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This is a list of notable individuals of Iranian ancestry who grew up and/or live in Germany.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2019)

Sports

• Patrik Baboumian
• Daniel Davari
• Ashkan Dejagah
• Sara Doorsoun
• Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh
• Dennis Eckert
• Alireza Marzban
• Alexander Nouri
• Reza Parkas
• Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
• Babak Rafati
• Amir Shapourzadeh
• Fereydoun Zandi

Music

Rapper

• Nimo
• Fard [ de]
• PA Sports [ de]
• Kianush [ de]
• Sinan-G [ de]
• Milonair [ de]
• Mosh36 [ de]
• Animus [ de]
• MC Basstard [ de]
• Seyed [ de]
• Bahar [ de]

Rapper & Singer

• Shirin David

Rap-Journalists

• Rooz Lee [ de]

Singer

• Mehrzad Marashi - DSDS Winner 2010
• Susan Ebrahimi [ de]
• Shahin Najafi
• Navid Akhavan
• Maryam Akhondy
• Ateed
• Sima Bina

Composer

• Ramin Djawadi
• Sima Bina, notable Persian classical musician (singer), composer, researcher, painter
• Amir Abbas Zare, musician and composer

Academia/science

• Katajun Amirpur, scholar
• Nossrat Peseschkian
• Majid Samii
• Rahim Rahmanzadeh, orthopedist

Arts/entertainment

Comedians

• Enissa Amani
• Masud Akbarzadeh [ de]
• Puyan Yavari [ de] ^[1]

TV presenter

• Melissa Khalaj
• Enissa Amani

Actors

• Daryush Shokof
• Enissa Amani
• Maryam Zaree [ de]
• Navid Akhavan
• Shaghayegh Dehghan
• Narges Rashidi
• Melika Foroutan
• Mohammad Khalkhalian
• Shermine Shahrivar
• Taies Farzan
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad, actor, entertainer

'Film directors

• Daryush Shokof
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh

Rest

• Akbar Behkalam, Painter
• Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright, Theatre director
• Yasmine Mahmoudieh, architect, interior designer, and CEO
• Naveed Nour, photographer
• Benny Rebel, photographer
• Hadi Teherani, architect and designer

Politics

• Sahra Wagenknecht, parliamentary chairperson of the German Left Party since 2010, Leader of the Opposition in Germany 2015-2017, chancellor candidate in 2017 German federal election
• Yasmin Fahimi, politician and since January 2014 the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD).
• Omid Nouripour, Alliance 90/The Greens
• Bahman Nirumand
• Mina Ahadi
• Mitra Razavi

Media/journalism

• Abbas Maroufi, publisher
• Navid Kermani, writer and scholar
• Golineh Atai - TV
• Isabel Schayani [ de] - TV
• Natalie Amiri [ de] - TV

Alternative journalism

• Ken Jebsen

Business/technology

• Hossein Sabet, entrepreneur, hotel owner worldwide.
• Sandra Navidi, strategic and macroeconomics advisor

Literature

• Abbas Maroufi, novelist
• Sudabeh Mohafez, writer
• Alexios Schandermani, writer

Personalities

• Soraya Esfandiary, ex-wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Consort of Iran
• Abdoldjavad Falaturi

See also

• Iranians in Germany
• List of Iranians
• Iranian diaspora

References