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

In the news

• Hossein Ronaghi, Iranian human rights activist and blogger

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

• Abbas the Great

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

Literature figures

Authors and poets

• See main list: List of Persian-language poets and authors

• Adam Khaze, author, researcher
• Jamshid Behnam, author
• Allameh Dehkhoda, author
• Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, author
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, author
• Jalal Homaei, author
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, author
• Sadeq Hedayat, author
• Shahrokh Meskoob, author
• Saeed Shamloo, academic, author
• Ali Abdolrezaei, author
• Parirokh Dadsetan, academic, author
• Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, author
• Haraton Davidian, academic, author
• Levon Davidian, academic, author
• Heidarali Hooman, academic, author
• Saeed Nafisi, author
• Aliakbar ShoariNezhad, academic, author
• Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author
• Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author
• Abbas Shafiee, academic, author
• Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author
• Karim Taie, academic, author
• Mohammad Moin, author
• Alireza Norouzi, academic, author
• Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author
• Ahmad Kasravi, author
• Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author
• Karim Emami, author
• Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author
• Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
• Sadeq Hedayat
• Nazi Safavi
• Mahmoud Mansour, academic, author
• Shahriyar Mandanipour
• Abutorab Khosravi
• Morteza Nesfat, academic, author
• Hamzeh Ganji, academic, author
• Reza Ghassemi
• Zoya Pirzad
• Mahmoud Golzari, academic, author
• Behrooz Birashk, academic, author
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
• Shiva Dolatabadi, academic, author
• Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author
• Bahman Forsi
• Reza Zamani, academic, author
• Houshang Golshiri
• Reza Baraheni
• Abbasgholi Daneshvar, academic, author
• Abbas Maroufi
• Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author
• Bozorg Alavi
• Ahmad Siadati, academic, author
• Majid M. Naini, author
• Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author
• Mahmoud Matin, academic, author
• Bahram Sadeghi
• Reza Shapurian, academic, author
• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
• Ghazaleh Alizadeh
• Bagher Hejazi, academic, author
• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
• Kazem Amoli, academic, author
• Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author
• Simin Daneshvar
• Aliakbar Seif, academic, author
• Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author
• Ebrahim Golestan
• Bahman Sholevar
• Neda Aria, author, researcher
• Safoura Navaei, academic, author
• Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author
• Sadeq Chubak
• Karim Haddadian, academic, author

Translators

Religious figures

Royalty

Scientists, scholars, and academics

Explorers and travellers

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

• See main list: List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
• See main list: List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

Technology and computer engineering

Sports

Iranian women

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

Military

Aviation

Misc

Afro-Iranians

• Abdolreza Barzegari, footballer
• Abdul Karim Farhani, Iranian Shia Cleric
• Ali Firouzi, footballer and coach
• Mehrab Shahrokhi, footballer
• Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Iranians Shia Cleric (Afro-Ahwazi Arab)
• Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Iranian folk band
• Dennis Walker, footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United

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

• List of Iran-related topics
• List of people by nationality
• Iranian peoples

References

Articles connexes

1. List of presidents of Iran
2. List of monarchs of Persia
3. List of Iranians by net worth
4. List of Iranian officials
5. List of aircraft of the Iranian Air Force
6. Iranian
7. Provinces of Iran
8. List of current Iran governors-general
9. List of political parties in Iran
10. List of prime ministers of Iran
11. List of Iranian aviation accidents and incidents
12. List of companies of Iran
13. List of Iranian Americans
14. Demographics of Iran
15. List of British Iranians
16. List of airlines of Iran
17. Outline of Iran
18. List of current ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
19. List of cities in Iran by province
20. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran)