Zanjan, Iran
1. Narges Mohammadi (1972)
Iranian Human Rights Activist
Human rights activist who has risen to fame as the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center. She was honored with the 2009 Alexander Langer Award and 2018 Andrei Sakharov...
2. Mehdi Sohrabi (1981)
Iranian Racing Cyclist
Mehdi Sohrabi is an Iranian professional racing cyclist who as of 2013 rides for the Tabriz Petrochemical Team. In 2010 and 2011 Sohrabi won the UCI Asia Tour. At the...
3. Mohammad Yeganeh (1923)
Iranian Politician
Mohammad Yeganeh was an Iranian politician. Yeganeh attended Columbia University graduating in 1950 with an MA in Business & Economics. He wrote his dissertation thesis on 'Commercial policies and foreign...
4. Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani (1937)
Iranian Ayatollah
Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani was an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the only cleric president of University of Tehran who himself had had no academic education of any kind that...
5. Reza Zanjani (Unknow)
Iranian Ayatollah
Ayatollah Seyed Reza Zanjani was a Shia Iranian cleric who opposed first the autocracy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and then theocracy that was established by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and...
6. Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani (Unknow)
Iranian Grand Ayatollah
Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani is an Iranian theologian Islamic philosopher writer and Grand marja of Islam. He published his objection to the velayat-e faqih and claims this regime has nothing...
7. Hossein Monzavi (1946)
Poet
Hossein Monzavi was an Iranian Azeri lyricist. His lyric poems are in both Azerbaijani and Persian. He was born in Zanjan. After education and living in Tehran for some...
