Famous People

Tayfur Bastami

9th century Persian Sufi mystic

804 — 848

Ubaydullah Zur'a al-Razi

9th-century Persian Muslim scholar

816 — 878

Ubaydullah Khordadbeh

Persian geographer and official (died 913)

820 — 912

Moin al-Din Chishti

Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)

1143 — 1236

Ubayd Zakani

Persian poet

1301 — 1371

Sarmad Kashani

Persian mystic, poet and saint

1590 — 1661

Shehab al-Din Suhrawardi

Persian philosopher and founder of the school of Illuminationism

1155 — 1191

Mansur Nasr Mansur

Persian mathematician and astronomer (c. 960 – 1036)

960 — 1036

Ishaq al-Mawsili

Arab musician of Persian origin (767/772 – 850)

767 — 850

Abdullah al-Muqaffa'

8th-century Persian author and translator

724 — 840

Abdullah Qutaybah

Persian jurist and scholar (c.828-889)

828 — 889

Ahmad Shamloo

Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist (1925-2000)

1925 — 2000

Evagoras II

4th-century BC King of Salamis and Persian Satrap

Sahar Biniaz

Persian-Canadian actress and model

Kamal Khujandi

Persian poet

Kamal al-Dīn al-Fārisī

Persian mathematician

Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani

11th century Persian Isma'ili scholar

Salman the Persian

companion of Muhammad; first Persian convert to Islam

Muhammad Bakr al-Razi

Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer

Mohamad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī

Persian Islamic scholar (810-870)

Abdul Bēdil

Indo-Persian sufi, writer and poet (1642–1720)

Umar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

Ja'far Sharif-Emami

Persian engineer and politician (1910-1998)

Elias Ganjavi

Persian poet