| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Cyrus the Great | the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty | Pasargadae near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Pasargadae |
| Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Darius III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Naqsh-e Rustam |
| Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Persepolis |
| Mausolus | Persian satrap of Caria | Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum"- the tomb is now destroyed | Mausoleum of Maussollos |
| Shahrbanu | alleged daughter of Yazdegerd III | Rey, Iran | none |
| Abu Lolo or Piruz Nahavandi (d. 645) | assassin of caliph Omar | Kashan, Iran | none |
| Yaqub Leith Saffari (840-879) | ruler of the Saffarid dynasty | Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran | none |
| Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907) | ruler of the Samanid dynasty | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Samanid Mausoleum |
| Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012) | ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty | Gonbad, Iran | none |
| Toghril Beg (990-1063) | ruler of the Seljuk dynasty | Rey, Iran | Tughrul Tower |
| Malekshah (d. 1092) | ruler of the Seljuk dynasty | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092) | vizier of Malekshah | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Shah Shoja' (d. 1384) | ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Gowharshad (d. 1457) | wife of Shahrokh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gowharshad Mosque | Herat, Afghanistan | none |
| Nader Shah (1688–1747) | Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty | Mashhad, Iran | none |
| Karim Khan (1705–1779) | the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty | Shiraz, Iran | Pars Museum of Shiraz |
| Naser ed-Din Shah (1831–1896) and Sattar Khan (1868–1914) | shah of Iran the Qajar dynasty that assassinated in the same shrine on May 1, 1896 and Persian freedom fighter of Constitutional Revolution | Rey, Iran | Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine |
| Reza Shah (1878–1944) | Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty | Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution | Reza Shah's mausoleum |
| Bayazid Bastami (804-874) | Persian mystic | Bastam, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963-1033) | Persian mystic | Kharaqan near Bastam, Iran | none |
| Ali Hujwiri (990-1077) | Persian mystic | Lahore, Pakistan | Data Durbar Complex |
| Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088) | Persian mystic | Herat, Afghanistan | Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine |
| Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141) | Persian mystic | Torbat-e Jam, Iran | none |
| Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166) | Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order | Baghdad, Iraq | none |
| Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221) | Persian mystic | Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran | none |
| Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230) | Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order | Ajmer, India | none |
| Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th c.) | Persian mystic | Natanz, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303) | Persian mystic | near Isfahan, Iran | Pir-i Bakran |
| Amu Abdollah (d. 1316) | Persian mystic | near Isfahan, Iran | Manar Jonban |
| Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301) | Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili | Lahijan, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334) | Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty | Ardabil, Iran - Ismail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there | none |
| Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370) | Persian mystic | Khuldabad, India | none |
| Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389) | Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | none |
| Shah Nimatullah Wali (1330–1431) | Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order | Mahan, Iran, Iran | Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine |
| Sibaveih (760-797) | Persian linguist | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Imam Bukhari (810-870) | Persian Sunni scholar | near Samarkand, Uzbekistan | none |
| Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941) | Persian Shi'ite scholar | Rey, Iran | Ebn-e Babveih |
| Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th c.) | Persian poetess | Balkh, Afghanistan | none |
| Ferdowsi (940-1020) | Persian poet | Tus, Iran | none |
| Avicenna (980-1037) | Persian philosopher and physician | Hamedan, Iran | none |
| Baba Taher (11th c.) | Persian mystic and poet | Hamedan, Iran | none |
| Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988) | Persian poets | Tabriz, Iran | Maqbarat ol-Shoara |
| Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111) | Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic | Tus, Iran | none |
| Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126) | Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali | Qazvin, Iran | none |
| Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) | Persian poet | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131) | Persian poet | Ghazni, Afghanistan | none |
| Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209) | Persian mystic and poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Nezami (1141–1209) | Persian poet | Ganja, Azerbaijan | Nezami Mausoleum |
| Attar (1145–1221) | Persian mystic and poet | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312) | Persian mystics and poets | Konya, Turkey | Mevlana Museum |
| Saadi (1184–1291) | Persian poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349) | Persian historian and geographer | Qazvin, Iran | none |
| Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352) | Persian mystic and poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Hafez (1315–1390) | Persian poet | Shiraz, Iran | Tomb of Hafez |
| Jami (1414–1492) | Persian mystic and poet | Herat, Afghanistan | none |
| Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677) | Persian poet | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614) | Persian calligrapher | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621) | Persian architect and poet | Mashhad, Iran | none |
| Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721) | Persian mystic and poet | Delhi, India | none |
| Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940) | Iran painter | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Bahar (1884–1951), Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Rahi Moayyeri (1909–1968), Darvish Khan (1872–1926), Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906–1965), Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) and Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905–1959) | Persian poets, musicians and singers | Tehran, Iran | Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery |
| Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985) | Persian writers | Paris, France | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Salman the Persian | Persian companion of Muhammad | Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq | none |