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This is a list of notable Iranians:
[edit] In the news
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; Miss Canada 2003.
- Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian American actress
- Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005.
- Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the * * X Prize
- Farzan Athari, International Model
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, UK's Women of the Year 2006 Award winner, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani
- Jimmy Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills
- Ali Dizaei, Senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel prize in Peace
- Akbar Ganji
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Alireza Jafarzadeh, FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst
- Kia Joorabchian, businessman
- Zahra Kazemi
- Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector.[1]
- Mohammad Khatami, former president of Iran
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay
- Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. Last original heir to the throne.
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005.[2]
- Bahar Soomekh, Iranian - American actor
[edit] Artists
- See also: List of Iranian artists
[edit] Calligraphists
[edit] Cartoonists
[edit] Cinema artists
[edit] Actors and actresses
[edit] Directors and filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kiarash Anvari
- Kami Asgar
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Morteza Avini
- Shoja Azari, director. [4]
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Bahram Beizai
- Mahdi Bemani Naeini
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Saeed Ebrahimifar
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Ramin Farahani
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Farokh Ghaffari [5]
- Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [6]
- 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
- Darius Khondji
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- David Mahmoudieh
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Darius Mehrjui, director of Leila
- Reza Mirkarimi, director of So Close, So Far
- 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
- Amir Fardin Sadeghi Nedjad, director of No War, No Bomb, No Famine, PEACE
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Parviz Shahbazi
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Daryush Shokof, director of "Seven Servants"
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvai
- Iraj Tahmasb
[edit] Film score composers
[edit] Designers
[edit] Fashion designers
[edit] Graphic designers
[edit] Entertainers
[edit] Comedians
[edit] Dancers
[edit] Music video directors
[edit] Musicians and Singers
[edit] Classical
- See also: List of Iranian composers
[edit] Iranian Classical/Traditional
[edit] Western Classical
[edit] Electronic
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
[edit] Lyricists
[edit] Rock/Metal
[edit] Painters, Illustrators and Sculptors
- See also: List of Iranian painters
[edit] Photographers
[edit] Theatre artists
[edit] Stage actors and actresses
[edit] Theatre directors
[edit] Journalism/Media
[edit] Bloggers
[edit] Journalists
[edit] Television personalities
- Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
- Shahram Aslani
- Zia Atabay
- Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News
- Mehrdad Esmaili Kia, founder and CEO, Persian Music Channel
- Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
- Tehran Ghasri
- Farzad Hassani
- Bahram Moshiri
- Nazanin Moshiri, Reporter and journalist for Al Jazirah news (English section)
- Alireza Meybodi
- Asieh Namdar, news anchor at CNN
- Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazirah (English section)
- Reza Rashidpour
- Hamid Shabkhiz, founder, Iran TV Network
[edit] 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.
[edit] Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)
- Abu Muslim, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Babak Khorram Din, Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs
- Bozorgmehr Sage and Grand Vizier of Sasanids.
- Fazl ebne Sahl, Abbasid Grand Vizier
- 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.
- Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, prime minister, multiple other roles.
- Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader.
- Kaveh the Blacksmith, Legendary Leader and Liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king.
- Maziar son of Karan,Leader of the Persian upraising against Arabs.
- Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan.
- Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah.
- Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution.
- Prince Moahammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah, Dowlatshah carried the last, and the most successful, attack on the Ottoman Empire in Iraq at 1821.
- Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, Prime Minister.
- Nezam al-Molk, statesman and vizier.
- Ostadsis,Leader of Persian uprising against Arabs
- Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitunalists, hanged.
- Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor.
- Colonel Pesian
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general.
- Safi Al-Din, Spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty.
- Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader.
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister.
- Mirza Ahmad Khan Motazed-Dowleh Vaziri, deputy of the first Majles and minister of economy.
[edit] Modern (post-Qajar)
[edit] Pahlavi period
- Bahram Aryana, military commander
- Mehdi Agili, minister of education
- Dr Ahmad Ahmadi, notorious prison interrogator
- Mohammad Hosein Airom, senior military leader
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
- Jahangir Amouzegar, former minister, and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund.[10]
- Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
- Hasan Arfa, Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
- Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis Fars Province
- Ramzi Abbas Attaie, Admiral and Commander in Chief, Imperial Iranian Navy
- Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Bahman Batmanghelidj, Prominent Businessman and Developer
- Fereydoon Batamanghelidj (Correctly spelt Batmanghelidj), Doctor and Prominent Businessman
- Nader Batmanghelidj, Lt. General and Interior Minister
- Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
- Ali Akbar Davar, Minister, and founder of Iran's modern Judiciary system.
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
- George Malek-Yonan, procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
- Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
- Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian, Minister of Finance
- Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, Director of Sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
- Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Established first social worker schools in Iran.
- Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father.
- Nader Jahanbani, air force general, pilot
- Mohammad Khatami, four-star General, Commander of Iranian Air Force
- Mahmoud Khayami, leading industrialist.
- Kazem Kouros, Senator, Industrialist, Philanthropist
- Mahmud Mahmud, politician
- Qazi Mohammad, Kurdish politician, first (and only) Kurdish president of the 1946 Republic of Kurdistan
- Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
- Colonel Pesian, military leader
- Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
- Seyyed Jalal Taghavi Laridjani or (Taghavi Larigani), senior politician, Member of Parliament ("Majlis Shoraayeh Melli")
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian Statesman
- Hasan Toufanian, four-star army general
- Ardeshir Zahedi
[edit] 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
- Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Head of Central Bank of Iran, Ambassador to United Kingdom
- 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
- Habibollah Asgarowladi, member of parliament
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- 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
- Manuchehr Eliasi, Jewish member of parliament
- 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, current 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
- Arman Sadeghi
- 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
See also: List of current Iranian officials
[edit] Not served or opposition
[edit] Other Nations
- Goli Ameri, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, half-Iranian (mother)
- Nusrat Bhutto, Former first lady of Pakistan
- Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
- Moshe Katsav, Former President of Israel
- Shaul Mofaz, Current Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense
- Reza Moridi, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
[edit] Literature figures
[edit] Authors and poets
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[edit] Translators
[edit] Religious figures
See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.
[edit] Royalty
See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Architects and Mi'mars
See full List of Iranian architects.
[edit] Explorers and travellers
[edit] Historians, Archaeologists and Iranologists
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