Iran
People of this nationality
Barbad Golshiri
b. 1982
conceptual artist
Ehsan Moradian
b. 1994
association football player
Moslem Niadoost
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Mohammad Khadem
1935 – 2020
amateur wrestler
Jafar Bazri
b. 1987
association football player
Alireza Sabouri
b. 1993
association football player
Rostam Giv
1888 – 1980
politician
Farinaz Koushanfar
computer scientist
Arsham Parsi
b. 1980
human rights defender
Hassan Joveireh
1956 – 2025
actor
Hadi Mirmiran
1945 – 2006
architect
Foad Mostafa Soltani
1948 – 1979
politician
Abdolqader Zahedi
1907 – 2005
politician
Benyamin Faraji
b. 2009
table tennis player
Keyvan Khosrovani
1938 – 2026
fashion designer
Reza Afshari
historian
Javad Alizadeh
b. 1953
caricaturist
Golnar Servatian
b. 1977
cartoonist
Mirza Rida Quli Shari'at-Sanglaji
1892 – 1944
akhoond
Mir Saeed Molavian
b. 1989
film actor
Dariush Shayegan
1935 – 2018
philosopher
Rıza Sarraf
b. 1983
entrepreneur
Hossein Pakdel
b. 1959
playwright
Noosheen Hashemi
entrepreneur
Saed Hadadian
b. 1965
singer
Shahrbanoo Mansourian
b. 1986
wushu practitioner
Nasrin Moghanloo
b. 1968
actor
Amin Jahan Alian
b. 1991
association football player
Azar Nafisi
b. 1948
writer
Sadegh Hedayat
1903 – 1951
writer
Agha Zia Addin Araghi
1861 – 1942
Islamic jurist
Maryam Ebrahimi
b. 1976
documentary filmmaker
Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei
1914 – 1979
ulema
Keyvan Shovir
b. 1985
muralist
Amir Khalifeh-Asl
b. 1979
association football player
Fakhri Golestan
1925 – 2012
translator
Touraj Daryaee
b. 1967
historian
Amir Nojan
b. 1980
Mahnaz Zokaee
b. 1989
association football referee
Ali Khan Vali
1845 – 1902
photographer
Bahador Molaei
b. 1992
weightlifter
Sara Ahmadi
b. 1978
composer
Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
b. 1983
basketball player
Kami Asgar
b. 1965
artist
Reza Shekari
b. 1998
association football player
Munjik Tirmidhi
poet
Farhad Aslani
b. 1966
actor
Saeed Zeinali
b. 1976
student
Muḥammad Mīrzā Kāshif al-Salṭanah
1862 – 1929
diplomat
Hamed Behdad
b. 1973
actor
Ari Ben-Menashe
b. 1951
writer
Mohammad Montazeri
1944 – 1981
politician
Mahmoud Koushan
1932 – 2021
film director
Mohammad Reza Barari
b. 1988
weightlifter
Heidar Abbasi
1943 – 2026
teacher
Mirza Mohammad Hussein Seifi Qazvini
1868 – 1935
calligrapher
Mojtaba Bijan
b. 1987
association football player
Ehsan Hosseini
b. 1998
association football player
Abdolrahim Mousavi
1960 – 2026
military leader
Mahmoud Torabinejad
b. 1950
academic
Hajir Darioush
1938 – 1995
filmmaker
Sattar Hashemi
b. 1976
computer scientist
Akram Mohammadi
b. 1958
actor
Hassan Rahnavardi
1927 – 2023
politician
Mohammad Hosein Farhanghi
b. 1961
politician
Seyed Kazem Noor Mofidi
b. 1940
Ghader Abdollahzadeh
1925 – 2009
music artist
Mostafa Naeijpour
b. 1993
association football player
Asghar Aghamohammadi
b. 1951
scientist
Alireza Korangy
b. 1969
literary critic
Saeed Lotfi
b. 1981
association football player
Mohsen Delir
b. 1988
association football player
Sajjad Abbasi
b. 1990
athlete
Abbas Jamshidifar
b. 1980
stage actor
Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi
1940 – 2023
politician
Adel Arghand
b. 2001
association football player
Mohsen Yazdani
b. 1969
Hossein Sadaghiani
1903 – 1982
association football player
Saman Yasin
b. 1995
rapper
Vahid Tarokh
b. 1967
mathematician
Milad Nouri
b. 1986
association football player
Nazanin Ahmadi
b. 1986
actor
Hadis Najafi
2000 – 2022
designer
Muhammad Aqa-Kermani
b. 1701
scientist
Avetis Sultan-Zade
1888 – 1938
economist
Freydoon Shahidi
b. 1947
mathematician
Mansour Bahrami
b. 1956
tennis player
Mohammad Fazlhashemi
b. 1961
historian
Mojtaba Shaban
b. 1987
volleyball player
Ebrahim Javadi
b. 1943
amateur wrestler
Azar Hekmat Shoar
1935 – 1974
actor
Soroush Saeidi
b. 1991
association football player
Faramarz Sedighi
b. 1949
actor
Javad Hamidi
1918 – 2002
painter
Ali Abdollahzadeh
b. 1993
association football player
Mehrdad Ghanbari
b. 1989
association football player
Ali Akbar Ghoreyshi
b. 1928
politician
Hamid Jasemian
1936 – 2021
association football player
Aryan Gholami
b. 2001
chess player
Amir Mohammad Houshmand
b. 2000
association football player