32.6446° N, 51.6693° E
ISFAHAN
Most Famous People Born in Isfahan, Iran
- Notable people
- 343
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1954
- Most distinctive
- Scholar 15.9×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Isfahan during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Isfahan Is Known For
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Football is Isfahan's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (64).
Isfahan over-indexes on scholar — 15.9× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Isfahan's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Tahmasp I
1514 - 1576
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary
1932 - 2001
Shapour Bakhtiar
1914 - 1991
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani
897 - 967
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
1892 - 1997
Mohammad Beheshti
1928 - 1981
'Adud al-Dawla
936 - 983
Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani
1125 - 1201
Malik-Shah I
1055 - 1092
Sultan Husayn
1668 - 1726
Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi
1627 - 1699
Ahmad ibn Rustah
Died 903
Homayoun Ershadi
Born 1947
Houshang Golshiri
1937 - 2000
Hassan Modarres
1870 - 1937
Safi of Persia
1611 - 1642
Leila Forouhar
Born 1959
Tahmasp II
1704 - 1740
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
1936 - 1982
Abu Nu`aym
948 - 1038
Rahman Rezaei
Born 1975
Moharram Navidkia
Born 1982
Teymur Bakhtiar
1914 - 1970
Suleiman of Persia
1647 - 1694
Mahmoud Farshchian
Born 1930
Al-Tughrai
1061 - 1121
Mirza Malkam Khan
1833 - 1908
Siavash Kasrai
1927 - 1996
Bahman Farmanara
Born 1942
Farshid Mesghali
Born 1943
Nasser Khalili
Born 1945
Barkiyaruq
1081 - 1104
Al-Raghib al-Isfahani
Died 1108
Ali Reza Eftekhari
Born 1956
Mohsen Bengar
Born 1979
Hatef Esfahani
Died 1783
Reza Ghasemi
Born 1987
Nusrat Bhutto
1929 - 2011
Rostom of Kartli
1565 - 1658
Ahmad Tafazzoli
1937 - 1997
Hazin Lahiji
1692 - 1766
Rasoul Korbekandi
Born 1953
Dariush Forouhar
1928 - 1998
Rasul Sadr Ameli
Born 1953
Oshin Sahakian
Born 1986
Mehdi Golshani
Born 1939
Muhammad I Tapar
1082 - 1118
Hassan Shamaizadeh
Born 1949
Arsalan Kazemi
Born 1990
Jalil Shahnaz
1921 - 2013
Hassan Kassai
1928 - 2012
Hamza al-Isfahani
893 - 961
Ibn Furak
941 - 1015
George Bournoutian
Born 1943
Ahmad Jannati
Born 1927
Lady Amin
1886 - 1983
Ibn Manda
922 - 1005
Milad Beigi
Born 1991
Nairy Baghramian
Born 1971
Fard (Rapper)
Born 1984
Abdoldjavad Falaturi
1926 - 1996
Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz
1930 - 2020
Ja'far Modarres-Sadeghi
Born 1954
Iman Zandi
Born 1981
Iman Jamali
Born 1991
Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1994)
Born 1994
Hossein Omoumi
Born 1944
Kamal od-Din Esmail
1172 - 1237
Shahla Sherkat
Born 1956
Javad Davari
Born 1983
Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī
1085 - 1180
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi
1882 - 1961
Mir Jumla II
1591 - 1663
Mohammad Talaei
Born 1973
Soroush Sehhat
Born 1965
Shirin Yazdanbakhsh
Born 1948
Reza Ghassemi
Born 1949
Bogdan Saltanov
1630 - 1703
Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei
1901 - 1973
Mohammad Reza Akhbari
Born 1993
Shahamir Shahamirian
1723 - 1798
Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary
1901 - 1983
Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani
1860 - 1946
Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ezhe'i
Born 1956
Abdollah Nouri
Born 1950
Aren Davoudi
Born 1986
Zabihollah Rezaee
Born 1953
Caro Lucas
1949 - 2010
Mohammad Gharazi
Born 1941
Hamid Naficy
Born 1944
Mohammad Yazdi
Born 1931
Mahdi Pakdel
Born 1980
Mansour Koushan
1948 - 2014
Mohammad Ghazi
Born 1984
Suleiman II of Persia
1714 - 1750
Heydar Moslehi
Born 1957
Reza Naderian
Born 1989
Ismail III
1733 - 1773
Mohammad Javad Manavinejad
Born 1995
Sara Bahrami
Born 1983
Abu Isa
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David II of Kakheti
1678 - 1722
Alireza Nasr Azadani
Born 1985
Imam-Quli Khan
Died 1633
Sumbat Der Kiureghian
1913 - 1999
Constantine II of Kakheti
Died 1732
Jack Mahfar
Born 1931
Simon II of Kartli
1610 - 1630
Siamak Kouroshi
Born 1989
Voskan Yerevantsi
1614 - 1674
Jalaleddin Alimohammadi
Born 1990
Musa Najafi
Born 1962
Mohammad Reza Emami
Born 1600
Hamed Komeili
Born 1982
Rashid Sharifi
Born 1984
Mohsen Nourbakhsh
1948 - 2003
Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani
Born 1934
Erfan (rapper)
Born 1983
Ali Rafie
Born 1938
Zari Khoshkam
Born 1947
Jafar Zafarani
Born 1947
Laleh Khadivi
Born 1977
Ali Akbar Mehrabian
Born 1975
Alireza Mousavi
Born 1990
Ramin Yazdani
Born 1952
Sepehr Mohammadi
Born 1989
Mohammad Hejazi
Born 1956
Hamid Reza Kazemi
Born 1992
Hrant Markarian
Born 1958
Mohammad-Reza Bateni
Born 1934
Jahangir Forouhar
1916 - 1997
Mamad Haghighat
Born 1952
Homayoun As'adian
Born 1958
Esmaeil Farhadi
Born 1982
Amir Reza Nasr Azadani
Born 1996
Kouhyar Goudarzi
Born 1986
Milad Sarlak
Born 1995
Hamid Azizzadeh
Born 1981
Nosratollah Vahdat
1925 - 2020
Sepehr Heidari
Born 1980
Hossein Kharrazi
1957 - 1986
Ali Tayebnia
Born 1960
Paradise Sorouri
-
Jalal Akbari
Born 1983
Mohammad Hoqouqi
1937 - 2009
Mahmoud Karimi Sibaki
Born 1978
Mostafa Hashemitaba
Born 1946
Masoud Homami
Born 1983
Minoo Khaleghi
Born 1985
Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi
1884 - 1974
Mahboubeh Honarian
Born 1962
Morteza Agha-Tehrani
Born 1957
Joseph von Semlin
1730 - 1824
Mehran Derakhshan Mehr
Born 1998
Mohammad Bagher Sadeghi
Born 1989
Mohammad Saeedikia
Born 1946
Mahmoud Yavari
1939 - 2020
Ali Jafari
-
Zufar Ibn al-Hudhayl
728 - 774
Hamid Shafiei
Born 1981
Gholamreza Nikpey
1927 - 1979
Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
Born 1956
Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev
1735 - 1801
Allahkaram Esteki
Born 1988
Golnoush Sebghatollahi
Born 1990
Hamed Bahiraei
Born 1995
Morteza Ahmadi Harandi
Born 1966
Amir Roughani
Born 1975
Mohammad Salsali
Born 1983
Mo'en Mosavver
1638 - 1697
Sajjad Esteki
Born 1990
Iman Kiani
Born 1990
Daud Khan Undiladze
Died 1633
Ahmad Salamatian
Born 1941
Rasoul Azadani
Born 1965
Masoud Karbasian
Born 1956
Prince Alexander of Kartli (died 1773)
1700 - 1773
Annik Shefrazian
1908 - 1996
Mehdi Hashemi
1944 - 1987
Mehdi Nasiri
Born 1987
Ahmad Baghbanbashi
Born 1972
Mohsen Khazaei
1972 - 2016
Mehdi Mehdipour
Born 1994
Sina Vodjani
Born 1954
Sina Ashouri
Born 1988
Ziya Movahed
Born 1943
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Born 1978
Mohammad Alirezaei
Born 1985
Ahmad Reza Talebian
Born 1989
Ahmad-Reza Radan
Born 1963
Alireza Ali-Ahmadi
Born 1959
Mohammad Reza Akbari
Born 1986
Jaber Rouzbahani
Born 1986
Ali Erfan
Born 1946
Mohammad Bagher Shafti
1761 - 1844
Reza Dehghani
Born 1998
Saeed Shahram
Born 1961
Mehdi Sedghian
Born 1996
Ahmad Khorram
Born 1950
Javad Maheri
Born 1983
Sogand
Born 1987
Mehdi Rahimi (footballer)
Born 1999
Kaye-Ree
Born 1978
Amir Faghri
Born 1951
Rasoul Navidkia
Born 1983
Hagopdjan de Deritchan
Died 1726
Keivan Amraei
Born 1986
Ahmad Momenzadeh
Born 1975
Ali Keykhosravi
Born 1999
Farzaneh Fasihi
Born 1993
Hossein Ashtari
-
Alireza Marandi
Born 1939
Mohammad Atrianfar
Born 1954
Haj Aqa Nourollah
1859 - 1927
Freydoon Rassouli
Born 1943
Nahid Kiani
Born 1998
Mohammad Sattarifar
Born 1952
Abdollah Riazi
1906 - 1979
Khalifeh Soltan
1590 - 1654
Dina Nayeri
Born 1979
Lotfollah Meisami
Born 1940
Ahmad Salek
Born 1946
Zahra Kiani
Born 1999
Ahmad Reihan
Born 1965
Iman Zakizadeh
Born 1996
Jalal Al-Din Taheri
1926 - 2013
Ali Akbar Parvaresh
1942 - 2013
Reza Bahrami Nejad
Born 1978
Hossein Mazaheri
Born 1934
Amina Bint al-Majlisi
-
Mehdi Taj
Born 1960
Fethullah Qa'ravi Isfahani
1850 - 1920
Morteza Talaie
Born 1957
Mohammad Hossein Moradmand
Born 1993
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
-
Hajji Mohammad Hossein Isfahani
1758 - 1823
Farshad Bahadorani
Born 1982
Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi
Born 1956
Morteza Moghtadai
Born 1936
Majid Sharif Vaghefi
1949 - 1975
Ismail as-Sadr
1842 - 1919
Aboutorab Esfahani
1581 - 1662
Ali ebn-e Sahl Esfahani
Died 894
Naeim Ghalili
Born 1962
Esmail Babolian
-
Saeid Eslamian
Born 1961
Kamaloddin Jenab
1908 - 2006
Alexander I of Julfa
Died 1714
Alireza Mortazavi
Born 1976
Rahmatollah Hafezi
Born 1964
Karim Khudsiani
Born 1979
Hossein Shahshahani
1895 - 1962
Baba Shah Esfahani
Died 1588
Ali Choupani
Born 1993
Alireza Rahimi (footballer)
Born 1955
Morteza Bank
Born 1955
Mohammad Reza Saket
Born 1952
Morteza Saghaeiannejad
Born 1952
Doust Ali Moayyer ol-Mamalek
1760 - 1821
Abolqasem Talebi
Born 1961
Ali Raffi
Born 1938
Mehdi Jamalinejad
Born 1970
Mirza Shah Hossein
Died 1523
Seyed Mahmood Hosseini
Born 1954
Najm-e Sani
Died 1512
Hamidreza Fouladgar
Born 1959
Hasan Aghareb Parast
1946 - 1984
Mohammad Reza Zahedi
Born 1944
Jean-François Rousseau
1738 - 1808
Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Movahed Abtahi
1926 - 2014
Sara Rastegar
Born 1983
Taj Al-Duleh
1794 - 1881
Marjan Salahshouri
Born 1996
Ghasem Zaghinejad
Born 1955
Mohammad Saleh Esfahani
1600 - 1714
Farzad Sharifian
Died 2020
Mir Sham ud-Din Iraqi
1484 - 1526
Peyman Salmani
Born 1994
Mostafa Salehinejad
Born 1981
Milad Klein
Born 1987
Pirouz Adamiat
Born 1949
Hossein Sheikholeslam
1952 - 2020
Alireza Noori
1963 - 2002
Akbar Mass'oud
1885 - 1975
Muhammad Baqir Sharif Tabatabae
1823 - 1901
Hossein Charkhabi
Born 1950
Fazlollah Mousavi
Born 1953
Naser Pourmehdi
Born 1959
Mohammadreza Ghodratipour
Born 1994
Nahid Tajeddin
Born 1976
Ahmad Shirzad
-
Mansoor Sheik-Bahae
Born 1956
Mohammad Etemadi
Born 1986
Ali lotfi
Born 1989
Nour ed-Din Mohammad Esfahani
Died 1683
Hovhannes Baptist Apcar
1884 - 1967
Khadijeh Azadpour
-
Bahram Atef
Born 1941
Mohammad Amin Aghaei
Born 1982
Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani
Born 1962