Iranians in Germany
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Total population | |
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100,000[1] - 120,000[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main | |
Languages | |
German, Persian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Luri (See languages of Iran) | |
Religion | |
Shia Islam, Atheism, Sunni Islam, Christianity, Agnosticism, Bahá'í Faith, and Zoroastrianism |
Iranians in Germany include immigrants from Iran to Germany as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background. There are 100,000[1] to 120,000[2] ethnic Iranians living in Germany. With around 25,000 people of Iranian descent, Hamburg is the main center of the Iranian diaspora.[3]
Contents
Notable Iranians in Germany
Academia/Science
- Katajun Amirpur, scholar
- Nossrat Peseschkian
- Majid Samii
- Gholam Reza Sinambari, environmental engineer
- Hadi Tehrani, architect
Arts/Entertainment
- Melika Foroutan, actress
- Darioush Shirvani, film director
- Navid Akhavan, actor
- Peyman Amin, on the jury of "Germany's Next Top Model", and model agent
- Minu Barati, film-producer
- Akbar Behkalam, Painter
- Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright, Theatre director
- Shaghayegh Dehghan, actress
- Shahram Entekhabi, Video Artist, Painter
- Majid Fallahzadeh, Theater director
- Mohammad Farokhmanesh
- Fereydoun Farrokhzad, actor, entertainer
- Taies Farzan, actress, Producer in film Breathful
- Yasmine Mahmoudieh, architect, interior designer, and CEO
- Naveed Nour, photographer
- Narges Rashidi, actress in film breathful and A2Z
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- Farnaz Samiinia, film director
- Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005, actress
- Daryush Shokof, artist, film producer and director
- Jasmin Tabatabai, actress, singer
- Mona Hakimi-Schüler, artist, painter
- Naghmeh Roomi, Artist, painter
- Martina Rink, Author
- Benny Rebel, photographer
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Business/technology
- Hossein Sabet, entrepreneur, hotel owner worldwide.
- Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile
- Sandra Navidi, strategic and macroeconomics advisor
Literature
- Abbas Maroufi, novelist
- Sudabeh Mohafez, writer
- Alexios Schandermani, writer
Media/journalism
- Abbas Maroufi, publisher
- Navid Kermani, writer and scholar
- Michel Abdollahi, journalist
Music
- Darioush Shirvani
- Amir Abbas Zare, iranian musician and composer
- Mehrzad Marashi pop singer
- Shahin Najafi, Rapper
- Navid Akhavan, Iranian pop singer
- Maryam Akhondy classical Iranian singer
- Ateed, singer
- Mahyar Bahraminasab Master of Tombak
- Jasmin Shakeri, pop singer
- Ramin Djawadi, composer
- Monika Jalili, vocalist
- Sima Bina, notable Persian classical musician (singer), composer, researcher, painter
Personalities
- Soraya Esfandiary, ex-wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Consort of Iran
Politics
- Yasmin Fahimi, politician and since January 2014 the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
- Omid Nouripour, Alliance '90/The Greens
- Sahra Wagenknecht
- Bahman Nirumand, many years of association with the German Green Party, and in 2009 signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Persecution of Bahá'ís.[4]
- Mina Ahadi
- Mehran Barati
Sports
- Daniel Davari, footballer
- Ashkan Dejagah, footballer
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, footballer
- Patrik Baboumian, strongman
- Alireza Marzban
- Babak Rafati
- Shervin Radjabali-Fardi
- Amir Shapourzadeh
- Fereydoun Zandi, footballer
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SCHWERPUNKT: Iraner in Deutschland
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zuwanderung und Integration
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