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This is List of Iranians and Persians:
In the news
Authors
- Mehdi
Akhavan-Sales, poet
- Zhaleh Amouzegar
- Attar, poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Masoud Behnoud,
historian
- Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
- Najaf
Daryabandari, translator and writer
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
- Mirzadeh Eshghi,
poet
- Forough
Farrokhzad, poet
- Ferdowsi, poet
- Houshang Golshiri,
writer
- Hafez, poet
- Mohammad
Ali Jamalzadeh, writer
- Jami, poet
- Sadegh Hedayat,
writer
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
- Emad Khorasani
- Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
- Zabihollah
Mansoori, translator
- Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
- Fereydoun
Moshiri
- Morteza Motahhari,
theologian
- Ebrahim Nabavi,
satirist
- Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
- Nezami, poet
- Nima, poet
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi),
poet
- Sa'di, poet
- Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
- Sohrab Sepehri, poet
- Ahmad Shamlou, poet and writer
- Ali Shariati, sociologist
- Abdolkarim
Soroush
Cinema artists
Actors
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Ezzatollah
Entezami
- Reza Kianian
- Jamshid
Mashayekhi
- Parviz
Parastooyi
- Sussan Taslimi
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)
Modern (post-Qajar)
Served in Pahlavi government
- Asadollah Alam, prime
minister
- Ali Amini, prime minister
- Jamshid Amouzegar,
prime minister
- Gholam Reza
Azhari, prime minister
- Shapour Bakhtiar,
prime minister
- Manouchehr Eghbal,
prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
- Amir Abbas
Hoveida, prime minister
- Hassan-Ali
Mansour, prime minister
- Hassan Modarres, member
of parliament
- Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
- Jafar
Sharif-Emami, first speaker of senate and prime minister
- Fazlollah Zahedi,
prime minister
Served in Islamic Republic government
- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
- Emad Afrough, member of
parliament
- Mahmoud
Ahmadinezhad, mayor of Tehran
- Hossein
Allah-Karam
- Ayatollah Amini, deputy
chair of Assembly of Experts
- Hossein
Ansari-Rad, member of parliament
- Mohammad Reza
Aref, first vice president
- Hamid Reza Asefi,
foreign affairs spokesman
- Habibollah
Asgarowladi, member of parliament
- Ebrahim
Asgharzadeh
- Ayatollah
Azari-Ghomi
- Asadollah
Badamchian
- Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
- Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of
parliament
- Abolhassan Banisadr, president
- Mehdi Bazargan, prime
minister
- Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
- Ghorbaan'Ali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of information
- Masoumeh Ebtekar,
vice president
- Hassan
Ghafourifard
- Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
- Hassan Habibi, first vice
president
- Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
president
- Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
- Elias Hazrati, member of
parliament
- Nasrollah
Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
- Ahmad Jannati, chair of
Council of Guardians
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
- Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
- Sadegh Khalkhali
- Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
- Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
- Hadi Khamenei, member of
parliament
- Ahmad Khatami
- Mohammad Khatami, president
- Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of
parliament
- Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
- Elaheh Koulai, member of
parliament
- Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
- Mohammad
Javad Larijani, member of parliament
- Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
- Alireza Mahjoub
- Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
- Mohsen Mirdamadi,
member of parliament
- Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic
guidance
- Ali Akbar
Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
- Hossein-Ali Montazeri
- Saeed Mortazavi
- Morteza
Motahhari
- Mir-Hossein
Mousavi, prime minister
- Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili
- Abdolvahed
Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
- Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
- Bizhan
Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
- Mohammad
Bagher Nobakht
- Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
- Abdollah Riazi, first
speaker of parliament?
- Hassan Rowhani deputy
speaker of parliament
- Mohammad
Salamati
- Ayatollah
Sane'i
- Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, member of parliament
- Mohammad
Sattarifar, vice president
- Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
- Ayatollah Jalaleddin
Taheri
- Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
- Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
- Behzad Nabavi, deputy speaker of parliament
- Mohammad Yazdi, head of
judiciary
- Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign
minister
- Ali Younessi, minister of
information
- Ezzatollah
Zarghami, president of IRIB
- Alireza Noori, member of parliament
See also: List of current
Iranian officials
Not served or opposition
Musicians and Singers
Electronic
Pop
- Asef (Faramarz Asef)
- Delkash
- Ebi
- Faramarz Aslani
- Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
- Fereydoon
Foroughi
- Golpa (Akbar Golpaygani)
- Googoosh
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Leila Forouhar
- Mansoor
- Shahram Shabpare
Traditional
Western Classical
- Anoushiravan
Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Loris
Tjeknavorian
Religious figures
Royalty
Pre-Islam
Igehalkid dynasty
Shutrukid Dynasty
The Median empire
Post-Islam (incomplete)
Safavid dynasty
- Ismail I, 1502-1524
- Tahmasp I, 1524-1576
- Ismail II, 1576-1578
- Mohammed
Khodabanda, 1578-1588
- Abbas I, 1588-1629
- Safi, 1629-1642
- Abbas II,
1642-1666
- Suleiman,
1666-1694
- Husain,
1694-1722
- Tahmasp II, 1722-1732
- Abbas III,
1732-1736
Afsharid dynasty
Zand dynasty
- Karim Khan Zand,
1750-1779
- Abolfath Khan
Zand, 1779
- Ali Murad Khan
Zand, 1779, also 1782-1785
- Sadiq Khan Zand,
1779-1782
- Jafar Khan Zand,
1785-1789
- Lutf Ali Khan
Zand, 1789-1794
Qajar dynasty
- Agha Mohammad
Khan, 1779-1797
- Fath Ali Shah,
1797-1834
- Mohammad Shah
Qajar, 1834-1848
- Naser Ed-Din Shah,
1848-1896
- Mozaffar Ed-Din
Shah, 1896-1907
- Mohammad
Ali Shah Qajar, 1907-1909
- Ahmad Shah Qajar, 1909-1925
- Abbas Mirza, Crown Prince to Fath Ali Shah
Scientists & Philosophers
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
- Biruni, astronomist, mathematician
- Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), chemist
- Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist
- Ghiyath al-Kashi,
mathematician
- Al-Ghazali philosopher
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, scholar of Islamic philosophy
- 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
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi scientist, philosopher
- Ulugh Beg
Sports
Other
See also: List of people by
nationality
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