- Here is a complete list for notable people who lived or from Tabriz:
A
- Abu'l Majd Tabrizi, compiler of Safina-yi Tabriz, writer
- Ahmad Hussein Adl, Minister of Agriculture
- Akbar Alami, Representative of Parliament
- Massoud Amin, American Engineer
- Taghi Arani, Iranian political activist; killed in prison in the First Pahlavi era
- Armik
- Aziz Asli, soccer player
- Cristoforo Armeno, translator
B
- Bagher Khan, Nationalist revolutionist
- Karim Bagheri, soccer player
- Reza Baraheni, novelist, poet, critic and political activist, former president of Pen Canada
- Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (Shahriar), poet
- Samad Behrangi, children's books writer
- Qolam Hossein Bigjeh-Khani, musician and tar player
- Gayk Bzhishkyan
C
D
- Reza Deghati, photographer
- Cyrus Dinmohammadi, soccer player
E
F
- Javad Fakori, Major General; commander of the IRIAF during the Iran–Iraq War; served as Defense Minister
- Farhad Fakhredini, conductor of National Orchestra
G
- Ivan Galamian
- Azim Gheychisaz
- Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation
H
- Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran
- Sattar Hamedani, soccer player
- Hamid Mirza, heir presumptive of the Qajar dynasty
- Mohsen Hashtroodi, mathematician
- Homam-e Tabrizi, poet
- Ahad Hoseini, painter
I
- Iraj Mirza, poet and famous politician
J
- Allameh Jafari, cleric, researcher
- Feridoun Jam, Head of Iranian Army corps
- Jafar Tabrizi, calligrapher
- Mahmud Jam, Prime Minister of Iran
- Rosa Jamali, poet, writer
K
- Ahmad Kasravi, politician and author
- Samuel Khachikian, film director
- Rasoul Khatibi, soccer player
- Mohammad Khiabani, cleric; a political leader during Iran's Constitutionalist Revolution
L
M
- Yadollah Maftun Amini, poet
- Abu'l Majd Tabrizi, compiler of Safina-yi Tabriz; writer
- Naser Manzuri, novelist, linguist
- Tahmineh Milani, film director
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Prime Minister of Iran, reformist
N
P
- Farah Pahlavi (Farah Diba), the last queen consort of Iran
- Jafar Panahi, film director
Q
- Abbas Mirza Qajar, prince, reformist
- Ahmad Shah Qajar, King of Iran
- Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, King of Iran
- Mohammad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia of the Qajar dynasty
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran
- Qalandar Tabrizi, speaker of bitter truths to power
- Qatran Tabrizi, poet
R
- Mirza Taqikhan Raf'at Tabrizi, poet, writer, founder of Raf'at Literary School
- Hassan Roshdieh, founder of the first modern school in Iran
S
- Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
- Gholamhossein Saedi, writer, novelist and political activist
- Sattar Khan, Nationalist revolutionary leader
- Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi, Nationalist cleric
- Shams Tabrizi, Sufi
- Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Grand Ayatollah
- Jamileh Sheykhi, actress
- Ali Soheili, Prime Minister of Iran
T
- Allameh Tabatabaei, cleric, researcher
- Javad Tabatabai, political philosopher, historian, distinguished university professor
- Abdurrazzaq Nasha Tabrizi, poet
- Maqsud Ali Tabrizi
- Mir Ali Tabrizi, calligraphist
- Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi, intellectual and social reformer
- Muhammad ibn Muhammad Tabrizi, Muslim convert from Judaism; philosopher and translator
- Hasan Taqizadeh, politician, diplomat and scholar
- Varto Terian, Iran's first stage actress.
V
- Fariba Vafi, novelist
- Monir Vakili Nikjoo, opera singer