Religious Figures
- Salih Al-Karzakani - 17th-century cleric
- Muhammad Baqir Majlisi - 17th-century cleric
- Abdullah al Samahiji - 18th-century cleric
- Yusuf Al Bahrani - 18th-century cleric
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani - cleric, head of the Council of Islamic revolution and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
- Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr - Islamic philosopher, father of contemporary Islamic economics and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party
- Allameh Tabatabaei - one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (Marja) for Shi'a Muslims around the world
- Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - foremost marja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims
- Navvab Safavi - founder of the militant group Fadayan-e Islam
- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - currently the pre-eminent marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today
- Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim - sole Shi'a marja in the early 1960s.
- Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei - Shi'a marja.
- Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr - Shi'a marja.
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri - Shi'a marja
- Ahmed Al-Waeli -one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the twentieth century.
- Aga Khan IV - Current Imam of the Nizari Ismaili tariqah of Shia Islam
- Allama Talib Jauhari
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