List of Famous people born in Tehran, Iran

Serge Rezvani is a French painter, engraver, writer, as well as a songwriter-composer-performer He is also known by his pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak.

Merila Zarei is an Iranian actress.

Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش Persian pronunciation: [æbdolkæriːm soruːʃ]; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh, is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran and Imam Khomeini International University. He is arguably the most influential figure in the religious intellectual movement of Iran. Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He was also affiliated with other prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, the Leiden-based International Institute as a visiting professor for the Study of Islam in the Modern World and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. He was named by TIME as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005, and by Prospect magazine as one of the most influential intellectuals in the world in 2008. Soroush's ideas, founded on Relativism, prompted both supporters and critics to compare his role in reforming Islam to that of Martin Luther in reforming Christianity.

Masoud Kimiai is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer.

Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.

Abdollah Entezam was an Iranian Diplomat, son of Seyed Mohamad also known as "Binesh Ali", leader of Safi Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran. His father was also a diplomat. Older brother of Nasrollah Entezam, also a career diplomat and Iranian minister of Health . His son was Hume Horan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Philippe Blasband is a filmmaker and a writer in French language from Belgium. He is of Jewish origin and lives currently in Brussels.

Nasrollah Entezam was an Iranian diplomat. He was the first Iranian ambassador to the UN from 1947 to 1950 and President of the United Nations General Assembly during its fifth session, in 1950.

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.

Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy is an Iranian actress. Her best-known work outside of Iran is probably The Circle, which has won several awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, but is banned in Iran.