List of Iranians

In the news

Authors

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
Attar, poet
Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
Masoud Behnoud, historian
Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
Mirzadeh Eshghi, poet
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
Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
Zabihollah Mansoori, translator
Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
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

Cinema artists

Actors

Filmmakers

Behrouz Afkhami
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Bahman Farman-Ara
Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
Masoud Kimiai
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
Daryoush Mehrjoui
Amir Naderi
Jafar Panahi
Sohrab Shahid-Sales

Journalists

Leaders and politicians

Historical (pre-Pahlavi)

Abu Muslim
Amir-Kabir, prime minister
Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister

Modern (post-Qajar)

Served in government

Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
Ali Amini , prime minister
Jamshid Amouzegar, prime minister
Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
Abolhassan Banisadr, president
Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
Manouchehr Eghbal, prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
Hassan Habibi, vice president
Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, conservative MP
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
Ayatollah Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
Mehdi Karroubi, first speaker of parliament
Abolghasem Kashani
Sadegh Khalkhali
Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
Mohammad Khatami, president
Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani
Hassan-Ali Mansour, prime minister
Ali Meshkini, chair of assembly of experts
Ayatollah Modarres, member of parliament
Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
Hossein-Ali Montazeri
Saeed Mortazavi
Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
Jafar Sharif-Emami, first speaker of senate and prime minister
Behzad Nabavi, deputy speaker of parliament
Ayatollah Yazdi, head of judiciary
Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister
Fazlollah Zahedi, prime minister

Not served or opposition

Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
Jalaleddin Farsi
Mohsen Kadivar
Farrokh Negahdar
Maryam Rajavi
Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
Ezzatollah Sahabi
Yadollah Sahabi
Ali Shariati, sociologist
Ayatollah Taleghani

Musicians and Singers

Religious figures

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

The Achaemenid empire

The Parthian empire

Arsaces I 246-211 BC
Artabanus I 211-191 BC
Mithridates I 171-138 BC
Artabanus II 128-124 BC
Mithridates II 124-87 BC
Mithridates III 58-57 BC
Tiridates II 30-29 BC
Artabanus V 213-226

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

Qajar dynasty

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

Saeed Asgar
Touri Bolourchi
Saeed Emami
Zahra Eshraghi, grand-daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
Doris Lessing
Shaul Mofaz