Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Germany include immigrants from Iran to Germany as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background. There are 100.000^[1] to 120.000^[2] ethnic Iranians living in Germany. With around 25,000 people of Iranian descent, Hamburg is the main center of the Iranian diaspora..

There is a considerable number of notable Iranians in each of the following categories who live and work in Germany:

Academia/Science

• Nossrat Peseschkian
• Majid Samii
• Gholamreza Sinambari, environmental engineer
• Hadi Tehrani, architect
• Hossein Baghernejad, engineer and scientist

Arts/Entertainment

• Navid Akhavan, actor
• Peyman Amin, on the jury of "Germany's Next Top Model", and model agent
• Minu Barati, film-producer
• Akbar Behkalam, Painter
• Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright, Theatre director
• Shaghayegh Dehghan, actress
• Shahram Entekhabi, Video Artist, Painter
• Majid Fallahzadeh, Theater director
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad, actor, entertainer
• Taies Farzan, actress, Producer in film Breathful
• Yasmina Mahmoudieh
• Naveed Nour, photographer
• Narges Rashidi, actress in film breathful and A2Z
• Akbar Safaian
• Farnaz Samiinia, film director
• Shermine Sharivar, Miss Europe 2005, actress
• Daryush Shokof, Artist, film producer-director
• Jasmin Tabatabai, actress, singer
• Mona Hakimi-Schüler, Artist: Painter
• Naghmeh Roomi, Artist, Painter
• Martina Rink, Author,
• Benny Rebel, photographer
• Pegah Ferydoni,actress,model^[3]

Business/technology

• Hossein Sabet, entrepreneur, hotel owner worldwide.
• Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile

Literature

• Abbas Maroufi, novelist

• Alexios Schandermani

Media/journalism

• Abbas Maroufi, publisher

• Navid Kermani

Music

• Amir Abbas Zare, iranian musician and composer
• Mehrzad Marashi pop singer
• Shahin Najafi Rapper
• Navid Akhavan, Iranian pop singer
• Maryam Akhondy classical Iranian singer
• Ateed
• Mahyar Bahraminasab Master of Tombak
• Jasmin Shakeri, pop singer
• Ramin Djawadi, composer
• Monika Jalili, vocalist
• Pooyan Nassehpoor
• Parham Nassehpoor
• Sima Bina, notable Persian classical musician (singer), composer, researcher, painter
• Mehrpuja Bahraminasab (Master Puja) Rapper

Personalities

• Soraya Esfandiary, ex-wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Consort of Iran

Politics

• Omid Nouripour, Alliance '90/The Greens
• Sahra Wagenknecht
• Bahman Nirumand, many years of association with the German Green Party, and in 2009 signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Persecution of Bahá'ís.^[4]
• Mina Ahadi
• Mehran Barati

Sports

• Ashkan Dejagah, footballer
• Mehdi Mahdavikia, footballer
• Alireza Marzban
• Babak Rafati
• Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
• Amir Shapourzadeh
• Leila Vaziri, World record holder "swimmer"
• Fereydoun Zandi, footballer
• Daniel Davari, footballer

See also

• Iran-Germany relations
• Iranian diaspora

References

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