Iranian revolutionaries

Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in the 2026 Iran war. A member of the Khamenei family, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He held the title Grand Ayatollah, and his tenure as supreme leader, spanning 36 years and six months, made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death.

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

President of Iran from 2013 to 2021

Iranian politician and economist, and Iran's first President (1933–2021)

Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran (1933-1981)

Iranian architect and politician

Iranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic

cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989

Iranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)

Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party

Iranian academic (1890–1946)

Iranian politician (1919-1979)

Iranian cleric, one of the leading figures of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (1928–1981)

Iranian cleric (1933-1981)

Iranian politician (1932-1981)

Iranian Ayatollah (1931–2014)

Iranian revolutionary (1880-1921)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1906-1986)

Iranian Shia cleric and political activist

Chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party and the National Government of Azerbaijan.

Iranian political activist (born 1948)

amongst the most well known Iranian female Communist revolutionary and member of the Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas

Iranian politician (1880–1920)

Iranian cleric and executor (1926–2003)

Iranian politician (1866-1914)

Qajar princess

Iranian politician and activist (1931-2017)

Iranian politician (1936–1982)

Iranian revolutionary and Ruhollah Khomeini's wife

Iranian revolutionary (1862-1916)

Persian jurist and politician and founder of the National Front

Iranian politician (1951-2002)

Armenian revolutionary (1868–1912)

Iranian Shi'a jurist and political activist (1839–1911)

Iranian revolutionary (1880–1921)

Iranian politician

Iranian writer and politician

Iranian politician

Iranian journalist, poet, and communist activist (1944–1974)

Iranian revolutionary (1956-1983)

Iranian Shia Marja' and politician (1840–1912)

Iranian Sunni faqih

Iranian politician and journalist

Iranian politician (1915-1958)

an early twentieth century Iranian Marxist revolutionary and leader of the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic

Iranian reformist Shia cleric and nationalist (1861–1911)

Iranian poet and writer

Iranian revolutionary and writer

Iranian politician

Iranian theoretician and revolutionary guerrilla (1946-1971)

Iranian politician (1938-1975)

Iranian journalist and publisher (born 1942)

Iranian politician

Iranian politician

Iranian politician

Iranian politician

Iranian artist (born 1942)

Iraqi Islamic scholar and jurist (1815–1908)

Iranian-Armenian politician

Iranian political activist