List of Famous people born in Fars Province, Iran
Ebrahim Golestan
Ebrahim Golestan, is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975.
Gholam Reza Azhari
Arteshbod Gholam Reza Azhari was a military leader and Prime Minister of Iran.
Mohsen Kadivar
Mohsen Kadivar is a philosopher, leading intellectual reformist, and professor of Islamic Studies. A political Iranian dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih, and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran as well as constructional reform in shari'a and Shi'a theology. Kadivar has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs.
Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian
Abdol Aziz Farmanfarmaian was an Iranian architect, offspring of Iranian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and a member of the Qajar dynasty of Iran.
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran is a British-Iranian economist.
Omid Norouzi
Omid Norouzi is an Iranian wrestler. He won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman 60 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 2010 he won gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games.
Tooji
Touraj Keshtkar, better known under his stage name Tooji, is a Norwegian-Iranian singer, painter, model and television host. Tooji represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan and finished 26th (last) in the final. Beginning with his single "Cocktail", he also started using kanji characters 冬至 in his artistic identity. The characters refer to Winter Solstice, celebrated around December 21 of each year.
Yazdan Yazdanpanah
Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrāzī was a prominent Persian Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar, debater and the first teacher at the Nizamiyya school in Baghdad, which was built in his honour by the vizier (minister) of the Seljuk Empire Nizam al-Mulk.
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud b. Mosleh Shirazi (1236–1311) was a 13th-century Iranian polymath and poet who made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism.