List of Iranians

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

In the news

Artists

Calligraphists

Cartoonists

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

Photographers

Designers

Architects

Fashion designers

Graphic designers

Business

Entertainers

Comedians

Dancers and choreographers

Models, beauty pageant

Film actors

Theatre and stage actors

Filmmakers, directors

Filmmakers

Theatre and stage directors

Musicians and singers

Classical

Iranian classical traditional

Modern traditional

Western classical

Electronic

Pop

(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)

Rap music

Lyricists

Rock and metal

Film score composers

Journalists, media

Bloggers

Journalists

News anchors

Leaders, politicians, activists

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

Historical

Modern (post-Qajar)

Pahlavi period

Served in Islamic Republic government

Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition

Politicians in other nations

Activists

Prisoners and detainees

  • 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

Authors and poets

Translators

  • Abdolmajid Eskandari, academic and translator
  • Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
  • Saeed Shamloo [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Parirokh Dadsetan [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Haraton Davidian [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Levon Davidian, academic, author and translator
  • Heidarali Hooman [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Aliakbar ShoariNezhad [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author and translator
  • Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author and translator
  • Abbas Shafiee, academic, author and translator
  • Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author and translator
  • Karim Taie, academic, author and translator
  • Alireza Mobaraki, academic, author and translator
  • Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author and translator
  • Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author and translator
  • Karim Emami, author and translator
  • Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author and translator
  • Mahmoud Mansour [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Morteza Nesfat, academic, author and translator
  • Mohammad Ghazi, translator
  • Hamzeh Ganji [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Mahmoud Golzari [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Behrooz Birashk [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Shiva Dolatabadi [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author and translator
  • Reza Zamani [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Abbasgholi Daneshvar [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author and translator
  • Ahmad Siadati [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Majid M. Naini, author and translator
  • Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author and translator
  • Mahmoud Matin, academic, author and translator
  • Reza Shapurian, academic, author and translator
  • Bagher Hejazi, academic, author and translator
  • Kazem Amoli [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author and translator
  • Aliakbar Seif [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author and translator
  • Safoura Navaei, academic, author and translator
  • Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author and translator
  • Karim Haddadian [fa], author and translator
  • Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator

Religious figures

Shia Clergy

Sunni Clergy

Royalty

Scientists, scholars, and academics

Explorers and travellers

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

Technology and computer engineering

Sports

Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach

Iranian women

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

Military

Aviation

Combat Veterans

Generals

War Martyrs

Misc

Afro-Iranians

Iranians of Armenian Descent

Iranians of Assyrian descent


Emigrants and immigrants

Americans in Iran

Germans in Iran

Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

Iranians in Britain

List of British Iranians

Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia

Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt

Iranians in Pakistan

Persian Roman Catholic saints

See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

See also


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