List of Famous people born in Kurdistan Province, Iran

Caucher Birkar is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge.

Keywan Karimi is an Iranian independent filmmaker of Kurdish origin. He graduated with ad degree communication studies form the Faculty of Social Sciences University of Tehran. Karimi began his work with a series of short documentary films which were a critique of human life in contemporary Iran. He was sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes because of the content of his films.

Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran. Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.