List of British Iranians

This is a list of notable British Iranians.

Academics

• Ervand Abrahamian – historian of Middle Eastern and particularly Iranian history^[1]
• Haleh Afshar OBE – university professor at the University of York^[2]
• Ali Ansari – university professor at the University of St Andrews^[3]
• Reza Banakar – professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Westminster, London
• Amir Hossein Mohammad Dezashibi – researcher at the University of Birmingham
• Abbas Edalat – university professor at Imperial College London^[4]
• Anoush Ehteshami – university professor at Durham University^[5]
• Eprime Eshag – Keynesian socialist economist
• Rouben Galichian – independent scholar^[6]
• Mahbod Ghaffari^[7]  – University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge
• Mohammed Ghanbari – university professor at the University of Essex^[8]
• Omid Kamvari – Visiting School Director at Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
• Homa Katouzian – academic, economist, historian and literary critic^[9]
• Ali Mobasheri – associate professor and reader at the University of Nottingham^[10]
• Mohammad Hashem Pesaran – academic, economist, professor of economics at Cambridge University, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge^[11]
• Saeed Talajooy^[12]  – assistant professor at the University of St Andrews
• Saeed Vaseghi – university professor at Brunel University^[13]

Actors and comedians

• Freema Agyeman – actress^[14]
• Zahra Ahmadi – actress
• Sia Alipour  – Belgian born, British raised Iranian martial arts actor and stuntman; known for Street Fighter: Resurrection
• Catherine Bell – actress^[15]
• Nazanin Boniadi – actress; played Leyla Mir on General Hospital^[16] and CIA analyst Fara Sherazi on Homeland season 3
• Maryam Davari – actress^[17]
• Omid Djalili – comedian and actor^[18]
• Davood Ghadami  – British Iranian actor, known for Eastenders character Kush Kazemi
• Shaheen Jafargholi  – Welsh Iranian singer and actor; appeared on Britain's Got Talent
• Mandana Jones – actress
• Hadi Khorsandi – comedian^[19]
• Shappi Khorsandi – comedian^[19]
• Kayvan Novak – actor; star of Fonejacker^[20]
• Roxanne Pallet – actress^[21]
• Roxy Shahidi – actress^[22]
• Darren Shahlavi  – British actor, martial arts stuntman
• Hayley Tamaddon – actress^[23]

Art and architects

• Nasser Golzari – principal at Golzari (NG) Architects^[24]
• Omid Kamvari – architect and director at Kamvari Architects^[25]
• Houmayoun Mahmoudi – artist, international cartoonist^[26]
• Mouzhan Majidi – chief executive officer of Foster and Partners^[27]
• Mohsen Mostafavi – dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design^[28]
• Farshid Moussavi – architect and founder of Foreign Office Architects^[29]
• Kour Pour – artist
• Alireza Sagharchi – principal at Stanhope Gate Architecture^[30]

Business

• Kaveh Alamouti  – head of Global Macro Citadel LLC; chief executive officer of Citadel Asset Management Europe^[31]
• David Alliance, Baron Alliance, GBE – chairman of N Brown Group^[32]
• Farad Azima – industrialist, inventor and philanthropist^[33]
• Camila Batmanghelidjh  – founder of the charity Kids Company^[34]
• Darius Guppy – convicted fraudster, writer^[35]
• Bobby Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic^[36]
• Sahar Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic^[36]
• Kia Joorabchian – football businessman^[37]
• Nasser David Khalili, KSS – art dealer and the fifth-wealthiest person in the United Kingdom^[38]
• Mahmoud Khayami, KSS – industrialist; founder of Iran Khodro^[39]
• Paris Moayedi – former chief executive officer of Jarvis plc^[40]
• Farhad Moshiri – energy investor; part owner of Arsenal F.C.^[41]
• Ali Parsa  – former Chief Executive Officer of private healthcare partnership Circle^[42]
• Eddy Shah – owner of the Messenger Group^[43]
• Yasmina Siadatan – winner of fifth series of The Apprentice^[44]
• Amir Taaki – video game and computer software developer
• Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – brothers who own the Rotch property group^[45]
• Dan Vahdat  – co-founder and CTO of Medopad^[46]
• Sir Hossein Yassaie Phd  – Chief Executive Office of semiconductor company Imagination Technologies^[47]

Entertainment

• Cameron Alborzian – former model^[48]
• Blade – rapper^[49]
• Darius Campbell (formerly Danesh) – actor and singer-songwriter^[50]
• Emun Elliott – actor
• Shirin Guild – fashion designer^[51]
• Shusha Guppy – writer and singer^[52]
• Shaheen Jafargholi – singer; Britain's Got Talent series 3 contestant^[53]
• Yasmin Le Bon – model^[54]
• Patrick Monahan – stand-up comedian
• Kayvan Novak – actor; appeared as Waj in the film Four Lions (2010)
• Omid 16B – disc jockey^[55]
• Roxanne Tataei  – soul singer-songwriter^[56]
• Eddy Temple-Morris – XFM disc jockey^[57]
• Yasmin – musician, full name Yasmin Shahmir^[58]
• Sami Yusuf – musician^[59]
• Zarif – musician^[60]

Media

• Behrouz Afagh – head of BBC World Service's Asia Pacific Region^[61]
• Christiane Amanpour, CBE – journalist^[62]
• Nazenin Ansari  – journalist, former correspondent for Voice of America's Persian News Network
• Saeed Kamali Dehghan – staff journalist at The Guardian
• Nazaneen Ghaffar – weather presenter at Sky News
• Tina Gharavi – filmmaker and screenwriter^[63]
• Kaveh Golestan – photojournalist^[64]
• Baqer Moin – BBC News journalist^[65]
• Maryam Moshiri – BBC News presenter^[66]
• Ramita Navai – journalist^[67]
• Nima Nourizadeh – film director
• Sadeq Saba – journalist, head of BBC Persian service^[68]
• Benjamin Zand – BBC News reporter^[69]

Politics

• Hassan Mirza (1899-1943) – former Crown Prince of the Qajar Dynasty
• Maryam Namazie – human-rights activist, commentator and broadcaster^[70]

Sports

• Adam Gemili  – sprinter and footballer
• Aadel Kardooni – former Leicester Tigers and England A rugby player^[71]
• Josh Navidi – Cardiff Blues and Welsh international rugby player
• Frank Nezhadpournia  – karate master, author^[72]
• Kamran Panjavi – weightlifter at the 2004 Summer Olympics^[73]
• Laurence Shahlaei – strongman
• Kamal Shalorus – professional UFC fighter^[74]
• Ryan Tafazolli – footballer
• Mehrdad Takaloo – boxer^[75]

Other

• Yasha Asley – youngest person in the world to have achieved grade A at Mathematics A-level^[76]
• Ali Dizaei – senior police officer^[77]
• Shirazeh Houshiary – Turner Prize-nominated installation artist and sculptor^[78]
• Mansour Matloubi – poker player^[79]
• Behnaz Mozakka – terrorism victim^[80]
• Ben Roberts – poker player^[81]

See also

• British Iranians
• List of Iranians
• List of Iranian Americans

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