List of people from Kermanshah Province

Notable figures

Scientists

• Massoud Azarnoush, archaeologist
• Shahram Amiri, nuclear scientist
• Mohammad Reza Behrangi, doctorate of educational administration from the University of Southern California, translator, and member of the academic staff of Kharazmi University of Tehran
• Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī scientist born at Dinawar north-east of Kermanshah

  Musicians

• Kayhan Kalhor, musician
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, songwriter
• Ali Akbar Moradi, musician and tanbour player
• Roknoddin Mokhtari, violin player
• Mojtaba Mirzadeh, violin player
• Shahram Nazeri, master of Persian classical music and Kurdish music
• Shahriyar Jamshidi, musician
• Sohrab Pournazeri, musician
• Susan, singer

  Actors and film directors

• Nozar Azadi, actor
• Pouran Derakhshandeh, film director, producer, screenwriter
• Reza Shafiei Jam, actor
• Alexis Kouros, writer, documentary-maker, director and producer
• Reza Fieze Norouzi, actor

  Politics

• Ebrahim Azizi, member and spokesman of the Guardian Council
• Abdolreza Mesri, MP from Kermanshah constituency in the 7th, and 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly, former minister of welfare and Iran's ambassador to Venezuela
• Mohammad Mokri, politician, writer, poet, linguist, researcher
• Karim Sanjabi, Iran's attorney in the oil's national movement, former foreign minister
• Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, oil minister.

  Sports

• Kourosh Bagheri, World weightlifting champion
• Homa Hosseini, rower
• Ali Mazaheri, Asian amateur boxing champion and Olympic boxer
• Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi, light heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Iran's national team coach
• Mohammad Ranjbar, footballer and coach
• Kianoush Rostami, World champion in weightlifting 85 kg
• Neda Shahsavari, table tennis player

  Writers and poets

• Ali Mohammad Afghani, novelist
• Mahshid Amirshahi, writer
• Ali Ashraf Darvishian, novelist and writer
• Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi, writer
• Abolghasem Lahouti, poet
• Hajj Nematollah, mystic
• Rashid Yasemi, one of the Five-Masters of Persian Literature

  Artists

• Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor, calligrapher
• Guity Novin, painter and graphic designer

  Others

• Farhad, architect