List of Iranian Azerbaijanis
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Azerbaijanis constitute the second-largest ethnic group in Iran, and there are more Azerbaijanis living in Iran than in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Notable Iranian Azerbaijanis include:
Lists of Azerbaijanis by country |
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Poets and authors
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Qovsi Tabrizi | File:Qovsi.jpg | poet |
2 | Mirza Ibrahimov | writer | |
3 | Mirza Fatali Akhundov | ![]() |
literary critic and writer |
4 | Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar | ![]() |
poet |
5 | N/A | N/A | |
6 | Mir Jalal Pashayev | ![]() |
literary critic and writer |
7 | Iraj Mirza | ![]() |
satirist and poet |
8 | Gholamhossein Bigdeli | writer | |
9 | Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi | ![]() |
screenwriter, writer, novelist and dramatist |
11 | Samad Behrangi | writer | |
12 | Reza Baraheni | ![]() |
writer, novelist and poet |
13 | Taqi Rafat | writer and poet | |
14 | Rosa Jamali | poet and playwright. | |
15 | Fariba Vafi | writer | |
16 | Izzeddin Hasanoglu | poet | |
17 | Ali Nazem | ![]() |
literary critic, poet and writer |
18 | Ali Mojuz | ![]() |
poet |
19 | Qasem-e Anvar | poet | |
20 | Yadollah Maftun Amini | poet | |
21 | N/A | N/A | |
22 | Mahmoud Melmasi – Azarm | poet | |
23 | Naser Manzuri | novelist and linguist | |
24 | Seyid Abulgasim Nabati | poet | |
25 | Khasta Qasim | File:Khasta Qasim.jpg | poet |
26 | Bulud Qarachorlu | ![]() |
poet |
27 | Jafar Ebrahimi | poet |
Music and art
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Aref Arefkia | singer | |
2 | Nasrollah Nasehpor | ![]() |
musician |
3 | Parviz Parastui | File:Parviz-Parastui.jpg | actor |
4 | Tahmineh Milani | ![]() |
film director, screenwriter, and producer |
5 | Behrouz Vossoughi | ![]() |
actor |
6 | Qolamhossein Bigjekhani | ![]() |
musician and tar player |
7 | Jamileh Sheykhi | actor | |
8 | Atila Pesyani | actor | |
9 | Hasan Enami Olya | singer | |
10 | Ali Salimi | ![]() |
musician, composer and tar player |
11 | Monir Vakili | singer | |
12 | Samin Baghtcheban | ![]() |
musician, composer, author and translator |
13 | |||
14 | Akbar Abdi | actor and comedian | |
15 | Jamshid Hashempour | actor | |
16 | Googoosh | singer | |
17 | Mohammad Reza Golzar | ] | actor |
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19 | Hossein shahabi | ![]() |
screenwriter and director |
20 | Sami Yusuf | ![]() |
singer |
21 | Ebrahim Hatamikia | ![]() |
film directors |
22 | Rubaba Muradova | singer | |
23 | Masoud Dehnamaki | ![]() |
filmmaker |
24 | Mahmud Shaterian | composer, musician and tar master | |
25 | Rahim Shahriari | singer | |
26 | Mansour Mamaghani | singer | |
27 | Kamal Tabrizi | film director | |
28 | Mansoor Ghandriz | painter | |
29 | Ahmad Aali | ![]() |
photographer and artist |
31 | Davood Azad | singer | |
32 | Akbar Behkalam | sculptor and painter | |
33 | Ahad Hosseini | sculptor and painter | |
34 | Farhad Fakhreddini | File:Farhad Fakhraddini.jpg | composer and conductor |
35 | Ali-Asghar Bahari | musician and kamancheh player | |
36 | Rambod Javan | actor | |
37 | Rahim Moazzen Zadeh Ardabili | moazzen | |
38 | Jafar Panahi | ![]() |
filmmaker |
39 | Aydin Aghdashloo | ![]() |
painter |
40 | Reza Deghati | ![]() |
photojournalist |
41 | Javad Alizadeh | ![]() |
humorist, satirist, comics artist and cartoonist |
42 | Ali Akbar Saremi | ![]() |
architect |
43 | Nasrullah Medqalchi | dubbing artist | |
44 | Ali Samadi Ahadi | ![]() |
filmmaker |
45 | Reza Mirkarimi | film director | |
46 | Hadi Kazemi | actor | |
47 | Amir Aghaei | actor | |
48 | ![]() |
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49 | Haydar Hatemi | painter | |
50 | Maryam Palizban | actor | |
51 | Hossein Alizadeh | composer | |
52 | Shahab Abbasi | actor | |
53 | Hassan Sattar | singer | |
54 | Dariush Eghbali | ![]() |
singer |
55 | Fatma Mukhtarova | ![]() |
opera singer |
56 | Dariush Pirniakan | musician | |
57 | Farhad Ghaemian | actor | |
58 | Afsar Asadi | actor | |
59 | Reza Naji | ![]() |
actor |
60 | Reza Beyk Imanverdi | actor | |
61 | Ali Hosseinzadeh | musician |
Revolutionaries, clerics and military
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Colonel Pessian | military commander | |
2 | Sardar Homayoun | general | |
3 | Abbas Gharabaghi | military commander | |
4 | Javad Fakoori | military commander | |
5 | Mehdi Bakeri | military commander | |
6 | Teymūr Khan Ayromlou | military commander | |
7 | Muhammad-Husayn Ayrom | general | |
8 | Jawad Tabrizi | grand ayatollah | |
9 | Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh | ![]() |
journalist and cleric |
10 | Yahya Rahim Safavi | ![]() |
general |
11 | Javad Gharavi Aliari | grand ayatollah | |
12 | Feridoun Jam | military commander | |
13 | Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili | grand ayatollah | |
14 | Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari | ![]() |
grand ayatollah |
15 | Mohammad Mofatteh | ayatollah | |
16 | Sadegh Khalkhali | ![]() |
ayatollah |
17 | Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani | grand ayatollah | |
18 | Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani | ![]() |
ayatollah |
19 | Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani | ![]() |
cleric |
20 | Mousa Shubairi Zanjani | grand ayatollah | |
21 | Moslem Malakouti | grand ayatollah | |
22 | Mirza Mohammad Osouli | ![]() |
cleric |
23 | Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi | cleric | |
24 | Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei | ![]() |
grand ayatollah |
25 | Sayyid Hossein Ardabili | cleric | |
26 | Fazel Lankarani | grand ayatollah | |
27 | Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi | ![]() |
intellectual and social reformer |
28 | Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli | ![]() |
revolutionary activist |
29 | Sattar Khan | ![]() |
national commander |
30 | Bāqer Khān | ![]() |
national leader |
31 | Mohammad Khiabani | ![]() |
political leader |
32 | Ja'far Pishevari | File:Seyid Cəfər Pişəvəri.jpg | founder and chairman of separatist and communist Azerbaijan People's Government |
33 | Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani | grand ayatollah | |
34 | Ja'far Sobhani | shia marja, influential theologian and writer | |
35 | Yadollah Duzduzani | shia marja |
Entrepreneurs, philosophers and academics
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Sheikh Abdul Hosein Amini | Islamic scholar | |
2 | Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari | ![]() |
Islamic scholar and philosopher |
3 | Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei | ![]() |
Islamic scholar and philosopher |
4 | Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek | ![]() |
orientalist |
5 | Ali Javan | ![]() |
physicist and inventor |
6 | Javad Tabatabai | ![]() |
philosopher |
7 | Shahriar Afshar | physicist | |
8 | Sina Tamaddon | entrepreneur | |
9 | Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh | philosopher of medicine | |
10 | Lotfi A. Zadeh | ![]() |
scientist |
11 | Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari | philosopher | |
12 | Abass Alavi | physician-scientist | |
13 | Firoz Partovi | physicist | |
14 | Jabbar Baghtcheban | established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf | |
15 | Ahmad Kasravi | linguist, historian | |
16 | Rahim Rahmanzadeh | medicine and professor | |
17 | Ali Murad Davudi | philosopher | |
18 | Mahdi Ghalibafian | civil engineer | |
19 | Majid Shahriari | physicist | |
20 | Yousef Sobouti | ![]() |
physicist |
20 | Javad Heyat | Turkolog and surgeon | |
21 | Mohsen Hashtroodi | academic | |
22 | Mohammad-Amin Riahi | academic | |
23 | Homa Nategh | historian |
Sports
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Hadi Saei | ![]() |
former Iranian taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history |
2 | Hossein Rezazadeh | former world and double Olympic champion in Olympic weightlifting | |
3 | Gholamreza Takhti[1] | ![]() |
Iranian Olympic gold medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani practitioner |
4 | Nasser Hejazi | ![]() |
Iranian football player and coach who most notably played for Taj/Esteghlal Tehran |
5 | Ali Daei | Iranian former football player and coach who currently manages Persepolis. Current world record holder in international goals with 109 for Iran | |
6 | Karim Bagheri | ![]() |
retired Iranian professional football player |
7 | Rahim Aliabadi | ![]() |
won a silver medal in Greco-Roman at the 1972 Summer Olympics |
8 | Mahmoud Mollaghasemi | won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics | |
9 | Sajjad Anoushiravani | won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's +105 kg | |
10 | Mohammad Paziraei | won a bronze medal in flyweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome | |
11 | Yousef Karami | competed in the men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal | |
12 | Jahanbakht Tofiq | won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics | |
13 | Hossein Sadaghiani | ![]() |
Iranian football player and manager; a striker during his playing career and afterwards was Iran national football team's head coach from 1941 to 1950 |
14 | Ahad Pazaj | won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia | |
15 | Ali Ashkani | won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia and silver in the world | |
16 | Parviz Hadi | won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia | |
17 | Farzad Abdollahi | won the gold medal in the welterweight division (-80 kg) in the world | |
18 | Moharram Navidkia | football player | |
19 | Payam Sadeghian | football player | |
20 | Mojtaba Jabbari | ![]() |
football player |
21 | Yaghoub Karimi | football player | |
22 | Mehdi Rahmati | ![]() |
football player |
23 | Büyük Vatankhah | retired Iranian football player | |
24 | Jafar Salmasi | ![]() |
won Iran's first Olympic medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics |
25 | Aziz Asli | retired Iranian football player | |
26 | Javad Allahverdi | retired Iranian football player | |
27 | Karim Ansarifard | ![]() |
football player |
28 | Ali Akbar Ostad-Asadi | retired Iranian football player | |
29 | Sirous Dinmohammadi | ![]() |
retired Iranian football player |
30 | Mohammad Navazi | retired Iranian football player | |
31 | Rasoul Khatibi | retired Iranian football player | |
32 | Saeid Marouf | volleyball player | |
33 | Behnam Mahmoudi | volleyball player | |
34 | Hossein Rouhani | karate player | |
35 | Kamal Shalorus | professional mixed martial artist | |
36 | Ghader Mizbani | ![]() |
professional road bicycle racer |
37 | Mehdi Sohrabi | ![]() |
professional road bicycle racer |
38 | Mohsen Shadi | rower | |
39 | Aboutaleb Talebi | wrestler | |
40 | Rouhollah Dadashi | power lifter, body builder and strongman | |
41 | Shahram Mahmoudi | volleyball player | |
42 | Hamid Estili | ![]() |
coach and retired player |
43 | Afshin Biabangard | wrestler | |
44 | Ali Ashkani | wrestler | |
45 | Ahad Pazaj | wrestler | |
46 | Kimia Alizadeh | Taekwondo player, she is the first Iranian female athlete ever to win an Olympics medal. | |
47 | Mohammad Bagheri Motamed | Taekwondo player | |
48 | Mansour Aghaei | ![]() |
Iranian climber and coach of national climbing team |
Politicians
Number | Name | Image | Background |
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1 | Ali Khamenei | ![]() |
President of Iran (1981–1989), Supreme Leader of Iran (since 1989) |
2 | Tadj ol-Molouk | ![]() |
Queen of Iran as the wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1915 and 1941 |
3 | Gholam Reza Aghazadeh | Minister of Petroleum of Iran for three terms of four years; served as the Vice President for Atomic Energy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran up until July 2009 | |
4 | Mohammad Asghari | Minister of Justice of Iran for two terms | |
5 | Rahman Dadman | Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran for one term | |
6 | Mehdi Bazargan | ![]() |
head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 |
7 | Ali Abdolalizadeh | Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran for two terms of four years | |
8 | Ali Meshkini | Chair of Assembly of Experts (1990 - 2007) | |
9 | Mahmoud Jam | ![]() |
prime minister of Iran from 1935 to 1939 |
10 | Yahya Ale Eshaq | Minister of Commerce of Iran for one term | |
11 | Abbas Dozdozani | Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran for two terms | |
12 | Hoseyn Kazempour Ardabili | Minister of Commerce of Iran for one term | |
13 | Isa Kalantari | Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran for two terms | |
14 | Sadegh Mahsouli | ![]() |
Minister of Welfare and Social Security of Iran for one term and Minister of Interior of Iran for one term |
15 | Mohsen Mehralizadeh | Vice President of Iran | |
16 | Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini | Vice President for parliamentary affairs from 2009 to 2013 | |
17 | Reza Moridi | member Ontario Liberal Party MPPs in provincial or federal legislature in Canada | |
18 | Mir-Hossein Mousavi | the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran, from 1981 to 1989 | |
19 | Mohammadreza Nematzadeh | ![]() |
Minister of Industries and Business of Iran |
20 | Hamid Chitchian | Minister of Energy of Iran | |
21 | Masoud Pezeshkian | Minister of Health and Medical Education of Iran | |
22 | Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar | Minister of Interior of Iran | |
23 | Mohammad Sa'ed | ![]() |
Prime Minister of Iran |
24 | Ali Soheili | ![]() |
Prime Minister of Iran |
25 | Parviz Fattah | Minister of Energy of Iran | |
26 | Ali Nikzad | Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran | |
27 | Mohammad-Reza Eskandari | Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran | |
28 | Mohammad-Reza Eskandari | Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran | |
29 | Davoud Danesh-Jafari | Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran | |
30 | Ebrahim Hakimi | ![]() |
a prime minister of Iran |
31 | Hassan Taqizadeh | ![]() |
government minister of Iran |
32 | Ismail Mumtaz | ![]() |
government minister of Iran |
33 | Reza Taghipour | Minister of Information and Communications Technology of Iran for one term | |
34 | Hamid Mowlana | politician | |
35 | Hassan Ghalibaf-Asl | CEO Tehran Stock Exchange | |
36 | Mina Ahadi | ![]() |
Communist activist from WPI |
37 | Asghar Parsa | ![]() |
a member of Iran's National Front |
38 | Ali Saeedlou | the Mayor of Tehran and Head of Physical Education Organization from 2009 to 2011 | |
39 | Mir Bashir Gasimov | statesman and revolutionary | |
40 | Mosa Kalantari | Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran | |
41 | Abbas Adham | physician and politician who served as Health Minister | |
42 | Farah Pahlavi | ![]() |
former Queen (Shahbanu) of Iran |
43 | Shahindokht Molaverdi | vice president of Iran in the Women and Family Affairs |
References
- ^ "اسطوره و پهلوانی برخاسته از دیار الوند، پهلوانی برای همه دوران". Bornanews.ir. Retrieved 2014-02-16.