Iran
People of this nationality
Mansour Haghighatpour
b. 1959
politician
Negin Zandi Darehgharibi
b. 2004
association football player
Arsalan Kazemi
b. 1990
basketball player
Mahasti Shahrokhi
b. 1956
novelist
Vahan Papazian
1876 – 1973
politician
Kourosh Zaim
b. 1939
translator
Ebrahim Azhang
violinist
Monireh Gorji
1929 – 2025
politician
Abbas Babaei
1950 – 1987
flying ace
Saman Salur
b. 1976
film director
Muḥammad Rāsiḫ
b. 1963
translator
Mashallah Amin Sorour
1931 – 2010
sport cyclist
Reza Kianian
b. 1951
actor
Ahmad Afghan
b. 1970
amateur wrestler
Aghmohammad Salagh
b. 1980
beach volleyball player
Shahram Homayoun
b. 1955
politician
Hossein Salami
1960 – 2025
military personnel
Ali Espahbodi
b. 1939
economist
Hannibal Alkhas
1930 – 2010
writer
Mohaddeseh Zolfi
b. 2005
association football player
Feeroozeh Golmohammadi
painter
Majidreza Rahnavard
1999 – 2022
Mir Jalal Pashayev
1908 – 1978
writer
Saeed Mohammad
b. 1969
military officer
Navid Abdolmaleki
b. 1990
mixed martial arts fighter
Rumi
1207 – 1273
poet
Êmmanowêl Melik'-Aslanean
1915 – 2003
musician
Navid Mashinchi
b. 1989
association football player
Musa al-Musawi
1930 – 1997
philosopher
Ali Alilu
b. 1961
politician
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed
b. 1986
taekwondo athlete
Majid Halvaei
b. 1948
association football player
Hovhannes Masehyan
1864 – 1931
politician
Mehdi Hashemi
1944 – 1987
politician
Razieh Shirmohammadi
1978 – 2019
Para archer
Hossein Alizadeh
b. 1951
composer
Alireza Shojaian
b. 1988
painter
Delara Darabi
1986 – 2009
painter
Baqer Khan
1862 – 1916
politician
Ebrahim Afsharpour
b. 1930
boxer
Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai
1842 – 1920
Islamic jurist
Mohammad Ali Vakili
b. 1965
politician
Yousef Seyyedi
b. 1996
association football player
Ahmad Shariatzadeh
b. 2002
association football player
Pouya Sarai
b. 1983
composer
Hamid Mosadegh
1940 – 1998
poet
Fakhri Khorvash
1929 – 2023
actor
Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad
1975 – 1999
politician
Ebrahim Rahimian
b. 1981
athletics competitor
Maryam Behrouzi
1945 – 2012
politician
Al-Nayrizi
865 – 922
mathematician
DJ Aligator
b. 1975
disc jockey
Behnam Tashakkor
b. 1977
actor
Hamed Shakernejad
b. 1983
Qari
Neda Hassani
1977 – 2003
Ali Tabatabaee
b. 1973
singer
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
1945 – 2007
chemical engineer
Amir Noori
b. 1996
association football player
Arash Borhani
b. 1983
association football player
Ali Sina
Mehdi Azar
1901 – 1994
politician
Raheleh Filsoofi
b. 1975
ceramicist
Esmat Dowlatshahi
1905 – 1995
Sa'id Hormozi
1897 – 1976
musician
Khosrow Golsorkhi
1944 – 1974
translator
Morteza Sarmadi
politician
Iraj Malekpour
b. 1940
physicist
Sohrab Pournazeri
b. 1982
musician
Shabnam Parvaresh
b. 1983
composer
Armina Sadeghian
b. 2002
sport shooter
Hossein Abdi
b. 1967
association football player
Haidar Khan
Mohsen Mehralizadeh
b. 1956
politician
Mohammad Javad Rahimi
b. 1986
association football player
Youcef Nadarkhani
b. 1977
pastor
Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
b. 1959
politician
Mohammad-Ali Angaji
1897 – 1984
politician
Ahsanollah Shirkavand
b. 1981
volleyball player
Dariush Borbor
b. 1934
architect
Mohsen Taheri
b. 1968
coach
Mohammad Reza Saket
b. 1952
businessperson
Hossein Rouhani
b. 1983
karateka
Javad Maheri
b. 1983
association football player
Naser Albokat
association football player
Alireza Jamshidi
judge
Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah
politician
Mohammad Javad Kolivand
b. 1967
politician
Zari Khoshkam
1947 – 2024
actor
Gholam Khiabany
media scholar
Ahmad Tousi
1947 – 2023
association football player
Zahra Bani Yaghoub
1980 – 2007
physician
Mohammad Javad Zarif
b. 1960
career diplomat
Hamid Notghi
1920 – 1999
poet
Ghazaleh Chalavi
mountaineer
Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi
b. 1938
cleric
Siamak Nemati
b. 1994
association football player
Minoo Moshiri
linguist
Hamidreza Garshasbi
Hossein Namazi
b. 1944
politician
Rahim Mirakhori
b. 1956
association football player