List of Famous people born in Tehran Province, Iran
Ray Aghayan
Gorgen Ray Aghayan was an American fashion designer and costume designer for the United States film industry. He won an Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his costume design. His partner was fashion designer Bob Mackie, from the early 1960s until his death in 2011.
Robert Tchenguiz
Robert Tchenguiz is a British entrepreneur, property investor, activist shareholder and securities dealer. The younger brother of Vincent Tchenguiz, he undertook a series of corporate deals, focusing particularly on property assets associated with UK pub and supermarket chains, during the 2000s. However, the value of some of his investments plunged during the financial crisis of 2007–08, exacerbated by the collapse of his major financial backer, Iceland's Kaupthing Bank. He and his brother's businesses were also the target of a misdirected UK Serious Fraud Office enquiry and of various law suits.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Mohammad Javad Zarif is an Iranian career diplomat and academic. He has been foreign minister of Iran since 2013. During his tenure as foreign minister, he led the Iranian negotiation with P5+1 countries which produced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on 14 July 2015, lifting the economic sanctions against Iran on 16 January 2016. On 25 February 2019, Zarif resigned from his post as foreign minister. His resignation was rejected by President Hassan Rouhani and he continues as foreign minister.
Shahnaz Pahlavi
Shahnaz Pahlavi is the first child of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt.
Reza Beyk Imanverdi
Reza Beyk Imanverdi was an Iranian actor and director.
Cumrun Vafa
Cumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.
Mogi Bayat
Mogi Bayat, official name Arnaud Bayat, is an Iranian-French businessman. He was Managing Director of the football club Sporting Charleroi from 2003 till 2010. He is the nephew of Abbas Bayat and the brother of Mehdi Bayat.
Mehrzad Marashi
Mehrzad Marashi is a German singer of Iranian descent and the winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar season 7.
Kanako Nishi
Kanako Nishi is a Japanese writer and artist. She has won the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, the Kawai Hayao Literary Prize, and the Naoki Prize, and several of her books have been adapted for film.
Googoosh
Faegheh Atashin, known professionally as Googoosh, is an Iranian singer and actress, and one of Iran's most popular and enduring entertainers, whose career spans over 60 years. Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.