List of Iranian artists

This is a list of Iranian artists.

Calligraphists

* Gholam Hossein Amirkhani
* Ali Bozorgmehr [http://www.alibozorgmehr.com/]
* Abolhassan Etessami
* Mir Emad Hassani
* Seyyed Jafar Kashfi
* Yadollah Kaboli Khansari
* Reza Mafi
* Mishkín-Qalam
* Bahman Panahi
* Jalil Rasouli
* Mir Ali Tabrizi
* Towhidi Tabari

Cartoonists

*Javad Alizadeh
*Maziyar Bizhani
*Ardeshir Mohassess
*Nikahang Kowsar
*Mana Neyestani
*Touka Neyestani
*Afshin Sabooki
*Alan Sakhavarz

Cinema artists

Actors and Actresses

* Akbar Abdi
* behnosh bakhteary
* Bizhan Emkanian
* Golab Adineh
* Mahnaz Afshar
* Shohreh Aghdashloo
* Pegah Ahangarani
* Taraneh Alidousti
* Jahangir Almasi
* Fariborz Arabnia
* Daryoush Arjmand
* Asal Badiee
* Delkash
* Omid Djalili
* Ezzatollah Entezami
* Homayoun Ershadi
* Hadi Eslami
* Parviz Fannizadeh
* Behzad Farahani
* Golshifteh Farahani
* Shaghayegh Farahani
* Mohammad Ali Fardin
* Farimah Farjami
* Bita Farrahi
* Hamid Farrokhnezhad
* Taies Farzan
* Jahangir Forouhar
* Leila Forouhar
* Mohammad Reza Foroutan
* Garsha
* Faramarz Gharibian
* Sorayya Ghasemi
* Googoosh
* Mohammad Reza Golzar
* Azita Hajian
* Mehdi Hashemi
* Jamshid Hashempour
* Leila Hatami
* Amin Hayaee
* Rambod Javan
* Hamid Jebeli
* Niki Karimi
* Mohammad Ali Keshavarz
* Reza Kianian
* Gowhar Kheirandish
* Fakhri Khorvash
* Majid Majidi
* Nasser Malekmoti'ee
* Rosie Malek-Yonan
* Jamshid Mashayekhi
* Parvaneh Masoumi
* Mehran Modiri
* Bahman Mofid
* Ali Mosaffa
* Fatemeh Motamed-Aria
* Ahmad Najafi
* Ali Nassirian
* Roya Nonahali
* Roxanne Pallett
* Hossien Panahi
* Parviz Parastouee
* Atila Pesyani
* Mahaia Petrosian
* Parsa Pirouzfar
* Parviz Pourhosseini
* Saeed Poursamimi
* Saeed Rad
* Bahram Radan
* Davoud Rashidi
* Habib Rezaee
* Homa Rousta
* Reza Rouygari
* Hossein Sarshar
* Parviz Sayyad
* Reza Shafieejam
* Khosrow Shakibaee
* Mozhdeh Shamsaee
* Mehraveh Sharifinia
* Mohammad Reza Sharifinia
* Jamileh Sheykhi
* Soroush Sehhat
* Iraj Tahmasb
* Amin Tarokh
* Sussan Taslimi
* Hedyeh Tehrani
* Behrouz Vossoughi
* Merila Zarei

Directors and Filmmakers

* Behrouz Afkhami
* Kianoush Ayyari
* Morteza Avini
* Shoja Azari, director. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333694/]
* Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
* Bahram Beizai
* Mahdi Bemani Naeini
* Ahmad Reza Darvish
* Abolhassan Davoudi
* Saeed Ebrahimifar
* Shahram Entekhabi, director. [http://www.entekhabi.org]
* Bahman Farman-Ara
* Ramin Farahani
* Iraj Ghaderi
* Farrokh Ghaffari, Director, Actor, Producer. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315469/]
* Rabeah Ghaffari, director. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1699687/]
* Behrooz Gharibpoor
* Bahman Ghobadi, director of "A Time for Drunken Horses"
* Akbar Golrang
* Ali Hatami
* Ebrahim Hatamikia
* Hassan Hedayat
* Ardeshir Irani, director of first Indian Talkie, Alam Ara
* Abolfazl Jalili
* Samuel Khachikian
* Abbas Kiarostami, director of "Taste of Cherry"
* Masoud Kimiai
* Parviz Kimiavi
* Esma'il Kooshan
* Mohsen Makhmalbaf, director of "Kandahar"
* Samira Makhmalbaf, director of "At Five in the Afternoon"
* David Mahmoudieh
* Majid Majidi, director of "Children of Heaven"
* Rosie Malek-Yonan
* Darius Mehrjui, director of "Leila"
* Reza Mirkarimi, director of "So Close, So Far"
* Mehran Modiri, director of "Pavarchin", "Noghtechin", "Shabhaye Barareh"
* Jalal Moghaddam
* Rasoul Mollagholipour
* Amir Naderi
* Jafar Panahi, director of "The Circle"
* Babak Payami, director of "Silence between Two Thoughts"
* Amir Shahab Razavian, director of "Colors of Memory", "", "Journey of the Grey Men"
* Abdolhossein Sepanta
* Sohrab Shahid-Sales
* Kamran Shirdel
* Daryush Shokof , director of "Seven Servants"
* Khosrow Sinai
* Kamal Tabrizi
* Nasser Taghvai
* Iraj Tahmasb

Film score composers

* Hossein Alizadeh
* Babak Bayat
* Majid Entezami
* Fariborz Lachini
* Ahmad Pejman
* Peyman Yazdanian

Designers

Fashion designers

*Pegah Anvarian
*Shirin Guild
*Behnaz Sarafpour
*Bijan Pakzad
*Mahla Zamani

Graphic designers

* Reza Abedini
* Mehrdad Aref-Adib
* Martin Armand
* Ebrahim Haghighi
* Bahram Kalhornia
* Farshid Mesghali
* Morteza Momayez
* Ghobad Shiva

Entertainers

Comedians

* Omid Djalili
* Negin Farsad
* Maz Jobrani
* Hadi Khorsandi
* Shaparak Khorsandi
* Ebrahim Nabavi

Dancers

* Farzaneh Kaboli, folkloric
* Mohamad Reza Khordadian, pop
* Jamileh, pop
* Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, folkloric

Music Video Directors

* Alireza Amirghassemi
* Alec Cartio
* Koji Zadori
* Nami
* Ravi

Musicians and Singers

Classical

"See List of Iranian composers"

Iranian Classical/Traditional

* Hossein Alizadeh
* Axiom of Choice
* Gholam-Hossein Banan
* Sima Bina, folkloric music
* Delkash
* Hossein Khan EsmailZadeh
* Mirza Abdollah Farahani
* Akbar Golpaygani
* Morteza Hannaneh
* Kayhan Kalhor
* Kamkarha
* Mamak Khadem (of Axiom of Choice)
* Ruhollah Khaleghi
* Fariborz Lachini
* Mohammad Reza Lotfi
* Javad Maroofi
* Marzieh
* Mohammad Mousavi
* Shahram Nazeri
* Bahman Panahi
* Parisa
* Abolhasan Saba
* Mohammad Shams
* Homayoun Shajarian
* Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
* Abdolali Vaziri, singer and tar player
* Alinaghi Vaziri, composer and tar player
* Jalal Zolfonun
* Mahmoud Zoufonoun
* Zyriab

Western Classical

* Lily Afshar
* Shahin Farhat
* Golriz Hashemi
* Aminollah Hossein
* Lotfi Mansouri
* Nader Mashayekhi
* Ali Rahbari
* Anoushiravan Rohani
* Shahrdad Rohani
* Heshmat Sandjari
* Farshad Sandjari
* Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)

Electronic

* DJ Bahram
* Leila Arab
* Deep Dish
* Farshad Farshadmanesh (Farlander)
* Farzad Aghili
* DJ Maryam
* Fred Maslaki
* Kayvon Zand
* Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)
* Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)
* Nami
* Behrouz Nazari
* Omid Nourizadeh
* Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)
* Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)
* Dj Posch (DJ Pooria)

Pop

(Sorted according to the first letter of the most famous name)
* Afshin
* Arash
* Arian Band
* Aref
* Alireza Assar
* Andy Madadian
* Anousheh Khalili
* Babak Torgoley
* Benyamin Bahadori
* Bijan Mortazavi
* Black Cats
* Cameron Cartio
* Darius Danesh
* Dariush Eghbali
* Davoud Behboodi
* Delkash
* Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
* Farshid Amin
* Faramarz Aslani
* Faramarz Assef
* Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)
* Fereidoun Farrahi
* Fereidoun Foroughi
* Golpa
* Googoosh
* Habib
* Hayadeh
* Hassan Shamaizadeh
* Hodi
* Homeyrah
* Houshmand Aghili
* Jamshid
* Kamran Delan
* Kamran & Hooman
* Kaveh Yaghmaei
* Kourosh Yaghmaei
* Kouros
* Leila Forouhar
* Mahasti
* Martik
* Mansour
* Mehrdad
* Mekabiz
* Mohammad Esfehani
* Mohammad Nouri
* Moein
* Nooshafarin
* Omid
* Pyruz
* Reza Sadeghi
* Sattar
* Sepideh
* Shadmehr Aghili
* Susan Roshan
* Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
* Shahram Solati
* Shahyad
* Saeed Mohammadi
* Shahram Shabpareh
* Shahrum K
* Shohreh Solati
* Siavash Shams
* Siavash Ghomeyshi
* Toofun
* Vigen

Lyricists

* Masoud Amini
* Masoud Fardmanesh
* Shahriar Ghanbary
* Maryam Heydarzadeh
* Homayoun Hoshyarnejad
* Mina Jalali
* Iraj Janati Atai
* Leila Kasra
* Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
* Bijan Samandar
* Ardalan Sarfaraz
* Jaklin Vigen
* Zoya Zakarian
* Paksima Zakipour
* Milad Tangshir

Rock/Metal

* Ahoora
* Aras
* Agah Bahari
* Barad
* Amir Derakh, from the band Orgy
* Farzad Golpayegani
* Kahtmayan
* Khak
* Kiosk
* Meera
* O-Hum
* Sarakhs
* TarantisT
* Kaveh Yaghmaei
* Kourosh Yaghmaei
* White Waves

Painters and Sculptors

* Reza Abbasi
* Aydin Aghdashloo
* Hanibal Alkhas
* Aqa Buzurg
* Manouchehr Atashi
* Bijan Bahadory-Kashkoeli
* Hossein Behzad
* Kamaleddin Behzad
* Ali Bozorgmehr
* Iran Darroudi
* Shahram Entekhabi
* Mahmoud Farshchian
* Bita Fayyazi
* Abu 'l-Hasan Ghaffari
* Mokarrameh Ghanbari
* Maryam Hashemi (Maryam Sandjari)
* Haydar Hatemi
* Mansoureh Hosseini
* Parviz Kalantari
* Kamal ol-Molk
* Zhaleh Kazemi
* Farshid Maleki
* Mani
* Roohee Mirbaha
* Noreen Motamed
* Nima Petgar
* [http://www.rokhsefat.com Mohammad Rokhsefat]
* Ali Akbar Sadeghi
* Abolhassan Khan Sadighi
* Ali Akbar Sanati
* Sohrab Sepehri
* Ali Akbar Tajvidi
* Mohammad Ali Taraghijah
* Hassanali Khan Vaziri
* Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
* Towhidi Tabari
* Reza Karimi

Photographers

* Abbas
* Morteza Avini
* Nader Davoodi
* Manouchehr Deghati
* Reza Deghati
* Shahram Entekhabi
* Kaveh Golestan
* Sam Javanrouh
* Nasrollah Kasraian
* Behrouz Mehri
* [http://www.memarzia.org Mitra Memarzia]
* Maryam Mohammadi
* Naveed Nour, b.1963 in Germany to Iranian Parents
* Jahangir Razmi, Pulitzer prize winner
* Hassan Sarbakhshian
* Sadegh Tirafkan
* Alfred Yaghobzadeh
* Maryam Zandi

Theatre artists

tage Actors and Actresses

* Shohreh Aghdashloo
* Dariush Arjmand
* Mehdi Bajestani
* Shiva Boloorian
* Maryam Davari
* Behzad Farahani
* Mohammad Reza Jozi
* Rosie Malek-Yonan
* Ali Nassirian
* Saeed Poursamimi
* Ahmad Saatchian
* Roya Teymourian

Theatre directors

* Mohammad Aghebati
* Akbar Alizad
* Mahmood Azizi
* Bahram Bayzai
* Shiva Boloorian
* Amir Dejakam
* Vahid Evazzadeh
* Hassan Majooni
* Rosie Malek-Yonan
* Hamed Mohammad Taheri
* Kousrosh Narimani
* Mohammad Javad Ostadi
* Soheil Parsa
* Atila Pessyani
* Ali Rafiee
* Vahid Rahbani
* Ghotbedin Sadeghi
* Hamid Samandarian
* Mohammad Yaghoobi

ee also

*List of Iranian Americans