List of Iranians

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This is a list of famous or important Iranians:

Contents

[edit] In the news

[edit] Artists

[edit] Calligraphists

[edit] Cinema artists

[edit] Actors and actresses

[edit] Directors and filmmakers

[edit] Film score composers

[edit] Entertainers

[edit] Dancers

  • Mohamad Reza Khordadian
  • Jamileh

[edit] Music video directors

[edit] TV personalities

[edit] Musicians and Singers

[edit] Classical

See List of Iranian composers

[edit] Iranian Classical/Traditional

[edit] Western Classical

[edit] Electronic

[edit] Pop

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

[edit] Lyricists
  • Manouchehr Cheshm Azar
  • Maryam Heydarzadeh
  • Leila Kasra
  • Bijan Samandar
  • Jaklin Vigen
  • Paksima Zakipour

[edit] Rock

[edit] Painters & Sculptors

[edit] Photographers

See main list: List of Iranian photographers

[edit] Theatre artists

[edit] Stage actors and actresses

[edit] Theatre directors

  • Bijan Mofid
  • Ardavan Mofid
  • Hengameh Mofid
  • Kambiz Samimi Mofakham
  • Mohammad Aghebati
  • Akbar Alizad
  • Mahmood Azizi
  • Bahram Bayzai
  • Shiva Boloorian
  • Amir Dejakam
  • Vahid Evazzadeh
  • Hassan Majooni
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan
  • Hamed Mohammad Taheri
  • Kousrosh Narimani
  • Mohammad Javad Ostadi
  • Soheil Parsa
  • Atila Pessyani
  • Ali Rafiee
  • Vahid Rahbani
  • Ghotbedin Sadeghi
  • Hamid Samandarian
  • Mohammad Yaghoobi

[edit] Journalists

[edit] Leaders and politicians

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

See also List of Prime Ministers of Iran.

[edit] Historical (pre-Pahlavi Dynasty)

[edit] Modern (post-Qajar)

[edit] Pahlavi period

[edit] Served in Islamic Republic government

See also: List of current Iranian officials

[edit] Not served or opposition

[edit] Other Nations

  • Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
  • Moshe Katsav, President of Israel
  • Shaul Mofaz, Current Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense

[edit] Literature figures

[edit] Authors and poets

[edit] Translators

[edit] Religious figures

See List of Marjas.
See List of Ayatollahs.

[edit] Royalty

See comprehensive list of Persian/Iranian royalty.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Architects and Mi'mars

  • Hamid Omidvar, AIA

See full List of Iranian architects.

[edit] 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

[edit] Historians, Archaeologists and Iranologists

[edit] Linguists

[edit] Theorists and Philosophers

[edit] Sports

[edit] Iranian women

See separate articles: Iranian women and List of famous Persian women.

[edit] Other

[edit] Famous Armenians of Iran

[edit] Famous Assyrians of Iran

  • Hanibal Alkhas, painter
  • Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
  • Homer Ashurian, Iran Parliament representative
  • Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
  • Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
  • Yonatan Bet-Kolia, Iran Parliament present representative
  • Nineveh Bet-Malek, football player
  • Dr. Wilson Betmasour, Iran Parliament representative
  • General Philip Bet-Oshana
  • Sargon Bet-Oshana, Iran Parliament representative
  • Henri Char, filmmaker
  • William Daniel, composer & writer
  • William Ebrahimi, Iran Parliament representative
  • Izarya Il-Khanof, Boxer from Iran in 1964 Olympics
  • George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
  • Ivan Kakovitch, (1933-2006) activist & author Mount Semele (2001))
  • Atour Khnanishoo, Iran Parliament representative
  • Polus Khofri, composer & painter
  • Shamshoon Magsoodpoor, Iran Parliament representative
  • David Malek-Yonan, gold, silver and bronze medalist in track & field and soccer
  • George Malek-Yonan, politician & Champion of Champions of Iran
  • Dr. Jesse Malek-Yonan, represented Assyrians of Urmi at the Paris Peace talks in 1919
  • Lida Malek-Yonan (1928-2003), activist & president of Assyrian Women's Organization in Iran
  • Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted Rice
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan, actor, activist & author of The Crimson Field
  • Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
  • General Agha Petros, WWI Assyrian General in Iran
  • Terrence Malick, oscar winning director, writer & producer
  • Mar Benyamin Shimun XIX (1903-1918), Assyrian Patriarch during WWI
  • General Shmooel Polisian
  • General Shmooel Sarmekanik
  • Benjamin Taimoorazy, M.D., inventor of Napas Breathing Device
  • John Warda, 1950 bronze medalist in shot put in Iran
  • Paul Caldani, Persian Folk Music Researcher, Writer, Translator,composer,Producer and Broadcaster of Persian Folk Music of Radio Iran KIRN 670am Los Angeles California(2000-2004)

[edit] Famous Americans in Iran

[edit] 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 Wassmus German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, first World War

[edit] Famous Iranians in America

See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

[edit] Famous Iranians in Canada

See article: Iranian-Canadian

[edit] Famous Iranians in India

See articles: Parsis or Irani

[edit] See also

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