List of Iranians

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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

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

See also: List of Iranian painters

Photographers

Designers

Architects

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

Fashion designers

  • Pegah Anvarian (born 1974), Iranian-born American fashion designer, based in Los Angeles
  • Bijan
  • Shirin Guild, Iranian-born British fashion designer
  • Mike Amiri, American fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the fashion house AMIRI
  • Arefeh Mansouri (born 1980), Iranian-Canadian fashion and costume designer
  • Behnaz Sarafpour (born 1969), Iranian-born American couture fashion designer, based in New York City
  • Mahla Zamani (1950-2023), fashion designer, journalist; expert on traditional Iranian clothing

Graphic designers

Industrian 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

See also: List of Iranian musicians

Classical

See also: List of Iranian composers

Iranian classical traditional

Modern traditional

Western classical

Electronic

Pop

Rap music

Lyricists

Rock and metal

Film score composers

Journalists, media

Bloggers

Journalists

News anchors

Leaders, politicians, activists

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

Modern (post-Qajar)

Pahlavi period

Served in Islamic Republic government

See also: List of current Iranian officials

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.
  • Mahsa Amini (1999–2022), was arrested by the Guidance Patrol for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards, and died in police custody in Vozara Detention Center amid assertions of police brutality
  • Marziyeh Amirizadeh (born 1979), Iranian-American author imprisoned in Evin Prison and sentenced to execution by hanging for converting to Christianity; later tortured, and released after 259 days.
  • Zahra Bahrami (1965–2011), dual Dutch and Iranian citizen arrested during a political protest, imprisoned in Evin Prison, and later convicted for drug trafficking and executed by hanging
  • Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), photographer, television actress, subject of a 2006 sex tape scandal in Iran
  • Nasser Fahimi, a doctor from Kurdistan, a political and ideological prisoner
  • Zeynab Jalaliyan (born 1982), Kurdish prisoner, initially sentenced to death for "enmity against God" (moharebeh) due to alleged political alignment with Kurdish groups, held in Yazd Central Prison since 2008
  • 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.
  • Sharifeh Mohammadi (born 1979), social activist and political prisoner sentenced to death, held in Lakan Prison
  • Verisheh Moradi (born c. 1985/86), political prisoner and women's rights activist sentenced to death and imprisoned in Sanandaj Prison and Evin Prison since 2023
  • Taraneh Mousavi (1981–2009), arrested for protesting the 2009 election results, died after being sexually abused while in custody
  • Hossein Rajabian, imprisoned filmmaker
  • Mehdi Rajabian, imprisoned musician
  • Zahra Tabari (born c. 1958), electrical engineer and activist sentenced to death by hanging on charges of "armed rebellion" after she was found to possess a cloth printed with the "Woman, Life, Freedom" slogan, held in Lakan Prison since 2025

Literature figures

Authors and poets

Main article: Persian literature
  • Sadeq Chubak, author of short fiction, drama, and novels
  • Karim Haddadian [fa], academic, author

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
  • Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, humorist, and translator
  • Abbas Shafiee, academic, author and translator
  • Karim Emami, author and translator
  • Mahmoud Mansour [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Mohammad Ghazi, translator andwriter
  • 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
  • Reza Zamani [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Abbasgholi Daneshvar [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author and translator[9]
  • Ahmad Siadati [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Majid M. Naini, author and translator
  • Kazem Amoli [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author and translator
  • Aliakbar Seif [fa], academic, author and translator
  • Karim Haddadian [fa], author and translator
  • Shahrokh Meskoob, author, literary historian, and translator

Religious figures

See also: List of maraji and List of ayatollahs

Contemporary Shia Clergy

Contemporary Sunni Clergy

  • Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi
  • Abdolqader Zahedi
  • Abdul Rahman Arefi [fa]
  • Abdul Rahman Khoda'i [fa]
  • Abdul Rahman Mullazahi [fa]
  • Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]
  • Burhan Ealla [fa]
  • Faiq Rostami [fa]
  • Hosamaddin Mujtahidi [fa]
  • Iqbal Bahmani [fa]
  • Kamal Akhund Gharavi [fa]
  • Mohammad Ishaq Madani [fa]
  • Mohmmad Sheikh al-Islami [fa]

Royalty

Main articles: List of monarchs of Iran and List of royal consorts of Iran

Scientists, scholars, and academics

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

Explorers and travellers

  • Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

Technology and computer engineering

  • Kiarash Vosough, Iranian-Canadian sheet metal estimator at HTS Engineering Ltd. Delivering Real Success.

Sports

See also: Category:Iranian sportspeople

Iranian women

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

Military

Aviation

Combat Veterans

Generals

War Martyrs

Misc

  • Shohreh Bayat (born 1987), international chess arbiter for FIDE, awarded an International Women of Courage Award for being a champion for women’s rights, based in England
  • Ladan and Laleh Bijani (1974–2003), conjoined twins
  • Dorsa Derakhshani (born 1998), Iranian-American chess player and medical student; Woman Grandmaster and International Master, moved to the U.S. after being banned from the Iranian national chess team for not wearing a hijab during a tournament
  • Sahar Khodayari (c.1990–2019), attempted to enter a sporting stadium disguised as a man in; she died by suicide
  • Sheila Nazarian (born 1989), Iranian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
  • Atousa Pourkashiyan (born 1988), Iranian-American chess player; Woman Grandmaster

Afro-Iranians

Iranians of Armenian Descent

See also: List of Armenian-Iranians

Iranians of Assyrian descent

See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians

Emigrants and immigrants

Americans in Iran

See also: Category:American expatriates in Iran

Germans in Iran

Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

Kiarash Vosough - sheet metal estimator

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

References

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