Table of contents

1 In the news 2 Authors 3 Cinema artists 3.1 Actors 3.2 Filmmakers 4 Journalists 5 Leaders and politicians 5.3 Historical (pre-Pahlavi) 5.4 Modern (post-Qajar) 5.4.1 Served in Pahlavi government 5.4.2 Served in Islamic Republic government 5.4.3 Not served or opposition 6 Musicians and Singers 7 Religious figures 8 Royalty 8.5 Igehalkid dynasty 8.6 Shutrukid Dynasty 8.7 The Median empire 8.8 The Achaemenid empire 8.9 The Parthian empire 8.10 The Sassanid empire 8.11 Post-Islam (incomplete) 8.12 Qajar dynasty 8.13 Pahlavi dynasty 9 Scientists 10 Sports 11 Other

In the news

• Nazanin Afshin-Jam
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Ladan and Laleh Bijani
• Shirin Ebadi
• Zahra Kazemi
• Mohammad Reza Khatami

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet
• Zhaleh Amouzegar
• Attar, poet
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet
• Ahmad Kasravi
• Masoud Behnoud, historian
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
• Mirzadeh Eshghi, poet
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet
• Ferdowsi, poet
• Houshang Golshiri, writer
• Hafez, poet
• Jamalzadeh, writer
• Jami, poet
• Sadegh Hedayat, writer
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
• Emad Khorasani
• Naser Khosrow, writer and poet
• Zabihollah Mansoori, translator
• Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist
• Fereydoun Moshiri
• Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist
• Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer
• Nezami, poet
• Nima, poet
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mowlavi), poet
• Sa'di, poet
• Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
• Sohrab Sepehri, poet
• Ahmad Shamlou, poet and writer
• Ali Shariati, sociologist

Actors

• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Catherine Bell
• Ezzatollah Entezami
• Reza Kianian
• Jamshid Mashayekhi
• Parviz Parastooyi
• Sussan Taslimi

• Behrouz Afkhami
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Bahman Farman-Ara
• Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
• Masoud Kimiai
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
• Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
• Daryoush Mehrjoui
• Amir Naderi
• Jafar Panahi
• Sohrab Shahid-Sales

• Hashem Agha-Jari
• Christiane Amanpour
• Rudi Bakhtiar
• Emadeddin Baghi
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
• Masoud Behnoud
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Hossein Derakhshan
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Akbar Ganji
• Mohammad Ghochani
• Saeed Hajjarian
• Sina Motallebi
• Ebrahim Nabavi
• Ali Reza Nourizadeh
• Shadi Sadr
• Ahmad Shamlou
• Mashallah Shams-ol-vaezin
• Ali Shariati
• Jahangir Khan Soor-Esrafil

• Abu Muslim
• Amir-Kabir, prime minister
• Gha'em-Magham Farahani, prime minister

• Ali Amini , prime minister
• Jamshid Amouzegar, prime minister
• Shapour Bakhtiar, prime minister
• Manouchehr Eghbal, prime minister and head of National Iranian Oil Company
• Amir Abbas Hoveida, prime minister
• Hassan-Ali Mansour, prime minister
• Ayatollah Modarres, member of parliament
• Mohammad Mosaddegh, prime minister
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, first speaker of senate and prime minister
• Fazlollah Zahedi, prime minister

• Mohammad Ali Abtahi, vice president
• Emad Afrough
• Hossein Ansari-Rad, member of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Aref, first vice president
• Hamid Reza Asefi, foreign affairs spokesman
• Habibollah Asgarowladi
• Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
• Asadollah Badamchian
• Abolhassan Banisadr, president
• Mehdi Bazargan, prime minister
• Mohammad Beheshti, head of judiciary
• Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president
• Hassan Ghafourifard
• Saeed Hajjarian, Tehran council member
• Hassan Habibi, first vice president
• Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, conservative MP
• Fatemeh Haghighatjou, member of parliament
• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of judiciary
• Elias Hazrati, member of parliament
• Ahmad Jannati, chair of Council of Guardians
• Gholamhossein Karbaschi, mayor of Tehran
• Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of parliament
• Abolghasem Kashani
• Sadegh Khalkhali
• Kamal Kharrazi, minister of foreign affairs
• Ali Khamenei, supreme leader
• Hadi Khamenei, member of parliament
• Mohammad Khatami, president
• Mohammad Reza Khatami, deputy speaker of parliament
• Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader, founder of the Islamic Republic
• Elaheh Koulai, member of parliament
• Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani
• Alireza Mahjoub
• Ali Meshkini, chair of assembly of experts
• Mohsen Mirdamadi, member of parliament
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani, minister of culture and Islamic guidance
• Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, member of parliament
• Hossein-Ali Montazeri
• Saeed Mortazavi
• Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, minister of interior
• Behzad Nabavi, deputy speaker of parliament
• Bizhan Namdar-Zangeneh, minister of oil
• Mohammad Bagher Nobakht
• Abdollah Noori, minister of interior
• Mohammad Ali Rajai, president
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, government spokesman
• Abdollah Riazi, first speaker of parliament?
• Hassan Rowhani deputy speaker of parliament
• Mohammad Salamati
• Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh, member of parliament
• Mohammad Sattarifar, vice president
• Ali Shamkhani, minister of defence
• Mostafa Tajzadeh, deputy minister of interior
• Behzad Nabavi, deputy speaker of parliament
• Ayatollah Yazdi, head of judiciary
• Ebrahim Yazdi, foreign minister
• Ali Younessi, minister of information

• Hashem Aghajari
• Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
• Jalaleddin Farsi
• Mohsen Kadivar
• Farrokh Negahdar
• Maryam Rajavi
• Masoud Rajavi, militant opposition leader
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
• Yadollah Sahabi
• Ali Shariati, sociologist
• Ayatollah Taleghani

• Hossein Alizadeh
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Delkash
• Akbar Golpaygani
• Googoosh
• Farhad Mehrad
• Shahram Nazeri
• Anoushiravan Rohani
• Shahrdad Rohani
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• Loris Tjeknavorian

• Bab
• Bahaullah
• Jamal al-Din Asadabadi
• Muhammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi
• Haik Hovsepian, bishop and Christian martyr
• Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic / politician
• Zoroaster, prophet

Igehalkid dynasty

• Ige-Halki (c. 1350 - c. 1330 BCE)
• Pakhir-Ishshan (c. 1330 - c. 1310 BCE)
• Attar-Kittakh (c. 1310 - c. 1300 BCE)
• Khuman-Numena (c. 1300 - c. 1275 BCE)
• Untash-Naprisha (c. 1275 - c. 1240 BCE)
• Unpatar-Naprisha (c. 1240 - c. 1235 BCE)
• Kiddin-Khutran (c. 1235 - c. 1210 BCE)

• Deioces
• Phraortes
• Cyaxares
• Astyages

• Achaemenes of Anshan.
• Teispes of Anshan.
• Cyrus I of Anshan.
• Ariaramnes of Persia.
• Cambyses I of Anshan.
• Arsames of Persia.
• Cyrus II the Great (550 - 530 BC).
• Cambyses II (530 - 521 BC).
• Smerdis (521 BC).
• Darius I (521 -486 BC).
• Xerxes I (486 -465 BC).
• Artaxerxes I (464 - 424 BC).
• Xerxes II, ( 424 - 423 BC).
• Sogdianus ( 424 - 423 BC).
• Darius II (424 - 404 BC).
• Artaxerxes II (404 - 358 BC).
• Cyrus the Younger, General
• Artaxerxes III (358 - 338 BC).
• Arses (338 - 336 BC).
• Darius III Codomannus (336 -330 BC).

• Arsaces I 246-211 BC
• Artabanus I 211-191 BC
• Mithridates I 171-138 BC
• Artabanus II 128-124 BC
• Mithridates II 124-87 BC
• Mithridates III 58-57 BC
• Tiridates II 30-29 BC
• Artabanus V 213-226

• Ardashir I from 224 to 241.
• Shapur I from 241 to 272
• Hormizd I from 272 to 273.
• Bahram I from 273 to 276.
• Bahram II from 276 to 293.
• Bahram III year 293.
• Narseh from 293 to 302.
• Hormizd II from 302 to 310.
• Shapur II from 310 to 379
• Ardashir II from 379 to 383.
• Shapur III from 383 to 388.
• Bahram IV from 388 to 399.
• Yazdegerd I from 399 to 420.
• Bahram V from 420 to 438.
• Yazdegerd II from 438 to 457.
• Hormizd III from 457 to 459.
• Peroz I from 457 to 484.
• Balash from 484 to 488.
• Kavadh I from 488 to 531.
• Djamasp from 496 to 498.
• Khosrau I from 531 to 579.
• Hormizd IV from 579 to 590.
• Khosrau II from 590 to 628.
• Bahram VI from 590 to 591.
• Bistam from 591 to 592.

• Hormizd V year 593.
• Kavadh II year 628.
• Ardashir III from 628 to 630.
• Peroz II year 629.
• Shahrbaraz year 630.
• Boran and others from 630 to 631.
• Hormizd VI (or V) from 631 to 632.
• Yazdegerd III from 632 to 651.

• Yaghub Leith
• Ulugh Beg
• Nadir Shah
• Karim Khan Zand
• Shah Abbas I
• Shah Safi

• Agha Mohammad Khan
• Fath Ali Shah
• Abbas Mirza
• Mohammad Shah
• Nasereddin Shah
• Mozaffareddin Shah
• Mohammad Ali Shah
• Sultan Ahmad Shah

• Reza Pahlavi
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran
• Leila Pahlavi, princess
• Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, queen
• Foozieh of Egypt, queen
• Farah Diba, queen

• Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
• Biruni, astronomist, mathematician
• Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), chemist
• Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist
• Ghiyath al-Kashi, mathematician
• Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomist
• Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
• Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany
• Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), chemist and physicist
• Ulugh Beg

• Khodadad Azizi, footballer
• Ali Daei, footballer
• Ali Karimi, footballer
• Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter
• Mehdi Mahdavikia, footballer
• Khosrow Vaziri, wrestler

• Saeed Asgar
• Touri Bolourchi
• Saeed Emami
• Zahra Eshraghi, grand-daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami
• Doris Lessing
• Shaul Mofaz