List of Iranian Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis constitute the second-largest ethnic group in Iran, and there are more Azerbaijanis living in Iran than in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Notable Iranian Azerbaijanis include:

Lists of Azerbaijanis
by country

Main article: Iranian Azerbaijanis

Poets and authors
Number Name Image Background
1 Qovsi Tabrizi poet
2 Mirza Ibrahimov writer
3 Mirza Fatali Akhundov literary critic and writer
4 Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar poet
5 N/A N/A
6 Mir Jalal Pashayev literary critic and writer
7 Iraj Mirza satirist and poet
8 Gholamhossein Bigdeli writer
9 Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi screenwriter, writer, novelist and dramatist
11 Samad Behrangi writer
12 Reza Baraheni writer, novelist and poet
13 Taqi Rafat writer and poet
14 Rosa Jamali poet and playwright.
15 Fariba Vafi writer
16 Izzeddin Hasanoglu poet
17 Ali Nazem literary critic, poet and writer
18 Ali Mojuz poet
19 Qasem-e Anvar poet
20 Yadollah Maftun Amini poet
21 N/A N/A
22 Mahmoud Melmasi – Azarm poet
23 Naser Manzuri novelist and linguist
24 Seyid Abulgasim Nabati poet
25 Khasta Qasim poet
26 Bulud Qarachorlu poet
27 Jafar Ebrahimi poet
28 Ahmad Kasravi Tabrizi writer, Historian and linguist

Music and art
Number Name Image Background
1 Aref Arefkia singer
2 Nasrollah Nasehpor musician
4 Tahmineh Milani film director, screenwriter, and producer
6 Qolamhossein Bigjekhani musician and tar player
7 Jamileh Sheykhi actor
8 Atila Pesyani actor
9 Hasan Enami Olya singer
10 Ali Salimi musician, composer and tar player
11 Monir Vakili singer
12 Samin Baghtcheban musician, composer, author and translator
13
14 Akbar Abdi actor and comedian
15 Jamshid Hashempour actor
16 Googoosh singer
17 Mohammad Reza Golzar ] actor
18
19 Hossein shahabi screenwriter and director
20 Sami Yusuf singer
21 Ebrahim Hatamikia film directors
22 Rubaba Muradova singer
23 Masoud Dehnamaki filmmaker
24 Mahmud Shaterian composer, musician and tar master
25 Rahim Shahriari singer
26 Mansour Mamaghani singer
27 Kamal Tabrizi film director
28 Mansoor Ghandriz painter
29 Ahmad Aali photographer and artist
31 Davood Azad singer
32 Akbar Behkalam sculptor and painter
33 Ahad Hosseini sculptor and painter
34 Farhad Fakhreddini composer and conductor
35 Ali-Asghar Bahari musician and kamancheh player
36 Rambod Javan actor
37 Rahim Moazzen Zadeh Ardabili moazzen
39 Aydin Aghdashloo painter
40 Reza Deghati photojournalist
41 Javad Alizadeh humorist, satirist, comics artist and cartoonist
42 Ali Akbar Saremi architect
43 Nasrullah Medqalchi dubbing artist
44 Ali Samadi Ahadi filmmaker
45 Reza Mirkarimi film director
46 Hadi Kazemi actor
47 Amir Aghaei actor
48
49 Haydar Hatemi painter
50 Maryam Palizban actor
52 Shahab Abbasi actor
53 Hassan Sattar singer
54 Dariush Eghbali singer
55 Fatma Mukhtarova opera singer
56 Dariush Pirniakan musician
57 Farhad Ghaemian actor
58 Afsar Asadi actor
59 Reza Naji actor
60 Reza Beyk Imanverdi actor

Revolutionaries, clerics and military
Number Name Image Background
1 Mohammad Taqi Pessian military commander
2 Sardar Homayoun general
3 Abbas Gharabaghi military commander
4 Javad Fakoori military commander
5 Mehdi Bakeri military commander
6 Teymūr Khan Ayromlou military commander
7 Muhammad-Husayn Ayrom general
8 Jawad Tabrizi grand ayatollah
9 Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh journalist and cleric
10 Yahya Rahim Safavi general
11 Javad Gharavi Aliari grand ayatollah
12 Feridoun Jam military commander
13 Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili grand ayatollah
14 Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari grand ayatollah
15 Mohammad Mofatteh ayatollah
16 Sadegh Khalkhali ayatollah
17 Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani grand ayatollah
18 Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani ayatollah
19 Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani cleric
20 Mousa Shubairi Zanjani grand ayatollah
21 Moslem Malakouti grand ayatollah
22 Mirza Mohammad Osouli cleric
23 Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi cleric
24 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei grand ayatollah
25 Sayyid Hossein Ardabili cleric
26 Fazel Lankarani grand ayatollah
27 Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi intellectual and social reformer
28 Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli revolutionary activist
29 Sattar Khan national commander
30 Bāqer Khān national leader
31 Mohammad Khiabani political leader
32 Ja'far Pishevari founder and chairman of separatist and communist Azerbaijan People's Government
33 Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani grand ayatollah
34 Ja'far Sobhani shia marja, influential theologian and writer
35 Yadollah Duzduzani shia marja
36 Mohammad Bagheri military commander
37 Amir Hatami military commander

Royal
Number Name Image Background
1 Farah Pahlavi Queen
2 Taj ol-moluk Queen

Entrepreneurs, philosophers and academics
Number Name Image Background
1 Sheikh Abdul Hosein Amini Islamic scholar
2 Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari Islamic scholar and philosopher
3 Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei Islamic scholar and philosopher
4 Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek orientalist
5 Ali Javan physicist and inventor
6 Javad Tabatabai philosopher
7 Shahriar Afshar physicist
8 Sina Tamaddon entrepreneur
9 Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh philosopher of medicine
11 Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari philosopher
12 Abass Alavi physician-scientist
13 Firoz Partovi physicist
14 Jabbar Baghtcheban established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf
15 Ahmad Kasravi linguist, historian
16 Rahim Rahmanzadeh medicine and professor
17 Ali Murad Davudi philosopher
18 Mahdi Ghalibafian civil engineer
19 Majid Shahriari physicist
20 Yousef Sobouti physicist
20 Javad Heyat Turkolog and surgeon
21 Mohsen Hashtroodi academic
22 Mohammad-Amin Riahi academic
23 Homa Nategh historian

Sports
Number Name Image Background
2 Hossein Rezazadeh former world and double Olympic champion in Olympic weightlifting
3 Gholamreza Takhti[1] Iranian Olympic gold medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani practitioner
5 Ali Daei Iranian former football player and coach who currently manages Persepolis. Current world record holder in international goals with 109 for Iran
6 Karim Bagheri retired Iranian professional football player
7 Rahim Aliabadi won a silver medal in Greco-Roman at the 1972 Summer Olympics
8 Mahmoud Mollaghasemi won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics
9 Sajjad Anoushiravani won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's +105 kg
10 Mohammad Paziraei won a bronze medal in flyweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
11 Yousef Karami competed in the men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal
12 Jahanbakht Tofiq won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics
13 Hossein Sadaghiani Iranian football player and manager; a striker during his playing career and afterwards was Iran national football team's head coach from 1941 to 1950
14 Ahad Pazaj won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia
15 Ali Ashkani won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia and silver in the world
16 Parviz Hadi won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the Asia
17 Farzad Abdollahi won the gold medal in the welterweight division (-80 kg) in the world
18 Moharram Navidkia football player
19 Payam Sadeghian football player
20 Mojtaba Jabbari football player
21 Yaghoub Karimi football player
23 Büyük Vatankhah retired Iranian football player
24 Jafar Salmasi won Iran's first Olympic medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics
25 Aziz Asli retired Iranian football player
26 Javad Allahverdi retired Iranian football player
27 Karim Ansarifard football player
28 Ali Akbar Ostad-Asadi retired Iranian football player
29 Sirous Dinmohammadi retired Iranian football player
30 Mohammad Navazi retired Iranian football player
31 Rasoul Khatibi retired Iranian football player
32 Saeid Marouf volleyball player
33 Behnam Mahmoudi volleyball player
34 Hossein Rouhani karate player
35 Kamal Shalorus professional mixed martial artist
36 Ghader Mizbani professional road bicycle racer
37 Mehdi Sohrabi professional road bicycle racer
38 Mohsen Shadi rower
39 Aboutaleb Talebi wrestler
40 Rouhollah Dadashi power lifter, body builder and strongman
41 Shahram Mahmoudi volleyball player
43 Afshin Biabangard wrestler
44 Ali Ashkani wrestler
45 Ahad Pazaj wrestler
46 Kimia Alizadeh Taekwondo player, she is the first Iranian female athlete ever to win an Olympics medal.
47 Mohammad Bagheri Motamed Taekwondo player
48 Mansour Aghaei Iranian climber and coach of national climbing team

Politicians
Number Name Image Background
1 Ali Khamenei President of Iran (1981–1989), Supreme Leader of Iran (since 1989)
2 Tadj ol-Molouk Queen of Iran as the wife of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran between 1915 and 1941
3 Gholam Reza Aghazadeh Minister of Petroleum of Iran for three terms of four years; served as the Vice President for Atomic Energy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran up until July 2009
4 Mohammad Asghari Minister of Justice of Iran for two terms
5 Rahman Dadman Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran for one term
7 Ali Abdolalizadeh Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran for two terms of four years
8 Ali Meshkini Chair of Assembly of Experts (1990 - 2007)
9 Mahmoud Jam Prime Minister of Iran from 1935 to 1939
10 Yahya Ale Eshaq Minister of Commerce of Iran for one term
11 Abbas Dozdozani Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran for two terms
12 Hoseyn Kazempour Ardabili Minister of Commerce of Iran for one term
13 Isa Kalantari Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran for two terms
14 Sadegh Mahsouli Minister of Welfare and Social Security of Iran for one term and Minister of Interior of Iran for one term
15 Mohsen Mehralizadeh Vice President of Iran
16 Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs from 2009 to 2013
17 Reza Moridi member Ontario Liberal Party MPPs in provincial or federal legislature in Canada
18 Mir-Hossein Mousavi seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran, from 1981 to 1989
19 Mohammadreza Nematzadeh Minister of Industries and Business of Iran
20 Hamid Chitchian Minister of Energy of Iran
21 Masoud Pezeshkian Minister of Health and Medical Education of Iran
22 Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar Minister of Interior of Iran
23 Mohammad Sa'ed Prime Minister of Iran
24 Ali Soheili Prime Minister of Iran
25 Parviz Fattah Minister of Energy of Iran
26 Ali Nikzad Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran
27 Mohammad-Reza Eskandari Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran
28 Mohammad-Reza Eskandari Minister of Jihad-e-Agriculture of Iran
29 Davoud Danesh-Jafari Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran
30 Ebrahim Hakimi Prime Minister of Iran
31 Hassan Taqizadeh government minister of Iran
32 Ismail Mumtaz government minister of Iran
33 Reza Taghipour Minister of Information and Communications Technology of Iran for one term
34 Hamid Mowlana politician
35 Hassan Ghalibaf-Asl CEO Tehran Stock Exchange
36 Mina Ahadi Communist activist from WPI
37 Asghar Parsa member of Iran's National Front
38 Ali Saeedlou Mayor of Tehran and Head of Physical Education Organization from 2009 to 2011
39 Mir Bashir Gasimov statesman and revolutionary
40 Mosa Kalantari Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Iran
41 Abbas Adham physician and politician who served as Health Minister

Political prisoners
Number Name Image Background
1 Alireza Farshi South Azerbaijani national cultural activist. He was arrested by Iranian security forces along with other national activists for attending the International Mother Language Day celebrations in Tehran on February 21, 2014.[2] He was later sentenced to 15 years in prison[3] and two years in exile in the city of Bagh-e Malek in Khuzestan province. Amnesty International has declared him a prisoner of conscience because there are no criminal elements in his activity, as well as because of the protection of human rights and the rights of the mother tongue and required his release with other organisations.[4] He is also the founder of the "Kəndimiz" (English: Our Village) Foundation, which collects and delivers books for children to various regions and villages in South Azerbaijan.[5]

References
  1. "اسطوره و پهلوانی برخاسته از دیار الوند، پهلوانی برای همه دوران". Bornanews.ir. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  2. "Non-Persian Mother Languages Treated as "National Security Threat" in Iran". iranhumanrights.org. February 26, 2021. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
  3. "Caught in a web of repression: Iran's human rights defenders under attack". Amnesty International. September 29, 2017. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
  4. "Iran: Defender beaten and denied health care: Alireza Farshi". Amnesty International. July 20, 2021. Archived from the original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
  5. "Güneydə 'Kəndimiz Vəqfi' hər ay bir kəndə türkcə kitablar hədiyyə edir" (in Azerbaijani). Voice of America. June 6, 2018. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
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