List of Famous people born in Tehran Province, Iran

Iradj Gandjbaksh is an Iranian Cardiac surgeon who lives in France. He fitted a pacemaker to French former president Jacques Chirac.

Dariush Shayegan was one the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East.

Nasser Givehchi was an Iranian featherweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1952. He ranked fifth at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Asian Games. After retiring from competitions he had a long career as a national wrestling coach and international referee.

Ali Mosaffa is an Iranian actor and director.

Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani was an Iranian Shia cleric, writer and conservative politician who was Acting Prime Minister of Iran from 2 September until 29 October 1981. Before that, he was Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice in the cabinets of Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. He was the leader of Combatant Clergy Association and Chairman of the Assembly of Experts and also founder and president of Imam Sadiq University.

Mírzá Mihdí was the youngest child of Baháʼí Faith founder Baháʼu'lláh and his wife Ásíyih Khánum. He was given the title G͟husn-i-Athar.

Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2000). He is the record holder of the Iranian Chess Championship with 13 titles.

Manouchehr Sotoudeh was an Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature. He wrote 60 books and nearly 300 articles. He is the first Iranian who published the first dialectal dictionary. He was also a professor of University of Tehran.

Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani is the youngest son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran.

Sir Harold George Nicolson was a British politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.