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TEHRAN

Most Famous People Born in Tehran, Iran

Notable people

2,195

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1962

Most distinctive

Wrestler 5.1×

A capital whose 20th century broke in half. Tehran's notables are almost entirely 1900s births, split between the Pahlavi-era filmmakers, photographers, and composers who built modern Iranian culture and the post-1979 footballers, wrestlers, and entrepreneurs who inherited it. The film share is unusually high for a non-Western city — a quiet measure of how much the Iranian New Wave punched above its weight.