People on Iran's street signs
countries
38 names / 860 streets
Ruhollah Khomeini
149
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the...
Morteza Motahhari
56
Morteza Motahhari was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, and lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, among others. He...
Mahmoud Taleghani
51
Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate, a senior Shia Islamic scholar and thinker of Iran, and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah...
Mohammad Beheshti
46
Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti was an Iranian jurist, poetic philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the Revolution. Beheshti is...
Mahdi
38
The Mahdi is a messianic figure in Islamic belief. He is comparable to the Christian concept of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Jewish concept of Mashiach ben David. The Mahdi is said to be...
سید حسن مدرس
37
سید حسن مدرس طباطبایی مشهور به سید حسن مدرّس سیاستمدار، فقیه ،مجتهد شیعه و نمایندهٔ مردم تهران در دوره های دوم تا ششم مجلس شورای ملی بود. او در سال ۱۳۱۶ و پس از ۷ سال تبعید در خواف و کاشمر به دستور...
Ali Shariati
34
Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th...
Ali al-Rida
31
Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the eighth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Musa al-Kazim, in 799...
Mostafa Chamran
29
Mostafa Chamran Savehi was an Iranian scientist, politician, and guerrilla, best known for serving as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran.
Hafez
28
Hafez Shirazi (1325–1390) was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature. His works are often found in the homes of...
Saadi Shirazi
27
Saadi Shirazi (1210-1291) was an Iranian poet. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts.
Husayn ibn Ali
26
Husayn ibn Ali was an Alid political and religious leader. The second son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as a younger brother of Hasan ibn Ali, Husayn is...
Amir Kabir
21
Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani, better known as Amir Kabir, was chief minister to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar for the first three years of his reign. He is widely considered to be "Iran's first reformer", a...
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
20
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar was an Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month, in August 1981. On 30 August, Bahonar and other members of...
Navvab Safavi
20
Mojtaba Mir-Lohi, better known as Navvab Safavi, was an Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric and dissident who founded the Fada'iyan-e Islam group. He played a role in assassinations of Iranian prime...
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
19
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime...
Omar Khayyam
17
Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature. He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the...
Mostafa Khomeini
15
Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and the eldest son of Ruhollah Khomeini. He died before the Iranian Revolution.
Salman the Persian
15
Salman Farsi was a Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Prophet Muhammad. As a practicing Zoroastrian, he dedicated much of his early life to studying to become a magus, after which...
Avicenna
14
Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various...
Ali
13
Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until his assassination in 661, as well as the first Shia Imam. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet...
Muhammad al-Mahdi
12
Muhammad al-Mahdi is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
Abol-Ghasem Kashani
12
Sayyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi-Kashani was an Iranian politician and Shia Marja. He played an important role in the 1953 coup in Iran and the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Mulla Sadra
11
Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā, was an Iranian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim who led the cultural renaissance in the country...
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
11
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime...
Rumi
11
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential...
Sattar Khan
10
Sattar Khan, honorarily titled Sardār-e Melli was a pivotal figure in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and is considered a national hero by the Iranian people.
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar
10
Seyyed Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, known by his pen name Shahriar, was an Iranian poet who composed works in both Azerbaijani and Persian.
His most important work, Heydar Babaya Salam, is...
Rudaki
9
Rudaki was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanids, he reportedly composed more than 180,000 verses, yet only a...
Abu Bakr al-Razi
9
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes, 864 or 865 – 925 or 935 CE, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the...
Mir Damad
9
Mīr Dāmād, known also as Seyyed Mir Mohammad Baqer Astarabadi, was an Iranian Twelver Shia philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna. He was a scholar of the...
Mahmoud Taleghani
9
Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate, a senior Shia Islamic scholar and thinker of Iran, and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah...
Ali Sayad Shirazi
8
Ali Sayad Shirazi was an Iranian military officer. He was a key military commander of the Iranian Ground Forces during the Iran–Iraq War. Shirazi was assassinated by Mojahedin-e Khalq in 1999 while...
Mohammad Beheshti
8
Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti was an Iranian jurist, poetic philosopher, cleric and politician who was known as the second person in the political hierarchy of Iran after the Revolution. Beheshti is...
Mostafa Chamran
8
Mostafa Chamran Savehi was an Iranian scientist, politician, and guerrilla, best known for serving as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran.
Abol-Ghasem Kashani
6
Sayyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi-Kashani was an Iranian politician and Shia Marja. He played an important role in the 1953 coup in Iran and the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Morteza Motahhari
6
Morteza Motahhari was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, and lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, among others. He...
سید حسن مدرس
5
سید حسن مدرس طباطبایی مشهور به سید حسن مدرّس سیاستمدار، فقیه ،مجتهد شیعه و نمایندهٔ مردم تهران در دوره های دوم تا ششم مجلس شورای ملی بود. او در سال ۱۳۱۶ و پس از ۷ سال تبعید در خواف و کاشمر به دستور...