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The following is a list of notableShiaMuslims.

• Ali ibn Ridwan –EgyptianMuslim 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 Muslimastronomer,mathematician, architect and engineer
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi ArabMuslim historian
• Iskandar Beg Munshi – court historian of theSafavid emperorShahAbbas I
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi – chief secretary, historian, biographer,advisor, strategist.
• Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder ofexistentialism andtranscendent theosophy
• Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – electrical andelectronics 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 – Kuwaitiimmunologist and retired professor. He has done research ontropical diseases before he became an international health advocate atWHO.
• Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder offuzzy mathematics andfuzzy 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 theUniversity 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

• 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 theAlavids dynasty
• Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya – founder of theZaidi imamate State
• Sayf al-Daula – ruler of theHamdanid dynasty (945–967)
• Mu'izz al-Daula – ruler of theBuyid dynasty (945–967)
• Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i – aDa'i for theIsma'ilis inYemen and North Africa mainly among theKutamaBerbers, whose teachings influenced the rise of theFatimid dynasty
• Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah – founder of theFatimid dynasty
• Al-Muizz Lideenillah – fourthFatimid Caliph Founder of the city ofCairo
• Sitt al-Mulk – ruler of theFatimids (1021–1023); elder sister ofAl-Hakim
• Arwa al-Sulayhi – ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, ofYemen
• Sharifa Fatima – Zaydi chief in 15th-century Yemen
• Salih ibn Mirdas – founder of theMirdasids emirate
• Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib – founder of theUqaylid Dynasty
• Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah - ruler of theGolconda Sultanate founder of the city ofHyderabad

• Öljaitü – eighthIlkhanate ruler

• Ismail I – founder of theSafavid dynasty
• Abbas I of Persia – ruler of theSafavid dynasty (1588–1629)
• Karim Khan – founder of theZand dynasty

• Ferdowsi – Iranian national poet
• Ali ibn Ridwan –EgyptianMuslim 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 Muslimastronomer,mathematician, architect and engineer
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi ArabMuslim historian
• Iskandar Beg Munshi – court historian of theSafavid emperorShahAbbas I
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi – chief secretary, historian, biographer,advisor, strategist.
• Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder ofexistentialism andtranscendent theosophy
• Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – electrical andelectronics 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 – Kuwaitiimmunologist and retired professor. He has done research ontropical diseases before he became an international health advocate atWHO.
• Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder offuzzy mathematics andfuzzy 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

• Grand AyatollahMuhammad 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'sElegy 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 theelegies in honor of the tragedy ofKarbala known asMarsiya which was instrumental in the propagation ofazadari, ormourning 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^[1]
• Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri – Iraqi poet^[2]
• 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

• Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala – Indian businessman andSheriff 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

• Xhafer Bej Ypi – formerprime minister of Albania
• Mehdi Bej Frashëri – former prime minister of Albania
• Ibrahim Biçakçiu – former prime minister of Albania

• Zohran Mamdani — democrat mayor of New York

• Heydar Aliyev – formerpresident of Azerbaijan
• Ilham Aliyev – current president of Azerbaijan
• Ali Asadov – current prime minister of Azerbaijan
• Vilayət Eyvazov – current union home minister

• Abdul Amir al-Jamri – 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain'sTwelver Shi'a population and the1990s Intifada
• Hasan Mushaima – secretary-general of the currentHaq Movement
• Ali Salman – secretary-general of the currentAl-Wefaq
• Abdulhadi Al Khawaja – leading Bahraini human rights activist
• Nabeel Rajab – president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights

• Nawab Ali Abbas Khan,Jatiya Party politician and three-timeMP forMaulvibazar-2
• Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9thNawab of Longla,minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party

• Fazl Ali – governor and justice ofSupreme 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

• Amir Kabir – Prime Minister ofPersia under Nasereddin Shah
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – lastShah of Iran from 1941 until his overthrow due to the 1979Iranian Revolution
• Mohammed Mosaddeq – formerprime minister of Iran
• Ruhollah Khomeini –marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979Iranian Revolution
• Ali Khamenei –marja, thirdpresident and currentsupreme leader of Iran
• Mehdi Bazargan – formerprime minister of Iran
• Mohammad-Javad Bahonar – formerprime minister of Iran (killed by terrorists)
• Abolhassan Banisadr – firstpresident of Iran following theIranian Revolution
• Mohammad-Ali Rajai − secondpresident of Iran (killed by terrorists)
• Mostafa Chamran – Iraniandefense minister, first commander of thePasdaran and founding member of theFreedom Movement of Iran
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – fourthpresident of Iran and current head of theExpediency Discernment Council
• Mohammad Khatami – leading reformist Iranian politician and fifthpresident of Iran
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – sixthpresident of Iran and formermayor of Tehran
• Hassan Rouhani – seventh and currentpresident of Iran and former chief nuclear negotiator
• Ali Larijani – Iranian philosopher and speaker of theIranian parliament
• Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur – reformist Iranian politician and coordinator ofHezbollah in its early days

• Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali – Iraqi foreign minister, andPrime Minister of Iraq
• Naji Talib – former prime minister of Iraq
• Ezzedine Salim – former Iraqi politician
• Ibrahim al-Jaafari – former prime minister of Iraq
• Nouri al-Maliki – former prime minister of Iraq
• haider al-Abadi – current prime minister of Iraq
• Adil Abdul-Mahdi – IraqiShi'a politician, economist
• Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim – former leader ofIslamic Supreme Council of Iraq
• Abdul Aziz al-Hakim – leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
• Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir – Iraqi politician and a member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
• Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum – prominentTwelverShi'aIslamic leader and politician in Iraq
• Muqtada al-Sadr – Iraqi politician and head of theMahdi Army
• Ahmed Chalabi – Iraqi politician
• Abbas al-Bayati – IraqiShiiteTurkmen politician
• Jasim Mohammed Jaafar – IraqiShiiteTurkmen politician
• Hussain al-Shahristani – current Iraqi minister of oil
• Shirwan al-Waili – current Iraqi minister of state for national security
• Mowaffak al-Rubaie – current Iraqinational security advisor
• Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi – currentfinance minister of Iraq
• Khaled al-Attiyah -elected First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly
• Salama al-Khufaji – former member of theCouncil of Representatives of Iraq
• Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail – Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq

• Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad – member of theNational Assembly of Kuwait
• Ahmed Lari – member of the National Assembly of Kuwait
• Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi – journalist and politician
• Hussein Al-Qallaf Al-Bahraini – member of the National Assembly of Kuwait
• Hassan Jawhar – member of the National Assembly of Kuwait
• Rola Dashti – member of the National Assembly of Kuwait
• Massouma al-Mubarak – Kuwait's first female minister
• Ibtihal Al-Khatib – secular academic and politician
• Saleh Ashour – member of the Kuwaiti parliament
• Hassan Jawhar – member of the Kuwaiti parliament

• Adel Osseiran – one of the founders of modernLebanon
• Musa al-Sadr –contemporary Islamic philosopher and co-founder of theAmal Movement
• Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah (also Muhammad Husayn Fadl-Allāh or Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh) (born 1935) – prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric^[3]
• Hussein el-Husseini – former speaker of theLebanese Parliament, co-founder of theAmal Movement, fathered theTaif Agreement that led to the end of theLebanese Civil War
• Nabih Berri – Speaker of theParliament of Lebanon; head of the mostlyShi'aAmal Movement
• Abbas Musawi – formersecretary-general ofHezbollah
• Hassan Nasrallah –Secretary-General ofHezbollah
• Imad Mughniyah – former head ofHezbollah's external security apparatus
• Ali Qanso – former secretary-general ofSyrian Social Nationalist Party
• Ali Eid –Secretary-General ofArabic Democratic Party

• Nadeem Afzal Chan
• Iskander Mirza – first president of Pakistan
• Muhammad Musa – Pakistan'sCommander-in-Chief of the Army during1965 Indo-Pak war and laterGovernor of Balochistan
• Nayyar Hussain Bukhari – Chairman of Senate of Pakistan
• Syed Mehdi Shah – former chief minister of GB Province
• Haider Abbas Rizvi
• Fakhar Imam
• Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat
• Faisal Sabzwari
• Ali Zaidi
• Firdous Ashiq Awan
• Mushahid Hussain
• Shehla Raza
• Qaim Ali Shah
• Murad Ali Shah
• Mamnoon Hussain
• Tahir Hussain Mashhadi
• Zulfi Bukhari

Advocate Chairman CollagesScholars'

• Grand Ayatullah HafizBashir Husseyn Najafi
• Grand Ayatullah Muhammad Hussain Najafi – Sargodha
• AllamaArif Hussain Al-Hussaini
• Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi – Quaid e Millat e Jaffaria

• Zaki al-Arsuzi – Syrian political activist and writer
• Assad Family – Syrian political family who ruled Syria from the 1970s to 2024

• Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din – founder of theMutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
• Ibrahim al-Hamadi – formerpresident of Yemen
• Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi –Zaidi religious leader

• Sayf al-Daula – ruler of theHamdanid dynasty (945–967)
• Gawhar al-Siqilli – the most important military leader in theFatimid history; led the conquest of North Africa and then ofEgypt, founded the city ofCairo and the greatal-Azhar mosque
• Ziri ibn Manad – founder of theZirid dynasty in theMaghreb
• Buluggin ibn Ziri – the first ruler of theZirids inIfriqiya
• Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin – the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya
• Badis ibn Mansur – the third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya
• Abu Zayd al-Hilali – the 11th-century Arab leader and hero of the'Amirid tribe ofBanu Hilal
• Al-Afdal Shahanshah – avizier of theFatimidcaliphs ofEgypt
• Iftikhar ad-Daula – theFatimid governor ofJerusalem during thesiege of Jerusalem
• Shawar – a ruler of Egypt, the vizier
• Hassan-i Sabbah – founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as theHashshashin
• Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of theCrusades

• Surat Huseynov –Azerbaijani colonel and ex-prime minister of Azerbaijan
• Eldar Mahmudov – head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security
• Rail Rzayev – former head of theAzerbaijani Air Force

• Ali Adil Shah I of Bijapur (16th C)
• Wajid Ali Shah – lastnawab of the princely kingdom ofAwadh, early 19th Century
• Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah – 5th sultan of the Qutb Shahi Sultanate of Golconda
• Beram Khan 16th Century Mughal Emperor Babar.
• Ahmad shah ahmadnagar sultanate

• Ali Khamenei –marja, thirdpresident and currentsupreme leader of Iran
• Ruhollah Khomeini –marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979Iranian Revolution
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – the lastshah of Iran of thePahlavi dynasty, ruled from 1941 until being overthrown in theIranian Revolution resulting in the abolishment of the Iranian monarchy
• Reza Shah Pahlavi –Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941, and father ofMohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Hassan-i Sabbah – founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin
• Allahverdi Khan – Iranian military and political leader ofGeorgian origin
• Imam-Quli Khan – Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin
• Nader Shah – Shah of Iran during theAfsharid dynasty notable for hisNaderian Wars, and conversion dominant belief system fromSafavid ideology toJafari fiqh
• Abbas Mirza –Qajarcrown prince ofPersia
• Gholamali Bayandor – first Commander ofImperial Iranian Navy
• Abbas Gharabaghi – last commander-in-chief of theImperial Iranian Army
• Mohsen Rezaee – Chief commander of AGIR, 1981–1997
• Yahya Rahim Safavi – Chief commander of AGIR, 1997–2007
• Mohammad Ali Jafari – Chief commander of AGIR
• Ali Shamkhani – former defense minister of Iran
• Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar – current defense minister of Iran
• Ali Sayad Shirazi – chief-of-staff of the Iranian forces during Iran's eight-year war with Iraq
• Mohammad Boroujerdi – one of the founders ofIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (AGIR) and a commander inIran–Iraq War; played key roles in regaining control over the territories ofKurdistan by Iranian forces
• Hossein Kharrazi – Iranian commander of "Imam Hosein 14th Division" duringIran–Iraq War

• Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi – led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes"
• Hadi Al-Amiri – head of theBadr Organization, which was the military wing of theSupreme Islamic Iraqi Council
• Aras Habib – a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters
• Abud Qanbar – former military governor ofBaghdad

• Adham Khanjar – Lebanese national hero
• Mohammad Zgheib –1948 Arab–Israeli War war hero
• Hisham Jaber – former military governor ofBeirut
• Imad Mughniyah – former head ofHezbollah's external security apparatus
• Sana'a Mehaidli – Lebanese martyr
• Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant and a former member of thePalestinian Liberation Front

• Sayf al-Daula – ruler of theHamdanid dynasty (945–967)
• Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of theHashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of theCrusades
• Saleh al-Ali – commanded one of the first rebellions against theFrench mandate of Syria
• Salah Jadid – Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party
• Assef Shawkat – head of theSyrian DeputyMinister of Defense, 2011–2012
• Maher al-Assad – brother of former Syrian presidentBashar al-Assad; head of the Presidential Guard
• Ghazi Kanaan –Syria'sinterior minister, 2004–2005; long-time head ofSyria's security apparatus inLebanon
• Hisham Ikhtiyar – director of theGID, 2001–2005

• Abdul-Malik al-Houthi – leader of Shi'aZaidi
• Abdullah al-Ruzami – leader of Shi'a Zaidi

• Al-Shaykh al-Saduq
• Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
• al-Sharif al-Murtada
• Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
• Shaykh Tusi
• Al-Hurr al-Aamili
• Shahid Awwal
• Shahid Thani
• Qazi Nurullah Shustari (Shahid Salis)
• Shahid Rabay
• Maitham Al Bahrani – 13th-century cleric and theologian
• Al-Hilli – 13th-century cleric and theologian

• Grand AyatollahMuhammad Hussain Najafi - The Only Marja' In South Asia And The Most Influential Shia Personality In Pakistan.
• Agha Muhammad Reza –IranianShia Muslim immigrant living in theSylhet region ofBengal. Claimed to be theMahdi andtwelfth imam, engaged in battles against theEast India Company andKachari Kingdom.
• Salih Al-Karzakani – 17th-century cleric
• Muhammad Baqir Majlisi – 17th-century cleric
• Abdullah al Samahiji – 18th-century cleric
• Yusuf Al Bahrani – 18th-century cleric
• Allamah Ibrahim el-Zakzaky – influential Shia cleric inAfrica; leader ofIslamic Movement in Nigeria
• Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi – Religious Leader and influential Shia Scholar inPakistan
• AyatollahMahmoud Taleghani – cleric, head of theCouncil of Islamic revolution and founding member of theFreedom Movement of Iran
• Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr – Islamic philosopher, father of contemporaryIslamic economics and founder of theIslamic Dawa Party
• Allameh Tabatabaei – one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation (Marja) forShi'a Muslims around the world
• Grand AyatollahSayyedMohammad Hussein Fadlallah – foremostmarja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims
• Navvab Safavi – founder of the militant groupFadayan-e Islam
• Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani – currently the pre-eminentmarja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today
• Ahmad Huseinzadeh – thirdSheikh ul-Islam of theCaucasus
• Grand AyatollahMuhsin al-Hakim – sole Shi'amarja in the early 1960s
• Grand AyatollahAbu al-Qasim al-Khoei – Shi'a marja
• Grand AyatollahMohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr – Shi'a marja
• Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri – Shi'a marja
• Ahmed Al-Waeli – one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the 20th century
• Aga Khan IV – imam of theNizariIsmaili tariqah ofShia Islam
• Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi – well-known Twelver Shia scholar who promoted Shia Islam in East Africa
• Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi – well-knownTwelver Shī'ahscholar,speaker,author,historian andpoet
• AllamaTalib Jauhari
• Mohsin Naqvi – Urdu poet of Pakistan

• Rajab Bursi – ArabShi'ite theologian and mystic
• Sayyid Baraka – spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th-century warlordTimur
• Mir Shamsuddin – Iraqi missionary.
• Shah Ni'matullah Wali –Islamic scholar and poet
• Safi-ad-din Ardabili –eponym of theSafavid dynasty
• Abba Yahiyya Ishmaili
• Baba RexhebAlbanianBektashi

• Morteza Motahhari – Iranian cleric, philosopher and politician
• Hossein Nasr – Islamic philosopher and professor ofIslamic studies atGeorge Washington University
• Muhammad Legenhausen – modern Shi'a Muslim philosopher ofGerman American background, PhD atRice University

• Asghar Farhadi –Iranian film director and screenwriter
• Abdulhussain Abdulredha –Kuwaiti actor and writer
• Ali Haider –Pakistani singer; now Islamic singer
• Mohammad Reza Sharifinia – Iranian actor
• Zainab Bahrani –Iraqi art historian
• Shahriar Bahrani – Iranian film director
• Abbas Fahdel – Iraqi film director.
• Mir Sarwar – Indian actor.
• Mohamed Al-Daradji –Iraqi Dutch film director
• Hassan Massoudy – Iraqicalligrapher
• Ahmed Al Safi – Iraqi artist
• Nedim Kufi – Iraqi artist
• Sadequain – Pakistani artist
• Mouhamad Rachini - Canadian-Lebanese journalist
• Usama Alshaibi –Iraqi-Americanindependent filmmaker,visual andmedia artist
• Jagdeep – Syed Jawahar Ali Jaffery, comedy actor in early Indian cinema
• Farida Mohammad Ali – Iraqi singer
• Naseer Shamma – Iraqi musician and oud player
• Imran Abbas Naqvi – Pakistani actor
• Sadegh Tirafkan – Iraniancontemporary artist
• Khosrow Vaziri – Iranian professional wrestler, retired
• Rahat Kazmi – Pakistani actor, professional speaker and academician
• Zulfiqar Mirza – Pakistani politician
• Zain Imam – Indian television actor

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