WRezā Qoli Khān Hedāyat was a Persian writer and poet, and tutor of Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar.
WMirza Aqa Khan Kermani was an Iranian intellectual reformer, a Babi, and son-in-law of Subh-i-Azal. In his writings, he advocates for political, social, and religious reform characteristic of his generation of intellectuals whose reformist ideas and engagement with sociopolitical themes set the stage for the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the political and literary changes that were to follow.
WParviz Natel Khanlari was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician and professor at Tehran University.
WThis is a list of short story Iranian writers either born in Iran or holding Iranian citizenship, also Non-Iranian Persian short story writers and short story writers of Iranian descent.
WMojtaba Minovi, the well-known Iranian historian, literary scholar and professor of Tehran University. he was a participant in the Ferdowsi Millenary celebrations in 1934 in Tehran.
WMohammad Moin was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian Studies.
WHossein Rajabian is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking.
WHosain Sanapour is an Iranian writer.
WBehrouz Servatian (1937–2012), was an Iranian literary scholar, professor, and authority on the great Iranian lyric poet, Nizami Ganjavi.
WAbdolhossein Zarrinkoub was a scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history.