Table of contents
1 In the news
2 Authors
3 Cinema artists
4 Journalists
5 Leaders and politicians
6 Musicians and Singers
7 Religious figures
8 Royalty
9 Scientists
10 Sports
11 Other

In the news

Authors

Cinema artists

Actors

  • Shohreh Aghdashloo
  • Ezzatollah Entezami
  • Reza Kianian
  • Jamshid Mashayekhi
  • Sussan Taslimi

Filmmakers

Journalists

Leaders and politicians

Musicians and Singers

Religious figures

Royalty

Igehalkid dynasty

Shutrukid Dynasty

  • Khallutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1205 - c. 1185 BCE)
  • Shutruk-Nahhunte (c. 1185 - c. 1155 BCE)
  • Kutir-Nahhunte III (c. 1155 - c. 1150 BCE)
  • Shilkhak-In-Shushinak (c. 1150 - c. 1120 BCE)
  • Khutelutush-In-Shushinak (c. 1120 - c. 1110 BCE)
  • Shilhana-Hamru-Lagamar (c. 1110 - 1100 BCE)

The Median empire

The Achaemenid empire

The Parthian empire

The Sassanid empire

Post-Islam

Qajar dynasty

Pahlavi dynasty

Scientists

  • 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

Sports

Other

See also: List of people by nationality