This is an alphabetic list of notable people from the Islamic Republic of Iran or its historical predecessors.

In the news

• Akbar Ganji
  Akbar Ganji
  Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran’s preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly...
  
  
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is an influential Iranian politician and writer, who was the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until his resignation in 2011...
  
  
• Ali Dizaei
  Ali Dizaei
  Jamshid Ali Dizaei is a Commander in London's Metropolitan Police Service. Iranian-born with dual nationality, and formerly one of Britain's most senior Muslim police officers, he came to prominence as a result of his outspoken views on racial discrimination in the London Metropolitan Police and...
  
  , Senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh is a media commentator on the Middle East and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government. He is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002...
  
  , FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst
• Anousheh Ansari
  Anousheh Ansari
  Anousheh Ansari is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. . The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006,...
  
  , first female space tourist, leading telecommunication
  Telecommunication
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   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...
  
  , and namesake
  Namesake
  Namesake is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that has the same, or a similar, name to another....
  
   of the Ansari X Prize
  Ansari X Prize
  The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks...
  
  
• Bahar Soomekh
  Bahar Soomekh
  Bahar Soomekh is an Iranian-American actress and environmental activist. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Crash , Mission: Impossible III , and Saw III .-Early life:...
  
  , Iranian-American actor
• Camila Batmanghelidjh
  Camila Batmanghelidjh
  Camila Batmanghelidjh is a British businesswoman, charity leader and author of Iranian and Belgian origin. She has been living in England since the age of 11 and founded two charities - the place2b and Kids Company where she and her team care for 14,000 vulnerable children and young people in London...
  
  , UK's Women of the Year 2006 Award winner, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  , Artist, Film Director, 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...
  
  
• Farzan Athari
  Farzan Athari
  Farzan Athari is an Iranian-Swedish fashion model, actor, TV host and TV personality. In just a few short years, Farzan has gone from notoriety from his hometown in Stockholm to global recognition. He is internationally known for his modeling. He has worked as a model in 23 different countries...
  
  , International Model
• Goli Ameri
  Goli Ameri
  Goli Ameri is an Iranian-American diplomat, politician and businesswoman from the U.S. state of Oregon. She is the current Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also the former U.S...
  
  , Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
• Jimmy Delshad
  Jimmy Delshad
  Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad is an Iranian-American politician in the state of California. He became Mayor of Beverly Hills on March 21, 2007 and again on March 16, 2010. He is the first Iranian-American to hold public office in Beverly Hills.-Biography:...
  
  , Mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
   of Beverly Hills
• 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...
  
  , Iranian American Film Director
• Kia Joorabchian
  Kia Joorabchian
  Kiavash "Kia" Joorabchian is an Iranian-born British-educated businessman largely involved in association football.In the register of directorships at Companies House in London Joorabchain gives two nationalities, Canadian and British, as well as two names, Kia Joorabchian and Kia Kavash, and two...
  
  , businessman
• Ladan and Laleh Bijani
  Ladan and Laleh Bijani
  Ladan Bijani and Laleh Bijani were Iranian law graduates. They were conjoined twin sisters, joined at the head, who died after their complicated surgical separation...
  
  
• Mohammad Khatami
  Mohammad Khatami
  Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  , former president of Iran
• Nasser David Khalili
  Nasser David Khalili
  Nasser David Khalili, KCSS, KCFO is a British-Iranian property developer, art collector and philanthropist based in London. He holds [United Kingdom] citizenship....
  
  , Billionaire, Art Collector
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Persian Human Rights Activist, , President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions, Singer, Songwriter, model, actress, pilot, former Miss World Canada and Miss World 1st runner-up...
  
  , Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; Miss Canada 2003
• Pierre Omidyar
  Pierre Omidyar
  Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-Iranian American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site...
  
  , founder of ebay
  EBay
  eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
  
  
• Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Rina Amiri is an Iranian Canadian woman of Assyrian and Persian heritage who won the Miss World Canada contest in 2005....
  
  , Miss Canada 2005
• Reza Pahlavi
  Reza Pahlavi
  Reza Pahlavi may refer to:*Reza Shah , aka Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Persia from 1925 until 1935 and Shah of Iran from 1935 until 1941* Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah...
  
  , Crown Prince of Iran
• 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...
  
  
• Ross Mirkarimi
  Ross Mirkarimi
  Ross Mirkarimi is a member of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, California, a marijuana legalization advocate, and co-founder of the Green Party of California. He was elected in 2004 to represent District 5...
  
  
• Sharmita vox
  Sharmita vox
  sharmita vox International Persian model in cear model brand designer, Photo modeling catwalker, Photo Fashion model, TV personality, actor internationally.-Modeling career:Litel Arad Persian...
  
  , International Model
• Sheikh Haron
  Sheikh Haron
  Sheikh Haron is an Australian Muslim cleric originally from Iran. Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi was an Iranian cleric espousing a liberal brand of Islam - dangerousely liberal, as his views have led to his wife and two daughters being held hostage in Iran. Later he changed his name to Man Haron Monis...
  
  
• Shermine Shahrivar
  Shermine Shahrivar
  Shermine Shahrivar is a German model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Europe 2005.-Biography:...
  
  , Miss Europe 2005
• Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's,...
  
  , Nobel prize in Peace
• 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...
  
  , Iranian American actress
• Zahra Kazemi
  Zahra Kazemi
  Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ‎ was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal, Canada, who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest....
  
  

Calligraphists

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Gholam Hossein Amirkhani

Gholam Hossein Amirkhani

Gholam Hossein Amirkhani is a Persian calligrapher, born in 1939 in Taleghan, Iran.-External links:*...

Cartoonists

• Javad Alizadeh
• 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...
  
  
• Maziyar Bizhani
  Maziyar Bizhani
  Maziar Bijani is a conservative cartoonist who publishes in Iranian newspapers such as Kayhan. He is known for his bitter criticism of reformers and pro-Western capitalists. Before becoming a cartoonist, he studied politics. Maziar Bijani's work has been featured in various websites promoting...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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

• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Amin Hayaee
• 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...
  
  
• Bahar Soomekh
  Bahar Soomekh
  Bahar Soomekh is an Iranian-American actress and environmental activist. She began acting in the early 2000s, and is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Crash , Mission: Impossible III , and Saw III .-Early life:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Bijan Daneshmand
  Bijan Daneshmand
  Bijan Daneshmand is a writer, director, actor based in England.He was educated in England at Eastbourne College, a graduate of King's College London, and trained for acting at the London Centre For Theatre Studies and Philippe Gaulier, Paris...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Catherine Bell
  Catherine Bell
  Catherine Lisa Bell is an American actress known for her role of Lieutenant Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the television show JAG from 1997 to 2005...
  
  
• Christiana Amanpour
• Daryoush Arjmand
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Davoud Rashidi
• Delkash
  Delkash
  Delkash born, Esmat Bagherpour Baboli , was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ezzatollah Entezami
• 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,...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
  Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
  -Selected filmography:* Reyhaneh * Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema * Mosaferan * Honarpisheh * Hamsar...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Khosrow Shakibaee
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• Mahaia Petrosian
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mehdi Fat'hi
  Mehdi Fat'hi
  Mehdi Fat'hi Mehdi Fat'hi began his stage career in the Anahita studio in 1959...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
• Mohammad Reza Foroutan
• 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:...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Persian Human Rights Activist, , President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions, Singer, Songwriter, model, actress, pilot, former Miss World Canada and Miss World 1st runner-up...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Parviz Fannizadeh
• Parviz Parastouee
• Parviz Sayyad
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Sarah Shahi
  Sarah Shahi
  Aahoo Jahansouz "Sarah" Shahi is an American actress and a former NFL Cheerleader. She is probably best known for starring in The L Word as Carmen de la Pica Morales and in Life as Detective Dani Reese...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sussan Taslimi
• Taraneh Alidousti
• Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
  Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
  Zahra Amir Ebrahimi is an Iranian professional photographer, television actress and short movies director.She studied teather in Tehran, and started her professional life with making short movies. She made her first movie when she was only eighteen. She became very popular shortly after her first...
  
  

Directors and filmmakers

• 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...
  
  , director of Taste of Cherry
  Taste of Cherry
  Taste of Cherry is a 1997 film by the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. It is a minimalist film about a man who drives through a city suburb looking for someone who can carry out the task to bury him after he has died.-Plot:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  , director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
  Alam Ara
  Alam Ara is a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani. It was the first Indian sound film.Irani recognized the importance that sound would have on the cinema, and raced to complete Alam Ara before several contemporary sound films. Alam Ara debuted at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai on March 14, 1931...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Bahman Farman-Ara
• 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:...
  
  , director of A Time for Drunken Horses
  A Time for Drunken Horses
  A Time for Drunken Horses is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Bahman Ghobadi and produced in Iran. It was a co-winner of the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 .- Plot :An Iranian Kurdish family is trying to survive after the death of its parents...
  
  
• Bahman Maghsoudlou
  Bahman Maghsoudlou
  Bahman Maghsoudlou is a film scholar and critic,- Career :Bahman Maghsoudlou claims that he is the recipient of Iran's Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater , including Iranian Cinema .Maghsoudlou wrote, directed and...
  
  
• Bahram Beizai
• Behrooz Gharibpoor
• Darius Khondji
  Darius Khondji
  Darius Khondji A.S.C. is an Iranian-French cinematographer. He has worked with such well-known directors as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Fincher, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alan Parker, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen, and Wong Kar-wai.-Biography:...
  
  
• Darius Mehrjui
  Darius Mehrjui
  Dariush Mehrju'i , also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor....
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  , director of 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...
  
  
• 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"....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Emud Mokhberi
  Emud Mokhberi
  Emud Mokhberi is an Iranian-American film director. In 2009, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Oktapodi"...
  
  , Academy Award nominated director/animator
• Esma'il Kooshan
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , director of The Circle
• 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:...
  
  
• Kami Asgar
  Kami Asgar
  Kami Asgar is an Iranian-American Supervising Sound Editor. Asgar is an industry professional and has over 60 credits as sound producer/editor in both film and television....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kiarash Anvari
  Kiarash Anvari
  Kiarash Anvari is an Iranian film maker, video artist and script writer.Anvari received his BA in film making from Sooreh Higher Education Institute in Tehran. In 1998 he got a role in Eugene O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape, which was the beginning of his experiences as an actor...
  
  
• Mahdi Bemani Naeini
  Mahdi Bemani Naeini
  Mahdi Bemani Naeini is an Iranian film director, cinematographer, TV news producer and photographer.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  , director of Children of Heaven
  Children of Heaven
  Children of Heaven is a 1997 Iranian adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , director of Kandahar
• 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...
  
  
• Nasser Taghvai
• 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....
  
  
• Parviz Nouri
  Parviz Nouri
  Parviz Nouri is an Iranian movie critic, screen writer, and director who has been involved in production of over 20 movies and television shows. He currently resides in the United States and lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife Soraya Shivai.-Early Life & Education:Parviz Noruri was...
  
  
• Parviz Shahbazi
  Parviz Shahbazi
  -Biography:Shahbazi is a graduate of filmmaking from Tehran's Iran Broadcasting College. During the early 80’s he began writing short stories and directing short films...
  
  
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• 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....
  
  
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour
  Rasoul Mollagholipour was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.-Career:...
  
  
• Sadaf Foroughi
  Sadaf Foroughi
  Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian film maker, video artist and film editor.Foroughi has a bachelor degree in French literature. After receiving her master degree in film studies from University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France, she continued her studies on PHD in film philosophy. She also...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , director of At Five in the Afternoon
  At Five in the Afternoon
  At Five in the Afternoon is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban...
  
  
• 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"....
  
  
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales

Film score composers

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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

• 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...
  
  
• Nima Behnoud
  Nima Behnoud
  Nima Behnoud is an Iranian fashion designer based in New York City. He is the first fashion designer who implemented Persian calligraphy in a form of clothing.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sanaz Shirazi
  Sanaz Shirazi
  Sanaz Shirazi is a Persian fashion designer and entrepreneur, born in Tehran, Iran. Sanaz is one of the designers and co founders of the brand The Sanaz Shirazi Collection, mostly known for its fur, cashmere and leather designs...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Graphic designers

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Comedians

• 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...
  
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• 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 ....
  
  
• Max Amini
  Max Amini
  Max Amini is an American comedian of Iranian descent. He graduated from UCLA Acting Program in 2004. He speaks fluent Persian and conversational Arabic.-Stand-up Comedy:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Nasim Pedrad
  Nasim Pedrad
  Nasim Pedrad is an Iranian-American comic actress currently appearing as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shahin Jamie
  Shahin Jamie
  -Biography:Shahin Jamie began acting at age 6. His first appearance on stage took place in 1985, when he played his first comedic role. He graduated from high school during the Iran and Iraq war and a year after joined a troupe who was entertaining Iranian military soldiers; as an actor and then...
  
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• Shaparak Khorsandi
  Shaparak Khorsandi
  Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi is an Iranian-born comedian based in the United Kingdom.- Background and personal life :...
  
  

Dancers

• Farzaneh Kaboli
  Farzaneh Kaboli
  Farzaneh Kaboli is an Iranian dancer, a leader in the Iranian Folkloric and National Dance Art. and a master of choreography in Iranian theaters....
  
  , folkloric
• Jamileh
  Jamileh
  -People with the first name Jamileh:*Jamileh, Iranian dancer*Jamileh Sheykhi , Iranian actress...
  
  , pop
• Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
  Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
  Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam is an Iranian modern dancer trained and based in Paris. A graduate in History of Art and Theatre from the University of Paris 8, he is choreographer, actor, and director...
  
  , folkloric

Iranian Classical/traditional

• 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...
  
  
• Alinaghi Vaziri
• 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:...
  
  
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Homayoun Shajarian
  Homayoun Shajarian
  Homayoun Shajarian is a renowned Persian classical music vocalist, as well as a Tombak and Kamancheh player.- Biography :...
  
  
• Hossein Khaje Amiri
• Hossein Tehrani
  Hossein Tehrani
  Hossein Tehrāni , was an Iranian musician and tonbak player. He is regarded as the father of the modern tonbak.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jalal Zolfonun
  Jalal Zolfonun
  Jalal Zolfonun is a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kamkarha
• 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:...
  
  
• Mahmoud Zoulfonoun
• Marzieh
• 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...
  
  
• 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:* ....
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Lotfi
• 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....
  
  
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• Mohsen Namjoo
  Mohsen Namjoo
  Mohsen Namjoo, , is an Iranian musician, singer-songwriter. born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, a small town in northeastern Iran. The New York Times called Namjoo "Iran's Bob Dylan".-Career:...
  
  
• Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh ‎ was a well-known Persian composer and horn player.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Parisa
  Parisa
  Fātemeh Vā'ezi , commonly known by her stage name Parīsā , is a Persian Classical vocalist and musician.----...
  
  
• Parviz Meshkatian
  Parviz Meshkatian
  Parviz Meshkatian was an Iranian musician, composer, researcher and university lecturer.- Biography :Born at Nishapur...
  
  
• Parviz Yahaghi
  Parviz Yahaghi
  Parviz Yahaghi was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He was born in Tehran in 1936 and died in Tehran in 2007....
  
  
• Ruhollah Khaleghi
  Ruhollah Khaleghi
  Rūhollāh Khāleqi , also spelled as Khaleghi, was a prominent Iranian musician, composer, conductor and author.-Education:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sima Bina
  Sima Bina
  Simā Binā is notable Persian classical musician and Iran's researcher, composer, singer and song-writer of Iranian folk music...
  
  
• Zyriab

Modern / traditional

• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• Farhad Fakhreddini
  Farhad Fakhreddini
  Farhad Fakhreddini is a renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran’s National Orchestra.Fakhreddini has composed music for some of Fereydoon Moshiri's poetry....
  
  
• Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh
  Morteza Hannaneh ‎ was a well-known Persian composer and horn player.- Musical career :...
  
  
• Ramin Rahimi
  Ramin Rahimi
  Ramin Rahimi is a percussionist and songwriter. His music mostly focused on drums and Iranian Percussions Daf and Tombak. he is also one of the members of Power metal act Angband.- Biography :...
  
  
• Zohreh Jooya
  Zohreh Jooya
  - Music career :Jooya's father was an Afghan and her mother an Iranian. Zohreh Jooya has been said to have moved to Europe for further advancement into music studies. After earning her classical music education from Amsterdam she then moved to Vienna in 1980, where she later earned a masters degree...
  
  

Western Classical

• 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:...
  
  
• Alireza Mashayekhi
  Alireza Mashayekhi
  Alireza Mashayekhi is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers who has pioneered Persian Symphonic Music.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Armik
  Armik
  Armik is an Iranian-Armenian flamenco guitarist and composer.Armik was born in Iran of Armenian descent. When he was just seven years old, he pawned his watch for a classical guitar, which he hid and practiced in his basement. At 12, he was a professional recording artist...
  
  
• Heshmat Sandjari
• 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 &...
  
  
• Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...
  
   (Loris Cheknavarian)
• 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...
  
  
• Mahan Esfahani
  Mahan Esfahani
  Mahan Esfahani is an Iranian-American keyboardist; he is the first harpsichordist named as a BBC New Generation Artist. As a concerto soloist, recitalist, and collaborative musician, he has gained an international reputation on a variety of early keyboards.- Biography :Born in 1984 in Tehran,...
  
  
• Mehdi Hosseini
  Mehdi Hosseini
  Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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"....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shahrdad Rohani
• Tania Eshaghoff
  Tania Eshaghoff
  Tania Eshaghoff is a contemporary pianist and musical performer. Her Jewish family fled the politically unstable country during the rise of the Islamic Revolution....
  
  

Electronic

• Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
• 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)
• 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,...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Nami
  Nami
  -Surname:* Ahmed al-Nami , Saudi hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93* Arsi Nami , Iranian singer* Kazutsugi Nami, Japanese businessman* Mohammad Nami, Saudi footballer-Fictional characters:...
  
  
• Omid Nourizadeh
• Steve Naghavi from 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...
  
  

Pop

(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Aref
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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 Mehrad
  Farhad Mehrad , widely known in Iran as Farhad was an award winning Persian legendary Rock singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and icon. He rose to prominence among Iranian Rock and Folk musicians before the Islamic Revolution, but after the revolution he was banned from singing for several...
  
  
• Fereidoun Foroughi
• 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...
  
  
• Hassan Sattar
• 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...
  
  
• Hayadeh
• Hodi
• Homeyra
  Homeyra
  Parvaneh Amir-Afshari also known as Homeyra is an Iranian singer. She is a veteran celebrity of Iran's Golden Years of music. Her voice has been measured to span three octaves.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jamshid (musician)
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mohammad Esfahani
  Mohammad Esfahani
  Mohammad Esfahani is an Iranian pop music singer.He graduated from The Medical University of Iran in 1997, while learning Iranian music from the famous Iranian singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and one of his best students,...
  
  
• Mohammad Nouri
  Mohammad Nouri
  Mohammad Nouri may refer to:* Mohammad Nouri , Iranian folk and pop singer* Mohammad Nouri , Iranian footballer...
  
  
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam
  Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a Persian Human Rights Activist, , President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions, Singer, Songwriter, model, actress, pilot, former Miss World Canada and Miss World 1st runner-up...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sandy
  Sandy
  Sandy may refer to:* Characteristic of sand* Sandy , including a list of people with the name* Sandy brown, a shade of brown- Places :* Sandy, Bedfordshire, England* Sandy, Carmarthenshire, Wales* Sandy, Oregon, United States...
  
  
• Senadee
  Senadee
  -Background:Verdi was born in Tehran, Iran two years after The Iranian Revolution on 13 December 1981. His family left the country sometime around the mid-1980s to pursue a life in the United Kingdom. After spending around 8 months in Paris, the family moved to the South-East London suburb of...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
• 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:...
  
  
• Shahrokh
  Shahrokh
  Shahrokh, Shahrukh, or Shah Rukh is the name of a mythological bird in Iranian literature. It is built of two parts: Shah meaning a king, and Rukh , who is the greatest bird on the earth as big as a cloud. In the One Thousand and One Nights stories, Rukh helps Sinbad escape from a dangerous island...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Shohreh Solati
  Shohreh Solati
  Shohreh Solati is a popular Iranian singer. She has had one of the most consistently active and prolific careers among contemporary, women Iranian singers...
  
  
• Siavash Ghomeyshi
  Siavash Ghomeyshi
  Siavash Ghomayshi is an Iranian musician, singer and song writer.Siavash studied music in London where he got his Master's degree. He left Iran after 1979 and now lives in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
  
• Siavash
  Siavash
  Siavash or Syavash is a Persian male given name.The following people have the given name Siavash:*Siyâvash, a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh*Siavash Alamouti, Iranian scientist*Siavash Akbarpour, Iranian footballer...
  
  
• Simin
  Simin
  Simin may refer to:* Simin * Simin, Iran* Karl Simin* Rhyu Si-min* Xu Simin...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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

• Aref Ghazvini
• Hossein Monzavi
  Hossein Monzavi
  Hossein Monzavi ‎ was an Iranian Azeri lyricist. His lyric poems are in both Azerbaijani and Persian. He was born in Zanjan. After education and living in Tehran for some years, he came back to his hometown. His father Mohammad Monzavi was also a poet that had written some poems in the same...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
  Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
  Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi is an Iranian lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Iranian traditional music.-Biography:Master Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was born in 1922 in Kermanshah, Iran...
  
  
• Shahiar Ghanbary

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"....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , from the band Orgy
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Reza Yazdani
  Reza Yazdani
  Reza Yazdani is an Iranian wrestler who competed in the 2011 World Wrestling Championships in the 96kg division and won the gold medal. He also won the gold medal in 2006 Asian Games in the 84kg division and the gold medal in 2010 Asian Games in the 96 kg division.-References:**...
  
  

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• Bahram Soroush
  Bahram Soroush
  Bahram Soroush is a UK-based civil rights activist and a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran Central Committee. He has said that is "very difficult to try to separate Islam from Islamic terrorist organisations"...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Farhad Sadeghi Amini
  Farhad Sadeghi Amini
  Farhad Sadeghi Amini , born in Isfahan, Iran, 1963 is an Iranian painter.-Awards and recognitions:* 2008, Mayor of Wellington New Zealand* 2005, Letter of Appreciation, from Culture Heritage, Handicrafts Industry &Tourism Org...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hossein Valamanesh
  Hossein Valamanesh
  Hossein Valamanesh is one of Australia's contemporary artists. Valamanesh emigrated to Australia in 1973, and lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
  
  
• Hossein Zenderoudi
  Hossein Zenderoudi
  Charles Hossein Zenderoudi is a renowned Iranian painter and sculptor, known especially as a pioneer of Iranian modern art. His work Tchaar Bagh was sold at Christi's International auction in Dubai for $1.6 million.- Museums :...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Jazeh Tabatabai
  Jazeh Tabatabai
  Jazeh Tabatabai, was an Iranian avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor.Tabatabai received over 10 major international awards for his paintings and sculptures. His works can be found in major collections and in many museums around the globe including the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
  
  
• Kamal ol-Molk
• Kamaleddin Behzad
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
   (Maryam Sandjari)
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Parviz Tanavoli
  Parviz Tanavoli
  Parviz Tanavoli is an Iranian sculptor now residing in Canada. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1937.-Academic career:Upon graduating from the Brera Academy of Milan in 1959, Tanavoli taught sculpture for three years at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shirazeh Houshiary
  Shirazeh Houshiary
  Shirazeh Houshiary is an Iranian installation artist and sculptor. She is a former Turner Prize nominee, and lives and works in London.-Life and work:Shirazeh Houshiary left her native country of Iran in 1973...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sohrab Sepehri
  Sohrab Sepehri
  Sohrab Sepehri was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province....
  
  
• 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 :*...
  
  

Photographers

• Aalaeddin Melmasi
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Ali Ghanbari
  Ali Ghanbari
  Ali Ghanbari is an Iranian-American photojournalist at WJW-TV, Fox O&O in Cleveland, Ohio, USA since 1994.From 1982 to 1994 he was at WKEF-TV, NBC in Dayton, Ohio. He has been recognized with over 400 awards from professional journalism organizations...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Pulitzer prize winner
• Kaveh Golestan
  Kaveh Golestan
  Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi , was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. Golestan was educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Stage actors and actresses

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hayley Tamaddon
  Hayley Tamaddon
  Hayley Tamaddon , is an English actress of Iranian descent, who is most notable for portraying Delilah Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale and winning ITV's Dancing on Ice on 28 March 2010.-Background:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Ramin Karimloo
  Ramin Karimloo
  Ramin Karimloo is an Iranian-born Canadian musical theatre actor, recognized chiefly for his work in London's West End. He has played the leading male roles in both of the West End’s longest running musicals; the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, as of 29th...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shamsi Fazlollahi
  Shamsi Fazlollahi
  Shamsi Fazlollahi is an Iranian actress. She received a lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Tehran Women's Theater Festival.-Filmography:- Taghato Crossroads ......
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Theatre directors

• Akbar Radi
  Akbar Radi
  Abar Radi who was born in the city of Rasht in 1939 completed his studies at the University of Tehran in social sciences. He published his first story Rain in 1959....
  
  
• Bahram Bayzai
  Bahram Bayzai
  Bahrām Beyzāi is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher....
  
  
• Behrouz Gharibpour
  Behrouz Gharibpour
  Behrouz Gharibpour is a renowned Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre.He studied theatre at Tehran University and at Dramatic Arts Academy in Rome . He founded Tehran and Esfahan puppet theatre centres and changed the Tehran’s slaughterhouse into the greatest...
  
  
• Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
  Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
  Ghotbeddin Sadeghi is an Kurdish-Iranian theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor.-Education:He got his B.A from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 1975. Later, he did his Masters in Dramatic Arts at Sorbonne University and completed it in 1979...
  
  
• Hengameh Mofid
  Hengameh Mofid
  Hengameh Mofid is an Iranian Film/Theater actress, director, Dramatist and University tutor . She was born in Tehran, Iran.Born in January 1956 Tehran, Iran, Mrs...
  
  
• Mohammad Yaghoubi
• Mostafa Oskooyi
  Mostafa Oskooyi
  Mostafa Oskooyi was the first professional actor `director `arts critic and veteran activist of Iranian theatre who qualified as an actor in Tehran. At the Moscow state Institute of Performing Arts `M...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Bloggers

• Hossein Derakhshan
  Hossein Derakhshan
  Hossein Derakhshan , also known as Hoder, is an Iranian blogger. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran and is called the father of Persian blogging by many journalists. He also helped to promote podcasting in Iran...
  
  
• Massoumeh Ebtekar
• Mehdi Jami
  Mehdi Jami
  Mehdi Jami, February 1961, is a notable Persian journalist, photographer, filmmaker and writer.Jami holds a master's degree in Persian language and literature from Ferdowsi University...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi is an Iranian theologian, scholar, pro-democracy activist and chairman of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue. He is a former Vice President of Iran and a close associate of former President Mohammad Khatami...
  
  
• Mojtaba Saminejad
  Mojtaba Saminejad
  Mojtaba Saminejad is an Iranian blogger and writer. He studied journalism at the Central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University.He is the president of Shahr-e Khorshid publications and editor of Ferdowsi magazine.-Activities:...
  
  
• Omid Memarian
  Omid Memarian
  Omid Memarian is an Iranian journalist and blogger. He was awarded the Golden pen at the National Press Festival in Iran at 2001...
  
  
• Sina Motalebi
  Sina Motalebi
  Sina Motalebi is an Iranian journalist, based in London. He is currently the Editor of , a website based on the content of journalists and citizen's contributions following their distance journalism training course provided by the BBC World Service Trust.He started his career in 1991 as a film...
  
  

Journalists

• Abolmohsen Salemi
  Abolmohsen Salemi
  Abolmohsen Salemi was a famous journalist, lawyer, poet and writer in Hamedan and Tehran. His newspaper, Mobarez Hamedan was published for many years in Hamedan and Tehran....
  
  
• Ahmad Shamlou
• Akbar Ganji
  Akbar Ganji
  Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran’s preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly...
  
  
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi is an Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer. During his forty five-year career as a journalist, Abdolrashidi conducted hundreds of television interviews with notable international figures, such as Fidel Castro, Rajiv Gandhi,...
  
  
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
  Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
  Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh is a media commentator on the Middle East and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government. He is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002...
  
  
• Alireza Nourizadeh
  Alireza Nourizadeh
  Alireza Nourizadeh is an Iranian scholar, literary figure, journalist and an expert on Iranian contemporary history.Nourizadeh is a political refugee from Iran. After fleeing to Great Britain, he obtained his PhD from the University of London in International Relations. Nourizadeh has been active...
  
  
• Arash Markazi
  Arash Markazi
  Arash Markazi is an Iranian-American sports journalist currently writing for ESPN.Markazi, who is of Iranian decent, was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Los Angeles, graduating from Notre Dame High School. He attended Arizona State University and later University of Southern California...
  
  
• Azadeh Ensha
  Azadeh Ensha
  -Personal:She is fluent in Persian and French. Azadeh graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and received a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.-Notes:...
  
   The New York Times
• Azadeh Moaveni
  Azadeh Moaveni
  - Education :Moaveni grew up in San Jose, California, and studied politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She won a Fulbright Fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.- Career :...
  
  
• Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour, CBE is anchor of ABC News's This Week and formerly chief international correspondent at CNN, where she worked for 27 years. She is a Board Member at the IWMF .-Early years:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Emadeddin Baghi
  Emadeddin Baghi
  Emadeddin Baghi is a prominent Iranian human rights activist, prisoners' rights advocate, investigative journalist, philosopher and writer. He is the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and the Society of Right to Life Guardians in Iran, and the author of twenty...
  
  
• Fardad Farahzad
  Fardad Farahzad
  -Career:He is a presenter and reporter in BBC Persian Television. Farahzad has interviewed many Iranian and International figures, including Ehsan Yarshater and Jimy Wales....
  
  , BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
  
• Farrokhi Yazdi, pahlavi era.
• Hashem Aghajari
  Hashem Aghajari
  Hashem Aghajari also Seyyed Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics...
  
  
• Hossein Shariatmadari
  Hossein Shariatmadari
  Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, a conservative Iranian newspaper.Before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shariatmadari was allegedly tortured by Iranian Shah's Police or SAVAK .Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, a conservative Iranian newspaper.Before the...
  
  
• Kaveh Golestan
  Kaveh Golestan
  Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi , was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. Golestan was educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England....
  
  , BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
  
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
  Kioumars Saberi Foumani
  Kioumars Saberi Foumani also known with his pen nameGol-Agha , was an Iranian satirist, writer, and teacher.-Education and Personal Life:Saberi was born during the Second World War in Souma'eh Sara...
  
  
• Masih Alinejad
  Masih Alinejad
  Masoumeh Alinejad aka Masih is an Iranian journalist and writer.Alinejad is well known for her criticism of Iranian authorities. She was a parliamentary reporter for ILNA and a journalist at Hambastegi Daily and Etemad Melli Daily. Several of her articles were followed by harsh criticism from...
  
  
• Masoud Dehnamaki
  Masoud Dehnamaki
  Masoud Dehnamaki is a conservative Iranian activist and one of the founders of Ansar-e Hezbollah. Dehnamaki was also involved in journalist and film making. For decades he has been considered as one of the most extremist members of the ultra-conservative circles.-Early life:Massoud Dehnamaki took...
  
  
• Massoud Behnoud
  Massoud Behnoud
  Massoud Behnoud, a prominent Iranian journalist, historian and writer, was born on July 27, 1947 in Tehran. He started his work as a journalist in 1964. During his long career he worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers...
  
  
• Mehran Ghassemi
  Mehran Ghassemi
  Mehran Ghassemi, , was an Iranian journalist. He was an expert on Iranian Nuclear Dossier and Foreign Policy and has published hundreds of articles in Iranian newspapers.- Early years :...
  
  
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
  Mirzadeh Eshghi
  Mirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
  
  
• Mohammad Ghouchani
  Mohammad Ghouchani
  Mohammad Ghouchani is an Iranian journalist. He graduated from University of Tehran with major in Political Science and started his career in Jam'eh Daily newspaper, the most famous among the newspapers that started after the refomer Mohammad Khatami became the president in 1997.He was the editor...
  
  
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
  Mohammad Taghi Bahar
  Mohammad-Taqí Bahār , widely known as Malek o-Sho'arā and Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār , is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Omid Memarian
  Omid Memarian
  Omid Memarian is an Iranian journalist and blogger. He was awarded the Golden pen at the National Press Festival in Iran at 2001...
  
  
• Rudi Bakhtiar
  Rudi Bakhtiar
  Rudi Bakhtiar is an Iranian American journalist who has over a decade's experience working for major international news outlets CNN and Fox News Channel. Bakhtiar is currently the Director of Communications for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran...
  
  
• Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian is an Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist and university lecturer. He has been an intelligence official, a member of Tehran's city council, and advisor to president Mohammad Khatami...
  
  
• Shadi Sadr
  Shadi Sadr
  Shadi Sadr is an Iranian lawyer, journalist, and a notable Iranian woman's rights activist. She is married, and has a daughter...
  
  
• Sina Motallebi
• Youness Shokrkhah

Television personalities

• Adel Ferdosipour
  Adel Ferdosipour
  Adel Ferdosipour , is an Iranian journalist, translator, football commentator and television show host and producer. He is the host and producer of the famous and popular TV show: Navad Adel Ferdosipour (Persian:عادل فروسی پور ; born 1974, Tehran, Iran), is an Iranian journalist, translator,...
  
  , football announcer, Navad
  Navad
  Navad is an Iranian, , popular weekly television program broadcast by Channel 3 in Iran. The host of the program is Adel Ferdosipour...
  
   program
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi is an Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer. During his forty five-year career as a journalist, Abdolrashidi conducted hundreds of television interviews with notable international figures, such as Fidel Castro, Rajiv Gandhi,...
  
  , Correspondent, Commentator, Anchorman.
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh is a media commentator on the Middle East and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government. He is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002...
  
  , Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News
• Asieh Namdar
  Asieh Namdar
  Asieh Namdar is an Iranian-American journalist and television presenter.She was born to parents of Iranian origin, in Karachi in 1967. Namdar grew up in Tehran, Iran. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, her family moved to the United States...
  
  , news anchor at CNN
• Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour, CBE is anchor of ABC News's This Week and formerly chief international correspondent at CNN, where she worked for 27 years. She is a Board Member at the IWMF .-Early years:...
  
  , television journalist, CNN
• Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazirah (English section)
• Reza Fazeli
  Reza Fazeli
  Reza Fazeli , Iranian actor, film director and leading opposition figure.After a period of one year in the Imperial Iranian Air Force he left the country in 1953. In the following years he was in the area of the Persian Gulf as well as in Lebanon and Egypt and finally passed eight years in France,...
  
  
• Rudi Bakhtiar
  Rudi Bakhtiar
  Rudi Bakhtiar is an Iranian American journalist who has over a decade's experience working for major international news outlets CNN and Fox News Channel. Bakhtiar is currently the Director of Communications for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran...
  
  , news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News

Leaders and politicians

The list here excludes the royalty. An extensive list of Persian royalty appears further down in this page.

See also Ministerial Head of Government in Iran Heads of Government of Iran (1699-1907) and List of Prime Ministers of Iran.

Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)

• Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma
  Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma
  Prince Abdol-Hossein Mirza was one of the most prominent Qajar princes, and one of the most influential politicians of his time in Persia. He was born to Prince Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza 1859, and died in November 1939 at the age of 80. He was the 16th grandson of the Qajar crown prince Abbas...
  
  , prime minister, multiple other roles.
• Abu Muslim
  Abu Muslim
  - External links :* *...
  
  , Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
• Amir-Kabir, Grand Vizier.
• Babak Khorram Din, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs
• Bagher Khan
  Bagher Khan
  Bāqer Khān , honorarily titled Sālār-e Melli , was one of the key figures in the Persian Constitutional Revolution.-Notes:...
  
  , constitutionalist leader
• Bozorgmehr
  Bozorgmehr
  Bozorgmehr-e Bokhtagan is the name of a vizier of Khusro I Anōšīravān attested in the literature and legend of Iran. According to Persian and Arabic sources, he was a man of "exceptional wisdom and sage counsels" and later became a characterisation of the expression...
  
   Sage and Grand Vizier
  Vizier
  A vizier or in Arabic script ; ; sometimes spelled vazir, vizir, vasir, wazir, vesir, or vezir) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in a Muslim government....
  
   of Sasanids.
• Colonel Pesian
  Colonel Pesian
  Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian , born into an aristocratic family in Tabriz, was a popular military leader of Iran and became a national hero after his assassination...
  
  
• Dr Talequani Heshmat, jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan.
• Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitunalists, hanged.
• Ghaem Magham Farahani
  Ghaem Magham Farahani
  Mirza Abolghasem Ghaem Magham Farahani or Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Farahani Qá'im Maqam was an Iranian Prime Minister in the early 19th century....
  
  , prime minister
• Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader.
• Hosein Dadgar
  Hosein Dadgar
  Hosein Adl-ol-Malek Dādgar was a politician of Persia.He entered politics in the cabinet of Atābak in 1910, and eventually became Parliament speaker for 4 periods....
  
  , parliament speaker.
• Kaveh the Blacksmith
  Kaveh
  Kāveh the Blacksmith, also known as The Blacksmith of Isfahan or Kaveh of Isfahan is a mythical figure in Persian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahhāk. His story is narrated in the Epic of Shāhnāma, the national epic of Iran by the 10th century Persian...
  
  , Legendary Leader and Liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king.
• Mahmud Khan Puladeen
  Mahmud Khan Puladeen
  Major General Mahmud Khan Pulādeen was a senior military leader of the Reza Shah Pahlavi era.In 1921, he served as personal guard to Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee...
  
  , senior military general.
• Maziar
  Maziar
  Maziar was an Iranian aristocrat of the House of Karen and feudal ruler of the mountainous region of Tabaristan...
  
   son of Karan,Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
• Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan.
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
  Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
  Mirza Mehdi Khan Esterabadi "Etemad-ed-Dowleh" "Monshi-ol-Mamalek" was the chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist, friend and confidant of King Nadir Shah Afshar, it was him who wrote and accepted the different decisions and files related to the Empire.-Biography:Mirza Mehdi...
  
  , Nader Shah's Chief Minister.
• Mirza Reza Kermani
  Mirza Reza Kermani
  Mirza Reza Kermani , born in Kerman, Iran and died on August 10, 1896 in Tehran, was an adherent of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and an Iranian revolutionary....
  
  , assassinated Nasereddin Shah.
• Mohammad Khiabani
  Mohammad Khiabani
  Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni , also known as Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni Tabrizi , was an Iranian cleric, political leader, and representative to the parliament....
  
  , popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution.
• Mostowfi ol-Mamalek
  Mostowfi ol-Mamalek
  Mirza Hasan Ashtiani Mostowfi al-Mamalek was an Iranian Politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran on six separate occasions.-Early Life:...
  
  , Prime Minister.
• Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza
  Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza
  Firouz Mirza Nosrat ed-Dowleh Persian prince of Qajar Dynasty, was the 16th son of crown prince Abbas Mirza and fll-brother of Khanlar Mirza.- Offspring :...
  
  , provincial governor.
• Safi-ad-din Ardabili, Spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty.
• Sattar Khan
  Sattar Khan
  Sattar Khan Sattar Khan Sattar Khan (Persian/Azeri: ستارخان, ; (October 20, 1866—November 17, 1914), honorarily titled Sardār-e Melli was a pivotal figure in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and is one of the greatest heroes of Iran.Sattar Khan,...
  
  , constitutionalist leader.

Pahlavi period

• Ali Akbar Davar
  Ali Akbar Davar
  Ali-Akbar Dāvar was the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran.Born in 1888, he began his career in the judiciary in Iran, after having completed his studies at the élite school of Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. He then went on to obtain his law degree in Switzerland...
  
  , Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
• Amanullah Jahanbani
  Amanullah Jahanbani
  Sepahbod Amanullah Jahanbani was a senior general of Reza Shah Pahlavi.At the age of 10, Jahānbāni was sent to St. Petersburg for schooling, and returned to Iran as a ranked military officer in World War I. During a second trip, after completing his studies in Europe, he continued climbing in...
  
  , senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour
  Christiane Amanpour, CBE is anchor of ABC News's This Week and formerly chief international correspondent at CNN, where she worked for 27 years. She is a Board Member at the IWMF .-Early years:...
  
  's father.
• Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
  Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
  Abdollah Khan Amir Tahmasebi was a senior military commander, instrumental in the fall of the Qajar dynasty and rise to power of Reza Shah Pahlavi....
  
  , military leader
• Ardeshir Zahedi
  Ardeshir Zahedi
  Ardeshir Zahedi was an important Iranian diplomat during the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the country's foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bahram Aryana
  Bahram Aryana
  Artesh-Boad Bahram Aryana was a top Iranian military commander in the during the reign of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.He was educated at École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, and was instrumental in many of the nationalist policies in the 1950-1960s...
  
  , military commander
• Colonel Pesian
  Colonel Pesian
  Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian , born into an aristocratic family in Tabriz, was a popular military leader of Iran and became a national hero after his assassination...
  
  , military leader
• Dr Ahmad Ahmadi, notorious prison interrogator
• Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
• George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian international attorney, politician and champion athlete. Rosie Malek-Yonan, his daughter, is an actress, author, and human-rights activist.-Biography:...
  
  , procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
• Hasan Arfa
  Hasan Arfa
  Hasan Arfa was an Iranian general and ambassador of the Pahlavi dynasty.-Early life:Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, of an Anglo-Russian mother and Iranian father, Hasan Arfa was a career military officer in the Iranian army and who achieved the rank of general...
  
  , Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
• Hassan Modarres
  Hassan Modarres
  Seyyed Hassan Modarres , was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was among the founding members, along with Abdolhossein Teymourtash, of the reformist party Hezb-e Eslaah-talab of the time, which was formed during the fourth...
  
  , member of parliament
• Hassan Pakravan
  Hassan Pakravan
  Hassan Pakravan was a well known diplomat and minister in the Pahlavi pre-revolutionary government of Iran...
  
  , head of SAVAK
• Heidar Arfaa
  Heidar Arfaa
  Parliamentarian and Cabinet-Member of The Pahlavi Dynasty.Heidar-Ali Arfaa was Conseiller d'État to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran...
  
  , Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis
  Majlis
  ' , is an Arabic term meaning "a place of sitting", used in the context of "council", to describe various types of special gatherings among common interest groups be it administrative, social or religious in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to Islamic countries...
  
   Fars Province
• Hossein Fardoust
  Hossein Fardoust
  General Hossein Fardoust was a childhood friend of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and served for ten years as deputy head of SAVAK, the powerful Iranian intelligence agency....
  
  , deputy head of SAVAK
• Hossein Fatemi
  Hossein Fatemi
  Hossein Fatemi was a scholar, journalist, and famous politician of Iran. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953...
  
  , Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Hushang Ansary
  Hushang Ansary
  Hushang Ansary is an Iranian-American diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. He served for eighteen years in the Iranian government prior to the Iranian Revolution and has also been chairman or director of companies both in Iran and in the United States.-Political career:Born in Ahvaz, in...
  
  , Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
• Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
  .http://www.foreignaffairs.org/author/jahangir-amuzegar/index.html
• Karim Buzarjomehri
  Karim Buzarjomehri
  General Karim Agha Khan Buzarjomehri was a leading Iranian military general and supporter of Reza Pahlavi.Buzarjomehri started military training at 13 years of age, and became Reza Khan's most trusted figures....
  
  , Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
• Mahmoud Khayami
  Mahmoud Khayami
  Mahmoud Khayami, CBE, KSS, GCFO is an Iranian industrialist and philanthropist, of French nationality.-Life:Khayami had an active role in the company Iran National or IKCO) , automobile manufacturing and the introduction of the Paykan car to Iran in a...
  
  , leading industrialist.
• Mahmud Mahmud
  Mahmud Mahmud
  Mahmud Mahmud was an Iranian politician and historian. He served as Governor of Tehran, Member of Parliament, and Minister of Post and Telegraph....
  
  , politician
• Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian
  Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian
  Prince Manucher Mirza was born in Tehran in 1917. He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran...
  
  , Director of Sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
• Mohammad Hosein Airom
  Mohammad Hosein Airom
  Sar-lashgar Muhammad Husayn Ayrom was a senior military leader of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He was the nephew of General Teymūr Khan Ayromlou and a first cousin of Queen Tadj ol-Molouk Ayromlou...
  
  , senior military leader
• Nader Jahanbani
  Nader Jahanbani
  Sepahbod Nader Jahanbani was a senior general in Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. He was born into a family with a long military history. His father, Amanullah Jahanbani was also a general, and his mother was from Russian aristocracy...
  
  , air force general, pilot
• Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
• Nematollah Nassiri
  Nematollah Nassiri
  General Nematollah Nassiri , was the director of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency during the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah. A personal friend of the Shah, he had gained notoriety for removing democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh from power...
  
  , head of SAVAK
• Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian
  Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian
  Prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian Qajar Iranian prince of Qajar Dynasty, was the second son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of Persia and of Princess Ezzat ed-Dowleh, the daughter of Mozaffar-al-Din Shah...
  
  , Minister of Parliament
• Sattareh Farman Farmaian
  Sattareh Farman Farmaian
  Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān is one of the daughters of Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of the Qajar dynasty.Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, daughter of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , prince of the Qajar dynasty, and Massumeh , was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1921, the fifteenth of...
  
  , Established first social worker schools in Iran.
• Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
• Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
  Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
  Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee was an Iranian politician and the Prime Minister of Iran from February to May 1921 under Ahmad Shah, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty....
  
  
• Shapour Bakhtiar
  Shapour Bakhtiar
  Shapour Bakhtiar was an Iranian political scientist, writer and the last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi...
  
  , prime minister
• Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
• Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
• Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian Statesman

Served in Islamic Republic government

• Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
• Abdollah Noori
  Abdollah Noori
  Abdollah Noori is an Iranian reformist politician and cleric. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution when he was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious...
  
  , minister of interior
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
  Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
  Dr. Abdollah Ramezanzadeh , also spelled Ramazanzadeh, is an Iranian academic, writer and politician.He is the former spokesman and secretary of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the presidency of Muhammad Khatami.Ramezanzadeh is an assistant professor in faculty of Law and...
  
  , government spokesman
• Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
• Abolhassan Banisadr
  Abolhassan Banisadr
  Abulhassan Banisadr is an Iranian politician, economist and human rights activist who served as the first President of Iran from 4 February 1980 after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy until his impeachment on 21 June 1981 by the Parliament of Iran...
  
  , president
• Ahmad Jannati
  Ahmad Jannati
  Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Massah is a hardline Iranian politician, fundamentalist Shi'i cleric and a founding member of Haghani school with close ties with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mesbah-Yazdi...
  
  , chair of Council of Guardians
• Ahmad Khatami
  Ahmad Khatami
  Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami is a senior Iranian Ayatollah, as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts. In December of 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader.He was born in the town of Nīr, Northern Iran...
  
  
• Ahmad Khomeini
  Ahmad Khomeini
  Ahmad Khomeini , was the younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. His wife is Fatemeh Soltani Tabatabai, daughter of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Soltani Tabatabai Borujerdi and niece of Imam Musa Sadr, the Shī‘ah religious leader of Libanon.Ahmad Khomeini was close to his father, the leader...
  
  
• Ahmad Motamedi
  Ahmad Motamedi
  Seyyed Ahmad Motamedi is an Iranian politician. He was the Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology until August 24, 2005, and was replaced by Mohammad Soleimani....
  
  , minister of communications
• Ahmad Tavakkoli
  Ahmad Tavakkoli
  Ahmad Tavakkoli is a conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament, and the Director of Majlis Research Center.Before, he had been the Iranian Minister of Labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the...
  
  , minister of labour
• Akbar Torkan
  Akbar Torkan
  Akbar Torkan was the first head of the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from 1989. Formerly head of the defense industries establishment, he was a neutral civilian figure with no close ties to either the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or the regular...
  
  , 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
  Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
  Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri , sometimes spelled Nategh-Nouri is an Iranian politician who was the Chairman of the Parliament from 1992 to 2000. Before that, he was the interior minister of the Islamic Republic...
  
  , speaker of parliament
• Ali Akbar Salehi
  Ali Akbar Salehi
  Ali Akbar Salehi is an Iranian politician, diplomat and academic and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 13 December 2010. Previous to his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from 16 July 2009 to 13 December 2010...
  
  
• Ali Fallahian
  Ali Fallahian
  Hojatoleslam Ali Fallahian, is an Iranian politician and cleric. He has served as a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the IRI and as the Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran in cabinet of President Hashemi Rafsanjani...
  
  , minister of intelligence
• Ali Khamenei
  Ali Khamenei
  Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i is the Supreme Leader of Iran and the figurative head of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran and Twelver Shi'a marja...
  
  , supreme leader
• Ali Larijani
  Ali Larijani
  Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman of the Iranian parliament. Larijani was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October 20, 2007, appointed to the position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,replacing Hassan Rowhani...
  
  , president of IRIB
• Ali Meshkini
  Ali Meshkini
  Ayatollah Ali Akbar Feyz Meshkini was an Iranian hardline cleric and politician.-Life:Meshkini was an Iranian Azerbaijani born in a village near Meshkinshahr and the Sabalan mountain. He was born as Āli, but preferred the pronounciaton, Ali during his career. He succeeded Ayatollah Montazeri as...
  
  , chair of Assembly of Experts
• Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
• Ali Shamkhani
  Ali Shamkhani
  Ali Shamkhani is an Iranian admiral and politician. He was the Minister of Defense from August 19, 1997 until August 24, 2005 and was replaced by Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar.He is born in 1955 in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, he earned a B.S...
  
  , minister of defence
• Ali Younessi, minister of information
• Alireza Noori
  Alireza Noori
  Alireza Noori was a member of the 6th Iranian parliament and a supporter of President Mohammad Khatami's reform programs. He was the brother of Abdollah Noori. Dr. Alireza Noori was educated in medicine and was a practicing physician before entering politics.Noori was killed in a car accident in...
  
  , member of parliament
• Asadollah Lajevardi
  Asadollah Lajevardi
  Asadollah Lajevardi, was the warden of the Evin Prison in Tehran Iran from June 1981 until 1985 when he was replaced due to complaints of other clergy. He was assassinated by supporters of the People's Mujahedin of Iran on August 22, 1998.-Career:Asadollah Lajevardi was born in Tehran on 1935...
  
  
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani
  Ata'ollah Mohajerani
  Ata'ollah Mohajerani , , is an Iranian historian, politician, journalist, and author. Ata`ollah Mohajerani served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under reformist President Mohammad Khatami until 2000 when he was resigned from office for alleged permissiveness."-Overview:Dr...
  
  , 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
  Ayatollah
  Ayatollah is a high ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah clerics. Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, and philosophy and usually teach in Islamic seminaries. The next lower clerical rank is Hojatoleslam wal-muslemin...
  
   Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
  Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
  Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is a hardline Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric and politician who is widely seen as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor. He is also a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he heads...
  
  
• Behzad Nabavi
  Behzad Nabavi
  Behzad Nabavi is an Iranian politician. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Iran and was one of the founders of the reformist party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization...
  
  , vice speaker of parliament
• Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
• Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
  Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
  Ebrahim Asgharzadeh is an Iranian political activist and politician. He served as a member of the 3rd Majlis from 1989–1993 and as a member of the first City Council of Tehran from 1999–2003...
  
  
• Ebrahim Yazdi
  Ebrahim Yazdi
  Ebrahim Yazdi is an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest to the Iran hostage crisis...
  
  , foreign minister of interim government
• Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
• Emad Afrough, member of parliament
• Ezzatollah Zarghami
  Ezzatollah Zarghami
  Ezzatollah Zarghami has been the head of IRIB, the media corporation in charge of controlling Iranian national radio and television broadcasting, since 2004. His predecessor was Ali Larijani....
  
  , president of IRIB
• Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
• Fatemeh Haghighatjou
  Fatemeh Haghighatjou
  Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, also spelled Haghighatjou and Haqiqatju is a reformist and a former member of the Iranian Parliament....
  
  , member of parliament
• Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel
  Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel
  Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel born in 1945 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian philosopher, politician and former chairman of the Iranian parliament...
  
  , speaker of parliament
• Gholam Hossein Elham
• Gholamhossein Karbaschi
  Gholamhossein Karbaschi
  Gholamhossein Karbaschi is an Iranian politician who was the Mayor of Tehran from 1989 until 1998. He is considered politically reformist and is a close ally of former president Mohammad Khatami...
  
  , mayor of Tehran
  Tehran
  Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
  
  
• Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
  Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
  Ayatollah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi is an Iranian politician and cleric, previously the Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  , minister of intelligence
• Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
  Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
  Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri Najafabadi was a prominent Iranian scholar, Islamic theologian, Shiite Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution in 1979...
  
  
• Hadi Khamenei
  Hadi Khamenei
  Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei is an influential Iranian reformist politician, mojtahed and linguist. He is a key member of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics, and a former deputy of the Majlis of Iran representing a district in Tehran....
  
  , member of parliament
• Hamid Reza Assefi
  Hamid Reza Assefi
  Hamid Reza Assefi was born in Mashhad, Iran. Spokesman, Vice Minister of Parliamentary and Consular Affairs and Communication, and the Special Assistant to the Minister at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under President Khatami. He is now Iran's ambassador to the UAE.He was an ambassador...
  
  , foreign affairs spokesman
• Hassan Habibi
  Hassan Habibi
  Hassan Ebrahim Habibi is an Iranian politician and scholar, presently the Head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature , and a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution.Habibi was the 1st First Vice President of Iran from 1989 to 2001, eight years under President Rafsanjani and...
  
  , first vice president
• Hassan Rowhani
  Hassan Rowhani
  Hassan Rowhani is an Iranian politician and cleric, and as of March 2007, a member of the Supreme National Security Council. Rowhani's membership in the council is as one of the two representatives of the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran...
  
  , deputy speaker of parliament
• Hossein Shariatmadari
  Hossein Shariatmadari
  Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, a conservative Iranian newspaper.Before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shariatmadari was allegedly tortured by Iranian Shah's Police or SAVAK .Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, a conservative Iranian newspaper.Before the...
  
  
• Iraj Fazel
  Iraj Fazel
  Iradj Fazel is a prominent Iranian surgeon and academic. He was the president of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences for 19 years until 2010. In the aftermath of the Iranian presidential election, 2009, he wrote a public letter, protesting the way Iranian youth were being treated...
  
  , minister of health
• Kamal Kharrazi
  Kamal Kharrazi
  Seyed Kamal Kharazi is an Iranian politician and diplomat who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 20, 1997 to August 24, 2005 as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami serving for eight years...
  
  , minister of foreign affairs
• Kazem Jalali
  Kazem Jalali
  Kazem Jalali is a member of the Majlis in the Islamic Republic of Iran for three progressive period from the city of Shahrood. He is presently the spokesman for the foreign relations committee of the Majlis....
  
  , politician
• Kazem Rajavi
  Kazem Rajavi
  Dr. Kazem Rajavi was a renowned human rights advocate and elder brother of Iranian opposition leader Massoud Rajavi...
  
  , politician
• Kazem Seddiqi
  Kazem Seddiqi
  Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi is an interim Friday Prayer Leader for Tehran, Iran. The Friday prayer leader gives the khutbah or sermon shortly after noon on Friday, the traditional time of gathering for the Muslim community...
  
  , politician
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mayor of Tehran
  Tehran
  Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
  
  , now president of 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...
  
  
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
  Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
  Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi is a moderate Iraqi-Iranian politician and Twelver Shi'a Marja. Hashemi Shahroudi was the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which has caused objections to his serving as the head of Iran's Judiciary System upon his...
  
  , current head of judiciary
• Majead Ansari
  Majead Ansari
  Majead Ansari , also spelled Majid Ansari is an Iranian politician and cleric....
  
  , member of parliament
• Manuchehr Eliasi
  Manuchehr Eliasi
  Manuchehr Eliasi or Manouchehr Eliasi is a Jewish former member of the Iranian Parliamentwho was succeeded by Maurice Motamed in 2000.-See also:*Reserved Majlis seats...
  
  , Jewish member of parliament
• Maoud Dehnamaki
• Masoud Pezeshkian
  Masoud Pezeshkian
  Masood Pezeshkian was Minister of Health and Medical Education of Iran between 2001 and 2005. He was also the chancellor of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for 7 years. He is a heart surgeon and he is an academic member of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences at the present time. He is...
  
  , minister of health
• Masoumeh Ebtekar
  Masoumeh Ebtekar
  Masoumeh Ebtekar is an Iranian scientist, journalist and politician. She is currently the director of Peace and Environment Center in Tehran.Ebtekar first achieved fame as the spokeswoman of the students who had occupied the US Embassy in 1979...
  
  , vice president
• Mehdi Bazargan
  Mehdi Bazargan
  Mehdi Bazargan was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was the head of the first engineering department of Tehran University...
  
  , prime minister
• 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...
  
  
• Mehdi Karroubi
  Mehdi Karroubi
  Mehdi Karroubi is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party. He was Chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.He is a founding...
  
  , speaker of parliament
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi
  Mir-Hossein Mousavi
  Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a Reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election...
  
  , prime minister
• Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Mohammad Ali Abtahi
  Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi is an Iranian theologian, scholar, pro-democracy activist and chairman of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue. He is a former Vice President of Iran and a close associate of former President Mohammad Khatami...
  
  , vice president
• Mohammad Ali Najafi
  Mohammad Ali Najafi
  Mohammad Ali Najafi is an Iranian politician and university professor in mathematics. He was Minister of Science and Technology in the Cabinet of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and after that Minister of Education...
  
  , minister of education
• Mohammad Ali Rajai
  Mohammad Ali Rajai
  Mohammad Ali Rajai was the second elected President of Iran from 2 to 30 August 1981, after serving as Prime Minister under Abolhassan Banisadr. He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs from 11 March 1981 to 15 August 1981, while he was Prime Minister...
  
  , president
• Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
• Mohammad Emami-Kashani
• Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
  Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian politician who has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 1997. Before that he served as vice president in charge of executive affairs during the presidency of his older brother, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and later...
  
  
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar
  Mohammad Javad Bahonar
  Hojatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar was an Iranian scholar, Shiite theologian and politician who served as the Prime minister of Iran from 15 to 30 August 1981 when he was assassinated by Mujahideen-e Khalq MEK, also known as PMOI and KMO...
  
  , prime minister
• Mohammad Javad Larijani
  Mohammad Javad Larijani
  Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician, cleric and academic. Larijani is the head of the human rights council in the judiciary and a top adviser to the supreme leader. Additionally Larijani has been the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in...
  
  , member of parliament
• Mohammad Khatami
  Mohammad Khatami
  Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  , president
• Mohammad Reyshahri
  Mohammad Reyshahri
  Mohammad Reyshahri , best known as Reyshahri, is an Iranian politician and cleric who was first Iranian Minister of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran from 1984 to 1989 in cabinet of Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.-Biography:Reyshahri was born in Rey.He married the daughter of Ayatollah...
  
  
• Mohammad Reza Aref
  Mohammad Reza Aref
  Mohammad Reza Aref is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician and a professor at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Vice President of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami. He was succeeded by Parviz Dawoodi.Aref was a chancellor of the...
  
  , first vice president
• Mohammad Reza Bahonar
  Mohammad Reza Bahonar
  Mohammad-Reza Bahonar was the conservative First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Iran. He is a representative from Kerman.In previous parliaments, he has been elected as a representative from Kerman and Tehran...
  
  , vice speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Khatami
  Mohammad Reza Khatami
  Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami is an Iranian politician and nephrologist.He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest Iranian reformist party. He is now a member of the central council of the party...
  
  , deputy speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
• Mohammad Sattarifar
  Mohammad Sattarifar
  Mohammad Sattarifar is a renowned Iranian economist, former Vice president of Iran, former head of the Iranian Social Security Organization and the Planning and Management Organization of Iran....
  
  , vice president
• Mohammad Yazdi
  Mohammad Yazdi
  Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdii is an Iranian cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999, following Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili and succeeded by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi....
  
  , head of judiciary
• Mohsen Armin
  Mohsen Armin
  Mohsen Armin is an Iranian politician. He was a representative for Tehran and vice speaker of the Majlis during the sixth term of the Majlis. He is also a central committee member and speaker of MIRO.-References:...
  
  , member of parliament
• Mohsen Mirdamadi
  Mohsen Mirdamadi
  Mohsen Mirdamadi, was an organizer of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, a member of the parliament of Iran from 2000-2004, and the "head of the largest pro-reform party" in Iran, Islamic Iran Participation Front since 2006....
  
  , member of parliament
• Mohsen Nourbakhsh
  Mohsen Nourbakhsh
  Seyed Mohsen Nourbakhsh was an Iranian economist, most famous as Governor of the Central Bank of Iran and the former Minister of Economic and Finance of Iran.-Personal Life and Education:...
  
  , head of Central Bank of Iran
• Mohsen Rezaee
  Mohsen Rezaee
  Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed, also spelled Rezai and Rezaie , born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed , is an Iranian politician, economist and former military commander, currently the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  , member of Expediency Discernment Council
• Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
• Mohseni-Ezhe'i
• Morteza Motahhari
  Morteza Motahhari
  Ayatollah Murtaza Motahhari was an Iranian scholar, cleric, lecturer, and politician.Motahhari is considered among the important influences on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, and was a co-founder of Hosseiniye Ershad and the Combatant Clergy Association...
  
  
• Mostafa Chamran
  Mostafa Chamran
  Mostafa Chamran Savei was an Iranian scientist who served as first Defence Minister of post-revolutionary Iran and as member of parliament, as well as commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War. He was killed during the war...
  
  , Minister of Defense
• Mostafa Tajzadeh
  Mostafa Tajzadeh
  Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh is an Iranian progressive, reformist politician, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front .-Political career:...
  
  , deputy minister of interior
• Nasrollah Jahangard
  Nasrollah Jahangard
  Nasrollah Jahangard is an Iranian politician and expert manager. Since 1997, he had been the Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph & Telephone for Development & Planning, a ministry later renamed to Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. He recently resigned from that position...
  
  , chair of Supreme Council of ICT
  Supreme Council of ICT of Iran
  SCICT is the main council in Iran for ICT affairs. SCICT is managed by Nasrollah Jahangard.The first form of ICT in Iran was the fax in 1988, and then the computer. Now Iran itself develops ICT. Iranian universities are connected to a gigabit ethernet backbone. Computers have not yet reached all...
  
  
• Rahim Safavi
• Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
• Ruhollah Hosseinian
  Ruhollah Hosseinian
  Hojatoleslam Ruhollah Hosseinian is an Iranian Principalist politician.He served in the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security as deputy to Ali Fallahian and in April 2007 was appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the security advisor to the president.He is a member of...
  
  
• Ruhollah Khomeini
  Ruhollah Khomeini
  Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran...
  
  , supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
  Islamic republic
  Islamic republic is the name given to several states in the Muslim world including the Islamic Republics of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Mauritania. Pakistan adopted the title under the constitution of 1956. Mauritania adopted it on 28 November 1958. Iran adopted it after the 1979 Iranian...
  
  
• Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
  Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
  Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France, and Iranian Foreign Minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution...
  
  , minister of foreign affairst
• Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
• Sadegh Larijani
• Saeed Emami
  Saeed Emami
  Saeed Emami was the Iranian deputy minister of intelligence under Ali Fallahian, and an intelligence officer under Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi. The Islamic government accused him of having independently organized the assassinations of dissidents shortly after he allegedly committing...
  
  , vice minister of intelligence
• Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian is an Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist and university lecturer. He has been an intelligence official, a member of Tehran's city council, and advisor to president Mohammad Khatami...
  
  , Tehran council member
• Saeed Mortazavi
  Saeed Mortazavi
  Saeed Murtazavi is a controversial Iranian jurist and former prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he has held from 2003 to 2009. He has been called as "butcher of the press" and "torturer of Tehran" by some observers...
  
  
• Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Head of Central Bank of 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...
  
  , Ambassador to United Kingdom

See also: List of current Iranian officials

Not served or opposition

• Abbas Amir-Entezam
  Abbas Amir-Entezam
  Abbas Amir-Entezam was the spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic...
  
  
• Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
• Abolghasem Kashani
• Ahmad Zirakzadeh
  Ahmad Zirakzadeh
  Ahmad Zirakzadeh was one of the founders of National Front of Iran, an Iranian party which was considered the backbone of Mohammed Mosaddeq's government.- Early life :He was born in 1907 to a Yazdi father and mother in a religious family in Tehran...
  
  
• Ali Shariati
  Ali Shariati
  Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
  
  , sociologist
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh
  Alireza Jafarzadeh is a media commentator on the Middle East and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government. He is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002...
  
  
• Alireza Rajaei
  Alireza Rajaei
  Alireza Rajaei is an Iranian journalist. He is considered as one of the member of the Nationalist-Religious alliance of Iran...
  
  
• Asghar Parsa
  Asghar Parsa
  Asghar Parsa was a member of Iran's National Front.After graduating from Tehran University's School of Law, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was elected to Majlis from Khoy in 1951...
  
  
• Azam Taleghani
  Azam Taleghani
  Azam Taleghani is an Iranian politician and journalist, born in 1944, is the head of the Society of Islamic Revolution Women of Iran, editor of Payam Hajar Weekly, and a former member of the Iranian parliament....
  
  
• Bijan Jazani
  Bijan Jazani
  Bijan Jazani , Tehran, 1938 – April 19, 1975) is a major figure among modern Iranian Socialist intellectuals.-Personal and Political Life:Bijan Jazani was born to Hossien Jazani and Alamtaj Kalantari Nazari...
  
  
• Dariush Forouhar
  Dariush Forouhar
  Dariush Forouhar was a founder and leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran , a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran and served as Minister of Labor in the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
  Ezzatollah Sahabi
  Ezzatollah Sahabi was an Iranian scholar, humanitarian, democracy activist, politician and former parliament member. He was famous for his political-economical social analysis, and also for the many years of imprisonment in both the pre-revolution and post-revolution eras...
  
  
• Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
• Habibollah Peiman
• Hashem Aghajari
  Hashem Aghajari
  Hashem Aghajari also Seyyed Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics...
  
  
• Jafar Pishevari
  Jafar Pishevari
  Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari was the founder and chairman of separatist and communist Azerbaijan People's Government , created and supported by Soviet occupational forces in north-western Iran.-Life:...
  
  
• Jalaleddin Farsi
  Jalaleddin Farsi
  Jaleleddin Farsi , born as Hekmatollah Baaraan-Cheshmeh, was the presidential candidate for the Islamic Republic Party in the first presidential election in Iran. He was chosen because Ayatollah Khomeini had personally forbidden the party from running Mohammad Beheshti, a cleric, for president...
  
  
• Karim Sanjabi
  Karim Sanjabi
  Karim Sanjabi was an Iranian liberal political leader of the 20th century. He was born in Kermanshah, Iran.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mahmoud Taleghani
  Mahmoud Taleghani
  Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani was an Iranian theologian, humanist, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a cleric of Iran. Taleghani was a contemporary of the Iranian Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a leader in his own right of Iran's Shi'a resistance movement...
  
  
• Mansoor Hekmat
  Mansoor Hekmat
  Mansoor Hekmat was an Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. He opposed the Shah and, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, led the Worker-Communist Party of Iran , which is opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  
• Maryam Rajavi
  Maryam Rajavi
  Maryam Rajavi is an Iranian politician who is President elect of National Council of Resistance of Iran, a front group for People's Mujahedin of Iran, since 1993. She is the wife of Massoud Rajavi, a founder of the People's Mujahedin of Iran...
  
  
• Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
• Mohsen Kadivar
  Mohsen Kadivar
  Mohsen Kadivar is an Iranian philosopher, University lecturer, cleric and activist. A political dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih , and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran...
  
  
• Mousa Sadr
• Nasser Zarafshan
  Nasser Zarafshan
  Nasser Zarafshan is an Iranian novelist, translator, and attorney. He is most famous internationally for having been arrested while acting as the legal envoy of two of the families of dissident Iranian writers who were assassinated in November 1998 in what came to be known in Iran as the "Chain...
  
  
• Navvab Safavi
  Navvab Safavi
  Navvab Safavi was a cleric responsible for founding of the Fadayan-e Islam group and with them the assassination of several leading Iranians, primarily politicians.-Early life:...
  
  , militant cleric
• Parviz Varjavand
  Parviz Varjavand
  Parviz Varjavand was a notable Iranian archaeologist, researcher, university professor and politician who was a prominent member of Iran National Front . -Early and political carrer:...
  
  
• Reza Alamouti
  Reza Alamouti
  Reza Alamouti was an Iranian political activist, considered to be known as one of the youngest Central Committee Members of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas in the 1990s...
  
  , Central Committee Member of Fedayan Guerillas & founder of Radio Aras
• Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi
  Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's,...
  
  , Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
   laureate
• Yadollah Sahabi
  Yadollah Sahabi
  Yadollah Sahabi was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry in the 1950s. He was the father of Ezzatollah Sahabi.Sahabi studied at...
  
  

Other nations

• Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
  
  , Former Prime Minister
  Prime minister
  A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
  
   of Pakistan, half-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...
  
  ian (mother
  Nusrat Bhutto
  Begum Nusrat Bhutto was an Iranian-Pakistani who was the wife of the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, serving as the First Lady of Pakistan during his premiership from 1971 until Bhutto's removal in 1977. She became her husband's successor as the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples...
  
  )
• Dan Halutz
  Dan Halutz
  ' is an Israeli Air Force Lt. General and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the Israeli Air Force. Halutz was appointed as Chief of Staff on June 1, 2005. On January 17, 2007 he announced his resignation. He has a degree in economics. He was born to a Mizrahi...
  
  , Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
• Goli Ameri
  Goli Ameri
  Goli Ameri is an Iranian-American diplomat, politician and businesswoman from the U.S. state of Oregon. She is the current Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also the former U.S...
  
  , United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Maryam Yazdanfar
  Maryam Yazdanfar
  Maryam Yazdanfar is a Swedish social democratic politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006.-External links:* at the Riksdag website...
  
  , member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), Sweden
• Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav is an Israeli politician. He served as the eighth President of Israel, a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset, and a Cabinet Minister in its government....
  
  , Former President of Israel
• Nusrat Bhutto
  Nusrat Bhutto
  Begum Nusrat Bhutto was an Iranian-Pakistani who was the wife of the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, serving as the First Lady of Pakistan during his premiership from 1971 until Bhutto's removal in 1977. She became her husband's successor as the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples...
  
  , Former first lady
  First Lady
  First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...
  
   of Pakistan
• Omid Nouripour
  Omid Nouripour
  Omid Nouripour is an Iranian-German politician, a member of Green party in Germany and a member of the German parliament ....
  
  , member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Germany
• Reza Moridi
  Reza Moridi
  Reza Moridi is a Canadian politician, and the first Iranian-Canadian elected to a provincial or federal legislature in Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Richmond Hill...
  
  , member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
• Sharmita vox
  Sharmita vox
  sharmita vox International Persian model in cear model brand designer, Photo modeling catwalker, Photo Fashion model, TV personality, actor internationally.-Modeling career:Litel Arad Persian...
  
  , International Model
• Shaul Mofaz
  Shaul Mofaz
  Lt. General Shaul Mofaz is an Israeli politician who serves as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs And Defense Committee at the Knesset...
  
  , Current Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense

Authors and poets

• See main list: List of Persian poets and authors

Translators

• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi is an Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer. During his forty five-year career as a journalist, Abdolrashidi conducted hundreds of television interviews with notable international figures, such as Fidel Castro, Rajiv Gandhi,...
  
  , author and translator
• Karim Emami
  Karim Emami
  Karim Emami was a highly regarded Iranian translator, editor, lexicographer, and literary critic.-Life:Emami was born in 1930 in Calcutta, a frequent destination of his father, a tea merchant...
  
  , author and translator
• Majid M. Naini, author and translator
• Mohammad Ghazi
  Mohammad Ghazi
  Mohammad Ghazi was a prolific Iranian translator and writer who translated numerous book mainly from French into Persian.He studied literature at Darolfonoun...
  
  , translator
• Shahrokh Meskoob
  Shahrokh Meskoob
  Shahrokh Meskoob , was an outstanding Iranian writer, translator, scholar and University professor. He had been living in Paris, France for twenty years.-Works:...
  
  , author and translator

Religious figures

See List of Marjas.

See List of Ayatollahs.

• Majlesi
  Allamah al-Majlisi
  Muhammad Baqir Majlesi, known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani , was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era...
  
  
• Báb
  Báb
  Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází was the founder of Bábism, and one of three central figures of the Bahá'í Faith. He was a merchant from Shíráz, Persia, who at the age of twenty-four claimed to be the promised Qá'im . After his declaration he took the title of Báb meaning "Gate"...
  
  , prophet
• Bahá'u'lláh
  Bahá'u'lláh
  Bahá'u'lláh , born ' , was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. He claimed to be the prophetic fulfilment of Bábism, a 19th-century outgrowth of Shí‘ism, but in a broader sense claimed to be a messenger from God referring to the fulfilment of the eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity, and...
  
  , prophet
• Dhikru'llah Khadem
  Dhikru'llah Khadem
  Dhikru'llah Khadem was a prominent follower of the Bahá'í Faith, and was appointed by Shoghi Effendi to be a Hand of the Cause in 1952....
  
  , prominent Hand of the Cause
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr
  Haik Hovsepian Mehr
  Haik Hovsepian , was an Iranian bishop and Christian martyr. He was the Bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church until his death...
  
  , bishop and Christian martyr
• Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
• 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...
  
  , founder of Manichaeism
  Manichaeism
  Manichaeism in Modern Persian Āyin e Māni; ) was one of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia.Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived...
  
  
• Mazdak
  Mazdak
  Mazdak was a proto-socialist Persian reformer and religious activist who gained influence under the reign of the Sassanian Shahanshah Kavadh I...
  
  ,Religious and Social Reformer
• Meher Baba
  Meher Baba
  Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
  
  , Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
• Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
  Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
  Muhammad bin Ismail Nashtakin ad-Darazi was an 11th-century Ismaili preacher and early leader of the Druze faith who was labeled a heretic in 1016 and subsequently executed by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah...
  
  
• Mulla Sadra
  Mulla Sadra
  Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī also called Mulla Sadrā was a Persian Shia Islamic philosopher, theologian and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century...
  
  
• Safi-ad-din Ardabili
• Salman the Persian
  Salman the Persian
  Salman the Persian or Salman al Farisi was one of Muhammad's companions.During some of his later meetings with the other Sahaba, he was referred to as Abu Abdullah .-Birth place:...
  
  
• Zahed Gilani
  Zahed Gilani
  The mystic Taj Al-Din Ebrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al-Kurdi Al-Sanjani , titled Sheikh Zahed Gilani, was Grandmaster of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi Order at Lahijan....
  
  
• Zoroaster
  Zoroaster
  Zoroaster , also known as Zarathustra , was a prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism who was either born in North Western or Eastern Iran. He is credited with the authorship of the Yasna Haptanghaiti as well as the Gathas, hymns which are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism...
  
  , prophet

Scientists, scholars, and academics

See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the pre-modern age.

See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the modern age.

Architects and Mi'mars

• Fariborz Sahba
  Fariborz Sahba
  Fariborz Sahba is an Iranian Bahá'í architect, now living in Canada.-Career:He has a Masters degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran...
  
  
• Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou
  Heydar Ghiai
  Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-Chamlou who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1952, was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran.He designed the Senate House, the Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel, several train stations, cinemas, various civic and government buildings and the first series of...
  
  
• Hossein Amanat
  Hossein Amanat
  Hossein Amanat is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known for being the architect of the Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran, and the Bahá'í Arc buildings in Haifa, Israel. He is a Bahá'í.- Practice :...
  
  
• Kamran Diba
  Kamran Diba
  Kamran Diba is a prominent Iranian architect, residing in Paris, France.He is famous for designing the new campus of Jondishapur University in Ahvaz, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran....
  
  

See full List of Iranian architects.

Explorers and travellers

• Ahmad ibn Rustah
  Ahmad ibn Rustah
  Ibn Rustah was a 10th century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia....
  
  , 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
• Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

• Abbas Alizadeh
  Abbas Alizadeh
  Abbas Alizadeh is an Iranologist and Persian archaeologist.Abbas Alizadeh, an Iranian senior research associate in the Oriental Institute of the Chicago University who has for some time supervised foreign teams of archaeologists working in different parts of Iran. at the Oriental Institute of The...
  
  
• Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
  Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
  Abdolhossein Zarinkoob was a prominent scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history....
  
  
• Ahmad Kasravi
  Ahmad Kasravi
  Ahmad Kasravi , was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, and reformer.Born in Hokmabad , Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Iranian Constitutional Revolution...
  
  
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
  Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
  Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a prominent Persian archeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology. Alireza Shahbazi got a BA degree in and an MA degree in East Asian archeology from SOAS. Shahbazi had a doctorate degree in Achaemenid archeology from University of London...
  
  
• Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
  Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
  Badi'ozzamān Foruzānfar was a scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi and his works...
  
  
• Ezzatolah Neghban
  Ezzat Negahban
  Ezatollah Negahban was an Iranian archaeologist known as the father of Iranian modern archaeology.-Biography:Prof. Ezat O. Negahban was born Ahvaz, Iran...
  
  
• Kaveh Farrokh
• Mehrdad Bahar
  Mehrdad Bahar
  Mehrdād Bahār was a prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian.Mehrdad Bahar, was the youngest son of Persian poet Mohammad Taghi Bahar. He held a PhD degree in Persian literature and Ancient Iranian languages from Tehran University...
  
  
• Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
  Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
  Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan is an Iranian literary critic, translator and poet, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers on culture and literature in Iran.-Life:...
  
  
• Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
  Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
  -Early life and education:Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi is an Iranian archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1964 he finished his BA in archaeology at the University of Tehran. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. After returning to Iran...
  
  
• Touraj Atabaki
• Touraj Daryaee
  Touraj Daryaee
  Touraj Daryaee is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian.His elementary and secondary schooling was in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. Daryaee took his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999...
  
  

Linguists

• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
  Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
  Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is a Persian literary figure and Iranist.Ahmad Karimi Hakkak was Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington for nineteen years. He is currently a professor and founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies in the School of...
  
  
• Ahmad Tafazzoli
  Ahmad Tafazzoli
  Dr. Ahmad Tafazzoli was a prominent Persian Iranist and master of ancient Iranian literature and culture. Professor Tafazzoli was a faculty member of Tehran University....
  
  
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
  Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi is an Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer. During his forty five-year career as a journalist, Abdolrashidi conducted hundreds of television interviews with notable international figures, such as Fidel Castro, Rajiv Gandhi,...
  
  
• Ehsan Yarshater
  Ehsan Yarshater
  Ehsan Yarshater is the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He was the first full-time professor of Persian at a U.S. university since World War II....
  
  
• Jaleh Amouzgar
  Jaleh Amouzgar
  Jaleh Amouzgar is a world-class Iranist and a university professor-Life:Amouzgar holds a Ph. D. degree from Sorbonne University in Iranistics . She is currently chairman of the department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages at Tehran University.Prof. Amouzgar in collaboration with Prof...
  
  
• Mehrdad Bahar
  Mehrdad Bahar
  Mehrdād Bahār was a prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian.Mehrdad Bahar, was the youngest son of Persian poet Mohammad Taghi Bahar. He held a PhD degree in Persian literature and Ancient Iranian languages from Tehran University...
  
  
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari
  Parviz Natel-Khanlari
  Parviz Natel Khanlari Mazandarni , Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher and professor at Tehran University.-Biography:...
  
  
• Zabihollah Safa
  Zabihollah Safa
  Zabihollahhh Safa was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran....
  
  

Theorists and philosophers

• Abdolkarim Soroush
  Abdolkarim Soroush
  Abdolkarim Soroush , born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh , is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is arguably the most influential figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the...
  
  
• Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
  Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
  Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani is an Iranian scholar and university professor.Born in Mashad, Iran on September 4, 1927, he holds a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University where he was a Professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology between...
  
  
• Dariush Shayegan
  Dariush Shayegan
  Dariush Shayegan is one of Iran's prominent thinkers, cultural theorists and comparative philosophers.Shayegan studied at Sorbonne University in Paris...
  
  
• Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof
  Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
  
  
• Ehsan Naraghi
  Ehsan Naraghi
  Ehsān Narāghi, PhD is an Iranian sociologist and writer.-Biography:During his high school he went to Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. Then he studied sociology in the University of Geneva and received his Ph.D at Sorbonne University in Paris....
  
  
• Hossein Elahi Ghomshei
• Hamid Dabashi
  Hamid Dabashi
  Hamid Dabashi born 1951 in Ahvaz is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of over twenty books...
  
  
• Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
  Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
  Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is a highly influential Iranian philosopher, Shia Islamic theologian, writer and professor at Tehran University. He is noted for his idea that ad-din, is perfect, but not all-encompassing, i.e...
  
  
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher...
  
  

Video Game, Visual Effects, Computer Imagery

• Habib Zargarpour
  Habib Zargarpour
  Habib Zargarpour is an Iranian born art director who is also active in visual effects in Hollywood.-Biography:Habib Zargarpour has had almost two decades of experience in visual effect for film...
  
   Visual effects specialist, Video game art director

Sports

• Abbas Jadidi
  Abbas Jadidi
  Abbas Jadidi is an Iranian wrestler who competed in the Freestyle Heavyweight category at the 1996 Summer Olympics, losing controversially to Kurt Angle and winning the silver medal.-Achievements:...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
• Abdollah Movahed
  Abdollah Movahed
  Abdollah Movahed Ardabili is an Iranian wrestler who competed in freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Like his counterpart Habibi, he came from Mazandaran Province....
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Adel Kolahkaj
  Adel Kolahkaj
  Adel Kolahkaj is an Iranian football player. He currently plays for the IPL club Mes Kerman. He usually plays in the midfielder position.-ClubCareer:...
  
  , footballer
• Alex Agase
  Alex Agase
  -External links:...
  
  , American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player
• Ali Daei
  Ali Daei
  Ali Daei is an Iranian retired football player and former national team coach who currently manages a local Iranian team, Rah Ahan. He is a former captain of the Iran national football team, and is the world's all-time leading goalscorer in international matches...
  
  , football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
• Ali Karimi
  Ali Karimi
  Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashaki better known as Ali Karimi, is an Iranian professional footballer who is currently playing for Persepolis in Iran Pro League. He was awarded the Asian Footballer of the Year in 2004....
  
  , football player
• Ali Parvin
  Ali Parvin
  Ali Parvin , born September 25, 1947 in Tehran) is a retired Iranian football player, coach and a current administrator. He is one of the most famous footballers ever to play in Iran, and is regarded as one of the best from Iran.-Club career:...
  
  , football player and coach
• Alireza Dabir
  Alireza Dabir
  Alireza Dabir is a champion freestyle wrestler from Iran. Dabir won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, as well as the World Championship in 1998. He was runner-up in 1999, 2001, and 2002. In the Athens Olympics, Dabir lost his first two matches due to a severe shoulder...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   Gold Medalist
• Alireza Heidari
  Alireza Heidari
  Alireza Heidari is an Iranian wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 96 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal....
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
• Alireza Rezaei
  Alireza Rezaei
  Alireza Rezaei is a former Iranian wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 120 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.-References:*...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
• Amir Reza Khadem
  Amir Reza Khadem
  Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi is an Iranian wrestler who won Olympic bronze medals in 1992 and 1996. He finished fourth at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and he won the 1991 World Championships, And one bronze medal from 1990 World Championships and the 1992 and 1993 Asian Championships and one silver medal...
  
  , Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
• Andre Agassi
  Andre Agassi
  Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
  
  , tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
   player – his father was Assyrian-Armenian
• Arash Miresmaili
  Arash Miresmaili
  Arash Miresmaeili is an Iranian judoka. He is a double world featherweight champion.-World Judo Championships:He won the gold medal in two World Judo Championships, the first one in 2001 in Munich, Germany, and the second in 2003 in Osaka, Japan...
  
  , Judo
  Judo
  is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
  
   World Champion
• Aravane Rezaï
  Aravane Rezaï
  Aravane Rezaï is an Iranian-French tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 5 in women's tennis. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball girl...
  
  , tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
   player
• Ebrahim Javadi
  Ebrahim Javadi
  Ebrahim Javadi is an Iranian wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1972 Summer Olympics.-References: *...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
• Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
  
   grandmaster
  International Grandmaster
  The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
  
  
• Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
• Elshan Moradi
  Elshan Moradi
  Elshan Moradi Abadi is a chess grandmaster from Iran. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Leinier Domínguez....
  
  , chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
  
   grandmaster
  International Grandmaster
  The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
  
  
• Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
• Emmanuel Agassi
  Emmanuel Agassi
  Emmanuel B. Aghassian, Anglicized as Emmanuel "Mike" Agassi , is a former boxer and the father of Andre Agassi....
  
  , boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
• George Issabeg
  George Issabeg
  George Issabeg is a former Iranian boxer of Assyrian ethnicity that represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1948, Issabeg competed in the Welterweight level and lost in the first round against the Italian Alessandro D'Ottavio, who went on to win the silver medal...
  
  , Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
• George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian international attorney, politician and champion athlete. Rosie Malek-Yonan, his daughter, is an actress, author, and human-rights activist.-Biography:...
  
  , Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathlon
• Ghasem Dehnavi, footballer
• Ghasem Hadadifar
  Ghasem Hadadifar
  Ghasem Hadadifar is an Iranian footballer who plays for Zob Ahan in the Iran Pro League. He is a member of the Iran national football team.-Club career:Hadahifar has been with Zob Ahan since 2006...
  
  , footballer
• Ghasem Rezaei
  Ghasem Rezaei
  Ghasem Rezaei is an Iranian wrestler.-References:*...
  
  , wrestler
• Hossein Rezazadeh
  Hossein Rezazadeh
  Hossein Rezazadeh is an Iranian former world and double Olympic champion in Olympic weightlifting. He is also a world record holder in the clean and jerk and considered as one of the greatest weightlifters of all time.- Career :...
  
  , weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004,
• Javad Nekounam
  Javad Nekounam
  Javad Nekounam is an Iranian footballer who plays for CA Osasuna in La Liga.Usually playing as a central midfielder, he is known for his passing ability, defensive acumen, ball distribution and powerful long-range shots. He represented his national team over 120 times.-Early years / UAE:Having...
  
  , football player
• Khodadad Azizi
  Khodadad Azizi
  Khodadad Azizi is an Iranian retired professional football striker and a current coach.-International career:Azizi represented Iran at the 1996 Asian cup, 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the 2000 Asian Cup...
  
  , football player
• Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
• Mahyar Monshipour
  Mahyar Monshipour
  Mahyar Monshipour is an Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006...
  
  , World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
• Mansour Bahrami
  Mansour Bahrami
  Mansour Bahrami is a professional tennis player. He has held dual French and Iranian nationality since 1989.-Early life:...
  
  , tennis player
• Mansour Barzegar
  Mansour Barzegar
  Mansour Barzegar is an Iranian wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1976 Summer Olympics.-References: *...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
• Masoud Jokar
  Masoud Jokar
  Masoud Mostafa Jokar is an Iranian wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 60 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.His younger brother Meisam is an Olympian too.-References:*...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
• 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...
  
  , football player
• 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...
  
  , wrestler and actor
• Mohammad Khadem
  Mohammad Khadem
  Mohammad Khadem Azghadi is an Iranian Freestyle wrestler. He is the father of world and olympic champion Rasoul Khadem and Amir Reza Khadem who is also an olympic champion.-References:* *...
  
  , wrestler
• Mohammad Mousavi
  Mohammad Mousavi Eraghi
  Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Eraghi is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as a middle-blocker for the Men's National Team. He was named Best Blocker at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament, where Iran ended up in sixth place and missed qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR...
  
  , volleyball player
• Mohammad Nassiri
  Mohammad Nassiri
  Mohammad Nassiri Seresht is a retired Iranian weightlifter and an Olympic Gold Medalist for Iran.In 1995 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.- Weightlifting achievements :...
  
  , weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Mohammad Reza Heidarian
  Mohammad Reza Heidarian
  Mohammad Reza Heidarian is an Iranian retired futsal player and current coach. He was head coach of Iran national futsal team in a short time....
  
  , futsal
  Futsal
  Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
  
   player
• Rahman Rezaei
  Rahman Rezaei
  Rahman Rezaei is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Paykan in the Iran Pro League. He is also a former member of the Iran national football team and usually plays in the centre back position.-Club career:...
  
  , football player
• Rasoul Khadem
  Rasoul Khadem
  Rasul Khadem Azghadi is an Iranian wrestler who has won a Bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is also the 1994 and 1995 world champion and the 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 Asian champion...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler
• Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
• Saeid Marouf
  Saeid Marouf
  Mir-Saeid Marouf Lakrani is a volleyball player from Iran, who plays as a setter for the Men's National Team. He was named Best Setter at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament.-National team:*Asian Championship**Silver medal : 2009...
  
  , volleyball player
• Shadi Paridar
  Shadi Paridar
  Shadi Paridar is an Iranian chess Woman Grandmaster. Played for Iran in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championships of 1995, 2003, 2005 and 2008.-External links:* at Chessgames.com*...
  
  , chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
  
   Woman Grandmaster
• Shawn Daivari
  Shawn Daivari
  Dara Daivari is an Iranian American professional wrestler, currently performing on the American independent circuit as Shawn Daivari. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment as simply Daivari and with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Sheik Abdul Bashir.-Career:Daivari...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
• T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
• Vahid Hashemian
  Vahid Hashemian
  Vahid Hashemian is an Iranian Footballer who currently plays for Persepolis in Iran Pro League.-Club career:Vahid started his professional football career with Pas Tehran in his homeland. He arrived in Germany for the 1999–2000 season to play for Hamburger SV...
  
  , football player
• Yossef Karami
  Yossef Karami
  Yousef Karami is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete who competed in the Men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He is also the 2003 world champion...
  
  , Taekwondo
  Taekwondo
  Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
  
   World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
• Yu Darvish
  Yu Darvish
  Yu Darvish is a Japanese starting pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team...
  
  , Iranian-Japanese baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   player

world record holder

• Andranik Teymourian
  Andranik Teymourian
  Andranik Timotian-Samarani , more commonly known as Andranik "Ando" Teymourian is an Armenian Iranian footballer. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder, but can also play as a side midfielder. He is notably the only Christian footballer in the Iranian national team.-Early career:Andranik was...
  
  , football player
• Fereydoon Zandi, football player
• Gholamreza Takhti
  Gholamreza Takhti
  Gholamreza Takhti is the most famous wrestler in Iranian history. He was most famous for his chivalrous behavior and sportsmanship, and he continues to symbolize the essence of sport to the Iranian people.- Early life :...
  
  , wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Hadi Saei, Taekwondo
  Taekwondo
  Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
  
   World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Hossein Tavakoli
  Hossein Tavakoli
  Hossein Tavakkoli is an Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the Men's 105 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :*...
  
  , weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Jaber Rouzbahani
  Jaber Rouzbahani
  Jaber Rouzbahani Darrehsari |Isfahan]], Iran) is an Iranian professional basketball player who currently plays for Mahram Tehran in the Iranian Super League. He is a center known for his large size, with a height of 7 feet 4 inches, a weight of 260 pounds, and with an 8-foot armspan...
  
  , basketball player
• Khosrow Vaziri
  Khosrow Vaziri
  Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri is a semi-retired Iranian professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik...
  
  , professional wrestler
• 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...
  
  , swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
• Vahid Shamsaei, futsal
  Futsal
  Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
  
   player, top international futsal goalscorer

Other

• Ali Dashti
  Ali Dashti
  Ali Dashti was an Iranian rationalist of the twentieth century. Dashti was also an Iranian senator.-Life:...
  
  
• Alireza Afzalipour
  Alireza Afzalipour
  Alireza Afzalipour was an Iranian engineer, businessman and philanthropist who is known as the founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman because of his financial support and outstanding donation to Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman as well as Kerman Medical University.He died aged 84 in...
  
  , businessman and Philanthropist, founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
  Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
  Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman is a research institution and university of engineering and science in Iran, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate studies...
  
  
• Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. http://www.prismadesign.com/bijan/home.html
• Farah Karimi
  Farah Karimi
  Farahnaz Karimi , 15 November 1960) is an Iranian-Dutch politician. She was member of the House of Representatives between 1998 and 2006 for GreenLeft.-Life before Politics:...
  
  , Iranian female Dutch
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   Member of Parliament.http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830327/life.htm
• George Deukmejian
  George Deukmejian
  Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...
  
  , former governor of California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  
• Mehran Karimi Nasseri
• Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav
  Moshe Katsav is an Israeli politician. He served as the eighth President of Israel, a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset, and a Cabinet Minister in its government....
  
  , President of Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• Nicholas Jackson
  Nicholas Jackson
  Nicholas Jackson may refer to:*Nick Jackson, radio presenter*Sir Nicholas Jackson, 3rd Baronet , British composer and organist, one of the Jackson Baronets...
  
   (born 1989), Popular street performer turned philanthropist in Tanzania
• Ross Mirkarimi
  Ross Mirkarimi
  Ross Mirkarimi is a member of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, California, a marijuana legalization advocate, and co-founder of the Green Party of California. He was elected in 2004 to represent District 5...
  
  , Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
  Green Party (United States)
  The Green Party of the United States is a nationally recognized political party which officially formed in 1991. It is a voluntary association of state green parties. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by other state parties...
  
  
• Saadat Khan
  Saadat Khan
  Saadat Ali Khan was the Subahdar Nawab of Awadh from 26 January 1722 to 1739, and the son of Muhammad Nasir...
  
  , First Nawab of Oudh in India.
• Saeed Asgar, assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian
  Saeed Hajjarian is an Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist and university lecturer. He has been an intelligence official, a member of Tehran's city council, and advisor to president Mohammad Khatami...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  ,Iranian born artist and architect.http://www.entekhabi.org
• Shahram Jazayeri
• Shahram Dabiri, the Lead Producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
  
   (MMORPG) World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft
  World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
  
  .
• Shaul Mofaz
  Shaul Mofaz
  Lt. General Shaul Mofaz is an Israeli politician who serves as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs And Defense Committee at the Knesset...
  
  , Israeli Defense Minister
• Wajid Ali Shah
  Wajid Ali Shah
  Wajid Ali Shah was the fifth King of Oudh, holding the position from 13 February 1847 to 7 February 1856....
  
  , Last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company
  British East India Company
  The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
  
  .
• Zahra Eshraghi
  Zahra Eshraghi
  Zahra Eshraghi is an Iranian feminist and human rights activist. She is the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami , former head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran.Zahra Eshraghi wants the wearing of headscarves to no longer...
  
  , granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami

Famous Armenians of Iran

• Andranik Teymourian
  Andranik Teymourian
  Andranik Timotian-Samarani , more commonly known as Andranik "Ando" Teymourian is an Armenian Iranian footballer. He usually plays as a defensive midfielder, but can also play as a side midfielder. He is notably the only Christian footballer in the Iranian national team.-Early career:Andranik was...
  
  
• Andre Agassi
  Andre Agassi
  Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
  
  , Tennis Champion
• Anik
  Anik
  Anik may refer to:* Anik , satellites launched by Canadian telecommunications company Telesat* Anik Bissonnette, a Canadian ballet dancer* Anik Matern, a Canadian actress and founder of the Dynamic Theater Factory* Anik Mountain...
  
  , actress
• Emmanuel Agassi
  Emmanuel Agassi
  Emmanuel B. Aghassian, Anglicized as Emmanuel "Mike" Agassi , is a former boxer and the father of Andre Agassi....
  
  , 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran, Father of Andre Agassi
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr
  Haik Hovsepian Mehr
  Haik Hovsepian , was an Iranian bishop and Christian martyr. He was the Bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church until his death...
  
  , bishop and Christian martyr
• Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian
  Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...
  
  
• Marcos Grigorian
  Marcos Grigorian
  Marcos Grigorian was a notable Iranian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art.-Biography:...
  
   artist, scholar and actor
• Mushegh Soruri
• Ovannes Ohanian, first Iranian film director
• 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"....
  
  , film director
• 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...
  
  , film editor/director
• Vigen Derderian
  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...
  
  , singer
• Yeprem Khan
  Yeprem Khan
  Yeprem Khan Davidian , also Yefrem Khan, was an Armenian revolutionary leader and national hero of Persia...
  
  

Famous Assyrians of Iran

• Freydun Atturaya
  Freydun Atturaya
  Freydun Bet-Abram Atturaya was an Assyrian physician born in the town of Charbash in the district of Urmia in Iran. He was sent by his father to live with an uncle in Tbilisi, then in the Russian Empire, and studied medicine there. He worked as a medical doctor for the Russian Army as soon as he...
  
  , co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
• George Issabeg
  George Issabeg
  George Issabeg is a former Iranian boxer of Assyrian ethnicity that represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1948, Issabeg competed in the Welterweight level and lost in the first round against the Italian Alessandro D'Ottavio, who went on to win the silver medal...
  
  , 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
• George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian international attorney, politician and champion athlete. Rosie Malek-Yonan, his daughter, is an actress, author, and human-rights activist.-Biography:...
  
  , politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
• Issa Benyamin
  Issa Benyamin
  -Biography:Assyrian calligrapher, Issa Benyamin was born to Assyrian parents, Mirza Benyamin Kaldani and Esther in 1924 in Tabriz, Iran and shortly thereafter, settled in Urmia, once a heavily Assyrian populated region in northwestern Iran that was the site of the Assyrian Genocide of...
  
  , calligraphist
• Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch was an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He is most notably known for writing the Assyrian manifesto and the novel Mount Semele....
  
  , (1933–2006) activist and author Mount Semele (2001)
• Milton Malek-Yonan
  Milton Malek-Yonan
  Milton Malek-Yonan was an Assyrian entrepreneur and inventor.-Biography:Milton Malek-Yonan was born to Assyrian parents in Urmia, Iran in 1904. He was a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, the Malek Family or Tribe that came from Assyrian village of Geogtapah,...
  
  , inventor of converted Rice
• Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri was an Assyrian composer, lyricist and painter. He was born August 7, 1923 in Baghdad, Iraq and died in Tehran, Iran in May 2000 at the age of 77.-Biography:...
  
  , composer, painter
• Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Rina Amiri is an Iranian Canadian woman of Assyrian and Persian heritage who won the Miss World Canada contest in 2005....
  
  , Miss Canada 2005
• 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...
  
  , actor, activist and author of The Crimson Field
• Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
• Andre Agassi
  Andre Agassi
  Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
  
   – Assyrian-Armenian Tennis Star
• Shoura Osipov – Olympic Boxer

Famous Chaldeans of Iran

• Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran
• Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani , is a musician, radio personality, Assyrian scholar, and author of non-fictional Iranian folk tales. He was born on May 25, 1949, in Sanandaj, Iran....
  
  , composer, writer, music researcher

Famous Americans in Iran

• Howard Baskerville
  Howard Baskerville
  Howard Conklin Baskerville was an American teacher in the Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran, who died fighting for Iranian democracy. He has been called the "American Lafayette in Iran." ...
  
  , Iran's first American martyr
• Joseph Cochran
  Joseph Cochran
  Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D. , was an American Presbyterian missionary. He is credited as the founding father of Iran’s first modern Medical School....
  
  , 2nd generation American missionary in Urmiah/established first Iranian

medical college

• Arthur Millspaugh
  Arthur Millspaugh
  Arthur Chester Millspaugh, PhD, was a former adviser at the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Foreign Trade, who was hired to re-organize the Finance Ministry of Iran from 1922–1927 and 1942-1945....
  
  , Treasury General, Persia
• Arthur Pope
  Arthur Pope
  Arthur Upham Pope , was an American archaeologist and historian of Persian art.Born in Phenix, Rhode Island, graduated from Worcester Academy in 1899, and taught at Amherst College and the University of California. He married fellow Persian art historian, Phyllis Ackerman, in 1920. In 1923, Pope...
  
   and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian Culture revivalists
• David Stronach
  David Stronach
  David Stronach is a Scottish archeologist of ancient Iran and Iraq. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Stronach is a leading Western expert on the city of Pasargadae. He obtained an Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1958. In the 1960s and 1970s he was...
  
  
• Elgin Groseclose
  Elgin Groseclose
  Elgin Earl Groseclose was an American economist, statesman, and author.Special assistant to Arthur Millspaugh's economic mission in Persia, he was appointed Treasurer-General of Persia by the order of the parliament of Iran in 1943....
  
  , Treasury General, Persia
• John Limbert
  John Limbert
  Ambassador John W. Limbert is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is a veteran U.S. diplomat and a former official at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where he was held captive during the Iran hostage...
  
  
• Justin Perkins
  Justin Perkins
  Justin Perkins was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist...
  
  , First American resident of Iran 1835
• Morgan Shuster
  Morgan Shuster
  William Morgan Shuster , American lawyer, civil servant, and publisher, who is best known as the treasurer-general of Persia by appointment of the Iranian parliament, or Majles, from May to December 1911.-Background:Shuster was born in Washington, DC and educated in the Columbian University and Law...
  
  , Treasury General, Persia
• Richard Nelson Frye
  Richard Nelson Frye
  Richard Nelson Frye is an American scholar of Iranic and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University...
  
  
• Samuel M. Jordan
  Samuel M. Jordan
  Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan was an American presbyterian missionary in Persia .He is sometimes referred to as the "father of modern education in Iran," though Amir Kabir is generally thought to be more deserving of this title, and indeed within Iran, the title refers to Amir Kabir.After graduating...
  
   whom "Jordan Ave.
  Jordan, Tehran
  Jordan is the name of a popular avenue in Tehran, Iran. It is also the name of the district in Northern Tehran through which the avenue runs.-Location:...
  
  " in Tehran is named after
• William M. Miller

Famous Germans in Iran

• Annemarie Schimmel
  Annemarie Schimmel
  Annemarie Schimmel, SI, HI, was a well known and very influential German Orientalist and scholar, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism. She was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992.-Early life:...
  
  , German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
• Wilhelm Wassmuss
  Wilhelm Wassmuss
  Wilhelm Wassmuss was a German diplomat, also known as the "Wassmuss of Persia". He attempted to foment trouble for the British in the Persian Gulf in the First World War.- Birth and schooling :...
  
  , German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, first World War

Famous Iranians in Pakistan

• Nusrat Bhutto
  Nusrat Bhutto
  Begum Nusrat Bhutto was an Iranian-Pakistani who was the wife of the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, serving as the First Lady of Pakistan during his premiership from 1971 until Bhutto's removal in 1977. She became her husband's successor as the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples...
  
  , Iranian father and mother moved with family to Karachi, British India before partition; married Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that, 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. Bhutto was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party — the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan— and served as its chairman until his...
  
  ; father of Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
  
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Famous Iranians in India

See articles: Parsis or Iranian peoples

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...

• 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,...
  
  , director of first Indian talkie Alam Ara
  Alam Ara
  Alam Ara is a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani. It was the first Indian sound film.Irani recognized the importance that sound would have on the cinema, and raced to complete Alam Ara before several contemporary sound films. Alam Ara debuted at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai on March 14, 1931...
  
  ; born in India to Iranian
• Meher Baba
  Meher Baba
  Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
  
  , Indian spiritual master, parents were from Kerman
  Kerman
  - Geological characteristics :For the Iranian paleontologists, Kerman has always been considered a fossil paradise. Finding new dinosaur footprints in 2005 has now revealed new hopes for paleontologists to better understand the history of this area.- Economy :...
  
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immigrant parents

• Sir Dinshah Irani
  Sir Dinshah Irani
  Sir Dinshah Irani was an Indian lawyer and distinguished benefactor of the Zoroastrian communities of both India and Iran....
  
  , Zoroastrian leader

See also

• List of Iran-related topics
• List of people by nationality
• Iranian peoples
  Iranian peoples
  The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...