List of Iranian artists

Actors and actresses

Akbar Abdi

Golab Adineh

Mahnaz Afshar

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Pegah Ahangarani

Taraneh Alidousti

Jahangir Almasi

Daryoush Arjmand

Delkash

Omid Djalili

Bizhan Emkanian

Ezzatollah Entezami

Homayoun Ershadi

Parviz Fannizadeh

Behzad Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Shaghayegh Farahani

Mohammad Ali Fardin

Farimah Farjami

Bita Farrahi

Hamid Farrokhnezhad

Jahangir Forouhar

Leila Forouhar

Mohammad Reza Foroutan

Faramarz Gharibian

Googoosh

Mohammad Reza Golzar

Azita Hajian

Kazem HajirAzad

Mehdi Hashemi

Leila Hatami

Amin Hayaee

Niki Karimi

Kamshad Kooshan

Mohammad Ali Keshavarz

Reza Kianian

Majid Majidi

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Marshall Manesh

Jamshid Mashayekhi

Mahvash

Mehran Modiri

Bahman Mofid

Ali Mosaffa

Fatemeh Motamed-Aria

Ahmad Najafi

Ali Nassirian

Roya Nonahali

Roxanne Pallett

Parviz Parastouee

Mahaia Petrosian

Parsa Pirouzfar

Saeed Rad

Bahram Radan

Davoud Rashidi

Shiva Rose (1969) Iranian-American actress located in Los Angeles

Homa Rousta

Parviz Sayyad

Khosrow Shakibaee

Mohammad Reza Sharifinia

Jamileh Sheykhi

Daryush Shokof

Sussan Taslimi

Hedyeh Tehrani

Behrouz Vossoughi

Merila Zarei

Directors and filmmakers

Morteza Avini

Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Bahram Beizai

Shahram Entekhabi

Bahman Farman-Ara

Mitra Farahani

Ramin Farahani

Iraj Ghaderi

Behrooz Gharibpoor

Bahman Ghobadi

Ali Hatami

Ebrahim Hatamikia

Mahboubeh Honarian

Ardeshir Irani

Abolfazl Jalili

Varuzh Karim-Masihi

Samuel Khachikian

Abbas Kiarostami

Masoud Kimiai

Parviz Kimiavi

Kamshad Kooshan

Esma'il Kooshan

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf

Majid Majidi

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Darius Mehrjui

Mehran Modiri

Rasoul Mollagholipour

Amir Naderi

Hossein Nuri

Jafar Panahi

Babak Payami

Ali Samadi Ahadi

Amir Shahab Razavian

Abdolhossein Sepanta

Sohrab Shahid-Sales

Kamran Shirdel

Daryush Shokof

Khosrow Sinai

Kamal Tabrizi

Nasser Taghvai

Film score composers

Hossein Alizadeh

Fariborz Lachini

Ahmad Pejman

Peyman Yazdanian

Music video directors

Alec Cartio

Calligraphists

Gholam Hossein Amirkhani

Abolhassan Etessami

Mir Emad Hassani

Seyyed Jafar Kashfi

Yadollah Kaboli Khansari

Mishkín-Qalam

Jalil Rasouli

Mehdi Saeedi

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Towhidi Tabari

Fashion designers

Pegah Anvarian

Shirin Guild

Arefeh Mansouri

Behnaz Sarafpour

Bijan (designer) (1940–2012) fashion designer of menswear and fragrances

Mahla Zamani

Graphic designers

Reza Abedini

Farshid Mesghali

Morteza Momayez

Mehdi Saeedi

Ghobad Shiva

Reza Abbasi

Illustrators

Nahid Hagigat (1943), illustrations and paintings

Classical

See List of Iranian composers

Iranian Classical/Traditional

Hossein Alizadeh

Axiom of Choice

Gholam-Hossein Banan

Sima Bina, folkloric music

Delkash

Mirza Abdollah Farahani

Morteza Hannaneh

Kayhan Kalhor

Kamkarha

Ruhollah Khaleghi

Fariborz Lachini

Mohammad Reza Lotfi

Javad Maroofi

Marzieh

Shahram Nazeri

Parisa

Abolhasan Saba

Mohammad Shams

Homayoun Shajarian

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

Alinaghi Vaziri

Jalal Zolfonun

Mahmoud Zoufonoun

Zyriab

Western Classical

Lily Afshar

Aminollah Hossein

Mehdi Hosseini

Lotfi Mansouri

Nader Mashayekhi

Ali Rahbari

Anoushiravan Rohani

Shahrdad Rohani

Heshmat Sandjari

Loris Tjeknavorian (Loris Cheknavarian)

Electronic

Leila Arab

Deep Dish

Ali Movasat (DJ Aligator)

Steve Naghavi (of German industrial group And One)

Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (of Deep Dish)

Shahram Tayebi (of Deep Dish)

Pop

Afshin

Arash

Arian Band

Aref

Alireza Assar

Andy Madadian

Anousheh Khalili

Bahador Kharazmi

Benyamin Bahadori

Bijan Mortazavi

Cameron Cartio

Darius Danesh

Dariush Eghbali

Delkash

Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)

Faramarz Aslani

Farhad (Farhad Mehrad)

Siavash Ghomayshi

Googoosh

Habib

Hayadeh

Hassan Shamaizadeh

Hodi

Kouros

Leila Forouhar

Mahasti

Mahvash

Mansour

Mehrdad

Mohammad Nouri

Moein

Morteza Pashaei

Omid

Pyruz

Reza Sadeghi

Hassan Sattar

Sepideh

Shadmehr Aghili

Susan Roshan

Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh

Saeed

Shahram Shabpareh

Shahrum K

Vigen

Lyricists

Shahriar Ghanbary

Maryam Heydarzadeh

Leila Kasra

Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi

Rock/Metal

Angband

Barad

Amir Derakh

Kiosk

127

Comedians

Omid Djalili

Negin Farsad

Maz Jobrani

Hadi Khorsandi

Shaparak Khorsandi

Ebrahim Nabavi

Dancers

Farzaneh Kaboli

Jamileh

Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam

Theatre directors

Akbar Alizad

Bahram Bayzai

Niloofar Beyzaie

Shiva Boloorian

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Hossein Nuri

Theatre stage actors

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Dariush Arjmand

Mehdi Bajestani

Shiva Boloorian

Behzad Farahani

Mohammad Reza Jozi

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Ali Nassirian

Ahmad Saatchian

Roya Teymourian

Cartoonists

Javad Alizadeh

Ardeshir Mohassess

Ali Divandari

Nikahang Kowsar

Mana Neyestani

Touka Neyestani

Multimedia and mixed media

Golnar Adili (1976)

Morehshin Allahyari (active since 2007), artist, educator

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaiani

Gita Hashemi (active since 1981), transdiscplinary, performance art, installations, digital and multimedia art

Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010) painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director

Neda Moridpour, artist, educator and co-founder of the artist-activist collaborative Louder than Words.

Shirin Neshat (1957) film, video and photography

Hossein Nuri, painter, dramaturge and filmmaker.

Daryush Shokof, artist, film director, writer, and film producer

Parviz Tanavoli, sculptor, painter, scholar and art collector

Sadegh Tirafkan, photography, video installation, and collage

Hossein Zenderoudi, painter and sculptor

Painting

Reza Abbasi

Shahla Aghapour

Aydin Aghdashloo

Kamrooz Aram

Akbar Behkalam

Hossein Behzad (1894–1968), Modernist Persian miniature paintings

Kamaleddin Behzad (1450–1535) Persian miniature paintings

Iran Darroudi (born 1936) surrealist paintings

Ali Divandari

Darvish Fakhr

Mahmoud Farshchian (born 1930) Persian miniature paintings

Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005)

Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)

Khosrow Hassanzadeh (born 1963)

Haydar Hatemi (born 1945) Persian miniatures and tazhib

Taraneh Hemami

Pouran Jinchi (born 1959) abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art

Zhaleh Kazemi

Reza Khodadadi

Iman Maleki (born 1976) realist painter

Mani

Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007) modernist artist, educator

Farhad Moshiri (born 1963) Pop art

Noreen Motamed (born 1967)

Hossein Nuri

Kamal ol-Molk (1845–1940)

Freydoon Rassouli (1943) surrealist

Ali Akbar Sadeghi (1937) surrealist

Abolhassan Khan Sadighi

Alireza Sadaghdar

Homayoun Salimi

Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) Modernist painter

Daryush Shokof

Mohammad Ali Taraghijah

Taravat Talepasand (1979) Iranian American painter and sculpture

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

Manoucher Yektai

Hossein Zenderoudi

Photography

Ahmad Aali

Abbas

Ali Khan Vali

Morteza Avini

Gohar Dashti

Nader Davoodi

Reza Deghati

Rahi Rezvani

Shahram Entekhabi

Kaveh Golestan

Nasrollah Kasraian

Malekeh Nayiny

Naveed Nours

Jahangir Razmi

Sadegh Tirafkan

Alfred Yaghobzadeh

Maryam Zandi

Sculpture and installation

Siah Armajani

Hanieh Mohammad Bagher

Fatemeh Emdadian

Shahram Entekhabi (born 1955) contemporary sculptor

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

Bita Fayyazi (born 1962) Public art

Bita Ghezelayagh

Mandana Moghaddam (1962) Iranian-Swedish installation artist and sculptor

Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010) painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director

Abolhassan Khan Sadighi

Shirana Shahbazi

Taher Shekh Al Hokamaii Dean of Sculpture Faculty of Tehran University and contemporary sculptor