Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi (1889 – October 18, 1939) was a poet, journalist and senior politician of the Reza Pahlavi era. Ali Shariati Mazinani (23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was a revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the “ideologue of the Revolution”, although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic.
Forugh Farrokhzad (December 29, 1934 – February 13, 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view. Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless (June 28, 1944 in Tehran– July 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois) was a film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in cinema in the 20th century. After 1976 he worked in the cinema of Germany and was an important component of the film diaspora working in the German industry.
