Category
page 1Iranian women's rights activists
Shirin Ebadi
Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
Nasrin Sotoudeh
Iranian lawyer and human right activist
Masih Alinejad
Iranian-born journalist
Ashraf Pahlavi
Iranian royal (1919–2016)
Hussein-Ali Montazeri
cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989
Masoud Shojaei
Iranian footballer
Simin Behbahani
Iranian poet (1927-2014)
Farrokhroo Parsa
Iranian politician (1922-1980)
Shadi Sadr
Lawyer and women's rights activist
Mahnaz Afkhami
Minister of gender equality, Human rights and gender equality activist
Mahtab Keramati
Iranian actress, film producer
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi
Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran.
Zahra Eshraghi
Iranian activist
Parvin Ardalan
Iranian writer and activist
Tahmineh Milani
Iranian film director and architect
Mehrangiz Dowlatshahi
Iranian politician, writer and diplomat (1919–2008)
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi
Iranian activist
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
Iranian women's rights activist and politician
Shiva Nazar Ahari
Iranian human rights activist
Azam Taleghani
Iranian journalist
Mohtaram Eskandari
Iranian journalist
Shahindokht Molaverdi
Iranian politician
Atena
Political prisoner
Atena Farghadani
Iranian painter
Manijeh Hekmat
Iranian film director
Mehrangiz Kar
Iranian human rights activist
Roya Toloui
Iranian journalist
Mahnaz Mohammadi
Iranian film director
Mastoureh Afshar
Iranian journalist
Sussan Tahmasebi
human rights activist
Vida Movahed
Iranian protester against compulsory hijab
Jila Baniyaghoob
Iranian journalist
Sheema Kalbasi
Iranian poet and filmmaker
Shadi Amin
Iranian researcher and women's rights activist and LGBT rights activist
Shahla Sherkat
Iranian journalist, writer and activist
Mitra Farazandeh
Iranian artist
Shahla Lahiji
Iranian writer
Roya Ramezani
artist and women's rights campaigner
Asieh Amini
Iranian poet
Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh
Iranian writer
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Iranian journalist and feminist activist
Razie Golami Shabani
Southern Azerbaijani politician and activist. Member of the Tudeh Party and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.
Bahareh Hedayat
Iranian activist
Lobat Vala
Iranian activist
Khadijeh Afzal Vaziri
Iranian journalist, women's rights activist (1889–1981)
Pakhshan Azizi
Iranian political prisoner
Mariam Behnam
Iranian-Emirati writer and activist
Fariba Balouch
human rights activist
Zahra Shojaei
Iranian politician (1956-2024)
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh
Women's rights activist
Asra Panahi
Iranian girl killed during the Mahsa Amini protests
Parvaneh Salahshouri
Iranian politician
Adela Mohseni
Afghan activist
Zandokht Shirazi
Iranian writer (1909–1952)
Elham Malekpoor Arashlu
Iranian poet and writer living in the Netherlands
Elaheh Koulaei
Iranian political scientist
FakhrAfagh Parsa
Iranian journalist
Mehrangiz Manoochehrian
Iranian politician and lawyer (1906–2000)
Nazila Maroufian
Iranian journalist, civil activist and political prisoner