Karim Khan

Karim Khan

male, deceased (1779)
Karim Khan Zand, ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1760 until 1779. He founded the Zand dynasty. He never styled himself as "shah" or king, and...
Hafez

Hafez

male
Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310 and 1337 in Shiraz, Persia...
Ahmad Batebi

Ahmad Batebi

male, 32 years old
Ahmad Batebi - احمد باطبی is an Iranian student who has been imprisoned since the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999. During the protests...
Mulla Sadra

Mulla Sadra

male
Mulla Sadra also called Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi (c. 1571-1640) was a Persian philosopher, who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th...
Masoud Shojaei

Masoud Shojaei

male, 25 years old
Masoud Shojaei Soleimani (born June 9, 1984 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Sharjah FC in the UAE League and...

Saadi

male, deceased (1291)
Saadi distinguished between the spiritual and the practical or mundane aspects of life. In his Bostan, for example, spiritual Saadi uses the...
Saeed Emami

Saeed Emami

male, deceased (1999)
Saeed Emami (سعید امامی, also known as Saeed Eslami, and Mojtaba Ghavami born in Shiraz, Iran as Daniyal Ghavami in a wealthy family of Jewish ba...
Mehrzad Madanchi

Mehrzad Madanchi

male, 24 years old
Mehrzad Madanchi Ardakani (born January 10, 1985 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian football player. He is currently a member of Persepolis F.C., as...

Báb

male, deceased (1850)
Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad (October 20, 1819 - July 9, 1850) was the founder and prophet of Bábism. He was a merchant from Shíráz, who at the age of twe...
Sherko Haji-Rasouli

Sherko Haji-Rasouli

male, 29 years old
Sherko Haji-Rasouli (born September 1st, 1980 in Shiraz, Iran) is an offensive lineman for the B.C. Lions of the CFL. He currently wears the number...