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This is a list of notable people from the Islamic Republic of Iran or its historical predecessors.

Contents

In the news

Artists

See also: List of Iranian artists

Calligraphists

Cartoonists

Cinema artists

Actors and actresses

Directors and filmmakers

Film score composers

Designers

Fashion designers

Graphic designers

Entertainers

Comedians

Dancers

Music video directors

  • Vahik Pirhamzei
  • Alireza Amirghassemi
  • Alec Cartio
  • Daryoush Derakshandeh
  • Darya Gol
  • Armin Hashemi
  • Kaveh Nikpour
  • Gobi M. Rahimi
  • Ravi
  • Koji Zadori

Musicians and singers

Classical

See also: List of Iranian composers
Iranian Classical/traditional
Western Classical

Electronic

See also: http://www.eveningsociallife.com

Pop

(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)

Lyricists

Rock/metal

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

See also: List of Iranian painters

Photographers

Theatre artists

Stage actors and actresses

Theatre directors

Journalism/media

Bloggers

Journalists

Television personalities

  • Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
  • Alireza Meybodi
  • Zia Atabay
  • Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News
  • Mehrdad Esmaili Kia, founder and CEO, Persian Media Corporation
  • Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
  • Farzad Hassani
  • Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News
  • Reza Fazeli
  • Nazanine Moshiri, Reporter and journalist for Al Jazirah news (English section)
  • Alireza Meybodi
  • Asieh Namdar, news anchor at CNN
  • Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazirah (English section)
  • Reza Rashidpour
  • Hamid Shabkhiz, founder, Iran TV Network

Leaders and politicians

The list here excludes the royalty. An extensive list of Persian royalty appears further down in this page.

See also Ministerial Head of Government in Iran Heads of Government of Iran (1699-1907) and List of Prime Ministers of Iran.

Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)

Modern (post-Qajar)

Pahlavi period

Served in Islamic Republic government

See also: List of current Iranian officials

Not served or opposition

Other nations

Literature figures

Authors and poets

Main article: Persian literature

Translators

Religious figures

See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.

Royalty

See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.

Scientists, scholars, and academics

See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the pre-modern age.

See comprehensive List of Iranian scientists and engineers of the modern age.

Architects and Mi'mars

See full List of Iranian architects.

Explorers and travellers

  • Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia.
  • Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
  • Issa Omidvar, (Omidvar Brothers were the first Iranian adventurers who traveled around the world)
  • Abdollah Omidvar, (Omidvar Brothers, the first Iranian adventurers who traveled around the world)
  • Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
  • Kazem Faridian, in 2007 he became the first Iranian to summit K2

Historians, archaeologists and iranologists

Linguists

Theorists and philosophers

University professors

  • Cumrun Vafa: Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
  • Hamid Jafarkhani: Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Irvine.
  • Vahid Tarokh: Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, and a co-inventor of space-time coding.
  • Iraj Zandi
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed: Professor of Physics School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advance Study.
  • Nezameddin Faghih: Professor of System Engineering [1][2]

Sports

Iranian women

See separate articles: Persian Woman and List of Persian women.

Other

Famous Armenians of Iran

See also: List of Armenian-Iranians

Famous Assyrians of Iran

See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians
  Eden Naby, cultural historian and author
  • Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
  • Benjamin Taimoorazy, M.D., inventor of Napas Breathing Device

Famous Chaldeans of Iran

  • Albert Bavi, General Manager of Power and Water, Tehran Division
  • Paul Caldani, composer, writer, music researcher
  • Villard Salibi, designer
  Mar Toma Audo, author, philologist, Archbishop of Urmiah, murdered in 1918

Famous Americans in Iran

  Justin Perkins. First American resident of Iran 1835

Famous Germans in Iran

  • Ernst-Jakob Christoffel German missionary in Iran and founder of Isfahan Institute for the Blind and of Christian Blind Mission
  • Annemarie Schimmel, German born Harvard expert on Iranian literature.
  • Wilhelm Wassmuss German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, first World War
  • Noah Werede German founder of tantra in iran. Famous for his documentary videos of iran. He has tought the iranian people how to make love in a more passionate way. They have blessed him with a statue of his genitals in Yazd.

Famous Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Famous Iranians in Britain

See separate article: List of British Iranians.

Famous Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

Famous Iranians in Pakistan

Famous Iranians in India

See articles: Parsis or Irani

Persian Roman Catholic saints

See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

See also

References

  1. ^ Nezameddin Faghih
  2. ^ Nezameddin Faghih Books

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