Yazdi

Yazdi is a common name for someone from the city or province of Yazd in central Iran.

Notable people

 * Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454), Iranian scholar
 * Jalal al-Din Yazdi (died 1618), Iranian astrologer and chronicler of the Safavid period
 * Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi (1859–1937), Iranian Grand Ayatollah and founder of the Islamic seminary hawza in Qom, Iran
 * Ebrahim Yazdi (1931–2017), Former Iranian politician and senior diplomat
 * Mohammad Yazdi (1931–2020), Senior Iranian cleric and Judiciary official
 * Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (born 1934), Senior Iranian cleric and long-serving member of the Assembly of Experts
 * Mohammad Ali Jafari (born 1957), Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC); born in Yazd
 * Mohammad Khatami (born 1943), Former President of Iran; born in Yazd
 * Mohammad Reza Aref (born 1951), Vice President of Iran from 2001 to 2005 and current member of Parliament for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr constituency; born in Yazd
 * Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia (born 1937), Indian theatre personality

Other uses

 * Yazdi, a dialect of the Zoroastrian Dari language