This is a List of people from Lahijan, Gilan province, Iran who have been born in, raised in, lived in or who died in Lahijan, Gilan, Iran. Individuals are listed by field in which they are best known:

Scientists

Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gilani - Founder of Sharif University of Technology and Director of Alborz High School.

List of people from Lahijan

Poets and writers

Bijan Najdi - Poet and Writer

Hazin Lahiji - Iranian Poet and Scholar

Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji Theologian, Poet and Philosopher

Sportspeople

Farshid Karimi, football player

Politicians

Hassan Zia-Zarifi - Iranian intellectual and one of the founders of the communist guerrilla movement in Iran Reza Qotbi - Head of Iranian National TV

List of people from Lahijan

Artists

Ghasem Hajizadeh, pioneering painter in Iranian Pop art

Ardeshir Mohassess, painter and cartoonist

Parviz Sayyad, one of the leading Iranian actors in 1960's

Religion

Sheikh Zahed Gilani - Grandmaster of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi Order at Lahijan

References

External links

Lahijan

List of people from Lahijan