List of Iranians Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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Table of contents

1 In the news 2 Authors 3 Painters 4 Calligraphists 5 Cinema artists 5.1 Actors 5.2 Directors and Filmmakers 6 Journalists 7 Leaders and politicians 7.3 Historical (pre-Pahlavi) 7.4 Modern (post-Qajar) 7.4.1 Served in Pahlavi government 7.4.2 Served in Islamic Republic government 7.4.3 Not served or opposition 8 Musicians and Singers 8.5 Electronic 8.6 Pop 8.7 Traditional 8.8 Western Classical 9 Religious figures 10 Royalty 10.9 Pre-Islam 10.9.4 Elam 10.9.4.1 Igehalkid dynasty 10.9.4.2 Shutrukid Dynasty 10.9.5 The Median empire 10.9.6 The Achaemenid empire 10.9.7 The Parthian empire 10.9.8 The Sassanid empire 10.10 Post-Islam (incomplete) 10.10.9 Safavid dynasty 10.10.10 Afsharid dynasty 10.10.11 Zand dynasty 10.10.12 Qajar dynasty 10.10.13 Pahlavi dynasty 11 Scientists & Philosophers 12 Sports 13 Other 14 See also

In the news

• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Goli Ameri
• Anousheh Ansari
• Ladan and Laleh Bijani
• Shirin Ebadi
• Zahra Kazemi
• Mohammad Reza Khatami

Authors

• Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
• Bozorg Alavi, novelist
• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, writer
• Zhaleh Amouzegar
• Attar, poet
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
• Samad Behrangi, writer
• Ahmad Kasravi
• Masoud Behnoud, historian
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
• Sadegh Choubak
• Simin Daneshvar, writer
• Najaf Daryabandari, translator and writer
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, writer
• Mirzadeh Eshghi, poet
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet
• Ferdowsi, poet
• Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
• Hafez, poet
• Hatef Esfehani, poet
• Abdollah Hatefi, poet
• Hazin Lahiji
• Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
• Sadegh Hedayat, writer
• Mohammad Hejazi, novelist and playwright
• Houshang Golshiri, writer
• Houshang Moradi-Kermani, writer
• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer
• Jami, poet
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
• Emad Khorasani
• Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
• Zabihollah Mansoori, translator
• Mohammad Mokhtari
• Houshang Moradi-Kermani
• Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
• Fereydoun Moshiri, poet
• Morteza Motahhari, theologian
• Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
• Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
• Nezami, poet
• Iraj Pezeshkzad
• Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi), poet
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
• Sa'di, poet
• Gholamhossein Sa'edi, writer
• Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
• Sohrab Sepehri, poet
• Mohammad Reza Shafii Kadkani, poet
• Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet
• Ahmad Shamlou, poet and writer
• Ali Shariati, sociologist
• Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher
• Goli Taraghghi
• Nima Yushij, poet

Painters

• Aidin Aghdashloo
• Hanibal Alkhas
• Kamal ol-Molk
• Hossein Behzad
• Iran Darroudi
• Mahmoud Farshchian
• Mansoureh Hosseini
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

Calligraphists

• Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
• Mir Emad Hassani

Cinema artists

Actors

• Akbar Abdi
• Golab Adineh
• Mahnaz Afshar
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Pegah Ahangarani
• Taraneh Alidousti
• Jahangir Almasi
• Fariborz Arabnia
• Daryoush Arjmand
• Asal Badiee
• Delkash
• Ezzatollah Entezami
• Homayoun Ershadi
• Hadi Eslami
• Parviz Fannizadeh
• Behzad Farahani
• Golshifteh Farahani
• Shaghayegh Farahani
• Mohammad Ali Fardin
• Farimah Farjami
• Bita Farrahi
• Hamid Farrokhnezhad
• Jahangir Forouhar
• Leila Forouhar
• Mohammad Reza Foroutan
• Garsha
• Faramarz Gharibian
• Sorayya Ghasemi
• Mohammad Reza Golzar
• Googoosh
• Azita Hajian
• Mehdi Hashemi
• Jamshid Hashempour
• Leila Hatami
• Amin Hayaee
• Rambod Javan
• Hamid Jebeli
• Niki Karimi
• Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
• Reza Kianian
• Gowhar Kheirandish
• Fakhri Khorvash
• Majid Majidi
• Nasser Malekmoti'ee
• Jamshid Mashayekhi
• Parvaneh Ma'soumi
• Bahman Mofid
• Ali Mosaffa
• Fatemeh Mo'tamed-Aria
• Ahmad Najafi
• Ali Nassirian
• Roya Nonahali
• Hossien Panahi
• Parviz Parastouee
• Atila Pesyani
• Mahaia Petrosian
• Parsa Pirouzfar
• Parviz Pourhosseini
• Saeed Poursamimi
• Saeed Rad
• Bahram Radan
• Davoud Rashidi
• Habib Rezaee
• Homa Rousta
• Reza Rouygari
• Hossein Sarshar
• Parviz Sayyad
• Khosrow Shakibaee
• Mozhdeh Shamsaee
• Mehraveh Sharifinia
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
• Jamileh Sheykhi
• Soroush Sehhat
• Iraj Tahmasb
• Amin Tarokh
• Sussan Taslimi
• Hedyeh Tehrani
• Behrouz Vosoughi
• Merila Zare'i

Directors and Filmmakers

• Behrouz Afkhami
• Kianoush Ayyari
• Bahram Beizaee
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Ahmad Reza Darvish
• Abolhassan Davoudi
• Bahman Farman-Ara
• Iraj Ghaderi
• Ali Hatami
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
• Hassan Hedayat
• Abolfazl Jalili
• Samuel Khachikian
• Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
• Masoud Kimiaee
• Parviz Kimiavi
• Esma'il Kooshan
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
• Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
• Daryoush Mehrjouee
• Jalal Moghaddam
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
• Amir Naderi
• Jafar Panahi
• Abdolhossein Sepanta
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales
• Kamran Shirdel
• Khosrow Sinaee
• Kamal Tabrizi
• Nasser Taghvaee

Journalists

• Hashem Agha-Jari
• Christiane Amanpour
• Rudi Bakhtiar
• Emadeddin Baghi
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
• Masoud Behnoud
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Masoud Dehnamaki
• Hossein Derakhshan
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Akbar Ganji
• Mohammad Ghouchani
• Saeed Hajjarian
• Sina Motallebi
• Omid Memarian
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Ali Reza Nourizadeh
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
• Shadi Sadr
• Ahmad Shamlou
• Mashallah Shams-ol-vaezin
• Hossein Shariatmadari
• Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil

Leaders and politicians

Historical (pre-Pahlavi)

• Abu Muslim
• Amir-Kabir, prime minister
• Bagher Khan
• Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister
• Mirza Reza Kermani
• Mohammad Khiabani
• Nizam al-Mulk, statesman and vizier
• Fazlollah Noori
• Sattar Khan

Modern (post-Qajar)

Served in Pahlavi government

• Asadollah Alam, prime minister
• Ali Amini, prime minister
• Jamshid Amouzegar, prime minister
• Gholam Reza Azhari, prime minister
• Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
• Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
• Manouchehr Eghbal, prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
• Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
• Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
• Hassan-Ali Mansour, prime minister
• Hassan Modarres, member of parliament
• Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
• Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
• Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
• Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
• Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, first speaker of senate and prime minister
• Fazlollah Zahedi, prime minister

Served in Islamic Republic government

• Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
• Ali Abdolalizadehh, minister of housing and urban development
• Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, vice speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
• Emad Afrough, member of parliament
• Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, mayor of Tehran
• Abbasali Alizadeh
• Hossein Allah-Karam
• Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
• Majid Ansari, member of parliament
• Hossein Ansari-Rad, member of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
• Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
• Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
• Habibollah Asgarowladi, member of parliament
• Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
• Ayatollah Azari-Ghomi
• Hassan Ayat
• Asadollah Badamchian
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
• Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
• Abolhassan Banisadr, president
• Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
• Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
• Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
• Maoud Dehnamaki
• Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of information
• Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
• Gholam Hossein Elham
• Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
• Mohammad Emami-Kashani
• Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
• Iraj Fazel, minister of health
• Hassan Ghafourifard
• Shahabeddin Gonabadi, minister of housing and urban development
• Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
• Hassan Habibi, first vice president
• Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
• Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
• Morteza Haji, minister of education
• Mehdi Hashemi
• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
• Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
• Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
• Gholamreza Hassani, Friday Prayer Imam of Urmia
• Elias Hazrati, member of parliament
• Mahmoud Hojjati, minister of roads and transportation
• Ruhollah Hosseinian
• Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
• Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
• Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
• Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
• Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
• Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
• Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
• Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
• Ahmad Khatami
• Mohammad Khatami, president
• Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
• Abolghasem Khaz'ali
• Ahmad Khomeini
• Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
• Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
• Asadollah Lajevardi
• Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
• Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
• Sadegh Larijani
• Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
• Alireza Mahjoub
• Hossein Mahlouji, minister of mining and metals
• Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi
• Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
• Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
• Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
• Mohseni-Ezhe'i
• Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
• Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
• Hossein-Ali Montazeri
• Saeed Mortazavi
• Morteza Motahhari
• Ahmad Motamedi, minister of communications
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
• Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
• Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
• Hossein Mousavi-Tabrizi
• Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
• Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
• Morteza Nabavi
• Mohammad Reza Naghdi
• Mohammd Ali Najafi, minister of education
• Hadi Namazi
• Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Niazi
• Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
• Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
• Alireza Noori, member of parliament
• Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
• Ali Parvaresh
• Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
• Mohsen Rafighdoust
• Ebrahim Raisi, first deputy of head of judiciary system
• Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
• Ali Razini
• Mohammad Reyshahri
• Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
• Hassan Rowhani, deputy speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Saeedikia, minister of roads and transportation
• Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
• Rahim Safavi
• Mohammad Salamati
• Ali Akbar Salehi
• Ayatollah Sane'i
• Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, member of parliament
• Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
• Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
• Hossein Shariatmadari
• Jalaleddin Taheri
• Hamid Reza Taraghghi
• Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
• Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
• Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
• Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
• Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
• Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
• Ali Younessi, minister of information
• Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
• General Zolghadr

See also: List of current Iranian officials

Not served or opposition

• Hashem Aghajari
• Abbas Amir-Entezam
• Mohammad Hossein Boroujerdi
• Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
• Jalaleddin Farsi
• Dariush Forouhar
• Bijan Jazani
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Abolghasem Kashani
• Lotfollah Meisami
• Farrokh Negahdar
• Habibollah Peiman
• Jafar Pishevari
• Alireza Rajaei
• Maryam Rajavi
• Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
• Mousa Sadr
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
• Yadollah Sahabi
• Ali Shariati, sociologist
• Azam Taleghani
• Mahmoud Taleghani
• Nasser Zarafshan

Musicians and Singers

Electronic

• Leila Arab
• Fred Maslaki
• Behrouz Nazari
• Omid Nourizadeh
• Ali 'Dubfire' Shirazinia
• Shahram Tayebi

Pop

(Sorted according to first letter of most famous name)

• Andranik Madadian
• Asef (Faramarz Asef)
• Delkash
• Ebi
• Faramarz Aslani
• Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
• Fereydoon Foroughi
• Golpa (Akbar Golpaygani)
• Googoosh
• Kourosh Yaghmaei
• Leila Forouhar
• Mansoor
• Mohammad Esfehani
• Shahram Shabpare

Traditional

• Hossein Alizadeh
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Sima Bina, folkloric music
• Delkash
• Akbar Golpaygani
• Morteza Hannaneh
• Marzieh
• Shahram Nazeri
• Parissa
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Western Classical

• Anoushiravan Rohani
• Shahrdad Rohani
• Loris Tjeknavorian

Religious figures

• Bab
• Bahaullah, prophet
• Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
• Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
• Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic / politician
• Mani, founder of Manichaeism
• Zoroaster, prophet

Royalty

Pre-Islam

Elam

Igehalkid dynasty

• Ige-Halki (c. 1350 - c. 1330 BC)
• Pakhir-Ishshan (c. 1330 - c. 1310 BC)
• Attar-Kittakh (c. 1310 - c. 1300 BC)
• Khuman-Numena (c. 1300 - c. 1275 BC)
• Untash-Naprisha (c. 1275 - c. 1240 BC)
• Unpatar-Naprisha (c. 1240 - c. 1235 BC)
• Kiddin-Khutran (c. 1235 - c. 1210 BC)

Shutrukid Dynasty

• Khallutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1205 - c. 1185 BC)
• Shutruk-Nahhunte (c. 1185 - c. 1155 BC)
• Kutir-Nahhunte III (c. 1155 - c. 1150 BC)
• Shilkhak-In-Shushinak (c. 1150 - c. 1120 BC)
• Khutelutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1120 - c. 1110 BC)
• Shilhana-Hamru-Lagamar (c. 1110 - 1100 BC)

The Median empire

• Deioces
• Phraortes
• Cyaxares
• Astyages

The Achaemenid empire

• Achaemenes of Anshan
• Teispes of Anshan
• Cyrus I of Anshan
• Ariaramnes of Persia
• Cambyses I of Anshan
• Arsames of Persia
• Cyrus II the Great (550 - 530 BC)
• Cambyses II (530 - 521 BC)
• Smerdis (521 BC)
• Darius I (521 -486 BC)
• Xerxes I (486 -465 BC)
• Artaxerxes I (464 - 424 BC)
• Xerxes II ( 424 - 423 BC)
• Sogdianus ( 424 - 423 BC)
• Darius II (424 - 404 BC)
• Artaxerxes II (404 - 358 BC)
• Cyrus the Younger, General
• Artaxerxes III (358 - 338 BC)
• Arses (338 - 336 BC)
• Darius III Codomannus (336 -330 BC)

The Parthian empire

• Arsaces I (246 - 211 BC)
• Artabanus I (211 - 191 BC)
• Mithridates I (171 - 138 BC)
• Artabanus II (128 - 124 BC)
• Mithridates II (124 - 87 BC)
• Mithridates III (58 - 57 BC)
• Tiridates II (30 - 29 BC)
• Artabanus V (AD 213 - 226)

The Sassanid empire

• Ardashir I (224 - 241)
• Shapur I (241 - 272)
• Hormizd I (272 - 273)
• Bahram I (273 - 276)
• Bahram II (276 - 293)
• Bahram III (year 293)
• Narseh (293 - 302)
• Hormizd II (302 - 310)
• Shapur II (310 - 379)
• Ardashir II (379 - 383)
• Shapur III (383 - 388)
• Bahram IV (388 - 399)
• Yazdegerd I (399 - 420)
• Bahram V (420 - 438)
• Yazdegerd II (438 - 457)
• Hormizd III (457 - 459)
• Peroz I (457 - 484)
• Balash (484 - 488)
• Kavadh I (488 - 531)
• Djamasp (496 - 498)
• Khosrau I (531 - 579)
• Hormizd IV (579 - 590)
• Khosrau II (590 - 628)
• Bahram VI (590 - 591)
• Bistam (591 - 592)
• Hormizd V (year 593)
• Kavadh II (year 628)
• Ardashir III (628 - 630)
• Peroz II (year 629)
• Shahrbaraz (year 630)
• Boran and others (630 - 631)
• Hormizd VI (or V) (631 - 632)
• Yazdegerd III (632 - 651)

Post-Islam (incomplete)

• Babak Khorramdin
• Estadsis
• Maziar
• Yaghub Leith
• Ulugh Beg

Safavid dynasty

• Ismail I (1502 -1524)
• Tahmasp I (1524 - 1576)
• Ismail II (1576 - 1578)
• Mohammed Khodabanda (1578 - 1588)
• Abbas I (1588 - 1629)
• Safi (1629 - 1642)
• Abbas II (1642 - 1666)
• Suleiman (1666 - 1694)
• Husain (1694 - 1722)
• Tahmasp II (1722 - 1732)
• Abbas III (1732 - 1736)

Afsharid dynasty

• Nadir Shah (1736 - 1747)
• Adil Shah (1747 - 1748)
• Shah Rukh (1748 - 1749)
• Ibrahim (1748 - 1749)

Zand dynasty

• Karim Khan Zand (1750 - 1779)
• Abolfath Khan Zand (year 1779)
• Ali Murad Khan Zand (year 1779, also 1782 - 1785)
• Sadiq Khan Zand (1779 - 1782)
• Jafar Khan Zand (1785 - 1789)
• Lutf Ali Khan Zand (1789 - 1794)

Qajar dynasty

• Agha Mohammad Khan (1779 - 1797)
• Fath Ali Shah (1797 - 1834)
• Mohammad Shah Qajar (1834 - 1848)
• Naser Ed-Din Shah (1848 - 1896)
• Mozaffar Ed-Din Shah (1896 - 1907)
• Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1907 - 1909)
• Ahmad Shah Qajar (1909 - 1925)

• Abbas Mirza, Crown Prince to Fath Ali Shah

Pahlavi dynasty

• Reza Pahlavi (1925 - 1941)
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941 - 1979)

• Reza Pahlavi II, Crown Prince to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Foozieh of Egypt, queen
• Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, queen
• Farah Diba, queen
• Leila Pahlavi, princess

Scientists & Philosophers

• Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
• Biruni, astronomist, mathematician
• Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), chemist
• Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist
• Ghiyath al-Kashi, mathematician
• Al-Ghazali philosopher
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, scholar of Islamic philosophy
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
• Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
• Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany
• Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), chemist and physicist
• Nasir al-Din al-Tusi scientist, philosopher
• Ulugh Beg

Sports

• Andre Agassi, tennis player, half-Iranian
• Khodadad Azizi, footballer
• Ali Daei, footballer
• Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler
• Ali Karimi, footballer
• Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter
• Mehdi Mahdavikia, footballer
• Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Taekwondo
• Gholamreza Takhti
• Khosrow Vaziri, wrestler

Other

• Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
• Anousheh Ansari
• Saeed Asgar, assassin of Saeed Hajjarian
• Touri Bolourchi
• Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
• Shahram Jazayeri
• Doris Lessing
• Merhan Karimi Nasseri
• Shaul Mofaz

See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of Iranian scientists

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