The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims.

Scientists, mathematicians and academics

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• Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher
• Al-ʻIjliyyah – 10th-century female maker of astrolabes
• Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue')
• Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani – Persian philosopher
• Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī – astronomer, mathematician
• Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
• Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi – Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi Arab Muslim historian
• Iskandar Beg Munshi – court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi – chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist.
• Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy
• Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor.
• Rammal Rammal – Lebanese condensed matter physicist
• Allama Rasheed Turabi – Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher
• Kazem Behbehani – Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became an international health advocate at WHO.
• Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set theory.
• Cumrun Vafa – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough Prize
• Nima Arkani-Hamed – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Princeton, winner of Breakthrough Prize
• Ehsan Afshari – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
• Ali Javan – Iranian-American physicist and inventor
• Yasaman Farzan – Iranian theoretical physicist
• Saba Valadkhan – Iranian biomedical researcher
• Fereydoon Family – Iranian physicist
• Mahmoud Hessaby – Iranian physicist
• Iraj Malekpour – Iranian physicist
• Mehran Kardar – theoretical physicist, MIT
• Omid Kordestani – senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Fields Operations, Google
• Ali Hajimiri – Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices
• Payam Heydari – electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California Irvine
• Ali Khademhosseini – Iranian-American-Canadian biomedical engineer at Harvard
• Babak Hassibi – electrical engineer, Caltech
• Caro Lucas – Iranian Armenian scientist
• Ali Chamseddine – Lebanese theoretical physicist
• Wissam S. al-Hashimi – Iraqi geologist
• Husain Mohammad Jafri – academician
• Athar Ali – Pakistani system engineer and a rocket scientist
• Pervez Hoodbhoy – nuclear physicist and activist
• Agha Shahi – diplomat and technocrat
• Razi Abedi – literary figure, activist and scholar of Pakistan
• Nayyar Ali Zaidi – Pakistani architect
• Kalbe Razi Naqvi – British Pakistani physicist
• Aziz Sancar – American scientist
• Ahmed Zewail – American chemist
• Kalbe Sadiq – Academic and reformer

Historical political figures

Poets

• Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher
• Al-ʻIjliyyah – 10th-century female maker of astrolabes
• Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue')
• Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani – Persian philosopher
• Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī – astronomer, mathematician
• Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
• Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi – Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi Arab Muslim historian
• Iskandar Beg Munshi – court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi – chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist.
• Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy
• Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor.
• Rammal Rammal – Lebanese condensed matter physicist
• Allama Rasheed Turabi – Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher
• Kazem Behbehani – Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became an international health advocate at WHO.
• Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set theory.
• Cumrun Vafa – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough Prize
• Nima Arkani-Hamed – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Princeton, winner of Breakthrough Prize
• Ali Javan – Iranian-American physicist and inventor
• Yasaman Farzan – Iranian theoretical physicist
• Saba Valadkhan – Iranian biomedical researcher
• Fereydoon Family – Iranian physicist
• Mahmoud Hessaby – Iranian physicist
• Iraj Malekpour – Iranian physicist
• Mehran Kardar – theoretical physicist, MIT
• Omid Kordestani – Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Fields Operations, Google
• Ali Hajimiri – Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices
• Payam Heydari – electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California Irvine
• Ali Khademhosseini – Iranian-American-Canadian biomedical engineer at Harvard
• Babak Hassibi – electrical engineer, Caltech
• Caro Lucas – Iranian Armenian scientist
• Ali Chamseddine – Lebanese theoretical physicist
• Wissam S. al-Hashimi – Iraqi geologist
• Husain Mohammad Jafri – academician
• Athar Ali – Pakistani system engineer and a rocket scientist
• Pervez Hoodbhoy – nuclear physicist and activist
• Agha Shahi – diplomat and technocrat
• Razi Abedi – literary figure, activist and scholar of Pakistan
• Nayyar Ali Zaidi – Pakistani architect
• Kalbe Razi Naqvi – British Pakistani physicist

Poets and writers

• Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi - He Wrote Several Influential Books Which Massively Changed The Minds Of Most Shia Muslim Of Pakistan
• Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai – translated Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic.
• Mir Anis – classical Urdu poet and master of the elegies in honor of the tragedy of Karbala known as Marsiya which was instrumental in the propagation of azadari, or mourning of Muharram in South Asia
• Mirza Dabeer – Urdu poet and master of the Marsiya, contemporary, friend, and rival of Mir Anis
• Safi al-din al-Hilli (1278 – c. 1349) – Iraqi poet^[1]
• Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri – Iraqi poet^[2]
• Abdullah Al-Baradouni – Yemeni writer and poet
• Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh – Bahrani poet
• Qassim Haddad – Bahrani poet, researcher, writer
• Ali Al Jallawi – Bahrani poet
• Badawi al-Jabal – Syrian poet
• Qurratulain Hyder – (She was Sunni but widely thought of as shia because of her name, Hyder..) female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature"
• Ali Akbar Natiq – Pakistani poet and writer
• Adunis – Syrian poet and writer
• Muhammed Almagut – Syrian poet and writer
• Badr Shakir al-Sayyab – Iraqi poet
• Nazik Al-Malaika – influential contemporary Iraqi female poet
• Bint al-Huda – Iraqi educator and political activist
• Hasan Zyko Kamberi – Albanian poet and writer
• Naim Frashëri – Albanian poet and writer
• Sami Frashëri – Albanian poet and writer
• Abdyl Frashëri – Albanian poet and writer
• Shahriar – Iranian poet
• Agha Shahid Ali – Kashmiri-American poet

Professionals

• Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala – Indian businessman and Sheriff of Mumbai
• Muhammad Hussain Inoki – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts
• Tabish Hussain – English footballer

Politicians

Rulers and military figures

Theologians

• Al-Shaykh al-Saduq
• Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
• al-Sharif al-Murtada
• Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
• Shaykh Tusi
• Al-Hurr al-Aamili
• Shahid Awwal
• Shahid Thani
• Qazi Nurullah Shustari (Shahid Salis)
• Shahid Rabay
• Maitham Al Bahrani – 13th-century cleric and theologian
• Al-Hilli – 13th-century cleric and theologian

Religious figures

• Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi - The Only Marja' In South Asia And The Most Influential Shia Personality In Pakistan.
• Agha Muhammad Reza – Iranian Shia Muslim immigrant living in the Sylhet region of Bengal. Claimed to be the Mahdi and twelfth imam, engaged in battles against the East India Company and Kachari Kingdom.
• Salih Al-Karzakani – 17th-century cleric
• Muhammad Baqir Majlisi – 17th-century cleric
• Abdullah al Samahiji – 18th-century cleric
• Yusuf Al Bahrani – 18th-century cleric
• Allamah Ibrahim el-Zakzaky – influential Shia cleric in Africa; leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria
• Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi – Religious Leader and influential Shia Scholar in Pakistan
• Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani – cleric, head of the Council of Islamic revolution and founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran
• Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr – Islamic philosopher, father of contemporary Islamic economics and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party
• Allameh Tabatabaei – one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (Marja) for Shi'a Muslims around the world
• Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – foremost marja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims
• Navvab Safavi – founder of the militant group Fadayan-e Islam
• Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani – currently the pre-eminent marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today
• Ahmad Huseinzadeh – third Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus
• Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim – sole Shi'a marja in the early 1960s
• Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei – Shi'a marja
• Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr – Shi'a marja
• Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri – Shi'a marja
• Ahmed Al-Waeli – one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the 20th century
• Aga Khan IV – imam of the Nizari Ismaili tariqah of Shia Islam
• Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi – well-known Twelver Shia scholar who promoted Shia Islam in East Africa
• Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi – well-known Twelver Shī'ah scholar, speaker, author, historian and poet
• Allama Talib Jauhari
• Mohsin Naqvi – Urdu poet of Pakistan

Famous Shias

• Rajab Bursi – Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic
• Sayyid Baraka – spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th-century warlord Timur
• Mir Shamsuddin – Iraqi missionary.
• Shah Ni'matullah Wali – Islamic scholar and poet
• Safi-ad-din Ardabili – eponym of the Safavid dynasty
• Abba Yahiyya Ishmaili
• Baba Rexheb Albanian Bektashi

Modern and contemporary philosophers

• Morteza Motahhari – Iranian cleric, philosopher and politician
• Hossein Nasr – Islamic philosopher and professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University
• Muhammad Legenhausen – modern Shi'a Muslim philosopher of German American background, PhD at Rice University

Entertainment and media personalities

• Ali Abbas Naqvi – Indian Journalist -NDTV

• Asghar Farhadi – Iranian film director and screenwriter
• Abdulhussain Abdulredha – Kuwaiti actor and writer
• Ali Haider – Pakistani singer; now Islamic singer
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia – Iranian actor
• Zainab Bahrani – Iraqi art historian
• Shahriar Bahrani – Iranian film director
• Abbas Fahdel – Iraqi film director.
• Mir Sarwar – Indian actor.
• Mohamed Al-Daradji – Iraqi Dutch film director
• Hassan Massoudy – Iraqi calligrapher
• Ahmed Al Safi – Iraqi artist
• Nedim Kufi – Iraqi artist
• Sadequain – Pakistani artist
• Usama Alshaibi – Iraqi-American independent filmmaker, visual and media artist
• Jagdeep – Syed Jawahar Ali Jaffery, comedy actor in early Indian cinema
• Farida Mohammad Ali – Iraqi singer
• Naseer Shamma – Iraqi musician and oud player
• Imran Abbas Naqvi – Pakistani actor
• Sadegh Tirafkan – Iranian contemporary artist
• Khosrow Vaziri – Iranian professional wrestler, retired
• Rahat Kazmi – Pakistani actor, professional speaker and academician
• Zulfiqar Mirza – Pakistani politician
• Zain Imam – Indian television actor

Other

• Edoardo Agnelli – son of Gianni Agnelli and former heir to Fiat
• Qasem Soleimani – Iranian General

See also

• International rankings of Iran in science and technology
• Lists of maraji

References