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List of Iranians
In the news
Authors
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
- Attar, poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
- Masoud Behnoud, historian
- Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
- Mirzadeh Eshghi, poet
- Forough Farrokhzad, poet
- Ferdowsi, poet
- Houshang Golshiri, writer
- Hafez, poet
- Jamalzadeh, writer
- Jami, poet
- Sadegh Hedayat, writer
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
- Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
- Zabihollah Mansoori, translator
- Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
- Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
- Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
- Nezami, poet
- Nima, poet
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi), poet
- Sa'di, poet
- Sohrab Sepehri, poet
- Ahmad Shamlou, poet and writer
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
Cinema artists
Actors
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Reza Kianian
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Sussan Taslimi
Filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiai
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Daryoush Mehrjoui
- Amir Naderi
- Jafar Panahi
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
Journalists
Leaders and politicians
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Abu Muslim
- Ali Amini , prime minister
- Amir-Kabir, prime minister
- Jamshid Amouzegar , prime minister
- Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
- Manouchehr Eghbal, prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
- Zahra Eshraghi
- Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Hassan Habibi, vice president
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
- Mehdi Karroubi, first speaker of parliament
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Sadegh Khalkhali
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Hassan-Ali Mansour, prime minister
- Ayatollah Modarres, member of parliament
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Ali Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Jafar Sharif-Emami, first speaker of senate and prime minister
- Ayatollah Taleghani
- Behzad Nabavi, deputy speaker of parliament
- Ebrahim Yazdi
- Fazlollah Zahedi , prime minister and retired Army General
Musicians and Singers
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Delkash
- Akbar Golpaygani
- Googoosh
- Farhad Mehrad
- Shahram Nazeri
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Loris Tjeknavorian
Religious figures
Royalty
Igehalkid dynasty
- Ige-Halki (c. 1350 - c. 1330 BCE)
- Pakhir-Ishshan (c. 1330 - c. 1310 BCE)
- Attar-Kittakh (c. 1310 - c. 1300 BCE)
- Khuman-Numena (c. 1300 - c. 1275 BCE)
- Untash-Naprisha (c. 1275 - c. 1240 BCE)
- Unpatar-Naprisha (c. 1240 - c. 1235 BCE)
- Kiddin-Khutran (c. 1235 - c. 1210 BCE)
Shutrukid Dynasty
- Khallutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1205 - c. 1185 BCE)
- Shutruk-Nahhunte (c. 1185 - c. 1155 BCE)
- Kutir-Nahhunte III (c. 1155 - c. 1150 BCE)
- Shilkhak-In-Shushinak (c. 1150 - c. 1120 BCE)
- Khutelutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1120 - c. 1110 BCE)
- Shilhana-Hamru-Lagamar (c. 1110 - 1100 BCE)
The Median empire
The Achaemenid empire
The Parthian empire
The Sassanid empire
Post-Islam
Qajar dynasty
- Agha Mohammad Khan
- Fath Ali Shah
- Abbas Mirza
- Mohammad Shah
- Nasereddin Shah
- Mozaffareddin Shah
- Mohammad Ali Shah
- Sultan Ahmad Shah
Pahlavi dynasty
Scientists
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
- Biruni, astronomist, mathematician
- Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), chemist
- Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist
- Ghiyath al-Kashi, mathematician
- Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
- Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
- Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany
- Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), chemist and physicist
- Ulugh Beg
Sports
Other
See also: List of people by nationality
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