List of Iranians

This is an alphabetic list of notable people from Iran or its historical predecessors.

In the news

Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran
Ebrahim Raisi, former president of Iran, former Chief Justice of Iran. Died in a famous helicopter crash.
Hassan Rouhani, former president of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former politician
Qasem Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force
Ali Larijani, former Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, former Mayor of Tehran, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
Ali Dizaei, senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist in the world, telecommunication entrepreneur and namesake of the Ansari X Prize
Bahar Soomekh, Iranian-American actor
Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah of Iran, crown prince in exile.
Shirin Ebadi, recipient of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political
Hossein Ronaghi, Iranian human rights activist and bloggerdissident".

Artists

Calligraphists

Cartoonists

Painters, illustrators and sculptors

Photographers

Designers

Architects

Fashion designers

Graphic designers

Industrian designers

Business

Kia Joorabchian, businessman
Hooman Radfar, entrepreneur
Nasser David Khalili, billionaire and art collector

Entertainers

Comedians

Dancers and choreographers

Models, beauty pageant

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, actress, singer-songwriter, human-rights activist; Miss World 2003 first runner-up; Miss Canada 2003
Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
Sahar Biniaz, Miss Universe Canada 2012
Aylar Lie, Iranian-born Norwegian actress, model, singer, former pornographic actress
Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005
Samantha Tajik, Miss Universe Canada 2008

Film actors

Theatre and stage actors

Filmmakers, directors

Filmmakers

Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
Abdolhossein Sepanta
Hassan Hajgozar
Abolfazl Jalili
Ali Ardekani
Ali Hatami
Ali Sajadi Hoseini
Amir Naderi
Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation
Babak Payami
Bahman Farman-Ara
Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
Bahman Maghsoudlou
Bahram Beizai
Behrooz Gharibpoor
Daryush Shokof
Darius Khondji
Darius Mehrjui
Desiree Akhavan, director of Appropriate Behavior
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Emud Mokhberi, Academy Award-nominated director and animator
Esma'il Kooshan
Houman Seyyedi
Iraj Ghaderi
Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
Kamal Tabrizi
Kami Asgar
Kamran Shirdel
Kamshad Kooshan
Khosrow Sinai
Kiarash Anvari
Kiumars Pourahmad
Mahdi Bemani Naeini
Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
Masoud Kimiai
Mehran Modiri
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
Mostafa Keshvari
Nasser Taghvai
Parviz Kimiavi
Hossein Rajabian, director of The Upside-down Triangle
Parviz Nouri
Shabnam Rezaei
Parviz Shahbazi
Parviz Sayyad
Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer
Pouran Derakhshandeh, award-winning film director and producer
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Ramin Farahani
Rasoul Mollagholipour
Reza Badiyi
Sadaf Foroughi
Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
Samuel Khachikian
Sohrab Shahid-Sales
Saeed Roustayi
Tina Gharavi

Theatre and stage directors

Musicians and singers

Classical

Iranian classical traditional

Modern traditional

Western classical

Electronic

Pop

Rap music

Amir Tataloo
Hichkas
Hiphopologist
pishro
Yas
Zedbazi
Shahin Najafi
Bahram
Erfan
Hangi Tavakoli, Multi-Platinum music producer and songwriter

Lyricists

Rock and metal

Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
Angband
Barad
Kiosk

Film score composers

Journalists, media

Bloggers

Journalists

News anchors

Adel Ferdosipour, football announcer, Navad program
Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, correspondent, commentator, anchorman
Mehrdad Kia, T.V. and Radio Broadcaster and executive producer in television and music industry.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fox News
Christiane Amanpour, television journalist, CNN
Fereydoun Farrokhzad, TV personality and opposition figure
Jian Ghomeshi, musician, writer, and former CBC radio broadcaster
Maryam Namazi, news anchor at Al Jazeera
Reza Fazeli, actor, film director and opposition figure
Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and Fox News

Leaders, politicians, activists

This list excludes royalty, which can be accessed by the main article link above.

Historical

Cyrus the Great, Iranian emperor and the founder of Iran
Darius the Great, Iranian emperor
Mithridates I of Parthia, Iranian emperor
Ismail I, Iranian king
Fazlollah Noori, conservative clergy opposing Constitutionalists; hanged
Ghaem Magham Farahani, prime minister
Hassan-e-Sabbah, sectarian political leader
Kaveh the Blacksmith, mythical leader and liberator against the rule of Zahhak, an Arab king
Mahmud Khan Puladeen, senior military general
Maziar, son of Karan; leader of the Persian uprising against Arabs
Mirza Kuchek Khan, constitutionalist leader of Guilan
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi, Nader Shah's Chief Minister
Mirza Reza Kermani, assassinated Nasereddin Shah
Mohammad Khiabani, popular leader during Constitutionalist Revolution
Mohammad Mossadegh, prime minister
Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, prime minister
Nosrat Dowleh Firouz Mirza, provincial governor
Safi-ad-din Ardabili, spiritual founder of Safavid dynasty
Sattar Khan, constitutionalist leader
Heshmat Taleqani, Jangali leader and ally of Mirza Kuchek Khan
Abbas the Great

Modern (post-Qajar)

Pahlavi period

Abdol Hossein Hamzavi, Iranian diplomat, author and representative to the United Nations
Abdol Karim Ayadi, personal physician to Reza Pahlavi
Ali Akbar Davar, minister, and founder of Iran's modern judiciary system
Ali Akbar Siassi, Chancellor of Tehran University
Ali Gholi Ardalan, Iranian ambassador to the US, West Germany and the USSR
Amanullah Jahanbani, senior military leader, and father-in-law of Christiane Amanpour's father
Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi, military leader
Ardeshir Zahedi
Bahram Aryana, military commander
Ahmad Ahmadi, prison interrogator
Farokhroo Parsa, minister of education
George Malek-Yonan, procured a seat in Iran's Parliament for Assyrians as a recognized minority
Hasan Arfa, Army General, Ambassador to Russia, Ambassador to Turkey
Hassan Modarres, member of Parliament
Hassan Pakravan, head of SAVAK
Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État, Minister of Agriculture, Député-Majlis Fars province
Hossein Fardoust, deputy head of SAVAK
Hossein Fatemi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hushang Ansary, Minister of Finance, President of NIOC
Karim Buzarjomehri, Army General military aide of Reza Shah, Mayor of Tehran
Mahmoud Jafarian, head of National Iranian Radio and Television and Pars News Agency
Mahmoud Khayami, industrialist
Mahmud Mahmud, politician
Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian, director of sales for NIOC and Ambassador to Venezuela
Mohammad Ali Keshavarz Sadr, Mossadegh's Deputy and a leader of the Second National Front
Nader Jahanbani, air force general, pilot
Nasser Moghaddam, head of SAVAK
Nematollah Nassiri, head of SAVAK
Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian, Minister of Parliament
Sattareh Farman Farmaian, established first social worker schools in Iran
Sepahbod Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, military leader
Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
Teymour Bakhtiar, head of SAVAK
Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian statesman
Mirza Javad Khan Ameri, Minister, MP

Activists

Mahnaz Afkhami, politician and human rights and women's rights activist, served in the Cabinet of Iran
Neda Agha-Soltan, shot during the 2009 Iranian election protests; her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition
Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, author and pioneer of the Persian women's movement in modern Iran
Shiva Nazar-Ahari, human-rights activist
Elham Modaressi, artist and activist

Prisoners and detainees

Zahra Bani Ameri, physician, died in a prison in Hamedan after being arrested for breaching modesty laws by sitting in a park with her fiancée.
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, photographer, television actress, subject of a 2006 sex tape scandal in Iran
Zeynab Jalaliyan, Kurdish prisoner
Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, who according to the medical examiner was raped, tortured and killed by Iranian officials following her arrest in Iran.
Hossein Rajabian, imprisoned filmmaker
Nasser Fahimi, a doctor from Kurdistan, a political and ideological prisoner
Mehdi Rajabian, imprisoned musician

Literature figures

Authors and poets

See main list: List of Persian-language poets and authors

Adam Khaze, author, researcher
Jamshid Behnam, author
Allameh Dehkhoda, author
Mahyar Amouzegar, author, academic
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, author
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, author
Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, author
Jalal Homaei, author
Parviz Natel-Khanlari, author
Sadeq Hedayat, author
Shahrokh Meskoob, author
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Ali Abdolrezaei, author
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Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, author
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Levon Davidian, academic, author
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Saeed Nafisi, author
Hassan Kamshad, academic, author
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Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author
Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author
Abbas Shafiee, academic, author
Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author
Karim Taie, academic, author
Mohammad Moin, author
Alireza Norouzi, academic, author
Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author
Ahmad Kasravi, author
Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author
Karim Emami, author
Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Sadeq Hedayat
Nazi Safavi
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Shahriyar Mandanipour
Morteza Nesfat, academic, author
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Reza Ghassemi
Zoya Pirzad
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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author
Bahman Forsi
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Houshang Golshiri
Reza Baraheni
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Abbas Maroufi
Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author
Bozorg Alavi
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Majid M. Naini, author
Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author
Mahmoud Matin, academic, author
Bahram Sadeghi
Reza Shapurian, academic, author
Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
Bagher Hejazi, academic, author
Ahmad Mahmoud
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
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Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author
Simin Daneshvar
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Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author
Ebrahim Golestan
Bahman Sholevar
Neda Aria, author, researcher
Safoura Navaei, academic, author
Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author
Sadeq Chubak
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Translators

Abdolmajid Eskandari, academic and translator
Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
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Levon Davidian, academic, author and translator
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Mirtaghi Garousi Farshi, academic, author and translator
Seyed Amir Mirbagheri, academic, author and translator
Abbas Shafiee, academic, author and translator
Nastaran Nafisi-Varcheh, academic, author and translator
Karim Taie, academic, author and translator
Alireza Mobaraki, academic, author and translator
Abolghasem Ghasemi, academic, author and translator
Gholamreza Sarabi, academic, author and translator
Karim Emami, author and translator
Mehdi Khanbani, academic, author and translator
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Morteza Nesfat, academic, author and translator
Mohammad Ghazi, translator
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Hamideh Jahangiri, academic, author and translator
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Alireza. Norouzi, academic, author and translator
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Majid M. Naini, author and translator
Siavash Goudarzvand Chegini, academic, author and translator
Mahmoud Matin, academic, author and translator
Reza Shapurian, academic, author and translator
Bagher Hejazi, academic, author and translator
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Javad Nurbakhsh, academic, author and translator
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Siamak Yaghoubi, academic, author and translator
Safoura Navaei, academic, author and translator
Niloofar Akbarzadeh, academic, author and translator
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Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator

Religious figures

Majlesi
The Báb, Prophet-Founder of the Bábi Faith
Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Centre of the Covenant of the Bahá'í Faith
Ganzibra Jabbar Choheili, head of the Mandaean community in Iran until his death in 2014.
Rishama Salah Choheili, Iranian Mandaean who is the current patriarch and head of the Mandaean community in Australia
Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
Mani, founder of Manichaeism
Mazdak, Religious and Social Reformer
Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master born to Iranian immigrant parents
Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founder of the Druze
Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
Mulla Sadra
Saeed Abedini, Iranian American Christian pastor
Safi-ad-din Ardabili
Salman the Persian
Zahed Gilani
Zayn al-Din Taybadi mystic and Sufi
Zoroaster, prophet
Imam Tawhidi, Australian Imam of Arabian and Iranian descent
Mullah Taha, An Iranian gay Shia cleric

Contemporary Shia Clergy

Contemporary Sunni Clergy

Scientists, scholars, and academics

Explorers and travellers

Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

Linguists

Intellectuals and philosophers

See main list: List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholarsSee main list: List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

Technology and computer engineering

Shahram Dabiri, lead producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia
Amir Taaki, hacker, computer programmer and early developer for Bitcoin
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
Rouzbeh Yassini, Early cable internet innovator.
Habib Zargarpour, visual effects specialist, video game art director

Sports

Mojtaba Abedini, Olympic fencer
Yu Darvish, MLB baseball player for the Texas Rangers
Ariajasuru Hasegawa, professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Nagoya Grampus
Ali Azari Karki, footballer
Sardar Azmoun, soccer player, Iran's National Team player
Farhad Ghaemi, volleyball player, Iran's National Team player
Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
Adel Kolahkaj, football player
Alex Agase, American football player
Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1978)
Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1982)
Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1994)
Ali Parvin, football player and coach
Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic bronze Mmdalist
Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
Taghi Rezaei, bodybuilder
Amir Abedzadeh, Iranian Football Player
Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
Andre Agassi, tennis player; his father was Assyrian-Armenian
Arash Miresmaili, judo world champion
Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
Behdad Salimi, weightlifter World Champion
Bijan Kangarloo, cross-country skier
Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist
Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic gold medalist
Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
Ezzatollah Pourghaz, Iranian-Turkmen Football Player
George Issabeg, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in track & field and pentathlon
Ghasem Dehnavi, football player
Ghasem Hadadifar, football player
Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
Hooman Tavakolian, Sport Diplomat and Lobbyist, Hall of Fame, wrestler
Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic champion
Javad Nekounam, football player
Khodadad Azizi, football player
Kianoush Rostami, weightlifter, world champion
Kimia Alizadeh, Taekwondo player, the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games
Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist
Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
Mehdi Haghizadeh, football player
Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
Mehdi Taremi, Iranian Football Player
Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist
Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
Mohammad Reza Tupchi, wrestler
Rahman Rezaei, football player
Ramin Rezaeian, Iranian Football Player
Rasoul Khadem, Olympic gold medalist wrestler
Reza Shafiei, jiujitsu athlete
Rouzbeh Cheshmi, Iranian Football Player
Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
Shima Mehri, Motorcycle Biker
Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
Shoura Osipov, boxer at 1948 Olympics
T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
Vahid Hashemian, football player
Yossef Karami, Taekwondo world champion, Olympic bronze medalist
Andranik Teymourian, football player
Fereydoon Zandi, football player
Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
Hadi Saei, taekwondo world champion, Olympic gold medalist
Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist
Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
Mika Zibanejad, ice hockey player for Ottawa Senators of the NHL
Daniel Rahimi, ice hockey player for San Jose Sharks of the NHL
Zabihollah Poursheib, Kurdish Iranian Martial Artist
Ali Targholizadeh, Football Executive

Iranian women

''See separate articles: Persian woman and List of Persian women.''

Military

Aviation

Abbas Doran, fighter pilot
Fereidoon Izadseta, Colonel of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
Houshang Seddigh
Jalil Zandi, fighter pilot
Manouchehr Khosrodad, general
Nader Jahanbani, general, distinguished fighter pilot
Shapour Azarbarzin, fighter pilot

Combat Veterans

Generals

War Martyrs

Misc

Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and philanthropist; founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Alireza Azmandian, self-help motivational speaker
Ali Dashti, Iranian senator
Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
Ramezan Hajjimashhadi, lawyer
Eiman Jahangir, first Iranian-born man to be an astronaut
Amin Jazayeri, Iranian Dj and YouTuber in India
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport for many years.
Reza Zadeh, computer science

Afro-Iranians

Abdolreza Barzegari, footballer
Abdul Karim Farhani, Iranian Shia Cleric
Ali Firouzi, footballer and coach
Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Iranians Shia Cleric
Mehrab Shahrokhi, footballer
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Iranian folk band
Dennis Walker, footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United

Iranians of Armenian Descent

Alenush Terian, scientist
Andranik Eskandarian, footballer
Andranik Teymourian, footballer
Andre Agassi, tennis champion
Arefeh Mansouri, Inventor, Designer
Arakel of Tabriz, historian
Armik, flamenco guitarist and composer
Arsen Minasian, philanthropist, pharmacologist
Bogdan Saltanov, painter
Emmanuel Agassi, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran; father of Andre Agassi
Gegard Mousasi, MMA fighter
George Bournoutian, historian
Haik Hovsepian Mehr, bishop and Christian martyr
Raffi, prominent writer
Hayk Bzhishkyan, Soviet military commander
Hovhannes Masehyan, diplomat and translator
Hrant Markarian, politician
Irene Zazians, actress
Ivan Galamian, violin teacher
Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev, jeweler
Khosrow Khan Gorji, influential figure from the Qajar era
Leon Khachatourian, boxer
Loris Tjeknavorian, artist
Marcos Grigorian artist, scholar and actor
Mirza Malkam Khan, modernist and politician
Mkhitar Heratsi, physician
Mushegh Soruri
Ovannes Ohanian, first Iranian film director
Robert Beglarian, MP
Samuel Khachikian, film director
Sarkis Djanbazian, artist
Sayat-Nova, poet
Vartan Gregorian, academic
Varuzh Karim-Masihi, film editor and director
Vigen Derderian, singer
Viguen
Yeprem Khan, revolutionary hero

Iranians of Assyrian descent

Freydun Atturaya, co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party
George Issabeg, 1948 and 1952 Olympics boxer representing Iran
George Malek-Yonan, politician and Champion of Champions of Iran
Issa Benyamin, calligraphist
Ivan Kakovitch, activist and writer
Milton Malek-Yonan, inventor of converted rice
Paulus Khofri, composer and painter
Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
Shoura Osipov, 1948 Olympics boxer representing Iran
Shoura Osipov, Olympic boxer
Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Archbishop of Assyro-Chaldean Metropolitan Tehran

Emigrants and immigrants

Americans in Iran

Howard Baskerville, Iran's first American martyr
Joseph Gallup Cochran, American missionary in Urmia and Seer, translator
Joseph Plumb Cochran, second-generation American missionary in Urmia and medical doctor; established first Iranian medical college
Arthur Millspaugh, Treasury General, Persia
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Persian culture revivalists, scholars of Persian art and architecture history
David Stronach
Elgin Groseclose, Treasury General, Persia
John Limbert
Justin Perkins, first American resident of Iran, Presbyterian missionary in Urmia.
Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia
Richard Nelson Frye, former Harvard University professor, scholar of Persian art history
Samuel M. Jordan, namesake of Jordan Ave. in Tehran
William M. Miller

Germans in Iran

Annemarie Schimmel, German-born Harvard expert on Iranian literature
Wilhelm Wassmuss, German diplomat, spy and military hero, Iran, World War I

Iranians in America

''See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.''

Iranians in Canada

''See article: Iranian-Canadian''

Iranians in Britain

List of British Iranians

Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia

Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt

Tahia Kazem, wife of president Gamal Abdel Nasser; born in Egypt to Iranian parents

Iranians in Pakistan

Nusrat Bhutto, Iranian father and mother moved with family to Karachi, British India, before partition; married Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; father of Benazir Bhutto

Persian Roman Catholic saints

''See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints''