List of Iranian Kurds

Iranian Kurds — an Iranic-speaking ethnic group. Iranian Kurds are both Shia and Sunni Muslims. Traditionally, the Iranian Kurds live in Kordestan province, Kermanshah province, Ilam province and parts of West Azerbaijan province.The majority of the Kermanshah and Ilam provinces as well as eastern Kordestan province are Shia Muslim Kurds.

Below are lists of prominent Kurds from Iran. In the list, they are indicated only by place of birth. List also includes people who have at least one parent of Iranian Kurdish origin.

Actors

• Sahar Valad-Beigi — Iranian actress

Filmmakers

• Ghotbeddin Sadeghi — Iranian director.
• Behrouz Gharibpour — Iranian director.
• Bahman Ghobadi — Iranian director.
• Jamil Rostami — Iranian director.

Music

• Shahram Nazeri — Iranian vocalist and musician.
• Susan (singer) — Iranian singer.
• Kamkars — Iranian music family
• Azad (rapper), German rapper
• Jamshid (singer), Iranian singer
• Rojan (musician) Iranian singer
• Saeed Farajpouri, Iranian kamancheh player
• Ghader Abdollahzadeh - Kurdish flute player
• Mohammad Mamle, Kurdish singer.
• Hassan Zirak — Kurdish singer.
• Ali Akbar Moradi - Iranian musician
• Sohrab Pournazeri - Iranian musician
• Roknoddin Mokhtari — Iranian violin player
• Kayhan Kalhor — Iranian kamancheh player.

Authors, poets, journalists and scholars

• Nezami (Persian father and Kurdish mother) - Persian poet
• Sharafkhan Bidlisi - Historian, author of Sharafnama in Persian.
• Mastoura Ardalan, Kurdish poet and historiographer.
• Alaaddin Sajadi - Kurdish writer
• Abdol-Hamid Heyrat Sajjadi - Iranian writer
• Bakhtiar Sajjadi - Iranian writer
• Mohammad Ghazi — Renowned Iranian translator.
• Ahmad Ghazi — Kurdish translator.
• Karim Hisami — Kurdish author .
• Nasser Sina — Kurdish translator and journalist
• Hemin Mukriyani — Kurdish poet.
• Hejar — Kurdish poet.
• Misbaholdiwan Adab — Kurdish poet
• Wafaei, Kurdish poet.
• Hamid Hassani — Iranian author
• Erfan Ghaneifard — Iranian author.
• Ata Nahai — Kurdish author
• Parviz Jahani - Kurdish author
• Savareh Ilkhanizadeh — Kurdish poet.
• Amir Hassanpour - Kurdish scholar and researcher
• Mustafa Besarani — Kurdish poet
• Khana Qubadi, Kurdish poet
• Hossein Khalighi — Kurdish author
• Mehrdad Izady - academic and historian. (Kermanshahi Kurdish father)
• Abbas Vali - political scientist.
• Hashim Ahmadzadeh - Kurdish writer and translator
• Rashid Yasemi — Iranian author
• Abolghasem Lahouti — Iranian poet
• Ali Mohammad Afghani — Iranian novelist and writer.
• Ali Ashraf Darvishian — Iranian novelist and writer.
• Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi — Iranian author and translator.
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi — Iranian lyricist.

Sports

• Mohammad Oraz — Iranian mountain climber.
• Aram Khalili — Norwegian football player.
• Ziaeddin Niknafs — Iranian football player
• Bijan Zolfagharnasab — Former Iranian football player and current coach.
• Mohammad Ranjbar - Former Iranian football player

Political activists

• Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou — former leader of PDKI.
• Simko Shikak — Kurdish revolutionary.
• Ghazi Mohammad — Former leader of PDKI
• Sadegh Sharafkandi — Leader of PDKI
• Bahaedin Adab - Political activist
• Ahmad Moftizadeh Sunni Islamic Kurdish leader in Iran.
• Foad Mostafa Soltani — Former leader of Komaleh.
• Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, Human rights activist
• Sedigh Kamangar — Political activist
• Farzad Kamangar — Political activist.
• Ebrahim Alizadeh — Former leader of Komaleh.
• Soraya Serajeddini, Human rights activist
• Roya Toloui - Kurdish journalist
• Amineh Kakabaveh, member of the Swedish Parliament.

Politicians

• Bijan Namdar Zangeneh — Former Iranian oil minister
• Karim Sanjabi — Former Iranian foreign minister.
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh — Iranian academic and politician.
• Mohammad-Reza Rahimi — Current first vice president of Iran.
• Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf (Khorasani Kurd father), Current mayor of Tehran.
• Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. (Kermanshahi Kurd mother according to some sources and an ethnic Persian mother according to other sources)
• Nusrat Bhutto, Former first lady of Pakistan.(Of Kermanshahi Kurd ancestry according to some sources and an ethnic Persian based on other sources )

Scientists

• Mozaffar Partowmah, scholar of Islam and Nuclear physics.

Religious figures

• Hajj Nematollah (1871–1919), mystic and poet.
• Nur Ali Elahi (1895–1974), Spiritual leader of the Ahl-e Haqq religion.

Others

• Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor - Iranian calligraphist

See also

• Kurdish people
• Iranian Kurdistan