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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Actor
11-May-1952   House of Sand and Fog
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Head of State
28-Oct-1956   President of Iran
Fouad Ajami
Author
9-Sep-1945   Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS
Nouri al-Maliki
Head of State
c. 1950   Prime Minister of Iraq
Iyad Allawi
Head of State
1945   Iraqi Prime Minister, 2004-05
Bashar al-Assad
Head of State
11-Sep-1965   President of Syria
The Báb
Religion
20-Oct-1819 9-Jul-1850 Forerunner of Baha'i
Nabih Berri
Politician
28-Jan-1938   Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament
Hafez
Poet
1326 1389 Prominent Persian poet
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Head of State
1947   Prime Minister of Iraq, 2005-06
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
Politician
1926   Head of Iran's Guardian Council
Ayatollah Khamenei
Head of State
15-Jul-1939   Supreme leader of Iran
Yahya Khan
Head of State
4-Apr-1917 10-Aug-1980 President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide
Mohammad Khatami
Head of State
29-Sep-1943   President of Iran, 1997-2005
Ayatollah Khomeini
Religion
24-Sep-1902 3-Jun-1989 Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Head of State
19-May-1882 5-Mar-1967 Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53
Hassan Nasrallah
Terrorist
31-Aug-1960   Hezbollah Secretary-General
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Head of State
25-Aug-1934   President of Iran, 1989-97
Muqtada al-Sadr
Military
12-Aug-1973   Militant Shiite Iraqi cleric
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Government
1940   Iraqi Information Minister
Shah of Iran
Royalty
26-Oct-1919 27-Jul-1980 Last Shah of Iran
Hussain al-Shahristani
Government
1942   Iraqi Minister of Oil
Ayatollah al-Sistani
Religion
4-Aug-1929   Highest ranking Shia cleric in Iraq
Haifa Wehbe
Singer
c. 1974   The Arab world's Madonna
Fazlollah Zahedi
Head of State
1897 2-Sep-1963 Prime Minister of Iran, 1953-55
Asif Ali Zardari
Head of State
22-Jul-1955   President of Pakistan



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