List of British Iranians

This is a list of notable British Iranians.

Academics

 * Haleh Afshar OBE – university professor at the University of York
 * Kameel Ahmady – independent multi-award-winning social anthropologist who researches and publishes on female genital mutilation, child marriage and other aspects of children's and women's rights in the Middle East
 * Ali M. Ansari – university professor at the University of St Andrews
 * Reza Banakar – professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Westminster, London
 * Ana Diamond – scholar at Balliol College, Oxford
 * Abbas Edalat – university professor at Imperial College London
 * Anoush Ehteshami – university professor at Durham University
 * Eprime Eshag – Keynesian socialist economist
 * Rouben Galichian – independent scholar
 * Mohammed Ghanbari – university professor at the University of Essex
 * Homa Katouzian – academic, economist, historian and literary critic
 * Ali Mobasheri – associate professor and reader at the University of Nottingham
 * Mohammad Hashem Pesaran – academic, economist, professor of economics at Cambridge University, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
 * Reza Shah-Kazemi – Islamic researcher at the Institute of Ismaili Studies with the Department of Academic Research and Publications
 * Saeed Vaseghi – university professor at Brunel University
 * Taha Yasseri – university professor at University of Oxford

Actors and comedians

 * Freema Agyeman – actress
 * Zahra Ahmadi – actress
 * Moe Bar-El – actor
 * Catherine Bell – actress
 * Nazanin Boniadi – actress; played Leyla Mir on General Hospital and CIA analyst Fara Sherazi on Homeland season 3
 * Bijan Daneshmand – Iranian actor based in London
 * Omid Djalili – comedian and actor
 * Leila Farzad – actress
 * Arty Froushan – actor
 * 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
 * Shappi Khorsandi – comedian
 * Juliette Motamed – actress and musician
 * Arian Nik – actor and writer
 * Kayvan Novak – actor; star of Fonejacker
 * Roxanne Pallet – actress
 * Roxy Shahidi – actress
 * Darren Shahlavi –  British actor, martial arts stuntman
 * Hayley Tamaddon – actress

Art and architecture

 * Nasser Golzari – principal at Golzari (NG) Architects
 * Mouzhan Majidi – chief executive officer of Foster and Partners
 * Mohsen Mostafavi – dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
 * Farshid Moussavi – architect and founder of Foreign Office Architects
 * Afshin Naghouni – artist
 * Kour Pour – painter, printmaker
 * Houmayoun Mahmoudi – artist, International cartoonist
 * Alireza Sagharchi – principal at Stanhope Gate Architecture
 * Soheila Sokhanvari – Iranian-born multidisciplinary visual artist and painter

Business

 * Kaveh Alamouti – head of Global Macro Citadel LLC; chief executive officer of Citadel Asset Management Europe
 * David Alliance, Baron Alliance, GBE – chairman of N Brown Group
 * Farad Azima – industrialist, inventor and philanthropist
 * Camila Batmanghelidjh – founder of failed charity Kids Company
 * Darius Guppy – convicted fraudster, writer
 * Bobby Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic
 * Sahar Hashemi – co-founder of Coffee Republic
 * Kia Joorabchian – football businessman
 * Nasser David Khalili, KSS – art dealer and the fifth-wealthiest person in the United Kingdom
 * Mahmoud Khayami, KSS – industrialist; founder of Iran Khodro
 * James Aratoon Malcolm – Iranian-Armenian financier, arms dealer and journalist
 * Paris Moayedi – former chief executive officer of Jarvis plc
 * Farhad Moshiri – energy investor; part owner of Everton F.C.
 * Ali Parsa – former chief executive officer of private healthcare partnership Circle
 * Eddy Shah – owner of the Messenger Group
 * Yasmina Siadatan – winner of fifth series of The Apprentice
 * Amir Taaki – computer programmer and bitcoin developer
 * Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – brothers who own the Rotch property group
 * Sir Hossein Yassaie Phd –  Chief Executive Office of semiconductor company Imagination Technologies
 * Dan Vahdat – co-founder and CTO of Medopad

Entertainment

 * Soraya Mafi – opera singer
 * Cameron Alborzian – former model
 * Cyrus Bayandor – bass guitarist (Florence + the Machine)
 * Darius Campbell (formerly Danesh) – actor and singer-songwriter
 * Emun Elliott – actor
 * Hichkas – rapper, singer-songwriter
 * Shirin Guild – fashion designer
 * Shusha Guppy – writer and singer
 * Shaheen Jafargholi – singer; Britain's Got Talent series 3  contestant
 * Yasmin Le Bon – model
 * Patrick Monahan – stand-up comedian
 * Kayvan Novak – actor; appeared as Waj in the film Four Lions (2010)
 * Omid 16B – disc jockey
 * Roxanne Tataei –  soul singer-songwriter
 * Eddy Temple-Morris – XFM disc jockey
 * Kavus Torabi – musician
 * Yasmin – musician, full name Yasmin Shahmir
 * Sami Yusuf – musician
 * Zarif – musician

Media

 * Hossein Amini – screenwriter and film director
 * Behrouz Afagh – head of BBC World Service's Asia Pacific Region
 * Christiane Amanpour, CBE – journalist
 * Nazenin Ansari –  journalist, former correspondent for Voice of America's Persian News Network
 * Saeed Kamali Dehghan – staff journalist at The Guardian
 * Fardad Farahzad – Journalist and TV host Iran International, former BBC Persian
 * Nazaneen Ghaffar – weather presenter at Sky News
 * Tina Gharavi – filmmaker and screenwriter
 * Kaveh Golestan – photojournalist
 * Baqer Moin – BBC News journalist
 * Maryam Moshiri – BBC News presenter
 * Ramita Navai – journalist
 * Nima Nourizadeh – film director
 * Sadeq Saba – journalist, head of BBC Persian service
 * Sahar Zand – television and radio presenter, broadcast journalist and documentary maker

Politics

 * Seema Kennedy – former Conservative MP
 * Ali Milani – Labour Party politician
 * Maryam Namazie – human-rights activist, commentator and broadcaster

Sports

 * Adam Gemili –  sprinter and footballer
 * Aadel Kardooni – former Leicester Tigers and England A rugby player
 * Nad Narimani –  mixed martial artist in the UFC
 * Josh Navidi – Cardiff Blues and Welsh international rugby player
 * Kamran Panjavi – weightlifter at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Laurence Shahlaei – strongman
 * Kamal Shalorus – professional UFC fighter
 * Ryan Tafazolli – footballer
 * Mehrdad Takaloo – boxer
 * Dennis Walker – footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United

Other

 * Yasha Asley – youngest person in the world to have achieved grade A at Mathematics A-level
 * Ali Dizaei – senior police officer
 * Shirazeh Houshiary – Turner Prize-nominated installation artist and sculptor
 * Mansour Matloubi – poker player
 * Behnaz Mozakka – terrorism victim
 * Ben Roberts – poker player