The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 196 Journalists, NaN of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 0th most number of Journalists.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Journalists of all time. This list of famous Iranian Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Akbar Ganji (b. 1960)
With an HPI of 48.84, Akbar Ganji is the most famous Iranian Journalist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی , born 31 January 1960) is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006, after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison, he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy". He has been described as "Iran's best-known political prisoner". Having been named honorary citizen of many European cities and awarded distinctions for his writing and civil, Ganji has won several international awards for his work, including the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, the Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty and the John Humphrey Freedom Award.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iranian journalists born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Iranian journalists include Akbar Ganji. As of April 2024, 1 new Iranian journalists have been added to Pantheon including Akbar Ganji.
