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===Shia Clergy=== |
===Shia Clergy=== |
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*[[Abbas Ali Akhtari]] |
*[[Abbas Ali Akhtari]] |
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*[[Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani]] |
*[[Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani]] |
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*[[Abbas Almohri]] |
*[[Abbas Almohri]] |
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*[[Mohammad Montazeri]] |
*[[Mohammad Montazeri]] |
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*{{ill|Abbas |
*{{ill|Abbas Mousaviyan|fa|سید عباس موسویان}} |
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*[[Abbas Tabrizian]] |
*[[Abbas Tabrizian]] |
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*[[Abbas Vaez-Tabasi]] |
*[[Abbas Vaez-Tabasi]] |
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*{{ill|Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi|fa|سید عبدالهادی حسینی شاهرودی}} |
*{{ill|Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi|fa|سید عبدالهادی حسینی شاهرودی}} |
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*{{ill|Abdul Hamid Khodri|fa|عبدالحمید خدری}} |
*{{ill|Abdul Hamid Khodri|fa|عبدالحمید خدری}} |
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*[[Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani]] |
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*[[Abdol Hossein Dastgheib]] |
*[[Abdol Hossein Dastgheib]] |
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*[[Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi]] |
*[[Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi]] |
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*[[Abdol Javad Alamolhoda]] |
*[[Abdol Javad Alamolhoda]] |
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*{{ill|Abdul Javad Ibrahimi Far|fa|عبدالجواد ابراهیمی فر}} |
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*{{ill|Abdul Karim Abidini|fa|عبدالکریم عابدینی}} |
*{{ill|Abdul Karim Abidini|fa|عبدالکریم عابدینی}} |
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*[[Abdul Karim Farhani]] |
*[[Abdul Karim Farhani]] |
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*[[Abdul Karim Haghshenas]] |
*[[Abdul Karim Haghshenas]] |
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*[[Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili]] |
*[[Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili]] |
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*[[Mirza Abdul Karim Roushan]] |
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*[[Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia]] |
*[[Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia]] |
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*{{ill|Abdullah Haji Sadiqi|fa|عبدالله حاجی صادقی}} |
*{{ill|Abdullah Haji Sadiqi|fa|عبدالله حاجی صادقی}} |
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*{{ill|Abdullah Hajiani|fa|عبدالله حاجیانی}} |
*{{ill|Abdullah Hajiani|fa|عبدالله حاجیانی}} |
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*{{ill|Abdullah Hussayni|fa|سید عبدالله حسینی}} |
*{{ill|Abdullah Hussayni|fa|سید عبدالله حسینی}} |
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*{{ill|Abdullah Keyvani Hafshejani|fa|عبدالله کیوانی هفشجانی}} |
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*[[Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari]] |
*[[Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari]] |
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*[[Abdollah Javadi-Amoli]] |
*[[Abdollah Javadi-Amoli]] |
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*[[Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard]] |
*[[Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard]] |
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*[[Abdul-Nabi Namazi]] |
*[[Abdul-Nabi Namazi]] |
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*[[Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi]] |
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*[[Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami]] |
*[[Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami]] |
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*{{ill|Abdul Rasoul Mousavi|fa|سید عبدالرسول موسوی}} |
*{{ill|Abdul Rasoul Mousavi|fa|سید عبدالرسول موسوی}} |
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*[[Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi]] |
*[[Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi]] |
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*{{ill|Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani|fa|سید ابوفاضل رضوی اردکانی}} |
*{{ill|Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani|fa|سید ابوفاضل رضوی اردکانی}} |
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*{{ill|Abu al-Hassan Hassanzadeh|fa|سید ابوالحسن حسن زاده}} |
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*[[Abulhassan Navab]] |
*[[Abulhassan Navab]] |
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*[[Abolghasem Khazali]] |
*[[Abolghasem Khazali]] |
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*[[Ahmad Azari Qomi]] |
*[[Ahmad Azari Qomi]] |
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*[[Ahmad Beheshti]] |
*[[Ahmad Beheshti]] |
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*{{ill|Ahmad Daneshzadeh Mo’min|fa|احمد دانش‌زاده مؤمن}} |
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*{{ill|Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini|fa|احمد همتی مشگینی}} |
*{{ill|Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini|fa|احمد همتی مشگینی}} |
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*{{ill|Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi|fa|احمدحسین فلاحی}} |
*{{ill|Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi|fa|احمدحسین فلاحی}} |
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*[[Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani]] |
*[[Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani]] |
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*{{ill|Sayyid Ahmad Mousavi|fa|سید احمد موسوی (سیاستمدار)}} |
*{{ill|Sayyid Ahmad Mousavi|fa|سید احمد موسوی (سیاستمدار)}} |
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*{{ill|Ahmad |
*{{ill|Ahmad Parvai'i Rik|fa|احمد پروایی ریک}} |
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*[[Ahmad Ghabel]] |
*[[Ahmad Ghabel]] |
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*[[Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati]] |
*[[Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati]] |
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*{{ill|Ahmad Sabiri Hamedani|fa|احمد صابری همدانی}} |
*{{ill|Ahmad Sabiri Hamedani|fa|احمد صابری همدانی}} |
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*[[Ahmad Salek]] |
*[[Ahmad Salek]] |
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*{{ill|Ahmad Sheikh Baha’i|fa|احمد شیخ‌بهائی}} |
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*[[Ahmad Vaezi]] |
*[[Ahmad Vaezi]] |
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*{{ill|Akbar Ahmadpour|fa|اکبر احمدپور}} |
*{{ill|Akbar Ahmadpour|fa|اکبر احمدپور}} |
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*{{ill|Akbar |
*{{ill|Akbar Ghaffari Qarabagh|fa|میراکبر غفاری قره‌باغ}} |
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*[[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] |
*[[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] |
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*{{ill|Allah Nour Karimi Tabar|fa|الله‌نور کریمی‌تبار}} |
*{{ill|Allah Nour Karimi Tabar|fa|الله‌نور کریمی‌تبار}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Abbasi (Cleric)|fa|علی عباسی (روحانی)}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Ahmadi Mianji|fa|میرزا علی احمدی میانجی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Ahmadi Mianji|fa|میرزا علی احمدی میانجی}} |
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*[[Ali Akbar al-Modarresi]] |
*[[Ali Akbar al-Modarresi]] |
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*[[Ali Meshkini]] |
*[[Ali Meshkini]] |
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*[[Ali-Akbar Hosseini]] |
*[[Ali-Akbar Hosseini]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Akbar Marandi|fa|میرزا علی اکبر مرندی}} |
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*[[Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini]] |
*[[Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini]] |
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*[[Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur]] |
*[[Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur]] |
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*[[Ali Akbar Ghoreishi]] |
*[[Ali Akbar Ghoreishi]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh|fa|علی‌اکبر حمیدزاده}} |
*{{ill|Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh|fa|علی‌اکبر حمیدزاده}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Akbar Mousavi Hussayni|fa|سید علی‌اکبر موسوی حسینی}} |
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*[[Ali-Akbar Hosseini]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Akbar Nasseri|fa|علی‌اکبر ناصری}} |
*{{ill|Ali Akbar Nasseri|fa|علی‌اکبر ناصری}} |
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*[[Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri]] |
*[[Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri]] |
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*[[Ali Fallahian]] |
*[[Ali Fallahian]] |
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*[[Ali Davani]] |
*[[Ali Davani]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Gharavi|ar|علي الغروي}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Ghiouri|fa|سید علی غیوری}} |
*{{ill|Ali Ghiouri|fa|سید علی غیوری}} |
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*[[Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri]] |
*[[Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri]] |
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*[[Ali al-Sistani]] |
*[[Ali al-Sistani]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Islami|fa|علی اسلامی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Islami|fa|علی اسلامی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Kazemi Gilani|fa|علی کاظمی گیلانی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali al-Kazemi Momendi|fa|علی آل کاظمی}} |
*{{ill|Ali al-Kazemi Momendi|fa|علی آل کاظمی}} |
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*[[Ali Khamenei]] |
*[[Ali Khamenei]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Khatami|fa|علی خاتمی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Khatami (Zanjan)|fa|علی خاتمی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Mirkhalili|fa|سید علی میرخلیلی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Mirkhalili|fa|سید علی میرخلیلی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Mo’alemi|fa|علی معلمی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Mo’alemi|fa|علی معلمی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Reza Afqahi|fa|سید علیرضا افقهی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Reza Afqahi|fa|سید علیرضا افقهی}} |
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*[[Alireza Arafi]] |
*[[Alireza Arafi]] |
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*{{ill|Ali Reza Dana|fa|سید علیرضا دانا}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Reza Ebadi|fa|سید علیرضا عبادی}} |
*{{ill|Ali Reza Ebadi|fa|سید علیرضا عبادی}} |
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*{{ill|Ali Reza Islamian|fa|علیرضا اسلامیان}} |
*{{ill|Ali Reza Islamian|fa|علیرضا اسلامیان}} |
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*{{ill|Aman Narimani|fa|امان نریمانی}} |
*{{ill|Aman Narimani|fa|امان نریمانی}} |
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*{{ill|Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni|fa|امیرقلی جعفری بروجنی}} |
*{{ill|Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni|fa|امیرقلی جعفری بروجنی}} |
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*{{ill|Amir Reza Heda’i|fa|امیررضا هدائی}} |
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*[[Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani]] |
*[[Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani]] |
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*[[Assad-Allah Imani]] |
*[[Assad-Allah Imani]] |
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*[[Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani]] |
*[[Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani]] |
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*[[Azizollah Khoshvaght]] |
*[[Azizollah Khoshvaght]] |
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*{{ill| |
*{{ill|Baqir Seyyedi Bonabi|fa|سید باقر سیدی بنابی}} |
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*{{ill|Dakhil Abbas Zarazadeh Mehrizi|fa|دخیل‌عباس زارع‌زاده مهریزی}} |
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*{{ill|Davoud Samadi Amoli|fa|داوود صمدی آملی}} |
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*{{ill|Fakhraddin Hashemi|fa|سید فخرالدین هاشمی}} |
*{{ill|Fakhraddin Hashemi|fa|سید فخرالدین هاشمی}} |
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*[[Fakhreddin Mousavi]] |
*[[Fakhreddin Mousavi]] |
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*{{ill|Fakhraddin Sabiri|fa|فخرالدین صابری}} |
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*{{ill|Fathallah Omid Najafabadi|fa|فتح‌الله امید نجف‌آبادی}} |
*{{ill|Fathallah Omid Najafabadi|fa|فتح‌الله امید نجف‌آبادی}} |
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*{{ill|Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi|fa|غیاث‌الدین طاهامحمدی}} |
*{{ill|Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi|fa|غیاث‌الدین طاهامحمدی}} |
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*[[Gholamreza Hassani]] |
*[[Gholamreza Hassani]] |
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*[[Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam]] |
*[[Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam]] |
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*{{ill|Gholam Reza Moghiseh|fa|غلامرضا مغیسه}} |
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*[[Gholamreza Rezvani]] |
*[[Gholamreza Rezvani]] |
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*{{ill|Gholam Reza Sultani|fa|غلامرضا سلطانی}} |
*{{ill|Gholam Reza Sultani|fa|غلامرضا سلطانی}} |
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*{{ill|Hadi Barikbin|fa|هادی باریک‌بین}} |
*{{ill|Hadi Barikbin|fa|هادی باریک‌بین}} |
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*{{ill|Hadi Doust Mohammadi|fa|هادی دوست محمدی}} |
*{{ill|Hadi Doust Mohammadi|fa|هادی دوست محمدی}} |
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*[[Hadi Khamenei]] |
*[[Hadi Khamenei]] |
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*[[Hadi Khosroshahi]] |
*[[Hadi Khosroshahi]] |
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*[[Hadi Ghabel]] |
*[[Hadi Ghabel]] |
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*[[Hadi Rohani]] |
*[[Hadi Rohani]] |
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*[[Hamid Rasai]] |
*[[Hamid Rasai]] |
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*[[Hashem Hosseini Bushehri]] |
*[[Hashem Hosseini Bushehri]] |
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*{{ill|Hashem Niazi|fa|هاشم نیازی}} |
*{{ill|Hashem Niazi|fa|هاشم نیازی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Abtahi|fa|سید حسن ابطحی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Alemi|fa|حسن عالمی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Alemi|fa|حسن عالمی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani|fa|حسن علیدادی سلیمانی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani|fa|حسن علیدادی سلیمانی}} |
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*[[Hassan Mortazavi Shahroudi]] |
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*[[Hasanali Morvarid]] |
*[[Hasanali Morvarid]] |
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*[[Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi]] |
*[[Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi]] |
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*{{ill|Hassan Malek Mohammadi|fa|حسن ملک‌محمدی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Malek Mohammadi|fa|حسن ملک‌محمدی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Mamduhi|fa|حسن ممدوحی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Mamduhi|fa|حسن ممدوحی}} |
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*[[Hassan Mortazavi Shahroudi]] |
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*[[Hassan Namazi]] |
*[[Hassan Namazi]] |
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*{{ill|Hassan Nowrouzi|fa|حسن نوروزی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Nowrouzi|fa|حسن نوروزی}} |
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*[[Hassan Shariati Niyasar]] |
*[[Hassan Shariati Niyasar]] |
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*{{ill|Hassan Shahcheraghi|fa|سید حسن شاهچراغی}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Shahcheraghi|fa|سید حسن شاهچراغی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Shuja’i Aliabadi|fa|حسن شجاعی علی‌آبادی}} |
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*{{ill|Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari|fa|سید حسن شجاعی کیاسری}} |
*{{ill|Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari|fa|سید حسن شجاعی کیاسری}} |
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*[[Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi]] |
*[[Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi]] |
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*{{ill|Hussayn Mirza'i|fa|حسین میرزایی}} |
*{{ill|Hussayn Mirza'i|fa|حسین میرزایی}} |
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*[[Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi]] |
*[[Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi]] |
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*{{ill|Hussayn Muzzafari|fa|حسین مظفری (روحانی)}} |
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*[[Hossein Noori Hamedani]] |
*[[Hossein Noori Hamedani]] |
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*{{ill|Hussayn Rafia’i|fa|حسین رفیعی (روحانی)}} |
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*[[Hossein Rasti Kashani]] |
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*{{ill|Hussayn Rasti Kashani|fa|حسین راستی کاشانی}} |
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*{{ill|Hussayn Sobhani Nia|fa|حسین سبحانی‌نیا}} |
*{{ill|Hussayn Sobhani Nia|fa|حسین سبحانی‌نیا}} |
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*[[Hossein Taeb]] |
*[[Hossein Taeb]] |
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*[[Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami]] |
*[[Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami]] |
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*[[Ebrahim Raisi]] |
*[[Ebrahim Raisi]] |
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*{{ill|Isa Tarafi|fa|عیسی طرفی}} |
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*{{ill|Ismail Ferdowsipour|fa|اسماعیل فردوسی‌پور}} |
*{{ill|Ismail Ferdowsipour|fa|اسماعیل فردوسی‌پور}} |
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*[[Esmaeil Khatib]] |
*[[Esmaeil Khatib]] |
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*[[Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani]] |
*[[Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani]] |
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*{{ill|Ismail Salehi Mazandarani|fa|اسماعیل صالحی مازندرانی}} |
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*{{ill|Jafar Karimi Divkola'i|fa|سید جعفر کریمی دیوکلایی}} |
*{{ill|Jafar Karimi Divkola'i|fa|سید جعفر کریمی دیوکلایی}} |
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*[[Jafar Sobhani]] |
*[[Jafar Sobhani]] |
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*{{ill|Javad Alavi Boroujerdi|fa|سید جواد علوی بروجردی}} |
*{{ill|Javad Alavi Boroujerdi|fa|سید جواد علوی بروجردی}} |
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*[[Javad Gharavi Aliari]] |
*[[Javad Gharavi Aliari]] |
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*{{ill|Javad Hajizadeh Kalajahi|fa|جواد حاجی زاده کلجاهی}} |
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*{{ill|Javad Hussayni Kia|fa|سید جواد حسینی کیا}} |
*{{ill|Javad Hussayni Kia|fa|سید جواد حسینی کیا}} |
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*{{ill|Javad Jafari|fa|جواد جعفری (روحانی)}} |
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*[[Javad Khamenei]] |
*[[Javad Khamenei]] |
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*[[Jawad Tabrizi]] |
*[[Jawad Tabrizi]] |
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*{{ill|Javad Marvi|fa|جواد مروی}} |
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*[[Javad Mojtahed Shabestari]] |
*[[Javad Mojtahed Shabestari]] |
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*{{ill|Javad Nikbin|fa|جواد نیک‌بین}} |
*{{ill|Javad Nikbin|fa|جواد نیک‌بین}} |
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*{{ill|Kamel Khairkhah|fa|کامل خیرخواه}} |
*{{ill|Kamel Khairkhah|fa|کامل خیرخواه}} |
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*{{ill|Karamatallah Emadi|fa|کرامت‌الله عمادی}} |
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*[[Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini]] |
*[[Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini]] |
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*[[Khalil Boyukzadeh]] |
*[[Khalil Boyukzadeh]] |
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*[[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]] |
*[[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]] |
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*{{ill|Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi|fa|سید محمود حسینی دولت‌آبادی}} |
*{{ill|Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi|fa|سید محمود حسینی دولت‌آبادی}} |
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*{{ill|Mahmoud Madani |
*{{ill|Mahmoud Madani Bajestani|fa|سید محمود مدنی بجستانی}} |
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*[[Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi]] |
*[[Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi]] |
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*{{ill|Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi|fa|محمود محمدی عراقی}} |
*{{ill|Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi|fa|محمود محمدی عراقی}} |
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*[[Mahmoud Nabavian]] |
*[[Mahmoud Nabavian]] |
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*{{ill|Mahmoud Nourizadeh|fa|سید محمود نوری‌زاده}} |
*{{ill|Mahmoud Nourizadeh|fa|سید محمود نوری‌زاده}} |
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*{{ill|Mahmoud Rajabi|fa|محمود رجبی}} |
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*[[Mahmoud Salavati]] |
*[[Mahmoud Salavati]] |
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*[[Mahdi al-Modarresi]] |
*[[Mahdi al-Modarresi]] |
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*[[Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi]] |
*[[Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi]] |
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*[[Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi]] |
*[[Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi]] |
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*{{ill|Mahdi Sheikh|fa|مهدی شیخ}} |
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*[[Mehdi Sheykh]] |
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*{{ill|Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani|fa|سید مهدی یثربی}} |
*{{ill|Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani|fa|سید مهدی یثربی}} |
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*{{ill| |
*{{ill|Majdaddin Ghazi Dezfuli|fa|سید مجدالدین قاضی دزفولی}} |
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*[[Majid Ansari]] |
*[[Majid Ansari]] |
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*{{ill|Majid Nasserinejhad|fa|مجید ناصری‌نژاد}} |
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*[[Majid Naseri Nejad]] |
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*{{ill|Majid Nasira'i|fa|مجید نصیرایی}} |
*{{ill|Majid Nasira'i|fa|مجید نصیرایی}} |
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*{{ill|Majid Talkhabi|fa|مجید تلخابی}} |
*{{ill|Majid Talkhabi|fa|مجید تلخابی}} |
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*[[Masoud Khamenei]] |
*[[Masoud Khamenei]] |
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*[[Ali Younesi]] |
*[[Ali Younesi]] |
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* |
*{{ill|Mohammad Aba’i Khorasani|fa|محمد عبایی خراسانی}} |
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*[[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]] |
*[[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]] |
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*[[Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem]] |
*[[Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem]] |
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| ⚫ | |||
*[[Mohammad-Ali Angaji]] |
*[[Mohammad-Ali Angaji]] |
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*[[Mohammad Ali Araki]] |
*[[Mohammad Ali Araki]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Ayazi|fa|سید محمدعلی ایازی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani|fa|محمدعلی فیض لاهیجی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani|fa|محمدعلی فیض لاهیجی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi]] |
*[[Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Naseri|fa|محمدعلی ناصری}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Naseri|fa|محمدعلی ناصری}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Nekounam|fa|محمدعلی نکونام}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Nekounam|fa|محمدعلی نکونام}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Modarresi Tabataba’i|fa|سید محمد علی مدرسی طباطبایی}} |
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*[[Seyyed Mohammadi Ali Mosavi]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Mousavi|fa|سید محمدعلی موسوی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri]] |
*[[Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi|fa|سید محمدعلی موحد ابطحی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi|fa|سید محمدعلی موحد ابطحی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Ali Shomali]] |
*[[Mohammad Ali Shomali]] |
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*[[Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri]] |
*[[Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ali Zam|fa|محمدعلی زم}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Amin Khorasani|fa|سید محمد امین خراسانی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Amin Khorasani|fa|سید محمد امین خراسانی}} |
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*{{ill|Mirza Mohammad Anvari|fa|میرزامحمد انواری}} |
*{{ill|Mirza Mohammad Anvari|fa|میرزامحمد انواری}} |
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*[[Mohammad Bagher Kharazi]] |
*[[Mohammad Bagher Kharazi]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini|fa|محمدباقر محمدی لائینی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini|fa|محمدباقر محمدی لائینی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Baqir Movahed Abtahi|fa|سید محمدباقر موحد ابطحی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ebadizadeh|fa|محمد عبادی‌زاده}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ebadizadeh|fa|محمد عبادی‌زاده}} |
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*[[Mohammed Emami-Kashani]] |
*[[Mohammed Emami-Kashani]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Faqih|fa|سید محمد فقیه}} |
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| ⚫ | |||
*[[Mohammad Fazel Lankarani]] |
*[[Mohammad Fazel Lankarani]] |
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*[[Mohammad Feyz Sarabi]] |
*[[Mohammad Feyz Sarabi]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Hadi Abdekhodai|fa|محمدهادی عبدخدایی}} |
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| ⚫ | |||
*[[Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari]] |
*[[Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari]] |
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| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | |||
*{{ill|Mohammad Hadi Rabbani|fa|محمدهادی ربانی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Hadi Rabbani|fa|محمدهادی ربانی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi|fa|محمد ابوالقاسمی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi|fa|محمد ابوالقاسمی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi|fa|محمدحسین احمدی شاهرودی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi|fa|محمدحسین احمدی شاهرودی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Beheshti]] |
*[[Mohammad Beheshti]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Bayati|fa|محمدحسین بیاتی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini|fa|محمدحسین حسین‌زاده بحرینی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini|fa|محمدحسین حسین‌زاده بحرینی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi|fa|سید محمد روحانی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi|fa|سید محمد روحانی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati]] |
*[[Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ibrahim Nekounam|fa|محمدابراهیم نکونام}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Ibrahim Nekounam|fa|محمدابراهیم نکونام}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Ismail Shushtri|fa|محمداسماعیل شوشتری}} |
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*[[Esmail Shooshtari]] |
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*[[Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani]] |
*[[Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Jafari Gilani|fa|محمد جعفری گیلانی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Jafari Gilani|fa|محمد جعفری گیلانی}} |
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*[[Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha]] |
*[[Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha]] |
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*[[Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi]] |
*[[Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi]] |
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| ⚫ | |||
*{{ill|Mohammad Naqi Lotfi|fa|محمدنقی لطفی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi|fa|سید محمدنقی شاهرخی خرم‌آبادی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi|fa|سید محمدنقی شاهرخی خرم‌آبادی}} |
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*[[Nasser Biria]] |
*[[Nasser Biria]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Amiri Kohnuj|fa|محمدرضا امیری کهنوج}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Amiri Kohnuj|fa|محمدرضا امیری کهنوج}} |
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*[[Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi]] |
*[[Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Baqiri Bonabi|fa|رضا باقری بنابی}} |
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| ⚫ | |||
*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi|fa|محمدرضا دولت‌آبادی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi|fa|محمدرضا دولت‌آبادی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Faker|fa|محمدرضا فاکر}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Faker|fa|محمدرضا فاکر}} |
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*[[Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli]] |
*[[Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli]] |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Za’iri|fa|محمدرضا زائری}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Reza Za’iri|fa|محمدرضا زائری}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Rouhani Qomi|fa|سید محمد روحانی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Sabzi|fa|محمد سبزی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Sabzi|fa|محمد سبزی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Sadat Ibrahimi|fa|سید محمد سادات ابراهیمی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Sadat Ibrahimi|fa|سید محمد سادات ابراهیمی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Sa’id Mahdavi Kani|fa|محمدسعید مهدوی کنی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohammad Sadiq "Mohiaddin" Haeri Shirazi|fa|محی‌الدین حائری شیرازی}} |
*{{ill|Mohammad Sadiq "Mohiaddin" Haeri Shirazi|fa|محی‌الدین حائری شیرازی}} |
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*[[Sadegh Khalkhali]] |
*[[Sadegh Khalkhali]] |
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*[[Mohsen Faqihi]] |
*[[Mohsen Faqihi]] |
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*[[Mohsen Heidari Alekasir]] |
*[[Mohsen Heidari Alekasir]] |
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*{{ill|Mohsen Ibrahimi|fa|محسن ابراهیمی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohsen Kazeroni|fa|محسن کازرونی}} |
*{{ill|Mohsen Kazeroni|fa|محسن کازرونی}} |
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*[[Mohsen Kharazi]] |
*[[Mohsen Kharazi]] |
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*[[Mohsen Rohami]] |
*[[Mohsen Rohami]] |
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*{{ill|Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani|fa|سید محسن سعیدی گلپایگانی}} |
*{{ill|Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani|fa|سید محسن سعیدی گلپایگانی}} |
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*{{ill|Mohsen Tahiri|fa|سید محسن طاهری}} |
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*[[Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini]] |
*[[Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini]] |
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*{{ill|Mojtaba Mo’adpour|fa|مجتبی مؤدب‌پور}} |
*{{ill|Mojtaba Mo’adpour|fa|مجتبی مؤدب‌پور}} |
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*[[Mojtaba Tehrani]] |
*[[Mojtaba Tehrani]] |
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*[[Mojtaba Zonnour]] |
*[[Mojtaba Zonnour]] |
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| ⚫ | |||
*{{ill|Mokhtar Waziri|fa|مختار وزیری}} |
*{{ill|Mokhtar Waziri|fa|مختار وزیری}} |
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*[[Morteza Aghatehrani]] |
*[[Morteza Aghatehrani]] |
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*{{ill|Morteza Fahim Kermani|fa|مرتضی فهیم کرمانی}} |
*{{ill|Morteza Fahim Kermani|fa|مرتضی فهیم کرمانی}} |
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*{{ill|Morteza Mati’ayi|fa|مرتضی مطیعی}} |
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*[[Morteza Moghtadai]] |
*[[Morteza Moghtadai]] |
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*[[Morteza Motahhari]] |
*[[Morteza Motahhari]] |
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*[[Mostafa Boroujerdi]] |
*[[Mostafa Boroujerdi]] |
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*{{ill|Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli|fa|مصطفی فارغ}} |
*{{ill|Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli|fa|مصطفی فارغ}} |
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*{{ill|Mustafa Hassanti|fa|مصطفی حسناتی}} |
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*[[Mostafa Khamenei]] |
*[[Mostafa Khamenei]] |
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*[[Mostafa Khomeini]] |
*[[Mostafa Khomeini]] |
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*{{ill|Mustafa |
*{{ill|Mustafa Mohami|fa|مصطفی محامی}} |
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*[[Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad]] |
*[[Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad]] |
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*[[Mostafa Mousavi Faraz]] |
*[[Mostafa Mousavi Faraz]] |
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*[[Moslem Malakouti]] |
*[[Moslem Malakouti]] |
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*{{ill|Motahar Kazimi|fa|سید مطهر کاظمی}} |
*{{ill|Motahar Kazimi|fa|سید مطهر کاظمی}} |
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*[[Mulla Muzaffar Hussain Kashani]] |
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*[[Nasir Hosseini]] |
*[[Nasir Hosseini]] |
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*[[Nasrollah Pejmanfar]] |
*[[Nasrollah Pejmanfar]] |
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*{{ill|Sabir Jabbari|fa|سید صابر جباری}} |
*{{ill|Sabir Jabbari|fa|سید صابر جباری}} |
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*[[Sadeq Larijani]] |
*[[Sadeq Larijani]] |
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*{{ill|Sadiq Pishnamazi|fa|سید صادق پیشنمازی}} |
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*{{ill|Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad|fa|سید صادق طباطبایی‌نژاد}} |
*{{ill|Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad|fa|سید صادق طباطبایی‌نژاد}} |
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*[[Saied Reza Ameli]] |
*[[Saied Reza Ameli]] |
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*{{ill|Sa’id Saleh Mirza’i|fa|سعید صلح میرزایی}} |
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*[[Seyed Sajjad Izdehi]] |
*[[Seyed Sajjad Izdehi]] |
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*{{ill|Salman Zakir|fa|سید سلمان ذاکر}} |
*{{ill|Salman Zakir|fa|سید سلمان ذاکر}} |
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*{{ill|Shahab al-Din Ishraqi|fa|شهاب‌الدین اشراقی}} |
*{{ill|Shahab al-Din Ishraqi|fa|شهاب‌الدین اشراقی}} |
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*[[Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi]] |
*[[Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi]] |
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*[[Shahab Moradi]] |
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*{{ill|Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi|fa|شمس الدین محمد مجتهدی نجفی}} |
*{{ill|Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi|fa|شمس الدین محمد مجتهدی نجفی}} |
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*{{ill|Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni|fa|سید شرف‌الدین ملک‌حسینی}} |
*{{ill|Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni|fa|سید شرف‌الدین ملک‌حسینی}} |
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*{{ill|Sirajaddin Mousavi|fa|سید سراج‌الدین موسوی}} |
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*{{ill|Taha Hashemi|fa|سید طه هاشمی}} |
*{{ill|Taha Hashemi|fa|سید طه هاشمی}} |
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*[[Taher Ahmadzadeh]] |
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*[[Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi]] |
*[[Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi]] |
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*{{ill|Teymour Ali Asgari|fa|تیمور علی‌عسگری}} |
*{{ill|Teymour Ali Asgari|fa|تیمور علی‌عسگری}} |
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*{{ill|Wahid Ahmadi|fa|وحید احمدی}} |
*{{ill|Wahid Ahmadi|fa|وحید احمدی}} |
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*{{ill|Vaed Moradbeygi|fa|وعد مرادبیگی}} |
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*[[Yadollah Duzduzani]] |
*[[Yadollah Duzduzani]] |
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*{{ill|Yadallah Safari|fa|یدالله صفری}} |
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*{{ill|Yahya Ansari Shirazi|fa|یحیی انصاری شیرازی}} |
*{{ill|Yahya Ansari Shirazi|fa|یحیی انصاری شیرازی}} |
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*[[Yahya Nouri]] |
*[[Yahya Nouri]] |
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Revision as of 06:54, 21 June 2024
This is an alphabetic list of notable people from Iran or its historical predecessors.
In the news
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran
- Ebrahim Raisi, former president of Iran, former Chief Justice of Iran. Died in a famous helicopter crash.
- Hassan Rouhani, former president of Iran (2013–2021)
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran (2005–2013)
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former politician
- Qasem Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force
- Ali Larijani, former Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020.
- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, former Mayor of Tehran, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- Ali Dizaei, senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
- Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist in the world, telecommunication entrepreneur and namesake of the Ansari X Prize
- Bahar Soomekh, Iranian-American actor
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
- Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah of Iran, crown prince in exile.
- Shirin Ebadi, recipient of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
- Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident".
- Hossein Ronaghi, Iranian human rights activist and blogger
Artists
Calligraphists
Cartoonists
Painters, illustrators and sculptors
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi
- Amir Shayesteh Tabar
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Bahram Soroush
- Daryush Shokof
- Farhad Sadeghi Amini
- Gholamhossein Saber
- Haydar Hatemi
- Hossein Behzad
- Hossein Valamanesh
- Hossein Zenderoudi
- Iran Darroudi
- Jazeh Tabatabai
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Mani
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari
- Noreen Motamed
- Afshin Naghouni
- Parviz Tanavoli
- Reza Abbasi
- Shahla Aghapour
- Shahla Arbabi
- Shirazeh Houshiary
- Siah Armajani
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Zhaleh Kazemi
Photographers
- Abbas
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Alfred Yaghobzadeh
- Ali Ghanbari
- Ali Khan Vali
- Jahangir Razmi
- Kaveh Golestan
- Maryam Zandi
- Mitra Tabrizian
- Morteza Avini
- Nader Davoodi
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Newsha Tavakolian
- Reza Deghati
- Hossein Rajabian
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Shadi Ghadirian
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Shirana Shahbazi
- Shirin Neshat
Designers
Architects
Fashion designers
Graphic designers
Business
- Kia Joorabchian, businessman
- Nasser David Khalili, billionaire and art collector
Entertainers
Comedians
Dancers and choreographers
- Jamileh
- Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
- Nima Kiann
- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric
Models, beauty pageant
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, actress, singer-songwriter, human-rights activist; Miss World 2003 first runner-up; Miss Canada 2003
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
- Sahar Biniaz (born 1985), Miss Universe Canada 2012
- Aylar Lie (born 1984), Iranian-born Norwegian actress, model, singer, former pornographic actress
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005
- Samantha Tajik (born 1983), Miss Universe Canada 2008
Film actors
- Akbar Abdi
- Alan Mehdizadeh
- Ali Mosaffa
- Ali Nassirian
- Amin Hayaee
- Amirhossein Arman
- Artemis Pebdani
- Azita Hajian
- Bahar Soomekh
- Bahram Radan
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Behzad Farahani
- Bijan Daneshmand
- Bita Farrahi
- Bizhan Emkanian
- Catherine Bell
- Christiane Amanpour
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Daryush Shokof
- Davoud Rashidi
- Delkash
- Elnaaz Norouzi
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Farimah Farjami
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
- Golab Adineh
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Googoosh
- Hamed Behdad
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Homa Rousta
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Kazem HajirAzad
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Leila Forouhar
- Leila Hatami
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Majid Majidi
- Mandana Karimi
- Maz Jobrani
- Mehdi Fat'hi
- Mehdi Hashemi (actor)
- Mehran Modiri
- Merila Zarei
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Navid Mohammadzadeh
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam
- Nematollah Aghasi
- Niki Karimi
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Parviz Parastouee
- Parviz Sayyad
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Reza Kianian
- Reza Rahardian
- Roxanne Pallett
- Roya Nonahali
- Saeed Rad
- Sarah Shahi
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Shahab Hosseini
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Sussan Taslimi
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
- Asghar Farhadi, Oscar winner
Theatre and stage actors
Filmmakers, directors
Filmmakers
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Hassan Hajgozar
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Ali Ardekani
- Ali Hatami
- Ali Sajadi Hoseini
- Amir Naderi
- Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation
- Babak Payami
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
- Bahman Maghsoudlou
- Bahram Beizai
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Daryush Shokof
- Darius Khondji
- Darius Mehrjui
- Desiree Akhavan, director of Appropriate Behavior
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Emud Mokhberi, Academy Award-nominated director and animator
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Houman Seyyedi
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Kami Asgar
- Kamran Shirdel
- Kamshad Kooshan
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kiarash Anvari
- Kiumars Pourahmad
- Mahdi Bemani Naeini
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Masoud Kimiai
- Mehran Modiri
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Mostafa Keshvari
- Nasser Taghvai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Hossein Rajabian, director of The Upside-down Triangle
- Parviz Nouri
- Shabnam Rezaei
- Parviz Shahbazi
- Parviz Sayyad
- Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer
- Pouran Derakhshandeh, award-winning film director and producer
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Ramin Farahani
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Reza Badiyi
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- Samuel Khachikian
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Saeed Roustayi
- Tina Gharavi
Theatre and stage directors
Musicians and singers
Classical
Iranian classical traditional
- Abolhasan Saba
- Alireza Eftekhari
- Alinaghi Vaziri
- Dariush Eghbali
- Elaheh
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Hossein Khaje Amiri
- Hossein Tehrani
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Javad Maroofi
- Kamkarha
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Mahmoud Zoulfonoun
- Marzieh
- Maryam Akhondy
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Mohammad Shams
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Mohsen Namjoo
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Mehdi Rajabian
- Nashit
- Nur Ali Elahi
- Parisa
- Parviz Meshkatian
- Parviz Yahaghi
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Shahram Nazeri
- Sima Bina
- Zyriab
Modern traditional
Western classical
Electronic
Pop
(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)
- May J.
- Afshin
- Alireza Assar
- Alireza Talischi
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili
- Arash
- Aref
- Arian Band
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Darius Danesh
- Dariush Eghbali
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad
- Fereidoun Foroughi
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hassan Sattar
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hayadeh
- Homeyra
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Moein
- Mohammad Esfahani
- Mohammad Nouri
- Pyruz
- Reza Sadeghi
- Sepideh
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Shahrum K
- Shahram BozorgMehr
- Shohreh Solati
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
- Susan Roshan
- Vigen
Rap music
- Amir Tataloo
- Hichkas
- Yas
- Zedbazi
- Shahin Najafi
- Bahram
- Erfan
- Hangi Tavakoli, Multi-Platinum music producer and songwriter
Lyricists
Rock and metal
- Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
- Angband
- Barad
- Kiosk
Film score composers
Journalists, media
Bloggers
Journalists
- Akbar Ganji
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
- Alireza Jafarzadeh
- Alireza Nourizadeh
- Arash Markazi
- Azadeh Ensha, The New York Times
- Azadeh Moaveni
- Christiane Amanpour
- Ebrahim Nabavi
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Farjam Behnam
- Farrokhi Yazdi, Pahlavi era
- Hashem Aghajari
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Mostafa Javadi Pour Moradi[1]
- Kaveh Golestan, BBC
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Mahshid Amirshahi
- Masih Alinejad
- Masoud Dehnamaki
- Massoud Behnoud
- Mehran Ghassemi
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Hossein Rajabian
- Mohammad Taghi Bahar
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Omid Memarian
- Rudi Bakhtiar
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- Shadi Sadr
- Sina Motallebi
- Youness Shokrkhah
- Maziar Bahari
- Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- Kasra Nouri
- Mohammad Mosaed
News anchors
- Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, correspondent, commentator, anchorman
- Mehrdad Kia, T.V. and Radio Broadcaster and executive producer in television and music industry.
- Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News
- Asieh Namdar, news anchor at CNN
- Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
- Fereydoun Farrokhzad, TV personality and opposition figure
- Jian Ghomeshi, musician, writer, and former CBC radio broadcaster
- Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazeera (English section)
- Reza Fazeli, actor, film director and opposition figure
- Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and Fox News
Leaders, politicians, activists
This list excludes royalty, which can be accessed by the main article link above.
Historical
- Cyrus the Great, Iranian emperor and the founder of Iran
- Darius the Great, Iranian emperor
- Mithridates I of Parthia, Iranian emperor
- Ismail I, Iranian king
- Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitutionalists; hanged
- Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
- Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader
- Kaveh the Blacksmith, mythical leader and liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general
- Maziar, son of Karan; leader of the Persian uprising against Arabs
- Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister
- Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah
- Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution
- Mohammad Mossadegh, prime minister
- Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, prime minister
- Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili, spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty
- Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader
- Heshmat Taleqani, Jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan
Modern (post-Qajar)
Pahlavi period
- Abdol Hossein Hamzavi, Iranian diplomat, author and representative to the United Nations
- Abdol Karim Ayadi, personal physician to Reza Pahlavi
- Ali Akbar Davar, minister, and founder of Iran's modern judiciary system
- Ali Akbar Siassi, Chancellor of Tehran University
- Ali Gholi Ardalan, Iranian ambassador to the US, West Germany and the USSR
- Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
- Ardeshir Zahedi
- Bahram Aryana, military commander
- Ahmad Ahmadi, prison interrogator
- Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
- George Malek-Yonan, procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
- Hasan Arfa, Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
- Hassan Modarres, member of Parliament
- Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
- Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis Fars Province
- Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
- Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
- Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
- Mahmoud Jafarian, head of National Iranian Radio and Television and Pars News Agency
- Mahmoud Khayami, industrialist
- Mahmud Mahmud, politician
- Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, director of sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz Sadr, Mossadegh's Deputy and a leader of the Second National Front
- Nader Jahanbani, air force general, pilot
- Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
- Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
- Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
- Sattareh Farman Farmaian, established first social worker schools in Iran
- Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
- Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
- Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
- Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian statesman
- Mirza Javad Khan Ameri, Minister, MP
Served in Islamic Republic government
- Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
- Ahmad Khatami
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
- Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
- Ali Akbar Salehi
- Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Ali Younessi, minister of information
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
- Asadollah Lajevardi
- Ata’allah Hakimi
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
- Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
- Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
- Ayatollah Sane'i
- Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
- Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
- Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
- Emad Afrough, member of parliament
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Gholam Hossein Elham
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
- Habiballah Dahamardeh
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
- Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
- Hassan Habibi, first vice president
- Hassan Rouhani, former president
- Hojjatallah Firouzi
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Iraj Fazel, minister of health
- Izzatallah Akbari Talarpashti
- Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
- Kamal Daneshyar, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Kazem Jalali, politician
- Kazem Rajavi, politician
- Kazem Seddiqi, politician
- Lotfollah Forouzandeh (born 1961) Iranian Politician
- Lotfallah Siahkali
- Lotfallah Zara’i Qanawati
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, former chief justice
- Majid Ansari, member of parliament
- Manuchehr Eliasi, Jewish member of parliament
- Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
- Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
- Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Mohammad Ali Najafi, minister of education
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Mohammad Emami-Kashani
- Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
- Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
- Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
- Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
- Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
- Mohseni-Ezhe'i
- Moin al-Din Saeedi
- Morteza Motahhari
- Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Nimatallah Manuchehri, Iranian Politician
- Qodratallah Hamzeh, Iranian politician
- Qodratallah Hussaynipour, Iranian Politician
- Qodratallah Imani
- Qodratallah Intazami, Iranian politician
- Ghodratollah Norouzi, Iranian politician
- Rahim Safavi
- Rahmatallah Firouzi Pourbadi
- Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
- Ruhallah Abbaspour, Iranian Politician
- Ruhallah Baba’i Saleh
- Ruhallah Hazratpour Talahieh
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Ruhallah Izadkhahzadeh
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Ruhallah Motfikar Azad
- Ruhallah Najabat
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairs
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
- Sadegh Larijani
- Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, head of Central Bank of Iran, Ambassador to United Kingdom
- Waliallah Farzanah, Iranian Politician
- Zabihallah Azami Sardoui, Iranian Politician
- Zia-Allah Ezazi Maleki, Iranian Politician
Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
- Abolghasem Kashani
- Ahmad Zirakzadeh
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Ali Latifiyan, Iranian writer
- Alireza Rajaei
- Asghar Parsa
- Azam Taleghani
- Bijan Jazani
- Dariush Forouhar
- Ezzatollah Sahabi
- Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
- Habibollah Peiman
- Hashem Aghajari
- Jafar Pishevari
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Mansoor Hekmat
- Maryam Rajavi
- Massoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
- Mehdi Khalaji
- Mohsen Sazegara
- Mousa Sadr
- Nasser Zarafshan
- Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
- Parviz Varjavand
- Roozbeh Farahanipour, founder of Marze Por Gohar
- Shirin Ebadi, recipient of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
- Yadollah Sahabi
Politicians in 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)
- Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady of Pakistan
- Jimmy Delshad, mayor of Beverly Hills, California
- George Deukmejian, former Governor of California
- Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
- Saadat Khan, first Nawab of Oudh in India
- Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament[2]
- Moshe Katsav, former President of Israel
- Tahia Kazem, former first lady of Egypt, wife of President Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Omid Nouripour, member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Germany
- Ross Mirkarimi, former member of San Francisco City Council from Green Party; American of Iranian and Russian descent.
- Reza Moridi, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
- Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense
- Wajid Ali Shah, last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company
- Maryam Yazdanfar, member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), Sweden
Activists
- Mahnaz Afkhami (born 1941), politician and human rights and women's rights activist, served in the Cabinet of Iran (1976–1978)
- Neda Agha-Soltan (1983–2009), shot during the 2009 Iranian election protests; her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition
- Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858/9 – 1921), author and pioneer of the Persian women's movement in modern Iran
- Shiva Nazar-Ahari, human-rights activist
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
- See main list: List of Persian-language poets and authors
- Adam Khaze, author, researcher
- Jamshid Behnam, author
- Allameh Dehkhoda, author
- Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, author
- Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, author
- Jalal Homaei, author
- Parviz Natel-Khanlari, author
- Sadeq Hedayat, author
- Shahrokh Meskoob, author
- Saeed Shamloo, academic, author
- Ali Abdolrezaei, author
- Parirokh Dadsetan, academic, author
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, author
- Haraton Davidian, academic, author
- Levon Davidian, academic, author
- Heidarali Hooman, academic, author
- Saeed Nafisi, author
- Aliakbar ShoariNezhad, academic, author
- Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author
- Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author
- Abbas Shafiee, academic, author
- Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author
- Karim Taie, academic, author
- Mohammad Moin, author
- Alireza Norouzi, academic, author[3][4][5]
- Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author
- Ahmad Kasravi, author
- Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author
- Karim Emami, author
- Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author
- Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
- Sadeq Hedayat
- Nazi Safavi
- Mahmoud Mansour, academic, author
- Shahriyar Mandanipour
- Abutorab Khosravi
- Morteza Nesfat, academic, author
- Hamzeh Ganji, academic, author
- Reza Ghassemi
- Zoya Pirzad
- Mahmoud Golzari, academic, author
- Behrooz Birashk, academic, author
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
- Shiva Dolatabadi, academic, author
- Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author[6][7][8]
- Bahman Forsi
- Reza Zamani, academic, author
- Houshang Golshiri
- Reza Baraheni
- Abbasgholi Daneshvar, academic, author
- Abbas Maroufi
- Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author
- Bozorg Alavi
- Ahmad Siadati, academic, author
- Majid M. Naini, author
- Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author
- Mahmoud Matin, academic, author
- Bahram Sadeghi
- Reza Shapurian, academic, author
- Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh
- Bagher Hejazi, academic, author
- Ahmad Mahmoud
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
- Kazem Amoli, academic, author
- Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author
- Simin Daneshvar
- Aliakbar Seif, academic, author
- Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author
- Ebrahim Golestan
- Bahman Sholevar
- Neda Aria, author, researcher
- Safoura Navaei, academic, author
- Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author
- Sadeq Chubak
- Karim Haddadian, academic, author
Translators
- Abdolmajid Eskandari, academic and translator
- Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
- Saeed Shamloo, academic, author and translator
- Parirokh Dadsetan, academic, author and translator
- Haraton Davidian, academic, author and translator
- Levon Davidian, academic, author and translator
- Heidarali Hooman, academic, author and translator
- Aliakbar ShoariNezhad, academic, author and translator
- Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author and translator
- Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author and translator
- Abbas Shafiee, academic, author and translator
- Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author and translator
- Karim Taie, academic, author and translator
- Alireza Mobaraki, academic, author and translator
- Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author and translator
- Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author and translator
- Karim Emami, author and translator
- Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author and translator
- Mahmoud Mansour, academic, author and translator
- Morteza Nesfat, academic, author and translator
- Mohammad Ghazi, translator
- Hamzeh Ganji, academic, author and translator
- Mahmoud Golzari, academic, author and translator
- Behrooz Birashk, academic, author and translator
- Shiva Dolatabadi, academic, author and translator
- Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author and translator[9]
- Reza Zamani, academic, author and translator
- Abbasgholi Daneshvar, academic, author and translator
- Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author and translator[10]
- Ahmad Siadati, academic, author and translator
- Majid M. Naini, author and translator
- Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author and translator
- Mahmoud Matin, academic, author and translator
- Reza Shapurian, academic, author and translator
- Bagher Hejazi, academic, author and translator
- Kazem Amoli, academic, author and translator
- Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author and translator
- Aliakbar Seif, academic, author and translator
- Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author and translator
- Safoura Navaei, academic, author and translator
- Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author and translator
- Karim Haddadian, author and translator
- Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator
Religious figures
- Majlesi
- The Báb, Prophet-Founder of the Bábi Faith
- Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith
- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Centre of the Covenant of the Bahá'í Faith
- Ganzibra Jabbar Choheili (1923–2014), head of the Mandaean community in Iran until his death in 2014.
- Rishama Salah Choheili, Iranian Mandaean who is the current patriarch and head of the Mandaean community in Australia
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
- Mani, founder of Manichaeism
- Mazdak, Religious and Social Reformer
- Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
- Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founder of the Druze
- Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
- Mulla Sadra
- Saeed Abedini, Iranian American Christian pastor
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili
- Salman the Persian
- Zahed Gilani
- Zayn al-Din Taybadi (died 1389) mystic and Sufi
- Zoroaster, prophet
- Imam Tawhidi, Australian Iman of Arabian and Iranian descent
Shia Clergy
- Abbas Ali Akhtari
- Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani
- Abbas Ali Karamatlu
- Abbas Ali Rostami Sani
- Abbas-Ali Soleimani
- Abbas Amirifar
- Abbas Hosseini Kashani
- Abbas Ka'bi
- Abbas Mahfouzi
- Abbas Matin
- Abbas Almohri
- Mohammad Montazeri
- Abbas Mousaviyan
- Abbas Tabrizian
- Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
- Abdul Fattah Nawab
- Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi
- Abdul Hamid Khodri
- Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani
- Abdol Hossein Dastgheib
- Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi
- Abdol Javad Alamolhoda
- Abdul Javad Ibrahimi Far
- Abdul Karim Abidini
- Abdul Karim Farhani
- Abdolkarim Hasheminejad
- Abdul Karim Haghshenas
- Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
- Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia
- Abdullah Haji Sadiqi
- Abdullah Hajiani
- Abdullah Hussayni
- Abdullah Keyvani Hafshejani
- Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari
- Abdollah Javadi-Amoli
- Abdullah Musawi Shirazi
- Abdollah Nouri
- Abdul Mahmoud Abdullahi
- Abdul-Majid al-Khoei
- Abdul Mohammad Rastad
- Abdolmoghim Nasehi
- Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard
- Abdul-Nabi Namazi
- Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi
- Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami
- Abdul Rasoul Mousavi
- Abdul Reza Pourzahabi
- Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
- Abu al-Fazl Mir Mohammedi
- Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi
- Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani
- Abu al-Hassan Hassanzadeh
- Abulhassan Navab
- Abolghasem Khazali
- Abu al-Qasem
- Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
- Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
- Abu al-Qasim Yaqoubi
- Ahad Azadikhah
- Ahmad Alamolhoda
- Ahmad Azari Qomi
- Ahmad Beheshti
- Ahmad Daneshzadeh Mo’min
- Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini
- Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi
- Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
- Ahmad Jannati
- Ahmad Khatami
- Ahmad Khomeini
- Ahmad Khonsari
- Ahmad Marvi
- Ahmad Mazani
- Ahmad Moballeghi
- Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
- Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani
- Sayyid Ahmad Mousavi
- Ahmad Parvai'i Rik
- Ahmad Ghabel
- Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati
- Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi
- Ahmad Sabiri Hamedani
- Ahmad Salek
- Ahmad Sheikh Baha’i
- Ahmad Vaezi
- Akbar Ahmadpour
- Akbar Ghaffari Qarabagh
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Allah Nour Karimi Tabar
- Ali Abbasi (Cleric)
- Ali Ahmadi Mianji
- Ali Akbar al-Modarresi
- Ali Meshkini
- Ali-Akbar Hosseini
- Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini
- Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur
- Ali Akbar Kalantari
- Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
- Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh
- Ali Akbar Mousavi Hussayni
- Ali Akbar Nasseri
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
- Ali Akbar Rashad
- Ali al-Sabziwari
- Ali Asghar Baghani
- Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
- Ali Asghar Hussayni
- Ali Asghar Masoumi Shahroudi
- Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad
- Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili
- Ali Banaei
- Ali Fallahian
- Ali Davani
- Ali Gharavi
- Ali Ghiouri
- Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri
- Ali Hussayni Ashkevari
- Ali al-Sistani
- Ali Islami
- Ali Kazemi Gilani
- Ali al-Kazemi Momendi
- Ali Khamenei
- Ali Khatami (Zanjan)
- Ali Mirkhalili
- Ali Mo’alemi
- Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari
- Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi
- Ali Momenpour
- Ali Nazari Monfard
- Ali Orumian
- Ali Qazi Askar
- Ali Qoddusi
- Ali Razini
- Ali Reza Afqahi
- Alireza Arafi
- Ali Reza Dana
- Ali Reza Ebadi
- Ali Reza Islamian
- Alireza Panahian
- Alireza Qaeminia
- Alireza Salimi (politician)
- Ali Safi Golpaygani
- Seyyed Ali Shafiei
- Sheikh Ali Shahrokhi
- Ali Shirazi
- Ali Tahiri Gorgani
- Ali Zadsar Jirofti
- Amanallah Alimoradi
- Aman Narimani
- Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni
- Amir Reza Heda’i
- Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani
- Assad-Allah Imani
- Asadallah Kian-Arasi
- Mir Asadollah Madani
- Asgar Dirbaz
- Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani
- Azizollah Khoshvaght
- Baqir Seyyedi Bonabi
- Dakhil Abbas Zarazadeh Mehrizi
- Davoud Samadi Amoli
- Fakhraddin Hashemi
- Fakhreddin Mousavi
- Fakhraddin Sabiri
- Fathallah Omid Najafabadi
- Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi
- Gholam Ali Naim Abadi
- Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri
- Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani
- Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
- Gholam Hussayn Nadi
- Gholam Reza Fayazi
- Gholamreza Hassani
- Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam
- Gholam Reza Moghiseh
- Gholamreza Rezvani
- Gholam Reza Sultani
- Habibollah Ashouri
- Habiballah Mehman Navaz
- Habiballah Sha’bani Movasaqi
- Habib Boromand Dashghapu
- Hadi al-Modarresi
- Hadi Barikbin
- Hadi Doust Mohammadi
- Hadi Ghaffari
- Hadi Khamenei
- Hadi Khosroshahi
- Hadi Ghabel
- Hadi Rohani
- Hamid Rasai
- Hamid Shahriari
- Mirza Hashem Amoli
- Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani
- Hashem Hamidi
- Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
- Hashem Hejazifar
- Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
- Hashem Niazi
- Hassan Abtahi
- Hassan Alemi
- Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani
- Hasanali Morvarid
- Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi
- Hassan Ameli
- Hassan Aqa Hussayni Tabataba’i
- Hassan Emami
- Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
- Hassan Eslami Ardakani
- Hassan Khomeini
- Hassan Malek Mohammadi
- Hassan Mamduhi
- Hassan Namazi
- Hassan Nowrouzi
- Hassan Rouhani
- Hassan Sanei
- Hassan Shariati Niyasar
- Hassan Shahcheraghi
- Hassan Shuja’i Aliabadi
- Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari
- Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi
- Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi
- Heydar Moslehi
- Hussein-Ali Montazeri
- Hussayn Ali Sa'adi
- Hossein Borujerdi
- Hossein Ansarian
- Hussayn Ansari Rad
- Hossein Ayatollahi
- Hussayn Hashemian
- Hussayn Irani
- Hussayn Jalali
- Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
- Hossein Lankarani
- Hossein Mazaheri
- Hussayn Mirza'i
- Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
- Hussayn Muzzafari
- Hossein Noori Hamedani
- Hussayn Rafia’i
- Hussayn Rasti Kashani
- Hussayn Sobhani Nia
- Hossein Taeb
- Hossein Wahid Khorasani
- Ebrahim Amini
- Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
- Ebrahim Raisi
- Isa Tarafi
- Ismail Ferdowsipour
- Esmaeil Khatib
- Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani
- Ismail Salehi Mazandarani
- Jafar Karimi Divkola'i
- Jafar Sobhani
- Jafar Shojouni
- Jalaleddin Taheri
- Jalal Yahyazadeh Firouzabadi
- Javad Alavi Boroujerdi
- Javad Gharavi Aliari
- Javad Hajizadeh Kalajahi
- Javad Hussayni Kia
- Javad Jafari
- Javad Khamenei
- Jawad Tabrizi
- Javad Marvi
- Javad Mojtahed Shabestari
- Javad Nikbin
- Kamel Khairkhah
- Karamatallah Emadi
- Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini
- Khalil Boyukzadeh
- Khalil Mobasher Kashani
- Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri
- Kazem Mousavi
- Kazem Nourmofidi
- Kazem Seddiqi
- Lotfollah Dezhkam
- Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
- Mahmoud Taleghani
- Mahmoud Alavi
- Mahmoud Da’ai
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
- Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi
- Mahmoud Madani Bajestani
- Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi
- Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi
- Mahmoud Nabavian
- Mahmoud Nourizadeh
- Mahmoud Rajabi
- Mahmoud Salavati
- Mahdi al-Modarresi
- Mahdi Baqiri
- Mahdi Hosseini Rohani
- Mehdi Karroubi
- Mahdi Mousavinejad
- Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi
- Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi
- Mahdi Sheikh
- Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani
- Majdaddin Ghazi Dezfuli
- Majid Ansari
- Majid Nasserinejhad
- Majid Nasira'i
- Majid Talkhabi
- Mansour Leghaei
- Masoud Khamenei
- Ali Younesi
- Mohammad Aba’i Khorasani
- Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
- Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
- Mohammad Ali "Mokhtar" Aminian
- Mohammad-Ali Angaji
- Mohammad Ali Araki
- Mohammad Ali Ayazi
- Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani
- Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi
- Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi
- Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
- Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheie
- Mohammad Ali Naseri
- Mohammad Ali Nekounam
- Mohammad Ali Modarresi Tabataba’i
- Mohammad Ali Mousavi
- Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
- Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi
- Ali Movahedi-Kermani
- Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei
- Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
- Mohammad Ali Reza'i
- Mohammad Ali Sadouqi
- Mohammad-Ali Shahidi
- Mohammad Ali Shar’ai
- Mohammad Ali Shomali
- Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
- Mohammad Ali Zam
- Mohammad Amin Khorasani
- Mirza Mohammad Anvari
- Mohammad Ashrafi Isfahani Khozani
- Mohammed Bahrami Khoshkar
- Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri
- Mohammad Baqir Ebadi
- Mohammad Bagher Kharazi
- Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini
- Mohammad Baqir Movahed Abtahi
- Mohammad Ebadizadeh
- Mohammed Emami-Kashani
- Mohammad Faqih
- Mohammad Fazel Lankarani
- Mohammad Feyz Sarabi
- Mohammad Hadi Abdekhodai
- Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari
- Mohammad-Hadi Ma'refat
- Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh
- Mohammad Hadi Rabbani
- Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi
- Mohammad Hashemian
- Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard
- Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih
- Mohammad Hassan Jamshidi Ardeshiri
- Mohammad Hassan Mar’ashi
- Mohammad Hassan Nabavi
- Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki
- Mohammad Hassan Rahimian
- Mohammad Hassan Zali
- Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi
- Mohammad Beheshti
- Mohammad Hussayn Bayati
- Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini
- Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi
- Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi
- Mohammad Hussayni Shahroudi
- Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani
- Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai
- Mohammad Hussayn Zarandi
- Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
- Mohammad Ibrahim Nekounam
- Mohammad Ismail Shushtri
- Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani
- Mohammad Jafari Gilani
- Mohammad Jafar Montazeri
- Muhammad Jafar Moravej
- Mohammad Jafar Sadat Mousavi
- Muhammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
- Mohammad Javad Pishvai
- Mohammad Karim Marouji
- Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi
- Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
- Mohammad Khamenei
- Mohammad Khatami
- Mohammad Mahdi Aftakhari
- Mohammad Mahdi Hussayni Hamedani
- Mohammad Mahdi Mir Baqeri
- Mohammad Mahdi Pourfatimi
- Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlishi
- Mohammad Mahdi Shahrokhi
- Mehdi Tabatabaei
- Mohammad Mofatteh
- Mohammad Mo’adebpour
- Mohammad Mohad
- Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
- Mohammad Momen
- Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
- Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
- Mohammad Naqi Lotfi
- Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi
- Nasser Biria
- Mohammad Qomi
- Mohammad Rahmati Sirjani
- Mohammad Rajaei Baghsiai
- Mohammad Reyshahri
- Mohammad Razavi Yazdi
- Mohammad Reza Abbasi Fard
- Mohammad Reza Amiri Kohnuj
- Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi
- Mohammad Reza Baqiri Bonabi
- Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi
- Mohammad Reza Faker
- Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
- Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
- Mohammad Reza Meghari Moruji
- Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini
- Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi
- Mohammad Reza Naseri Yazdi
- Mohammad Reza Nekoonam
- Mohammed Ridha al-Sistani
- Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli
- Mohammad Reza Za’iri
- Mohammad Rouhani Qomi
- Mohammad Sabzi
- Mohammad Sadat Ibrahimi
- Mohammad Sa’id Mahdavi Kani
- Mohammad Sadiq "Mohiaddin" Haeri Shirazi
- Sadegh Khalkhali
- Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani
- Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh
- Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani
- Mohammad Sadoughi
- Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi
- Mohammad Safari Molkmian
- Mohammad Shahcheraghi
- Mohammad Shahi Arablu
- Mohammad-Taher Shubayr al-Khaqani
- Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi
- Mohammad Taqi al-Khoei
- Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani
- Mohammad Taghi Falsafi
- Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari
- Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji
- Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
- Mohammad Taqi Mohassil Hamadani
- Mohammed Taqi Morvarid
- Mohammad Taqi Naqd Ali
- Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
- Mohammad Taqi Rahbar
- Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari
- Mohammad Taghi Vaezi
- Mohammad Waezzadeh Khorasani
- Mohammad Vaez Mousavi
- Mohammad Yasrebi
- Mohammad Yazdi
- Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi
- Mohiaddin Fazl Harandi
- Mohsen Araki
- Mohsen Faqihi
- Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
- Mohsen Ibrahimi
- Mohsen Kazeroni
- Mohsen Kharazi
- Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi
- Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari
- Mohsin Qara'ati
- Mohsen Qomi
- Mohsen Rohami
- Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani
- Mohsen Tahiri
- Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
- Mojtaba Mo’adpour
- Mujtaba Musavi Lari
- Mojtaba Tehrani
- Mojtaba Zonnour
- Mokhtar Waziri
- Morteza Aghatehrani
- Morteza Fahim Kermani
- Morteza Mati’ayi
- Morteza Moghtadai
- Morteza Motahhari
- Morteza Mousavi
- Morteza Razavi
- Morteza Sadouqi Mazandarani
- Morteza Salehi Khvansari
- Mousa Ahmadi
- Mousa Ghazanfarabadi
- Mousa Mousavi
- Mousa Qorbani
- Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
- Mostafa Boroujerdi
- Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli
- Mustafa Hassanti
- Mostafa Khamenei
- Mostafa Khomeini
- Mustafa Mohami
- Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
- Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
- Mostafa Pourmohammadi
- Mustafa Tabataba’inejhad
- Mustafa Ulama
- Mustafa Zu al-Qadir
- Moslem Malakouti
- Motahar Kazimi
- Nasir Hosseini
- Nasrollah Pejmanfar
- Nasrallah Shah-Abadi
- Naser Makarem Shirazi
- Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani
- Nasser Mousavi
- Nasser Qawami
- Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
- Nourallah Tabresi
- Qasem Ravanbakhsh
- Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl
- Ghodratollah Alikhani
- Qodratallah Najafi
- Qodratallah Nazari Nia
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
- Qorban Ali Qandahari
- Rahim Tavakol
- Rasoul Fallahati Gilani
- Rasul Jafarian
- Rasoul Montajabnia
- Reza Akrami
- Seyed Reza Bahaadini
- Reza Hosseini Nassab
- Reza Mohammadi Langroudi
- Reza Nouri
- Reza Ostadi
- Reza Ramezani Gilani
- Reza Taqvi
- Ruhollah Beigi
- Ruhollah Hosseinian
- Ruhollah Khatami
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Ruhallah Sadr al-Sadati
- Sabir Jabbari
- Sadeq Larijani
- Sadiq Pishnamazi
- Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad
- Saied Reza Ameli
- Sa’id Saleh Mirza’i
- Seyed Sajjad Izdehi
- Salman Zakir
- Shahab al-Din Ishraqi
- Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi
- Shahab Moradi
- Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi
- Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni
- Sirajaddin Mousavi
- Taha Hashemi
- Taher Ahmadzadeh
- Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi
- Teymour Ali Asgari
- Wahid Ahmadi
- Vaed Moradbeygi
- Yadollah Duzduzani
- Yadallah Safari
- Yahya Ansari Shirazi
- Yahya Nouri
- Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari
- Younis Mousavi Sarcheshmeh
- Yousef Madani Tabrizi
- Yousef Saanei
- Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
- Zakrallah Ahmadi
- Zaynolabideen Ghorbani
Sunni Clergy
Royalty
Scientists, scholars, and academics
Explorers and travellers
- Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists
- Abbas Alizadeh
- Abbas Amanat
- Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
- Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
- Iraj Bashiri
- Ezzatolah Neghban
- Fereydun Adamiyat
- Habiballah Esmaili
- Hamdallah Mustawfi
- Kaveh Farrokh
- Majid Adibzadeh
- Mehrdad Bahar
- Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
- Nasser Fakouhi
- Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
- Touraj Atabaki
- Touraj Daryaee
Linguists
Intellectuals and philosophers
- See main list: List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
- See main list: List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers
Technology and computer engineering
- Shahram Dabiri, lead producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft
- Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia
- Amir Taaki, hacker, computer programmer and early developer for Bitcoin
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
- Rouzbeh Yassini, Inventor of the Cable Modem
- Habib Zargarpour, visual effects specialist, video game art director
Sports
- Mojtaba Abedini (born 1984), Olympic fencer
- Yu Darvish, MLB baseball player for the Texas Rangers
- Ariajasuru Hasegawa, professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Nagoya Grampus
- Ali Azari Karki, footballer
- Sardar Azmoun, soccer player, Iran's National Team player
- Farhad Ghaemi, volleyball player, Iran's National Team player
- Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
- Adel Kolahkaj, football player
- Alex Agase, American football player
- Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
- Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1978)
- Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1982)
- Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1994)
- Ali Parvin, football player and coach
- Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
- Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic bronze Mmdalist
- Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- Amir Abedzadeh, Iranian Football Player
- Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
- Andre Agassi, tennis player; his father was Assyrian-Armenian
- Arash Miresmaili, judo world champion
- Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
- Behdad Salimi, weightlifter World Champion
- Bijan Kangarloo, cross-country skier
- Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
- Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic gold medalist (Melbourne 1956)
- Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
- Ezzatollah Pourghaz, Iranian-Turkmen Football Player
- George Issabeg, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
- George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in track & field and pentathlon
- Ghasem Dehnavi, football player
- Ghasem Hadadifar, football player
- Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
- Hooman Tavakolian, Sport Diplomat and Lobbyist, Hall of Fame, wrestler
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic champion (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004)
- Javad Nekounam, football player
- Khodadad Azizi, football player
- Kianoush Rostami, weightlifter, world champion
- Kimia Alizadeh, Taekwondo player, the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games (Rio de Janeiro 2016)
- Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist
- Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- Mehdi Haghizadeh, football player
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- Mehdi Taremi, Iranian Football Player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
- Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
- Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach
- Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist
- Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
- Mohammad Reza Tupchi, wrestler
- Rahman Rezaei, football player
- Ramin Rezaeian, Iranian Football Player
- Rasoul Khadem, Olympic gold medalist wrestler
- Rouzbeh Cheshmi, Iranian Football Player
- Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
- Shima Mehri, Motorcycle Biker
- Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
- Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
- Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
- Shoura Osipov, boxer at 1948 Olympics
- T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
- Vahid Hashemian, football player
- Yossef Karami, Taekwondo world champion, Olympic bronze medalist
- Andranik Teymourian, football player
- Fereydoon Zandi, football player
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
- Hadi Saei, taekwondo world champion, Olympic gold medalist
- Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist
- Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
- Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
- Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
- Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
- Mika Zibanejad, ice hockey player for Ottawa Senators of the NHL
- Daniel Rahimi, ice hockey player for San Jose Sharks of the NHL
- Zabihollah Poursheib, Kurdish Iranian Martial Artist
Iranian women
See separate articles: Persian woman and List of Persian women.
Military
Aviation
- Abbas Doran, fighter pilot
- Fereidoon Izadseta, Colonel of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Houshang Seddigh
- Jalil Zandi, fighter pilot
- Manouchehr Khosrodad, general
- Nader Jahanbani, general, distinguished fighter pilot
- Shapour Azarbarzin, fighter pilot
Combat Veterans
- Abbas Ka'bi
- Abbas Mohtaj
- Abu al-Fazl Hassan Baygi
- Ahmad Salek
- Ali Asghar Baghani
- Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari
- Alireza Tangsiri
- Bahram Hooshyar
- Bijan Najdi
- Gholam Ali Jafarzadeh
- Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi
- Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
- Hossein Alaei
- Hossein Lashkari
- Kavous Seyed-Emami
- Kazem Mousavi
- Mehdi Khazali
- Mansour Haghdoust
- Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
- Mohammad Forouzandeh
- Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi
- Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan
- Mohammad Marandi
- Nader Ghazipour
- Nasir Hosseini
- Sabir Jabbari
- Sajjad Kouchaki
- Shahram Rostami
Generals
- Abdolrahim Mousavi
- Ahmad Kazemi
- Ahmad Meyghani
- Ahmad Reza Pourdastan
- Ali Abdollahi
- Ali Fadavi
- Ali Sayad Shirazi
- Ali Shahbazi
- Ali Shamkhani
- Alireza Afshar
- Alireza Sabahifard
- Amir Ali Hajizadeh
- Ataollah Salehi
- Esmaeil Kousari
- Esmail Qaani
- Farzad Esmaili
- Gholam Ali Rashid
- Gholamhossein Gheybparvar
- Habibollah Sayyari
- Hassan Firouzabadi
- Hossein Dehghan
- Hossein Hassani Sa'di
- Hossein Nejat
- Hossein Salami
- Kioumars Heydari
- Mansour Sattari
- Mohammad Ali Jafari
- Mohammad-Hassan Nami
- Mohammad Hejazi
- Mohammad-Hossein Dadras
- Mohammad Kazimi
- Mohammad Jafar Asadi
- Mohammad Pakpour
- Mohammad Reza Zahedi
- Mohammad Salimi
- Mohsen Rezaee
- Mostafa Izadi
- Nasser Shabani
- Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
- Qasem Soleimani
- Yahya Rahim Safavi
War Martyrs
- Abdolbaghi Darvish
- Ahmad Keshvari
- Ahmad Motevasselian
- Ali Eghbali Dogahe
- Hamid Taqavi
- Hassan Abshenasan
- Hasan Aghareb Parast
- Hassan Shateri
- Hossein Hamadani
- Hossein Khalatbari
- Hossein Kharrazi
- Hossein Qajeyi
- Javad Fakoori
- Mehdi Bakeri
- Mehdi Zeinoddin
- Masoud Monfared Niyaki
- Mohammad Ali Allahdadi
- Mohammad Boroujerdi
- Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh
- Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
- Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh
- Mohsen Gheytaslou
- Mohsen Hojaji
- Qodratollah Mansouri
- Valiollah Fallahi
Misc
- Reza Zadeh, computer science
- Ali Dashti, Iranian senator
- Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and philanthropist; founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
- Alireza Azmandian, self-help motivational speaker
- Ramezan Hajjimashhadi, lawyer
- Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport for many years.
- Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
- Amin Jazayeri, Iranian Dj and Youtuber in India
Afro-Iranians
- Abdolreza Barzegari, footballer
- Abdul Karim Farhani, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Ali Firouzi, footballer and coach
- Mehrab Shahrokhi, footballer
- Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Iranians Shia Cleric (Afro-Ahwazi Arab)
- Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Iranian folk band
- Dennis Walker, footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United[11]
Iranians of Armenian Descent
- Alenush Terian, scientist
- Andranik Eskandarian, footballer
- Andranik Teymourian, footballer
- Andre Agassi, tennis champion
- Arefeh Mansouri, Inventor, Designer
- Arakel of Tabriz, historian
- Armik, flamenco guitarist and composer
- Arsen Minasian, philanthropist, pharmacologist
- Bogdan Saltanov, painter
- Emmanuel Agassi, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran; father of Andre Agassi
- Gegard Mousasi, MMA fighter
- George Bournoutian, historian
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
- Raffi, prominent writer
- Hayk Bzhishkyan, Soviet military commander
- Hovhannes Masehyan, diplomat and translator
- Hrant Markarian, politician
- Irene Zazians, actress
- Ivan Galamian, violin teacher
- Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev, jeweler
- Khosrow Khan Gorji, influential figure from the Qajar era
- Leon Khachatourian, boxer
- Loris Tjeknavorian, artist
- Marcos Grigorian artist, scholar and actor
- Mirza Malkam Khan, modernist and politician
- Mkhitar Heratsi, physician
- Mushegh Soruri
- Ovannes Ohanian, first Iranian film director
- Robert Beglarian, MP
- Samuel Khachikian, film director
- Sarkis Djanbazian, artist
- Sayat-Nova, poet
- Vartan Gregorian, academic
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi, film editor and director
- Vigen Derderian, singer
- Viguen (see Vigen Derderian)
- Yeprem Khan, revolutionary hero
Iranians of Assyrian descent
- Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
- George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- George Malek-Yonan, politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
- Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
- Ivan Kakovitch (1933–2006), activist and writer (novel Mount Semele (2001))
- Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted rice
- Paulus Khofri, composer and painter
- Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
- Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
- Shoura Osipov, Olympic boxer
- Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran
Emigrants and immigrants
Americans in Iran
- Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr
- Joseph Gallup Cochran, American missionary in Urmia and Seer, translator
- Joseph Plumb Cochran, second-generation American missionary in Urmia and medical doctor; established first Iranian medical college
- Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia
- Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) and Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977), Persian culture revivalists, scholars of Persian art and architecture history
- David Stronach
- Elgin Groseclose, Treasury General, Persia
- John Limbert
- Justin Perkins, first American resident of Iran (1835), Presbyterian missionary in Urmia.
- Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia
- Richard Nelson Frye (1920–2014), former Harvard University professor, scholar of Persian art history
- Samuel M. Jordan, namesake of Jordan Ave. in Tehran
- William M. Miller
Germans in Iran
- Annemarie Schimmel, German-born Harvard expert on Iranian literature
- Wilhelm Wassmuss, German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, World War I
Iranians in America
See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.
Iranians in Canada
See article: Iranian-Canadian
Iranians in Britain
Iranians in Germany
Iranians in Australia
Iranians in the Netherlands
Iranians in Finland
Iranians in Sweden
Iranians in Egypt
- Tahia Kazem, wife of president Gamal Abdel Nasser; born in Egypt to Iranian parents
Iranians in Pakistan
- Nusrat Bhutto, Iranian father and mother moved with family to Karachi, British India, before partition; married Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; father of Benazir Bhutto
Persian Roman Catholic saints
See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints
See also
References
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- ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
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- ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
- ^ "حمیده جهانگیری".
- ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
- ^ Hern, Bill; Gleave, David (30 October 2020). "Dennis Walker: Manchester United's first and only black Busby Babe". theguardian.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.