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List of Iranians

This is an alphabetic list of notable people from Iran or its historical predecessors.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

In the news

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Artists

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See also: List of Iranian artists

Calligraphists

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Cartoonists

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Painters, illustrators and sculptors

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See also: List of Iranian painters

Photographers

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Designers

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Architects

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See also: List of Iranian architects and List of historical Iranian architects

Fashion designers

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Graphic designers

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Business

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Entertainers

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Comedians

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Dancers and choreographers

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Models, beauty pageant

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Film actors

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Theatre and stage actors

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Filmmakers, directors

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Filmmakers

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Theatre and stage directors

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Musicians and singers

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See also: List of Iranian musicians

Classical

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See also: List of Iranian composers

Iranian classical traditional

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Modern traditional

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Western classical

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Electronic

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Pop

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(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)

Rap music

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Lyricists

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Rock and metal

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Film score composers

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Journalists, media

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Bloggers

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Journalists

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News anchors

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Leaders, politicians, activists

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Main articles: List of grand viziers of Persia, List of prime ministers of Iran, and List of monarchs of Persia

This list excludes royalty, which can be accessed by the main article link above.

Historical

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Modern (post-Qajar)

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Pahlavi period

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Served in Islamic Republic government

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See also: List of current Iranian officials

Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition

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Politicians in other nations

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Activists

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Prisoners and detainees

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  • 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

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Authors and poets

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Main article: Persian literature

Translators

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Religious figures

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See also: List of maraji and List of ayatollahs

Contemporary Shia Clergy

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Contemporary Sunni Clergy

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Royalty

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Main article: List of monarchs of Persia

Scientists, scholars, and academics

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Main articles: List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars and List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

Explorers and travellers

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

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

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Linguists

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Intellectuals and philosophers

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Technology and computer engineering

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Sports

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See also: Category:Iranian sportspeople

Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach

Iranian women

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

Military

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Aviation

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Combat Veterans

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Generals

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War Martyrs

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Misc

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Afro-Iranians

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Iranians of Armenian Descent

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See also: List of Armenian-Iranians

Iranians of Assyrian descent

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See also: List of Assyrian-Iranians

Emigrants and immigrants

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Americans in Iran

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See also: Category:American expatriates in Iran

Germans in Iran

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Iranians in America

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See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Iranians in Canada

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See article: Iranian-Canadian

Iranians in Britain

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List of British Iranians

Iranians in Germany

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Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia

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Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands

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Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Finland

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Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Sweden

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Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt

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Iranians in Pakistan

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Persian Roman Catholic saints

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See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://philpeople.org/profiles/dr-mostafa-javadi-pour-moradi [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Shargh Newspaper" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Alireza Norouzi".
  4. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi".
  5. ^ "Alireza Norouzi – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  6. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  7. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  8. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  9. ^ "حمیده جهانگیری".
  10. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi – Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  11. ^ Hern, Bill; Gleave, David (30 October 2020). "Dennis Walker: Manchester United's first and only black Busby Babe". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
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