Famous People Born In Iran

• Reza Shah

  Royalty

  Mazandaran Province, Iran

• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

  Royalty

  Tehran, Iran

• Mohammad Khatami

  President (non-U.S.)

  Yazd, Iran

• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

  Politician

  Markazi, Iran

• Valerie Jarrett

  Lawyer

  Fars Province, Iran

• Googoosh

  Actress

  Tehran, Iran

• Shirin Neshat

  Artist

  Qazvin, Iran

• Marjane Satrapi

  Novelist

  Gilan, Iran

• Shirin Ebadi

  Lawyer

  Hamadan Province, Iran

• Abdolkarim Soroush

  Scholar

  Tehran, Iran

• Bahar Soomekh

  Actress

  Tehran, Iran

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Politician

  Semnan, Iran

• Nasir Al-din Al-Tusi

  Architect

  Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

• Hassan Rouhani

  Politician

  Semnan, Iran

• Shah of Iran

  Royalty

  Tehran, Iran

• Doris Lessing

  Novelist

  Iran

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  politician

  Rafsanjan, Kerman, Iran

• Hadi Saei

  Sportsman

  Iran

• Omar Khayyam

  Poet

  Iran

• Babak Zanjani

  Business Magnate

  Iran