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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini, which abolished the Iranian monarchy to establish the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1967, he took the title Shahanshah, and held several others, including Aryamehr and Bozorg Arteshtaran. He was the second and last ruling monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Ebrahim Raisi
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.

Reza Shah
Reza Shah Pahlavi was Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. Originally an army officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war and prime minister of Iran, and was elected shah following the deposition of Ahmad Shah, the last monarch of the Qajar dynasty.

Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.

Sadegh Hedayat
Iranian writer
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Iranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic
Ahmad Kasravi
Iranian academic (1890–1946)
Sattar Khan
Iranian politician (1866-1914)
Abol-Ghasem Kashani
Iranian ayatollah (1882–1962)
Hossein Fatemi
Iranian politician
Dariush Forouhar
Iranian politician (1928-1998)
Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani
Iranian atheist nationalist writer
Jalal al-Din Mirza
Iranian historian
Mohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani
Persian politician
Khalil Maleki
Iranian politician
Mohsen Pezeshkpour
Iranian politician
Dariush Homayoon
Persian politician (1928-2011)