List of Iranists
A.
- Iradsch Afshār (1925-2011)
- Bozorg Alavi (1904-1997)
- Friedrich Carl Andreas (1846–1930)
B.
- Mehrdad Bahar (1930-1994)
- Harold Bailey (1899-1996)
- Shaul Bakhash
- Iraj Bashiri (* 1940)
- Oric Basirov
- Alessandro Bausani (1921–1988)
- Adrian David Hugh Bivar (* 1926)
- Mary Boyce (1920-2006)
- John Andrew Boyle (1916–1978)
- Pierre Briant (* 1940)
- Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926)
C.
- Jean Calmard (* 1931)
- Houshang Chehabi
- William Chittick
- Arthur Christensen (1875-1945)
- Henry Corbin (1903-1978)
D.
- Elton L. Daniel
- Ali Dehbashi (* 1958)
- Ali Akbar Dehchoda (1879-1956)
F.
- Bert Fragner (* 1941)
- Richard Nelson Frye (1920-2014)
G
- Heinz Gaube (* 1940)
- Karl Friedrich Geldner (1852–1929)
- Roman Ghirshman (1895–1979)
- André Godard (1881–1965), archaeologist
- Monika Gronke
H
- Assadullah Habib (* 1941)
- Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), orientalist
- Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948)
- Sayed Haschmatullah Hossaini (* 1948), Germanist & Iranist
J
- Ahmad Jawed (1927-2002)
- Heinrich FJ Junker (1889–1970)
K
- Annelies Kammenhuber (1922–1995)
- Erich Kettenhofen (* 1946)
- Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
- Gerrit Kreijenbroek (* 1948?)
L.
- Louis de La Vallée-Poussin (1869–1938)
- Manfred Lorenz (1929-2017)
M.
- Maria Macuch
- Christoph Marcinkowski (* 1964)
- Henri Massé (1886–1969)
- Jalal Matini
- Jean de Menasce (1902–1973)
- Sharokh Meskoob (1924-2005)
- Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826–1908)
- Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Minorsky (1877–1966)
- Andreas Ismail Mohr (* 1964)
- Mohammad Moin (1914–1971)
- Mohammad Mokri (1921-2007)
N
- Khosro Naghed (* 1950)
- Latif Nazemi (* 1947)
- Reynold A. Nicholson (1868-1945)
- Theodor Nöldeke (1836–1930), orientalist
O
- Thomas Ogger (* 1948)
R.
- Lutz Richter-Bernburg (* 1945)
- Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940)
- Michael Rubin (1971)
- Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866)
- Jan Rypka (1886–1968)
S.
- Zabihollah Safa (1911-1999)
- Hans Heinrich Schaeder (1896–1957)
- Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003)
- Klaus Schippmann (1924-2010)
- Rüdiger Schmitt (* 1939)
- Jafar Shahidi (1918-2008)
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942-2006)
- Dariush Shayegan (* 1935)
- Gary Sick (* 1935)
- Friedrich Spiegel (1820–1905)
- David Stronach (1931-2020)
T
- Ahmad Tafazzoli (1937–1997)
- Nasser Takmil Homayoun (* 1936)
V
W.
- Josef Wiesehöfer (* 1951)
- Nicholas Sims Williams
Y
- Ehsan Yarshater (1920-2018)
Z
- Abdolhossein Zarinkoob (1923–1999)