The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims.
Scientists, mathematicians and academics
Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher Haider Alhassen 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
Late Islamic history Syed Muhammad Mir Ali Naqvi – Chief Justice of the court of Akbar the Great, Mir Adal; served on the court, 1579–1581; governor of Sindh Hasan ibn Zayd – founder of the Alavids dynasty Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya – founder of the Zaidi imamate State Sayf al-Daula – ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) Mu'izz al-Daula – ruler of the Buyid dynasty (945–967) Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i – a Da'i for the Isma'ilis in Yemen and North Africa mainly among the Kutama Berbers, whose teachings influenced the rise of the Fatimid dynasty Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah – founder of the Fatimid dynasty Al-Muizz Lideenillah – fourth Fatimid Caliph Founder of the city of Cairo Sitt al-Mulk – ruler of the Fatimids (1021–1023); elder sister of Al-Hakim Arwa al-Sulayhi – ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, of Yemen Sharifa Fatima – Zaydi chief in 15th-century Yemen Salih ibn Mirdas – founder of the Mirdasids emirate Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib – founder of the Uqaylid Dynasty Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah - ruler of the Golconda Sultanate founder of the city of Hyderabad
Öljaitü – eighth Ilkhanate ruler
Ismail I – founder of the Safavid dynasty Abbas I of Persia – ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1588–1629) Karim Khan – founder of the Zand dynasty
Poets
Ferdowsi – Iranian national poet 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 Zulfiqar Naqvi – Indian Poet and Author 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 Shah Nimatullah Wali — Iranian Poet and Writer
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 Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri – Iraqi poet 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
Mirza Ghalib
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
Albania Xhafer Bej Ypi – former prime minister of Albania Mehdi Bej Frashëri – former prime minister of Albania Ibrahim Biçakçiu – former prime minister of Albania
America / United States Zohran Mamdani — democrat mayor of New York
Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev – former president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev – current president of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov – current prime minister of Azerbaijan Vilayət Eyvazov – current union home minister
Bahrain Abdul Amir al-Jamri – 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's Twelver Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada Hasan Mushaima – secretary-general of the current Haq Movement Ali Salman – secretary-general of the current Al-Wefaq Abdulhadi Al Khawaja – leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab – president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights
Bangladesh Nawab Ali Abbas Khan, Jatiya Party politician and three-time MP for Maulvibazar-2 Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9th Nawab of Longla, minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party
India Fazl Ali – governor and justice of Supreme Court Of India Kaifi Azmi – poet Tanveer Zaidi - actor Bismillah Khan – musician Saiyid Nurul Hasan – professor Altamas Kabir Ayatullah Syed Abul Hasan Rizvi Kishmiri – Shia Mujtah Ayatullah Syed Mohammad Baqir Rizvi – Shia jurist Syed_Aqeel-ul-Gharavi – Shia Cleric and Scholar Syed Kirmani Mir Anis - Famous Urdu Poet (Marsiya Writer) Mirza Dabeer - Famous Urdu Poet (Marsiya Writer) Bukkal Nawab - Politician Mohammad Islam Khan - Indian glycobiologist and a scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda Javed Abidi Nawab of Banganapalle Nawab of Masulipatam Intezar Abidi – politician Sir Sultan Ahmed Mir Sadiq Sayyed Mahmud Khan Kamal Amrohi Shabana Azmi Azim Premji – Indian business tycoon Syed Shahnawaz Hussain – former union cabinet minister of Government of India Syed Kirmani – cricketer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – singer Nawab of Rampur – king Nawab of Lucknow – king Nargis Dutt – actress Naushad – music director Salim–Sulaiman – musician Jagdeep Muzaffar Ali Farah Naaz Akbar Khan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Union Minister govt. India M. F. Hussain – painter S. H. Raza – painter Salim Ali – ornithologist Saeed Naqvi – journalist Syed Ahmed – Governor of Jharkhand Mohsin Zaidi – poet Aga Syed Mustafa Moosavi – Shia scholar Hasan Asghar Zaidi Adv Adv.Mohammad Abbas Ashraf Ali
Iran Amir Kabir – Prime Minister of Persia under Nasereddin Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – last Shah of Iran from 1941 until his overthrow due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution Mohammed Mosaddeq – former prime minister of Iran