List of Iranian Azerbaijanis

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

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  Ismail I ^a

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  Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ^d

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	Saib Tabrizi		poet
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	Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei		novelist and writer
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

Music and art

Number	Name	Image	Background
1	Aref Arefkia		singer
2	Nasrollah Nasehpor		musician
3	Parviz Parastui		actor
4	Tahmineh Milani		film director, screenwriter, and producer
5	Behrouz Vossoughi		actor
6	Qolamhossein Bigjekhani		musician and tar player
7	Jamileh Sheykhi		actor
8	Atila Pesyani (son Jamileh Sheykhi)		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	Siavash Kheirabi		actor
14	Akbar Abdi		actor and comedian
15	Jamshid Hashempour		actor
16	Googoosh		singer
17	Reza Naji		actor
18	Babak Nahreyn		actor and comedian
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
30	Habib Mohebian		singer
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
38	Jafar Panahi		filmmaker
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	Misha Bolori		painter
49	Haydar Hatemi		painter
50	Maryam Palizban		actor
51	Hossein Alizadeh		composer
52	Arash		singer
53	Shahab Abbasi		actor
54	Hassan Sattar		singer
53	Dariush Eghbali		singer
54	Fatma Mukhtarova		opera singer
55	Dariush Pirniakan		musician
56	Farhad Ghaemian		actor
57	Afsar Asadi		actor

Revolutionaries, clerics and military

Number	Name	Image	Background
1	Colonel 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

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
10	Lotfi A. Zadeh		scientist
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
1	Hadi Saei		former Iranian taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history
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
4	Nasser Hejazi		Iranian football player and coach who most notably played for Taj/Esteghlal Tehran
5	Ali Daei		Iranian former football player and coach who currently manages Persepolis
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
22	Mehdi Rahmati		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
42	Hamid Estili		coach and retired 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.

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
6	Mehdi Bazargan		head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979
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		the 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		a 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		a member of Iran's National Front
38	Ali Saeedlou		the 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
42	Farah Pahlavi		former Queen (Shahbanu) of Iran
43	Shahindokht Molaverdi		vice president of Iran in the Women and Family Affairs

References

External links

• Famous People Iranian Azerbaijanis

Notes

^a Azerbaijani mother, Halima Begum a.k.a. Martha, daughter of Uzun Hasan

^c From Kara Koyunlu oghuz Turks tribal federation in Azerbaijan and Arran

^d From Qajars tribe are a branch of the Turkic Oghuz groups, sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijani people