The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 67th most number of Businesspeople behind Côte d'Ivoire and New Zealand.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Iranian Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Babak Zanjani (1974 - )
With an HPI of 34.77, Babak Zanjani is the most famous Iranian Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Babak Zanjani (Persian: بابک زنجانی, born 12 March 1974) is an Iranian billionaire and business magnate. He was the managing director of the UAE-based Sorinet Group, one of Iran's largest business conglomerates. In late 2013, he was arrested and accused of withholding $2.7 billion of government money owned by the Ministry of Petroleum, while facilitating Iran's oil revenue, which was hindered by the sanctions against Iran. Zanjani was convicted of corruption and sentenced to death. In 2021, while awaiting execution, the Supreme Court of Iran indicated that the sentence would be commuted when his debts to the Iranian government were paid, and stayed his sentence, pending return of the embezzled funds. Several commentators have stated that Zanjani is perhaps a "fall guy" for corruption scandals in Iran.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as businesspeople born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Babak Zanjani. As of April 2022, 1 new businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Babak Zanjani.
