List of Iranian Kurds
This is a list of Iranian Kurdish notable people by birth, ancestry or  ethnicity, arranged by main profession then birthdate. For similar reasons related to ethnogenesis and national identity, this list starts from the early modern history of Iran and Ardalan Emirate, when the Safavids established a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region. This list is not automatically filled with notables from Iranian Kurdistan region, but the following Iranian people have either stated that they are Kurds or that credible sources indicate that. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Kurdish and Iranian. Arts and entertainment

Music

Singers

Composers and instrumentalists 
 Rokneddin Mokhtari – (1887, Kermanshah - 1970, Tehran)  military personnel, musician and violinist. Ghader Abdollahzadeh – (23 October 1925, Kelijeh -21 May 2009, Bukan) woodwind and Kurdish traditional musician. Bahramji – (1952, Kermanshah) Kurdish New Age musician. Ali Akbar Moradi – (1957, Gharveh) composer and singer. Seyed Khalil Alinezhad – (11 June 1958, Sahneh - 18 November 2001, Gothenburg) singer, songwriter and composer. Saeed Farajpouri – (20 February 1961, Sanadaj) composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument kamancheh. Ardeshir Kamkar – (1962, Sanandaj) kamancheh  player. Kayhan Kalhor – (24 November 1964, Tehran) kamancheh-setar player and vocal composer. Shahriyar Jamshidi – (1971, Kermanshah) Kamancheh player and composer;  Kurdish-Iranian Canadian. >

Visual arts

Calligraphers 
 Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor – (1829–1892) calligrapher. Filmmaking

Actors
 Nozar Azadi – (1938, Kermanshah – 27 February 2021, Bremen) comedian and actor. Parvaneh Massoumi – (2 March 1945, Tehran) actress. Faramarz Sedighi – (11 November 1949, Saqqez) actor. Farhad Aslani – (8 June 1966, Bijar) actor. Saeed Aghakhani – (23 February 1972, Bijar) actor. Hootan Shakiba – (14 June 1984, Tehran) actor. Navid Mohammadzadeh – (6 April 1986, Ilam) actor. Neda Ghasemi – (20 June 1987, Kermanshah) actress. Minoo Sharifi – (12 December 1987, Sanandaj) actress. Navid Pourfaraj – (26	April 1988, Kermanshah) actor. Ali Shadman – (24 November 1996, Ilam) actor. Directors 
 Ghotbeddin Sadeghi – (23 April 1952, Sanandaj) theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor. Bahman Ghobadi – (1 February 1969, Baneh) film director. Jamil Rostami – (1971, Sanandaj) film director. Loghman Khaledi – (23	July 1978) film director. Shahram Mokri – (17 August 1978) film director and screenwriter. Keywan Karimi – (21 September 1985, Baneh) film director. Painters, photogeraphers and cartoonists 
 Bahram Kalhornia – (1952, Kermanshah) contemporary painter, graphic designer and writer. Bahar Movahed Bashiri – (1975, Tehran) caricaturist, singer and Persian classical musician. Hiwa Pashaei – (August 1979, Eslamabad-e Gharb) painter, photographer and calligrapher. Ebrahim Alipoor – (4 September 1989, Baneh) photographer. Branches of science

Formal science 
 Caucher Birkar – (1978, Merivan) mathematician and university professor. Social science 
 Sharafkhan Bidlisi – (25 February 1543, Karahrud-1603, Bitlis) Safavid Iranian historian. Nur Ali Elahi – (11 September 1895, Jeyhunabad – 19 October 1974, Tehran) spiritual thinker, musician, writer, philosopher and jurist. Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi – (1570, Julaq, Nahavand, –  c. 1632 in India)  Safavid-Mughal Kurdish noble, historian and biographer. Mohammad Mokri – (1921 – 12 July 2007) linguist, diplomat and writer. Abdurrahman Sharafkandi – (13 April 1921, Bukan – 21 February 1991, Karaj) writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator. Amir Hassanpour – (17 November 1943, Mehabad – 24 June 2017, Toronto) social scientist. Saleh Nikbakht – (1945) lawyer, advocate and human rights activist. Abbas Vali - (1949) political and social theorist. Hamid Reza Ardalan – (23 September 1959, Sanandaj) musicologist and ethnomusicologist. Hashim Ahmadzadeh – (1961, Mahabad)  social scientist. Economy 
 Omid Kordestani – (1963, Tehran)  businessman;  Iranian Kurdish-American. Law and jurisdiction

Political prisoners 
 Abdolreza Rajabi – (1962, Mahidasht – 30 October 2008, Reja'i Shahr Prison) political activist. Loghman Moradi – (1983 – 8 September 2018) executed political prisoner
 Zaniar Moradi – (1987, Marivan – 8 September 2018, Gohardasht Prison)  executed political prisoner. Farhad Vakili – (? - 2011) political activist. Literature

Literary scholars 
 Mohammad Ghazi – (3 August 1913, Mahabad – 14 January 1998, Tehran) literary translator. Brayim Younisi –  (1926, Baneh – 8 February  2012, Tehran) literary translator, novelist and writer. Fiction writers 
 Ali Ashraf Darvishian – (3 August 1941, Kermanshah – 26 October 2017, Karaj) short story writer, novelist and scholar of Kurdish folklore studies. Ata Nahai – (1960, Baneh) short story writer and novelist. Laleh Khadivi – (1977, Isfahan) novelist and filmmaker. Non-fiction writers 
 Baba Mardoukh Rohanee – (1923, Kashtar – 17 January 1989, Sanandaj)  Islamic academic and writer. Karim Hisami – (1926, Mahabad – 6 October 2001, Stockholm) writer, literary translator and KDP member. Poets 
 Shaykh Mustafa Takhtayi – (18th-century) Ardalani Kurdish poet. Ahmad Bag Komasi – (1796 – 1877) Ardalani Kurdish poet. Mastoureh Ardalan – (1805, Sanandaj – 1848, Sulaymaniyah) Kurdish poet, historian, and writer. Edeb – (1860 – 1918)  Kurdish poet. Nari – (1874, Merivan-1944, Bilu) Kurdish poet. Abolqasem Lahouti – (12 October 1887, Kermanshah – 16 March 1957, Moscow) poet and political activist;Iranian-Soviet, maternal Kurdish. Qani –  (1898, Mariwan -1965) Kurdish poet. Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi – (6 February 1923, Kermanshah – 17 November 2015, Tehran)  poet and lyricist. Shami Kermashani – (1927, Kermanshah –November 23, 1984, Kermanshah) poet. Suwara Ilkhanizada – (1937, Turjan – 14 January 1976, Tehran)  Kurdish poet and writer. Jalal Malaksha – (1951, Malekshan-e Olya – 31 October 2020) Kurdish poet, writer, political activist, translator and journalist. Jila Hosseini – (22 September 1964, Saqqez – 	27 September 1996) Kurdish poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer. Media

Journalists 
 Hemin Mukriyani – (1921, Mahabad – 18 April 1986, Mahabad) journalist, poet, translator and literary critic. Roya Toloui – (22 May 1966) Baneh) democracy activist and journalist. Rahim Rashidi –  (12 October 1978, Saqqez)  journalist and correspondent of Kurdistan TV and Kurdistan 24. Behrouz Boochani – (23 July 1983) journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer. Military 
 Aziz Khan Mokri  – (1792, Sardasht – 1871, Tabriz) Qajar military officer. Shahram Irani – (1968, Sanandaj) military officer and navy commander. Politics and government

Activists 
 Nasser Fahimi – (8 May 1974, Sanandaj) Human rights defender and political prisoner. Farzad Kamangar –  (c. 1975 – 9 May 2010) executed teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker. Sherko Moarefi – (1980, Baneh – 4 November 2013, Saqqez) activist and political prisoner. Ehsan Fatahian – (1982, Kermanshah – 11 November 2009, Sanandaj) activist and  torture victim. Bahare Alavi – (1989, Saqqiz – 27 April 2011, Sanandaj) human rights activist, women's rights defender and blogger. Zara Mohammadi – (1990, Dehgolan) – cultural activist. Habibollah Latifi – (21 March 1982) activist and political  prisoner. Sarou Ghahremani – (1993, Sanandaj – 12 January 2018) political prisoner. Officials 
Including tribesmen:

Parliament and party members

Religion

Islamic figures 
 Abdolqader Zahedi – (1907 – 19 December 2005, Saqqez) Islamic jurist and political leader. Ezaddin Husseini – (26 May 1921, Baneh – 10 February 2011, Upsala) Islamic jurist and political leader. Assad Sheikholeslami Sanandaji – (1932 - 1 January 2020) Islamic scholar and professor. Ahmad Moftizadeh – (February 1933 – 9 February 1993) Islamic scholar. Yarsanis 
 Sultan Sahak – ( late 14th century to early 15th century) religious leader who reformed the modern beliefs of Yarsanism. Hajj Nematollah – (1871, Jeyhunabad – 28 February 1919, Jeyhunabad) Yarsani  mystic and religious leader. Sports

Executives and administrators

Individual sports

Combat sports 
 Bijan Batmani – (22 December 1972, Kermanshah)  boxer. Makwan Amirkhani – (8 November 1988, Kermanshah)  mixed martial artist, Iranian Kurdish-Finnish. Wrestling 
 Sardar Pashaei – (12 May 1979, Saqqez) 
 Saman Tahmasebi – (26 July 1985, Sanandaj) 
 Yousef Ghaderian – (14 February 1993, Saqqez)

Weightlifting 
 Kianoush Rostami – (23 July 1991, Kermanshah) strength athlete and Olympic weightlifter. Paralympic athletes 
 Siamand Rahman – ( 21 March 1988 – 1 March 2020)  Paralympic powerlifter. Team sports 
 Homa Hosseini – (22 December 1988, Kermanshah) rower. Basketball 
 Hamed Sohrabnejad – (7 May 1983, Sanandaj)

Football

Miscellaneous

See also 
 List of Iranians
 List of Kurds
 List of Iranian Azerbaijanis

Footnotes

References

Citations

Bibliography

 
 
 

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