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
Late Islamic history
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
- 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
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[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
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See also
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