Lista de iraníes

• Ali Khamenei, líder supremo de Irán
• Ebrahim Raisi, presidente de Irán, ex Presidente del Tribunal Supremo de Irán.
• Hassan Rouhani, ex presidente de Irán (2013-2021)
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ex presidente de Irán (2005–2013)
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ex político
• Qasem Soleimani, ex comandante de la Fuerza Quds
• Ali Larijani, ex Presidente del Parlamento de Irán de 2008 a 2020.
• Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, ex alcalde de Teherán, Presidente de la Asamblea Consultiva Islámica
• Ali Dizaei, oficial superior de la Policía Metropolitana de Londres
• Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News Channel analista de problemas extranjeros
• Anousheh Ansari, turista espacial, empresario de telecomunicaciones y homónimo del Premio Ansari X
• Bahar Soomekh, actor iraní-americano
• Camila Batmanghelidjh, fundadora de la organización benéfica infantil de Londres
• Daryush Shokof, artista Maximalismo, director de cine,
• Reza Pahlavi, hijo del depuesto Shah de Irán, príncipe heredero en el exilio.
• Shirin Ebadi, destinatario de 2003 Premio Nobel de la Paz
• Akbar Ganji, periodista y escritor iraní. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political disidente".

• Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
• Abolhassan Etessami
• Mir Emad Hassani
• Seyyyed Jafar Kashfi
• Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
• Mishkín-Qalam
• Jalil Rasouli
• Mehdi Saeedi
• Mir Ali Tabrizi

• Golnar Servatian
• Javad Alizadeh
• Maziyar Bizhani
• Nikahang Kowsar
• Mana Neyestani
• Touka Neyestani

• Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
• Ali Akbar Sadeghi
• Amir Shayesteh Tabar
• Aydin Aghdashloo
• Bahram Soroush
• Daryush Shokof
• Farhad Sadeghi Amini
• Gholamhossein Saber
• Haydar Hatemi
• Hossein Behzad
• Hossein Valamanesh
• Hossein Zenderoudi
• Irán Darroudi
• Jazeh Tabatabai
• Kamal ol-Molk
• Kamaleddin Behzad
• Mahmoud Farshchian
• Mani
• Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
• Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
• Mokarrameh Ghanbari
• Noreen Motamed
• Afshin Naghouni
• Parviz Tanavoli
• Reza Abbasi
• Shahla Aghapour
• Shahla Arbabi
• Shirazeh Houshiary
• Siah Armajani
• Sohrab Sepehri
• Zhaleh Kazemi

• Abbas
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Alfred Yaghobzadeh
• Ali Ghanbari
• Ali Khan Vali
• Jahangir Razmi
• Kaveh Golestan
• Maryam Zandi
• Mitra Tabrizian
• Morteza Avini
• Nader Davoodi
• Nasrollah Kasraian
• Newsha Tavakolian
• Reza Deghati
• Hossein Rajabian
• Sadegh Tirafkan
• Shadi Ghadirian
• Shahram Entekhabi
• Shirana Shahbazi
• Shirin Neshat

• Hossein Amanat
• Kamran Diba
• Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou
• Fariborz Sahba

• Pegah Anvarian
• Bijan
• Shirin Guild
• Arefeh Mansouri
• Behnaz Sarafpour
• Mahla Zamani

• Reza Abedini
• Farshid Mesghali
• Morteza Momayez
• Mehdi Saeedi
• Ghobad Shiva

• Kia Joorabchian, hombre de negocios
• Nasser David Khalilili, billionario and art collector

• Baba Ali, comedia islámica
• Max Amini
• Omid Djalili
• Negin Farsad
• Shahin Jamie
• Maz Jobrani
• Shaparak Khorsandi
• Hadi Khorsandi
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Nasim Pedrad

• Jamileh
• Farzaneh Kaboli, folclórica
• Nima Kiann
• Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folclórico

• Nazanin Afshin-Jam, actriz, cantante-songwriter, activista de los derechos humanos; Miss World 2003 primera corredora; Miss Canadá 2003
• Ramona Amiri, Miss Canadá 2005
• Sahar Biniaz (nacido 1985), Miss Universe Canada 2012
• Aylar Lie (nacida en 1984), actriz noruega, modelo, cantante, ex actriz pornoográfica
• Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europa 2005
• Samantha Tajik (nacida en 1983), Miss Universe Canada 2008

• Akbar Abdi
• Ali Mosaffa
• Ali Nassirian
• Amin Hayaee
• Amirhossein Arman
• Artemis Pebdani
• Azita Hajian
• Azizallah Hamidnejad[fa], Iranian Director
• Azizallah Honoramouz[fa], Actor iraní
• Bahar Soomekh
• Bahram Radan
• Behrouz Vossoughi
• Behzad Farahani
• Bijan Daneshmand
• Bita Farrahi
• Bizhan Emkanian
• Catherine Bell
• Christiane Amanpour
• Daryoush Arjmand
• Daryush Shokof
• Davoud Rashidi
• Delkash
• Ezzatollah Entezami
• Faramarz Gharibian
• Farimah Farjami
• Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
• Golab Adineh
• Golshifteh Farahani
• Googoosh
• Hamed Behdad
• Hedyeh Tehrani
• Homa Rousta
• Homayoun Ershadi
• Jahangir Forouhar
• Jamileh Sheykhi
• Jamshid Mashayekhi
• Kamshad Kooshan
• Kazem HajirAzad
• Khosrow Shakibaee
• Leila Forouhar
• Leila Hatami
• Mahaia Petrosian
• Mahnaz Afshar
• Majid Majidi
• Maz Jobrani
• Mehdi Fat'hi
• Mehdi Hashemi
• Mehran Modiri
• Merila Zarei
• Mohammad Ali Fardin
• Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
• Mohammad Reza Foroutan
• Mohammad Reza Golzar
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
• Navid Mohammadzadeh
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
• Nematollah Aghasi
• Niki Karimi
• Parsa Pirouzfar
• Parviz Fannizadeh
• Parviz Parastouee
• Parviz Sayyad
• Pegah Ahangarani
• Reza Kianian
• Reza Rahardian
• Roxanne Pallett
• Roya Nonahali
• Saeed Rad
• Sarah Shahi
• Shaghayegh Farahani
• Shahab Hosseini
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Sussan Taslimi
• Taraneh Alidousti
• Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
• Asghar Farhadi, ganador de Oscar

• Mehdi Bajestani
• Taha Behbahani
• Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi
• Behzad Farahani
• Shamsi Fazlollahi
• Ali Nassirian
• Hayley Tamaddon
• Kazem HajirAzad
• Ahmad Saatchian
• Mohammad Reza Jozi
• Ramin Karimloo
• Roya Teymourian
• Shiva Boloorian

• Abbas Kiarostami, director de Sabor de cereza
• Abdolhossein Sepanta
• Hassan Hajgozar
• Abolfazl Jalili
• Ali Ardekani
• Ali Hatami
• Ali Sajadi Hoseini
• Amir Naderi
• Asghar Farhadi, director de Una separación
• Babak Payami
• Bahman Farman-Ara
• Bahman Ghobadi, director de Un tiempo para Caballos borrachos
• Bahman Maghsoudlou
• Bahram Beizai
• Behrooz Gharibpoor
• Darius Khondji
• Darius Mehrjui
• Daryush Shokof, director de Siete funcionarios y Irán Zendan
• Desiree Akhavan, director de Comportamiento apropiado
• Ebrahim Hatamikia
• Emud Mokhberi, director y animador de la Academia
• Esma'il Kooshan
• Houman Seyyedi
• Iraj Ghaderi
• Jafar Panahi, director de El Círculo
• Kamal Tabrizi
• Kami Asgar
• Kamran Shirdel
• Kamshad Kooshan
• Khosrow Sinai
• Kiarash Anvari
• Kiumars Pourahmad
• Mahdi Bemani Naeini
• Majid Majidi, director de Hijos del Cielo
• Masoud Kimiai
• Mehran Modiri
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director de Kandahar
• Nasser Taghvai
• Parviz Kimiavi
• Hossein Rajabian, director de El triángulo al revés
• Parviz Nouri
• Shabnam Rezaei
• Parviz Shahbazi
• Parviz Sayyad
• Bob Yari, productor de cine estadounidense de origen iraní
• Pouran Derakhshandeh, galardonado director de cine y productor
• Qodratallah Solh Mirza ’i[fa], Iranian Director
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Ramin Farahani
• Rasoul Mollagholipour
• Reza Badiyi
• Sadaf Foroughi
• Samira Makhmalbaf, directora de A las cinco en la tarde
• Samuel Khachikian
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales
• Saeed Roustayi
• Tina Gharavi

• Akbar Radi
• Bahram Bayzai
• Behrouz Gharibpour
• Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
• Hengameh Mofid
• Hossein Rajabian
• Mohammad Yaghoubi
• Mostafa Oskooyi
• Reza Shirmarz
• Shiva Boloorian

• Abolhasan Saba
• Alireza Eftekhari
• Alinaghi Vaziri
• Dariush Eghbali
• Elaheh
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Homayoun Shajarian
• Hossein Khaje Amiri
• Hossein Tehrani
• Hossein Alizadeh
• Jalal Zolfonun
• Javad Maroofi
• Kamkarha
• Kayhan Kalhor
• Mahmoud Zoulfonoun
• Marzieh
• Maryam Akhondy
• Mirza Abdollah Farahani
• Mohammad Reza Lotfi
• Mohammad Shams
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• Mohsen Namjoo
• Morteza Hannaneh
• Mehdi Rajabian
• Nashit
• Nur Ali Elahi
• Parisa
• Parviz Meshkatian
• Parviz Yahaghi
• Ruhollah Khaleghi
• Shahram Nazeri
• Sima Bina
• Zyriab

• Ahmad Pejman
• Axiom of Choice
• Farhad Fakhreddini
• Morteza Hannaneh
• Niyaz
• Ramin Rahimi
• Zohreh Jooya
• Mehdi Rajabian

• Ali Rahbari
• Alireza Mashayekhi
• Amin Homaei
• Aminollah Hossein
• Anoushiravan Rohani
• Armik
• Hangi Tavakoli
• Heshmat Sandjari
• Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
• Lotfi Mansouri
• Mahan Esfahani
• Sahba Aminikia
• Mehdi Hosseini
• Nader Mashayekhi
• Reza Najfar
• Shahrdad Rohani
• Hooman Khalatbari

Electronic

Pop

(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)

Rap music

Lyricists

Rock and metal

Film score composers

• Hossein Derakhshan
• Massoumeh Ebtekar
• Mehdi Jami
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi
• Mojtaba Saminejad
• Omid Memarian
• Sina Motalebi

• Akbar Ganji
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Alireza Jafarzadeh
• Alireza Nourizadeh
• Arash Markazi
• Azadeh Ensha, The New York Times
• Azadeh Moaveni
• Christiane Amanpour
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Emadeddin Baghi
• Farjam Behnam
• Farrokhi Yazdi, Pahlavi era
• Hashem Aghajari
• Hossein Shariatmadari
• Kaveh Golestan, BBC
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
• Mahshid Amirshahi
• Masih Alinejad
• Masoud Dehnamaki
• Massoud Behnoud
• Mehran Ghassemi
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Hossein Rajabian
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
• Nikahang Kowsar
• Omid Memarian
• Rudi Bakhtiar
• Saeed Hajjarian
• Saeed Kamali Dehghan
• Shadi Sadr
• Sina Motallebi
• Youness Shokrkhah
• Maziar Bahari
• Saeed Kamali Dehghan
• Kasra Nouri
• Mohammad Mosaed

• 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
• Asieh Namdar, news anchor at CNN
• 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 (English section)
• Reza Fazeli, actor, film director and opposition figure
• Rudi Bakhtiar, news anchor, formerly with CNN and Fox News

• Cyrus the Great, Iranian emperor And the founder of Iran
• Nader Shah, Iranian king and military commander
• 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

• 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

• Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili
• Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
• Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
• Abolhassan Banisadr, president
• Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
• Ahmad Khatami
• Ahmad Khomeini
• Ahmad Tavakkoli, minister of labour
• Akbar Torkan, minister of roads and transportation
• Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, member of parliament
• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
• Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, speaker of parliament
• Ali Akbar Salehi
• Ali Fallahian, minister of intelligence
• Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
• Ali Larijani, president of IRIB
• Ali Meshkini, chair of Assembly of Experts
• Ali Movahhedi-Kermani
• Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
• Ali Younessi, minister of information
• Alireza Noori, member of parliament
• Asadollah Lajevardi
• Ata’allah Hakimi [fa]
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
• Ayatollah Amini, deputy chair of Assembly of Experts
• Ayatollah Mohammadi-Gilani
• Ayatollah Sane'i
• Ayatollah Va'ez-Tabasi
• Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
• Behzad Nabavi, vice speaker of parliament
• Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
• Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
• Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister of interim government
• Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
• Emad Afrough, member of parliament
• Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, member of parliament
• Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
• Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, speaker of parliament
• Gholam Hossein Elham
• Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, minister of intelligence
• Habiballah Dahamardeh [fa]
• Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
• Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
• Hamid Reza Assefi, foreign affairs spokesman
• Hassan Habibi, first vice president
• Hassan Rouhani, former president
• Hojjatallah Firouzi [fa]
• Hossein Shariatmadari
• Iraj Fazel, minister of health
• Izzatallah Akbari Talarpashti [fa]
• Ezzatollah Zarghami, president of IRIB
• Kamal Daneshyar, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
• Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
• Kazem Jalali, politician
• Kazem Rajavi, politician
• Kazem Seddiqi, politician
• Lotfollah Forouzandeh (born 1961) Iranian Politician
• Lotfallah Siahkali [fa]
• Lotfallah Zara’i Qanawati [fa]
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, former chief justice
• Majid Ansari, member of parliament
• Manuchehr Eliasi, Jewish member of parliament
• Masoud Pezeshkian, minister of health
• Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
• Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
• Mehdi Hashemi
• Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi, prime minister
• Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani, member of parliament
• Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
• Mohammad Ali Najafi, minister of education
• Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
• Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
• Mohammad Emami-Kashani
• Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
• Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister
• Mohammad Javad Larijani, member of parliament
• Mohammad Khatami, president
• Mohammad Reyshahri
• Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
• Mohammad Reza Bahonar, vice speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
• Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
• Mohammad Yazdi, head of judiciary
• Mohsen Armin, member of parliament
• Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
• Mohsen Nourbakhsh, head of Central Bank of Iran
• Mohsen Rezaee, member of Expediency Discernment Council
• Mohsen Safaee-Farahani, member of parliament and head of Iranian Football Federation
• Mohseni-Ezhe'i
• Moin al-Din Saeedi [fa]
• Morteza Motahhari
• Mostafa Chamran, Minister of Defense
• Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
• Nasrollah Jahangard, chair of Supreme Council of ICT
• Nimatallah Manuchehri [fa], Iranian Politician
• Qodratallah Hamzeh [fa], Iranian politician
• Qodratallah Hussaynipour [fa], Iranian Politician
• Qodratallah Imani [fa]
• Qodratallah Intazami [fa], Iranian politician
• Ghodratollah Norouzi, Iranian politician
• Rahim Safavi
• Rahmatallah Firouzi Pourbadi [fa]
• Rasoul Montajebnia, member of parliament
• Ruhallah Abbaspour [fa], Iranian Politician
• Ruhallah Baba’i Saleh [fa]
• Ruhallah Hazratpour Talahieh [fa]
• Ruhollah Hosseinian
• Ruhallah Izadkhahzadeh [fa]
• Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
• Ruhallah Motfikar Azad [fa]
• Ruhallah Najabat [fa]
• Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, minister of foreign affairs
• Sadegh Khalkhali, Sharia ruler
• Sadegh Larijani
• Saeed Emami, vice minister of intelligence
• Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
• Saeed Mortazavi
• Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, head of Central Bank of Iran, Ambassador to United Kingdom
• Waliallah Farzanah [fa], Iranian Politician
• Zabihallah Azami Sardoui [fa], Iranian Politician
• Zia-Allah Ezazi Maleki, Iranian Politician

• Abbas Amir-Entezam
• Abdolrahman Ghasemlou
• Abolghasem Kashani
• Ahmad Zirakzadeh
• Ali Shariati, sociologist
• Ali Latifiyan, Iranian writer
• Alireza Rajaei
• Asghar Parsa
• Azam Taleghani
• Bijan Jazani
• Dariush Forouhar
• Daryush Shokof, director of films Iran Zendan and Hitler's Grave
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
• Gholam-Hossein Sadighi
• Habibollah Peiman
• Hashem Aghajari
• Jafar Pishevari
• Mahmoud Taleghani
• Mansoor Hekmat
• Maryam Rajavi
• Massoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
• Mehdi Khalaji
• Mohsen Sazegara
• Mousa Sadr
• Nasser Zarafshan
• Navvab Safavi, militant cleric
• Parviz Varjavand
• Roozbeh Farahanipour, founder of Marze Por Gohar
• Shirin Ebadi, recipient of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
• Yadollah Sahabi

• Goli Ameri, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; half-Iranian (mother Nusrat Bhutto)
• Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady of Pakistan
• Jimmy Delshad, mayor of Beverly Hills, California
• George Deukmejian, former Governor of California
• Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
• Saadat Khan, first Nawab of Oudh in India
• Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament
• Moshe Katsav, former President of Israel
• Tahia Kazem, former first lady of Egypt, wife of President Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Omid Nouripour, member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Germany
• Ross Mirkarimi, former member of San Francisco City Council from Green Party; American of Iranian and Russian descent.
• Reza Moridi, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
• Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Minister of Transport and a Deputy Prime Minister, and former Minister of Defense
• Wajid Ali Shah, last Nawab of Oudh, disposed of by the British East India Company
• Maryam Yazdanfar, member of the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), Sweden

• Mahnaz Afkhami (born 1941), politician and human rights and women's rights activist, served in the Cabinet of Iran (1976–1978)
• Neda Agha-Soltan (1983–2009), shot during the 2009 Iranian election protests; her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition
• Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858/9 – 1921), author and pioneer of the Persian women's movement in modern Iran
• Shiva Nazar-Ahari, human-rights activist

• Zahra Bani Ameri (1980–2007), 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 (born 1981), 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

• Abdolmajid Eskandari, academic and translator
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, author and translator
• Karim Emami, author and translator
• Majid M. Naini, author and translator
• Mohammad Ghazi, translator
• Shahrokh Meskoob, author and translator

• 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 (1923–2014), 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 (died 1389) mystic and Sufi
• Zoroaster, prophet
• Imam Tawhidi, Australian Iman of Arabian and Iranian descent

Shia Clergy

• Abbas Ali Akhtari
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani
• Abbas Ali Karamatlu [fa]
• Abbas-Ali Soleimani
• Abbas Amirifar
• Abbas Hosseini Kashani
• Abbas Ka'bi
• Abbas Mahfouzi
• Abbas Matin [fa]
• Abbas Almohri
• Mohammad Montazeri
• Abbas Mousaiyan [fa]
• Seyed Abbas Mousavi Motlagh
• Abbas Tabrizian
• Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
• Abdul Fattah Nawab
• Abdul Hadi Hussayni Shahroudi [fa]
• Abdul Hamid Khodri [fa]
• Abdol Hossein Dastgheib
• Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi
• Abdol Javad Alamolhoda
• Abdul Karim Abidini [fa]
• Abdul Karim Farhani
• Abdolkarim Hasheminejad
• Abdul Karim Haghshenas
• Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
• Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia
• Abdullah Haji Sadiqi [fa]
• Abdullah Hajiani [fa]
• Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari
• Abdollah Javadi-Amoli
• Abdullah Musawi Shirazi
• Abdollah Nouri
• Abdul Mahmoud Abdullahi [fa]
• Abdul-Majid al-Khoei
• Abdul Mohammad Rastad [fa]
• Abdolmoghim Nasehi
• Abdul-Nabi Mousavi Fard
• Abdul-Nabi Namazi
• Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami
• Abdul Rasoul Mousavi [fa]
• Abdul Reza Pourzahabi [fa]
• Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
• Abu al-Fazl Mir Mohammedi [fa]
• Seyed Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi
• Abu al-Fazl Razavi Ardakani [fa]
• Abulhassan Navab
• Abolghasem Khazali
• Abu al-Qasem [ar]
• Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
• Abolghasem Wafi Yazdi
• Ahad Azadikhah [fa]
• Ahmad Alamolhoda
• Ahmad Azari Qomi
• Ahmad Beheshti
• Ahmad Hemmati Meshgini [fa]
• Ahmad Hussayn Fallahi [fa]
• Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani
• Ahmad Jannati
• Ahmad Khatami
• Ahmad Khomeini
• Ahmad Khonsari
• Ahmad Marvi
• Ahmad Mazani
• Ahmad Moballeghi
• Ahmad Mohseni Garakani
• Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani
• Ahmad Parvaei Rik [fa]
• Ahmad Ghabel
• Mir Ahmad Reza Hajati
• Seyyed Ahmad Reza Shahrokhi
• Ahmad Saberi Hamedani [fa]
• Ahmad Salek
• Ahmad Vaezi
• Akbar Ahmadpour [fa]
• Akbar Ghaffar Qarabagh [fa]
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
• Allah Nour Karimi Tabar [fa]
• Ali Ahmadi Mianji [fa]
• Ali Akbar al-Modarresi
• Ali Meshkini
• Ali-Akbar Hosseini
• Ali Akbar Marandi [fa]
• Ali Akbar Masoudi Khomeini
• Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur
• Ali Akbar Kalantari [fa]
• Ali Akbar Ghoreishi
• Ali Akbar Hamidzadeh [fa]
• Ali Akbar Mousavi Hussayni [fa]
• Ali Akbar Nasseri [fa]
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
• Ali Akbar Rashad
• Ali al-Sabziwari
• Ali Asghar Baghani [fa]
• Seyed Ali Asghar Dastgheib
• Ali Asghar Hussayni [fa]
• Ali Asghar Masoumi Shahroudi [fa]
• Ali Asghar Rahimi Azad
• Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili
• Ali Banaei
• Ali Fallahian
• Ali Davani
• Ali Ghiouri [fa]
• Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri
• Ali Hussayni Ashkevari [fa]
• Ali al-Sistani
• Ali Islami [fa]
• Ali al-Kazemi Momendi [fa]
• Ali Khamenei
• Ali Khatami
• Ali Mo’alemi [fa]
• Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari [fa]
• Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi
• Ali Momenpour [fa]
• Ali Nazari Monfard [fa]
• Ali Orumian
• Ali Qazi Askar
• Ali Qoddusi
• Ali Razani [fa]
• Ali Reza Afqahi [fa]
• Alireza Arafi
• Ali Reza Ibadi [fa]
• Ali Reza Islamian [fa]
• Alireza Panahian
• Alireza Qaeminia
• Alireza Salimi (politician)
• Ali Safi Golpaygani
• Seyyed Ali Shafiei
• Ali Shirazi
• Ali Tahiri Gorgani [fa]
• Ali Zadsar Jirofti [fa]
• Amanallah Alimoradi [fa]
• Aman Narimani [fa]
• Amir Qoli Jafari Borujeni [fa]
• Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani
• Assad-Allah Imani
• Asadallah Kian-Arasi [fa]
• Mir Asadollah Madani
• Asgar Dirbaz
• Ataollah Ashrafi Esfahani
• Azizollah Khoshvaght
• Dawood Samadi Amoli [fa]
• Fakhraddin Hashemi [fa]
• Fakhreddin Mousavi
• Fathallah Omid Najafabadi [fa]
• Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi [fa]
• Gholam Ali Naim Abadi [fa]
• Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri
• Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani
• Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
• Gholam Hussayn Nadi [fa]
• Gholam Reza Fayazi [fa]
• Gholamreza Hassani
• Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam
• Gholamreza Rezvani
• Gholam Reza Sultani [fa]
• Habibollah Ashouri
• Habiballah Mehman Navaz [fa]
• Habiballah Sha’bani Movasaqi [fa]
• Habib Boromand Dashghapu
• Hadi al-Modarresi
• Hadi Barikbin [fa]
• Hadi Khamenei
• Hadi Khosroshahi
• Hadi Ghabel
• Hadi Ghaffari
• Hadi Rohani
• Hamid Rasai
• Hamid Shahriari
• Mirza Hashem Amoli
• Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani
• Hashem Hamidi [fa]
• Hashem Hashemzadeh Herisi
• Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
• Hashem Niazi [fa]
• Hassan Alemi [fa]
• Hassan Alidadi Sulaymani [fa]
• Hasanali Morvarid
• Hasan Ali Nejabat Shirazi
• Hassan Ameli
• Hassan Emami
• Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
• Hassan Eslami Ardakani
• Hassan Khomeini
• Hassan Malek Mohammadi [fa]
• Hassan Mamduhi [fa]
• Hassan Namazi
• Hassan Nowrouzi [fa]
• Hassan Rouhani
• Hassan Sanei
• Hassan Shariati Niyasar [fa]
• Hassan Shahcheraghi [fa]
• Hassan Shuja’i Aliabadi [fa]
• Hassan Shuja’i Kiyasari [fa]
• Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi
• Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi [fa]
• Hesamaddin Mujtahidi [fa]
• Heydar Moslehi
• Hussein-Ali Montazeri
• Hussayn Ali Sa'adi [fa]
• Hossein Borujerdi
• Hossein Ansarian
• Hussayn Ansari Rad [fa]
• Hossein Ayatollahi
• Hussayn Irani [fa]
• Hussayn Jalali [fa]
• Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi
• Hossein Lankarani
• Hossein Mazaheri
• Hussayn Mirza'i [fa]
• Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
• Hossein Noori Hamedani
• Hussayn Rasti Kashani [fa]
• Hussayn Sobhani Nia [fa]
• Hossein Taeb
• Hossein Wahid Khorasani
• Ebrahim Amini
• Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
• Ebrahim Raisi
• Ismail Ferdowsipour [fa]
• Esmaeil Khatib
• Seyed Esmaeil Mousavi Zanjani
• Jafar Karimi Divkola'i [fa]
• Jafar Sobhani
• Jafar Shojouni
• Jalaleddin Taheri
• Jalal Yahizadeh Firouzabadi [fa]
• Javad Alavi Boroujerdi [fa]
• Javad Gharavi Aliari
• Javad Hussayni Kia [fa]
• Javad Khamenei
• Jawad Tabrizi
• Javad Mojtahed Shabestari
• Javad Nikbin [fa]
• Kamal Khairkhah [fa]
• Karamatollah Malek-Hosseini
• Khalil Boyukzadeh
• Khalil Mobasher Kashani
• Seyed Kazem Seyed Bagheri
• Kazem Mousavi [fa]
• Kazem Nourmofidi
• Kazem Seddiqi
• Lotfollah Dezhkam
• Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani
• Mahmoud Taleghani
• Mahmoud Alavi
• Mahmoud Da’ai [fa]
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
• Mahmoud Hussayni Dowlatabadi [fa]
• Mahmoud Madani Bejstani [fa]
• Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi
• Mahmoud Mohammedi Araqi [fa]
• Mahmoud Nabavian
• Mahmoud Nourizadeh [fa]
• Mahmoud Salavati
• Mahdi al-Modarresi
• Mahdi Baqiri [fa]
• Mahdi Hosseini Rohani
• Mehdi Karroubi
• Mahdi Mousavinejad [fa]
• Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi
• Mehdi Shabzendedar Jahromi
• Mahdi Sheikh [fa]
• Mahdi Yasrebi Kashani [fa]
• Majd al-Din Ghazi Dezfuli [fa]
• Majid Ansari
• Majid Nasserinejhad [fa]
• Majid Nasira'i [fa]
• Majid Talkhabi [fa]
• Mansour Leghaei
• Masoud Khamenei
• Ali Younesi
• Mohammad Aba’i Khorasani [fa]
• Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
• Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
• Mohammad-Ali Angaji
• Mohammad Ali Araki
• Mohammad Ali Faiz Lahijani Gilani [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi
• Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi [fa]
• Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
• Mohammad Ali Esmaeelpoor Ghomsheie
• Mohammad Ali Naseri [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Nekounam [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Mousavi [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
• Mohammad Ali Movahed Abtahi [fa]
• Ali Movahedi-Kermani
• Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei
• Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
• Mohammad Ali Reza'i [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Sadouqi [fa]
• Mohammad-Ali Shahidi
• Mohammad Ali Shar’ai [fa]
• Mohammad Ali Shomali
• Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
• Mohammad Amin Khorasani [fa]
• Mirza Mohammad Anvari [fa]
• Mohammad Ashrafi Isfahani Khozani [fa]
• Mohammed Bahrami Khoshkar [fa]
• Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri
• Mohammad Baqir Ebadi [fa]
• Mohammad Bagher Kharazi
• Mohammad Baqir Mohammadi La’ini [fa]
• Mohammad Ebadizadeh [fa]
• Mohammed Emami-Kashani
• Mohammad Faqih [fa]
• Mohammad Fazel Lankarani
• Mohammad Feyz Sarabi
• Mohammad Hadi Abdekhodai [fa]
• Mohammad Hadi Ghazanfari Khansari
• Mohammad Haji Abu al-Qasem Doulabi [fa]
• Mohammad Hashemian [fa]
• Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard
• Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih
• Mohammad Hassan Mar’ashi [fa]
• Mohammad Hassan Nabavi [fa]
• Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki
• Mohammad Hassan Rahimian
• Mohammad Hassan Zali [fa]
• Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
• Mohammad Beheshti
• Mohammad Hussayn Hussaynzadeh Bahraini [fa]
• Mohammad Hussayni Rouhani Qomi [fa]
• Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi
• Mohammad Hussayni Shahroudi [fa]
• Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Zanjani
• Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai
• Mohammad Hussayn Zarandi [fa]
• Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
• Mohammad Ismail Shushtri [fa]
• Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani
• Mohammad Jafari Gilani [fa]
• Mohammad Jafar Montazeri
• Muhammad Jafar Moravej
• Muhammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari
• Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
• Mohammad Javad Pishvai
• Mohammad Karim Marouji [fa]
• Mohammed Kadhim al-Modarresi
• Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
• Mohammad Khamenei
• Mohammad Khatami
• Mohammad Mahdi Aftakhari [fa]
• Mohammad Mahdi Hussayni Hamedani [fa]
• Mohammad Mahdi Mir Baqeri [fa]
• Mohammad Mahdi Pourfatimi [fa]
• Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlishi [fa]
• Mohammad Mahdi Shahrokhi [fa]
• Mehdi Tabatabaei
• Mohammad Mofatteh
• Mohammad Mo’adebpour [fa]
• Mohammad Mohad [fa]
• Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
• Mohammad Momen
• Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
• Mohammad Mofti al-shia Mousavi
• Mohammad Naqi Shahrokhi Khorramabadi [fa]
• Nasser Biria
• Mohammad Qomi
• Mohammad Rahmati Sirjani
• Mohammad Rajaei Baghsiai [fa]
• Mohammad Reyshahri
• Mohammad Razavi Yazdi [fa]
• Mohammad Reza Abbasi Fard [fa]
• Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi
• Mohammad Reza Baqiri Bonabi [fa]
• Mohammad Reza Dowlatabadi [fa]
• Mohammad Reza Faker [fa]
• Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
• Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
• Mohammad Reza Meghari Moruji [fa]
• Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini
• Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi
• Mohammad Reza Naseri Yazdi
• Mohammad Reza Nekoonam
• Mohammed Ridha al-Sistani
• Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli
• Mohammad Reza Za’iri [fa]
• Mohammad Sabzi [fa]
• Sadegh Khalkhali
• Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani
• Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh
• Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani
• Mohammad Sadoughi
• Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi
• Mohammad Safari Molkmian [fa]
• Mohammad Shahcheraghi
• Mohammad-Taher Shubayr al-Khaqani
• Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi
• Mohammad Taqi al-Khoei
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani
• Mohammad Taghi Falsafi
• Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari
• Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji
• Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
• Mohammad Taqi Mohassil Hamadani [fa]
• Mohammed Taqi Morvarid
• Mohammad Taqi Naqd Ali [fa]
• Mohammad Taghi Pourmohammadi
• Mohammad Taqi Rahbar [fa]
• Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari
• Mohammad Taghi Vaezi
• Mohammad Waezzadeh Khorasani [fa]
• Mohammad Vaez Mousavi
• Mohammad Yasrebi [fa]
• Mohammad Yazdi
• Seyyed Mohammad Ziaabadi
• Mohiaddin Fazl Harandi [fa]
• Mohiaddin Haeri Shirazi [fa]
• Mohsen Araki
• Mohsen Faqihi
• Mohsen Heidari Alekasir
• Mohsen Kazeroni [fa]
• Mohsen Kharazi
• Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi
• Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari
• Mohsin Qara'ati
• Mohsen Qomi
• Mohsen Rohami
• Mohsen Sa'idi Golpaygani [fa]
• Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
• Mujtaba Musavi Lari
• Mojtaba Tehrani
• Mojtaba Zonnour
• Mokhtar Aminian [fa]
• Morteza Aghatehrani
• Morteza Fahim Kermani [fa]
• Morteza Moghtadai
• Morteza Motahhari
• Morteza Mousavi [fa]
• Morteza Razavi [fa]
• Morteza Sadouqi Mazandarani
• Morteza Salehi Khvansari [fa]
• Mousa Ahmadi [fa]
• Mousa Ghazanfarabadi [fa]
• Mousa Mousavi [fa]
• Mousa Qorbani
• Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
• Mostafa Boroujerdi
• Mustafa Fargh Dezfuli [fa]
• Mostafa Khamenei
• Mostafa Khomeini
• Mustafa Mahami [fa]
• Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
• Mostafa Mousavi Faraz
• Mostafa Pourmohammadi
• Mustafa Tabataba’inejhad [fa]
• Mustafa Ulama [fa]
• Mustafa Zu al-Qadir [fa]
• Moslem Malakouti
• Motahar Kazimi [fa]
• Nasir Hosseini
• Nasrollah Pejmanfar
• Nasrallah Shah-Abadi
• Naser Makarem Shirazi
• Seyed Naser Mousavi Largani
• Nasser Qawami [fa]
• Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
• Nourallah Tabresi [fa]
• Qasem Ravanbakhsh
• Mir Ghesmat Mosavi Asl
• Ghodratollah Alikhani
• Qodratallah Najafi [fa]
• Qodratallah Nazari Nia [fa]
• Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
• Qorban Ali Qandahari [fa]
• Rahim Tavakol [fa]
• Rasoul Fallahati Gilani [fa]
• Rasul Jafarian
• Rasoul Montajabnia
• Reza Akrami [fa]
• Seyed Reza Bahaadini
• Reza Hosseini Nassab
• Reza Mohammadi Langroudi
• Reza Nouri
• Reza Ostadi
• Reza Ramezani Gilani
• Reza Taqvi [fa]
• Ruhollah Beigi
• Ruhollah Hosseinian
• Ruhollah Khatami
• Ruhollah Khomeini
• Ruhallah Sadr al-Sadati [fa]
• Sabir Jabbari [fa]
• Sadeq Larijani
• Sadiq Tabataba’inejhad [fa]
• Saied Reza Ameli
• Seyed Sajjad Izdehi
• Salman Zakir [fa]
• Shahab al-Din Ishraqi [fa]
• Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi
• Shams al-Din Mohammad Mujatahidi Najafi [fa]
• Sharaf al-Din Malek Hussayni [fa]
• Taha Hashemi [fa]
• Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi
• Teymour Ali Asgari [fa]
• Wahid Ahmadi [fa]
• Yadollah Duzduzani
• Yahya Ansari Shirazi [fa]
• Yahya Nouri
• Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari
• Yousef Madani Tabrizi
• Yousef Saanei
• Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
• Zakrallah Ahmadi [fa]
• Zaynolabideen Ghorbani

Sunni Clergy

• Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi
• Abdolqader Zahedi
• Abdul Rahman Khodayi [fa]
• Ali Ahmad Salami [fa]
• Faiq Rustami [fa]
• Mohammad Ishaq Madani [fa]
• Mohmmad Sheikh al-Islami [fa]

• Ahmad ibn Rustah, 10th-century Persian explorer of Russia, Scandinavia and Arabia
• Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet

• Abbas Alizadeh
• Abbas Amanat
• Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
• Ahmad Kasravi
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
• Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
• Ezzatolah Neghban
• Fereydun Adamiyat
• Habiballah Esmaili
• Hamdallah Mustawfi
• Kaveh Farrokh
• Majid Adibzadeh
• Mehrdad Bahar
• Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan
• Nasser Fakouhi
• Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
• Touraj Atabaki
• Touraj Daryaee

• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
• Ahmad Tafazzoli
• Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
• Ehsan Yarshater
• Jaleh Amouzgar
• Mehrdad Bahar
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari
• Zabihollah Safa

• Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh
• Mohammad-Ali Foroughi
• Mostafa Malekian
• Mirza Malkam Khan
• Abbas Milani
• Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Ali Shariati
• Daryush Shokof
• Sadegh Zibakalam
• Ali Abdolrezaei

• Shahram Dabiri, lead producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) 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, Inventor of the Cable Modem
• Habib Zargarpour, visual effects specialist, video game art director

• Mojtaba Abedini (born 1984), 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
• 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
• 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 (Melbourne 1956)
• 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 (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004)
• 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 (Rio de Janeiro 2016)
• Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist
• Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
• Navid Ghasemi, BMX racer, cyclist athlete, head coach of national BMX team
• 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
• 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

• 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

• Abbas Ka'bi
• Abbas Mohtaj
• Abu al-Fazl Hassan Baygi [fa]
• Ahmad Salek
• Ali Asghar Baghani [fa]
• Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari [fa]
• Alireza Tangsiri
• Gholam Ali Jafarzadeh Imanabadi [fa]
• Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi
• Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
• Hossein Alaei
• Hossein Lashkari
• Kavous Seyed-Emami
• Kazem Mousavi [fa]
• Mehdi Khazali
• Mansour Haghdoust
• Mohammad-Ali Rahmani
• Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
• Mohammad Forouzandeh
• Mohammad Hussayn Ahmadi Shahroudi [fa]
• Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan
• Mohammad Marandi
• Nader Ghazipour
• Nasir Hosseini
• Sabir Jabbari [fa]
• Sajjad Kouchaki
• Shahram Rostami

Generals

• Abdolrahim Mousavi
• Ahmad Kazemi
• Ahmad Meyghani
• Ahmad Reza Pourdastan
• Ali Abdollahi
• Ali Fadavi
• Ali Sayad Shirazi
• Ali Shahbazi
• Ali Shamkhani
• Alireza Afshar
• Alireza Sabahifard
• Amir Ali Hajizadeh
• Ataollah Salehi
• Esmaeil Kousari
• Esmail Qaani
• Farzad Esmaili
• Gholam Ali Rashid
• Gholamhossein Gheybparvar
• Habibollah Sayyari
• Hassan Firouzabadi
• Hossein Dehghan
• Hossein Hassani Sa'di
• Hossein Nejat
• Hossein Salami
• Kioumars Heydari
• Mansour Sattari
• Mohammad Ali Jafari
• Mohammad-Hassan Nami
• Mohammad Hejazi
• Mohammad-Hossein Dadras
• Mohammad Kazimi [fa]
• Mohammad Jafar Asadi
• Mohammad Pakpour
• Mohammad Reza Zahedi
• Mohammad Salimi
• Mohsen Rezaee
• Mostafa Izadi
• Nasser Shabani
• Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
• Qasem Soleimani
• Yahya Rahim Safavi

War Martyrs

• Ahmad Motevasselian
• Hamid Taqavi
• Hassan Abshenasan
• Hasan Aghareb Parast
• Hassan Shateri
• Hossein Hamadani
• Hossein Kharrazi
• Hossein Qajeyi
• Javad Fakoori
• Mehdi Bakeri
• Mehdi Zeinoddin
• Masoud Monfared Niyaki
• Mohammad Ali Allahdadi
• Mohammad Boroujerdi
• Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh
• Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
• Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh
• Mohsen Gheytaslou
• Mohsen Hojaji
• Qodratollah Mansouri [fa]
• Valiollah Fallahi

• Reza Zadeh, computer science
• Ali Dashti, Iranian senator
• Alireza Afzalipour, businessman and philanthropist; founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
• Alireza Azmandian, self-help motivational speaker
• Ramezan Hajjimashhadi, lawyer
• Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport for many years.
• Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami

• 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 (see Vigen Derderian)
• Yeprem Khan, revolutionary hero

• 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 (1933–2006), activist and writer (novel Mount Semele (2001))
• 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

• 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 (1881–1969) and Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977), 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 (1835), Presbyterian missionary in Urmia.
• Morgan Shuster, Treasury General, Persia
• Richard Nelson Frye (1920–2014), former Harvard University professor, scholar of Persian art history
• Samuel M. Jordan, namesake of Jordan Ave. in Tehran
• William M. Miller

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

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

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