Iran
People of this nationality
Mahoor Alvand
b. 1994
actor
Pashang Kamkar
b. 1951
musician
Shekoufeh Safari
b. 1989
volleyball player
Iraj Gorgin
1934 – 2012
journalist
Sahameddin Mirfakhraei
b. 1951
association football player
Nasser Kanaani
b. 1970
diplomat
Mahmoud Reza Eftekharzadeh
1954 – 2021
translator
Pari Zanganeh
b. 1939
opera singer
Hushang Ebtehaj
1928 – 2022
poet
Dariush Mostafavi
1944 – 2025
association football player
Mostafa Mahdavikia
b. 1984
association football player
Reza Khaleghifar
b. 1983
association football player
Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
b. 1986
filmmaker
Mina Izadyar
1949 – 2013
pediatrician
Nasim Khaksar
b. 1944
writer
Rasool Vatandoust
b. 1947
chemist
Mohammad Khalili
b. 1993
association football player
Maryam Imanieh
Farhad Ghaemi
b. 1989
volleyball player
Edmond Yunanpour
b. 1963
association football player
Younes Emami
b. 1987
amateur wrestler
Mohammad Momeni
b. 1972
association football player
Mohammad-Ali Emam-Shooshtari
1902 – 1972
historian
Mousa Namjoo
1938 – 1981
military personnel
Shahla and Nasreen Kaabi
1946 – 1980
politician
Abdi Nazemian
b. 1976
novelist
Ahmad Ahmadi
1933 – 2018
politician
Fereydoon Motamed
1917 – 1993
linguist
Mahmoud Baharmast
1899 – 1978
military personnel
Akbar Etemad
1930 – 2025
politician
Majid Vasheghani
b. 1980
television actor
Fariborz Danesh
b. 1963
taekwondo athlete
Mohsen Nourbakhsh
1948 – 2003
economist
Nima Javidi
b. 1980
screenwriter
Asghar Kardoust
b. 1986
basketball player
Sadegh Sharafkandi
1938 – 1992
soldier
Mohammad Bahrami
1898 – 1957
politician
Sayyid Hossein Ardabili
1879 – 1919
politician
Nosratollah Momtahen
1930 – 2013
athlete
Mehdi Lavasani
b. 1947
association football player
Fatemeh Goudarzi
b. 1963
actor
Mohammadreza Kaveh
b. 1997
association football player
Sahba Aminikia
b. 1981
composer
Mehdi Qoli Hedayat
1864 – 1955
politician
Nora Hashemi
b. 1983
actor
Bijan
1940 – 2011
designer
Ali Baghmisheh
b. 1975
association football player
Abolfazl Bazargan
politician
Mehran Jafari
b. 1985
association football player
Farzad Hatami
b. 1986
association football player
Jamshid Behnam
1928 – 2021
sociologist
Abbas-Ali Khalatbari
1912 – 1979
diplomat
Mohammad Soleiman Alizadeh
b. 1991
association football player
Shahpour Zarnegar
1929 – 2022
fencer
Jalal Matini
1928 – 2025
literary scholar
Mahbod Seraji
b. 1956
novelist
Maurice Moynihan
1902 – 1999
economist
Fethullah Mojtaba
b. 1927
translator
Fazel Atrachali
b. 1992
kabaddi player
Ali Karimi
b. 1978
association football player
Hossein Karandish
basketball player
Fatemeh Mohajerani
b. 1971
politician
Ali Asghar Soltanieh
b. 1950
diplomat
Javad Khamenei
1895 – 1986
ulema
Mohammad Reza Sangsefidi
b. 1989
futsal player
Ebrahim Amini
1925 – 2020
politician
Davud Ghaffarzadegan
b. 1959
writer
Mohsen Armin
b. 1954
politician
Majid Noormohammadi
b. 1978
association football player
Shahab od-Din Sadr
b. 1962
physician
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
b. 1971
film director
Iraj Harirchi
b. 1966
politician
Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani
1931 – 2023
translator
Hossein Kamaly
historian
Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi
b. 1973
human rights defender
Marziyeh Jafari
b. 1982
association football coach
Sadegh Moharrami
b. 1996
association football player
George Issabeg
b. 1930
boxer
Nahid Hagigat
b. 1943
artist
Seyed Kazem Alavipanah
b. 1958
geographer
Mansoor Hekmat
1951 – 2002
politician
Shadi Amin
b. 1964
journalist
Jasem Vishgahi
b. 1982
karateka
Hajar Safarzadeh
b. 2000
Paralympic athlete
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
b. 1946
historian
Varto Terian
1896 – 1974
actor
Alireza Shokoohi
b. 1961
hydrologist
Hossein Zakeri
b. 1942
mathematician
Mohammed Reza Pourmohammad
b. 1987
association football player
Asadollah Asgaroladi
1934 – 2019
businessperson
Mansour Hazrati
b. 1932
amateur wrestler
Roozbeh Hesari
b. 1988
actor
Ali Reza Nobari
b. 1947
economist
Samaneh Sheshpari
b. 1987
taekwondo athlete
Abdoldjavad Falaturi
1926 – 1996
theologian
Sara Ghomi
b. 1987
association football player
Nader Mohammadkhani
b. 1963
association football player
Esmail Ghaani
b. 1957
army officer
Mohammad Hossein Mehrazma
b. 1988
association football player
Aref Mohammadi
film critic