#List of top 100 Persian 2DRank historical figures #Ranking, Name, Birth country code, Birth country, Birth century, Gender,Language 1 Cyrus the Great IR Iran -6 M FA 2 Zoroaster IR Iran -10 M FA 3 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi IR Iran 20 M FA 4 Mohammad Khatami IR Iran 20 M FA 5 Mir-Hossein Mousavi IR Iran 20 M FA 6 Ruhollah Khomeini IR Iran 20 M FA 7 Naser al-Din Shah Qajar IR Iran 19 M FA 8 Ali Khamenei IR Iran 20 M FA 9 Mohammad Mosaddegh IR Iran 19 M FA 10 Ardashir I IR Iran 2 M FA 11 Ahmad Shamloo IR Iran 20 M FA 12 Omar Khayyám IR Iran 11 M FA 13 Adolf Hitler AT Austria 19 M DE 14 Husayn ibn Ali SA Saudi_Arabia 7 M AR 15 Ferdowsi IR Iran 10 M FA 16 Sadegh Hedayat IR Iran 20 M FA 17 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani IR Iran 20 M FA 18 Rezā Shāh IR Iran 19 M FA 19 Farah Pahlavi IR Iran 20 F FA 20 Muhammad SA Saudi_Arabia 6 M AR 21 Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei IR Iran 20 M FA 22 Abbas I of Persia AF Afghanistan 16 M FA 23 Muhammad al-Mahdi IQ Iraq 9 M AR 24 Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani IR Iran 20 M FA 25 Bertrand Russell UK United_Kingdom 19 M EN 26 Albert Einstein DE Germany 19 M DE 27 Karl Marx DE Germany 19 M DE 28 Fatimah SA Saudi_Arabia 7 F AR 29 Michael Jackson US United_States 20 M EN 30 Abbas Mirza IR Iran 18 M FA 31 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad IR Iran 20 M FA 32 Ali Shariati IR Iran 20 M FA 33 Abolhassan Banisadr IR Iran 20 M FA 34 Ahmad Kasravi IR Iran 19 M FA 35 Saddam Hussein IQ Iraq 20 M AR 36 Barack Obama US United_States 20 M EN 37 Jesus PS State_of_Palestine -1 M AR 38 Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei IR Iran 20 M FA 39 Mehdi Karroubi IR Iran 20 M FA 40 Ismail I IR Iran 15 M FA 41 Fath-Ali Shah Qajar IR Iran 18 M FA 42 Morteza Motahhari IR Iran 20 M FA 43 Ali SA Saudi_Arabia 7 M AR 44 Saadi Shirazi IR Iran 12 M FA 45 Abu Bakr SA Saudi_Arabia 6 M AR 46 Nero IT Italy 1 M IT 47 Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi IR Iran 9 M FA 48 Rudaki TJ Tajikistan 9 M WR 49 Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi IR Iran 19 M FA 50 Masoud Kimiai IR Iran 20 M FA 51 Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob IR Iran 20 M FA 52 Yazdegerd III IR Iran 7 M FA 53 Mani (prophet) IQ Iraq 3 M AR 54 Al-Farabi AF Afghanistan 9 M FA 55 Jalal Al-e-Ahmad IR Iran 20 M FA 56 Mohammad Ali Foroughi IR Iran 19 M FA 57 Shapur I IR Iran 3 M FA 58 Neil Armstrong US United_States 20 M EN 59 Nader Shah IR Iran 17 M FA 60 Shapour Bakhtiar IR Iran 20 M FA 61 Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda IR Iran 19 M FA 62 Hussein-Ali Montazeri IR Iran 20 M FA 63 Babak Khorramdin IR Iran 8 M FA 64 Amir Kabir IR Iran 19 M FA 65 Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī LB Lebanon 16 M AR 66 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel DE Germany 18 M DE 67 Mohammad Khan Qajar IR Iran 18 M FA 68 Ebrahim Pourdavoud IR Iran 19 M FA 69 Yuri Gagarin RU Russia 20 M RU 70 Avicenna UZ Uzbekistan 10 M WR 71 Dariush Mehrjui IR Iran 20 M FA 72 Suleiman the Magnificent TR Turkey 15 M TR 73 Johann Sebastian Bach DE Germany 17 M DE 74 Marco Polo IT Italy 13 M IT 75 Carl Jung CH Switzerland 19 M DE 76 Mehdi Bazargan IR Iran 20 M FA 77 Khosrau II IQ Iraq 6 M AR 78 J. D. Salinger US United_States 20 M EN 79 Mohammad Moin IR Iran 20 M FA 80 Marlon Brando US United_States 20 M EN 81 Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar IR Iran 19 M FA 82 Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel IR Iran 20 M FA 83 Seyeed Ali Haghshenas IR Iran 20 M FA 84 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei IR Iran 19 M FA 85 Sohrab Sepehri IR Iran 20 M FA 86 Ali Hatami IR Iran 20 M FA 87 Mohammad Shah Qajar IR Iran 19 M FA 88 Abdolhossein Teymourtash IR Iran 19 M FA 89 Darius I IR Iran -6 M FA 90 Abolhassan Najafi IR Iran 20 M FA 91 Hafez IR Iran 14 M FA 92 Muammar Gaddafi LY Libya 20 M AR 93 Mohammad Beheshti IR Iran 20 M FA 94 Charlemagne BE Belgium 8 M NL 95 Shahrukh Mirza UZ Uzbekistan 14 M WR 96 Rumi TJ Tajikistan 13 M WR 97 Joseph Stalin GE Georgia 19 M WR 98 Edgar Allan Poe US United_States 19 M EN 99 Mohammad-Reza Shajarian IR Iran 20 M FA 100 Anton Chekhov RU Russia 19 M RU