# List of Iranians

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
* Hossein Ronaghi, Iranian human rights activist and bloggerdissident".

## Artists
### Calligraphists

* Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
* Abolhassan Etessami
* Mir Emad Hassani
* Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
* Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
* Mishkín-Qalam
* Jalil Rasouli
* Mehdi Saeedi
* Mir Ali Tabrizi

### Cartoonists

* Golnar Servatian
* Javad Alizadeh
* Maziyar Bizhani
* Nikahang Kowsar
* Mana Neyestani
* Touka Neyestani

### 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

* Hossein Amanat
* Kamran Diba
* Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou
* Fariborz Sahba

### Fashion designers

* Pegah Anvarian
* Bijan
* Shirin Guild
* Arefeh Mansouri
* Behnaz Sarafpour
* Mahla Zamani
* Mike Amiri

### Graphic designers

* Reza Abedini
* Farshid Mesghali
* Morteza Momayez
* Mehdi Saeedi
* Ghobad Shiva

### Industrian designers

* Nader Faghihzadeh
* Alexander Kostellow
* Iman Maghsoudi
* Mona Paad
* Sohrab Vossoughi

## Business

* Kia Joorabchian, businessman
* Hooman Radfar, entrepreneur
* Nasser David Khalili, billionaire and art collector

## Entertainers
### Comedians

* Baba Ali, Islamic comedy
* Max Amini
* Omid Djalili
* Negin Farsad
* Shahin Jamie
* Maz Jobrani
* Shaparak Khorsandi
* Hadi Khorsandi
* Ebrahim Nabavi
* Nasim Pedrad

### 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
* Asghar Farhadi
* 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
* Omid Ahangar
* Parsa Pirouzfar
* Parviz Fannizadeh
* Parviz Parastouee
* Parviz Sayyad
* Pegah Ahangarani
* Reza Kianian
* Reza Rahardian
* Roxanne Pallett
* Roya Nonahali
* Saeed Rad
* Sam Asghari
* Sarah Shahi
* Shaghayegh Farahani
* Shahab Hosseini
* Shohreh Aghdashloo
* Sussan Taslimi
* Taraneh Alidousti
* Zahra Amir Ebrahimi

### Theatre and stage actors

* Mehdi Bajestani
* Taha Behbahani
* Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi
* Behzad Farahani
* Shamsi Fazlollahi
* Alan Mehdizadeh
* Ali Nassirian
* Hayley Tamaddon
* Kazem HajirAzad
* Ahmad Saatchian
* Mohammad Reza Jozi
* Ramin Karimloo
* Roya Teymourian
* Shiva Boloorian

## 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

* Akbar Radi
* Bahram Bayzai
* Behrouz Gharibpour
* Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
* Hengameh Mofid
* Hossein Rajabian
* Mostafa Oskooyi
* Reza Shirmarz
* Shiva Boloorian

## 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

* Ahmad Pejman
* Axiom of Choice
* Farhad Fakhreddini
* Morteza Hannaneh
* Niyaz
* Ramin Rahimi
* Zohreh Jooya
* Mehdi Rajabian

#### Western classical

* Ali Rahbari
* Alireza Mashayekhi
* Amin Homaei
* Aminollah Hossein
* Anoushiravan Rohani
* Armik
* Ashkan Saberi
* Hangi Tavakoli
* Heshmat Sandjari
* Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
* Lotfi Mansouri
* Mahan Esfahani
* Sahba Aminikia
* Mehdi Hosseini
* Nader Mashayekhi
* Reza Najfar
* Shahrdad Rohani
* Hooman Khalatbari

### Electronic

* Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
* Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
* Ashkan Kooshanejad
* Deep Dish
* Leila Arab
* Sharam Tayebi
* Steve Naghavi from And One

### Pop

* Alireza Assar
* Alireza Talischi
* Andy Madadian
* Anousheh Khalili
* Arash
* Aref
* Arian Band
* Benyamin Arefi
* Bijan Mortazavi
* Darius Danesh
* Dariush Eghbali
* Delkash
* Ebi
* Faramarz Aslani
* Farhad
* Fereidoun Foroughi
* Googoosh
* Habib
* Hassan Sattar
* Hassan Shamaizadeh
* Hayadeh
* Homeyra
* Kouros
* Leila Forouhar
* Mahasti
* Mansour
* May J.
* Mehrdad
* Moein
* Mohammad Esfahani
* Mohammad Nouri
* Pyruz
* Reza Sadeghi
* Sepideh
* Sevdaliza
* Siavash Ghomeyshi
* Shadmehr Aghili
* Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
* Shahram Shabpareh
* Shahrum K
* Shahram BozorgMehr
* Shohreh Solati
* Snoh Aalegra
* Susan Roshan
* Vigen

### Rap music

* Amir Tataloo
* Hichkas
* Hiphopologist
* pishro
* Yas
* Zedbazi
* Shahin Najafi
* Bahram
* Erfan
* Hangi Tavakoli, Multi-Platinum music producer and songwriter

#### Lyricists

* Aref Ghazvini
* Hangi Tavakoli
* Hossein Monzavi
* Leila Kasra
* Maryam Heydarzadeh
* Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
* Shahyar Ghanbari

### Rock and metal

* Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
* Angband
* Barad
* Kiosk

### Film score composers

* Ahmad Pejman
* Fariborz Lachini
* Hangi Tavakoli
* Hossein Alizadeh
* Majid Entezami
* Mehdi Rajabian
* Peyman Yazdanian
* Ramin Djawadi

## Journalists, media
### Bloggers

* Hossein Derakhshan
* Massoumeh Ebtekar
* Mehdi Jami
* Mohammad Ali Abtahi
* Mojtaba Saminejad
* Omid Memarian
* Sina Motalebi

### 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
* 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
* 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
* Abbas the Great

### 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 [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Hossein Shariatmadari
* Iraj Fazel, minister of health
* Izzatallah Akbari Talarpashti [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Lotfallah Zara’i Qanawati [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Morteza Motahhari
* Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
* Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
* Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
* Nimatallah Manuchehri [fa], Iranian Politician
* Qodratallah Hamzeh [fa], Iranian politician
* Qodratallah Hussaynipour [fa], Iranian Politician
* Qodratallah Imani [fa]
* Qodratallah Intazami [fa], Iranian politician
* Ghodratollah Norouzi, Iranian politician
* Rahim Safavi
* Rahmatallah Firouzi Pourbadi [fa]
* Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
* Ruhallah Abbaspour [fa], Iranian Politician
* Ruhallah Baba’i Saleh [fa]
* Ruhallah Hazratpour Talahieh [fa]
* Ruhollah Hosseinian
* Ruhallah Izadkhahzadeh [fa]
* Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
* Ruhallah Motfikar Azad [fa]
* Ruhallah Najabat [fa]
* 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 [fa], Iranian Politician
* Zabihallah Azami Sardoui [fa], 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
* 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
* Darya Safai, member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
* 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
* Elham Modaressi (born 1990), artist and 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
* Mahyar Amouzegar, author, academic
* Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, author
* Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, author
* Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, author
* Jalal Homaei, author
* Parviz Natel-Khanlari, author
* Sadeq Hedayat, author
* Shahrokh Meskoob, author
* Saeed Shamloo [fa], academic, author
* Ali Abdolrezaei, author
* Parirokh Dadsetan [fa], academic, author
* Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, author
* Haraton Davidian [fa], academic, author
* Levon Davidian, academic, author
* Heidarali Hooman [fa], academic, author
* Saeed Nafisi, author
* Aliakbar ShoariNezhad [fa], 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
* 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 [fa], academic, author
* Shahriyar Mandanipour
* Abutorab Khosravi
* Morteza Nesfat, academic, author
* Hamzeh Ganji [fa], academic, author
* Reza Ghassemi
* Zoya Pirzad
* Mahmoud Golzari [fa], academic, author
* Behrooz Birashk [fa], academic, author
* Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
* Shiva Dolatabadi [fa], academic, author
* Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author
* Bahman Forsi
* Reza Zamani [fa], academic, author
* Houshang Golshiri
* Reza Baraheni
* Abbasgholi Daneshvar [fa], academic, author
* Abbas Maroufi
* Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author
* Bozorg Alavi
* Ahmad Siadati [fa], 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 [fa], academic, author
* Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author
* Simin Daneshvar
* Aliakbar Seif [fa], 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 [fa], academic, author

### Translators

* Abdolmajid Eskandari, academic and translator
* Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
* Saeed Shamloo [fa], academic, author and translator
* Parirokh Dadsetan [fa], academic, author and translator
* Haraton Davidian [fa], academic, author and translator
* Levon Davidian, academic, author and translator
* Heidarali Hooman [fa], academic, author and translator
* Aliakbar ShoariNezhad [fa], 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 [fa], academic, author and translator
* Morteza Nesfat, academic, author and translator
* Mohammad Ghazi, translator
* Hamzeh Ganji [fa], academic, author and translator
* Mahmoud Golzari [fa], academic, author and translator
* Behrooz Birashk [fa], academic, author and translator
* Shiva Dolatabadi [fa], academic, author and translator
* Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author and translator
* Reza Zamani [fa], academic, author and translator
* Abbasgholi Daneshvar [fa], academic, author and translator
* Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author and translator
* Ahmad Siadati [fa], 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 [fa], academic, author and translator
* Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author and translator
* Aliakbar Seif [fa], academic, author and translator
* Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author and translator
* Safoura Navaei, academic, author and translator
* Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author and translator
* Karim Haddadian [fa], 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

### Contemporary Shia Clergy

* Abbas Ali Akhtari
* Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani
* Abbas Ali Karamatlu [fa]
* Abbas Ali Rostami Sani [fa]
* Abbas-Ali Soleimani
* Abbas Amirifar
* Abbas Hosseini Kashani
* Abbas Ka'bi
* Abbas Mahfouzi
* Abbas Matin [fa]
* Abbas Almohri
* Mohammad Montazeri
* Abbas Mousaviyan [fa]
* Abbas Tabrizian
* Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
* Abdul Fattah Nawab
* Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi [fa]
* Abdul Hamid Khodri [fa]
* Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani
* Abdol Hossein Dastgheib
* Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi
* Abdol Javad Alamolhoda
* Abdul Javad Ibrahimi Far [fa]
* Abdul Karim Abidini [fa]
* Abdul Karim Farhani
* Abdolkarim Hasheminejad
* Abdul Karim Haghshenas
* Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
* Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia
* Abdullah Haji Sadiqi [fa]
* Abdullah Hajiani [fa]
* Abdullah Hussayni [fa]
* Abdullah Keyvani Hafshejani [fa]
* Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari
* Abdollah Javadi-Amoli
* Abdullah Musawi Shirazi
* Abdollah Nouri
* Abdul Mahmoud Abdullahi [fa]
* Abdul-Majid al-Khoei
* Abdul Mohammad Rastad [fa]
* Abdolmoghim Nasehi
* Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard
* Abdul-Nabi Namazi
* Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi
* Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami
* Abdul Rasoul Mousavi [fa]
* Abdul Reza Pourzahabi [fa]
* Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
* Abu al-Fazl Mir Mohammedi [fa]
* Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi
* Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani [fa]
* Abu al-Hassan Hassanzadeh [fa]
* Abulhassan Navab
* Abolghasem Khazali
* Abu al-Qasem [ar]
* Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
* Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
* Abu al-Qasim Yaqoubi [fa]
* Ahad Azadikhah [fa]
* Ahmad Alamolhoda
* Ahmad Azari Qomi
* Ahmad Beheshti
* Ahmad Daneshzadeh Mo’min [fa]
* Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini [fa]
* Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi [fa]
* Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
* Ahmad Jannati
* Ahmad Khatami
* Ahmad Khomeini
* Ahmad Khonsari
* Ahmad Marvi
* Ahmad Mazani
* Ahmad Moballeghi
* Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
* Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani
* Ahmad Motahari Asl [fa]
* Sayyid Ahmad Mousavi [fa]
* Ahmad Parvai'i Rik [fa]
* Ahmad Ghabel
* Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati
* Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi
* Ahmad Sabiri Hamedani [fa]
* Ahmad Salek
* Ahmad Sheikh Baha’i [fa]
* Ahmad Vaezi
* Akbar Ahmadpour [fa]
* Akbar Ghaffari Qarabagh [fa]
* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
* Allah Nour Karimi Tabar [fa]
* Ali Abbasi (Cleric) [fa]
* Ali Ahmadi Mianji [fa]
* Ali Akbar al-Modarresi
* Ali Meshkini
* Ali-Akbar Hosseini
* Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini
* Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur
* Ali Akbar Kalantari [fa]
* Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
* Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh [fa]
* Ali Akbar Mousavi Hussayni [fa]
* Ali Akbar Nasseri [fa]
* Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
* Ali Akbar Rashad
* Ali al-Sabziwari
* Ali Asghar Baghani [fa]
* Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
* Ali Asghar Hussayni [fa]
* Ali Asghar Masoumi Shahroudi [fa]
* Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad
* Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili
* Ali Banaei
* Ali Fallahian
* Ali Davani
* Ali Gharavi [ar]
* Ali Ghiouri [fa]
* Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri
* Ali Hussayni Ashkevari [fa]
* Ali al-Sistani
* Ali Islami [fa]
* Ali Kazemi Gilani [fa]
* Ali al-Kazemi Momendi [fa]
* Ali Khamenei
* Ali Khatami (Zanjan) [fa]
* Ali Mirkhalili [fa]
* Ali Mo’alemi [fa]
* Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari [fa]
* Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi
* Ali Momenpour [fa]
* Ali Nazari Monfard [fa]
* Ali Orumian
* Ali Qazi Askar
* Ali Qoddusi
* Ali Razini [fa]
* Ali Reza Afqahi [fa]
* Alireza Arafi
* Ali Reza Dana [fa]
* Ali Reza Ebadi [fa]
* Ali Reza Islamian [fa]
* Alireza Panahian
* Alireza Qaeminia
* Alireza Salimi (politician)
* Ali Safi Golpaygani
* Seyyed Ali Shafiei
* Sheikh Ali Shahrokhi [fa]
* Ali Shirazi
* Ali Tahiri Gorgani [fa]
* Ali Zadsar Jirofti [fa]
* Amanallah Alimoradi [fa]
* Aman Narimani [fa]
* Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni [fa]
* Amir Reza Heda’i [fa]
* Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani
* Assad-Allah Imani
* Asadallah Kian-Arasi [fa]
* Mir Asadollah Madani
* Asgar Dirbaz
* Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani
* Azizollah Khoshvaght
* Baqir Seyyedi Bonabi [fa]
* Dakhil Abbas Zarazadeh Mehrizi [fa]
* Davoud Samadi Amoli [fa]
* Fakhraddin Hashemi [fa]
* Fakhreddin Mousavi
* Fakhraddin Sabiri [fa]
* Fathallah Omid Najafabadi [fa]
* Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi [fa]
* Gholam Ali Naim Abadi [fa]
* Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri
* Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani
* Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
* Gholam Hussayn Nadi [fa]
* Gholam Reza Fayazi [fa]
* Gholamreza Hassani
* Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam
* Gholam Reza Moghiseh [fa]
* Gholamreza Rezvani
* Gholam Reza Sultani [fa]
* Habibollah Ashouri
* Habiballah Ghafouri Barjini [fa]
* Habiballah Mehman Navaz [fa]
* Habiballah Sha’bani Movasaqi [fa]
* Habib Boromand Dashghapu
* Hadi al-Modarresi
* Hadi Barikbin [fa]
* Hadi Doust Mohammadi [fa]
* Hadi Ghaffari
* Hadi Khamenei
* Hadi Khosroshahi
* Hadi Ghabel
* Hadi Rohani
* Hamid Rasai
* Hamid Shahriari
* Mirza Hashem Amoli
* Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani
* Hashem Hamidi [fa]
* Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
* Hashem Hejazifar [fa]
* Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
* Hashem Niazi [fa]
* Hassan Abtahi [fa]
* Hassan Alemi [fa]
* Hassan Ali Akhlaqi Amiri [fa]
* Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani [fa]
* Hasanali Morvarid
* Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi
* Hassan Ameli
* Hassan Aqa Hussayni Tabataba’i [fa]
* Hassan Emami
* Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
* Hassan Eslami Ardakani
* Hassan Khomeini
* Hassan Malek Mohammadi [fa]
* Hassan Mamduhi [fa]
* Hassan Namazi
* Hassan Nowrouzi [fa]
* Hassan Rouhani
* Hassan Sanei
* Hassan Shariati Niyasar
* Hassan Shahcheraghi [fa]
* Hassan Shuja’i Aliabadi [fa]
* Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari [fa]
* Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi
* Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi [fa]
* Heydar Moslehi
* Hussein-Ali Montazeri
* Hussayn Ali Sa'adi [fa]
* Hossein Borujerdi
* Hossein Ansarian
* Hussayn Ansari Rad [fa]
* Hossein Ayatollahi
* Hussayn Hashemian [fa]
* Hussayn Irani [fa]
* Hussayn Jalali [fa]
* Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
* Hossein Lankarani
* Hossein Mazaheri
* Hussayn Mirza'i [fa]
* Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
* Hussayn Muzzafari [fa]
* Hossein Noori Hamedani
* Hussayn Rafia’i [fa]
* Hussayn Rasti Kashani [fa]
* Hussayn Sobhani Nia [fa]
* Hossein Taeb
* Hossein Wahid Khorasani
* Ebrahim Amini
* Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
* Ebrahim Raisi
* Isa Tarafi [fa]
* Ismail Ferdowsipour [fa]
* Esmaeil Khatib
* Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani
* Ismail Salehi Mazandarani [fa]
* Jafar Karimi Divkola'i [fa]
* Jafar Sobhani
* Jafar Shojouni
* Jalaladdin Faqih Imani [fa]
* Jalaleddin Taheri
* Jalal Yahyazadeh Firouzabadi [fa]
* Jalil Mohebi [fa]
* Javad Alavi Boroujerdi [fa]
* Javad Gharavi Aliari
* Javad Hajizadeh Kalajahi [fa]
* Javad Hussayni Kia [fa]
* Javad Jafari [fa]
* Javad Khamenei
* Jawad Tabrizi
* Javad Marvi [fa]
* Javad Mojtahed Shabestari
* Javad Nikbin [fa]
* Kamel Khairkhah [fa]
* Karamatallah Emadi [fa]
* Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini
* Khalil Boyukzadeh
* Khalil Mobasher Kashani
* Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri
* Kazem Mousavi [fa]
* Kazem Nourmofidi
* Kazem Seddiqi
* Lotfollah Dezhkam
* Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
* Mahmoud Taleghani
* Mahmoud Alavi
* Mahmoud Da’ai [fa]
* Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
* Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi [fa]
* Mahmoud Madani Bajestani [fa]
* Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi
* Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi [fa]
* Mahmoud Nabavian
* Mahmoud Nourizadeh [fa]
* Mahmoud Rajabi [fa]
* Mahmoud Salavati
* Mahdi al-Modarresi
* Mahdi Baqiri [fa]
* Mahdi Hosseini Rohani
* Mehdi Karroubi
* Mahdi Mousavinejad [fa]
* Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi
* Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi
* Mahdi Sheikh [fa]
* Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani [fa]
* Majdaddin Ghazi Dezfuli [fa]
* Majid Ansari
* Majid Nasserinejhad [fa]
* Majid Nasira'i [fa]
* Majid Talkhabi [fa]
* Mansour Leghaei
* Masoud Khamenei
* Ali Younesi
* Mohammad Aba’i Khorasani [fa]
* Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
* Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
* Mohammad Ali "Mokhtar" Aminian [fa]
* Mohammad-Ali Angaji
* Mohammad Ali Araki
* Mohammad Ali Ayazi [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi
* Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi [fa]
* Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
* Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheie
* Mohammad Ali Naseri
* Mohammad Ali Nekounam [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Modarresi Tabataba’i [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Mousavi [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
* Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi [fa]
* Ali Movahedi-Kermani
* Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei
* Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
* Mohammad Ali Reza'i [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Sadouqi [fa]
* Mohammad-Ali Shahidi
* Mohammad Ali Shar’ai [fa]
* Mohammad Ali Shomali
* Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
* Mohammad Ali Zam [fa]
* Mohammad Amin Khorasani [fa]
* Mirza Mohammad Anvari [fa]
* Mohammad Ashrafi Isfahani Khozani [fa]
* Mohammed Bahrami Khoshkar [fa]
* Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri
* Mohammad Baqir Ebadi [fa]
* Mohammad Bagher Kharazi
* Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini [fa]
* Mohammad Baqir Movahed Abtahi [fa]
* Mohammad Ebadizadeh [fa]
* Mohammed Emami-Kashani
* Mohammad Faqih [fa]
* Mohammad Fazel Lankarani
* Mohammad Feyz Sarabi
* Mohammad Hadi Abdekhodai [fa]
* Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari
* Mohammad-Hadi Ma'refat
* Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh
* Mohammad Hadi Rabbani [fa]
* Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi [fa]
* Mohammad Hashemian [fa]
* Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard
* Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih
* Mohammad Hassan Jamshidi Ardeshiri [fa]
* Mohammad Hassan Mar’ashi [fa]
* Mohammad Hassan Nabavi [fa]
* Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki
* Mohammad Hassan Rahimian
* Mohammad Hassan Zali [fa]
* Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
* Mohammad Beheshti
* Mohammad Hussayn Bayati [fa]
* Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini [fa]
* Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi [fa]
* Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi
* Mohammad Hussayni Shahroudi [fa]
* Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani
* Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai
* Mohammad Hussayn Zarandi [fa]
* Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
* Mohammad Ibrahim Nekounam [fa]
* Mohammad Ismail Shushtri [fa]
* Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani
* Mohammad Jafari Gilani [fa]
* Mohammad Jafar Montazeri
* Muhammad Jafar Moravej
* Mohammad Jafar Sadat Mousavi [fa]
* Muhammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari
* Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
* Mohammad Javad Pishvai
* Mohammad Karim Marouji [fa]
* Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi
* Mohammad Kazim Movahedi Azad [fa]
* Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
* Mohammad Khamenei
* Mohammad Khatami
* Mohammad Mahdi Aftakhari [fa]
* Mohammad Mahdi Hussayni Hamedani [fa]
* Mohammad Mahdi Mir Baqeri [fa]
* Mohammad Mahdi Pourfatimi [fa]
* Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlishi [fa]
* Mohammad Mahdi Shahrokhi [fa]
* Mehdi Tabatabaei
* Mohammad Mofatteh
* Mohammad Mo’adebpour [fa]
* Mohammad Mohad [fa]
* Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
* Mohammad Momen
* Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
* Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi
* Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
* Mohammad Naqi Lotfi [fa]
* Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi [fa]
* Nasser Biria
* Mohammad Qomi
* Mohammad Rahmati Sirjani
* Mohammad Rajaei Baghsiai [fa]
* Mohammad Reyshahri
* Mohammad Razavi Yazdi [fa]
* Mohammad Reza Abbasi Fard [fa]
* Mohammad Reza Amiri Kohnuj [fa]
* Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi
* Mohammad Reza Baqiri Bonabi [fa]
* Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi [fa]
* Mohammad Reza Faker [fa]
* Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
* Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
* Mohammad Reza Meghari Moruji [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Mohammad Rouhani Qomi [fa]
* Mohammad Sabzi [fa]
* Mohammad Sadat Ibrahimi [fa]
* Mohammad Sa’id Mahdavi Kani [fa]
* Mohammad Sadiq "Mohiaddin" Haeri Shirazi [fa]
* Sadegh Khalkhali
* Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani
* Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh
* Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani
* Mohammad Sadoughi
* Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi
* Mohammad Safari Molkmian [fa]
* Mohammad Shahcheraghi
* Mohammad Shahi Arablu [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Mohammed Taqi Morvarid
* Mohammad Taqi Naqd Ali [fa]
* Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
* Mohammad Taqi Rahbar [fa]
* Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari
* Mohammad Taghi Vaezi
* Mohammad Waezzadeh Khorasani [fa]
* Mohammad Vaez Mousavi
* Mohammad Yasrebi [fa]
* Mohammad Yazdi
* Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi
* Mohiaddin Fazl Harandi [fa]
* Mohsen Araki
* Mohsen Faqihi
* Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
* Mohsen Ibrahimi [fa]
* Mohsen Kazeroni [fa]
* Mohsen Kharazi
* Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi
* Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari
* Mohsin Qara'ati
* Mohsen Qomi
* Mohsen Rohami
* Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani [fa]
* Mohsen Tahiri [fa]
* Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
* Mojtaba Mo’adpour [fa]
* Mujtaba Musavi Lari
* Mojtaba Tehrani
* Mojtaba Zonnour
* Mokhtar Waziri [fa]
* Morteza Aghatehrani
* Morteza Fahim Kermani [fa]
* Morteza Mahmoudi Golpayegani [fa]
* Morteza Mati’ayi [fa]
* Morteza Moghtadai
* Morteza Motahhari
* Morteza Mousavi [fa]
* Morteza Razavi [fa]
* Morteza Sadouqi Mazandarani
* Morteza Salehi Khvansari [fa]
* Mousa Ahmadi [fa]
* Mousa Ghazanfarabadi [fa]
* Mousa Mousavi [fa]
* Mousa Mousavi Qahdarijani [fa]
* Mousa Qorbani
* Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
* Mostafa Boroujerdi
* Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli [fa]
* Mustafa Hassanti [fa]
* Mostafa Khamenei
* Mostafa Khomeini
* Mustafa Mohami [fa]
* Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
* Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
* Mostafa Pourmohammadi
* Mustafa Tabataba’inejhad [fa]
* Mustafa Ulama [fa]
* Mustafa Zu al-Qadir [fa]
* Moslem Malakouti
* Motahar Kazimi [fa]
* Nasir Hosseini
* Nasrollah Pejmanfar
* Nasrallah Shah-Abadi
* Naser Makarem Shirazi
* Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani
* Nasser Mousavi [fa]
* Nasser Qawami [fa]
* Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
* Nourallah Tabresi [fa]
* Qasem Ravanbakhsh
* Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl
* Ghodratollah Alikhani
* Qodratallah Najafi [fa]
* Qodratallah Nazari Nia [fa]
* Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
* Qorban Ali Qandahari [fa]
* Rahim Tavakol [fa]
* Rasoul Fallahati Gilani [fa]
* Rasul Jafarian
* Rasoul Montajabnia
* Reza Akrami [fa]
* Seyed Reza Bahaadini
* Reza Hosseini Nassab
* Reza Mohammadi Langroudi
* Reza Nouri
* Reza Ostadi
* Reza Ramezani Gilani
* Reza Taqvi [fa]
* Ruhollah Beigi
* Ruhollah Hosseinian
* Ruhollah Khatami
* Ruhollah Khomeini
* Ruhallah Sadr al-Sadati [fa]
* Sabir Jabbari [fa]
* Sadeq Larijani
* Sadiq Pishnamazi [fa]
* Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad [fa]
* Saied Reza Ameli
* Sa’id Saleh Mirza’i [fa]
* Seyed Sajjad Izdehi
* Salman Zakir [fa]
* Shahab al-Din Ishraqi [fa]
* Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi
* Shahab Moradi
* Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi [fa]
* Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni [fa]
* Sirajaddin Mousavi [fa]
* Taha Hashemi [fa]
* Taher Ahmadzadeh
* Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi
* Teymour Ali Asgari [fa]
* Wahid Ahmadi [fa]
* Vaed Moradbeygi [fa]
* Yadollah Duzduzani
* Yadallah Safari [fa]
* Yahya Ansari Shirazi [fa]
* Yahya Nouri
* Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari
* Younis Mousavi Sarcheshmeh [fa]
* Yousef Madani Tabrizi
* Yousef Saanei
* Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
* Zakrallah Ahmadi [fa]
* Zaynolabideen Ghorbani

### Contemporary Sunni Clergy

* Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi
* Abdolqader Zahedi
* Abdul Rahman Arefi [fa]
* Abdul Rahman Khoda'i [fa]
* Abdul Rahman Mullazahi [fa]
* Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]
* Burhan Ealla [fa]
* Faiq Rostami [fa]
* Hosamaddin Mujtahidi [fa]
* Iqbal Bahmani [fa]
* Kamal Akhund Gharavi [fa]
* Mohammad Ishaq Madani [fa]
* Mohmmad Sheikh al-Islami [fa]

## Scientists, scholars, and academics
### Explorers and travellers

* Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia

### 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

* Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
* Ahmad Tafazzoli
* Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
* Ehsan Yarshater
* Jaleh Amouzgar
* Mehrdad Bahar
* Parviz Natel-Khanlari
* Zabihollah Safa

### 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
* Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh
* Mohammad-Ali Foroughi
* Mostafa Malekian
* Mirza Malkam Khan
* Abbas Milani
* Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
* Seyyed Hossein Nasr
* Ali Shariati
* Sadegh Zibakalam
* Ali Abdolrezaei

### 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
* Taghi Rezaei, bodybuilder
* 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
* Reza Shafiei, jiujitsu athlete
* 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 [fa]
* Ahmad Salek
* Ali Asghar Baghani [fa]
* Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari [fa]
* Alireza Tangsiri
* Bahram Hooshyar
* Bijan Najdi
* Gholam Ali Jafarzadeh
* Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi
* Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
* Hossein Alaei
* Hossein Lashkari
* Kavous Seyed-Emami
* Kazem Mousavi [fa]
* Mehdi Khazali
* Mansour Haghdoust
* Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
* Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
* Mohammad Forouzandeh
* Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
* Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan
* Mohammad Marandi
* Nader Ghazipour
* Nasir Hosseini
* Sabir Jabbari [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* 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 [fa]
* Valiollah Fallahi

## Misc

* Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and philanthropist; founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
* Alireza Azmandian, self-help motivational speaker
* Ali Dashti, Iranian senator
* Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
* Ramezan Hajjimashhadi, lawyer
* Eiman Jahangir, first Iranian-born man to be an astronaut
* Amin Jazayeri, Iranian Dj and YouTuber in India
* Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport for many years.
* Reza Zadeh, computer science

## Afro-Iranians

* Abdolreza Barzegari, footballer
* Abdul Karim Farhani, Iranian Shia Cleric
* Ali Firouzi, footballer and coach
* Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Iranians Shia Cleric (Afro-Ahwazi Arab)
* Mehrab Shahrokhi, footballer
* Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Iranian folk band
* Dennis Walker, footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United

## 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

List of British Iranians

### Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Germany

### Iranians in Australia

Iranian Australian

### Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in the Netherlands

### Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Finland

### Iranians in Sweden

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