List of Iranians

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

In the news[edit]

Artists[edit]

Calligraphists[edit]

Cartoonists[edit]

Painters, illustrators and sculptors[edit]

Photographers[edit]

Designers[edit]

Architects[edit]

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]

Classical[edit]

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]

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]

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]

Translators[edit]

Religious figures[edit]

Shia Clergy[edit]

Sunni Clergy[edit]

Royalty[edit]

Scientists, scholars, and academics[edit]

Explorers and travellers[edit]

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists[edit]

Linguists[edit]

Intellectuals and philosophers[edit]

Technology and computer engineering[edit]

Sports[edit]

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]

Iranians of Assyrian descent[edit]


Emigrants and immigrants[edit]

Americans in Iran[edit]

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.