Iran
People of this nationality
Alireza Arafi
b. 1959
Islamic jurist
Saeed Taghizadeh
b. 1988
athlete
Sodeif Badri
b. 1972
politician
Jalal Rafkhaei
b. 1984
association football player
Ahmad Ahmadi
b. 1990
athlete
Kushyar Gilani
971 – 1029
mathematician
Milad Kermani
b. 1992
association football player
Hamid Taqavi
1959 – 2014
military personnel
Touran Agha Khanoum Qajar
1862 – 1916
poet
Kazem al-Haeri
b. 1938
akhoond
Farshad Hashemi
b. 1997
association football player
Javad Kazemian
b. 1981
association football player
Nahid Persson Sarvestani
b. 1960
film director
Abbas Pourkhosravani
b. 1987
association football player
Salar Aghili
b. 1977
singer
Mohammad Bahmanbeigi
1921 – 2010
writer
Sohrab Pakzad
b. 1981
singer
Seyed Amir Parvin Hosseini
b. 1967
film producer
Ebrahim Golestan
1922 – 2023
screenwriter
Rasoul Raeisi
1924 – 2015
weightlifter
Sheys Rezaei
b. 1984
association football player
Sahar Zohouri
b. 1986
darts player
Hamid-Reza Babaei
b. 1975
association football player
Rouhollah Rahmani
b. 1934
athletics competitor
Mohammad Farhadi
b. 1949
physician
Yashar Tohidi
political activist
Jasem Jaderi
1957 – 2020
politician
Zhina Modares Gorji
bookseller
Negar Mottahedeh
b. 1968
journalist
Nasser Hemmasi
chess player
Ashkan Mokhtarian
b. 1985
mixed martial arts fighter
Hanieh Rostamian
b. 1998
sport shooter
Hossein Ronaghi
b. 1985
blogger
Ebrahim Monsefi
1945 – 1997
songwriter
Soheila Golestani
b. 1980
actor
Alireza Enayatzadeh
b. 2004
association football player
Sharli Envieh Takie
Reza Talabeh
b. 1989
association football player
Babak Moghimi
b. 1978
boxer
Hossein Taherzadeh Behzad
1889 – 1962
painter
Mohsen Farahvashi
b. 1947
amateur wrestler
Nasrin Moazami
biologist
Alireza Azizi
1950 – 2021
association football player
Abolfazl Zandi
b. 2005
taekwondo athlete
Ahmad Amin Nazar
1955 – 2026
visual artist
Mohammad Ghazi
b. 1984
association football player
Azita Ghahreman
b. 1962
poet
Abbas Aram
1903 – 1985
diplomat
Mitra Tabrizian
b. 1954
photographer
Mansour Raeisi
1928 – 1980
referee
Behrouz Kamalvandi
politician
Mansour Bagheri
b. 1967
taekwondo athlete
Arsalan Kamkar
b. 1960
musician
Ali Doraghi
b. 1984
basketball player
Alireza Kazeminejad
b. 1994
weightlifter
Omid Samkan
b. 1996
association football player
Masoud Soltanifar
b. 1959
politician
Yassamin Maleknasr
b. 1955
film director
Massoumeh Seyhoun
1934 – 2010
painter
Hamed Sohrabnejad
b. 1983
basketball player
Hossein Ansarian
b. 1944
translator
Homa Hoodfar
b. 1950
anthropologist
Simin Ghanem
b. 1946
singer
Seyyed Javad Zabihi
1931 – 1981
muezzin
Ghorban Tourani
1952 – 2005
priest
Reza Amirkhani
b. 1973
novelist
Saman Razi
b. 1986
powerlifter
Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh
b. 1952
jurist
Reza Bazargan
1931 – 2006
skier
Darvish Khan
1872 – 1926
composer
Abdolreza Rajabi
1962 – 2008
politician
Jamileh
1946 – 1990
actor
Fatemeh Soltani
2007 – 2025
Turan Bahrami Shahriari
1931 – 2024
poet
Morteza Shams
1928 – 2013
physician
Reza Olfati-Saber
scientist
Araz Dare
b. 1975
musician
Sonia Balassanian
b. 1942
painter
Behnam Afsheh
b. 1983
association football player
Ali-Akbar Ahmadian
b. 1961
politician
Ali Darzi
b. 1959
linguist
Ayyoub Baninosrat
b. 1968
amateur wrestler
Jalaleddin Alimohammadi
b. 1990
association football player
Reza Jafari
b. 1997
association football player
Ali Keykhosravi
b. 1999
association football player
Milad Salehpour
b. 1991
television presenter
Morteza Neydavoud
1900 – 1990
composer
Dariush Hormozi
b. 1975
association football coach
Akbar Motallebizadeh
1963 – 2025
university teacher
Armen Der Kiureghian
b. 1947
civil engineer
Boshra Dastournezhad
b. 1985
model
Rasul Jafarian
b. 1964
historian
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
b. 1969
journalist
Fakhreddin Shadman
1907 – 1967
translator
Houchang Chehabi
b. 1950
historian
Mohammad Ali Shomali
b. 1965
philosopher
Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh
b. 1980
politician
Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard
b. 1950
politician
Asghar Farhadi
b. 1972
film director
Majid Habibi
b. 1981
voice actor