List of Iranians - Sports

Sports

See also: category:Iranian sportspeople
  • Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
  • Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Adel Kolahkaj, footballer
  • Alex Agase, American football player
  • Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
  • Ali Karimi, football player
  • Ali Parvin, football player and coach
  • Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
  • Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
  • Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
  • Andre Agassi, tennis player – his father was Assyrian-Armenian
  • Arash Miresmaili, Judo World Champion
  • Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
  • Behdad Salimi, weightlifter World Champion
  • Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
  • Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
  • Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
  • Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
  • Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
  • Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
  • George Issabeg, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
  • George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathlon
  • Ghasem Dehnavi, footballer
  • Ghasem Hadadifar, footballer
  • Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
  • Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004,
  • Javad Nekounam, football player
  • Khodadad Azizi, football player
  • Kianoush Rostami, weightlifter, World Champion
  • Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
  • Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
  • Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
  • Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
  • Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
  • Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
  • Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
  • Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
  • Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
  • Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
  • Rahman Rezaei, football player
  • Rasoul Khadem, Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler
  • Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
  • Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
  • Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
  • Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
  • Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
  • T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
  • Vahid Hashemian, football player
  • Yossef Karami, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
  • Yu Darvish, Iranian-Japanese baseball player

world record holder

  • Andranik Teymourian, football player
  • Fereydoon Zandi, football player
  • Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Hadi Saei, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
  • Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
  • Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
  • Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer

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