List of Iranian artists
This is a list of Iranian artists.
Calligraphists
- Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
- Ali Bozorgmehr [1]
- Abolhassan Etessami
- Mir Emad Hassani
- Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
- Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
- Reza Mafi
- Mishkín-Qalam
- Bahman Panahi
- Jalil Rasouli
- Mir Ali Tabrizi
- Towhidi Tabari
Cartoonists
- Javad Alizadeh
- Maziyar Bizhani
- Ardeshir Mohassess
- Nikahang Kowsar
- Mana Neyestani
- Touka Neyestani
- Afshin Sabooki
- Alan Sakhavarz
Cinema artists
Actors and Actresses
- Akbar Abdi
- behnosh bakhteary
- 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
Directors and Filmmakers
- Behrouz Afkhami
- Kianoush Ayyari
- Morteza Avini
- Shoja Azari, director. [2]
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
- Bahram Beizai
- Mahdi Bemani Naeini
- 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
- Mammad Ali Najafi,director of Sar Bedaran
- 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
- Amir Shahab Razavian, director of Colors of Memory, Tehran at 7:00AM, Journey of the Grey Men
- Abdolhossein Sepanta
- Sohrab Shahid-Sales
- Kamran Shirdel
- Khosrow Sinai
- Kamal Tabrizi
- Nasser Taghvai
- Iraj Tahmasb
Film score composers
Designers
Fashion designers
Graphic designers
- Reza Abedini
- Mehrdad Aref-Adib
- Martin Armand
- Ebrahim Haghighi
- Bahram Kalhornia
- Farshid Mesghali
- Morteza Momayez
- Ghobad Shiva
Entertainers
Comedians
Dancers
- Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
- Mohamad Reza Khordadian, pop
- Jamileh, pop
- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric
Music Video Directors
Musicians and Singers
Classical
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
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)
Electronic
- DJ Bahram
- Leila Arab
- Deep Dish
- Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
- Farzad Aghili
- DJ Maryam
- Fred Maslaki
- Kayvon Zand
- 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)
- Dj Posch (DJ Pooria)
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
- Benyamin Bahadori
- Bijan Mortazavi
- Black Cats
- Cameron Cartio
- Darius Danesh
- 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
- Kamran Delan
- Kamran & Hooman
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- Kouros
- Leila Forouhar
- Mahasti
- Martik
- Mansour
- Mehrdad
- Mekabiz
- Mohammad Esfehani
- Mohammad Nouri
- 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 Shams
- Siavash Ghomeyshi
- Toofun
- Vigen
Lyricists
- Masoud Amini
- Masoud Fardmanesh
- Shahriar Ghanbary
- Maryam Heydarzadeh
- Homayoun Hoshyarnejad
- Mina Jalali
- Iraj Janati Atai
- Leila Kasra
- Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
- Bijan Samandar
- Ardalan Sarfaraz
- Jaklin Vigen
- Zoya Zakarian
- Paksima Zakipour
- Milad Tangshir
Rock/Metal
- Ahoora
- Aras
- Agah Bahari
- Barad
- Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
- Farzad Golpayegani
- Kahtmayan
- Khak
- Kiosk
- Meera
- O-Hum
- Sarakhs
- TarantisT
- Kaveh Yaghmaei
- Kourosh Yaghmaei
- White Waves
Painters and Sculptors
- Reza Abbasi
- Aydin Aghdashloo
- Hanibal Alkhas
- Aqa Buzurg
- Manouchehr Atashi
- Bijan Bahadory-Kashkoeli
- Hossein Behzad
- Kamaleddin Behzad
- Ali Bozorgmehr
- Iran Darroudi
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Mahmoud Farshchian
- Bita Fayyazi
- Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari
- Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
- Haydar Hatemi
- Mansoureh Hosseini
- Parviz Kalantari
- Kamal ol-Molk
- Zhaleh Kazemi
- Farshid Maleki
- Mani
- Roohee Mirbaha
- Noreen Motamed
- Nima Petgar
- Mohammad Rokhsefat
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi
- Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
- Ali Akbar Sanati
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Ali Akbar Tajvidi
- Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
- Hassanali Khan Vaziri
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Towhidi Tabari
- Reza Karimi
Photographers
- Abbas
- Morteza Avini
- Nader Davoodi
- Manouchehr Deghati
- Reza Deghati
- Shahram Entekhabi
- Kaveh Golestan
- Sam Javanrouh
- Nasrollah Kasraian
- Behrouz Mehri
- Mitra Memarzia
- Maryam Mohammadi
- Naveed Nour, b.1963 in Germany to Iranian Parents
- Jahangir Razmi, Pulitzer prize winner
- Hassan Sarbakhshian
- Sadegh Tirafkan
- Alfred Yaghobzadeh
- Maryam Zandi
Theatre artists
Stage Actors and Actresses
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Dariush Arjmand
- Mehdi Bajestani
- Shiva Boloorian
- Maryam Davari
- Behzad Farahani
- Mohammad Reza Jozi
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Ali Nassirian
- Saeed Poursamimi
- Ahmad Saatchian
- Roya Teymourian
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