20th-century Persian-language writers

President of Iran from 1997 to 2005

Ebrahim Raisolsadati, better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. A protégé of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and a Principlist, Raisi was the second and most recent Iranian president to die in office after Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

Azerbaijani politician (1884–1955)

Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist (1925-2000)

writer, novelist and activist (1904-1997)

Iranian film director (1938-2025)

writer and politician (1885-1938)

Iranian writer

Iranian academic (1936–2008)

Iranian academic (1914–1971)

American academic

Persian language writer and poet (1907–1987)

Iranian scholar (1914-1990)

Afghan artist and poet

Iranian-Swedish author

Iranian writer

Iranian translator (1943-2009)

Iranian activist

Pakistani academic (1911–1982)

Azerbaijani author, religious educator, clergyman and the Mufti of the Caucasus (1884-1917)

Iranian Azerbaijani poet, translator and writer

Iranian writer, translator and historian (1924–2005)

Afghan politician

poet and historian from the Emirate of Bukhara

Bangladeshi Islamic Scholar

Afghan actor and writer

Afghan diplomat

Persian-American author