The Shamlu tribe (Persian: ایل شاملو; Azerbaijani: Şamlı, Şamlu), also known as the Shamli tribe, was one of the seven original and the most powerful Qizilbash tribes of Turcoman origin in Iran.

List of the Khans of Shamlu

• Ahmad Sultan Shamlu
• Abdu Beg Shamlu ( Father in law of Ismail I )
• Husein Khan Shamlu ( The most powerful qizilbash Khan, executed by Shah Tahmasp in 1534)
• Hossein Khan Shamlu ( Governor of Lors Pushtkuh- Province of Lorestan )
• Hasan Khan Shamlu
• Mirza Vali Khan Shamlu (Governor)
• Ali Gholi Khan Shamlu (aka Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani Governor of Khorassan in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I en 1588 )^[1]
• JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI SHĀMLU(d. 1645), ishik-āqāsi-bāshi (master of ceremony) and qurchi-bāshi (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629–42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642–66).^[2]
• Sinan Khan Shamlu (Ambassador of Shah AbbasI to Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg)
• Muhamad Gholi Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu
• Dormish Khan Shamlu (Brother in law of Shah Ismail I and Governor of Isfahan )
• Murteza Gulu Khan Shamlu-Ardabili (invented a style of calligraphy called "Shikasta Nastaʿlīq")
• Abbas Gholi Khan Shamlu-Shahsevan (Governor of Herat, 1812)
• Mu'min Khan Shamlu (1699–1707, Grand Vizier )^[3]
• Mohammed Zaman Khan Shamlu (1711)
• Muhamad Ali Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu (c.1722, Grand Vizier )^[2]
• Zaynal Khan Shamlu
• Murshid Gholi Khan Ustajlu-e Shamlu
• Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou I
• Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou
• Manouchehr Ghiaie-e Shamloo (Governor of Tehran)
• Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou II (Architect and Aide de Camp of the Impériale Court of Iran under Emperor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)^[4]
• Farhad Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou( 1957 )^[4]