Namesakes
Kings and Queens of Persia and Iran
Cyrus the Great founded the First Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire) in 549 BC, which fell to Alexander the Great in 330 BC. After the Seleucid and Parthian periods, Ardashir I established the Sassanid Empire in 224. Arab conquest in 651 ended native rule for centuries until the Safavid Empire restored it in 1501. The last Shah was overthrown in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
134 results
Name
Years
Other Names
1588-1629
1642-1666
1732-1736
Abol-Fath Khan Zand
1779
1747-1748
309
1794-1797
1909-1925
150-146 BC
323-311 BC
356-323 BC
281-261 BC
261-246 BC
222-187 BC
175-164 BC
163-161 BC
224-242
379-383
628-629
c. 250-211 BC
Artabanus II
128-124 BC
Artabanus III
10-35; 36-38
Artabanus V
216-224
404-358 BC
358-338 BC
1725-1729
Astyages
585-550 BC
Azarmidokht
630-631
274-293
293
388-399
420-438
590-591
Balash
484-488
(Vologases)
Bardiya
522 BC
(Smerdis)
Borandukht
629-630; 631
Cyaxares
625-585 BC
(Hvakhshathra)
423-404 BC
Deioces
c. 709-c. 665 BC
161-150 BC
146-139 BC; 129-126 BC
Djamasp
496-498
(Jamasp, Zamasp)
1748
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
1797-1834
95-90 BC
40-51
270-271
302-309
457-459
579-590
1501-1524
1576-1577
1785-1789
1751-1779
Kavadh I
488-496; 498-531
(Qabad)
Kavadh II
628
Khosrau I the Just
531-579
(Anushirvan, Chosroes)
Khosrau II
590; 591-628
(Chosroes, Parviz)
Khosrau the Usurper
420
1789-1794
1722-1725
1578-1587
1834-1848
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
1896-1907
1736-1747
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
1848-1896
Orodes I
90-80 BC
Orodes II
57-37 BC
Orodes III
4-6
Osroes I
109-116; 117-129
(Khusraw)
Pacorus II
78-105
Parthamaspates
116-117
Peroz I
459-484
323-317 BC
176-171 BC
138-128 BC
70-57 BC
37-2 BC
2 BC-4
Phraortes
c. 675-633 BC
Phriapatius
191-176 BC
(Priapatius)
1925-1941
1779-1781
1629-1642
Sanatruces
77-70 BC
(Sanatruk, Sinatruces)
306-281 BC
246-225 BC
225-223 BC
187-175 BC
Shahrbaraz
629
1748-1749
242-270
309-379
383-388
420
630
Sogdianus
424-423 BC
Soltan Hoseyn
1694-1722
1749-1750
1524-1576
1722-1732
Tiridates III
35-36
Vardanes I
40-47
Vologases I
51-78
(Balash, Vologeses)
Vologases II
78-80
Vologases III
105-147
(Balash)
Vologases IV
147-191
(Balash)
Vologases V
191-208
(Balash)
Vologases VI
208-228
(Balash)
Vonones I
8-12
Vonones II
51
424 BC
Yazdegerd I
399-420
(Izdekerti)
Yazdegerd II
438-457
Yazdegerd III
632-651