List of Famous people born in Tehran Province, Iran

Shervin Pishevar

First Name Shervin
Born on March 24, 1974 (age 52)

Shervin Kordary Pishevar is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One and a co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, a venture capital fund which has invested in companies including Airbnb, Uber, and Munchery.

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Homayoun Shajarian

First Name Homayoun
Born on May 21, 1975 (age 50)

Homayoun Shajarian is an Iranian classical music and classical crossover vocalist, and a tombak and kamancheh player.

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Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

First Name Fereydoon
Born on January 1, 1931
Died on November 15, 2004 (aged 73)

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj was an Iranian doctor and writer. He is best known for his book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water, and his writings related to health and wellness.

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Nazanin Afshin-Jam

First Name Nazanin
Born on April 11, 1979 (age 47)

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is an Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, author and public speaker. She is a former Miss World Canada. She is also president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions as well as the founder of "The Nazanin Foundation". She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1981. She is married to Peter MacKay, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

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Dominic Rains

First Name Dominic
Last Name Rains
Born on March 1, 1982 (age 44)

Dominic Rains is an Iranian-American actor, best known for his roles in independent films, including The Taqwacores (2010) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), as well as his role as Dr. Crockett Marcel in Chicago Med and as Kasius, the main antagonist of the first part of the fifth season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

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Nava Ebrahimi

First Name Nava
Last Name Ebrahimi
Born on November 30, 1977 (age 48)

Nava Ebrahimi is an Austrian-Iranian writer.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh

First Name Nasrin
Last Name Sotoudeh
Born on April 3, 1963 (age 63)

Nasrin Sotoudeh is a human rights lawyer in Iran. She has represented imprisoned Iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential elections as well as prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors. Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi. She has also represented women arrested for appearing in public without a hijab, which is a punishable offence in Iran. Nasrin Sotoudeh was the subject of “Nasrin”, a documentary filmed in secret in Iran about Sotoudeh's "ongoing battles for the rights of women, children and minorities."

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Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar

First Name Mohammad
Last Name Qajar
Born on June 21, 1872
Died on April 5, 1925 (aged 52)

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran from 8 January 1907 to 16 July 1909. He was the sixth shah of the Qajar Dynasty.

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Shamsia Hassani

First Name Shamsia
Born on November 30, 1987 (age 38)

Shamsia Hassani is an Afghan graffiti artist, a fine arts lecturer, and the associate professor of Drawing and Anatomy Drawing at the Kabul University. She has popularized "street art" in the streets of Kabul and has exhibited her art in several countries including India, Iran, Germany, United States of America, Switzerland, Vietnam, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Italy, Canada, and in diplomatic missions in Kabul. Hassani paints graffiti in Kabul to bring awareness to the war years. In 2014, Hassani was named one of FP's top 100 global thinkers.

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Ali Reza Pahlavi

First Name Ali
Last Name Pahlavi
Died on January 4, 2011 (aged 41)

Ali Reza Pahlavi was a member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family of the Imperial State of Iran. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution.

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