Kurdish people in Iran

Masoud Pezeshkian is an Iranian politician and former heart surgeon who has served as the ninth president of Iran since 2024. A member of the reformist faction, he is the oldest person to serve in this position, taking office at the age of 69.

Alireza Arafi is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as a member of the Guardian Council since 2019, and a member of the Assembly of Experts since 2022.

Kurdish mathematician

Iranian-Kurdish film director

poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master

Iranian footballer

Olympic weightlifter

Iranian musician

Kurdish political leader

German rapper of Kurdish descent

Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer

Iranian singer, musician and tenor

nuclear scientist (1977–2016)

Syrian footballer

Iranian politician

Iranian Kurdish songwriter-singer

Israeli actor (1941–2011)

Iranian singer and songwriter

Iranian former prisoner

kurdish religious founder and leader

Kurdish military leader and administrator (died 1657)

Persian jurist and politician and founder of the National Front

spiritual thinker, musician, writer, philosopher and jurist (1895–1974)

Iranian journalist

Iranian singer and actress (1948–2020)

Iranian musician, singer, composer and actor

Iranian poet, activist and writer

Iranian novelist and short story writer (1941-2017)

Iranian diplomat, politician, calligrapher and writer (1822–1899)

Iranian/Kurdish musical group

Iranian calligrapher (1829–1892)

Executed Iranian Kurdish activist (1975-2010)

Paralympic powerlifter (1988–2020)

The third leader of the Safavid order (1391–1427)

Iranian chess player (born 1984)

Iranian amateur wrestler

Kurdish singer

Iranian scholar and writer (1921-2007)

Iranian translator (1913-1998)

17th century Safavid military officer and provincial governor

Iranian Kurdish scholar

Head of military (1793-1873)

Iranian singer

Iranian scholar (1943–2017)

thumb|Image of Qani Qani (1898-1965) was the pen name of Muhammad Kabuli, a prominent Kurdish poet. He was born in the village of Rîshen, around Mariwan, in Iranian Kurdistan. He lost his parents shortly after his birth.

Iranian film director

Commander of the Iranian Navy

Kurdish Iranian singer and composer

football player

Iranian politician

Ancestor of the Safavid dynasty

Giwar Hajabi (, ; 24 December 1981 – 7 May 2025), better known by his stage name Xatar, was an Iranian Kurdish-German rapper and businessman. He was the founder and owner of the labels Alles oder Nix Records, Kopfticker Records, Groove Attack TraX and Goldmann Entertainment. He studied Music Business at the London Metropolitan University.

Iranian archaeologist

Iranian protester (1985–2011)

poet (1874–1944)

Iranian murder victim

Iranian musician

Internet personality, world's smallest living man

Iranian musician

Iranian activist against mandatory hijab