Iran
People of this nationality
Ali Arsalan
b. 1995
amateur wrestler
Morteza Motahhari
1919 – 1979
philosopher
Malak Jân Nemati
1906 – 1993
poet
Mahmoud Hojjati
b. 1955
politician
Hamid Majd Teymouri
b. 1953
association football player
Sadaf Asgari
b. 1997
actor
Mohammad Zohari
1926 – 1995
poet
Iraj Afshar
1925 – 2011
linguist
Ali Banisadr
b. 1976
painter
Farbod Khoshtinat
b. 1988
cinematographer
Parastoo Bakhshi
1989 – 2024
cardiologist
Behnam Asbaghi
b. 1986
taekwondo athlete
Nasser Givehchi
1932 – 2017
amateur wrestler
Zeynab Jalaliyan
b. 1982
entrepreneur
Ahmad Keshvari
1953 – 1980
aircraft pilot
Mostafa Sabri
b. 1984
association football player
Reza Esfahani
1935 – 2002
civil servant
Jenab Khan
television actor
Farhad Navab
b. 1956
sprinter
Amir Ghomi
b. 1968
judoka
Haleh Sahabi
1958 – 2011
journalist
Sayed Esmail Hosseini
b. 1942
sport cyclist
Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi
1936 – 2007
architect
Majid Khademi
1962 – 2026
military personnel
Saeid Rajabi
b. 1996
taekwondo athlete
Mehran Mousavi
b. 1991
association football player
Farhad Moshiri
1963 – 2024
painter
Fereydoun Mahdavi
1932 – 2014
economist
Loris Tjeknavorian
b. 1937
composer
Eric Parnes
b. 1979
painter
Zabih Etemadi
b. 1982
association football player
Sasson Khakshouri
b. 1942
businessperson
Gholamhossein Mohammadnia
diplomat
Roozbeh Farahanipour
b. 1971
politician
Morteza Falahati
b. 1989
association football player
Mirza Mohammad-Ali Khan Shirazi
1780 – 1852
politician
Yousef Shariatzadeh
1930 – 2001
architect
Mehdi Mohammadi
1952 – 2013
association football player
Raha Etemadi
b. 1984
lyricist
Aidin Bozorgi
b. 1989
mountaineer
Porya Yali
b. 1999
volleyball player
Ebrahim Raisi
1960 – 2024
politician
Azadeh Kian
b. 1958
sociologist
Mohammad Khordadian
b. 1957
dancer
Farshad Ebrahimpour Nourabadi
b. 1977
politician
Rahman Ahmadi
b. 1980
association football player
Ali Goudarzi
b. 1992
association football player
Ashkan Khatibi Vatanforosh
b. 1979
actor
Mirza Mehdi Ashtiani
1888 – 1952
philosopher
Houshyar Khayam
b. 1978
composer
Ayat Mohagheghi
1931 – 1980
military personnel
Amjad Shokouh Magham
b. 1983
association football player
Amir Amini
b. 1984
basketball player
Morteza Rostami
b. 1980
taekwondo athlete
Gholam Hossein Nozari
b. 1954
politician
Hamid Derakhshan
b. 1957
association football player
Yousef Kolahdouz
1946 – 1981
military personnel
Ismat al-Doulah
1855 – 1905
Henrik Tamraz
1935 – 1996
weightlifter
Seyed Pendar Toufighi
b. 1972
association football coach
Sanaz Zaresani
b. 1980
writer
Ahmad Meyghani
b. 1957
military leader
Farah Ossouli
b. 1953
painter
Mahmoud Anbarani
b. 1937
linguist
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
b. 2000
journalist
Hossein Vafaei
b. 1994
snooker player
Jalal Akbari
b. 1983
association football player
Amir Jafari
b. 1974
actor
Majidreza Ehteshamzadeh
b. 1956
table tennis player
Arash Hejazi
b. 1971
linguist
Farshad Bahadorani
b. 1982
association football player
Mohammad Hejazi
1901 – 1974
playwright
Davoud Bahadori
b. 1994
association football player
Mohammad-Reza Amin
1927 – 2003
politician
Gholamreza Aavani
b. 1943
philosopher
Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee
b. 1959
politician
Nadia Maftouni
b. 1966
painter
Bahman Mofid
1942 – 2020
actor
Sajjad Sadeghi
b. 1983
human rights defender
Mohammad Mad Malisi
b. 1993
association football player
Ali Samari
b. 1993
athletics competitor
Behnam Barzay
b. 1993
association football player
Abbas Kiarostami
1940 – 2016
film director
Kourosh Molaei
b. 1974
boxer
Vahe Aghabegians
b. 1952
adviser
Hossein Keyhani
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Abolfazl Hajizadeh
b. 1981
association football player
Reza Mahjubi
1898 – 1954
composer
Javad Asghari Moghaddam
b. 1979
association football player
Mozhgan Bayat
b. 1979
actor
Mehdi Jamalinejad
b. 1970
Soleiman Mehdizadeh
b. 1955
aikidoka
Azarakhsh Mokri
b. 1968
physician
Reza Entezari
1946 – 1999
athletics competitor
Mohsen Hamidi
b. 1985
association football player
Siamak Yasemi
1925 – 1994
poet
Ali Ghaffari
1925 – 2007
amateur wrestler
Ahmad Ghahreman
1928 – 2008
botanist
Gholam Hosein Shiri Aliabad
1961 – 2021
politician
Ali Mohammad Besharati
b. 1945
politician