List of Iranians

In the news

• Shirin Ebadi
• Zahra Kazemi
• Ladan and Laleh Bijani

Authors

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
• Attar, poet
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
• Masoud Behnoud, historian
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet
• Ferdowsi, poet
• Houshang Golshiri, writer
• Hafez, poet
• Jamalzadeh, writer
• Jami, poet
• Sadegh Hedayat, writer
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
• Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
• Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
• Nezami, poet
• Nima, poet
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi), poet
• Sa'di, poet
• Sohrab Sepehri, poet
• Ahmad Shamlou, poet and writer
• Ali Shariati, sociologist

Filmmakers

• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Daryoush Mehrjoui
• Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
• Masoud Kimiai
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
• Amir Naderi
• Jafar Panahi
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales

Journalists

• Hashem Agha-Jari
• Christiane Amanpour
• Emadeddin Baghi
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
• Masoud Behnoud
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Hossein Derakhshan
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Akbar Ganji
• Saeed Hajjarian
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Ali Reza Nourizadeh
• Ahmad Shamlou
• Ali Shariati
• Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil

Leaders and politicians

• Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
• Abu Muslim
• Amir-Kabir, prime minister
• Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
• Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, president
• Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
• Mohammad Beheshti
• Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
• Gha'em-Magham Farahani
• Saeed Hajjarian
• Hassan Habibi, vice president
• Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel
• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
• Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
• Mehdi Karroubi, first speaker of Majlis
• Abolghasem Kashani
• Sadegh Khalkhali
• Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
• Mohammad Khatami, president
• Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic
• Ayatollah Modarres
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
• Hossein-Ali Montazeri
• Saeed Mortazavi
• Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
• Behzad Nabavi
• Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
• Ali Rajavi, militant opposition leader
• Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
• Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
• Ali Shariati, sociologist
• Ayatollah Taleghani
• Ebrahim Yazdi

Musicians and Singers

• Hossein Alizadeh
• Farhad Mehrad
• Googoosh
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Religious figures

• Bab
• Bahaullah
• Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
• Haik Hovsepian, bishop and Christian martyr
• Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic
• Zoroaster, prophet

Royalty

Igehalkid dynasty

• Ige-Halki (c. 1350 - c. 1330 BCE)
• Pakhir-Ishshan (c. 1330 - c. 1310 BCE)
• Attar-Kittakh (c. 1310 - c. 1300 BCE)
• Khuman-Numena (c. 1300 - c. 1275 BCE)
• Untash-Naprisha (c. 1275 - c. 1240 BCE)
• Unpatar-Naprisha (c. 1240 - c. 1235 BCE)
• Kiddin-Khutran (c. 1235 - c. 1210 BCE)

Shutrukid Dynasty

• Khallutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1205 - c. 1185 BCE)
• Shutruk-Nahhunte (c. 1185 - c. 1155 BCE)
• Kutir-Nahhunte III (c. 1155 - c. 1150 BCE)
• Shilkhak-In-Shushinak (c. 1150 - c. 1120 BCE)
• Khutelutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1120 - c. 1110 BCE)
• Shilhana-Hamru-Lagamar (c. 1110 - 1100 BCE)

The Median empire

• Deioces

The Achaemenid empire

• Achaemenes of Anshan.
• Teispes of Anshan.
• Cyrus I of Anshan.
• Ariaramnes of Persia.
• Cambyses I of Anshan.
• Arsames of Persia.
• Cyrus II the Great (550 - 530 BC).
• Cambyses II (530 - 521 BC).
• Smerdis (521 BC).
• Darius I (521 -486 BC).
• Xerxes I (486 -465 BC).
• Artaxerxes I (464 - 424 BC).
• Xerxes II, ( 424 - 423 BC).
• Sogdianus ( 424 - 423 BC).
• Darius II (424 - 404 BC).
• Artaxerxes II (404 - 358 BC).
• Cyrus the Younger, General
• Artaxerxes III (358 - 338 BC).
• Arses (338 - 336 BC).
• Darius III Codomannus (336 -330 BC).

The Sassanid empire

• Ardashir I from 224 to 241.
• Shapur I from 241 to 272
• Hormizd I from 272 to 273.
• Bahram I from 273 to 276.
• Bahram II from 276 to 293.
• Bahram III year 293.
• Narseh from 293 to 302.
• Hormizd II from 302 to 310.
• Shapur II from 310 to 379
• Ardashir II from 379 to 383.
• Shapur III from 383 to 388.
• Bahram IV from 388 to 399.
• Yazdegerd I from 399 to 420.
• Bahram V from 420 to 438.
• Yazdegerd II from 438 to 457.
• Hormizd III from 457 to 459.
• Peroz I from 457 to 484.
• Balash from 484 to 488.
• Kavadh I from 488 to 531.
• Djamasp from 496 to 498.
• Khosrau I from 531 to 579.
• Hormizd IV from 579 to 590.
• Khosrau II from 590 to 628.
• Bahram VI from 590 to 591.
• Bistam from 591 to 592.

• Hormizd V year 593.
• Kavadh II year 628.
• Ardashir III from 628 to 630.
• Peroz II year 629.
• Shahrbaraz year 630.
• Boran and others from 630 to 631.
• Hormizd VI (or V) from 631 to 632.
• Yazdegerd III from 632 to 651.

Post-Islam

• Yaghub Leith
• Ulugh Beg
• Nadir Shah
• Karim Khan Zand
• Shah Abbas I
• Shah Safi

Qajar dynasty

• Agha Mohammad Khan
• Nasereddin Shah
• Abbas Mirza
• Mohammad Ali Shah
• Ahmad Shah

Pahlavi dynasty

• Reza Pahlavi
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran
• Leila Pahlavi, princess
• Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, queen
• Foozieh of Egypt, queen
• Farah Diba, queen

Scientists

• Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
• Biruni, astronomist, mathematician
• Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), chemist
• Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist
• Ghiyath al-Kashi, mathematician
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
• Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
• Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany
• Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), chemist and physicist
• Ulugh Beg

Sports

• Khodadad Azizi, footballer
• Ali Daei, footballer
• Ali Karimi, footballer
• Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter
• Mehdi Mahdavikia, footballer
• Khosrow Vaziri, wrestler

Other

• Touri Bolourchi
• Doris Lessing
• Shaul Mofaz

See also: List of people by nationality