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List of Iranian women

 
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The women's movement in modern Iran is nearly 150 years old.

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Health and Alternative Medicine

Nobel laureates

Scientists and engineers

Academics

  • Janet Afary, Historian
  • Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer, lecturer at Tehran University (2003 Nobel Laureate)
  • Mehrangiz Kar, Lawyer, fellow at Harvard University
  • Jaleh Amouzgar, Iranologist, Professor of Tehran University
  • Lady Amin (Banoo Amin), Jurisprudent and theologian
  • Elaheh Koulaei, Professor of Political sciences, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University
  • Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature Department, Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh, Psychotherapist.
  • Farideh Farhi, Independent Scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
  • Farzaneh Milani, Director of Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA [11]
  • Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at California State University, Northridge and Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, USA Dr. Nayereh Tohidi's Webpage
  • Taiebeh Hosseinali, Professor and Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, United States.
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  • Azin Movahed, Musician and Associate Professor of Music, University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
  • Laudan Nooshin, Musicologist and Senior Lecturer at City University of London [12]
  • Fariba Zarinebaf, Lecturer and Iran expert in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA [13]
  • Noushafarin Ansari, Professor at University Of Tehran, Secretary General of Children's Book Council Of Iran
  • Simin Karimi, Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona [14]
  • Saba Safdar, Asst. Professor of Psychology University of Guelph, Chair -International and Cross-Cultural section Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
  • Parinaz Parhizi, Lecturer at the Law Faculty of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, winner of the DAAD Prize for best students, journalist in German and Switzerland's Newspapers, Cooperation with ZDF(Second German Television).

Authors and poets

Visual art

Artists

Mahnaz Afshar, Iranian Actress In Atashbas

Athletes

  • Leila Ebrahimi, runner
  • Suzanne Shiren Hassani, Rubix Cube guru
  • Laleh Seddigh, autoracing and rally champion of Iran
  • Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
  • Janet Kohan-Sedq, runner
  • Padideh Boloorizadeh, Asian Pentathlon Champion, Captain of Iranian National Volleyball team
  • Shadi Tabatabai, Rank No. 1 Tennis Player of Iran
  • Parisa Faghih Nobari, Rock climbing champion 1997-2005, Ice climbing champion 2006, Runner 1991-1994, Sport climbing

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Politicians

  • Dabir A'zam Hosna, famous for being Iran's second female mayor, she was infamously forced to resign by an all-male council
  • Farrokhroo Parsa, Medical doctor and former Minister of Education (the first Iranian woman to became a deputy and later Minister of Education); executed in 1980, following the Iranian Revolution
  • Mahnaz Afkhami, first Minister of Women's Affairs in Iran and second woman in the world to hold the position; former professor of English Literature at the National University and former Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran
  • Sibel Edmonds, PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award winner [20] Iranian who effectively challenged FBI
  • Saeideh Golji-sefat, former member of "Kargozaran Sazandege" party, said to be a close advisor of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Was arrested by plainclothesmen on July 4, 2009 in a protest against fraudulent elections
  • Azar Majedi, Communist activist and politician
  • Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian Vice President
  • Goli Ameri, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
  • Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent
  • Fatemeh Haghighatjou, former Member of Parliament
  • Elaheh Koulaei, former Member of Parliament and Professor of political sciences
  • Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[21]
  • Shahla Habibi
  • Nasrin Soltankhah
  • Fatemeh Javadi, Vice-President, and head of the Department of the Environment
  • Professor Haleh Afshar, The Baroness Afshar, Iranian feminist academic and crossbench Peer in the British House of Lords.

Royalty

Activists

In the news

  • Parisa Soleimani, Philanthropist, Activist, and Entrepreneur, [www.pspromotions.org]
  • Neda Agha Soltan, Shot during the the 2009 Iranian election protests, her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition
  • Zahra Bani Ameri, physician
  • Behnaz Mozakka, died in 2005 London bombing
  • Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2003 Miss World 1st runner up, Miss Canada 2003, Human Rights Activist, Singer and Songwriter
  • Ramona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005.[23]
  • Rudi Bakhtiar, TV news anchor
  • Minu Barati, wife of Joschka Fischer, German Former Foreign Minister.[24]
  • Ladan and Laleh Bijani, conjoined twins
  • Haleh Esfandiari, scholar, detainee [25]
  • Lily Mazahery, Lawyer, International Human Rights Activist, President of the Legal Rights Institute. [26]
  • Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[27]
  • Nazanin Fatehi, controversially sentenced to death for murder.
  • Shermine Shahrivar Tehrani, Miss Europe 2005 [28]
  • Masoumeh Soltanbalaqi, Iran's First Woman Bus Driver [29]
  • Dineh Mohajer founded the $10 million-a-year Hard Candy when she was 22 years old [30]
  • Yasmin Parvaneh Yasmin Le Bon super model

Others

  • Afsane Bassir Pour, Director of the Regional United Nations Information Center (appointed by Kofi Annan) [31], Formerly: Bureau Chief and International Correspondent for Le Monde
  • Parisa Khosravi, Senior Vice President and Managing Editor of International Newsgathering for CNN Worldwie [32]
  • Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent [33]
  • Atoosa Rubenstein, founder and the editor of CosmoGirl magazine and the editor of Seventeen[34], [35]
  • Zahra Rahnavard, First female chancellor of university after revolution
  • Sona Babai, Oldest naturalized Iranian American
  • Maria Khorsand, former CEO of Ericson Technology Licensing and the present President of OMX Technology FM

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