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TABRIZ

Most Famous People Born in Tabriz, Iran

Notable people: 306
Peak decade: 1980s
Median birth year: 1939
Most distinctive: Poet 5.0×

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Tabriz during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 31 notable births.

What Tabriz Is Known For

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Biggest Most distinctive Under-indexed

Football is Tabriz's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (58).

Tabriz over-indexes on poet — 5.0× the global rate.

Tabriz under-produces actor — only 0.7× the global rate.

Actor110.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Tabriz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Ahmad Shah Qajar

1898 - 1930

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Hassan Taqizadeh

1878 - 1970

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0019 POLITICIAN

Hassan Pirnia

1872 - 1935

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0022 POLITICIAN

Sattar Khan

1868 - 1914

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0031 POLITICIAN

Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan

1850 - 1918

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0037 POLITICIAN

Ali Soheili

1896 - 1958

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0048 POLITICIAN

Abbas Gharabaghi

1918 - 2000

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0060 POLITICIAN

Ebrahim Hakimi

1871 - 1959

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0081 POLITICIAN

Hassan Rahnavardi

Born 1927

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0087 POLITICIAN

Baqir Khan

1862 - 1916

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0090 POLITICIAN

Khalil Maleki

1903 - 1969

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0093 POLITICIAN

Mahmoud Djam

1885 - 1969

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0108 POLITICIAN

Malek Ashraf

1344 - 1357

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0110 POLITICIAN

Vahan Papazian

1876 - 1973

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0112 POLITICIAN

Hassan Shariatmadari

Born 1947

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0121 POLITICIAN

Esmail Momtaz od-Dowleh

1879 - 1933

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0130 POLITICIAN

Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh

Born 1945

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0131 POLITICIAN

Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi

1861 - 1911

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0136 POLITICIAN

Hamid Chitchian

Born 1957

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0140 POLITICIAN

Mahammad Ali Tarbiat

1877 - 1940

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0155 POLITICIAN

Mahsa Abdolzadeh

Born 1985

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0157 POLITICIAN

Abbas Duzduzani

1942 - 2018

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0161 POLITICIAN

Masoud Pezeshkian

Born 1954

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0162 POLITICIAN

Qizil Arslan

Died 1191

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0180 POLITICIAN

Malek Mansur Mirza Shoa O-Saltaneh

1880 - 1922

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0184 POLITICIAN

Mohammad Reza Mirtajodini

Born 1960

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0189 POLITICIAN

Reza Rahmani

Born 1966

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0190 POLITICIAN

Zahra Saei

Born 1980

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0194 POLITICIAN

Ali Saeedlou

Born 1952

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0195 POLITICIAN

Alireza Novin

Born 1961

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0198 POLITICIAN

Jafar Shafaghat

1915 - 2001

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0201 POLITICIAN

Anna Kaplan

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0202 POLITICIAN

Mousa Khiabani

1947 - 1982

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0203 POLITICIAN

Soleiman Eskandari

1877 - 1943

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0209 POLITICIAN

Ja'far Kavian

1895 - 1975

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0235 POLITICIAN

Mahmud Mahmud

1881 - 1965

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0236 POLITICIAN

Ali Asghar Sherdost

Born 1962

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0238 POLITICIAN

Nader Arasteh

Born 1893

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0240 POLITICIAN

Alireza Monadi

Born 1969

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0241 POLITICIAN

Shahram Dabiri Oskuei

Born 1960

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0242 POLITICIAN

Razie Golami Shabani

1925 - 2013

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0243 POLITICIAN

Mohammad Hossein Farhanghi

Born 1961

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0246 POLITICIAN

Iraj Shahin-Baher

Born 1971

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0251 POLITICIAN

Shakur Akbarnejad

Born 1960

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0254 POLITICIAN

Ali-Ashraf Abdollah Porihoseini

Born 1961

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0256 POLITICIAN

Ahmad-Hossein Adl

1898 - 1962

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0261 POLITICIAN

Muhsin Khan

Died 1910

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0277 POLITICIAN

Mohammad Biriya

1914 - 1985

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0289 POLITICIAN

Abbas Adham

1885 - 1969

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0292 POLITICIAN

Reza Rasouli

Born 1898

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0303 POLITICIAN

Hamid Seyyed Mahdavi Aghdam

Born 1952

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0306 POLITICIAN

Mohammad-Ali Angaji

1897 - 1984

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