List of Iranians

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

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Artists
See also: List of Iranian artists

Calligraphists

Cartoonists

Cinema artists

Actors

Directors and filmmakers

Film score composers

Theatre artists

Designers

Fashion designers

Graphic designers

Entertainers

Comedians

Dancers

Music video directors

Choreographers

Musicians and singers
See also: List of Iranian musicians

Classical
See also: List of Iranian composers
Iranian Classical/traditional
Modern / traditional
Western Classical

Electronic

Pop

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

Rap music
Lyricists

Rock/metal

Painters, illustrators and sculptors
See also: List of Iranian painters

Photographers

Theatre artists

Stage actors and actresses

Theatre directors

Journalism/media

Bloggers

Journalists

Television personalities

Leaders and politicians

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

See also Ministerial Head of Government in Iran Heads of Government of Iran (1699-1907) and List of Prime Ministers of Iran.

Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)

  • Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, prime minister, multiple other roles
  • Abu Muslim, leader of the Persian uprising against Arabs
  • Amir-Kabir, Grand Vizier
  • Babak Khorram Din, leader of the Persian uprising against Arabs
  • Bagher Khan, constitutionalist leader
  • Bozorgmehr, sage and Grand Vizier of Sasanids
  • Dr Talequani Heshmat, Jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan
  • Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitutionalists; hanged
  • Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
  • Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader
  • Kaveh the blacksmith, mythical leader and liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king
  • Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general
  • Maziar, son of Karan; leader of the Persian uprising against Arabs
  • Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan
  • Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister
  • Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah
  • Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution
  • Mohammad Mossadegh, prime minister
  • Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, prime minister
  • Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor
  • Safi-ad-din Ardabili, spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty
  • Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader

Modern (post-Qajar)

Pahlavi period

Served in Islamic Republic government

Not served or opposition

Other nations

Literature figures

Authors and poets

Main article: Persian literature

Translators

Religious figures

See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.

Royalty

See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.

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.

Architects and Mi'mars

Explorers and travellers

  • Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia
  • Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

Technology

Sports

* Yu Darvish, MLB baseball player for the Texas Rangers

Iranian women

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

Other

Famous Iranians of Armenian Descent

Famous Iranians of Assyrian descent
See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians
  • Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
  • George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
  • George Malek-Yonan, politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
  • Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
  • Ivan Kakovitch (1933–2006), activist and writer (novel Mount Semele (2001))
  • Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted rice
  • Paulus Khofri, composer and painter
  • Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
  • Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
  • Shoura Osipov, Olympic boxer
  • Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran

Emigrants and immigrants

Famous Americans in Iran

Famous Germans in Iran

Famous Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Famous Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

Famous Iranians in Britain

List of British Iranians

Famous Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia

Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt

Famous Iranians in Pakistan

Persian Roman Catholic saints

See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

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