List of people from Tehran

A

• Michel Abdollahi, performance artist and poet
• Mohammad Reza Adelkhani, football player
• Shohreh Aghdashloo, Actress
• Sandra Ahrabian, moderator
• Hamid Akhavan, Manager
• Navid Akhavan, actor
• Vahid Alaghband, entrepreneurs
• Bozorg Alavi, author and literary scholar
• Azam Ali, singer
• Houchang Allahyari, psychiatrists and filmmakers
• Amir Ansari, entrepreneur
• Mary Apick, actress, writer and producer
• Arash, singer
• Golineh Atai, correspondent
• Ray Aghayan, Costume
• Subh -i - Azal, leader of the Babis
• Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh, religious scholars

B

• Reza Badiyi, film director and producer
• Abdul- Baha, teachers and leaders of the Bahai religion
• Baha'u'llah, founder of the Bahai religion
• Ameneh Bahrami, the victim of an acid attack
• Simin Behbahani, writer
• Philippe Blasband, writer and theater director
• Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Taekwondo Olympic champion
• Amir Masoud Boroumand, football player
• Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, Ayatollah and author
• Farzad Bonyadi, professional poker player
• Only Ali Borumand, musician and music theorist
• Jacques Bral, director and script writer

D

• Keyvan Dahesch, Journalist
• Parviz Davoodi, Vice President
• Ashkan Dejagah, football player
• Kamram Diba, Architect
• Gitty Djamal, Actress
• Dubfire, Iranian- American music producer

E

• Afshin Ellian, Professor of Law
• Nasrollah Entezam, politicians
• Antonio Esfandiari, Professional Poker Player
• Andranik Eskandarian, soccer player

F

• Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler
• Forough Farokhzad, poet
• Pegah Ferydoni, Actress
• Chohreh Feyzdjou, artist
• Parastou Forouhar, artist

G

• Iraj Ghaderi, Film Director
• Amir Ghalenoei, football player and coach
• Dawud Gholamasad, sociologist
• Behzad Ghorbani, zoologist
• Googoosh, singer and actress

B

• Gholam Ali Haddad -Adel, politicians
• Mani Haghighi, theater director and filmmaker
• Wahid Haschemian, football player
• Ali Hatami, filmmaker
• Sadegh Hedayat, writer
• Arash Hejazi, writer and translator
• Nasser Hejazi, soccer player and coach
• Mansoor Hekmat, politicians
• Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Prime Minister

J

• Abbas Jadidi, Ringer
• Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher
• Ali Javan, physicist
• Taraneh Javanbakht, poet and writer
• Juvel, German rapper

K

• Kayhan Kalhor, Kamanchehspieler and composer
• Ali Karimi, football player
• Niki Karimi, Actress and director
• Amir Kassaei, advertiser
• Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Darius Khondji, Cinematographer
• Sirvan Khosravi, pop singer
• Mandana Alavi Kia, performance artist
• Abbas Kiarostami, screenwriter, film director and poet

L

• Mariam Lau, journalist and publicist

M

• Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
• Majid Majidi, film director and screenwriter
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer
• Samira Makhmalbaf, the film director and screenwriter
• Nader Maleki, business consultant
• Mansour Jafari Mama Ghani, singer, actor and composer
• Hassan Ali Mansour, Prime Minister
• Lotfi Mansouri, opera director and director
• Mazgani, Iranian- Portuguese rock musicians
• MC Basstard, German rapper
• Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician
• Valentine Moghadam, sociologist and feminist
• Sudabeh Mohafez, writer
• Hamideh Mohagheghi, lawyer and Islamic theologian
• Abdollah Mojtabavi, freestyle wrestler
• Mohammad Mossadegh, Prime Minister
• Afra Mussawisade, percussionist

N

• Maryam Namazie, civil rights activist
• Steve Naghavi, musicians
• Hossein Nasr, Islamic philosopher and mystic
• Maliheh Nazari, theater and film actress
• Javad Nekounam, football player
• Marina Nemat, author
• Harold Nicolson, diplomat, writer and politician
• Bahman Nirumand, journalist and author
• Omid Nouri Pour, politicians

P

• Cyrus Reza Pahlavi, son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah
• Schahnaz Pahlavi, daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Badi Panahi, social scientists
• Shahrnush Parsipur, writer
• Ali Parvin, football player

R

• Maryam Rajavi, politician
• Rita, Israeli singer

S

• Huschmand Sabet, entrepreneurs
• Amir Hossein Sadeqi, football player
• Laleh Sadigh, racer
• Hamid Sadr, writer
• Behrang Safari, football player
• Ezatollah Sahabi, politicians and critics of the regime
• Said, Iranian- German writer
• Nader Saiedi, sociologist and Bahai theologian
• Sohrab Shahid Saless, director and screenwriter
• Madjid Samii, doctor
• Naser ad -Din Shah, Shah
• Ahmad Schamlou, poet
• Saam Schlamminger, musicians
• Amir Shapourzadeh, football player
• Siamak, rapper
• Nasrin Siege, aid worker and writer
• Bahar Soomekh, Actress
• Abdulkarim Soroush, thinker and philosopher
• Tami Stronach, dancer and actress

T

• Jasmin Tabatabai, actress and musician
• Gholam Reza Takhti, Ringer
• Vahid Talebloo, football player
• Hadi Teherani, Architect
• Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan, German wrestler of Armenian origin
• Anderanik Teymourian, football player

V

• Cumrun Vafa, physicist
• Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler

Y

• Sami Yusuf, a British singer, composer and musician

Z

• Hossein Zenderoudi, artists

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