List of Shia Muslims

The following is a list of notable Shi'a Muslims

Historical political figures

Late Islamic history

Idris I - founder of the Idrisid dynasty.
Hassan ibn Zeid -founder of the Alavids dynasty.
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya -founder of the Zaidi imamate State.
Sayf al-Daula - ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945-967).
Mu'izz al-Daula -ruler of the Buyid dynasty (945-967).
Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i - was a Da'i for the Isma'ilis in Yemen and North Africa mainly among the Kutama Berbers, whose teachings influenced the rise of the Fatimid dynasty.
Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah - founder of the Fatimid dynasty.
Al-Muizz Lideenillah -was the fourth Fatimid Caliph Founder of the city of Cairo.
Ali ibn Mazyad -founder of the Bani Assad emirate.
Sitt al-Mulk -Ruler of the Fatimids (1021–1023), was the elder sister of Al-Hakim.
Arwa al-Sulayhi -was the ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, of Yemen.
Sharifa Fatima - was a Zaydi chief in 15th century Yemen.
Salih ibn Mirdas -founder of the Mirdasids emirate.
Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib -founder of the Uqaylid Dynasty.
An-Nasir -the 34th Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad.
Tekuder - The first Muslim Mughal Emperor.
Ghazan - ruler of the Ilkhanate dynasty (1295–1304).
Öljaitü - eighth Ilkhanate ruler.
Uzun Hassan - ruler of the Ak Koyunlu dynasty (1453–1478)
Ismail I - founder of the Safavid dynasty
Abbas I of Persia - ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1588–1629).
Karim Khan - founder of the Zand dynasty.

Scientists, mathematicians and philosophers

Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali -was a close companion of Imam Ali and grammarian. he was the first to place dots on the Arabic Words and the first to write on Arabic linguistics.
Omar Khayyam- Persian philosopher, mathematcian, astronomer and poet.
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.
Al-Kindi - Iraqi and Arab Polymath
Jabir ibn Hayyan- Persian polymath ; known as the father of chemistry
Abu Ali Sina- (actual madhab disputed) Persian polymath; also known as Avicenna to the West
Al-Khwārizmī - polymath; regarded as the father of algebra and algorithm
Al-Farabi -Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of Persia and the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.
Abu Nasr Mansur - known for his work with the spherical sine law
Muhammad al-Idrisi Islamic geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist descendant of the Idrisid dynasty.
al-Biruni - polymath; regarded as the father of geodesy, the founder of Indology, the "first anthropologist" and "one of the greatest scientists of all times"
Alhazen -Iraqi polymath; regarded as father of optics for his Book of Optics, as well as the founder of experimental psychology and experimental physics
Khalil ibn Ahmad -Iraqi Arab philologist and linguist.
Sibawayh -linguist.
Ahmed ibn Yusuf -Iraqi Arab mathematician.
Abū Sahl al-Qūhī -Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Ibn Miskawayh - philosopher and scientist; described the process of evolution in the tenth century
Ferdowsi - poet, author of Shahnameh the national epic of Iran
Abu Mikhnaf -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
Ya'qubi -Iraqi Muslim historian and geographer.
Ahmad ibn A'zham -Iraqi Muslim historian.
Al-Masudi -Iraqi Arab historian and geographer known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs.
Ibn al-Nadim -Iraqi historian.
Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer
Ibn Wahshiyya Nabataean Arab writer, alchemist, agriculturalist, Egyptologist and historian
Abolfadl Harawi -Iranian Muslim astronomer.
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi -Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician.
Al-Birjandi -Iranian Muslim astronomer.
Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
Ibn Hawqal Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler
Qadi al-Nu'man Isma'ili jurist and the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs.
Ibn Yunus Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
Ali ibn Ridwan Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer and astronomer philosopher.
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani Persian philosopher.
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī - astronomer, mathematician.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi - astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, Early Islamic philosopher, physician and marja; early pioneer of biological evolution.
Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi -Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer.
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
Baha' ad-Din al-`Amili - Lebanese Muslim scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician.
Iskandar Beg Munshi -court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I.
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi -chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist.
Mulla Sadra - philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy
Mir Damad -Iranian philosopher
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor.
Rammal Rammal
Allama Rasheed Turabi-Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher
Kazem Behbehani -Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became International Health Advocat at WHO.
Lotfi Asker Zadeh Iranian computer scientist; founder of Fuzzy Mathematics and fuzzy set theory.
Wissam S. al-Hashimi Iraqi geologist.
Jim Al-Khalili Iraqi theoretical nuclear physicist, academic, author and broadcaster.
Husain Mohammad Jafri
Samad Rizvi
Athar Ali
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Agha Shahi
Razi Abedi
Nayyar Ali Zaidi
Naveed Zaidi
Kalbe Razi Naqvi

Poets and Writers

Al-Farazdaq Arab poet
Kuthayyir -Arab poet
Kumait Ibn Zaid -Arab poet
Abu Nuwas renowned classical Arabic and Persian poets
Abu-l-'Atahiya -Arab poet
Abu Tammam -Arab poet
Ibn al-Rumi -Arab poet
Al-Mutanabbi, regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Arabic language
Abu Firas al-Hamdani, writer and member of the noble family of the Hamdanid
Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani Arab poet and writer
Khalil ibn Ahmad Arab poet and writer
Nasir Khusraw Persian poet, philosopher and traveler
Mirza Ghalib renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet, writer, and philosopher
Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai - He translated Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic.
Mir Anis - classical Urdu poet and master of the elegies in honor of the tragedy of Karbala known as Marsiya which was instrumental in the propagation of azadari, or mourning of Muharram in South Asia
Mirza Dabeer- Urdu poet and master of the Marsiya, contemporary, friend, and rival of Mir Anis
Safi al-din al-Hilli, 1278-c.1349, Iraqi poet^[1]
Fuzûlî Iraqi Turkoman poet, writer and thinker
Muzaffar al-Nawwab Iraqi poet^[2]
Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri Iraqi poet^[3]
Abdullah Al-Baradouni Yemeni writer and poet
Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh Bahrani poet
Qassim Haddad Bahrani poet, researcher, writer
Ali Al Jallawi Bahrani poet
Badawi al-Jabal Syrian poet
Qurratulain Hyder- female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature"
Adunis Syrian poet and writer
Muhammed Almagut Syrian poet and writer
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Iraqi poet
Nazik Al-Malaika, influential contemporary Iraqi female poet
Bint al-Huda-Iraqi educator and political activist.
Hasan Zyko Kamberi Albanian poet and writer.
Naim Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
Sami Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.
Abdyl Frashëri Albanian poet and writer.

Professionals

Azim Premji- Mumbai business tycoon

Politicians

Iran

Amir Kabir - Prime Minister of Persia under Nasereddin Shah
Mohammed Mosaddeq - former Prime Minister of Iran.
Ruhollah Khomeini - marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Mehdi Bazargan - former Prime Minister of Iran
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar - former Prime Minister of Iran
Mohammad-Ali Rajai -2nd President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mostafa Chamran - Iranian defense minister, first commander of the Pasdaran and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - fourth President of Iran
Mohammad Khatami - reformist Iranian politician and former President of Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - sixth and current President of Iran
Ali Larijani - Iranian philosopher and speaker of the Iranian parliament
Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur - reformist Iranian politician and coordinator of Hezbollah in its early days

Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Founder of Pakistan
Fatima Jinnah - Sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Iskander Mirza - first President of Pakistan
Khawaja Nazimuddin - second Prime Minister of Pakistan
Muhammad Ali Bogra - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Muhammad Musa - Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff during 1965 Indo Pak war and later Governor of Balauchistan
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Asif Ali Zardari - current President of Pakistan
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party

Other Politicians

Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Chermain Senate of Pakistan
Ch. Nazar Muhammad Gondal(Fedral Minister)
Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani (Fedral Minister)
Syed Khursheed Shah(Fedral Minister of Religious Affairs)
Chandio Fedral Minister of Law
Nadeem Afzal Chan(Chairmen Public Account Cammety of National Assembly)
Syed Mehdi Shah (Chief Minister of GB Province)
Fakhar Imam
Sadiq Hussain Qureshi
Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat
Faisal Raza Abidi
Haidar Abbas Rizvi
Riaz Pirzada

Azerbaijan

Heydar Aliyev - former President of Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev - current President of Azerbaijan

Lebanon

Adel Osseiran - one of the founders of modern Lebanon
Musa al-Sadr - contemporary Islamic philosopher and co-founder of the Amal Movement
Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah (also Muhammad Husayn Fadl-Allāh or Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh) (born November 16, 1935) is a prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric, References:http://english.bayynat.org.lb/Biography/index.htm.
Hussein el-Husseini - former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, co-founder of the Amal Movement, fathered the Taif Agreement that led to the end of the Lebanese Civil War
Nabih Berri - the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.
Abbas Musawi - former Secretary-General of Hezbollah
Hassan Nasrallah - Secretary-General of Hezbollah
Imad Mughniyah - former head of Hezbollah's external security apparatus.
Ali Qanso - former Secretary-General of Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
Ali Eid -Secretary-General of Arabic Democratic Party

Iraq

Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali - Iraqi foreign minister, and Prime Minister of Iraq.
Naji Talib - former Prime Minister of Iraq.
Ezzedine Salim - former Iraqi politician.
Ibrahim al-Jaafari - former Prime Minister of Iraq.
Nouri al-Maliki - current Prime Minister of Iraq.
Adil Abdul-Mahdi - Iraqi Shi'a politician, economist.
Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim - former leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim - leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir - Iraqi politician and a member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq..
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum - prominent Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq.
Muqtada al-Sadr - Iraqi politician and head of the Mahdi Army.
Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi politician.
Abbas al-Bayati - Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician.
Jasim Mohammed Jaafar - Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician.
Hussain al-Shahristani - current Iraqi Minister of Oil.
Shirwan al-Waili - current Iraqi Minister of State for National Security.
Mowaffak al-Rubaie - current Iraqi National Security Advisor.
Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi - current Finance Minister of Iraq.
Khaled al-Attiyah -elected First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly.
Salama al-Khufaji - former member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail - Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq

Saudi Arabia

Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar - Political activist against anti-Shia discrimination from Qatif.

Syria

Zaki al-Arsuzi - Syrian political activist and writer.

Bahrain

Abdul Amir al-Jamri-'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's Twelver Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada.
Hasan Mushaima-currently the secretary-general of the current Haq Movement
Ali Salman-currently the secretary-general of the current Al-Wefaq
Abdulhadi Al Khawaja-leading Bahraini human rights activist.
Nabeel Rajab-President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.

India

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi former union minister
Syed_Ahmed_(politician) Governor of Jharkhand

Rulers and Military Figures

Earlier

Sayf al-Daula - ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945-967)
Gawhar al-Siqilli-was the most important military leader in the Fatimid history. He led the conquest of North Africa and then of Egypt, founded the city of Cairo and the great al-Azhar mosque.
Ziri ibn Manad-founder of the Zirid dynasty in the Maghreb.
Buluggin ibn Ziri-was the first ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin-was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
Badis ibn Mansur-was the third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya.
Abu Zayd al-Hilali-was the 11th century Arab leader and hero of the 'Amirid tribe of Banu Hilal.
Al-Afdal Shahanshah-was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt.
Iftikhar ad-Daula-was the Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of Jerusalem.
Shawar-was a ruler of Egypt, the vizier.
Hassan-i Sabbah- He founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan-one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the Crusades.

Iran

Hassan-i Sabbah- He founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin.
Allahverdi Khan-was an Iranian military and political leader of Georgian origin.
Imam-Quli Khan-was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin.
Nader Shah was Shah of Iran during the Afsharid dynasty notable for his Ottoman campaign, conquest of India, and conversion dominant belief system from Safavid ideology to Jafari fiqh
Abbas Mirza-was a Qajar crown prince of Persia
Gholamali Bayandor-first Commander of Imperial Iranian Navy
Mohsen Rezaee-Chief commander of AGIR 1981- 1997
Yahya Rahim Safavi-Chief commander of AGIR 1997- 2007
Mohammad Ali Jafari-Chief commander of AGIR
Ali Shamkhani-former defense minister of Iran.
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar-current defense minister of Iran.
Ali Sayad Shirazi-was chief-of-staff of the Iranian forces during Iran's 8-year war with Iraq.
Mohammad Boroujerdi-one of the founders of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (AGIR) and a commander in Iran-Iraq War. He played key roles in regaining control over the territories of Kurdistan by Iranian forces.
Hossein Kharrazi- was an Iranian commanderof "Imam Hosein 14th Division" during Iran-Iraq War.

India

Wajid Ali Shah- last nawab of the princely kingdom of Awadh

Iraq

Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi-led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes."
Hadi Al-Amiri-head of the Badr Organization, which was the military wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
Aras Habib-was a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters.
Abud Qanbar-former military governor of Baghdad.

Syria

Sayf al-Daula - ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945-967)
Rashid ad-Din Sinan-one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the Crusades.
Saleh al-Ali - leader that commanded one of the first rebellions against the French mandate of Syria.
Salah Jadid - Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party.
Assef Shawqat-head of the Syrian Military Intelligence apparatus since 2005.
Maher al-Assad-is the brother of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and head of the Presidential Guard.
Ghazi Kanaan-was Syria's Interior Minister from 2004 to 2005, and long-time head of Syria's security apparatus in Lebanon.
Hisham Ikhtiyar-director of the GID from December 2001 until June 2005.

Lebanon

Adham Khanjar-Lebanese national hero.
Mohammad Zgheib-1948 Arab-Israeli War war hero.
Hisham Jaber-former military governor of Beirut.
Imad Mughniyah - former head of Hezbollah's external security apparatus.
Sana'a Mehaidli -Lebanese Martyr.
Samir Kuntar -Lebanese militant and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Front.

Azerbaijan

Surat Huseynov-is an Azerbaijani colonel and ex-Prime Minister of Azerbaijan.
Eldar Mahmudov-is the current head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security.
Rail Rzayev-was the head of the Azerbaijani Air Force.

Yemen

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi-leader of Shi'a Zaidi rebels.
Abdullah al-Ruzami- leader of Shi'a Zaidi rebels.

Theologians

Al-Shaykh al-Saduq
Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
Al-Sharif al-Radi
al-Sharif al-Murtada
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
Shaykh Tusi
Al-Hurr al-Aamili
Shahid Awwal
Shahid Thani
Qazi Nurullah Shustari
Shahid Thani
Shahid Rabay
Maitham Al Bahrani 13th-century cleric and theologian
Al-Hilli 13th-century cleric and theologian

Religious figures

Salih Al-Karzakani 17th-century cleric
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi 17th-century cleric
Abdullah al Samahiji 18th-century cleric
Yusuf Al Bahrani 18th-century cleric
Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani cleric, head of the Council of Islamic revolution and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr - Islamic philosopher, father of contemporary Islamic economics and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party
Allameh Tabatabaei - one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (Marja) for Shi'a Muslims around the world
Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah - foremost marja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims
Navvab Safavi - founder of the militant group Fadayan-e Islam
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - currently the pre-eminent marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today
Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim - sole Shi'a marja in the early 1960s.
Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei - Shi'a marja.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr - Shi'a marja.
Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri - Shi'a marja
Ahmed Al-Waeli -one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the twentieth century.
Aga Khan IV - Current Imam of the Nizari Ismaili tariqah of Shia Islam

Sufis

Maruf Karkhi -Iraqi
Rajab Bursi - Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic.
Sayyid Baraka - spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th century warlord Timur.
Yunus Emre - Turkish poet and mystic.
Mir Shamsuddin - Iraqi missionary.
Shah Ni'matullah Wali - Islamic scholar and poet
Haji Bektash Veli^{[citation needed]} - Islamic mystic, humanist and philosopher.
Safi-ad-din Ardabili - eponym of the Safavid dynasty,
Abba Yahiyya Ishmaili
Baba Rexheb Albanian Bektashi

Sayedna Taher Saiffuddin (R A)51 dai of Dawoodi Bohra. sayedna Mohammed Burhannudin(T U S) current 52 dai of Dawoodi Bohra.

Modern and contemporary philosophers

Morteza Motahhari - Iranian cleric, philosopher and politician
Hossein Nasr - Islamic philosopher and professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University
Muhammad Legenhausen - modern Shi'a Muslim philosopher of German American background, Ph.D at Rice University.

Entertainment and media personalities

Abdulhussain Abdulredha - Kuwaiti actor and Writer
Zainab Bahrani-Iraqi art historian.
Shahriar Bahrani-Iranian film directo.
Abbas Fahdel-Iraqi film directo.
Mohamed Al-Daradji- Iraqi Dutch film director.
Hassan Massoudy-Iraqi calligrapher.
Basim al-karbalaie-Shiite artist.
Ahmed Al Safi-Iraqi artist.
Nedim Kufi-Iraqi artist.
Sadequain-Pakistani artist.
Usama Alshaibi-Iraqi-American independent filmmaker, visual and media artist.
Feroz Khan-cinema actor.
Jagdeep-Syed Jawahar Ali Jaffery, comedy actor, early Indian cinema
Javed Jaffrey-Indian actor, comedian, television host
Farida Mohammad Ali-Iraqi singer
Naseer Shamma-Iraqi musician and oud player.
Sadegh Tirafkan-Iranian contemporary artist.
Melhem Zein - Lebanese singer
Haifa Wehbe - Lebanese singer
DJ Aqeel- Indian music artist
Khosrow Vaziri - Iranian professional wrestler, retired

Other

Edoardo Agnelli - son of Gianni Agnelli and former heir to Fiat

Pakistan's War Heroes

Lieutenant PAK NAVY Syed Yasir Abbas 22 May PNS MEHRAN attack
Lalak Jan Shaheed Nishan-i-Haider

References

[1] [1]

[2] [2]

[3] [3]

[1]

[2]

[3]

Historical political figures

Late Islamic history

Scientists, mathematicians and philosophers

Poets and Writers

Professionals

Politicians

Iran

Pakistan

Azerbaijan

Lebanon

Iraq

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Bahrain

Kuwait

Yemen

Albania

India

Rulers and Military Figures

Earlier

Iran

India

Iraq

Syria

Lebanon

Azerbaijan

Yemen

Theologians

Religious figures

Sufis

Modern and contemporary philosophers

Entertainment and media personalities

Other

See also

References