Famous Women

Ashraf os-Sadat Marzieh (March 22, 1924 – October 13, 2010), known professionally as Marzieh, was a Tehran-born singer of Persian...

Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari, (b. 1847, d. 1937) was a revolutionary and active member of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1909....

Qamar (born Qamar Khanum Seyed Hosayn Khan in 1905 in Tehran) was the first Iranian female singer to record her...

Sedigheh Dola-Abadi was a freedom loving woman and one of the first advocates of women’s rights in Iran. She was...

Touran Mirhadi (1927-November 8, 2016) was an Iranian educator, researcher, and author. She was an expert in children’s books, established...

Alamtaj or Jaleh Qaem-Maghami, poet and writer, was born  in Farahan on February 20, 1884, and passed away in Tehran...

Simin Khalili, better known as Simin Behbahani (20 July 1927-19 August 2014) is one of the most prominent contemporary Iranian...

The first non-silent Iranian movie, The Lor Girl, was screened in 1933 in Tehran. Sedigheh Saminejad starred in the movie,...

Parvin E'tesami, a famous Iranian poetess, was born on March 16, 1907 in Tabriz, and died on April 5, 1941....

A study of Iran’s history reveals that women were able to break through different barriers and move forward in various...