List of Iranian women
- For general information about women in Iran, see Women in Iran.
This is a list of Iranian women. As one person may have contributed to more than one field, they can be categorized in multiple areas.
Nobel laureates
- Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Laureate (Peace)
Scientists and engineers
- Anousheh Ansari, First female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
- Nahid Shahmehri, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden.[1]
- Saba Valadkhan, American Association for the Advancement of Science Young scientist award
- Maryam Mirzakhani, Mathematician
- Alenush Terian, Astronomer
Academics
sorted alphabetically by surname
- Janet Afary, Historian
- Lady Amin (Banoo Amin), Jurisprudent and theologian
- Jaleh Amouzgar, Iranologist, Professor of Tehran University
- Noushafarin Ansari, Professor at University Of Tehran, Secretary General of Children's Book Council Of Iran
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, Psychotherapist.
- Mina Bissell, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division.[2]
- Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer, lecturer at Tehran University (2003 Nobel Laureate)
- Mehrangiz Kar, Lawyer, fellow at Harvard University
- Fatemeh Keshavarz, Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature Department, Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- Elaheh Koulaei, Professor of Political sciences, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University
- Farzaneh Milani, Director of Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA[3]
- Azar Nafisi, former lecturer at Tehran University and Johns Hopkins University
- Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
- Nasrin Rahimieh, writer of Iranian culture and Persian literature, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.[4]
- Pardis Sabeti, geneticist at Harvard Medical School
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Cryptographer, professor of computer science, and head of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute at University of Wollongong
- Fatemeh Shams, Literary Scholar at University of Oxford.
- Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at California State University, Northridge and Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, USA[5]
Authors and poets
- Masoumeh Abad, Writer
- Mahnaz Afkhami, Writer
- Mana Aghaee, Poet, Translator and Bibliographer
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour, Playwright and novelist
- Mahshid Amirshahi, Novelist
- Mina Assadi, Poet and author, winner of the Hellman/Hammett awards (human Rights Watch) in New York in the year of 1996
- Sousan Azadi, memoirist
- Simin Behbahani, Poet and 1997 Nobel prize nominee
- Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright and theatre director
- Simin Daneshvar, Academic, novelist and translator of literary texts from several languages into Persian
- Sahar Delijani, (born 1983), widely translated novelist, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, living between the United States and Italy
- Parvin E'tesami, Poet (classical)
- Forough Farrokhzad, Poet (modern)* Roya Hakakian, Writer and Poet
- Leila Kasra, Poet and Lyricist
- Rabe'e Ghazdari, Poet
- Justine Harun-Mahdavi, German-Iranian writer.
- Sheema Kalbasi, Poet
- Porochista Khakpour, Novelist and writer
- Mahsati, Medieval poet
- Rosie Malek-Yonan, Author, actor and director
- Shokooh Mirzadegi, Novelist, poet and social reformer
- Azadeh Moaveni, Writer and journalist
- Akram Monfared Arya, Author, poet
- Granaz Moussavi, Poet
- Azar Nafisi, writer, "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- Shima Nesari Haghighi Fard, Poet and writer
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Novelist
- Zoya Pirzad, Novelist and winner of Hooshang Golshiri Literary Award
- Golrokhsar Safi Eva, National poet of Tajikistan
- Marjane Satrapi, Writer, Persepolis,Embroideries and Chicken with Plums
- Hila Sedighi, Poet
- Mahasti Shahrokhi, Novelist
- Fatemeh Shams, poet, author
- Roxana Shirazi, Author, The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage
- Tahereh Qorrat Al-'Ayn, Poet, philosopher and theologist; Seventeenth disciple or Letter of the Living of the Báb (mid 19th century)
- Niloufar Talebi, Writer, translator, theater artist
- Lobat Vala Poet
- Masoumeh Ramhormozi, Writer
- Moniru Ravanipor, Writer
- Sholeh Wolpe, poet
Visual and Fine Arts
Artists
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