Iraj (given name)

Iraj

Pronunciation	IPA: [iːɹædʒ]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Šāhnāme
Region of origin	Greater Khorasan

Iraj (Persian: ایرج - Iraj) alternatively Iradj is a Persian given name. People with the name include:

Given name

People

• Iraj Afshar (1925–2011), Iranian historian and scholar
• Iraj Danaeifard (1951–2018), Iranian footballer
• Iraj Eskandari (1907–1985), Iranian politician
• Iraj Etesam (1931–2022), Iranian architect and author
• Iradj Fazel (born 1939), Iranian surgeon and academic
• Iraj Ghaderi (1934–2012), Iranian actor
• Iraj Janatie Ataie (born 1947), Iranian poet, lyricist and playwright
• Iraj, Hossein Khajeh Amiri (born 1933), Persian traditional vocalist
• Iraj Kalantari Taleghani (1937/1938–2023), Iranian architect
• Iraj Lalezari (1930–2019), Iranian Jewish academic
• Iraj Malekpour, Iranian academic and physicist
• Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Iranian poet
• Iraj Pezeshkzad 1927–2022), Iranian novelist
• Iraj Rad (born 1945), Iranian actor
• Iraj Raminfar (born 1949), Iranian art director
• Iraj Vahidi (1927–2022), Iranian engineer and politician
• Iraj Weeraratne (born 1981), Sri Lankan R&B artist

Fictional characters

• Iraj (Shahnameh), character in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh