Iran
People of this nationality
Behrouz Souresrafil
1951 – 2022
journalist
Mansoureh Behkish
human rights defender
Sepehr Heidari
b. 1980
association football player
Vali Khorsandi
b. 1980
association football player
Hossein Amanat
b. 1942
architect
Hamid Hajizadeh
1950 – 1998
teacher
Fatemeh Mojallal
b. 2002
rower
Mohammad-Hossein Dadras
military officer
Babak Karimi
b. 1960
film editor
Seyed Ali Tabatabaei
1983 – 2015
actor
Ali Davoudi
b. 1999
weightlifter
Mohammad Mir
b. 1982
television presenter
Qani
1898 – 1965
poet
Mahdi Pakdel
b. 1980
actor
Noreen Motamed
b. 1967
painter
Shabnam K. Ghazi
b. 1971
mixed-media artist
Ali Reza Sabahi Fard
b. 1963
military leader
Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
1926 – 2016
judge
Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani
b. 1971
politician
Sirvan Khosravi
b. 1982
singer
Toofan
1946 – 2012
composer
Khatib al-Islam Sadrnejad
b. 1951
scientist
Bahram Ghassemi
b. 1956
journalist
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
1931 – 2014
politician
Hengameh Mofid
b. 1956
film director
Saeid Aboutaleb
b. 1969
documentary filmmaker
Shaghayegh Cyrous
b. 1987
installation artist
Daleho Irandust
b. 1998
association football player
Hassan Shateri
1962 – 2013
military leader
Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
b. 1981
actor
Younes Shokrkhah
b. 1957
journalist
Djahanguir Riahi
1914 – 2014
art dealer
Mohammad Hadi Saravi
b. 1997
amateur wrestler
Reza Naji
1923 – 1979
military personnel
Behnam Ehsanpour
b. 1992
amateur wrestler
Nezamoddin Kiaie
1943 – 2026
sound recordist
Sahar Goldoost
b. 1986
actor
Saeed Sohrabpour
b. 1943
mechanical engineer
Milad Rakhshan
b. 1986
association football player
Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh
1911 – 1996
linguist
Mohsen Qomi
b. 1960
politician
Jamshid Amouzegar
1923 – 2016
politician
Zohreh Ghaeni
b. 1954
writer
Mohammad Reza Khorsandnia
b. 1982
association football player
Malek Shojaee
b. 1982
editor
Sina Vahedi
b. 2001
basketball player
Mehrab Shahrokhi
1944 – 1993
association football player
David Grenville Sellwood
1925 – 2012
military flight engineer
Soltan-Ali Vazir-e Afkham
1862 – 1914
politician
Sorayya Aghaei Hajiagha
b. 1996
badminton player
Alireza Ezzati
b. 1987
association football player
Moustafa Chichi
b. 1969
sport cyclist
Hadi Kazemi
b. 1976
actor
Abolfazl Salabi
1924 – 2020
basketball player
Sanatruces II of Parthia
monarch
Mohsen Shekari
1999 – 2022
rapper
Mohsen Rezaee
b. 1954
politician
Haj Mirza Sayyed Ali Aqa Qadhi Tabatabai Tabrezi
1866 – 1947
mystic
Alireza Nadi
b. 1980
volleyball player
Kamaladin Pirmoazzen
b. 1959
politician
Babak Jabbari
b. 1994
association football player
Ali Hashemi
1961 – 1988
military personnel
Akbar Eftekhari
1943 – 2017
association football player
Leila Arab
b. 1971
disc jockey
Moein Rahimi
b. 1989
volleyball player
Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi
b. 1941
librarian
Ruhollah Bazgandi
military personnel
Akbar Poudeh
1932 – 2012
sport cyclist
Gholamali Soleimani
b. 1946
entrepreneur
Shahab Karami
b. 1991
association football player
Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
b. 1966
linguist
Katayoon Shahabi
b. 1968
film producer
Louisa Aslanian
1906 – 1945
writer
Piryones
poet
Jafar Salmasi
1918 – 2000
weightlifter
Mehdi Ansari
b. 1994
swimmer
Bahareh Hedayat
b. 1981
activist
Lily Farhadpour
journalist
Qotbeddin Sadeqi
b. 1952
theatre director
Masoud Hajji-Zavareh
b. 1988
taekwondo athlete
Rahman Davoudi
b. 1988
volleyball player
Hadi Habibinejad
b. 1995
association football player
Killing of Reza Ghanbari
2008 – 2026
Ali Jannati
b. 1949
politician
Nasrollah Abdollahi
b. 1951
association football player
Hossein Fatemi
b. 1980
photographer
Qazi Beiza'i
judge
Sattar
b. 1949
singer
Abd al-Samad
1500 – 1593
painter
Sadollah Nasiri Gheydari
b. 1959
politician
Shahriar Shirvand
b. 1991
association football player
Mohamed Dadkhah
1910 – 1980
philatelist
Mohammad Shirvani
b. 1973
film director
Akbar Sadeghi
b. 1985
association football player
Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh
b. 1945
politician
Samira Makhmalbaf
b. 1980
film director
Atena Farghadani
b. 1987
painter
Rasoul Mirtoroghi
b. 1984
association football player
Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
b. 1928
akhoond
Emadeddin Baghi
b. 1962
journalist