Shia Muslim scholars of Islam include:

Alive

• Khorasani, Hossein Vahid (b. 1921)
• Hamedani, Hossein Noori (b. 1925)
• Jannati, Ahmad (b. 1927)
• Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (b. 1927)
• Naser Makarem Shirazi (b. 1927)
• al-Fayyad, Mohammad Ishaq (b. 1930)
• al-Sistani, Ali (b. 1930)
• al-Qazwini, Mortada (b. 1931)
• Najafi, Mohammad Hussain (b. 1932)
• Jannaati, Mohammad Ebrahim (b. 1933)
• Ostadi, Reza (b. 1937)
• al-Haeri, Kazem (b. 1938)
• Khamenei, Ali (b. 1939)
• Najafi, Bashir (b. 1942)
• Shirazi, Sadiq (b. 1942)
• al-Tijani, Mohammad (b. 1943)
• al-Kourani, Ali (b. 1944)
• Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar (b. 1944)
• al-Modarresi, Muhammad Taqi (b. 1945)
• Fallahian, Ali (b. 1945)
• Khoeiniha, Mohammad (b. 1945)
• Moezi, Abdolhossein (b. 1945)
• al-Modarresi, Hadi (b. 1948)
• Rouhani, Hassan (b. 1948)
• Shooshtari, Mohammad Ismaeil (b. 1949)
• Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali (b. 1950)
• Noori, Abdollah (b. 1950)
• Naqvi, Jawad (b. 1952)
• Ansari, Majid (b. 1954)
• Mousavi-Lari, Abdolvahed (b. 1954)
• Younesi, Ali (b. 1955)
• Araki, Mohsen (b. 1956)
• Mohseni-Ejehei, Gholam Hossein (b. 1956)
• Bagheri, Khosrow (b. 1957)
• Boroujerdi, Hossein Kazemeyni (b. 1958)
• Mohsen Kadivar (b. 1959)
• Abtahi, Mohammad Ali (b. 1960)
• Khatami, Ahmad (b. 1960)
• Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (b. 1960)
• Nassab, Reza Hosseini (b. 1960)
• Yaqubi, Mohammad (b. 1960)
• Leghaei, Mansour (b. 1962)
• al-Gharavi, Aqeel (b. 1964)
• Salman, Ali (b. 1965)
• Naqvi, Ali Naqi (b. 1970)
• Hasan, Hamidul
• Masoumi-Tehrani, Abdol-Hamid
• al-Saghir, Jalal al-Din Ali

Deceased

7th century

• Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (died c.695)
• Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī (665–714)
• Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi (b. between 661 and 680, died 744–746)
• Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Fīrūz) al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash (died 746–757)
• Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib (died c.758)
• Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi (680-c.765)
• Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan (c.690 - c.767)
• Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh (b. in the second half of the seventh century)
• Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi (b. in the late seventh century)

8th century

• Abu Mikhnaf (died 774)
• Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī (died before 765)
• al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah (d. 767)
• Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi (died 767)
• Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (died 767)
• Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c.721 – c.815)
• Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman (723–819)
• Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī (died 825)
• Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
• Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti(769–836)
• Hasan b. Mahbub (766–839)
• Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī (died 839)
• Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm (789–866)
• ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
• Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi (b. in the middle of the 8th century)

9th century

• Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi (died 870)
• Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī (died 873)
• Al-Kindi (died 873)
• Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (c.811 - c.879)
• Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti (died 879)
• Fatima al-Fihri (died 880)
• Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari (died c. 890)
• Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi (died 890)
• Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi (c.815 - c.887/894)
• Ya'qubi (died 898)
• Ahmad ibn A'tham (died 926)
• Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh (died c.940)
• al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (864–941)
• Al-Farabi (c.872-950)
• Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi (died c. 951)
• Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi (c.883-954)
• Al-Masudi (c. 896–956)
• Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi (lived late of ninth century until the half of the tenth century)
• Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi (lived during the second half of the ninth and beginning of tenth centuries)
• ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī (lived in 9th century)
• Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (lived in 9th century)
• Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi (b. before 817–868)

10th century

• Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari (b. c.900)
• Ibn Qulawayh (died c. 979)
• Ibn Babwayh (Shaykh al-Saduq) (923–991)
• Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 995)
• Al-Sharif al-Radi (970–1015)
• Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Shaykh al-Mufid) (948–1022)
• Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir (d.1032)
• Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD)
• Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044)
• Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi (982–1058)
• Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067)
• Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902)
• Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi (lived in 10th century)

11th century

• Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010)
• Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015)
• Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029)
• al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan (1093–1153)
• Ashub, Ibn Shahr (1095–1192)

12th century

• Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī (d. 1110)
• Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī (d. 1119)
• Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1121)
• Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī (author of al-Iḥtijāj) (d. 1192)
• Sayyed Ibn Tawus (1193–1266)

13th century

• Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)
• Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (c.1205–1277)
• al-Bahrani, Maytham (1238–1299)
• al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah) (1250–1325)

14th century

• Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī (d. 1335)
• Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī (d. 1353)
• Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1354)
• Muḥammad al-Ḥillī (Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn) (d. 1369)

15th century

• Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī (d. 1399)
• Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī (d. 1410)
• Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī (Ibn al-Mutawwaj) (d. 1416)
• Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī (Ṣāḥib al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) (d. 1472)

16th century

• Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir (Mir Damad) (d. 1631)
• Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad (Mullah Sadra) (1571–1640)
• al-Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi (Al-Majlisi al-Awwal) (1594–1660)

17th century

• al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (Allamah) (1616–1689)
• al-Āmili, Hur (1624–1693)
• al-Jaza'iri, Ni'matullah (1640–1700)
• al-Samahiji, Abdullah (1675–1723)
• al-Haeri, Nasrallah (1696–1746)
• al-Bahrani, Yusuf (1695–1772)

18th century

• Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir (1706–1792)

19th century

• al-Ansari, Murtada (d. 1864)
• Musavi, Hamid Husayn (1830 - 1880)
• Shirazi, Abdullah (1892–1984)
• Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha (??-1892)
• Shirazi, Mirza Hasan (1814–1896)
• Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim (1839–1911)
• al-Sadr, Ismail (??-1920)
• al-Sadr, Haydar (1891–1937)
• Modarres, Hasan (1870–1937)
• Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri (1859–1937)
• Hasan, Najmul (1863–1938)
• Esfahani, Muhammad Hossein Qaravi (1879–1942)
• Roshdieh, Hasan (1851–1944)
• Yusuf Ali, Abdullah (1872–1953)
• Kashani, Abul Qasim (1884–1961)
• Borujerdi, Husayn (1875–1962)
• al-Hakim, Muhsin (1889–1970)
• Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin (1894–1971)
• Yazdi, Mahdi Puya (1899–1973)
• Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn (1892–1981)
• Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain (1932–1989)
• al-Khoei, Abul Qasim (1899–1992)
• Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza (1898–1993)
• Araki, Muhammad Ali (1895–1994)
• Arbab, Rahim (1874-??)
• ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din (1848-??)

20th century

• al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din (1882–1954)
• Rizvi, Ahmad (1901–1964)
• Rizvi, Mohsin Nawab (1911–1969)
• Amini, Abdul Hosein (1902–1970)
• Turabi, Allamah Rasheed (1908–1973)
• al-Sadr, Musa (1929–1978)
• Taleghani, Mahmoud (1911–1979)
• Motahhari, Morteza (1920–1979)
• al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–1980)
• Beheshti, Muhammad (1928–1981)
• Bahonar, Muhammad Javad (1933–1981)
• Shariatmadari, Kazem (1904–1985)
• Naqvi, Kalbe Abid (1923–1986)
• Naqvi, Ali Naqi (1905–1988)
• Khomeini, Ruhullah (1900–1989)
• al-Musawi, Abbas (1952–1992)
• Naqvi, Aqa Hasan (1935–1996)
• al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq (1943–1999)
• Jawadi, Syed Zeeshan Haider (1938–2000)
• Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi (1936–2001)
• Shirazi, Muhammad (1928–2001)
• Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar (1927–2002)
• Rizvi, Syed Ali Akhtar (1948–2002)
• Khalkhali, Sadegh (1927–2003)
• al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir (1939–2003)
• al-Khoei, Abdul Majid (1962–2003)
• al-Waeli, Ahmed (1928–2003)
• Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez (1940–2004)
• al-Jamri, Abdul Amir (1937–2006)
• Ansari, Mustafa Hussain (1945–2006)
• Tabrizi, Mirza Javad (1926–2006)
• 'Askari, Murtada Sharif (1914–2007)
• Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel (1931–2007)
• Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza (1931–2008)
• al-Hakim, Abdul Aziz (1952–2009)
• Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat (1913–2009)
• Montazeri, Hossein-Ali (1922–2009)
• Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
• Zanjani, Abbasali Amid (1937–2011)
• Rezvani, Gholamreza (1922–2013)
• Burhanuddin, Mohammed (1915–2014)
• Mahdavi Kani, Mohammad Reza (1931–2014)
• Bahr al-Ulloum, Mohammad (1923–2015)
• Ardebili, Abdul Karim Mousavi (1926–2016)
• Tabasi, Abbas Vaez (1935–2016)
• Aliari, Javad Gharavi (1935–2018)
• Jafri, Husain Mohammad (1923–2019)
• Kabuli, Qurban Ali (1928–2019)
• Shahroudi, Mohammad (1925–2019)
• Najafabadi Ibrahim Amini (1925–2020)
• Sadiq, Kalbe (1939–2020)
• Sanei, Yousef (1937–2020)
• Taskhiri, Mohammad-Ali (1944–2020)
• Yazdi, Mohammad (1931–2020)
• al-Hakim, Mohammad Saeed (1936–2021)
• Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Taghi (1934–2021)
• Mohtashami-Pur, Ali Akbar (1947–2021)
• Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
• Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi (1919–2022)
• Reyshahri, Mohammad (1946–2022)
• Rohani, Sadeq (1926–2022)
• Sane'i, Hassan (1934–2023)
• Emami, Mohammad (1931–2024)