List of tombs of Iranian people

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Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article

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Cyrus the Great | the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty | Pasargadae near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Pasargadae
Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Darius III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Naqsh-e Rustam
Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Persepolis
Mausolus | Persian satrap of Caria | Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum"- the tomb is now destroyed  | Mausoleum of Maussollos
Mithridatic dynasty | rulers of the Kingdom of Pontus (and later briefly the Bosporan Kingdom)  | Amasya, Turkey | Tombs of the kings of Pontus
Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644)  | assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar | Kashan, Iran | Shrine of Abu Lu'lu'a
Yaqub Leith Saffari (840-879)  | ruler of the Saffarid dynasty | Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran | none
Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907)  | ruler of the Samanid dynasty | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Samanid Mausoleum
Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012)  | ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty | Gonbad, Iran | none
Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092)  | vizier of Malekshah | Isfahan, Iran | none
Shah Shoja' (d. 1384)  | ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez | Shiraz, Iran | none
Gawhar Shad (d. 1457)  | wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gawhar Shad Mosque | Herat, Afghanistan | Gawhar Shad Mausoleum
Nader Shah (1688–1747)  | Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty | Mashhad, Iran | none
Karim Khan (1705–1779)  | the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty | Shiraz, Iran | Pars Museum of Shiraz
Naser ed-Din Shah (1831–1896) and Sattar Khan (1868–1914)  | shah of Iran of the Qajar dynasty who was assassinated in the same shrine on May 1, 1896 and pivotal figure of the Constitutional Revolution, respectively  | Rey, Iran | Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine
Reza Shah (1878–1944)  | Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty | Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution | Reza Shah's mausoleum
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980)  | The second Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty | Cairo, Egypt | Al-Rifa'i Mosque
Bayazid Bastami (804-874)  | Persian mystic  | Bastam, Iran | none
Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963-1033)  | Persian mystic  | Kharaqan near Bastam, Iran | none
Ali Hujwiri (990-1077)  | Persian mystic  | Lahore, Pakistan | Data Durbar Complex
Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088)  | Persian mystic  | Herat, Afghanistan | Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine
Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141)  | Persian mystic  | Torbat-e Jam, Iran | Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami mausoleum complex
Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166)  | Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order | Baghdad, Iraq | none
Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221)  | Persian mystic  | Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran | none
Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230)  | Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order | Ajmer, India | none
Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th century)  | Persian mystic  | Natanz, Iran | none
Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303)  | Persian mystic  | near Isfahan, Iran | Pir-i Bakran
Amu Abdollah (d. 1316)  | Persian mystic  | near Isfahan, Iran | Manar Jonban
Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301)  | Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili | Lahijan, Iran | none
Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334)  | Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty | Ardabil, Iran \- Ismail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there  | none
Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370)  | Persian mystic  | Khuldabad, India | none
Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389)  | Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | none
Shah Nimatullah Wali (1330–1431)  | Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order | Mahan, Iran, Iran | Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine
Sibaveih (760-797)  | Persian linguist  | Shiraz, Iran | none
Imam Bukhari (810-870)  | Persian Sunni scholar  | near Samarkand, Uzbekistan | none
Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941)  | Persian Shi'ite scholar  | Rey, Iran | Ebn-e Babveih
Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th century)  | Persian poet  | Balkh, Afghanistan | none
Ferdowsi (940-1020)  | Persian poet  | Tus, Iran | Tomb of Ferdowsi
Avicenna (980-1037)  | Persian philosopher and physician  | Hamedan, Iran | Avicenna Mausoleum
Baba Taher (11th century)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Hamedan, Iran | none
Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988)  | Persian poets  | Tabriz, Iran | Maqbarat ol-Shoara
Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111)  | Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic  | Tus, Iran | none
Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126)  | Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali | Qazvin, Iran | none
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)  | Persian poet  | Nishapur, Iran | none
Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131)  | Persian poet  | Ghazni, Afghanistan | none
Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Shiraz, Iran | none
Nezami (1141–1209)  | Persian poet  | Ganja, Azerbaijan | Nezami Mausoleum
Attar (1145–1221)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Nishapur, Iran | none
Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312)  | Persian mystics and poets  | Konya, Turkey | Mevlana Museum
Saadi (1184–1291)  | Persian poet  | Shiraz, Iran | none
Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349)  | Persian historian and geographer  | Qazvin, Iran | none
Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Shiraz, Iran | none
Hafez (1315–1390)  | Persian poet  | Shiraz, Iran | Tomb of Hafez
Jami (1414–1492)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Herat, Afghanistan | none
Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677)  | Persian poet  | Isfahan, Iran | none
Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614)  | Persian calligrapher  | Isfahan, Iran | none
Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621)  | Persian architect and poet  | Mashhad, Iran | none
Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721)  | Persian mystic and poet  | Delhi, India | none
Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940)  | Iran painter  | Nishapur, Iran | none
Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Bahar (1884–1951), Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Rahi Moayyeri (1909–1968), Darvish Khan (1872–1926), Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906–1965), Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) and Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905–1959)  | Persian poets, musicians and singers  | Tehran, Iran | Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery
Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985)  | Persian writers  | Paris, France | Père Lachaise Cemetery
Salman the Persian | Persian companion of Muhammad | Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq | none

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