Iranians in Germany
Iranians in Germany| Total population |
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100,000[1] - 120,000[2] |
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Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main |
| Languages |
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German, Persian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Luri (See languages of Iran) |
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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]
Notable Iranians in Germany
Academia/Science
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
- Akbar Safaian
- 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
- Pegah Ferydoni, actress, model
Business/technology
Literature
Media/journalism
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
Politics
Sports
See also
References
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