List of Shia Muslims
The following is a list of notable Shi'a Muslims.
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Historical political figures
Late Islamic history
- Idris I – founder of the Idrisid dynasty.
- [1]Syed Muhammad Mir Ali Naqvi known as Mir Adal, the Chief Justice of the court of Akbar the Great,Mir Adal, he served on the court from 1579–1581. He was known as "Mir Adal"; "Adal" means in equitableness Urdu,he was awarded this title because of his great courage and justice in dealing with war prisoners in the Second Battle of panipat, Syed Muhammad Mir was also governor of Sindh.
- Hasan ibn Zayd – founder of the Alavids dynasty.
- Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya – founder of the Zaidi imamate State.
- Sayf al-Daula – ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967).
- Mu'izz al-Daula - ruler of the Buyid dynasty (945–967).
- Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i – a Da'i for the Isma'ilis in Yemen and North Africa mainly among the Kutama Berbers, whose teachings influenced the rise of the Fatimid dynasty.
- Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah – founder of the Fatimid dynasty.
- Al-Muizz Lideenillah – fourth Fatimid Caliph Founder of the city of Cairo.
- Sitt al-Mulk – ruler of the Fatimids (1021–1023), was the elder sister of Al-Hakim.
- Arwa al-Sulayhi – ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, of Yemen.
- Sharifa Fatima – Zaydi chief in 15th-century Yemen.
- Salih ibn Mirdas – founder of the Mirdasids emirate.
- Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib – founder of the Uqaylid Dynasty.
- An-Nasir – 34th Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad.
- Tekuder – first Muslim Mughal emperor.
- Ghazan – ruler of the Ilkhanate dynasty (1295–1304).
- Öljaitü – eighth Ilkhanate ruler.
- Uzun Hassan – ruler of the Ak Koyunlu dynasty (1453–1478)
- Ismail I – founder of the Safavid dynasty
- Abbas I of Persia – ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1588–1629).
- Karim Khan – founder of the Zand dynasty.
- Hasan bin Sabbah – founder of a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin, or Assassins.
Scientists, mathematicians and philosophers
- Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali - close companion of Imam Ali and grammarian. he was the first to place dots on the Arabic words and the first to write on Arabic linguistics.
- Abu Zayd al-Balkhi - Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.
- Abu Ali Sina – Persian polymath; also known as Avicenna to the West
- Al-Farabi - Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of Persia and the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.
- Abu Nasr Mansur – known for his work with the spherical sine law
- Muhammad al-Idrisi - Islamic geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist - descendant of the Idrisid dynasty.
- al-Biruni – polymath; regarded as the father of geodesy, the founder of Indology, the "first anthropologist" and "one of the greatest scientists of all times".
- Alhazen - Iraqi polymath; regarded as father of optics for his Book of Optics, as well as the founder of experimental psychology and experimental physics.
- Khalil ibn Ahmad - Iraqi Arab philologist and linguist.
- Sibawayh - linguist.
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf - Iraqi Arab mathematician.
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī - Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
- Ibn Miskawayh – philosopher and scientist; described the process of evolution in the 10th century.
- Ferdowsi – poet, author of Shahnameh the national epic of Iran
- Abu Mikhnaf - Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
- Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi - Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
- Ya'qubi - Iraqi Muslim historian and geographer.
- Ahmad ibn A'zham - Iraqi Muslim historian.
- Al-Masudi - Iraqi Arab historian and geographer known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs.
- Ibn al-Nadim - Iraqi historian.
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī - Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer.
- Ibn Wahshiyya - Nabataean Arab writer, alchemist, agriculturalist, Egyptologist and historian
- Abolfadl Harawi - Iranian Muslim astronomer.
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi -Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician.
- Al-Birjandi - Iranian Muslim astronomer.
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin - Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
- Ibn Hawqal - Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler
- Qadi al-Nu'man - Isma'ili jurist and the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs.
- Ibn Yunus - Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
- Ali ibn Ridwan - Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer and astronomerphilosopher.
- Avicenna- Persian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age. 'Father of Medicine' writer of the Canon of Medicine. Philosopher and logician, Shia religious scholar, Biologist, Chemist, Mathematician, Geographer.
- Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani - Persian philosopher.
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī – astronomer, mathematician.
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi – astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, early Islamic philosopher, physician and marja; early pioneer of biological evolution and the first to propose in specific terms the notion of the 'conservation of mass' -central to experimental chemistry .
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi - Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer.
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa - Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
- Iskandar Beg Munshi - court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I.
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi - chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist.
- Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy
- Mir Damad - Iranian philosopher
- Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor.
- Rammal Rammal
- Allama Rasheed Turabi – Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher
- Kazem Behbehani - Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became an international health advocate at WHO.
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh - Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set theory.
- Wissam S. al-Hashimi - Iraqi geologist.
- Husain Mohammad Jafri
- Samad Rizvi
- Athar Ali
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Agha Shahi
- Razi Abedi
- Nayyar Ali Zaidi
- Kalbe Razi Naqvi
Poets and writers
- Al-Farazdaq Arab poet
- Kuthayyir -Arab poet
- Kumait Ibn Zaid -Arab poet
- Abu Nuwas renowned classical Arabic and Persian poets
- Abu-l-'Atahiya -Arab poet
- Abu Tammam -Arab poet
- Ibn al-Rumi -Arab poet
- Al-Mutanabbi, regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Arabic language
- Abu Firas al-Hamdani, writer and member of the noble family of the Hamdanid
- Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani Arab poet and writer
- Khalil ibn Ahmad Arab poet and writer
- Nasir Khusraw Persian poet, philosopher and traveler
- Mirza Ghalib renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet, writer, and philosopher
- Mir Taqi Mir renowned urdu and Persian poet, philosopher
- Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai – He translated Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic.
- Mir Anis – classical Urdu poet and master of the elegies in honor of the tragedy of Karbala known as Marsiya which was instrumental in the propagation of azadari, or mourning of Muharram in South Asia
- Mirza Dabeer – Urdu poet and master of the Marsiya, contemporary, friend, and rival of Mir Anis
- Safi al-din al-Hilli, 1278 - c. 1349, Iraqi poet[2]
- Fuzûlî Iraqi Turkoman poet, writer and thinker
- Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri Iraqi poet[3]
- Abdullah Al-Baradouni Yemeni writer and poet
- Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh Bahrani poet
- Qassim Haddad Bahrani poet, researcher, writer
- Ali Al Jallawi Bahrani poet
- Badawi al-Jabal Syrian poet
- Qurratulain Hyder – female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature"
- Adunis Syrian poet and writer
- Muhammed Almagut Syrian poet and writer
- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Iraqi poet
- Nazik Al-Malaika, influential contemporary Iraqi female poet
- Bint al-Huda -Iraqi educator and political activist.
- Hasan Zyko Kamberi Albanian poet and writer.
- Naim Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
- Sami Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
- Abdyl Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
- Saadi Iranian poet.
- Molavi Born in Balkh Afghanistan poet.
- Hafez Iranian great poet.
- Shahriar Iranian poet.
Professionals
- Azim Premji – Mumbai business tycoon
- Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala
Politicians
Albania
- Xhafer Bej Ypi – former Prime Minister of Albania
- Mehdi Bej Frashëri – former Prime Minister of Albania
Azerbaijan
- Heydar Aliyev – former President of Azerbaijan
- Ilham Aliyev – current President of Azerbaijan
Bahrain
- Abdul Amir al-Jamri – 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's Twelver Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada.
- Hasan Mushaima – currently the secretary-general of the current Haq Movement
- Ali Salman – currently the secretary-general of the current Al-Wefaq
- Abdulhadi Al Khawaja – leading Bahraini human rights activist.
- Nabeel Rajab – President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
India
- Kaifi Azmi Poet
- Tanveer Zaidi
- Bismillah Khan musician
- Dr. Abid Husain
- Professor Saiyed Nurul Hasan
- Altamas Kabir
- Ayatullah Syed Abul Hasan Rizvi Kishmiri Shia Mujtah
- Ayatullah Syed Mohammad Baqir Rizvi Shia Jurist
- Syed Kirmani
- Mir Anis
- Mirza Dabeer
- Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda
- Javed Abidi
- Nawab of Banganapalle
- Nawab of Masulipatam
- Intezar AbidiPolitician
- Sir Sultan Ahmed
- Mir Sadiq
- Sayyed Mahmud Khan
- Kamal Amrohi
- Shabana Azmi
- Azim Premji
- Syed Kirmani Cricketer
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Singer
- Nawab of Rampur King
- Nawab of Lucknow King
- Nargis Dutt Actress
- Naushad Music Director
- Salim-Sulaiman Musician
- Jagdeep
- Muzaffar Ali
- Farah Naaz
- Tazeem Abbas Former chairman language institute of information technology
- Akbar Khan
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Union Minister govt. India
- Majrooh Sultanpuri Poet
- M. F. Hussain Painter
- S. H. Raza Painter
- Salim Ali Ornithologist
- Saeed Naqvi Journalist
- Syed Ahmed (politician) Governor of Jharkhand
- Mohsin Zaidi Poet
- Javed jaffri Actress
- firoz khan Actress
- fardin khan Actress
- sayed anwar hussain
- syed yaseen hussain zaidi (zeeshan)
- syed munir husain rizvi C.A
- maulana farman ali musvi
- maulana kalbe jafar
- maulana kalbe jawab
- maulana marhum athar sahab
- maulana ashfaq sahab
- shaikh nazim ali
- mirza dilshad hussain
Iran
- Amir Kabir – Prime Minister of Persia under Nasereddin Shah
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – last Shah of Iran from 1941 until his overthrow due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution
- Mohammed Mosaddeq – former Prime Minister of Iran.
- Ruhollah Khomeini – marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- Ali Khamenei – third President and current Supreme Leader of Iran
- Mehdi Bazargan – former Prime Minister of Iran
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar – former Prime Minister of Iran (Killed by terrorists)
- Abolhassan Banisadr – first President of Iran following the Iranian Revolution
- Mohammad-Ali Rajai −2nd President of Iran (Killed by terrorists)
- Mostafa Chamran – Iranian defense minister, first commander of the Pasdaran and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – fourth President of Iran and current head of the Expediency Discernment Council
- Mohammad Khatami – leading reformist Iranian politician and fifth President of Iran
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – sixth President of Iran and former Mayor of Tehran
- Hassan Rouhani – seventh and current President of Iran and former Chief Nuclear Negotiator
- Ali Larijani – Iranian philosopher and speaker of the Iranian parliament
- Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur – reformist Iranian politician and coordinator of Hezbollah in its early days
Iraq
- Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali – Iraqi foreign minister, and Prime Minister of Iraq.
- Naji Talib – former Prime Minister of Iraq.
- Ezzedine Salim – former Iraqi politician.
- Ibrahim al-Jaafari – former Prime Minister of Iraq.
- Nouri al-Maliki – former Prime Minister of Iraq.
- haider al-Abadi – current Prime Minister of Iraq.
- Adil Abdul-Mahdi – Iraqi Shi'a politician, economist.
- Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim – former leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
- Abdul Aziz al-Hakim – leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
- Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir – Iraqi politician and a member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq..
- Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum – prominent Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq.
- Muqtada al-Sadr – Iraqi politician and head of the Mahdi Army.
- Ahmed Chalabi – Iraqi politician.
- Abbas al-Bayati – Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician.
- Jasim Mohammed Jaafar – Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician.
- Hussain al-Shahristani – current Iraqi Minister of Oil.
- Shirwan al-Waili – current Iraqi Minister of State for National Security.
- Mowaffak al-Rubaie – current Iraqi National Security Advisor.
- Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi – current Finance Minister of Iraq.
- Khaled al-Attiyah -elected First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly.
- Salama al-Khufaji – former member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
- Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail – Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq
Kuwait
- Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad, a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Ahmed Lari, a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi, journalist and politician.
- Hussein AlـQallaf Al-Bahraini, a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Hassan Jawhar, a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Rola Dashti, was a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Ibrahim Khraibut, member of Kuwait's first National Assembly of Kuwait.
- Massouma al-Mubarak, is Kuwait's first female minister.
- Ibtihal Al-Khatib, secular academic and politician.
- Saleh Ashour, a member of the Kuwaiti parliament.
- Hassan Jawhar, was a member of the Kuwaiti parliament.
Lebanon
- Adel Osseiran – one of the founders of modern Lebanon
- Musa al-Sadr – contemporary Islamic philosopher and co-founder of the Amal Movement
- Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah (also Muhammad Husayn Fadl-Allāh or Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh) (born 16 November 1935) is a prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric, References:http://english.bayynat.org.lb/Biography/index.htm.
- Hussein el-Husseini – former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, co-founder of the Amal Movement, fathered the Taif Agreement that led to the end of the Lebanese Civil War
- Nabih Berri – the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.
- Abbas Musawi – former Secretary-General of Hezbollah
- Hassan Nasrallah – Secretary-General of Hezbollah
- Imad Mughniyah – former head of Hezbollah's external security apparatus.
- Ali Qanso – former Secretary-General of Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
- Ali Eid -Secretary-General of Arabic Democratic Party
Pakistan
- Benazir Bhutto – former prime minister of Pakistan
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto – former prime minister of Pakistan founder of Pakistan People's Party
- Iskander Mirza – first President of Pakistan
- Agha Yahya Khan – former President of Pakistan
- Muhammad Musa – Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff during 1965 Indo Pak war and later Governor of Balauchistan
Other Politicians
- Asif Ali Zardari Co-Chairman PPP
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Chairmain Pakistan Peoples Party
- Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Chermain Senate of Pakistan
- Ch. Nazar Muhammad Gondal (Politician)
- Syed Mehdi Shah (Former Chief Minister of GB Province)
- Allama Muhammad Amin Shaheedi
- Haider Abbas Rizvi
- Fakhar Imam
- Sadiq Hussain Qureshi
- Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat
- Faisal Sabzwari
- Ali Zaidi
Scholars
- Grand Ayatullah Muhammad Hussain Najafi Sargodha
- Allama Sheikh Mohsin Ali Najafi Religious and social activist, Founder JBHT.
- Ayatullah Hafiz Syed Riaz Hussain Naqvi Principal Jamia tul Muntazar Lahore
- Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi Quaid e Millat e Jaffaria
- Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Gen. Sec Majlis Wahdat ul Muslimeen
- Allama Hamid Hussain Shah Al Mosavi Quaid e Nifaz e Fiqah Jaffaria
Syria
- Zaki al-Arsuzi – Syrian political activist and writer.
Yemen
- Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din – founder of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
- Ibrahim al-Hamadi – former President of Yemen
- Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi – Zaidi religious leader
Rulers and military figures
Earlier
- Sayf al-Daula – ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967)
- Gawhar al-Siqilli – was the most important military leader in the Fatimid history. He led the conquest of North Africa and then of Egypt, founded the city of Cairo and the great al-Azhar mosque.
- Ziri ibn Manad – founder of the Zirid dynasty in the Maghreb.
- Buluggin ibn Ziri – was the first ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin – was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
- Badis ibn Mansur – was the third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
- Abu Zayd al-Hilali – was the 11th-century Arab leader and hero of the 'Amirid tribe of Banu Hilal.
- Al-Afdal Shahanshah – was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt.
- Iftikhar ad-Daula – was the Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of Jerusalem.
- Shawar – was a ruler of Egypt, the vizier.
- Hassan-i Sabbah – He founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin.
- Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the Crusades.
Azerbaijan
- Surat Huseynov – is an Azerbaijani colonel and ex-Prime Minister of Azerbaijan.
- Eldar Mahmudov – is the current head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security.
- Rail Rzayev – was the head of the Azerbaijani Air Force.
India
- Wajid Ali Shah – last nawab of the princely kingdom of Awadh
Iran
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – the last Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty, ruled from 1941 until being overthrown in the Iranian Revolution resulting in the abolishment of the Iranian monarchy
- Reza Shah Pahlavi – Shah of Iran from 1925–1941, and father of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Hassan-i Sabbah – He founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin.
- Allahverdi Khan – was an Iranian military and political leader of Georgian origin.
- Imam-Quli Khan – was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin.
- Nader Shah was Shah of Iran during the Afsharid dynasty notable for his Naderian Wars, and conversion dominant belief system from Safavid ideology to Jafari fiqh
- Abbas Mirza – was a Qajar crown prince of Persia
- Gholamali Bayandor – first Commander of Imperial Iranian Navy
- Abbas Gharabaghi – last commander-in-chief of the Imperial Iranian Army
- Mohsen Rezaee – Chief commander of AGIR 1981–1997
- Yahya Rahim Safavi – Chief commander of AGIR 1997–2007
- Mohammad Ali Jafari – Chief commander of AGIR
- Ali Shamkhani – former defense minister of Iran.
- Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar – current defense minister of Iran.
- Ali Sayad Shirazi – was chief-of-staff of the Iranian forces during Iran's 8-year war with Iraq.
- Mohammad Boroujerdi – one of the founders of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (AGIR) and a commander in Iran–Iraq War. He played key roles in regaining control over the territories of Kurdistan by Iranian forces.
- Hossein Kharrazi – was an Iranian commanderof "Imam Hosein 14th Division" during Iran–Iraq War.
Iraq
- Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi – led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes."
- Hadi Al-Amiri – head of the Badr Organization, which was the military wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
- Aras Habib – was a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters.
- Abud Qanbar – former military governor of Baghdad.
Lebanon
- Adham Khanjar – Lebanese national hero.
- Mohammad Zgheib – 1948 Arab–Israeli War war hero.
- Hisham Jaber – former military governor of Beirut.
- Imad Mughniyah – former head of Hezbollah's external security apparatus.
- Sana'a Mehaidli – Lebanese Martyr.
- Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Front.
Syria
- Sayf al-Daula – ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967)
- Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the Crusades.
- Saleh al-Ali – leader that commanded one of the first rebellions against the French mandate of Syria.
- Salah Jadid – Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party.
- Assef Shawqat – head of the Syrian Military Intelligence apparatus since 2005.
- Maher al-Assad – is the brother of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and head of the Presidential Guard.
- Ghazi Kanaan – was Syria's Interior Minister from 2004 to 2005, and long-time head of Syria's security apparatus in Lebanon.
- Hisham Ikhtiyar – director of the GID from December 2001 until June 2005.
Yemen
- Abdul-Malik al-Houthi – leader of Shi'a Zaidi .
- Abdullah al-Ruzami – leader of Shi'a Zaidi .
Theologians
- Al-Shaykh al-Saduq
- Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
- al-Sharif al-Murtada
- Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
- Shaykh Tusi
- Al-Hurr al-Aamili
- Shahid Awwal
- Shahid Thani
- Qazi Nurullah Shustari (Shahid Salis)
- Shahid Rabay
- Maitham Al Bahrani 13th-century cleric and theologian
- Al-Hilli 13th-century cleric and theologian
Religious figures
- Salih Al-Karzakani – 17th-century cleric
- Muhammad Baqir Majlisi – 17th-century cleric
- Abdullah al Samahiji – 18th-century cleric
- Yusuf Al Bahrani – 18th-century cleric
- Allamah Ibrahim el-Zakzaky Most Influential Shia Cleric in Africa, Leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria
- Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani – cleric, head of the Council of Islamic revolution and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
- Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr – Islamic philosopher, father of contemporary Islamic economics and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party
- Allameh Tabatabaei – one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (Marja) for Shi'a Muslims around the world
- Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – foremost marja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims
- Navvab Safavi – founder of the militant group Fadayan-e Islam
- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani – currently the pre-eminent marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today
- Ahmad Huseinzadeh, third Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus
- Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim – sole Shi'a marja in the early 1960s.
- Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei – Shi'a marja.
- Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr – Shi'a marja.
- Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri – Shi'a marja
- Ahmed Al-Waeli - one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the 20th century.
- Aga Khan IV – Current Imam of the Nizari Ismaili tariqah of ShiaIslam
- Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi - a well-known Twelver Shia Scholar who promoted Shia Islam in East Africa
- Allama Talib Jauhari
- Mohsin Naqvi - urdu poet of Pakistan
Sufis
- Rajab Bursi – Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic.
- Sayyid Baraka – spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th-century warlord Timur.
- Yunus Emre – Turkish poet and mystic.
- Mir Shamsuddin – Iraqi missionary.
- Shah Ni'matullah Wali – Islamic scholar and poet
- Haji Bektash Veli – Islamic mystic, humanist and philosopher.
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili – eponym of the Safavid dynasty,
- Abba Yahiyya Ishmaili
- Baba Rexheb Albanian Bektashi
Modern and contemporary philosophers
- Morteza Motahhari – Iranian cleric, philosopher and politician
- Hossein Nasr – Islamic philosopher and professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University
- Muhammad Legenhausen – modern Shi'a Muslim philosopher of German American background, PhD at Rice University.
Entertainment and media personalities
- Asghar Farhadi – Iranian Film Director and screenwriter
- Abdulhussain Abdulredha – Kuwaiti actor and writer
- Ali Haider – Pakistani singer now Islamic singer
- Mohammad Reza Sharifinia - Iranian actor
- Zainab Bahrani – Iraqi art historian.
- Shahriar Bahrani – Iranian film director.
- Abbas Fahdel – Iraqi film director.
- Mohamed Al-Daradji – Iraqi Dutch film director.
- Hassan Massoudy – Iraqi calligrapher.
- Ahmed Al Safi – Iraqi artist.
- Nedim Kufi – Iraqi artist.
- Sadequain – Pakistani artist.
- Usama Alshaibi – Iraqi-American independent filmmaker, visual and media artist.
- Jagdeep – Syed Jawahar Ali Jaffery, comedy actor, early Indian cinema
- Farida Mohammad Ali – Iraqi singer
- Naseer Shamma – Iraqi musician and oud player.
- Imran Abbas Naqvi – Pakistani Actor
- Sadegh Tirafkan – Iranian contemporary artist.
- Khosrow Vaziri – Iranian professional wrestler, retired
- Rahat Kazmi – Pakistani Actor, a professional speaker and an academician
- Zulfiqar Mirza – Pakistani politician
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – classical and qawali singer from Pakistan
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – classical and qawali singer from Pakistan
Other
- Edoardo Agnelli – son of Gianni Agnelli and former heir to Fiat
- Qasem Soleimani - Iranian General
See also
References
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