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List of Iranians

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

In the news

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Artists

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Calligraphists

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Cartoonists

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Painters, illustrators and sculptors

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Photographers

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Designers

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Architects

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Fashion designers

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Graphic designers

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Business

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Entertainers

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Comedians

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Dancers and choreographers

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Models, beauty pageant

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Film actors

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Theatre and stage actors

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Filmmakers, directors

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Filmmakers

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Theatre and stage directors

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Musicians and singers

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Classical

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Iranian classical traditional

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Modern traditional

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Western classical

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Electronic

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Pop

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(Sorted according to the first letter of the name)

Rap music

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Lyricists

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Rock and metal

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Film score composers

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Journalists, media

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Bloggers

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Journalists

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News anchors

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Leaders, politicians, activists

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

Historical

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Modern (post-Qajar)

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Pahlavi period

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Served in Islamic Republic government

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Not served in Islamic Republic government or opposition

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Politicians in other nations

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Activists

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Prisoners and detainees

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  • 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

Literature figures

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Authors and poets

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Translators

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Religious figures

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Contemporary Shia Clergy

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Contemporary Sunni Clergy

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Royalty

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Scientists, scholars, and academics

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Explorers and travellers

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

Historians, archaeologists and Iranologists

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Linguists

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Intellectuals and philosophers

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Technology and computer engineering

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Sports

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Marziyeh Karimi,volleyball player and coach

Iranian women

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

Military

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Aviation

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Combat Veterans

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Generals

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War Martyrs

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Misc

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Afro-Iranians

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Iranians of Armenian Descent

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Iranians of Assyrian descent

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Emigrants and immigrants

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Americans in Iran

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Germans in Iran

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Iranians in America

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See separate article: List of Iranian Americans.

Iranians in Canada

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See article: Iranian-Canadian

Iranians in Britain

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List of British Iranians

Iranians in Germany

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Iranians in Germany

Iranians in Australia

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Iranian Australian

Iranians in the Netherlands

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Iranians in the Netherlands

Iranians in Finland

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Iranians in Finland

Iranians in Sweden

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Iranians in Sweden

Iranians in Egypt

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Iranians in Pakistan

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Persian Roman Catholic saints

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See article List of Persian Roman Catholic saints

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://philpeople.org/profiles/dr-mostafa-javadi-pour-moradi [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Shargh Newspaper" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Alireza Norouzi".
  4. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi".
  5. ^ "Alireza Norouzi — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  6. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  7. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  8. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  9. ^ "حمیده جهانگیری".
  10. ^ "Dr. Alireza Norouzi — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  11. ^ Hern, Bill; Gleave, David (30 October 2020). "Dennis Walker: Manchester United's first and only black Busby Babe". theguardian.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.