- Hassan Zirak
(1921-1972) - Mazhar Khaleqi
(1938) - Shahram Nazeri
(1950)
This is a list of Iranian Kurdish notable people by birth, ancestry or ethnicity, arranged by main profession then birthdate. For similar reasons related to ethnogenesis and national identity, this list starts from the early modern history of Iran and Ardalan Emirate, when the Safavids established a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region. [Note 1]
This list is not automatically filled with notables from Iranian Kurdistan region, but the following Iranian people have either stated that they are Kurds or that credible sources indicate that. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Kurdish and Iranian.
Azin Yousefiani
Including tribesmen:
Baneh, also Romanized as Bāneh;, also Romanized as Bane, is a city in the Central District of Baneh County, Kurdistan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Baneh is approximately 30 km from Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
Kurds in Iran constitute a large minority in the country with a population of around 9 and 10 million people.
Qasr-e Shirin also Romanized as Qasr-e Širin and Qasr-e-Shīrīn; also known as Ghasr-ī-Shīrīn and Ghasr-Shīrīn; Kurdish: قەسری شیرین, romanized: Qesrî Şîrîn, is a city in the Central District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Its population in 2016 was 18,473. It is a Free-trade zone (FTZ) and is populated by Kurds.
Voria Ghafouri is an Iranian retired footballer. He has played much of his career as a right-back and also played as a right winger occasionally.
Brayim Younisi Baneh was an Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist, and translator.
The 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran was one of the largest nationwide uprisings in the country against the new state following the Iranian Revolution. The Kurdish rebellion began in mid-March, just two months after the Revolution ended, and was one of the most intense Kurdish rebellions in modern Iran.
Ebrahim Alipoor born in September 4, 1989 in Baneh, Iran is an Iranian-Kurdish photographer.
The 2018–2019 Iranian general strikesand protests were a series of strikes and protests that took place across Iran from early 2018 until mid-2019 against the country's economic situation, as well as the Iranian government, as part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement.
Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically, it includes the West Azerbaijan Province, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of Hamadan Province and Lorestan Province.
Jalal Malaksha was a Kurdish poet, writer, political activist, translator and journalist from Eastern Kurdistan, Iran.
Ali Osat Hashemi is an Iranian reformist politician. He was born 1958 in Sonqor County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. He was the Deputy Minister of Iran's Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare and the head of the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization, from 2019 to 2021.
The 2018 Iranian protests was a series of protests and massive nonviolent demonstrations across Iran throughout late-2018 against worsening tensions and deteriorating conditions as part of the 2018-2019 Iranian general strikes and protests.
The International Kurdish Theater Festival is the most important theater festival in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Rojhalat, which has been held in Saqqez city, since December 1999, with the participation of professional theater groups from different parts of Iran and abroad. So far, 16 periods of this festival have been held, the last of which was on December 19–22, 2019. This festival is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran.
Mehdi Safaei is an Iranian athlete, investor, lecturer and entrepreneur. He is owner of Concept Industrial Group and the national sample entrepreneur.
Woman, Life, Freedom or Woman, Life, Liberty is a popular political Kurdish slogan coined by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and widely used in both the Kurdish independence and democratic confederalist movements. The slogan became a rallying cry during the protests which occurred in Iran as a response to the death of Mahsa Amini.
Khodanur Lojei or Lajai was an Iranian protester from Zahedan, who was killed during the 2022 Zahedan massacre, one of the Mahsa Amini protests. A picture of him with his hands tied to a flagpole with a bottle of water put in front of him has become one of the symbols of the ongoing protests Iran.
Kurdistan Beit-ol-Moqaddas Corps is a military unit under Basij and IRGC. Their headquarters is located in Sanandaj, and they are the largest and in charge of controlling all IRGC Corps and Basij units in Kurdistan province.
من در دوران دانشجویی جرأت نمیکردم بگویم کُرد هستم، زیرا تصورات درباره مردم کردستان بسیار بد بود، اما حقیقت ماجرا این است که مردمی بسیار خون گرم، مهماننواز و هنرمند هستند
من خودم یک دختر کُرد و اهل کرمانشاهم...
خانواده پدری من اصالتا کرد هستند...
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has generic name (help)من کرد هستم و همیشه این را به یاد دارم. من هیچ وقت فراموش نمی کنم که از کجا آمده ام و به اصلیتم افتخار می کنم.
من کردم و کردها غیرت دارند...
من کُرد هستم و نان حرام سر سفره ام نمی برم