List of Famous people born in Tehran Province, Iran
Shahrzad Rafati
Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp, a digital media and technology company that drives monetization for content creators. Shahrzad is credited with pioneering both the technology and business model that made peace between big entertainment entities like the NBA and their fans who were uploading premium content to video sites like YouTube.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government. He was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He resigned his position in November of the same year, in protest at the US Embassy takeover and as an acknowledgement of his government's failure in preventing it.
Katayoun Riahi
Katayoun Riahi is an Iranian actress. She is also the founder and CEO of the Komak Charity Foundation. She left the film industry in 2009. She is also an ambassador of the Mehrafarin Foundation in Iran.
Ali Akbar Velayati
Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian conservative politician and physician. Velayati is a distinguished professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, senior adviser to the Supreme Leader in international affairs and head of the board of founders and the board of trustees of the Islamic Azad University.
Mostafa Chamran
Mostafa Chamran Save'ei was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament, as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War. In Iran, he is known as a martyr and a symbol of an ideological and revolutionary Muslim who left academic careers and prestigious positions as a scientist and professor in the US, University of California, Berkeley and migrated in order to help the Islamic movements in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt as a chief revolutionary guerilla, as well as in the Islamic revolution of Iran. He helped to found the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon.
Atousa Pourkashiyan
Atousa Pourkashiyan is an Iranian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. Pourkashiyan is six-time Iranian women's champion.
Morteza Pashaei
Morteza Pashaei was an Iranian musician, composer, and pop singer.
Hila Sedighi
Hila Sedighi is a poet, painter and social activist in Iran.
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani, better known as Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian women's rights activist, politician and former journalist who served as a member of Iranian parliament from 1996 to 2000. She is also president of Executives of Construction Party women's league and the former editor-in-chief of Zan newspaper.