People from Markazi province

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.

Iranian-Dutch columnist, poet, writer

Prime Minister of Iran (1807-1852)

Persian philosopher

Iranian film director

Persian politician (1866-1962)

Iranian botanist (1907-1997)

Swedish linguist and translator

Armenian poet

Iranian politician

Iranian Ayatollah

family

imam of the Nizari Ismaili Shia Islam community