List of Iranians
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This is a list of famous or important Iranians:
- 1 In the news
- 2 Artists
- 2.1 Authors and poets
- 2.2 Painters
- 2.3 Photographers
- 2.4 Calligraphists
- 2.5 Cinema artists
- 2.6 Musicians and Singers
- 3 Journalists
- 4 Leaders and politicians
- 4.7 Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)
- 4.8 Modern (post-Qajar)
- 5 Religious figures
- 6 Royalty
- 7 Scientists, Scholars, and Academics
- 8 Sports
- 9 Translators
- 10 Iranian women
- 11 Other
- 11.1 Famous Armenians of Iran
- 11.2 Famous Americans in Iran
- 11.3 Famous Iranians in America
- 11.4 Famous Iranians in Canada
- 11.5 Famous Iranians in India
- 12 See also
- 13 External links
In the news
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2nd place, Miss World 2003; Miss Canada 2003.
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005.
- Anousheh Ansari, X Prize named after her.
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani
- Shirin Ebadi
- Akbar Ganji
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Zahra Kazemi
- Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector. [link]
- Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Mostafa Moin
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005. [link]
Artists
Authors and poets
- See main article: Persian literature
- See main list: List of Persian poets and authors
Painters
- Mani
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Reza Abbasi
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Hanibal Alkhas
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Hossein Behzad
- Ali Bozorgmehr [link]
- Iran Darroudi
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Mansoureh Hosseini
- Shaikh Mohammad Shirazi
- Ali Akbar Tajvidi
- Farrukh Beg
- Dust Mohammad Mosawwar
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Aqa Buzurg
- Polton Poxon Reang
- Hema Kumar
- Kevai Thangal
- Amit Verma
- Pallavi Sharma --- I'm really a gr8 Painter
- Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
- Farshid Maleki
- Manouchehr Atash
- Majid Fadaeian
- Zhaleh Kazemi
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
Photographers
See main list: List of Iranian photographers
Calligraphists
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Ali Bozorgmehr [link]
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Bahman Panahi
Cinema artists
Actors & Actresses
- Akbar Abdi
- Golab Adineh
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Jahangir Almasi
- Fariborz Arabnia
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Asal Badiee
- Delkash
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Hadi Eslami
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Behzad Farahani
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Farimah Farjami
- Bita Farrahi
- Hamid Farrokhnezhad
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Leila Forouhar
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Garsha
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Sorayya Ghasemi
- Googoosh
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Azita Hajian
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Jamshid Hashempour
- Leila Hatami
- Amin Hayaee
- Rambod Javan
- Hamid Jebeli
- Niki Karimi
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Reza Kianian
- Gowhar Kheirandish
- Fakhri Khorvash
- Majid Majidi
- Nasser Malekmoti'ee
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Parvaneh Ma'soumi
- Mehran Modiri
- Bahman Mofid
- Ali Mosaffa
- Fatemeh Mo'tamed-Aria
- Ahmad Najafi
- Ali Nassirian
- Roya Nonahali
- Hossien Panahi
- Parviz Parastouee
- Atila Pesyani
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Pourhosseini
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Saeed Rad
- Bahram Radan
- Davoud Rashidi
- Habib Rezaee
- Homa Rousta
- Reza Rouygari
- Hossein Sarshar
- Parviz Sayyad
- Reza Shafi'eejam
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Mozhdeh Shamsaee
- Mehraveh Sharifinia
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Soroush Sehhat
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Amin Tarokh
- Sussan Taslimi
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Merila Zare'i
Directors and Filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Morteza Avini
- Shoja Azari, director. [link]
- Bahram Beizaee
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Saeed Ebrahimifar
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Ramin Farahani
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [link]
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
- Akbar Golrang
- Ali Hatami
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Hassan Hedayat
- Ardeshir Irani director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiaee
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Darius Mehrjui (Daryoush Mehrjouee), director of Leila
- Mehran Modiri, director of Pavarchin, Noghtechin, Shabhaye Barareh
- Jalal Moghaddam
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Babak Payami, director of Silence between Two Thoughts
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Khosrow Sinaee
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvaee
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Shahin Yazdani
Musicians and Singers
Electronic
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
- DJ Maryam
- Fred Maslaki
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
- Nami
- Behrouz Nazari
- Omid Nourizadeh
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
- Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
Pop
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
- Arash (Arash Labaf}
- Arian Band
- Alireza Assar
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili (the singer of Deep Dish's Flashdance song)
- Babak Torgoley (formalized the "di" method heard in today's pop music)
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Darius Danesh
- Dariush Eghbali
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
- Fereidoun Farrahi
- Fereidoun Foroughi
- Golpa (Akbar Golpaygani)
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hayadeh
- Hodi
- Homeirah
- Houshmand Aghili
- Kamran Delan
- Kamran & Hooman
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Mansour
- Mohammad Esfehani
- Mohammad Nouri
- Morteza
- Reza Sadeghi
- Sattar
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Shahkar Bineshpazhooh
- Shahram Solati
- Shohreh Solati
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
Iranian Classical/Traditional
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Axiom of Choice
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina, folkloric music
- Delkash
- Hossein Khan EsmailZadeh
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Akbar Golpaygani
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Monika Jalili (of [NoorSaaz])
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Kamkarha
- Mamak Khadem (of Axiom of Choice)
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Javad Maroofi
- Marzieh
- Mohammad Mousavi
- Shahram Nazeri
- Bahman Panahi
- Parisa (Parisa Khosravi)
- Abolhasan Saba
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Mahmoud Zoufonoun
- Zyriab
Western Classical
- Lily Afshar
- Shahin Farhat
- Golriz Hashemi
- Aminollah Hossein
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Alexander (Ali) Rahbari
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Heshmat Sandjari
- Farshad Sandjari
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
Journalists
- Sasan Aghaei
- Hashem Aghajari
- Masih Alinejad
- Ahmad Allahyari (احمد اللهياری), Ferdowsi Magazine Keyhan Political Activist see also Persian poet
- Pouian Allahyari
- Christiane Amanpour
- Rudi Bakhtiar
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar
- Massoud Behnoud
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
- Masoud Dehnamaki
- Akbar Montajebi
- Pari Esfandiari [link]
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Farrokhi Yazdi, pahlavi era.
- Akbar Ganji
- Mohammad Ghouchani
- Kaveh Golestan, BBC Late photographer, Pulitzer Prize winner.[link]
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Ashkan Khajehnoori
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Arash Markazi
- Omid Memarian
- Azadeh Moaveni
- Sina Motallebi
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Ali Reza Nourizadeh
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Shadi Sadr
- Ahmad Shamlou
- Mashallah Shams-ol-vaezin
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Youness Shokrkhah
- Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil
- Amin Zarghami
Leaders and politicians
The list here excludes the royalty. An extensive list of Persian royalty appears further down in this page.
See also List of Prime Ministers of Iran.
Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)
(alphabetized by last name)
- Fadl ibn Sahl, Abbasid vizier
- Abu Muslim, leader of revolt
- Amir-Kabir, Grand Vizier
- Heidar Khan Amughli, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Iran during the Constitutionalist Revolution of Gilan.
- Dr Talequani Heshmat, jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan.
- Bagher Khan, constitutionalist leader
- Hosein Dadgar, parliament speaker.
- Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, prime minister, multiple other roles.
- Hassan-i-Sabah, sectarian political leader.
- Kaveh the Blacksmith, leader.
- Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan.
- Mirza Reza Kermani, assassin.
- Mohammad Khiabani, leader.
- Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Prime Minister.
- Nizam al-Mulk, statesman and vizier.
- Fazlollah Noori, revolutionary cleric.
- Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial govenor.
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general.
- Safi Al-Din, founder of dynasty.
- Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader.
- Colonel Pesian
Modern (post-Qajar)
Pahlavi period
- Ardeshir Zahedi
- Mahmud Mahmud, politician
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
- Colonel Pesian, military leader
- Dr Ahmad Ahmadi, notorious prison interrogator
- Mehdi Agili, minister of education
- Mohammad Hosein Airom, senior military leader
- Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[link]
- Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
- Ali Akbar Davar, Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
- Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
- Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father.
- Mohammad Khatami, four-star General, Commander of Iranian Air Force
- Mahmoud Khayami, leading industrialist.
- Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, Director of Sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
- Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Established first social worker schools in Iran.
- Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
- Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian, Minister of Finance
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
- Teymour Tash, senior politician
- Hasan Toufanian, four-star army general
Served in Islamic Republic government
- Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
- Ali Abdolalizadehh, minister of housing and urban development
- Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, vice speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Emad Afrough, member of parliament
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mayor of Tehran, now president of Iran
- Abbasali Alizadeh
- Hossein Allah-Karam
- Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
- Majead Ansari, member of parliament
- Hossein Ansari-Rad, member of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
- Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- Habibollah Asgarowladi, member of parliament
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Ayatollah Azari-Ghomi
- Hassan Ayat
- Asadollah Badamchian
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
- Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
- Maoud Dehnamaki
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
- Gholam Hossein Elham
- Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
- Mohammad Emami-Kashani
- Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
- Nafiseh Fayyazbakhsh, parliament representative
- Iraj Fazel, minister of health
- Hassan Ghafourifard, minister of energy
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairs
- Shahabeddin Gonabadi, minister of housing and urban development
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Hassan Habibi, first vice president
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Morteza Haji, minister of education
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
- Gholamreza Hassani, Friday Prayer Imam of Urmia
- Elias Hazrati, member of parliament
- Mahmoud Hojjati, minister of roads and transportation
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
- Ahmad Khatami
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Abolghasem Khaz'ali
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
- Asadollah Lajevardi
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Sadegh Larijani
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Alireza Mahjoub
- Hossein Mahlouji, minister of mining and metals
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
- Mohseni-Ezhe'i
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
- Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Morteza Motahhari
- Ahmad Motamedi, minister of communications
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
- Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
- Hossein Mousavi-Tabrizi
- Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Morteza Nabavi
- Elias Naderan, Majlis Representative
- Mohammad Reza Naghdi
- Mohammad Ali Najafi, minister of education
- Hadi Namazi
- Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Niazi
- Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
- Ali Parvaresh
- Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
- Mohsen Rafighdoust
- Ebrahim Raisi, first deputy of head of judiciary system
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Ali Razini
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
- Hassan Rowhani, deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Saeedikia, minister of roads and transportation
- Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
- Rahim Safavi
- Mohammad Salamati
- Ali Akbar Salehi
- Ayatollah Sane'i
- Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, member of parliament
- Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Jalaleddin Taheri
- Hamid Reza Taraghghi
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
- Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
- Ali Younessi, minister of information
- Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
- General Zolghadr
Not served or opposition
- Ahmad Mofti Zadeh
- Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
- Sadegh Sharafkandi
- Hashem Aghajari
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Mohammad Hossein Boroujerdi
- Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
- Jalaleddin Farsi
- Dariush Forouhar
- Mansoor Hekmat
- Bijan Jazani
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Lotfollah Meisami
- Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
- Farrokh Negahdar
- Habibollah Peiman
- Jafar Pishevari
- Alireza Rajaei
- Maryam Rajavi
- Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Mousa Sadr
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Yadollah Sahabi
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Azam Taleghani
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Nasser Zarafshan
- Asghar Parsa
- Karim Sanjabi
- Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
- Parviz Varjavand
- Abdolali Adib Baroumand
- Kazem Hassibi
- Allahyar Saleh
- Jahangir Haghshenas
- Ahmad Zirakzadeh
- Alireza Saberi
- Shapour Bakhtiar
- Bagher Kazemi
- Hossein Fatemi
Religious figures
See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.
- Nader Angha, Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
- Báb, prophet
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
- Bahá'u'lláh, prophet
- Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
- Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Mani, founder of Manichaeism
- Zoroaster, prophet
- Mulla Sadra
- Allameh Tabatabaei
- Zahed Gilani
- Safi Al-Din
- Allameh Majlesi
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.
Explorers and travellers
- Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
- Issa Omidvar
- Abdollah Omidvar
- Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
- Naser Barati
Architects and Mi'mars
See full List of Iranian architects.
Modern scholars
- Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Ehsan Naraghi
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Hossein Elahi Ghomshei
- Dariush Shayegan
Sports
- Shawn Daivari, wrestler
- Andre Agassi, tennis player
- Khodadad Azizi, football (soccer) player
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Ali Daei, football (soccer) player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, Actor
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Ali Karimi, football (soccer) player
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football (soccer) player
- Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Taekwondo
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler
- Khosrow Vaziri, wrestler
- Fereydoon Zandi, football (soccer) player
- Syed Mohammed Hadi, Indian cricketer and tennis player of Persian descent
- fereydoun maleki, shootboxing master
- Abbas Jadidi, Pro. Wrestler
Translators
- Karim Emami, Translation author and translator
- Dariush Saberi, Localization, Translation translat
Iranian women
See special section on Iranian women and also List of famous Persian women.
Other
- Saeed Asgar, assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
- Minu Barati, wife of Joschka Fischer, the former German Foreign Minister.
- Touri Bolourchi
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California
- Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Shahram Jazayeri
- Mori Hosseini, Distinguished community leader. [link]
- Merhan Karimi Nasseri
- Doris Lessing
- Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
- Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[link]
- Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco city council from Green Party
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defense Minister
- Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[link]
- Bijan Pakzad, World famous designer. [link]
- Ali Sina, founder FaithfFreedom International.
- Saadat Khan, First Nawab of Oudh in India.
- Wajid Ali Shah, Last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company.
Famous Armenians of Iran
- Klara Abkar, painter
- Armaees Aghamaliyan
- Anik
- Anoosh
- Arman
- Loris Tjeknavorian
- Vigen Derderian, singer
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi
- Varuzhan
- Samuel Khachikian, film director
- Loretta
- Lotfi Zadeh, Creator of Fuzzy Logic
- Rubik Mansuri
- Ovannes Ohanian, Iranian first film director
- Petrus Palian
- Artashes Patmagarian
- Mushegh Soruri
- Yeprem Khan
Famous Americans in Iran
- Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr.
- Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian Culture revivalists.
- Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia.
- Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia.
- Elgin Groseclose, Treasury General, Persia.
- Annemarie Schimmel, German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
- Richard Nelson Frye
- David Stronach
- Joseph Cochran
- William M. Miller
- Samuel M. Jordan whom "Jordan Ave." in Tehran is named after
- John Limbert
Famous Iranians in America
See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.
Famous Iranians in Canada
See article: Iranian-Canadian
Famous Iranians in India
See also
External links
- [Directory of famous Iranians including biography and pictures]
- [Comprehensive list of famous Iranians]
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