List of Iranians - in The News

In The News

• Akbar Ganji
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
• Ali Dizaei, Senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police
• Alireza Jafarzadeh, FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst
• Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the Ansari X Prize
• Bahar Soomekh, Iranian-American actor
• Camila Batmanghelidjh, UK's Women of the Year 2006 Award winner, founder of London-based children's charity Kids Company
• Daryush Shokof, Artist, Film Director, Iran Zendan
• Farzan Athari, International Model
• Goli Ameri, Republican nominee for U.S. House of Representatives
• Jimmy Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills
• Kamshad Kooshan, Iranian American Film Director
• Kia Joorabchian, businessman
• Ladan and Laleh Bijani
• Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
• Nasser David Khalili, Billionaire, Art Collector
• Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; Miss Canada 2003
• Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay
• Ramona Amiri, Miss Canada 2005
• Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
• Ross Mirkarimi
• Sheikh Haron
• Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005
• Shirin Ebadi, Nobel prize in Peace
• Shiva Nazar-Ahari, Human rights activist
• Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian American actress
• Zahra Kazemi
• Zeynab Jalaliyan, Kurdish prisoner