List of Persian-language poets and authors
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
6th century
From the 7th to the 8th centuries
- Bassam Kurd, poet
- Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi, poet
10th century
- Ferdowsi فردوسی
- Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر
- Rudaki رودکی
- Abu Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی
- Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج
- Unsuri عنصری
- Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی
- Asjadi عَسجَدی
- Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی
- Isma'il Muntasir اسماعیل منتصیر
- Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی
- Abu Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی
- Abu Tahir Khosrovani
- Qabus, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس المعالی
- Ayyuqi عیوقی
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری
- Shahid Balkhi شهید بلخی
- Daqiqi دقیقی
- Ma'ruf Balkhi معروف بلخی
- Munjik Tirmidhi
- Li Shunxian a concubine of the Chinese Emperor Wang Yan
- Abu Taieb Mosabi
- Aghaji Bukhari
- Abbas Rabenjani
- Abul'Ala Shushtari
- Abul'Muid Balkhi
- Abdullah Junaidi
- Istighnayi Nishaburi
- Badi' Balkhi
- Bashar Marghazi
- Bondar Razi
- Bolmasal Bukhari
- Hakak Marghazi
- Khabazi Nishaburi
- Khusravi Sarkhasi
- Runaqi Bukhari
- Sepehri Bukhari
- Shakir Jalab
- Tahir Chagani
- Tayan Zhazkhay
- Amareh Marvazi
- Qamari Jurjani
- Lokeri
- Abu Ahmad Kateb
- Masoudi Marvazi
- Manteqi Razi
11th century
- Abu Ishaq of Kazerun, Master Sufi poet ابواسحاق کازرونی
- al-Biruni
- Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani
- Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami
- Asad Gorgani
- Omar Khayyám, poet
- Sanai, poet حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود بن آدم سنایی غزنوی
- Hujviri d1073
- Abdul Qadir Gilani
- Manuchihri
- Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
- Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi
- Nasir Khusraw, traveler, writer and poet
- Baba Tahir Oryan
- Rabi'ah Quzdari
- Abu-al-faraj Runi
- Keykavus Eskandar
- Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama
- Azraqi
- Masud Sa'd Salman
- Uthman Mukhtari
- Qatran Tabrizi
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Asadi Tusi اسدی طوسی
- Imam Muhammad Ghazali
- Abhari
- Uthman Mukhtari
- Athir al-Din Akhsikati
- Kafarak Ghaznavi
- Labibi
12th century
- Suzani Samarqandi, poet شمسالدینْ محمد بن علی
- Adib Sabir ادیب صابر
- Am'aq عَمْعَق بخارائی
- Anvari انوری اَبیوَردی
- Farid al-Din Attar, poet فریدالدین عطار نیشابوری/نیشاپوری
- Nizami, poet نظامی
- Sheikh Ruzbehan شیخ روزبهان
- Abdul Qadir Gilani عبدالقادر گیلانی
- Khaqani Shirvani خاقانی شروانی
- Sanaayi سنایی
- Sheikh Ahmad Jami
- Muhammad Aufi
- Falaki Shirvani
- Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
- Sanai Ghaznavi, poet
- Mu'izzi
- Ibn Balkhi
- Uthman Mukhtari
- Mahsati, poet مَهْسَتی گنجوی
- Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat خواجه رشیدالدین وَطْواط
- Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi نظامی عروضی سمرقندی
13th century
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, poet
- Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
- Sultan Walad
- Saadi, poet
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
- Shams Tabrizi
- Sheikh Ruzbehan
- Zahed Gilani
- Khwaju Kermani
- Mahmoud Shabestari
- Najmeddin Razi
- Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo
- Muhammad Aufi
- Qazi Beiza'i
- Nizari Quhistani
- Awhadi Maraghai
- Humam-i Tabrizi1213/14 – 1289)
- Auhaduddin Kermani
- Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
- Ata-Malik Juvayni
- Nasreddin
- Abu Tawwama
- Kamal al-Din Isfahani
- Afdal al-Din Kashani
- Badr Jajarmi
- Basati Samarqandi
- Keykavus Razi
14th century
- Hafez, poet حافظ
- Amir Khusrow, امیر خسرو دهلوی
- Shah Shoja Mozaffari شاه شجاع مظفری
- Ubayd Zakani عبید زاکانی
- Jahan Malek Khatun جهان ملک خاتون
- Pur-Baha Jami پور بهار جامی
- Assar Tabrizi عصار تبریزی
- Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet
- Padishah Khatun پادشاه خاتون
- Kamal Khujandi, poet, Sufism
- Shahin Shirazi
- Junayd Shirazi
- Qasem-e Anvar
- Saif Farghani
- Imadaddin Nasimi
- Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez
- Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
- Shah Nimatullah Wali
- Maghrebi Tabrizi
- Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar
- Salman Savaji
- Sharaf al-Din Ram
- Heydar Shirazi
- Muin al-Din Jovaini
- Junayd Shirazi
- Shahab al-Din Bidavoni
- Naser Bejehie
- Imad al-Din Fazlavi
- Shams al-Din Kashani
- Imad Kermani
- Nizam al-Din Qari
- Jalal al-Din Atighi Tabrizi
- Jalal Tabib Shirazi
- Jalal Azod
- Hassan Mutekalim
- Rukn Davi-Dar
- Jalal Ukkashe
15th century
- Jami, poet
- Ahli Shirazi
- Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet
- Azari Tusi 1380–1462)
- Badriddin Hilali, poet
- Emrani, poet
- Fuzûlî, poet
- Amir Shahi Sabzevari
- Esmat Bukhari
- Sharaf al-Din Sabzevari
- Hamedi Isfahani
- Qbuli Heravi
- Katebi Tarshizi
- Asefi Heravi
- Zana Lorestani
- Vahid Tabrizi
- Fahmi Astarabadi
16th century
- Aghdasi Mashhadi
- Sheikh Bahaii, scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet
- Vahshi Bafghi, poet
- Hatefi, nephew of the poet Jami
- Taleb Amoli
- Baba Fighani Shirazi
- Naw'i Khabushani
- 'Orfi Shirazi
- Faizi
- Mohtasham Kashani
- Nahapet Kuchak
- Teimuraz I of Kakheti
- Qazi Nurullah Shustari
- Firishta
- Muhammad Zuhuri
- Rafi al-Din Shirazi
- Sanai Mashhadi
- Hazegh Gilani
- Sahabi Astarabadi
- Sharaf Jahan Qazvini
- Shahidi Qumi
- Ghazali Mashhadi
- Fekri Jameh-Baf
- Ghasemi Gonabadi
- Lesani Shirazi
- Meili Mashhadi
- Naziri Nishapuri
- Vali Dashtbayazi
- Darvishi Dahaki
- Nizam Astarabadi
- Heyrati Tuni
- Khari Tabrizi
- Khajeghi Enayat
- Sabri Isfahani
- Tarhi Shirazi
- Shuja Kor
- Kami Qazvini
- Hejri Qumi
- Heydar Kuliche-Paz
- Abdi Beg Shirazi
- Kahi Kabuli
- Malek Qommi
- Qeidi Shirazi
- Makhdum Sharifi Shirazi
- Nizam al-Din Hashimi
- Gharari Gilani
- Hisabi Natanzi
- Mirak Salehi
- Serfi Savaji
- Hozuri Qumi
- Gheirati Shirazi
- Voghui Nishaburi
- Vahshi Jushghani
- Voghui Tabrizi
- Shuaib Jushghani
- Heydar Muamayi
- Haydari Tabrizi
- Fosuni Yazdi
- Ali Komrehyi
- Malek Qomi
- Hafiz Tanish, historian and poet
17th century
- Saib Tabrizi, poet
- Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini
- Kalim Kashani
- Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani
- Shah Abdur Rahim, Indian religious scholar
- Jamila Isfahani, poet
- Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Indian religious leader
- Teimuraz I of Kakheti
- Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil
- Guru Gobind Singh - Composed the famous Zafarnamah
- Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi
- Razi Danesh Mashadi
- Bhai Nand Lal
- Gani Kashmiri
- Mir Razi Artimani
- Kamali
- Munir Lahori
- Zolali Khansari
- Najib Kashani
- Naziri Nishapuri
- Saber Kermani
- Tasir Tabrizi
- Qasem Mashhadi
- Masih Kashani
- Vaez Qazvini
- Rafi Mashhadi
- Qudsi Mashhadi
- Zafarkhan Hasan
- Mir Nejat Isfhani
- Elahi Hamadani
- Shifa'i Isfahani
18th century
- Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi, Indian religious scholar
- Azar Bigdeli
- Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali Hindu reformer
- Hazin Lahiji
- Izzatullah Bengali, author
- Hatef Esfehani, poet
- Effat Nasabeh, poet
- Lutfullah Tabrizi
- Zana Lorestani
- Mirza [Asadullah Khan Ghalib]
- Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
- I'tisam-ud-Din, Bengali diplomat
- Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani, Bengali religious scholar and poet
- Vahdat Kermanshahi
- Vesal Shirazi
- Abbas Foroughi Bastami
- Yaghma Jandaqi
- Neshat Esfahani
- Sadat Kazeruni
- Kosar Hamedani
- Sabahi Bigdeli
- Nategh Makrani
19th century
- Agha Ahmad Ali, Bengali poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār محمدتقی بهار
- Mastoureh Kordestani
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist and journalist علیاکبر دهخدا
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب
- Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, poet, author, scholar
- Mirzadeh Eshghi میرزاده عشقی
- Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat, poet and historian رضاقلی خان هدایت
- Iraj Mirza ایرج میرزا
- Nassakh, Bengali poet
- Mohammad Taqi Sepehr
- Ebrahim Poordavood, ancient languages, Avesta ابراهیم پور داوود
- Aref Qazvini عارف قزوینی
- Hassan Roshdieh حسن رشدیه
- Siyyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi, founder of Babism, سید علیمحمد شیرازی
- Táhirih Qorrat al-'Ayn, Babi poet and theologian
- Mirza Husayn 'Ali Nuri, founder of the Baha’i Faith
- Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی
- Khwaja Ahsanullah, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet
- Khwaja Muhammad Afzal, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet
- Sheyda Gerashi, poet and Panegyrist
- Qaani قاآنی
- Faiz Muhammad Kateb, known as Afghanistan's father of historians
- Abd al-Hosayn Ayati, poet, orator, author, and historian
- Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, Bengali poet
20th century
- Ali Abdolrezaei
- Abdolali Dastgheib, author
- Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik-Persian poet
- Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher
- Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet
- Adib Boroumand, poet, politician, and lawyer
- Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, writer and translator
- Ahmad Kasravi
- Ahmad NikTalab, poet and linguist
- Ahmad Raza Khan
- Ahmad Shamlou, poet
- Akram Fahimian, poet
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
- Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer
- Ali Shariati, sociologist and theologian
- Aref Qazvini
- Asad Gulzoda, poet
- Aziz Motazedi, novelist
- Bahman Sholevar, writer and poet
- Bahram Bayzai, playwright
- Bijan Elahi, poet and translator
- Bilal Yousaf, writer, critic
- Bozor Sobir, poet
- Bozorg Alavi, writer
- Dariush Shayegan
- Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
- Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer
- Esmail Khoi, Poet
- Ezzat Goushegir
- Farzona, poet
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour
- Fereidoon Tavallali, poet
- Fereshteh Ahmadi, writer
- Fereydoun Moshiri, poet
- Forough Farrokhzad, poet
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh, novelist
- Gholam Hossein Saedi, writer
- Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
- Gholamreza Rouhani, Poet
- Gulnazar Keldi, Tajik poet
- Hamid Mosadegh
- Hassan Roshdieh
- Hassan Kamshad
- Heydar Raqabi
- Heydar Yaghma
- Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada
- Houshang Golshiri
- Houshang Moradi Kermani
- Hushang Ebtehaj
- Ibrahim Ali Tashna, Bengali poet
- Ismail Alam, Bengali poet
- Iraj Mirza, poet
- Iraj Pezeshkzad, novelist
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
- Zhaleh Amouzegar
- Kazim Yazdani, author and historian
- Khalilullah Khalili, poet and writer
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Loiq Sher-Ali, poet from Tajikistan
- Leila Kasra, poet and lyricist
- Mahbod Seraji, Writer
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
- Mahmoud Melmasi - Azarm, poet
- Majid Adibzadeh, writer and scholar
- Majid M. Naini writer, poet, translator, speaker
- Mana Aghaee, poet, author and translator
- Manouchehr Atashi
- Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
- Maryam Jafari Azarmanipoet, critic
- Massoud Behnoud, journalist
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
- Mina Assadi, poet, author, journalist, and songwriter
- Mina Dastgheib, poet
- Rosa Jamali, poet, playwright, translator
- Hamideh Jahangiri, Author, translator, Academic
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Mirzo Tursunzoda, Tajik poet
- Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer and novelist
- Mohammad Hejazi, novelist and playwright
- Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet
- Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
- Mohammad Mokhtari
- Mohammad Reza Ali Payam (Haloo), poet
- Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
- Mohammad-Amin Riahi, scholar and writer
- Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
- Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright
- Morteza Motahhari, theologian
- Muhammad Faizullah, Bengali poet
- Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani poet
- Nader Naderpour, poet
- Nasrollah Mardani, poet
- Nima Yushij, poet
- Nosrat Rahmani, poet
- Parvin E'tesami, poet
- Qasim Akhgar, Author, journalist and political activist
- Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet
- Reza Baraheni, poet and critic
- Reza Khoshnazar, novelist
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
- Reza Shirmarz, playwright, author, translator, poet and essayist
- Roya Hakakian, poet, writer, journalist
- Saboktakin Saloor, novelist
- Sadegh Choubak, writer
- Sadegh Hedayat
- Sadriddin Ayni, Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history.
- Saeed Nafisi, scholar, poet and writer
- Sahar Delijani, novelist
- Samad Behrangi, writer
- Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, writer
- Seyed Ali Salehi, poet
- Sems Kesmai, poet
- Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist
- Shams Langeroodi, poet
- Shamim Hashimi, poet and writer
- Shapour Bonyad, poet
- Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator
- Siavash Kasraie poet
- Simin Behbahani, poet
- Simin Daneshvar, writer
- Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet
- Sohrab Sepehri, poet and painter
- Syed Waheed Ashraf, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic
- Syed [Abid Ali Abid] Poet and Author
- Temur Zulfiqorov, Tajik poet
- Varand, poet
- Yadollah Royaee, poet
- Abdolhamid Ziaei poet, writer
- Hossein Rajabian, Playwright
- Yasmina Reza, poet
- Zoya Pirzad novelist
- Niloufar Talebi
- Sholeh Wolpé poet, playwright
- Iraj Zebardast, poet