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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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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

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

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 name)

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.
  • 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

Authors and poets

Main article: Persian literature

Translators

Religious figures

See also: List of maraji and List of ayatollahs

Shia Clergy

Sunni Clergy

Royalty

Main article: List of monarchs of Persia

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

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

Technology and computer engineering

Sports

See also: Category:Iranian sportspeople

Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach

Iranian women

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

Military

Aviation

Combat Veterans

Generals

War Martyrs

Misc

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

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

  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.
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