Iran
People of this nationality
Abdullah Khan Ahmadieh
1886 – 1959
physician
Mohammad Ahmadi
b. 1962
photographer
Leila Ebrahimi
b. 1979
athletics competitor
Taqi Rafat
1885 – 1920
poet
Ali Jokar
b. 1983
association football player
Fariborz Maseeh
b. 1959
Homeira Moshirzadeh
b. 1962
political scientist
Ali Hamoudi
b. 1986
association football player
Giti Mohebban
b. 1950
fencer
Atefeh Razavi
b. 1969
make-up artist
Masoud Boroumand
1928 – 2011
association football player
Abdol-samad Mirza Ezz ed-Dowleh Saloor
1843 – 1929
Hossein Qajeyi
1958 – 1982
amateur wrestler
Milad Meydavoudi
b. 1985
association football player
Mohammad Qasim Osmani
b. 1969
politician
Mehdi Zobeydi
b. 1991
association football player
Jamshid Nassiri
b. 1959
association football player
Hanieh Tavassoli
b. 1979
actor
Mohammad Jafar Kalani
b. 1928
sport shooter
Erfan Nasajpour
b. 1984
basketball player
Emad Afroogh
1958 – 2023
politician
Pantea Rahmani
b. 1971
painter
Omid Norouzi
b. 1986
amateur wrestler
Mahmoud Rahmani
b. 1980
film director
Rahim Mehdi Zahivi
b. 1987
association football player
Emam Gholi Khan Haji Ilkhani
1825 – 1899
Morteza Aghakhan
b. 1993
association football player
Rashid Sazmand
b. 1951
association football player
Mirza Javad Maleki Tabrizi
1857 – 1922
ulema
Sherko Moarefi
1980 – 2013
Iraj Masjedi
b. 1956
military personnel
Abdurrahman Sharafkandi
1920 – 1991
writer
Milad Bagheri
b. 1994
association football player
Ali Rabiei
b. 1955
politician
Shardad Rohani
b. 1954
conductor
Majid Tavakoli
b. 1986
political activist
Maryam Soltani
b. 1975
actor
Amir Mohebbian
b. 1962
politician
Mostafa Mahdavi
association football player
Abu-'l-Qāsim H̱ān Nāṣir-al-Mulk
1863 – 1927
politician
Ehsan Fatahian
1981 – 2009
Fatemeh Zolghadr
b. 1970
politician
Saleh Khalil-Azad
b. 1990
association football player
Bashir Babajanzadeh
b. 1989
amateur wrestler
Amir-Hossein Aryanpour
1925 – 2001
linguist
Hashem Hosseini Boushehri
b. 1956
Islamic jurist
Faramarz Aslani
1945 – 2024
singer
Nasrin Dousti
b. 1988
karateka
Rana Rahimpour
b. 1983
journalist
Gholamreza Mohammadi
b. 1970
amateur wrestler
Tooji
b. 1987
television presenter
Alireza Beiranvand
b. 1992
association football player
Khodi Feiz
b. 1963
industrial designer
Yahya Golmohammadi
b. 1971
association football player
Mehdi Missaghieh
1927 – 1991
film producer
Mohammad Hassan Mirza
1899 – 1943
Shadi Paridar
b. 1986
chess player
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
lawyer
Shabnam Ghorbani
b. 1989
actor
Mehdi Fonounizadeh
b. 1962
association football player
Zabihollah Safa
1911 – 1999
iranologist
Nasser Rastegar-Nejad
1929 – 2018
songwriter
Jaklin Vigen
1952 – 2025
composer
Arash Abbasi
b. 1977
playwright
Fazlollah Dehkhoda
b. 1949
weightlifter
Maryam Shafipour
human rights defender
Ali Neshat
1923 – 1979
politician
Ebrahim Ghasempour
b. 1957
association football player
Mojtaba Hosseini
b. 1954
revolutionary
Mulla Muzaffar Hussain Kashani
philosopher
Ahmad Ali Heydari
b. 1963
philosopher
Sadaf Foroughi
b. 1976
film director
Avideh Zakhor
b. 1964
university teacher
Fazlollah Nikkhah
1930 – 2014
boxer
Reza Heydari
b. 1992
association football player
Mahsa Rostami
b. 1992
actor
Nasrollah Dehnavi
b. 1950
weightlifter
Nasser Saghaye-Biria
1959 – 2025
politician
Bijan Assem
b. 1945
military personnel
Jalal Pishvaian
1930 – 2021
actor
ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Nūshīn
1906 – 1971
playwright
Mohsen Alimardani
b. 1968
politician
Seyid Mehdi Ghoreishi
Lotfollah Yarmohammadi
1933 – 2021
linguist
Mostafa Kherghepoosh
b. 1958
film editor
Mohammad Reza Bajool
b. 1960
sport cyclist
seyyed Ali Akbar Parvaresh
1942 – 2013
politician
Mohammad Jafar Asadi
b. 1948
military leader
Abdol Majid Mirza
1845 – 1927
politician
Badhan
Farhang Mehr
1923 – 2018
politician
Abdul Rasul Zarin
1941 – 1984
military personnel
Reza Atri
b. 1994
amateur wrestler
Farid Mokhtari
b. 1991
association football player
Mohammad Reza Tahmasebi
b. 1976
association football player
Rostam Gorgani
physician
Amir Zoleykani
b. 1989
association football player
Farzaneh Tavasoli
b. 1987
futsal player
Abdollah Naseri
b. 1992
association football player
Kia Joorabchian
b. 1971
sports agent