Daughter of Mozaffaraddin Shah and Sarvarossaltaneh, Ashrafolmoluk is one of the famous women of Iran’s contemporary history. She was born in Tabriz, 1846. She received her education from Tabriz old...

Son of Mohsen Sadrolashraf, Seyyed Javad Sadr was born in Tehran, 1912. He received his primary and secondary education in Ettehadieh, Elmieh, Adab, Aqdassieh and Darolfonun schools of Tehran...

Son of Reza, Kazem Khan Sayyah was born in Tehran, 1895. He completed his higher education in the military school of Constantinople with the rank of artillery officer. Upon the beginning...

Jamshid Alam, was born in 1901 in Van, Turkey. He studied his primary and secondary education in Darolfonun (polytechnic). Then he left for France to continue his studies in Medicine in Lion...

Son of Seyyed Ali SheikholEslam Marandi, one of the religious figures, Seyyed Jalaladdin Tehrani was born in 1893. He studied in the Tarbiat School and then continued his religious education in Sepahsalar School...

He was born in Tehran, 1901. He went to Mozaffari elementary school and studied for a while in Darol Fonun. Then he attended the school of Political Sciences and got his diploma in 1919 from the same school...

Son of Mohammad Ali and Luise Ghotbi, AbdoulReza Ghotbi was born in Tehran, 1939. His mother was one the great grandchildren of Najafqoli Khan Samsam ol Saltaneh Bakhtiari. He went to the Italian elementary school...

One of the first rank clergies of Tehran, Hajj Molla Ali Kani was born in the Kan village of the west Tehran, 1805. Despite the objection of his family, when he was twenty years old, he left for Najaf to study...

Seyyed Mojtaba Mirlowhi known as Navvab Safavi was born in a religious family on Khaniabad Street of Tehran. His mother’s lineage went back to the Safavids and his father to the famous Isfahani Seyyeds of Mirlowhi...

Son of Amanollah Khan Nasir Khaqan Tabib, lieutenant general Farajollah Aghevli was born in Isfahan, 1888. He went to Adab Elementary school and then learnt English language and was engaged in the teaching...

One of the most controversial figures of Iran’s contemporary history of politics, Mozaffar Baqaei was born in Kerman, 1912. His father was Mirza Shahab Ravi Kermani, a political activist of constitutional period...

Ayatollah Dr. Mohammad Mofatteh was born in a religious family in Hamedan, 1928. His first tutor was Sheikh Mahmud. After his primary education he left for the religious school of Qom. Simultaneous with getting high...

The leader of the Forqan group was born in the Duzan village of Aligudarz, 1951 and as his ID cart shows in 1959. His father was the shepherd Hassan. He spent his childhood in a poor and populated family...

Son of Haj Mohammad Hossein NezamolIslam, was born in 1910. His elementary education was in Sharif School. Then he went to the German School and his secondary education was in technical grounds and was sent to Germany...

Shojaaddin Shfa was born in Qom, 1918. Following his primary and secondary education in Qom, he entered Tehran University to study Persian literature. Then he left for Lebanon and Paris to continue his studies on literature...

Son of RajabAli (Mansur-ol-Molk), HassanAli Mansur was born in Tehran, 1913. Following his education he entered the faculty of law and political sciences of Tehran University, and backed by his powerful father...

Major general Iraj Matbui, son of Lieutenant Hassan Agha, was born in 1895. He followed military career as his father and when graduated from the Cossack cadet school, he went to Russia to continue his training...

GholamReza Azhari was born in Shiraz, 1909. Following primary and secondary education, he entered the officer’s college, 1933. One year later he joined the imperial army as a second lieutenant...

One of the great religious authorities and a political theoretician of Iran, Mirza Mohammad Hussein Naini Qaravi, son of Mirza AbdolRahim was born in a religious family in Nain. After nine years of attending...

Son of Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Kashani, one of great Ulamas, Ayatollah AboulQassem Kashani was born in Tehran, 1848. At first he was tutored by his father, and then attended the courses of Ayatollah Molla Kazem...

Son of Cossack brigadier general Naqi Agha, Ahmad AmirAhmadi was born in Tehran, about 1884. He studied in Eftetahieh and Tarbiat schools, and then he attended Cossack school and became second sergeant...

Son of Karimdad Khan Amir Monzam, AbdolHossein Teimurtash, entitled Moazzazolmolk, and Sardar Moazzam Khorassani, was born about 1881 in Bojnurd. Following his primary education and learning horse riding and...

Son of Mohammad Reza Sardar Fateh Bakhtiari and Nazbeigom, Shapur Bakhtiar was born in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari, 1915. He was the grandson of Samsam-ol-saltaneh who became prime minister two times...

Son of Agha Hashem Mahallati, lieutenant general Morteza Khosrovani was born in Mahallat, 1905. Following his primary education, he entered the officer’s college and was graduated from it to go to France...

The great Iranian reformist, Mohammad Taghi Farahani, was born in the Hazaveh village of Farahan. His father, Karbalai Mohammad Qorban, was the chef of Mirza Eissa Qaem Maqam’s household and then in his son...

Iraqi officer and politician, Abdol-Karim Qassem was born in Baghdad, 1914. His father was a Sunni of Zobeid Qahtani tribe and his mother was a Shiite from Tamim Adnani tribe. He was brought up in a poor family...

The elder son of Jafarqoli Khan Bakhtiari and Bibi Shahpasand, Hosseinqoli Khan was born in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari about 1824. He had three brothers and six sons, Sardar As’ad being one of them...

Son of Yaqub, Nasser Moqaddam was born in 1918. He was educated in the cadet school and staff college. Further he studied law in Tehran University. He was a leading officer of the “special bureau of intelligence”...

Son of Hajj Motamed, Seyyed Mehdi Pirasteh was born in 1911 in Arak. Following his early education he studied law in the University of Tehran. He entered the service of ministry of Justice and became assistant public...

Son of Prince Mohammad Ali Khan Ala-os-saltaneh, Hossein Ala was born in Tehran, 1881. He went to primary and high school in London. As his father was the Iranian minister to London, he entered the service...