List of Iranian artists
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This is a list of Iranian artists.
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[edit] Calligraphists
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Ali Bozorgmehr [1]
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Bahman Panahi
- Alireza Smaily
[edit] Cinema artists
[edit] Actors & Actresses
- Akbar Abdi
- Bizhan Emkanian
- Golab Adineh
- Mahnaz Afshar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Taraneh Alidousti
- Jahangir Almasi
- Fariborz Arabnia
- Daryoush Arjmand
- Asal Badiee
- Delkash
- Omid Djalili
- Ezzatollah Entezami
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Hadi Eslami
- Parviz Fannizadeh
- Behzad Farahani
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Shaghayegh Farahani
- Mohammad Ali Fardin
- Farimah Farjami
- Bita Farrahi
- Hamid Farrokhnezhad
- Jahangir Forouhar
- Leila Forouhar
- Mohammad Reza Foroutan
- Garsha
- Faramarz Gharibian
- Sorayya Ghasemi
- Googoosh
- Mohammad Reza Golzar
- Azita Hajian
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Jamshid Hashempour
- Leila Hatami
- Amin Hayaee
- Rambod Javan
- Hamid Jebeli
- Niki Karimi
- Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
- Reza Kianian
- Gowhar Kheirandish
- Fakhri Khorvash
- Majid Majidi
- Nasser Malekmoti'ee
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
- Parvaneh Masoumi
- Mehran Modiri
- Bahman Mofid
- Ali Mosaffa
- Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
- Ahmad Najafi
- Ali Nassirian
- Roya Nonahali
- Roxanne Pallett
- Hossien Panahi
- Parviz Parastouee
- Atila Pesyani
- Mahaia Petrosian
- Parsa Pirouzfar
- Parviz Pourhosseini
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Saeed Rad
- Bahram Radan
- Davoud Rashidi
- Habib Rezaee
- Homa Rousta
- Reza Rouygari
- Hossein Sarshar
- Parviz Sayyad
- Reza Shafieejam
- Khosrow Shakibaee
- Mozhdeh Shamsaee
- Mehraveh Sharifinia
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
- Jamileh Sheykhi
- Soroush Sehhat
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Amin Tarokh
- Sussan Taslimi
- Hedyeh Tehrani
- Behrouz Vossoughi
- Merila Zarei
[edit] Directors and Filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Morteza Avini
- Shoja Azari, director. [2]
- Bahram Beizai
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Ahmad Reza Darvish
- Abolhassan Davoudi
- Saeed Ebrahimifar
- Shahram Entekhabi, director. [3]
- Bahman Farman-Ara
- Ramin Farahani
- Iraj Ghaderi
- Farrokh Ghaffari, Director, Actor, Producer. [4]
- Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [5]
- Behrooz Gharibpoor
- Bahman Ghobadi, director of A Time for Drunken Horses
- Akbar Golrang
- Ali Hatami
- Ebrahim Hatamikia
- Hassan Hedayat
- Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
- Abolfazl Jalili
- Samuel Khachikian
- Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry
- Masoud Kimiai
- Parviz Kimiavi
- Esma'il Kooshan
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of Kandahar
- Samira Makhmalbaf, director of At Five in the Afternoon
- David Mahmoudieh
- Majid Majidi, director of Children of Heaven
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Darius Mehrjui, director of Leila
- Reza Mirkarimi, director of So Close, So Far
- Mehran Modiri, director of Pavarchin, Noghtechin, Shabhaye Barareh
- Jalal Moghaddam
- Rasoul Mollagholipour
- Amir Naderi
- Jafar Panahi, director of The Circle
- Babak Payami, director of Silence between Two Thoughts
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvai
- Iraj Tahmasb
- Shahin Yazdani
- Alireza Ansarian
[edit] Film Score Composers
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Babak Bayat
- Majid Entezami
- Fariborz Lachini
- Ahmad Pejman
[edit] Entertainers
[edit] Dancers
- Sashar Zarif
- Mohamad Reza Khordadian
- Jamileh
[edit] Music Video Directors
- Alireza Amirghassemi
- Alec Cartio
- Koji Zadori
- Nami
- Ravi
[edit] TV Personalities
- Shahram Aslani
- Zia Atabay
- Alireza Meybodi
- Hamid Shabkhiz
[edit] Musicians and Singers
[edit] Classical
[edit] Iranian Classical/Traditional
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Axiom of Choice
- Gholam-Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina, folkloric music
- Delkash
- Hossein Khan EsmailZadeh
- Mirza Abdollah Farahani
- Akbar Golpaygani
- Morteza Hannaneh
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Kamkarha
- Mamak Khadem (of Axiom of Choice)
- Ruhollah Khaleghi
- Fariborz Lachini
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Javad Maroofi
- Marzieh
- Mohammad Mousavi
- Shahram Nazeri
- Bahman Panahi
- Parisa
- Abolhasan Saba
- Mohammad Shams
- Homayoun Shajarian
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- Abdolali Vaziri, singer and tar player
- Alinaghi Vaziri, composer and tar player
- Jalal Zolfonun
- Mahmoud Zoufonoun
- Zyriab
[edit] Western Classical
- Lily Afshar
- Shahin Farhat
- Golriz Hashemi
- Aminollah Hossein
- Lotfi Mansouri
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Ali Rahbari
- Anoushiravan Rohani
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Heshmat Sandjari
- Farshad Sandjari
- Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)
[edit] Electronic
- DJ Bahram
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
- DJ Maryam
- Fred Maslaki
- Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
- Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
- Nami
- Behrouz Nazari
- Omid Nourizadeh
- Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
- Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
[edit] Pop
(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
- Afshin
- Arash
- Arian Band
- Aref
- Alireza Assar
- Andy Madadian
- Anousheh Khalili
- Babak Torgoley
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Black Cats
- Cameron Cartio
- Dariush Eghbali
- Davoud Behboodi
- Delkash
- Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
- Farshid Amin
- Faramarz Aslani
- Faramarz Assef
- Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
- Fereidoun Farrahi
- Fereidoun Foroughi
- Golpa
- Googoosh
- Habib
- Hayadeh
- Hassan Shamaizadeh
- Hodi
- Homeyrah
- Houshmand Aghili
- Jamshid (musician)
- Kamran Delan
- Kamran & Hooman
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Martik
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Mekabiz
- Mohammad Esfehani
- Mohammad Nouri
- Morteza
- Moein
- Nooshafarin
- Omid
- Pyruz
- Reza Sadeghi
- Sattar
- Sepideh
- Shadmehr Aghili
- Susan Roshan
- Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
- Shahram Solati
- Shahyad
- Saeed Mohammadi
- Shahram Shabpareh
- Shahrum K
- Shohreh Solati
- Siavash
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
- Toofun
[edit] Lyricists
- Maryam Heydarzadeh
- Leila Kasra
- Jaklin Vigen
- Paksima Zakipour
- Bijan Samandar
- Manouchehr Cheshm Azar
[edit] Rock
- O-Hum
- Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen; often called himself Persian.
[edit] Painters
- Reza Abbasi
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Hassanali Khane Vaziri
- Hanibal Alkhas
- Aqa Buzurg
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Manouchehr Atashi
- Hossein Behzad
- Haydar Hatemi
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Ali Bozorgmehr
- Iran Darroudi
- Majid Fadaeian
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Nader Farzan - website
- Negar Shah
- Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
- Mansoureh Hosseini
- Parviz Kalantari
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Zhaleh Kazemi
- Farshid Maleki
- Mani
- Roohee Mirbaha
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Shaikh Mohammad Shirazi
- Ali Akbar Tajvidi
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Bagher Azadi - website
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Alireza Smaily
[edit] Digital Artists
- Shahryar Amiri
[edit] Photographers
See main list: List of Iranian photographers
- Morteza Avini
- Nader Davoodi
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Kaveh Golestan
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Mitra Memarzia
- Maryam Mohammadi
- Maryam Zandi
- Sadegh Tirafkan
[edit] Theatre artists
[edit] Stage Actors & Actresses
- Dariush Arjmand
- Mehdi Bajestani
- Shiva Boloorian
- Maryam Davari
- Behzad Farahani
- Mohammad Reza Jozi
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ali Nassirian
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Ahmad Saatchian
- Roya Teimourian
[edit] Theatre directors
- Mohammad Aghebati
- Akbar Alizad
- Mahmood Azizi
- Bahram Bayzai
- Shiva Boloorian
- Amir Dejakam
- Vahid Evazzadeh
- Hassan Majooni
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Hamed Mohammad Taheri
- Kousrosh Narimani
- Mohammad Javad Ostadi
- Soheil Parsa
- Atila Pessyani
- Ali Rafiee
- Vahid Rahbani
- Ghotbedin Sadeghi
- Hamid Samandarian
- Mohammad Yaghoobi
