People from Mashhad

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.

Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur

Iranian cleric

Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)

Iranian Poet, writer, historian, scholar and politician

Iranian poet (1928–1990)

Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh is the widow of Ali Khamenei, the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026.

Canadian architect

Iranian prime minister (1909-1977)

Iranian poet and writer

Dutch politician

wife of Ebrahim Raisi

Iranian artist and calligrapher (1435–1519)

Iranian poet, publisher and activist for LGBT rights

British-Iranian film director, screenwriter and film producer

Iranian writer

Iranian cleric and politician

Iranian philosopher, author, poet and translator

Iranian choreographer, director

Iranian poet, Persian language and literature scholar, and university teacher

Iranian politician and diplomat

Iranian calligrapher

Iranian politician

Iranian artist and filmmaker

Iranian actress

Iranian female artist

Iranian Islamic scholar

Iranian poet and Indian Mughal court poet

Iranian wrestler

Iranian Armenian scientist, filmmaker (1896–1960)

executioner (1885–1944)

Iranian photographer

Iranian animator, author and illustrator

Iranian professor

Iranian poet

astronomer

Iranian philanthropist

association football player