Al-ʻIjliyyah – 10th-century female maker of astrolabes
Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue')
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Al-ʻIjliyyah – 10th-century female maker of astrolabes
Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue')
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Grand Ayatollah
Muhammad Hussain Najafi - He Wrote Several Influential Books Which Massively Changed The Minds Of Most Shia Muslim Of Pakistan
Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai – translated Thomas Gray's
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic.
Qurratulain Hyder – (She was Sunni but widely thought of as shia because of her name, Hyder..) female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature"
Muhammad Hussain Inoki – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts
Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah (also Muhammad Husayn Fadl-Allāh or Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh) (born 1935) – prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric[3]
Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi – led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes"
Allameh Tabatabaei – one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (
Marja) for
Shi'a Muslims around the world
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani – currently the pre-eminent
marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today