List of Persian-language poets

The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere.

From the 7th to the 8th centuries

 * Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi

10th century

 * Ferdowsi فردوسی
 * Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر
 * Rudaki رودکی
 * Abu Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی
 * Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج
 * Unsuri عنصری
 * Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی
 * Asjadi عسجدی
 * Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی
 * Isma'il Muntasir اسماعیل منتصیر
 * Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی
 * Abu Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی
 * Abu Tahir Khosrovani (ابو طاهر خسروانی)
 * Qabus, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet (died 1012) ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس المعالی
 * Ayyuqi عیوقی
 * Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری
 * Shahid Balkhi شهید بلخی
 * Daqiqi دقیقی
 * Ma'ruf Balkhi معروف بلخی
 * Munjik Tirmidhi
 * Li Shunxian (李舜弦) a concubine of the Chinese Emperor Wang Yan (Wang Zongyan)
 * Abu Taieb Mosabi
 * Aghaji Bukhari
 * Abbas Rabenjani
 * Abul'Ala Shushtari
 * Abul'Muid Balkhi
 * Abdullah Junaidi
 * Istighnayi Nishaburi
 * Badi' Balkhi
 * Bashar Marghazi
 * Bondar Razi
 * Bolmasal Bukhari
 * Hakak Marghazi
 * Khabazi Nishaburi
 * Khusravi Sarkhasi
 * Runaqi Bukhari
 * Sepehri Bukhari
 * Shakir Jalab
 * Tahir Chagani
 * Tayan Zhazkhay
 * Amareh Marvazi
 * Qamari Jurjani
 * Lokeri
 * Abu Ahmad Kateb
 * Masoudi Marvazi
 * Manteqi Razi

11th century

 * al-Biruni (973–c. 1050)
 * Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani
 * Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (d. 1037)
 * Asad Gorgani
 * Omar Khayyám, poet (1048–1131)
 * Sanai, poet (1080–1131/1141)حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی
 * Hujviri d1073
 * Abdul Qadir Gilani
 * Manuchihri
 * Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
 * Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi
 * Nasir Khusraw, traveler, writer and poet
 * Baba Tahir Oryan
 * Rabi'ah Quzdari
 * Abu-al-faraj Runi
 * Keykavus Eskandar
 * Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama
 * Azraqi
 * Masud Sa'd Salman
 * Uthman Mukhtari
 * Qatran Tabrizi
 * Mughatil ibn Bakri
 * Asadi Tusi اسدی طوسی
 * Nizami نظامی گنجوی، نظامی
 * Imam Muhammad Ghazali
 * Abhari
 * Athir al-Din Akhsikati
 * Kafarak Ghaznavi
 * Labibi

12th century

 * Suzani Samarqandi, شمس الدین محمد بن علی poet (d.1166)
 * Adib Sabir ادیب صابر
 * Am'aq عمعق بخارائی
 * Anvari انوری ابیوردی
 * Farid al-Din Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1220) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری
 * Nizami, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی
 * Sheikh Ruzbehan شیخ روزبهان
 * Abdul Qadir Gilani عبدالقادر گیلانی
 * Khaqani Shirvani خاقانی شروانی
 * Sanaayi سنایی
 * Sheikh Ahmad Jami
 * Muhammad Aufi
 * Falaki Shirvani
 * Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
 * Sanai Ghaznavi, poet
 * Mu'izzi
 * Ibn Balkhi
 * Uthman Mukhtari
 * Mahsati, poet مهستی گنجوی
 * Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat خولجه رشید الدین وطواط
 * Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi نظامی عروضی سمرقندی

13th century

 * Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, poet (1207–1273)
 * Sultan Walad
 * Saadi, poet (1184–1283/1291?)
 * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1318)
 * Shams Tabrizi
 * Sheikh Ruzbehan
 * Zahed Gilani
 * Khwaju Kermani
 * Mahmoud Shabestari
 * Najmeddin Razi
 * Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo
 * Muhammad Aufi
 * Qazi Beiza'i
 * Nizari Quhistani
 * Awhadi Maraghai
 * Humam-i Tabrizi
 * Auhaduddin Kermani
 * Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
 * Ata-Malik Juvayni
 * Nasreddin
 * Abu Tawwama (died 1300)
 * Kamal al-Din Isfahani
 * Afdal al-Din Kashani
 * Badr Jajarmi
 * Basati Samarqandi
 * Keykavus Razi

14th century

 * Hafez, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ
 * Amir Khusrow, امیر خسرو دهلوی
 * Shah Shoja Mozaffari شاه شجاع مظفری
 * Ubayd Zakani عبید زاکانی
 * Jahan Malek Khatun جهان ملک خاتون
 * Pur-Baha Jami پور بهار جامی
 * Assar Tabrizi عصار تبریزی
 * Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet (1314–1384)
 * Padishah Khatun پادشاه خاتون
 * Kamal Khujandi, poet, Sufism (1321–1401)
 * Shahin Shirazi
 * Junayd Shirazi
 * Qasem-e Anvar
 * Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez
 * Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
 * Shah Nimatullah Wali
 * Maghrebi Tabrizi
 * Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar
 * Salman Savaji
 * Sharaf al-Din Ram
 * Heydar Shirazi
 * Muin al-Din Jovaini
 * Junayd Shirazi
 * Shahab al-Din Bidavoni
 * Naser Bejehie
 * Imad al-Din Fazlavi
 * Shams al-Din Kashani
 * Imad Kermani
 * Nizam al-Din Qari
 * Jalal al-Din Atighi Tabrizi
 * Jalal Tabib Shirazi
 * Jalal Azod
 * Hassan Mutekalim
 * Rukn Davi-Dar
 * Jalal Ukkashe

15th century

 * Jami, poet (1414–1492)
 * Ahli Shirazi
 * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501)
 * Azari Tusi(1380-1462)
 * Badriddin Hilali, poet (1470–1529)
 * Imrani, poet (1454–1536)
 * Fuzûlî, poet (1494–1556) فضولی
 * Amir Shahi Sabzevari
 * Esmat Bukhari
 * Sharaf al-Din Sabzevari
 * Hamedi Isfahani
 * Qbuli Heravi
 * Katebi Tarshizi
 * Asefi Heravi
 * Vahid Tabrizi
 * Fahmi Astarabadi

16th century

 * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
 * Vahshi Bafghi
 * Hatefi, nephew of the poet Jami
 * Taleb Amoli (1586-1627)
 * Baba Fighani Shirazi
 * Naw'i Khabushani
 * 'Orfi Shirazi
 * Faizi
 * Mohtasham Kashani
 * Muhammad Arshad, Bengali author
 * Syed Pir Badshah, Bengali author
 * Syed Shah Israil, Bengali poet
 * Nahapet Kuchak
 * Teimuraz I of Kakheti (Tahmuras Khan)
 * Syed Rayhan ad-Din, Bengali poet
 * Qazi Nurullah Shustari
 * Sanai Mashhadi
 * Hazegh Gilani
 * Sahabi Astarabadi
 * Sharaf Jahan Qazvini
 * Shahidi Qumi
 * Ghazali Mashhadi
 * Fekri Jameh-Baf
 * Ghasemi Gonabadi
 * Lesani Shirazi
 * Meili Mashhadi
 * Naziri Nishaburi
 * Vali Dashtbayazi
 * Darvishi Dahaki
 * Nizam Astarabadi
 * Heyrati Tuni
 * Khari Tabrizi
 * Khajeghi Enayat
 * Sabri Isfahani
 * Tarhi Shirazi
 * Shuja Kor
 * Kami Qazvini
 * Hejri Qumi
 * Heydar Kuliche-Paz
 * Abdi Shirazi
 * Kahi Kabuli
 * Malek Qomi
 * Qeidi Shirazi
 * Makhdom Sharifi
 * Nizam al-Din Hashimi
 * Gharari Gilani
 * Hisabi Natanzi
 * Mirak Salehi
 * Serfi Savaji
 * Hozuri Qumi
 * Gheirati Shirazi
 * Voghui Nishaburi
 * Vahshi Jushghani
 * Voghui Tabrizi
 * Shuaib Jushghani
 * Heydar Muamayi
 * Fosuni Yazdi
 * Ali Komrehyi

17th century

 * Saib Tabrizi, poet (1601/02-1677)
 * Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini (1621-1700)
 * Kalim Kashani (1581/1585-1651)
 * Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani (died 1647)
 * Shah Abdur Rahim, Indian religious scholar
 * Jamila Isfahani, poet
 * Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Indian religious leader
 * Teimuraz I of Kakheti (Tahmuras Khan)
 * Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720)
 * Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah
 * Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702)
 * Razi Danesh Mashadi (died 1665)
 * Bhai Nand Lal (1633–1713)
 * Gani Kashmiri (c. 1630 – c. 1669)
 * Mir Razi Artimani
 * Kamali
 * Munir Lahori (1610–1644)
 * Zolali Khansari
 * Najib Kashani
 * Naziri Nishaburi
 * Saber Kermani
 * Tasir Tabrizi
 * Qasem Mashhadi
 * Masih Kashani
 * Vaez Qazvini
 * Rafi Mashhadi
 * Qudsi Mashhadi
 * Zafarkhan Hasan
 * Mir Nejat Isfhani

18th century

 * Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi, Indian religious scholar (شاه عبد العزیز دهلوی)
 * Azar Bigdeli(آذر بیگدلی)
 * Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali Hindu reformer (رام موهن رای)
 * Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی)
 * Izzatullah Bengali (عزّت‌الله بنگالی), author
 * Hatef Esfehani, poet (هاتف اصفهانی)
 * Effat Nasabeh, poet ( عفت نصابه)
 * Lutfullah Tabrizi (لطف‌الله تبریزی)
 * Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, (مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب)
 * Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani, (زین‌العابدین شیروانی)
 * I'tisam-ud-Din, Bengali diplomat (اعتصام الدین)
 * Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani, Bengali religious scholar and poet (غلام مصطفی بردوانی)
 * Vahdat Kermanshahi
 * Vesal Shirazi
 * Forughi Bastami
 * Yaghma Jandaghi
 * Neshat Esfahani
 * Sadat Kazeruni
 * Kosar Hamedani
 * Sabahi Bigdeli
 * Nategh Makrani

19th century

 * Agha Ahmad Ali, Bengali poet (آغا احمد علي)
 * Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا)
 * Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist and journalist علی اکبر دهخدا
 * Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب
 * Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, poet, author, scholar (1889–1929)
 * Mirzadeh Eshghi میرزاده عشقی
 * Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت
 * Iraj Mirza ایرج میرزا
 * Nassakh, Bengali poet (نساخ)
 * Mohammad Taqi Sepehr (محمدتقی سپهر)
 * Ebrahim Poordavood, ancient languages, Avesta ابراهیم پور داوود
 * Aref Qazvini عارف قزوینی
 * Hassan Roshdieh حسن رشدیه
 * Siyyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi, founder of Babism, سيد علی ‌محمد شیرازی
 * Táhirih Qorrat al-'Ayn, Babi poet and theologian
 * Mirza Husayn 'Ali Nuri, founder of the Baha’i Faith, میرزا حسین‌علی نوری
 * Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی
 * Khwaja Ahsanullah, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه احسن‌الله)
 * Khwaja Muhammad Afzal, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه محمد افضل)
 * Sheyda Gerashi, poet and Panegyrist شیدای گراشی
 * Qaani قاآنی
 * Abd al-Hosayn Ayati, poet, orator, author and historian عبدالحسین آیتی
 * Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, Bengali poet (عبید الله العبیدی سهروردی)

20th century

 * Ali Abdolrezaei (علی عبدالرضایی)
 * Abdolali Dastgheib, Author (عبدالعلی دست غیب)
 * Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik-Persian poet
 * Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher
 * Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
 * Adib Boroumand, poet, politician, and lawyer (ادیب برومند)
 * Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, writer and translator (احمد کامیابی مسک)
 * Ahmad Kasravi (احمد کسروی)
 * Ahmad NikTalab (احمد نیک طلب), poet and linguistic
 * Ahmad Raza Khan (احمد رضا خان)
 * Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet Ahmad Shamlou.jpg]]
 * Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist (علی اکبر دهخدا)
 * Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer (علی محمد افغانی)
 * Ali Shariati, sociologist and theologian (علی شریعتی)
 * Aref Qazvini, (عارف قزوینی)
 * Asad Gulzoda, poet
 * Aziz Motazedi, novelist (عزیز معتضدی)
 * Bahman Sholevar, writer and poet (بهمن شعله ور)
 * Bahram Bayzai, playwright (بهرام بیضایی) Bahram Bayzai.jpg]]
 * Bijan Elahi, poet and translator
 * Bilal Yousaf, writer, critic
 * Bozor Sobir, poet (بازارصابر)
 * Bozorg Alavi, (بزرگ علوی) writer
 * Dariush Shayegan (داریوش شایگان)
 * Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی)
 * Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer
 * Esmail Khoi, Poet
 * Ezzat Goushegir
 * Farzona, poet (Фарзона/فرزانه)
 * Farzaneh Aghaeipour (فرزانه آقایی‌پور)
 * Fereidoon Tavallali, poet (فریدون توللی)
 * Fereshteh Ahmadi, writer (فرشته احمدی)
 * Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
 * Forough Farrokhzad, poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
 * Ghazaleh Alizadeh, novelist (غزاله علیزاده)
 * Gholam Hossein Saedi, writer
 * Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب)
 * Gholamreza Rouhani, Poet (غلامرضا روحاني)
 * Gulnazar Keldi, Tajik poet
 * Hamid Mosadegh(حمید مصدق)
 * Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه)
 * Heydar Yaghma (حیدر یغما)
 * Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada (حمیرا نکهت دستگیرزاده)
 * Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
 * Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی)
 * Hushang Ebtehaj (H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
 * Ibrahim Ali Tashna, Bengali poet (تشنه)
 * Ismail Alam, Bengali poet (اسماعیل عالم)
 * Iraj Mirza, poet (ایرج میرزا) Iraj mirza picture.jpg]]
 * Iraj Pezeshkzad, novelist (ایرج پزشکزاد)
 * Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (جلال آل احمد)
 * Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
 * Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer
 * Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی)
 * Loiq Sher-Ali (لائق شیرعلی), poet from Tajikistan
 * Leila Kasra, poet and lyricist
 * Mahbod Seraji, Writer (مهبد سراجی)
 * Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولت آبادی)
 * Mahmoud Melmasi - Azarm, poet (محمود ملماسي، آزرم)
 * Majid Adibzadeh, writer and scholar (مجید ادیب‌زاده)
 * Majid M. Naini writer, poet, translator, speaker (مجید نایینی)
 * Mana Aghaee, poet, author and translator (مانا آقایی)
 * Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی)
 * Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
 * Maryam Jafari Azarmani (مریم جعفری آذرمانی), poet, critic
 * Massoud Behnoud (مسعود بهنود), journalist
 * Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
 * Mina Assadi, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی)
 * Mina Dastgheib, poet (مینا دست غیب)
 * Mirzadeh Eshghi (میرزاده عشقی)
 * Mirzo Tursunzoda, Tajik poet
 * Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer (محمد علی جمالزاده)
 * Mohammad Hejazi, novelist and playwright
 * Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
 * Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh (محمد جعفر پوینده)
 * Mohammad Mokhtari(محمد مختاری)
 * Mohammad Reza Ali Payam (Haloo), poet (محمدرضا عالی‌پیام)
 * Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet (محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی)
 * Mohammad-Amin Riahi, scholar and writer (محمدامین ریاحی)
 * Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
 * Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
 * Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright
 * Morteza Motahhari, theologian (مرتضی مطهری)
 * Muhammad Faizullah, Bengali poet (محمد فيض الله)
 * Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani poet (محمد اقبال)
 * Nader Naderpour, poet (نادر نادرپور)
 * Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج)
 * Nosrat Rahmani, poet (نصرت رحمانی)
 * Parvin E'tesami, poet (پروین اعتصامی)
 * Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری)
 * Reza Baraheni, poet and critic (رضا براهنی)
 * Reza Khoshnazar, novelist(رضا خوش‌بين خوش‌نظر)
 * Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلی‌خان هدایت)
 * Reza Shirmarz, playwright, author, translator, poet and essayist (رضا شیرمرز)
 * Roya Hakakian, poet, writer, journalist (رویا حکاکیان)
 * Saboktakin Saloor, novelist
 * Sadegh Choubak, writer (صادق چوبک)
 * Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
 * Sadriddin Ayni (صدرالدين عيني), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history.
 * Saeed Nafisi, scholar, poet and writer
 * Sahar Delijani, novelist (سحر دلیجانی)
 * Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی)
 * Seyed Ali Salehi, poet
 * Sems Kesmai, poet (شمس کسمایی)
 * Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور)
 * Shams Langeroodi, poet (شمس لنگرودی)
 * Shamim Hashimi, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی)
 * Shapour Bonyad, poet (شاپور بنیاد)
 * Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی)
 * Siavash Kasraie poet (سیاوش کسرایی)
 * Simin Behbahani, poet (سیمین بهبهانی)
 * Simin Daneshvar, writer (سیمین دانشور)
 * Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet
 * Sohrab Sepehri, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری) Sohrab Sepehri (1975).jpg]]
 * Syed Waheed Ashraf, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic
 * Syed Abid Ali Abid Poet and Author
 * Temur Zulfiqorov, Tajik poet (Темур Зулфиқоров)
 * Varand, poet (واراند) varand2.jpg]]
 * Yadollah Royaee, poet (یدالله رویایی)
 * Hossein Rajabian, Playwright (حسین رجبیان)
 * Yasmina Reza, poet (یاسمینا رضا)
 * Zana Pirzad novelist (زانا پیرزاد)
 * Niloufar Talebi (نیلوفر طالبی)
 * Sholeh Wolpé poet, playwright (شعله ولپی)
 * Iraj Zebardast, poet (ايرج زبردست)