List of Iranians
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This is a list of notable Iranians:
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2nd place, Miss World 2003; Miss Canada 2003.
- Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian American actress
- Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005.
- Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
- Farzan Athari, Model
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, UK's Women of the Year 2006 Award winner, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani
- Jimmy Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills
- Ali Dizaei, Senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel prize in Peace
- Akbar Ganji
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Alireza Jafarzadeh, FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst
- Kia Joorabchian, buisinessman
- Zahra Kazemi
- Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector. [1]
- Mohammad Khatami, former president of Iran
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay
- Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. Current pretender to the throne.
- Gholam A. Peyman, Inventor of LASIK (U.S. Patent 4,840,175)
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005. [2]
- Bahar Soomekh, Iranian - American actor
- See also: List of Iranian artists
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Ali Bozorgmehr [3]
- Abolhassan Etessami
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
- Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
- Reza Mafi
- Mishkín-Qalam
- Bahman Panahi
- Jalil Rasouli
- Mir Ali Tabrizi
- Javad Alizadeh
- Maziyar Bizhani
- Kambiz Derambakhsh
- Ardeshir Mohassess
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Mana Neyestani
- Touka Neyestani
- Afshin Sabooki
- Alan Sakhavarz
- Akbar Abdi
- Golab Adineh
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Jahangir Almasi
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
- Fariborz Arabnia
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Asal Badiee
- Catherine Bell
- Delkash
- Omid Djalili
- Bizhan Emkanian
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Hadi Eslami
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Nayereh Farahani
- Behzad Farahani
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Majid Farahani
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Farimah Farjami
- Bita Farrahi
- Hamid Farrokhnezhad
- Shamsi Fazlollahi
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Leila Forouhar
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Garsha
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Sorayya Ghasemi
- Tehran Ghasri
- Googoosh
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Azita Hajian
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Jamshid Hashempour
- Leila Hatami
- Amin Hayaee
- Rambod Javan
- Hamid Jebeli
- Maz Jobrani
- Niki Karimi
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Reza Kianian
- Ashkan Khatibi
- Gowhar Kheirandish
- Fakhri Khorvash
- Majid Majidi
- Nasser Malekmoti'ee
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Parvaneh Masoumi
- Mehran Modiri
- Bahman Mofid
- Ali Mosaffa
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
- Ahmad Najafi
- Ali Nassirian
- Roya Nonahali
- Roxanne Pallett
- Hossien Panahi
- Parviz Parastouee
- Atila Pesyani
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Pourhosseini
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Saeed Rad
- Bahram Radan
- Davoud Rashidi
- Habib Rezaee
- Homa Rousta
- Reza Rouygari
- Sarah Shahi
- Hossein Sarshar
- Parviz Sayyad
- Reza Shafieejam
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Mozhdeh Shamsaee
- Mehraveh Sharifinia
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Soroush Sehhat
- Bahar Soomekh
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Amin Tarokh
- Sussan Taslimi
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Merila Zarei
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kiarash Anvari
- Kami Asgar
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Morteza Avini
- Shoja Azari, director. [4]
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Bahram Beizai
- Mahdi Bemani Naeini
- Mikaela Booth
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Saeed Ebrahimifar
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Ramin Farahani
- Amir Fardin, director of No War, No Bomb, No Famine, PEACE
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [5]
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
- Akbar Golrang
- Ali Hatami
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Hassan Hedayat
- Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Darius Khondji
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- David Mahmoudieh
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Darius Mehrjui, director of Leila
- Reza Mirkarimi, director of So Close, So Far
- Mehran Modiri, director of Pavarchin, Noghtechin, Shabhaye Barareh
- Jalal Moghaddam
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Babak Payami, director of Silence between Two Thoughts
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvai
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Reza Abedini
- Mehrdad Aref-Adib
- Martin Armand
- Ebrahim Haghighi
- Bahram Kalhornia
- Farshid Mesghali
- Morteza Momayez
- Ghobad Shiva
- Zartosht Soltani
- Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
- Mohamad Reza Khordadian, pop
- Jamileh, pop
- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric
- Alireza Amirghassemi
- Alec Cartio
- Daryoush Derakshandeh
- Tehran Ghasri
- Darya Gol
- Armin Hashemi
- Kaveh Nikpour
- Ravi
- Koji Zadori
- See also: List of Iranian composers
- Loghman Adhami
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Axiom of Choice
- Habiblouh Badie
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina, folkloric music
- Mohammad Reza Darvishi
- Delkash
- Hossein Khaje Amiri
- Hossein Khan Esmail Zadeh
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Akbar Golpaygani
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Kamkarha
- Mamak Khadem (of Axiom of Choice)
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Javad Maroofi
- Marzieh
- Mojtaba Mirzadeh
- Mohammad Mousavi
- Mohsen Namjoo
- Shahram Nazeri
- Bahman Panahi
- Parisa
- Abolhasan Saba
- Mohammad Shams
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Hossein Tehrani
- Abdolali Vaziri, singer and tar player
- Alinaghi Vaziri, composer and tar player
- Parviz Yahaghi
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Mahmoud Zoulfonoun
- Zyriab
- Lily Afshar
- Mohammad Reza Darvishi
- Armik
- Tania Eshaghoff
- Shahin Farhat
- Golriz Hashemi
- Aminollah Hossein
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Alireza Mashayekhi
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Ali Rahbari
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Heshmat Sandjari
- Farshad Sandjari
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
- DJ Maryam
- Fred Maslaki
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
- Nami
- Behrouz Nazari
- Omid Nourizadeh
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
- Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
- Arian Band [6]
- Afshin
- Arash
- Arian Band
- Aref
- Alireza Assar
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili
- Babak Torgoley
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Black Cats
- Darius Danesh
- Dariush Eghbali
- Davoud Behboodi
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Farhad
- Farshid Amin
- Faramarz Aslani
- Faramarz Assef
- Fereidoun Farrahi
- Fereidoun Foroughi
- Golpa
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hayadeh
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hodi
- Homeyrah
- Houshmand Aghili
- Jamshid (musician)
- Kamran Delan
- Kamran & Hooman
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Martik
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Mekabiz
- Mohammad Esfehani
- Mohammad Nouri
- Moein
- Nooshafarin
- Omid
- Pyruz
- Reza Sadeghi
- Sattar
- Senadee
- Sepideh
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Susan Roshan
- Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
- Shahram Solati
- Shahrokh
- Shahyad
- Saeed Mohammadi
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Shahrum K
- Shohreh Solati
- Siavash
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
- Toofun
- Vigen
- Masoud Amini
- Masoud Fardmanesh
- Shahriar Ghanbary
- Maryam Heydarzadeh
- Homayoun Hoshyarnejad
- Iraj Janati Atai
- Leila Kasra
- Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
- Bijan Samandar
- Ardalan Sarfaraz
- Jaklin Vigen
- Zoya Zakarian
- Paksima Zakipour
- Ahoora
- Aras
- Agah Bahari
- Barad
- Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
- Farzad Golpayegani
- Kahtmayan
- Khak
- Kiosk
- Meera
- O-Hum
- TarantisT
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Reza Abbasi
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Hanibal Alkhas
- Aqa Buzurg
- Mohammad Reza Atashzad
- Hossein Behzad
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Ali Bozorgmehr
- Iran Darroudi
- Majid Fadaeian
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Nader Farzan - website
- Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
- Mansoureh Hosseini
- Bahram Kalhornia
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Zhaleh Kazemi
- Farshid Maleki
- Mani
- Roohee Mirbaha
- Noreen Motamed
- Nima Petgar
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Shaikh Mohammad Shirazi
- Ali Akbar Tajvidi
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Hassanali Khan Vaziri
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Abbas
- Morteza Avini
- Nader Davoodi
- Manoochehr Deghati
- Reza Deghati
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Kaveh Golestan
- Sam Javanrouh
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Behrouz Mehri
- Maryam Mohammadi
- Jahangir Razmi, Pulitzer prize winner
- Hassan Sarbakhshian
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Alfred Yaghobzadeh
- Maryam Zandi
- Mehdi Bajestani
- Shiva Boloorian
- Maryam Davari
- Behzad Farahani
- Shamsi Fazlollahi
- Mohammad Reza Jozi
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Alex Mohajer
- Ali Nassirian
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Ahmad Saatchian
- Roya Teymourian
- Shabnam Tolooei
- Mohammad Aghebati
- Akbar Alizad
- Mahmood Azizi
- Bahram Bayzai
- Shiva Boloorian
- Amir Dejakam
- Vahid Evazzadeh
- Behrouz Gharibpour
- Hassan Majooni
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ardavan Mofid
- Bijan Mofid
- Hengameh Mofid
- Hamed Mohammad Taheri
- Kousrosh Narimani
- Mohammad Javad Ostadi
- Soheil Parsa
- Atila Pessyani
- Ali Rafiee
- Vahid Rahbani
- Ghotbedin Sadeghi
- Hamid Samandarian
- Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh
- Kambiz Samimi Mofakham
- Mohammad Yaghoobi
- Arash Abad Pour
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi
- Mehrdad Aref-Adib
- Hossein Derakhshan
- Mehdi Jami
- Omid Memarian
- Pedram Moallemian
- Sina Motalebi
- Mojtaba Saminejad
- Ali Sanaei
- Sasan Aghaei
- Hashem Aghajari
- Masih Alinejad
- Ahmad Allahyari
- Pouian Allahyari
- Christiane Amanpour
- Rudi Bakhtiar
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar
- Massoud Behnoud
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
- Masoud Dehnamaki
- Azadeh Ensha The New York Times
- Pari Esfandiari [7]
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Touraj Farazmand
- Farhang Farrahi
- Farrokhi Yazdi, pahlavi era.
- Akbar Ganji
- Said Ghaem Maghami
- Mohammad Ghouchani
- Kaveh Golestan, BBC Late photographer, Pulitzer Prize winner.[8]
- Mehrdad Haghighi
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Sasan Kamali
- Ashkan Khajehnoori
- Manook Khodabakhshian
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Arash Markazi
- Alireza Maybodi
- Omid Memarian
- Azadeh Moaveni
- Akbar Montajebi
- Sina Motallebi
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Alireza Nourizadeh
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Shadi Sadr
- Abolmohsen Salemi
- Homa Sarshar
- Ahmad Shamlou
- Mashallah Shams-ol-vaezin
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Youness Shokrkhah
- Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil
- Behrang Tonekaboni
- Bozorgmehr Vaziri
- Amin Zarghami
- Mehdi Zokaii
- Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
- Shahram Aslani
- Zia Atabay
- Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News
- Mehrdad Esmaili Kia, founder and CEO, Persian Music Channel
- Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
- Tehran Ghasri
- Farzad Hassani
- Bahram Moshiri
- Alireza Meybodi
- Reza Rashidpour
- Hamid Shabkhiz, founder, Iran TV Network
The list here excludes the royalty. An extensive list of Persian royalty appears further down in this page.
See also List of Prime Ministers of Iran.
- Abu Muslim, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Babak Khorram Din, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs
- Bozorgmehr Sage and Grand Vizier of Sasanids.
- Fazl ebne Sahl, Abbasid Grand Vizier
- Amir-Kabir, Grand Vizier.
- Heidar Khan Amughli, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Iran during the Constitutionalist Revolution of Gilan.
- Dr Talequani Heshmat, jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan.
- Bagher Khan, constitutionalist leader
- Hosein Dadgar, parliament speaker.
- Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, prime minister, multiple other roles.
- Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader.
- Kaveh the Blacksmith, Legendary Leader and Liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king.
- Maziar son of Karan,Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan.
- Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah.
- Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution.
- Prince Moahammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah, Dowlatshah carried the last, and the most successful, attack on the Ottoman Empire in Iraq at 1821.
- Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Prime Minister.
- Nezam al-Molk, statesman and vizier.
- Ostadsis,Leader of Persian uprising against Arabs
- Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitunalists, hanged.
- Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor.
- Colonel Pesian
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general.
- Safi Al-Din, Spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty.
- Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader.
- Bahram Aryana, military commander
- Mehdi Agili, minister of education
- Dr Ahmad Ahmadi, notorious prison interrogator
- Mohammad Hosein Airom, senior military leader
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
- Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[9]
- Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
- Hasan Arfa, Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
- Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis Fars Province
- Ramzi Abbas Attaie, Admiral and Commander in Chief, Imperial Iranian Navy
- Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Bahman Batmanghelidj, Prominent Businessman and Developer
- Fereydoon Batamanghelidj (Correctly spelt Batmanghelidj), Doctor and Prominent Businessman
- Nader Batmanghelidj, Lt. General and Interior Minister
- Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
- Ali Akbar Davar, Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
- George Malek-Yonan, procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
- Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
- Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian, Minister of Finance
- Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, Director of Sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
- Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Established first social worker schools in Iran.
- Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father.
- Nader Jahanbani, air force general, pilot
- Mohammad Khatami, four-star General, Commander of Iranian Air Force
- Mahmoud Khayami, leading industrialist.
- Kazem Kouros, Senator, Industrialist, Philanthropist
- Mahmud Mahmud, politician
- Qazi Mohammad, Kurdish politician, first (and only) Kurdish president of the 1946 Republic of Kurdistan
- Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Colonel Pesian, military leader
- Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
- Seyyed Jalal Taghavi Laridjani or (Taghavi Larigani), senior politician, Member of Parliament (“Majlis Shoraayeh Melli”)
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian Statesman
- Hasan Toufanian, four-star army general
- Ardeshir Zahedi
- Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
- Ali Abdolalizadehh, minister of housing and urban development
- Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, vice speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Head of Central Bank of Iran, Ambassador to United Kingdom
- Emad Afrough, member of parliament
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mayor of Tehran, now president of Iran
- Abbasali Alizadeh
- Hossein Allah-Karam
- Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
- Majead Ansari, member of parliament
- Hossein Ansari-Rad, member of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
- Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
- Habibollah Asgarowladi, member of parliament
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- Ayatollah Azari-Ghomi
- Hassan Ayat
- Asadollah Badamchian
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
- Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
- Maoud Dehnamaki
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
- Gholam Hossein Elham
- Manuchehr Eliasi, Jewish member of parliament
- Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
- Mohammad Emami-Kashani
- Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
- Nafiseh Fayyazbakhsh, parliament representative
- Iraj Fazel, minister of health
- Hassan Ghafourifard, minister of energy
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairs
- Shahabeddin Gonabadi, minister of housing and urban development
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Hassan Habibi, first vice president
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Morteza Haji, minister of education
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, current head of judiciary
- Gholamreza Hassani, Friday Prayer Imam of Urmia
- Elias Hazrati, member of parliament
- Mahmoud Hojjati, minister of roads and transportation
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
- Ahmad Khatami
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Abolghasem Khaz'ali
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
- Asadollah Lajevardi
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Sadegh Larijani
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Alireza Mahjoub
- Hossein Mahlouji, minister of mining and metals
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
- Mohseni-Ezhe'i
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
- Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Morteza Motahhari
- Ahmad Motamedi, minister of communications
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
- Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
- Hossein Mousavi-Tabrizi
- Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Morteza Nabavi
- Elias Naderan, Majlis Representative
- Mohammad Reza Naghdi
- Mohammad Ali Najafi, minister of education
- Hadi Namazi
- Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Niazi
- Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
- Ali Parvaresh
- Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
- Mohsen Rafighdoust
- Ebrahim Raisi, first deputy of head of judiciary system
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Ali Razini
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
- Hassan Rowhani, deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Saeedikia, minister of roads and transportation
- Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
- Rahim Safavi
- Mohammad Salamati
- Ali Akbar Salehi
- Ayatollah Sane'i
- Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, member of parliament
- Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Arman Sadeghi
- Jalaleddin Taheri
- Hamid Reza Taraghghi
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
- Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
- Ali Younessi, minister of information
- Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
- General Zolghadr
See also: List of current Iranian officials
- Abdolali Adib Baroumand
- Eynatollah Tabib
- Hashem Aghajari
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Mohammad Hossein Boroujerdi
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Jalaleddin Farsi
- Dariush Forouhar
- Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
- Jahangir Haghshenas
- Kazem Hassibi
- Mansoor Hekmat
- Alireza Jafarzadeh
- Bijan Jazani
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Bagher Kazemi
- Lotfollah Meisami
- Ahmad Mofti Zadeh
- Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
- Farrokh Negahdar
- Asghar Parsa
- Habibollah Peiman
- Jafar Pishevari
- Alireza Rajaei
- Maryam Rajavi
- Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Alireza Saberi
- Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
- Mousa Sadr
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Yadollah Sahabi
- Allahyar Saleh
- Karim Sanjabi
- Sadegh Sharafkandi
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Azam Taleghani
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Parviz Varjavand
- Nasser Zarafshan
- Ahmad Zirakzadeh
- Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, half-Iranian (mother)
- Nusrat Bhutto, Former first lady of Pakistan
- Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
- Moshe Katsav, Former President of Israel
- Shaul Mofaz, Current Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense
- See main list: List of Persian poets and authors
- Karim Emami, author and translator
- Mohammad Ghazi, translator
- Karim Hesami, author and translator
- Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator
- Majid M. Naini, author and translator
- Dariush Saberi, translator
See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.
- Báb, prophet
- Bahá'u'lláh, prophet
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
- Mani, founder of Manichaeism
- Mazdak,Religious and Social Reformer
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
- Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
- Mulla Sadra
- Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, Present Sufi master of Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
- Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
- Safi Al-Din
- Salman the Persian
- Zahed Gilani
- Zoroaster, prophet
See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.
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.
See full List of Iranian architects.
- Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
- Issa Omidvar, (Omidvar Brothers were the first Iranian adventurers who traveled around the world)
- Abdollah Omidvar, (Omidvar Brothers, the first Iranian adventurers who traveled around the world)
- Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
- Kamyar Abdi
- Abbas Alizadeh
- Fraydon Aryan
- Touraj Atabaki
- Masoud Azarnoush
- Mehrdad Bahar
- Touraj Daryaee
- Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
- Kaveh Farrokh
- Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Yousef Madjidzadeh
- Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
- Ezzatolah Neghban
- Shahrokh Razmjou
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
- Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
- Jaleh Amouzgar
- Mehrdad Bahar
- Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
- Parviz Natel-Khanlari
- Zabihollah Safa
- Ahmad Tafazzoli
- Ehsan Yarshater
- Hossein Elahi Ghomshei
- Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
- Ehsan Naraghi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Dariush Shayegan
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Alex Agase, American football player
- Andre Agassi, tennis player
- Emmanuel Agassi, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
- Rahim Aliabadi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Khodadad Azizi, football player
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
- Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
- Yu Darvish, Iranian-Japanese baseball player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
- Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
- Vahid Hashemian, football player
- Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
- Said Ali Akbar Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
- George Issabeg, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
- Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Yossef Karami, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
- Ali Karimi, football player
- Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Rasul Khadem Azghadi, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathelon
- Arash Miresmaili, Judo World Champion
- Syed Mohammed Hadi, Indian cricketer and tennis player of Persian descent
- Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
- Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
- Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Javad Nekounam, football player
- Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
- Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
- Ali Parvin, football player and coach
- Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Aravane Rezaï tennis player
- Rahman Rezaei, football player
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000 , Athen 2004, world record holder
- Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
- Hadi Saei, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mohammed Jaafar Salmasi, weightlifter, Olympic Bronze Medalist, London 1948, First Iranian Olympic Medalist
- Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Andranik Teymourian, football player
- Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
- Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
- Fereydoon Zandi, football player
See separate articles: Persian Woman and List of Persian women.
- Saeed Asgar, assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
- Minu Barati, wife of Joschka Fischer, the former German Foreign Minister.
- Ali Dashti
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California
- Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Shahram Jazayeri
- Mori Hosseini, Distinguished community leader. [10]
- Shahram Entekhabi,Iranian born artist and architect.[11]
- Mehran Karimi Nasseri
- Doris Lessing
- Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
- Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[12]
- Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
- Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[13]
- Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. [14]
- Saadat Khan, First Nawab of Oudh in India.
- Wajid Ali Shah, Last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company.
- See also: List of Armenian-Iranians
- Klara Abkar, painter
- Andre Agassi, Tennis Champion
- Emmanuel Agassi, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran, Father of Andre Agassi
- Armaees Aghamaliyan
- Anik, actress
- Anoosh, actress
- Arman Hovsepian, actor
- Vigen Derderian, singer
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi, film editor/director
- Samuel Khachikian, film director
- Loretta
- Daron Malakian, guitarist of System of a Down
- Rubik Mansuri
- Ovannes Ohanian, first Iranian film director
- Petrus Palian
- Artashes Patmagarian
- Mushegh Soruri
- Loris Tjeknavorian
- Andranik Teymourian
- Varuzhan
- Yeprem Khan
- See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
- Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
- Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
- William Daniel, composer, writer
- George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- Ivan Kakovitch, (1933-2006) activist and author Mount Semele (2001)
- Atour Khnanishoo, Iran Parliament representative
- Paulus Khofri, composer, painter
- Marganita Vogt-Khofri, Pianist, Vocalist
- George Malek-Yonan, politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
- Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted Rice
- Rosie Malek-Yonan, actor, activist and author of The Crimson Field
- Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- Benjamin Taimoorazy, M.D., inventor of Napas Breathing Device
- Albert Bavi, General Manager of Power and Water, Tehran Division
- Paul Caldani, composer, writer, music researcher
- Villard Salibi, designer
- Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran
- Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr
- Joseph Cochran
- Elgin Groseclose, Treasury General, Persia
- Samuel M. Jordan whom "Jordan Ave." in Tehran is named after
- John Limbert
- William M. Miller
- Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia
- Richard Nelson Frye
- Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian Culture revivalists
- Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia
- David Stronach
- Ernst-Jakob Christoffel German missionary in Iran and founder of Isfahan Institute for the Blind and of Christian Blind Mission
- Annemarie Schimmel, German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
- Wilhelm Wassmuss German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, first World War
See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.
See article: Iranian-Canadian
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master, parents were from Kerman.
- Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian talkie Alam Ara; born in India to Iranian immigrant parents
- Sir Dinshah Irani, Zoroastrian leader