List of German people of Iranian descent

This is a list of individuals of Iranian ancestry who grew up and/or live in Germany.

Sports

• Patrik Baboumian
• Daniel Davari
• Ashkan Dejagah
• Sara Doorsoun
• Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh
• Dennis Eckert
• Alireza Marzban
• Alexander Nouri
• Reza Parkas
• Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
• Babak Rafati
• Amir Shapourzadeh
• Fereydoun Zandi

Music

Rapper

• Nimo
• PA Sports

Rapper & Singer

• Shirin David

Rap-Journalists

Singer

• Mehrzad Marashi - DSDS Winner 2010
• Shahin Najafi
• Navid Akhavan
• Maryam Akhondy
• Ateed
• Sima Bina

Composer

• Ramin Djawadi
• Sima Bina, notable Persian classical musician (singer), composer, researcher, painter
• Amir Abbas Zare, musician and composer

Academia/science

• Katajun Amirpur, scholar
• Nossrat Peseschkian
• Majid Samii
• Rahim Rahmanzadeh, orthopedist

Arts/entertainment

Comedians

• Enissa Amani
• Sina Khani

TV presenter

• Melissa Khalaj
• Enissa Amani

Actors

• Daryush Shokof
• Enissa Amani
• Maryam Zaree
• Navid Akhavan
• Shaghayegh Dehghan
• Narges Rashidi
• Melika Foroutan
• Mohammad Khalkhalian
• Shermine Shahrivar
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad, actor, entertainer

Film directors

• Daryush Shokof
• Mohammad Farokhmanesh

Rest

• Akbar Behkalam, painter
• Niloofar Beyzaie, playwright, theatre director
• Yasmine Mahmoudieh, architect, interior designer, and CEO
• Naveed Nour, photographer
• Benny Rebel, photographer
• Hadi Teherani, architect and designer

Politics

• Sahra Wagenknecht, parliamentary chairperson of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (formerly German Left Party), Leader of the Opposition in Germany 2015-2017, chancellor candidate in 2017 and 2025
• Yasmin Fahimi, politician and since January 2014 the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
• Omid Nouripour, Alliance 90/The Greens
• Bahman Nirumand
• Mina Ahadi
• Mitra Razavi
• Shervin Haghsheno
• Reza Asghari

Media/journalism

• Abbas Maroufi, publisher
• Navid Kermani, writer and scholar
• Golineh Atai - TV
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Alternative journalism

• Ken Jebsen

Business/technology

• Hossein Sabet, entrepreneur, hotel owner worldwide.
• Sandra Navidi, strategic and macroeconomics advisor

Literature

• Abbas Maroufi, novelist
• Sudabeh Mohafez, writer
• Alexios Schandermani, writer
• Mohammad Khalkhalian, Writer

Personalities

• Soraya Esfandiary, ex-wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Consort of Iran
• Abdoldjavad Falaturi

See also

• Iranians in Germany
• List of Iranians
• Iranian diaspora

References