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List of Iranians

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

In the news edit

Artists edit

See also: List of Iranian artists

Calligraphists edit

Cartoonists edit

Painters, illustrators and sculptors edit

See also: List of Iranian painters

Photographers edit

Designers edit

Architects edit

See also: List of Iranian architects and List of historical Iranian architects

Fashion designers edit

Graphic designers edit

Business edit

Entertainers edit

Comedians edit

Dancers and choreographers edit

Models, beauty pageant edit

Film actors edit

Theatre and stage actors edit

Filmmakers, directors edit

Filmmakers edit

Theatre and stage directors edit

Musicians and singers edit

See also: List of Iranian musicians

Classical edit

See also: List of Iranian composers

Iranian classical traditional edit

Modern traditional edit

Western classical edit

Electronic edit

Pop edit

(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)

Rap music edit

Lyricists edit

Rock and metal edit

Film score composers edit

Journalists, media edit

Bloggers edit

Journalists edit

News anchors edit

Leaders, politicians, activists edit

Main articles: List of grand viziers of Persia, List of prime ministers of Iran, and List of monarchs of Persia

This list excludes royalty, which can be accessed by the main article link above.

Historical edit

Modern (post-Qajar) edit

Pahlavi period edit

Served in Islamic Republic government edit

See also: List of current Iranian officials

Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition edit

Politicians in other nations edit

Activists edit

Prisoners and detainees edit

  • Zahra Bani Ameri (1980–2007), physician, died in a prison in Hamedan after being arrested for breaching modesty laws by sitting in a park with her fiancée.
  • Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), photographer, television actress, subject of a 2006 sex tape scandal in Iran
  • Zeynab Jalaliyan, Kurdish prisoner
  • Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, who according to the medical examiner was raped, tortured and killed by Iranian officials following her arrest in Iran.
  • Hossein Rajabian, imprisoned filmmaker
  • Nasser Fahimi, a doctor from Kurdistan, a political and ideological prisoner
  • Mehdi Rajabian, imprisoned musician

Literature figures edit

Authors and poets edit

Main article: Persian literature

Translators edit

Religious figures edit

See also: List of maraji and List of ayatollahs

Shia Clergy edit

Sunni Clergy edit

Royalty edit

Main article: List of monarchs of Persia

Scientists, scholars, and academics edit

Main articles: List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars and List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

Explorers and travellers edit

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists edit

Linguists edit

Intellectuals and philosophers edit

Technology and computer engineering edit

Sports edit

See also: Category:Iranian sportspeople

Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach

Iranian women edit

See separate articles: Persian woman and List of Persian women.

Military edit

Aviation edit

Combat Veterans edit

Generals edit

War Martyrs edit

Misc edit

Afro-Iranians edit

Iranians of Armenian Descent edit

See also: List of Armenian-Iranians

Iranians of Assyrian descent edit

See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians


Emigrants and immigrants edit

Americans in Iran edit

See also: Category:American expatriates in Iran

Germans in Iran edit

Iranians in America edit

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Iranians in Canada edit

See article: Iranian-Canadian

Iranians in Britain edit

List of British Iranians

Iranians in Germany edit

Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia edit

Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands edit

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Finland edit

Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Sweden edit

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt edit

Iranians in Pakistan edit

Persian Roman Catholic saints edit

See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ https://philpeople.org/profiles/dr-mostafa-javadi-pour-moradi
  2. ^ "Shargh Newspaper" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Alireza Norouzi".
  4. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi".
  5. ^ "Alireza Norouzi — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  6. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  7. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  8. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  9. ^ "حمیده جهانگیری".
  10. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  11. ^ Hern, Bill; Gleave, David (30 October 2020). "Dennis Walker: Manchester United's first and only black Busby Babe". theguardian.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
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