List of British Iranians

• Haleh Afshar OBE – university professor at the University of York^[1]
• Ali Ansari – university professor at the University of St Andrews^[2]
• Abbas Edalat – university professor at Imperial College London^[3]
• Anoush Ehteshami – university professor at Durham University^[4]
• Mohammed Ghanbari – university professor at the University of Essex^[5]
• Homa Katouzian – academic, economist, historian and literary critic^[6]
• Mohammad Hashem Pesaran – academic, economist, professor of economics at Cambridge University, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge^[7]
• Reza Banakar: professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Westminster, London.
• Saeed Vaseghi – university professor at Brunel University^[8]
• Ali Mobasheri – associate professor and reader at the University of Nottingham^[9]

• Freema Agyeman – actress^[10]
• Omid Djalili – comedian and actor^[11]
• Kayvan Novak – actor; star of Fonejacker^[12]
• Zahra Ahmadi – actress
• Catherine Bell – actress^[13]
• Nazanin Boniadi – actress; played Leyla Mir in General Hospital^[14] and CIA analyst Fara Sherazi in Homeland season 3
• Maryam Davari – actress^[15]
• Hadi Khorsandi – comedian^[16]
• Shappi Khorsandi – comedienne^[16]
• Roxy Shahidi – actress^[17]
• Hayley Tamaddon – actress^[18]
• Roxanne Pallet – actress^[19]
• Nasrin Moore – pornographic actress^[20]

• Nasser Golzari – principal at Golzari (NG) Architects^[21]
• Mouzhan Majidi – chief executive officer of Foster and Partners^[22]
• Mohsen Mostafavi – dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design^[23]
• Farshid Moussavi – architect and founder of Foreign Office Architects^[24]
• Alireza Sagharchi – principal at Stanhope Gate Architecture^[25]

• Farad Azima – industrialist, inventor and philanthropist^[28]
• Kaveh Alamouti  – head of Global Macro Citadel LLC; chief executive officer of Citadel Asset Management Europe^[29]
• David Alliance, Baron Alliance, GBE – chairman of N Brown Group^[30]
• Camila Batmanghelidjh  – founder of the charity Kids Company^[31]
• Bobby Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic^[32]
• Sahar Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic^[32]
• Darius Guppy – convicted fraudster; writer^[33]
• Kia Joorabchian – football businessman^[34]
• Nasser David Khalili, KSS – art dealer and the fifth-wealthiest person in the United Kingdom^[35]
• Mahmoud Khayami, KSS – industrialist; founder of Iran Khodro^[36]
• Paris Moayedi – former chief executive officer of Jarvis plc^[37]
• Farhad Moshiri – energy investor; part owner of Arsenal F.C.^[38]
• Eddy Shah – owner of the Messenger Group^[39]
• Yasmina Siadatan – winner of fifth series of The Apprentice^[40]
• Amir Taaki – video game and computer software developer
• Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – brothers who own the Rotch property

group^[41]

• Ali Parsa  – Former Chief Executive Officer of private healthcare partnership Circle.^[42]
• Sir Hossein Yassaie Phd  – Chief Executive Office of semiconductor company Imagination Technologies^[43]

• Omid 16B – disc jockey^[44]
• Cameron Alborzian – former model^[45]
• Blade – rapper^[46]
• Yasmin Le Bon – model^[47]
• Darius Campbell (formerly Danesh) – actor and singer-songwriter^[48]
• Emun Elliott – actor
• Shirin Guild – fashion designer^[49]
• Shusha Guppy – writer and singer^[50]
• Shaheen Jafargholi – singer; Britain's Got Talent (series 3) contestant^[51]
• Patrick Monahan – stand-up comedian
• Kayvan Novak – actor; appeared as Waj in the film Four Lions (2010)
• Yasmin Shahmir – musician^[52]
•  – soul singer-songwriter^[53]
• Eddy Temple-Morris – XFM disc jockey^[54]
• Sami Yusuf – musician^[55]
• Zarif – musician^[56]

• Behrouz Afagh – head of BBC World Service's Asia Pacific Region^[57]
• Benjamin Zand – BBC News reporter^[58]
• Christiane Amanpour, CBE – journalist^[59]
• Tina Gharavi – filmmaker and screenwriter^[60]
• Kaveh Golestan – photojournalist^[61]
• Baqer Moin – BBC News journalist^[62]
• Maryam Moshiri – BBC News presenter^[63]
• Ramita Navai – journalist^[64]
• Nima Nourizadeh – film director
• Sadeq Saba – journalist, head of BBC Persian service^[65]
• Nazenin Ansari  – journalist, former correspondent for Voice of America's Persian News Netowrk. Iranian analyst for BBC Radio 4, CNN International, Sky News and Aljazeera.

• Adam Gemili - sprinter and footballer.
• Aadel Kardooni – former Leicester Tigers and England A rugby player^[67]
• Josh Navidi – Cardiff Blues and Welsh international rugby player
• Kamran Panjavi – weightlifter at the 2004 Summer Olympics^[68]
• Kamal Shalorus – professional UFC fighter^[69]
• Mehrdad Takaloo – boxer^[70]

• Yasha Asley – youngest person in the world to have achieved grade A at Mathematics A-level^[71]
• Ali Dizaei – senior police officer^[72]
• Shirazeh Houshiary – Turner Prize-nominated installation artist and sculptor^[73]
• Mansour Matloubi – poker player^[74]
• Behnaz Mozakka – terrorism victim^[75]
• Ben Roberts – poker player^[76]