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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Iranian politician and economist, and Iran's first President (1933–2021)
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (born 1969)
Sadegh Hedayat
Iranian writer
Golshifteh Farahani
Iranian actress and musician
Ahmad Shah Qajar
The seventh and last Shah of Iran Qajar (1909–1925)
Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari
Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958
Alireza Firouzja
French-Iranian chess player
Ashraf Pahlavi
Iranian royal (1919–2016)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer
Maryam Rajavi
Iranian opposition leader (born 1953)
Shapour Bakhtiar
Iranian politician
Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
Iranian-French actress
Darius Khondji
Iranian-born French cinematographer
Mansour Bahrami
Iranian-French tennis player
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
Kurdish political leader
Massoud Rajavi
Iranian political activist (born 1948)
Mehrangiz Dowlatshahi
Iranian politician, writer and diplomat (1919–2008)
Towhidi Tabari
Iranian calligrapher
Gholam Reza Pahlavi
Persian royal (1923–2017)
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Iranian philosopher
Fariba Adelkhah
Iranian and French academic
Mitra Hejazipour
Iranian-French chess player
Marzieh
Iranian singer (1924–2010)
Parviz Ghelichkhani
Iranian footballer
Louisa Aslanian
WWII French-Armenian resistance activist
Parviz Natel-Khanlari
Iranian scholar (1914-1990)
Karim Sanjabi
Persian jurist and politician and founder of the National Front
Abbas Gharabaghi
Persian military officer (1918–2000)
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Iranian writer (1928–2022)
Kamran Diba
Iranian architect
Chahdortt Djavann
French writer
Abdol Aziz Farmanfarmaian
Iranian architect (1920–2013)
Gholam Ali Oveisi
Iranian Army general (1918–1984)
Azadeh Kian
Iranian-French academic
Heydar Ghiai
Iranian architect
Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
Iranan writer (1936-1985)
Mitra Farahani
Iranian filmmaker and painter
Behjat Sadr
Iranian painter (1924–2009)
Maryam Madjidi
french-Iranian writer (born 1980)
Jean Althen
Armenian agronomist
Abbas Amir-Entezam
Iranian politician (1932–2018)
Ali Mirza Qajar
Qajar prince (1929-2011)
Abnousse Shalmani
Iranian and French journalist and writer
Azadeh Shafiq
Iranian politician (1951–2011)
Hassan Alavikia
Iranian general
Afshin Ghaffarian
Iranian choreographer, director
Leili Anvar
French Iranist academic, writer and translator
Ahmad Reza Pahlavi
Irani royal; son of Reza Shah (1925-1981)
Jamal Valizadeh
Iranian greco-roman wrestler (born 1991)
Mahshid Amirshahi
Iranian writer
Dariush Borbor
Iranian architect
Fariba Hachtroudi
Iranian journalist
`Alí-Muhammad Varqá
Baha'i college professor (1912–2007)
Mahyar Monshipour
French boxer
Mina Khosrovani
actress
Freidoune Sahebjam
French-Iranian journalist
Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh
Iranian diplomat and politician (1869-1954)
Arash Saeidi
French politician (born 1975)