Iran

Famous Iranian People: Iranian Artists, Scientists, Leaders, Musicians, Politicians and Athletes

There is a category of people who changed not only Iran, but the entire world by their thoughts and deeds, and left an eternal trace in the centuries. They are simply remarkable individuals who have one thing in common: are not easy to stereotype.

:: List of Famous People from Iran ::

Reza Abbasi
Reza Abbasi is considered to be one of the foremost Persian artists of all time, the most renowned Persian miniaturist, painter and calligrapher of the Isfahan School, which flourished during the Safavid period under the patronage of Shah Abbas I.

Leila Vaziri
Leila Vaziri is an outstanding Iranian American swimmer. She is the current world record holder of the 50 m women’s backstroke, set on March 28, 2007 in the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, with a time of 28.16 seconds.

Deep Dish
Deep Dish are two of the most well-known and respected artists/producers in electronic dance music today consisting of Iranian-American members Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. The Grammy award winning DJ duo collaborated with famous artist such as Timo Maas, Danny Howells, Richard Morel, Dido and many others. Deep Dish has appeared as the featured artist on the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix on several occasions. Deep Dish are considered legends of house music across the world.

Ali Javan
Doctor Ali Javan is an Iranian Azari inventor and physicist at MIT who invented the first Gas Laser in 1960 with William R. Bennett. In 1975, Professor Ali Javan received the most prestigious honor of Optical Society of America, the Fredric Ives Medal, with a citation that praised him for “producing an optical device (the Gas Laser) of unparalleled applicability to scientific research.” In 1993, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science.

Jahangir Razmi
Is an outstanding Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, Firing Squad in Iran, was taken on August 27, 1979 and published anonymously around the world. The photograph was the only anonymous winner of a Pulitzer Prize in the 90-year history of the award, as the identity of Razmi as the photographer was not revealed until 2006.

Arash Miresmaili
Is a retired Iranian judoka who currently is head coach of the Iran national judo team. He won the gold medal in two World Judo Championships, the first one in 2001 in Munich, Germany, and the second in 2003 in Osaka, Japan. He also won bronze medal in the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt and 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Farrokhroo Parsa
Dr Farrokhroo Parsa was a notable Iranian physician, educator, parliamentarian who served as Minister of Education of Iran in the last preIslamic revolution government and was the first female cabinet minister of an Iranian government. Parsa was an outspoken supporter of women’s rights in Iran and was the first woman executed by the Islamic regime for her only crime of educating her compatriots and setting an example.

Lily Afshar
Afshar is an Iranian American classical guitarist who is regarded as one of the world’s best classical guitarists and is known around the world for her powerful and adventurous performances. Her awards are numerous and include: the Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist (2000); the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award in music (1998); receiving the Tenth (1995), Eleventh (1996), and Twelfth (1997) Annual “Premier Guitarist” award from the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc and many others.

Siavash Alamouti
Is an Iranian engineer and an Intel fellow who is best known for the invention of the Alamouti space–time block code, filed in 1997, which is a 2 transmit antenna space-time block code and has been adopted in various global standards. He is recognized by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the best 57 papers in the last 50 years of the Society’s history.

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Is considered Iran’s greatest 20th (ode) poet and scholar, a brilliant politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. His poems were fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. Bahar is considered by many scholars as the greatest Iranian poet in the past 200 years.