WʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Nūshīn was an Iranian playwright, theatre director and translator. He was one of the first people who introduced western style theatre to Iran.
WSayed Hassan Amin is an Iranian lawyer, scholar, author and pro-democracy political figure.
WBahrām Beyzāie is a critically and popularly acclaimed filmmaker, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies.
WMir Jalaleddin Kazzazi is a professor of Persian literature and an Iranist.
WJulius von Mohl was a German Orientalist.
WMohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan is an Iranian literary critic, translator and poet, and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers on culture and literature in Iran.
WTheodor Nöldeke was a German orientalist and scholar. His research interests ranged over Old Testament studies, Semitic languages and Arabic, Persian and Syriac literature. Nöldeke translated several important works of oriental literature and during his lifetime was considered an important orientalist. He wrote numerous studies and contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
WMohammad-Amin Riahi was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iranica, he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books. Mohammad-Amin Riahi received his PHD on Persian literature from Tehran University under the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar. Riahi is best known for his scholarly works on Shahnameh and Ferdowsi, Hafiz, and the ancient iranian languages. He has produced critical editions of some of the major classical Persian texts such as Mersad-al-ebad and Nozhat-al-majalis. During a course of 60 years he published numerous scholarly articles, a selection of which are gathered in a volume titled Forty essays on language, literature and history of Iran.
WGhadam-Ali Sarami is an Iranian author and poet. He was born in Ramhormoz, a small town in southwest of Iran. In 1986, he received a Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran. He is an associate professor of Persian literature and language at Zanjan University and an expert in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Bayhaghi's History, and Hafiz, Sa’di, Rumi and other masters of Persian literature and poetry.
WTal'at Bassari, was an Iranian Bahai poet, feminist, academic, and writer.