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Mohammad Marani
Mohammad Marani (محمد مارانی) is an IRGC Ground Forces brigadier general, not the academic Mohammad Marandi. He commanded the IRGC Quds Headquarters in Sistan-Baluchestan and Kerman from 2015 to 2020, then Medina Headquarters in southern Iran.
Mohammad Mosaddegh (محمد مصدق)
Mohammad Mosaddegh (محمد مصدق) was an Iranian statesman and prime minister from 1951 to 1953 who nationalized Iran's oil industry before being ousted in a CIA-backed coup.
Mohammad Movassaghi
Mohammad Movassaghi is an organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at MIT known for total synthesis of alkaloid natural products, including the first synthesis of dideoxyverticillin A in 2009.
Mohammad Muneem (musician)
Mohammad Muneem Nazir, known professionally as Alif, is a Kashmiri singer-songwriter and poet from Srinagar, frontman of the Pune-based band Alif, known for songs in Kashmiri.
Mohammad Nabi
Mohammad Nabi Eisakhil, Afghan off-spin all-rounder born 1985, debuted 2009, captained Afghanistan, first Afghan in the IPL (Sunrisers Hyderabad 2017), retired from Tests 2019, ODI all-rounder ranked 6th.
Mohammad Nadir Shah
Mohammad Nadir Shah (1883–1933) was King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933, founder of the Musahiban dynasty, who introduced the 1931 constitution and was assassinated in Kabul.
Mohammad Najibullah
Mohammad Najibullah was an Afghan politician and president of the PDPA from 1986 to 1992. He was known for the National Reconciliation Policy and died in 1996.
Mohammad Nassiri
Mohammad Nassiri (محمد نصیری سرشت), Iranian weightlifter born 1945 in Tehran; first Iranian Olympic weightlifting champion, 1968 bantamweight gold on bodyweight, 1972 silver, 1976 bronze, multiple world titles and records.
Mohammad Natsir
Mohammad Natsir (1908–1993) was an Indonesian Muslim intellectual and politician who served as prime minister of Indonesia from 1950 to 1951 and led the Masyumi party.
Mohammad Nawaz (محمد نواز) (cricketer)
Mohammad Nawaz (محمد نواز), born 1994 in Rawalpindi, is a Pakistani left-arm orthodox spin all-rounder. Debutant in all three formats in 2016, Quetta Gladiators PSL stalwart, 2025 joint-leading T20I wicket-taker, later banned three months by the ICC for a cannabis-related positive test.
Mohammad Nazim
Mohammad Nazim (मोहम्मद नाज़िम खिलजी) is an Indian TV actor best known as Ahem Modi in Saath Nibhaana Saathiya; also led Tera Mera Saath Rahe, worked in Punjabi films, and stars in Mafia's Broken Doll.
Mohammad Qazvini
Mohammad Qazvini (محمد قزوینی; 1877–1949) was an Iranian scholar, a pioneer of critical text editing who prepared reliable editions of classical Persian and Arabic works.
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, known as Mo, is an Iranian-born biological chemist at Princeton University known for discovering the roseobacticide algaecides and for developing methods that activate silent biosynthetic gene clusters.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (محمدرضا پهلوی)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (محمدرضا پهلوی), last Shah of Iran (reigned 1941–1979), restored by the 1953 coup against Mosaddeq, launched the 1963 White Revolution, nationalized oil in 1973, and fled in January 1979.
Mohammad Rizwan (محمد رضوان) (cricketer)
Mohammad Rizwan (محمد رضوان), born 1992 in Peshawar, is a Pakistani wicketkeeper-batter who debuted in 2015, set the 2021 T20I calendar-year run record (1,326 at 73), won ICC T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021, led Multan Sultans to the 2021 PSL title, and captained Pakistan's white-ball side from October 2024 to October 2025.
Mohammad Sami
Mohammad Sami, born 1981, is a Pakistani former right-arm fast bowler who took hat-tricks in Tests and ODIs and recorded 97.2 mph against Zimbabwe in 2003.
Mohammad Shah Qajar (محمد شاه قاجار)
Mohammad Shah Qajar (محمد شاه قاجار, 1808-1848), third Qajar shah of Iran (1834-1848), grandson of Fath-Ali Shah; his reign saw the failed Herat siege of 1837-38, British occupation of Kharg Island, and the rise of the Babi movement.
Mohammad Sidique Khan
Mohammad Sidique Khan (also Mohammed Siddique Khan), born 1974, was a Leeds teaching assistant and the ringleader of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, bombing Edgware Road (7 dead). He had appeared peripherally in Operation Crevice but was never assessed as a threat.
Mohammad Sultan Khuroo
Mohammad Sultan Khuroo (M. S. Khuroo) is an Indian gastroenterologist and hepatologist from Kashmir, known for describing hepatobiliary and pancreatic ascariasis in a 1990 Lancet paper.
Mohammad Taqi Sepehr
Mohammad Taqi Sepehr (محمدتقی سپهر), titled Lesan al-Molk, was a Persian court historian and accountant of Qajar Iran, author of the Nasekh al-tavarikh, the dynasty's official chronicle.
Mohammad Yamin
Mohammad Yamin, also written Muhammad Yamin (1903–1962), was an Indonesian poet, lawyer, historian, and politician who helped draft the 1945 Constitution and served as a minister after independence.
Mohammad Yousuf (محمد یوسف) (cricketer)
Mohammad Yousuf (محمد یوسف), born Yousuf Youhana, Pakistani batsman and captain 1998-2010; converted to Islam in 2005; record 1,788 Test runs with nine centuries in 2006; later PCB coach.
Mohammad Zahir Shah
Mohammad Zahir Shah (1914-2007), last King of Afghanistan, reigned 1933-1973, the longest stability in modern Afghan history; deposed by cousin Daoud's 1973 coup, exiled 29 years, returned 2002 as 'Father of the Nation'.
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nadoushan
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nadoushan (محمدعلی اسلامی ندوشن; 1924–2022) was an Iranian writer, poet, and literary critic who published over 45 books on Persian literature and founded the Farsi-ye Ferdowsi institute.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (محمدعلی جمالزاده, 1892–1997) was an Iranian writer, a pioneer of modern Persian prose fiction, whose 1921 collection Yeki bud yeki nabud introduced the modern short story.
Mohammad-Amin Riahi
Mohammad-Amin Riahi (محمدامین ریاحی) was an Iranian scholar of Persian classical literature and historian who served as Minister of Education in Shapur Bakhtiar's 1979 cabinet.
Mohammad-Jafar Mahjub
Mohammad-Jafar Mahjub (محمدجعفر محجوب) was an Iranian scholar of Persian literature and a founder of folklore studies in Iran, best known for bringing folk literature into Persian literary history.
Mohammad-Reza Aslani
Mohammad-Reza Aslani (محمدرضا اصلانی) is an Iranian filmmaker, poet, and art theorist born in 1943, known for Chess of the Wind (1976), rediscovered in 2020.
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی), born 1939 in Kadkan, Khorasan, is an Iranian poet, literary critic, and emeritus University of Tehran professor known for the collection Dar Kucheh-Bagha-ye Nishabur.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (محمدتقی بهار), known by the pen name Bahar and the title Malek al-Sho'ara, poet laureate, was an Iranian poet, scholar, and politician, 1886 to 1951, whose Sabkshenasi became foundational to Persian literary scholarship.