[custom_adv] Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi (1889 – October 18, 1939) was a poet, journalist and senior politician of the Reza Pahlavi era. [custom_adv] 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 Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the "ideologue of the Iranian Revolution", although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic. [custom_adv] 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. [custom_adv] Sohrab Shaheed Salles or Sohrab Shahid-Saless (June 28, 1944 in Tehran, Iran – July 2, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Iranian film director and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated figures in Iranian 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. [custom_adv] Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran, holding office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom's MI6. [custom_adv] Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian (1892 - 3 October 1921), also spelled as Pesyan and Pesseyan, was an Iranian gendarme and pilot who formed and lead the short-lived Autonomous Government of Khorasan. He was killed in a battle with forces sent by Ahmad Qavam, the prime minister at the time. [custom_adv] Mehdi Bakeri (born 1954 – died 16 March 1985) was an Iranian war hero in the Iran–Iraq War. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tabriz. During the Iranian revolution of 1979 he joined the protesters. After the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War he joined to the Sepah. He was killed in a combat by Iraqi troops in eastern Iraq. [custom_adv] Samad Behrangi (June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was a teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish. [custom_adv] Taghi Arani (1903 in Tabriz, Iran – February 4, 1940 ), was a professor of chemistry, left-wing Iranian political activist, and the founder and editor of the Marxist magazine Donya. He moved to Tehran with his family when he was 4 years old. [custom_adv] Hamid Ashraf was one of the original members and later the leader of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas that waged a guerrilla warfare against the former Pahlavi regime in Iran from February 8, 1971 till February 11, 1979, the Shah's fall. [custom_adv] Gholamreza Takhti (August 27, 1930 – January 7, 1968) was an Iranian Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani (Persian Traditional Sport) practitioner. Popularly nicknamed Jahān Pahlevān because of his chivalrous behavior and sportsmanship (Javanmardi in Iranian culture), he was the most popular athlete of Iran in the 20th century, although dozens of Iranian athletes have won more international medals than he did. [custom_adv] Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani (December 11, 1893 - July 3, 1924) was an Iranian political writer and poet who used the pen name Mirzadeh Eshghi.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while. He is particularly famous for writing the opera Rastakhiz Iran (Resurrected Iran), which was a reflection of his patriotic spirit. [custom_adv] Mirzā Jahāngir Khān (1875, Shiraz — June 23, 1908, Tehran) , also known as Mirzā Jahāngir Khān Shirāzi and Jahāngir-Khān-e Sūr-e-Esrāfil, was an Iranian writer and intellectual, and a revolutionary during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911). He is best known for his bold editorship of the progressive weekly newspaper Sur-e Esrāfil, of which he was also the founder.
