List of Iranian women

This is a list of Iranian women, of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both women born in Iran and women that are of the Iranian diaspora.

Nobel laureates

  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), 2003 Nobel Laureate (Peace)

Scientists and engineers

  • Azar Andami (1926–1984), physician and bacteriologist noted for her development of a cholera vaccine
  • Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
  • Niloufar Bayani (born 1986), wildlife conservation biology researcher and activist; jailed in Iran
  • Azita Emami, engineer working on low-power mixed-mode circuits in scalable technologies; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech
  • Marjan Mashkour, zooarchaeologist focused on research projects in Iran and the Near East
  • Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), mathematician and the first woman to win Fields Medal
  • Maryam Sadeghi (born 1980) Iranian-born Canadian computer scientist and businesswoman in the field of medical image analysis
  • Homa Shaibany (born 1913), Iran's first female surgeon
  • Nahid Shahmehri, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden[1]
  • Alenush Terian (1921–2011), astronomer
  • Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist and professor
  • Iranian women scientists and engineers

Business

  • Afsaneh Beschloss, former treasurer of the World Bank, entrepreneur, and investor
  • Shahrzad Rafati, CEO of BroadbandTV Corp (BBTV)
  • Sepideh Nasiri, founder of Persian Women In Tech (PWIT)[2]
  • Academia

    • Iranian women in academia

    Writers and poets

    • Iranian women writers and poets

    Actors

    • Iranian women actors

    Filmmakers and theatre directors

    Fine arts

    • Iranian women fine artists

    Dance

    Design

    Fashion design

    Journalists

    • Christiane Amanpour (born 1958), British–Iranian, CNN's chief international correspondent
    • Rudi Bakhtiar (born 1966), American television news anchor
    • Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1961), feminist activist and journalist and one of the pioneering figures in the Persian women's movement
    • Sibel Edmonds (born 1970), Iranian Azerbaijani and Turkish ethnicity, editor-in-chief of the independent news website NewsBud; she was a former contract translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and whistleblower
    • Camelia Entekhabifard (born 1973), journalist and author
    • Faezeh Hashemi (born 1963), journalist, women rights activist, and former member of Iranian parliament
    • Shadi Sadr (born 1974), feminist activist, lawyer and journalist
    • Iran Teymourtash (1914–1991), journalist and early activist; daughter of Abdolhossein Teymourtash
    • FakhrAfagh Parsa (1898–?), director of the Women's World magazine and the first female journalist in the Iranian history to be exiled
    • Atoosa Rubenstein (born 1972), Iranian-American founder and editor of CosmoGirl magazine; editor of Seventeen

    Musicians

    • Iranian women musicians

    Athletes

    • Iranian women athletes

    Politicians

    • Iranian women politicians

    Royalty

    • Iranian women in royalty

    Activists

    Prisoners and detainees

    Models and beauty pageant titleholders

    Others

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