List of Ayatollahs
This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Usuli Shi'a Muslims clerics. The next higher clerical rank is Grand Ayatollah also known as Marja'. This list contains only the names of Ayatollahs. To see the list of Grand Ayatollahs, see the following articles:
Deceased
- Ayatollah Maitham Al Bahrani
- Ayatollah Salih Al-Karzakani
- Ayatollah Abdullah al Samahiji
- Ayatollah Yusuf Al Bahrani
- Ayatollah Abdul Amir Al Jamri
Kuwait
Deceased
- Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Muhri
India
Current
- Ayatollah Syed Hamidul Hasan
- Ayatollah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
Deceased
- Al-Allamah, Al-Faqeeh, Al-Adeeb Ayatollah Shaikh Ali Hazeen Lahiji
- Ayatollah Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Khan Kintoori
- Ayatollah Syed Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori
- Ayatollah Aga Syed Mehdi Kashmiri
- Ayat-ul-Ilm-e-wat-Tuqa Ayatullah Syed Imdad Ali – First Ameed Jamia-e-Imania, Banaras
- Jawad-ul-Ulama Ayatollah Syed Ali Jawad Al-Husaini, Zangipur/Banaras – Mu'aasir wa Ham-Jama'at Sahib-e-Abaqaat
- Munaitiq-e-Zaman Ayatullah Syed Mohammad Sajjad Al-Husaini – Founder Jamia Jawadia, Banaras
- Qudwat-ul-Fuqaha Ayatullah Syed Sibte Husain, Jaunpur
- Ayatollah Syed Ali Shah Rizvi Kashmiri
- Ayatollah Najmul Millat – leading Ayatollah and father of Maulana Syed Mohammad the founder of Madrasatul Waizeen
- Alam-ul-Aalaam Ayatullah Syed Muzaffar Husain Al-Husaini – First Haadi Jamia Jawadia, Banaras
- Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Abul Hasan Rizvi Kashmiri – Founder of Sultanul Madaris son of Ayatollah Syed Ali Shah Rizvi Kashmiri
- Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Mosawi Ichgami Kashmiri
- Ayatollah Syed Ahmed Rizvi Kashmiri
- Ayatullah Agha Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi – A Twelver Shia Muslim and an Islamic scholar, most notable for his famous tafsir of the Qur'an
- Ayatollah Syed Yusuf Kashmiri
Iran
Current
- Ayatollah Mostafa Boroujerdi
- Ayatollah Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
- Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
- Ayatollah Mohamed Hossein Kazemini Borujerdi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri
- Ayatollah Mohsen Araki
- Ayatollah Mohsen Faqihi
- Ayatollah Mohammed Emami-Kashani
- Ayatollah Abbas Ka'bi
- Ayatollah Mohsen Kharazi
- Ayatollah Mir Ebrahim Seyyed Hatami
- Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi
- Ayatollah Morteza Moghtadai
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji
- Ayatollah Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha
- Ayatollah Abdolnabi Namazi
- Ayatollah Reza Ostadi
- Ayatollah Zohreh Sefati
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri
- Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
- Ayatollah Morteza Sadouqi Mazandarani
Deceased
- Ayatollah Ayatollah Borqei
- Ayatollah Ali Meshkini
- Ayatollah Abbas Almohri
- Ayatollah Haj Muhammmad-Hassan Jazayeri
- Ayatollah Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami
- Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
- Ayatollah Aboutaleb Pishvai
- Ayatollah Jalal Al-Din Taheri
- Ayatollah Gholamreza Rezvani
- Ayatollah Mohammad Momen
- Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini
Iraq
Current
Deceased
Deceased
- Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Ali al-Amri
- Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr
United Kingdom
Current
- Ayatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri
- Ayatollah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi
Nigeria
- Ayatollah Ibrahim Zakzaky
