List of ayatollahs
(Grand Ayatollahs)
This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Shi'a Muslims clerics.
Afghanistan
Australia
Canada
India
Please understand that Ali Naqi naqvi 'Naqqan' was not an Ayathulla. There are many ayathullas of indian origin who have settled in Iran, Iraq and other countries. Also there were many Aalims in india like Allama Haroon Zangipuri, Allama Gada hussain, Allama latif Zangipuri who were on the equal cadre to Ayathullas but did not proclaim themselves so. However, they have served the in India keeping themselves at a very low profile.
Anybody making any changes on this: please make sure you understand the meaning of Ayathullah.
Iran
- Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989)
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri
- Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei
- Ayatollah S. Mohammad Taqi Almodarresi
- Moslem Malakouti
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
- Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
- Redha Husseini Shirazi
- Sabah Husseini Shobar
- Ali Milani
- Jafar Sobhani
- Abdul Karim Haeiri
- Fadhel Saffar
- Morteza Motahhari
- Allameh Tabatabaei
- Jalal-aldin Taheri
- Mohammad Yazdi
- Mohamed Hossein Kazemini Borujerdi
- Ayatollah Hojatieh
- Kazem Nourmofidi
- Ali Sadr
- Ali Moraweji
- Mohammad Sanad
- Ahmad Azari-Ghomi
- Mohammad Beheshti
- Sadiq Ehsanbakhsh
- Mohammadi Guilani
- Ahmad Jannati
- Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari [1]
- Ebrahim Amini
- Abol-Ghasem Kashani
- Sadegh Khalkhali
- Allameh Majlesi
- Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Mohsen Araki
- Ali Meshkini
- Hadi Almodarresi
- Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr