Activists
- Mahnaz Afkhami, Human Rights and Women's Rights activist, leading figure in the international women's movement
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Human Rights Activist, Singer and Songwriter, 2003 Miss World 1st runner up, Miss Canada 2003
- Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, Author and pioneer of Persian women's movement in modern Iran
- Forough Azarakhshi, Pioneer of modern education for women in Mashhad
- Parvin Darabi, Author and activist
- Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Author and pioneer of Persian women's movement in modern Iran
- Shirin Ebadi, Human rights lawyer and judge, 2003 Nobel Laureate
- Camelia Entekhabifard, journalist and author
- Zahra Eshraghi, Feminist activist,
- Roya Hakakian, Iranian-Jewish human rights activist and author
- Faezeh Hashemi, journalist, women rights activist, and former member of Iranian parliament
- Mehrangiz Kar, Human rights lawyer and winner of the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize
- Parvaneh Eskandari Dariush Forouhar's wife
- Sheema Kalbasi, Human Rights Activist, Author
- Zahra Kazemi, Slain political photographer
- Shahla Lahiji, Human Rights Activist
- Rosie Malek-Yonan, Actor, author and activist who testified on Capitol Hill at U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 on behalf of the Assyrians in Iraq
- Lily Mazahery, Internationally recognized lawyer and human rights activist
- Azar Nafisi, Activist and novelist (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
- Maryam Namazie, Feminist and communist and the leader of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
- Shiva Nazar-Ahari, human rights activist
- Marina Nemat, Activist, past political prisoner and author.
- Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
- Shadi Sadr, Feminist activist, lawyer and journalist
- Shahla Sherkat, Editor and a pioneer of women's movement in the modern Iran
- Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian human rights lawyer for opposition activists and politicians
- Badri Teymourtash, First female Iranian Doctor; a founder of School of Dentistry, Mashad University
- Iran Teymourtash, journalist and early activist; daughter of Abdolhossein Teymourtash
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