List of Zoroastrians
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Template:Short description Template:Zoroastrianism sidebar This is a list of Zoroastrians with a Wikipedia article.
From Greater Iran
- Cyrus the Great (c. 600–530 BC): commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia.
- Darius the Great (c. 550–486 BCE): was the fourth Persian king of the Achaemenid Empire.
- Farhang Mehr (1923·2018): former Deputy Prime Minister of Iran
- Jamshid Bahman Jamshidian (1851–1933): pioneer of modern banking in Iran.
- Keikhosrow Shahrokh (1864–1929): proponent of the Iranian civil calendar and designer of the Ferdowsi mausoleum.
- Xerxes I (519–465 BC): called Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia.