Hassan Zirak
(1921-1972)
Mazhar Khaleqi
(1938)
Shahram Nazeri
(1950)
Arts and entertainment
Music
Singers
- Hassan Zirak – (29 November 1921, Bukan – 26 June 1972, Bukan) singer-songwriter. [1]
- Mohammad Mamle – (1925, Mahabad – 23 January 1999, Mahabad) singer. [2]
- Mazhar Khaleqi – (9 September 1938, Sanandaj) singer. [3]
- Shahram Nazeri – (18 February 1950, Kermanshah) singer and composer. [4]
- Rashid Fayznejad – (25 July 1950, Saqqez) singer, composer and violinist. [5] [6]
- Abbas Kamandi – (1 January 1952 – 21 May 2014) singer, songwriter, poet and writer. [7]
- Nasser Razazi – (21 June 1955) singer, poet and writer. [ citation needed ]
- Merziye Feriqi – (1958, Mariwan – 18 September 2005) singer. [8]
- Xatar – (24 December 1981) rapper, entrepreneur and producer; Iranian Kurdish-German. [9]
- Azad – (24 November 1973, Sanandaj) rapper; Iranian Kurdish-German. [10]
- Mohsen Chavoshi – (29 July 1979, Khorramshahr) singer-songwriter, record producer. [11]
- Hafez Nazeri – (30 July 1979, Tehran) composer and singer. [12]
Composers and instrumentalists
- Rokneddin Mokhtari – (1887, Kermanshah – 1970, Tehran) military personnel, musician and violinist. [13]
- Ghader Abdollahzadeh – (23 October 1925, Kelijeh – 21 May 2009, Bukan) woodwind and Kurdish traditional musician. [14]
- Bahramji – (1952, Kermanshah) Kurdish New Age musician. [15]
- Ali Akbar Moradi – (1957, Gharveh) composer and singer. [3]
- Seyed Khalil Alinezhad – (11 June 1958, Sahneh – 18 November 2001, Gothenburg) singer-songwriter and composer. [16]
- Saeed Farajpouri – (20 February 1961, Sanadaj) composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument kamancheh. [ citation needed ]
- Ardeshir Kamkar – (1962, Sanandaj) kamancheh player. [ citation needed ]
- Kayhan Kalhor – (24 November 1964, Tehran) kamancheh-setar player and vocal composer. [17]
- Shahriyar Jamshidi – (1971, Kermanshah) Kamancheh player and composer; Kurdish-Iranian Canadian. [18] >
Kayhan Kalhor
(1964)
Visual arts
Calligraphers
- Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor – (1829–1892) calligrapher. [19]
Filmmaking
Actors
- Nozar Azadi – (1938, Kermanshah – 27 February 2021, Bremen) comedian and actor. [20]
- Parvaneh Massoumi – (2 March 1945, Tehran) actress. [21] [22]
- Faramarz Sedighi – (11 November 1949, Saqqez) actor. [23]
- Farhad Aslani – (8 June 1966, Bijar) actor. [24]
- Saeed Aghakhani – (23 February 1972, Bijar) actor. [25]
- Hootan Shakiba – (14 June 1984, Tehran) actor. [26] [27]
- Navid Mohammadzadeh – (6 April 1986, Ilam) actor. [28] [24]
- Neda Ghasemi – (20 June 1987, Kermanshah) actress. [29]
- Minoo Sharifi – (12 December 1987, Sanandaj) actress. [30]
- Navid Pourfaraj – (26 April 1988, Kermanshah) actor. [24]
- Ali Shadman – (24 November 1996, Ilam) actor. [31] [32]
Farhad Aslani
(1966)
Navid Mohammadzadeh
(1986)
Minoo Sharifi
(1987)
Directors
- Ghotbeddin Sadeghi – (23 April 1952, Sanandaj) theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor. [33]
- Bahman Ghobadi – (1 February 1969, Baneh) film director. [34]
- Jamil Rostami – (1971, Sanandaj) film director. [35]
- Loghman Khaledi – (23 July 1978) film director. [36]
- Shahram Mokri – (17 August 1978) film director and screenwriter. [37]
- Keywan Karimi – (21 September 1985, Baneh) film director. [38]
Ghotbeddin Sadeghi
(1952)
Bahman Ghobadi
(1969)
Painters, photographers and cartoonists
- Hadi Ziaoddini – (1956, Sanandaj) sculpture and painter. [39] [40]
- Bahram Kalhornia – (1952, Kermanshah) contemporary painter, graphic designer and writer. [41]
- Bahar Movahed Bashiri – (1975, Tehran) caricaturist, singer and Persian classical musician. [42]
- Hiwa Pashaei – (August 1979, Eslamabad-e Gharb) painter, photographer and calligrapher. [43]
- Ebrahim Alipoor – (4 September 1989, Baneh) photographer. [44]
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