Yazdi is a common name for someone from the city or province of Yazd in central Iran. Notable people Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454), Iranian scholar Jalal al-Din Yazdi (died 1618), Iranian astrologer and chronicler of the Safavid period Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi (1859–1937), Iranian Grand Ayatollah and founder of the Islamic seminary hawza in Qom, Iran Ebrahim Yazdi (1931–2017), Former Iranian politician and senior diplomat Mohammad Yazdi (1931–2020), Senior Iranian cleric and Judiciary official Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (born 1934), Senior Iranian cleric and long-serving member of the Assembly of Experts Mohammad Ali Jafari (born 1957), Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC); born in Yazd Mohammad Khatami (born 1943), Former President of Iran; born in Yazd Mohammad Reza Aref (born 1951), Vice President of Iran from 2001 to 2005 and current member of Parliament for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr constituency; born in Yazd Yazdi Naoshriwan Karanjia (born 1937), Indian theatre personality Other uses Yazdi, a dialect of the Zoroastrian Dari language See also Yazidis, a group native to Mesopotamia Iranian-language surnames