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Iranian expatriates in the United States

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Golshifteh Farahani

Iranian actress and musician

Iranian naval officer and politician (1955–2026)

Simin Daneshvar

Iranian writer (1921–2012)

Iranian musician, singer-songwriter

Iranian film director (1938-2025)

Kurdish singer, actress and model

Behrouz Vossoughi

Iranian activist

Mahmoud Farshchian

Iranian academic and politician

Iranian politician and activist (1931-2017)

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Iranian politician (1936–1982)

Iranian pop singer and composer

Jamshid Sharmahd

German-Iranian software engineer, member of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran

Iranian football player and manager

British scholar, collector and philanthropist

Faramarz Aslani

Iranian guitarist, songwriter and Persian folk/pop singer

Iranian novelist (1916-1998)

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo

Iranian Reformist politician, activist, women's studies professor.

Iranian singer-songwriter, guitarist (1947–2016)

Iranian writer and translator (1919–1995)

Vida Ghahremani

Iranian actress (1937–2018)

Iranian actor and dancer

Behrouz Boroumand

Iranian politician and physician

Nader Talebzadeh

Iranian film director and film producer

Morteza Aghatehrani

Iranian cleric & founder of Islamic Institute of New York

Iranian politician (1921-1993)

Founder of Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club

Amir-Hossein Aryanpour

Iranian academic

Morehshin Allahyari

Iranian-American new media artist, educator, curator, and activist (born 1985)

Mehrdad Asemani

Iranian singer, composer and musician

Mehrnoosh (; born November 1, 1976) is an Iranian Persian pop singer from Tehran. She currently lives in the state of Texas in the US after obtaining a Green Card through Diversity Visa Lottery. She is signed to the record label Avang Records, a California-based Iranian company.

Gholam A. Peyman

American physician