germany to Iranian parents in 1963. He is a contemporary artist who uses photography as the basis of his work. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In the early 1980s Nour documented the Iran-Iraq war while focusing on the social effects of war on society. His...
  
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• Jahangir Razmi
  Jahangir Razmi
  Jahangir Razmi is an award-winning Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, Firing Squad in Iran, was taken on August 27, 1979 and published anonymously in the Iranian daily Ettela'at, the oldest still running...
  
  
• Sadegh Tirafkan
  Sadegh Tirafkan
  Sadegh Tirafkan is an Iranian contemporary artist who lives in Tehran, Iran.Tirafkan was six years of age his family fled the country before the start of the Islamic revolution. His family returned to Tehran where he grew up...
  
  
• Alfred Yaghobzadeh
  Alfred Yaghobzadeh
  Alfred Yaghobzadeh , is an Iranian Photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography.Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to a Christian Assyrian family. His photographs in Iran during the turmoil of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war led to his work for the Associated Press, Gamma,...
  
  
• Maryam Zandi
  Maryam Zandi
  Maryam Zandi is an Iranian photographer. She is involved in different areas of photography but she is mostly known for her The Portraits book collection....
  
  

Stage Actors and Actresses

• Shohreh Aghdashloo
  Shohreh Aghdashloo
  Shohreh Aghdashloo is an Iranian American actress.After establishing a theatre and film career in Iran, Aghdashloo moved to England during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and subsequently became a citizen of the United States...
  
  
• Dariush Arjmand
• Mehdi Bajestani
  Mehdi Bajestani
  Mehdi Bajestani , is an Iranian actor member of the Naqshineh Theatre group.- Acting credits :* The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1997, by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Hamid Samandarian, Tehran....
  
  
• Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian is an Iranian actress and stage director, as well as a TV moderator.-Works:Boloorian has starred in more than 10 movies, over 25 TV series and over 30 theatre performances in Iran, and has produced 3 short films and over 10 theatre performances.- Film :Zendegie Torsh Tabe Penhani...
  
  
• Maryam Davari
  Maryam Davari
  Maryam Davari , , is an Iranian actress, as well as a member of the Naqshineh Theatre group.She attended the ARTTS International training centre in the UK in 2004.-On stage:...
  
  
• Behzad Farahani
  Behzad Farahani
  Behzad Farahani is an Iranian actor and screenwriter. He is the father of actresses Shaghayegh Farahani and Golshifteh Farahani.-Biography:Farahani was born in Farahan, Iran...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Jozi
  Mohammad Reza Jozi
  Mohammad Reza Jozi محمدرضا جوزی is an Iranian theatre actor and director, as well as a member of the Naqshineh Theatre group.-Acting credits:...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Ali Nassirian
  Ali Nassirian
  Ali Nassirian is an Iranian film and theater actor, respected for both character and leading roles.-Acting career:He first appeared in a supporting role in Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow , which was also the first film of Ezatollah Entezami, another famous Iranian actor. Nasirian then shined in the...
  
  
• Ahmad Saatchian
  Ahmad Saatchian
  Ahmad Saatchian , born October 3, 1972, is an Iranian theatre, television, and film actor, as well as a member of the Naqshineh Theatre group.-Stage Credits:*The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1997, by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Hamid Samandarian, Tehran....
  
  
• Roya Teymourian
  Roya Teymourian
  -Selected filmography:* Zendan-e Zanan* Gharch-e Sammi* Beed-e Majnoon * Kafe Setereh-TV Series:* Shab-e Dahom * Madare sefr darajeh * Saate Sheni...
  
  

Theatre directors

• Akbar Alizad
  Akbar Alizad
  Ali Akbar Alizad is a theater director in Iran. He was most acclaimed for his performance of Waiting for Godot Alizad have been A member of Aein theater group and Leev theater group for 10 years, and in 2006 he began to found his theatrical group named 84theater...
  
  
• Bahram Bayzai
  Bahram Bayzai
  Bahrām Beyzāi is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher....
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian
  Shiva Boloorian is an Iranian actress and stage director, as well as a TV moderator.-Works:Boloorian has starred in more than 10 movies, over 25 TV series and over 30 theatre performances in Iran, and has produced 3 short films and over 10 theatre performances.- Film :Zendegie Torsh Tabe Penhani...
  
  
• Vahid Evazzadeh
  Vahid Evazzadeh
  Vahid Evazzadeh [ وحید عوض‌زاده ] is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and theatre director. He lives in Denmark since 2001. He is the artistic director of Goossun Art-illery, an independent arts organization based in Copenhagen and London....
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...