Gilan Province - Notable People

Notable People

See also: List of People from Gilan
  • Abdul-Qadir Gilani
  • Ebrahim Poordavood
  • Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gilani, founder of Sharif University of Technology
  • Ardeshir Mohassess, cartoonist
  • Mirza Kuchek Khan, founder of Constitutionalist movement of Gilan
  • Arsen Minasian
  • Hazin Lahiji, poet
  • Mohammad Taghi Bahjat Foumani, Twelver Shi'a Marja
  • Al-Jilani
  • Mahmoud Behzad
  • Majid Samii, brain surgeon in Germany
  • Pejman Nouri, football player
  • Mohammad Moin, prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranology
  • Sirous Ghayeghran, former Captain of Iranian national football team
  • Ghafour Jahani, footballer
  • Hushang Ebtehaj, contemporary poet
  • Mardavij, Former king of Iran
  • Fazlollah Reza, second Head of Sharif University of Technology
  • Khosrow Golsorkhi, journalist, poet, and communist activist

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