List of Iranians

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This is a list of notable Iranians:

1 In the news
2 Artists
3 Journalism/Media
4 Leaders and politicians
- 4.1 Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)
- 4.2 Modern (post-Qajar)
5 Literature figures
- 5.1 Authors and poets
- 5.2 Translators
6 Religious figures
7 Royalty
8 Scientists, Scholars, and Academics
9 Sports
10 Iranian women
11 Other
12 See also

[edit] In the news

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; 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, businessman
Zahra Kazemi
Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector.[1]
Mohammad Khatami, former president of Iran
Rosie Malek-Yonan
Ross Mirkarimi
Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay
Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. Current pretender to the throne.
Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005.[2]
Bahar Soomekh, Iranian - American actor

[edit] Artists

See also: List of Iranian artists

[edit] Calligraphists

[edit] Cartoonists

Javad Alizadeh
Maziyar Bizhani
Kambiz Derambakhsh
Ardeshir Mohassess
Nikahang Kowsar
Mana Neyestani
Touka Neyestani
Afshin Sabooki
Alan Sakhavarz

[edit] Cinema artists

[edit] Actors and actresses

[edit] Directors and filmmakers

Behrouz Afkhami
Kiarash Anvari
Kami Asgar
Kianoush Ayyari
Morteza Avini
Shoja Azari, director. [4]
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Bahram Beizai
Mahdi Bemani Naeini
Ahmad Reza Darvish
Abolhassan Davoudi
Saeed Ebrahimifar
Bahman Farman-Ara
Ramin Farahani
Sadaf Foroughi
Iraj Ghaderi
Farokh Ghaffari [5]
Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [6]
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
Amir Fardin Sadeghi Nedjad, director of No War, No Bomb, No Famine, PEACE
Abdolhossein Sepanta
Parviz Shahbazi
Sohrab Shahid-Sales
Kamran Shirdel
Khosrow Sinai
Kamal Tabrizi
Nasser Taghvai
Iraj Tahmasb

[edit] Film score composers

[edit] Designers

[edit] Fashion designers

[edit] Graphic designers

Reza Abedini
Mehrdad Aref-Adib
Martin Armand
Ebrahim Haghighi
Bahram Kalhornia
Farshid Mesghali
Morteza Momayez
Ghobad Shiva
Zartosht Soltani

[edit] Entertainers

[edit] Comedians

[edit] Dancers

Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
Mohamad Reza Khordadian, pop
Jamileh, pop
Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric

[edit] Music video directors

Alireza Amirghassemi
Alec Cartio
Daryoush Derakshandeh
Tehran Ghasri
Darya Gol
Armin Hashemi
Kaveh Nikpour
Ravi
Koji Zadori

[edit] Musicians and Singers

[edit] Classical

See also: List of Iranian composers

[edit] Iranian Classical/Traditional

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
Parviz Meshkatian

[edit] Western Classical

[edit] Electronic

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)

[edit] Pop

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

[edit] Lyricists

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

[edit] Rock/Metal

Ahoora
Aras
Agah Bahari
Aryan Nazari
Barad
Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
Farzad Golpayegani
Kahtmayan
Khak
Kiosk
Meera
O-Hum
TarantisT
Kaveh Yaghmaei
Kourosh Yaghmaei

[edit] Painters, Illustrators and Sculptors

See also: List of Iranian painters

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
Davood Roostaie
Ali Akbar Sadeghi
Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
Sohrab Sepehri
Shaikh Mohammad Shirazi
Jazeh Tabatabai
Ali Akbar Tajvidi
Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
Hassanali Khan Vaziri
Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

[edit] Photographers

Abbas
Morteza Avini
Nader Davoodi
Manoochehr Deghati
Reza Deghati
Shahram Entekhabi
Ali Ghanbari
Kaveh Golestan
Sam Javanrouh
Nasrollah Kasraian
Behrouz Mehri
Maryam Mohammadi
Jahangir Razmi, Pulitzer prize winner
Ali Salehi
Hassan Sarbakhshian
Sadegh Tirafkan
Alfred Yaghobzadeh
Maryam Zandi

[edit] Theatre artists

[edit] Stage actors and actresses

[edit] Theatre directors

[edit] Journalism/Media

[edit] Bloggers

[edit] Journalists

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 [8]
Mirzadeh Eshghi
Touraj Farazmand
Farhang Farrahi
Farrokhi Yazdi, pahlavi era.
Akbar Ganji
Mehran Ghassemi
Mohammad Ghouchani
Kaveh Golestan, BBC Late photographer, Pulitzer Prize winner.[9]
Saeed Hajjarian
Manook Khodabakhshian
Nikahang Kowsar
Arash Markazi
Alireza Maybodi
Omid Memarian
Azadeh Moaveni
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

[edit] Television personalities

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

[edit] Leaders and politicians

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

[edit] Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)

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.
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister.
Mirza Ahmad Khan Motazed-Dowleh Vaziri, deputy of the first Majles and minister of economy.

[edit] Modern (post-Qajar)

[edit] Pahlavi period

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.[10]
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
Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
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

[edit] Served in Islamic Republic government

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

[edit] Not served or opposition

Hashem Aghajari
Reza Alamouti, Central Committee Member of Fedayan Guerillas & founder of Radio Aras
Abbas Amir-Entezam
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Jalaleddin Farsi
Dariush Forouhar
Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
Mansoor Hekmat
Alireza Jafarzadeh
Bijan Jazani
Mohsen Kadivar
Abolghasem Kashani
Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
Asghar Parsa
Habibollah Peiman
Jafar Pishevari
Alireza Rajaei
Maryam Rajavi
Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
Mousa Sadr
Ezzatollah Sahabi
Yadollah Sahabi
Karim Sanjabi
Ali Shariati, sociologist
Azam Taleghani
Mahmoud Taleghani
Parviz Varjavand
Nasser Zarafshan
Ahmad Zirakzadeh

[edit] Other Nations

Goli Ameri, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
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
Reza Moridi, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada

[edit] Literature figures

[edit] Authors and poets

Main article: Persian literature

See main list: List of Persian poets and authors

[edit] Translators

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

[edit] Religious figures

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
Allameh Majlesi
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

[edit] Royalty

See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Architects and Mi'mars

See full List of Iranian architects.

[edit] Explorers and travellers

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
Kazem Faridian, in 2007 he became the first Iranian to summit K2

[edit] Historians, Archaeologists and Iranologists

[edit] Linguists

[edit] Theorists and Philosophers

[edit] Sports

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

[edit] Iranian women

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

[edit] Other

Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and Philantropist, founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
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. [11]
Shahram Entekhabi,Iranian born artist and architect.[12]
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Doris Lessing
Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[13]
Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[14]
Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. [15]
Saadat Khan, First Nawab of Oudh in India.
Wajid Ali Shah, Last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company.

[edit] Famous Armenians of Iran

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 Hayrapetian
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

[edit] Famous Assyrians of Iran

See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians

Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
Ivan Kakovitch, (1933-2006) activist and author Mount Semele (2001)
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

[edit] Famous Chaldeans of Iran

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

[edit] Famous Americans in Iran

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

[edit] Famous Germans in Iran

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

[edit] Famous Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

[edit] Famous Iranians in Britain

See separate article: List of British Iranians.

[edit] Famous Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

[edit] Famous Iranians in India

See articles: Parsis or Irani

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

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