People from Iran

17 people remembered here.

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  Keyvan Khosrovani

  1938 – 2026 · Iranian architect

  Architect and couturier who dressed an empress in Iranian crafts, and kept building beauty in exile.

  60 candles · 6 tributes
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  Annette O'Callaghan

  † 2026 · Thoroughbred breeder and owner

  Yeomanstown matriarch and family rock who helped build a champion stud.

  58 candles · 9 tributes
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  Javad Mojabi

  1939 – 2026 · Poet

  Iranian poet, satirist and art critic of Night of the Locust and modern visual arts.

  58 candles · 4 tributes
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  Cyrus Ebrahimzadeh

  1937 – 2026 · Actor

  Six decades of Iranian stage, screen, and radio, remembered for craft and generosity.

  9 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh

  1946 – 2026 · Political geographer

  Political geographer who mapped Iran's Gulf and borders in scholarship and public life.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sirous Ebrahimzadeh

  1937 – 2026 · Actor

  Iranian stage and screen veteran whose voice and craft spanned six decades.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ali Larijani

  1958 – 2026 · Iranian politician

  Kant scholar, speaker of Iran's parliament and nuclear negotiator at the heart of the Islamic Republic for four decades.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Mohsen Rastani

  1958 – 2026 · Documentary photographer

  Photographer of the Iranian Family. In a photograph, someone lives forever.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Mousa Shubairi Zanjani

  1928 – 2026 · Twelver Shia marja

  A Qom marja whose life was spent on rijal, fiqh, and the quiet work of teaching.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Akbar Abdi

  1960 – 2026 · Actor and comedian

  Iran's man of a thousand faces who made a nation laugh and cry.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Shahrnush Parsipur

  1946 – 2026 · Novelist

  Iranian novelist of Women Without Men who wrote women into freedom and paid with exile.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani

  1934 – 2026 · Political activist and memoirist

  A lifelong fighter on Iran's left who lived to question it, and argued to the end for democracy.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Soleiman Minasian

  † 2026 · Cinematographer

  The cameraman behind The House Is Black and Brick and Mirror.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Zaynolabideen Ghorbani

  † 2026 · Shia cleric and politician

  A scholar of Gilan who led its prayers for four decades.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Yousef Majidzadeh

  1936 – 2026 · Archaeologist

  Iranian archaeologist who led the Jiroft excavations and brought the Bronze Age Halil Rud civilisation to the world's attention.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ahmad Nategh-Nouri

  1937 – 2026 · Politician

  Iranian parliamentarian and long-serving president of the Boxing Federation of Iran.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Iraj

  1933 – 2026 · Singer

  The champion of Persian song, whose voice carried Golha, the cinema and the memories of generations.

  3 candles · 1 tributes