List of Iranian Kurds

Arts and entertainment

Music

Composers and instrumentalists

• Rokneddin Mokhtari – military personnel, musician and violinist.
• Ghader Abdollahzadeh – woodwind and Kurdish traditional musician.
• Bahramji – Kurdish New Age musician.
• Ali Akbar Moradi – composer and singer.
• Seyed Khalil Alinezhad – singer-songwriter and composer.
• Saeed Farajpouri – composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument kamancheh.
• Ardeshir Kamkar – kamancheh player.
• Kayhan Kalhor – kamancheh-setar player and vocal composer.
• Shahriyar Jamshidi – Kamancheh player and composer; Kurdish-Iranian Canadian.>

Visual arts

Calligraphers

• Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor – calligrapher.

Filmmaking

Actors

• Nozar Azadi – comedian and actor.
• Parvaneh Massoumi – actress.
• Faramarz Sedighi – actor.
• Farhad Aslani – actor.
• Saeed Aghakhani – actor.
• Hootan Shakiba – actor.
• Navid Mohammadzadeh – actor.
• Neda Ghasemi – actress.
• Minoo Sharifi – actress.
• Navid Pourfaraj – actor.
• Ali Shadman – actor.

  Directors

• Ghotbeddin Sadeghi – theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor.
• Bahman Ghobadi – film director.
• Jamil Rostami – film director.
• Loghman Khaledi – film director.
• Shahram Mokri – film director and screenwriter.
• Keywan Karimi – film director.

Painters, photographers and cartoonists

• Hadi Ziaoddini – sculpture and painter.
• Bahram Kalhornia – contemporary painter, graphic designer and writer.
• Bahar Movahed Bashiri – caricaturist, singer and Persian classical musician.
• Hiwa Pashaei – painter, photographer and calligrapher.
• Ebrahim Alipoor – photographer.

Branches of science

Formal science

• Caucher Birkar – mathematician and university professor.
• Arezu Jahani-Asl physician, neurobiologist and research scientist in Canada

Social science

• Sharafkhan Bidlisi – Safavid Iranian historian.
• Nur Ali Elahi – spiritual thinker, musician, writer, philosopher and jurist.
• Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi – Safavid-Mughal Kurdish noble, historian and biographer.
• Mohammad Mokri – linguist, diplomat and writer.
• Abdurrahman Sharafkandi – writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator.
• Amir Hassanpour – social scientist.
• Saleh Nikbakht – lawyer, advocate and human rights activist.
• Abbas Vali – political and social theorist.
• Hamid Reza Ardalan – musicologist and ethnomusicologist.
• Hashim Ahmadzadeh – social scientist.

Economy

• Omid Kordestani – businessman; Iranian Kurdish-American.

Law and jurisdiction

Political prisoners

• Abdolreza Rajabi – political activist.
• Loghman Moradi – executed political prisoner
• Zaniar Moradi – executed political prisoner.
• Farhad Vakili – political activist.

Literature

Literary scholars

• Mohammad Ghazi – literary translator.
• Brayim Younisi – literary translator, novelist and writer.

Fiction writers

• Ali Ashraf Darvishian – short story writer, novelist and scholar of Kurdish folklore studies.
• Ata Nahai – short story writer and novelist.
• Ava Homa, writer and educator
• Laleh Khadivi – novelist and filmmaker.

Non-fiction writers

• Baba Mardoukh Rohanee – Islamic academic and writer.
• Karim Hisami – writer, literary translator and KDP member.

Poets

• Shaykh Mustafa Takhtayi – Ardalani Kurdish poet.
• Ahmad Bag Komasi – Ardalani Kurdish poet.
• Mastoureh Ardalan – Kurdish poet, historian, and writer.
• Edeb – Kurdish poet.
• Nari – Kurdish poet.
• Abolqasem Lahouti – poet and political activist;Iranian-Soviet, maternal Kurdish.
• Qani – Kurdish poet.
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi – poet and lyricist.
• Shami Kermashani – poet.
• Suwara Ilkhanizada – Kurdish poet and writer.
• Jalal Malaksha – Kurdish poet, writer, political activist, translator and journalist.
• Jila Hosseini – Kurdish poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer.

Media

Journalists

• Hemin Mukriyani – journalist, poet, translator and literary critic.
• Roya Toloui – democracy activist and journalist.
• Rahim Rashidi – journalist and correspondent of Kurdistan TV and Kurdistan 24.
• Behrouz Boochani – journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer.
• Ardeshir Pashang – journalist, politician, researcher and human rights defender.

Military

• Aziz Khan Mokri – Qajar military officer.
• Amar Khan Shikak – military leader and Shikak tribal chief.
• Shahram Irani – military officer and navy commander.

Politics and government

Activists

• Nasser Fahimi – Human rights defender and political prisoner.
• Farzad Kamangar – executed teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker.
• Sherko Moarefi – activist and political prisoner.
• Ehsan Fatahian – activist and torture victim.
• Bahare Alavi – human rights activist, women's rights defender and blogger.
• Zara Mohammadi – – cultural activist.
• Habibollah Latifi – activist and political prisoner.
• Sarou Ghahremani – political prisoner.

Officials

Religion

Islamic figures

• Abdolqader Zahedi – Islamic jurist and political leader.
• Ezaddin Husseini – Islamic jurist and political leader.
• Assad Sheikholeslami Sanandaji – Islamic scholar and professor.
• Ahmad Moftizadeh – Islamic scholar.

Yarsanis

• Sultan Sahak – religious leader who reformed the modern beliefs of Yarsanism.
• Hajj Nematollah – Yarsani mystic and religious leader.

Sports

Individual sports

Combat sports

• Bijan Batmani – boxer.
• Makwan Amirkhani – mixed martial artist, Iranian Kurdish-Finnish.

  Wrestling

• Sardar Pashaei –
• Saman Tahmasebi –
• Yousef Ghaderian –

  Weightlifting

• Kianoush Rostami – strength athlete and Olympic weightlifter.

Paralympic athletes

• Siamand Rahman – Paralympic powerlifter.

Team sports

• Homa Hosseini – rower.

Basketball

• Hamed Sohrabnejad –