List of Iranian Kurds

• Rokneddin Mokhtari – (1887, Kermanshah - 1970, Tehran) military personnel, musician and violinist. [14]
• Ghader Abdollahzadeh – (23 October 1925, Kelijeh -21 May 2009, Bukan) woodwind and Kurdish traditional musician. [15]
• Bahramji – (1952, Kermanshah) Kurdish New Age musician. [16]
• Ali Akbar Moradi – (1957, Gharveh) composer and singer. [3]
• Seyed Khalil Alinezhad – (11 June 1958, Sahneh - 18 November 2001, Gothenburg) singer, songwriter and composer. [17]
• Saeed Farajpouri – (20 February 1961, Sanadaj) composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument kamancheh.
• Ardeshir Kamkar – (1962, Sanandaj) kamancheh player.
• Kayhan Kalhor – (24 November 1964, Tehran) kamancheh-setar player and vocal composer. [18]
• Shahriyar Jamshidi – (1971, Kermanshah) Kamancheh player and composer; Kurdish-Iranian Canadian. [19]>

• Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor – (1829–1892) calligrapher. [20]

• Nozar Azadi – (1938, Kermanshah – 27 February 2021, Bremen) comedian and actor. [21]
• Parvaneh Massoumi – (2 March 1945, Tehran) actress. [22][23]
• Faramarz Sedighi – (11 November 1949, Saqqez) actor. [24]
• Farhad Aslani – (8 June 1966, Bijar) actor. [25]
• Saeed Aghakhani – (23 February 1972, Bijar) actor. [26]
• Hootan Shakiba – (14 June 1984, Tehran) actor. [27][28]
• Navid Mohammadzadeh – (6 April 1986, Ilam) actor. [29][25]
• Neda Ghasemi – (20 June 1987, Kermanshah) actress. [30]
• Minoo Sharifi – (12 December 1987, Sanandaj) actress. [31]
• Navid Pourfaraj – (26 April 1988, Kermanshah) actor. [25]
• Ali Shadman – (24 November 1996, Ilam) actor. [32][33]

• Ghotbeddin Sadeghi – (23 April 1952, Sanandaj) theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor. [34]
• Bahman Ghobadi – (1 February 1969, Baneh) film director. [35]
• Jamil Rostami – (1971, Sanandaj) film director. [36]
• Loghman Khaledi – (23 July 1978) film director. [37]
• Shahram Mokri – (17 August 1978) film director and screenwriter. [38]
• Keywan Karimi – (21 September 1985, Baneh) film director. [39]

• Bahram Kalhornia – (1952, Kermanshah) contemporary painter, graphic designer and writer. [40]
• Bahar Movahed Bashiri – (1975, Tehran) caricaturist, singer and Persian classical musician. [41]
• Hiwa Pashaei – (August 1979, Eslamabad-e Gharb) painter, photographer and calligrapher. [42]
• Ebrahim Alipoor – (4 September 1989, Baneh) photographer. [43]

• Caucher Birkar – (1978, Merivan) mathematician and university professor. [44]

• Sharafkhan Bidlisi – (25 February 1543, Karahrud-1603, Bitlis) Safavid Iranian historian. [45]
• Nur Ali Elahi – (11 September 1895, Jeyhunabad – 19 October 1974, Tehran) spiritual thinker, musician, writer, philosopher and jurist. [46]
• Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi – (1570, Julaq, Nahavand, – c. 1632 in India) Safavid-Mughal Kurdish noble, historian and biographer. [47]
• Mohammad Mokri – (1921 – 12 July 2007) linguist, diplomat and writer. [48]
• Abdurrahman Sharafkandi – (13 April 1921, Bukan – 21 February 1991, Karaj) writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator. [49]
• Amir Hassanpour – (17 November 1943, Mehabad – 24 June 2017, Toronto) social scientist. [50]
• Saleh Nikbakht – (1945) lawyer, advocate and human rights activist.
• Abbas Vali - (1949) political and social theorist.
• Hamid Reza Ardalan – (23 September 1959, Sanandaj) musicologist and ethnomusicologist. [51]
• Hashim Ahmadzadeh – (1961, Mahabad) social scientist.

• Abdolreza Rajabi – (1962, Mahidasht – 30 October 2008, Reja'i Shahr Prison) political activist. [53]
• Loghman Moradi – (1983 – 8 September 2018) executed political prisoner[54]
• Zaniar Moradi – (1987, Marivan – 8 September 2018, Gohardasht Prison) executed political prisoner. [55]
• Farhad Vakili – (? - 2011) political activist.

• Mohammad Ghazi – (3 August 1913, Mahabad – 14 January 1998, Tehran) literary translator.
• Brayim Younisi – (1926, Baneh – 8 February 2012, Tehran) literary translator, novelist and writer.

• Ali Ashraf Darvishian – (3 August 1941, Kermanshah – 26 October 2017, Karaj) short story writer, novelist and scholar of Kurdish folklore studies. [56]
• Ata Nahai – (1960, Baneh) short story writer and novelist. [3]
• Laleh Khadivi – (1977, Isfahan) novelist and filmmaker. [57]

• Baba Mardoukh Rohanee – (1923, Kashtar – 17 January 1989, Sanandaj) Islamic academic and writer. [58]

• Karim Hisami – (1926, Mahabad – 6 October 2001, Stockholm) writer, literary translator and KDP member. [59]

• Shaykh Mustafa Takhtayi – (18th-century) Ardalani Kurdish poet. [60]
• Ahmad Bag Komasi – (1796 – 1877) Ardalani Kurdish poet. [61]
• Mastoureh Ardalan – (1805, Sanandaj – 1848, Sulaymaniyah) Kurdish poet, historian, and writer.
• Edeb – (1860 – 1918) Kurdish poet. [62]
• Nari – (1874, Merivan-1944, Bilu) Kurdish poet.
• Abolqasem Lahouti – (12 October 1887, Kermanshah – 16 March 1957, Moscow) poet and political activist;Iranian-Soviet, maternal Kurdish. [63]
• Qani – (1898, Mariwan -1965) Kurdish poet. [64]
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi – (6 February 1923, Kermanshah – 17 November 2015, Tehran) poet and lyricist. [65]
• Shami Kermashani – (1927, Kermanshah –November 23, 1984, Kermanshah) poet. [66][67]
• Suwara Ilkhanizada – (1937, Turjan – 14 January 1976, Tehran) Kurdish poet and writer. [68]
• Jalal Malaksha – (1951, Malekshan-e Olya – 31 October 2020) Kurdish poet, writer, political activist, translator and journalist. [69]
• Jila Hosseini – (22 September 1964, Saqqez – 27 September 1996) Kurdish poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer. [70]

• Hemin Mukriyani – (1921, Mahabad – 18 April 1986, Mahabad) journalist, poet, translator and literary critic. [71]
• Roya Toloui – (22 May 1966) Baneh) democracy activist and journalist.
• Rahim Rashidi – (12 October 1978, Saqqez) journalist and correspondent of Kurdistan TV and Kurdistan 24. [72]
• Behrouz Boochani – (23 July 1983) journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer. [73]

• Nasser Fahimi – (8 May 1974, Sanandaj) Human rights defender and political prisoner. [76]
• Farzad Kamangar – (c. 1975 – 9 May 2010) executed teacher, poet, journalist, human rights activist and social worker.[77]
• Sherko Moarefi – (1980, Baneh – 4 November 2013, Saqqez) activist and political prisoner. [78]
• Ehsan Fatahian – (1982, Kermanshah – 11 November 2009, Sanandaj) activist and torture victim. [79]
• Bahare Alavi – (1989, Saqqiz – 27 April 2011, Sanandaj) human rights activist, women's rights defender and blogger. [80]
• Zara Mohammadi – (1990, Dehgolan) – cultural activist. [81]
• Habibollah Latifi – (21 March 1982) activist and political prisoner. [82]
• Sarou Ghahremani – (1993, Sanandaj – 12 January 2018) political prisoner. [83]

Including tribesmen:

• Abdolqader Zahedi – (1907 – 19 December 2005, Saqqez) Islamic jurist and political leader. [114]
• Ezaddin Husseini – (26 May 1921, Baneh – 10 February 2011, Upsala) Islamic jurist and political leader. [115]
• Assad Sheikholeslami Sanandaji – (1932 - 1 January 2020) Islamic scholar and professor. [116]
• Ahmad Moftizadeh – (February 1933 – 9 February 1993) Islamic scholar. [117]

• Sultan Sahak – (fl. late 14th century to early 15th century[118]) religious leader who reformed the modern beliefs of Yarsanism. [119]
• Hajj Nematollah – (1871, Jeyhunabad – 28 February 1919, Jeyhunabad) Yarsani mystic and religious leader. [120]

• Bijan Batmani – (22 December 1972, Kermanshah) boxer.[121]
• Makwan Amirkhani – (8 November 1988, Kermanshah) mixed martial artist, Iranian Kurdish-Finnish. [122]

• Sardar Pashaei – (12 May 1979, Saqqez) [123]
• Saman Tahmasebi – (26 July 1985, Sanandaj) [124]
• Yousef Ghaderian – (14 February 1993, Saqqez) [125][126]

• Kianoush Rostami – (23 July 1991, Kermanshah) strength athlete and Olympic weightlifter. [3]

• Siamand Rahman – ( 21 March 1988 – 1 March 2020) Paralympic powerlifter. [127][128]

• Homa Hosseini – (22 December 1988, Kermanshah) rower. [129]

• Hamed Sohrabnejad – (7 May 1983, Sanandaj) [130]