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University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Persian: دانشگاه تهران), also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. Its library is the largest in the country. It has been nicknamed "The mother university of Iran" (Persian: دانشگاه مادر). Located in Tehran, the university is...
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Ali Javan
Ali Mortimer Javan (Persian: علی جوان), was born December 26, 1926 in Tehran , Iran within an Azari family (originally from Tabriz), is an Iranian-American inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett....
Jafar Zafarani
Jafar Zafarani (Persian: جعفر زعفرانی) is an Iranian mathematician. He is a professor at the University of Isfahan. His research interests include functional analysis and nonlinear functional analysis.
Jafar Zafarani started at the University of...
Kamal Kharrazi
Seyed Kamal Kharazi (Persian: کمال خرازی) (born 1 December 1944 in Tehran), was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami, serving for eight years from August 20, 1997 to August 24, 2005. He was replaced by...
Akbar Adibi
Akbar Adibi (Persian: اکبر ادیبی Akbar Adībī) (1939 - 2000) was an Iranian electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, and university engineering professor.
Akbar Adibi was born on February 12, 1939 in the city of Songhor, in North East of province...
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her...
Shahin Assayesh
Shahin Assayesh (born 1939, Mashhad) is an Iranian publisher.
Assayesh was educated at the University of London, the University of Tehran and the University of Mashhad. She was a secondary school teacher in Tehran before moving to the United Kingdom...
Adib Taherzadeh
Adib Taherzadeh (1921 in Yazd, Iran – January 26, 2000) served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, between 1988 and 2000.
Taherzadeh was born into a Bahá'í Family in Yazd, Iran. He studied...
Zahra Bani Ameri
Zahra Bani Yaghoub (16 October 1980 - 13 October 2007) (Persian: زهرا بنی یعقوب ) (also mentioned in the media as Zahra Bani Ameri) was an Iranian medical doctor, who died unexpectedly in a prison in Hamedan, after she was arrested by the Moral...
Hassan Farsam
Hassan Farsam (born September 27, 1932 in Tehran) is an Iranian pharmacist and medical chemist. He studied pharmacy at Tehran University and became a medical chemistry specialist in 1960. Farsam received post doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry...
Janet Kohan-Sedq
Janet Cohansedgh (born 1945-1972) is a former Iranian athlete who died at the height of her career. She was a national champion and holder of a number of records in the early and mid-1960s. A graduate of the Anushiravan High School, she received a...
Leila Khatami
Leila Khatami (Persian: لیلا خاتمی, born 1975) is a research mathematician working in commutative algebra and a daughter of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. She obtained her PhD in 2003 at the University of Tehran from Siamak Yassemi. She...
Noureddin Zarrinkelk
Noureddin Zarrinkelk (also spelled Zarrin-Kelk, also known as Noori or Nouri, born 1937 in Mashhad) is a renowned Iranian animator, concept artist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator, layout artist, photographer, script writer and sculptor.
He...
Hassan Jawahery
Hassan Jawahery is an Iranian-American physicist and former spokesperson for the BaBar Collaboration. He received his B.S. in Physics from Tehran University in Iran and his Ph.D. in Physics from Tufts University. He is a professor of Physics at the...
Marganita Vogt-Khofri
Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri (Persian: مارگانیتا خفری ) is an Assyrian-Iranian classical musician and vocalist.
Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri is an Assyrian classical musician and vocalist, born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1952. She is the daughter of...
Karim Pirnia
Mohammad Karim Pirnia (1922/1923 - 1997/1998) was a prominent architectural historian and architect.
Born in Naeen, Iran, he studied at what came to be Tehran University School of Fine Arts.
His textbook on the history of Iranian architecture is...
Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi
Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (Persian: صادق ملک شهميرزادی) (born April 24, 1940) is an Iranian archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1964 he finished his BA in archaeology at the University of Tehran. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the...
Susan Taslimi
Susan Taslimi (also spelt Soosan Taslimi, Persian: سوسن تسلیمی , born 7 February 1950 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1989, now living and working in Sweden.
She...
Shadi Sadr
Shadi Sadr (born 1974) is a notable Iranian lawyer, women's rights activist, and journalist. She is married, and has a daughter. She is an active lawyer defending execution cases in Iran.
Sadr majored in law and political science, and holds a Master...
Rakhshan Bani Etemad
Rakhshān Bani E'temād (Persian: رخشان بنی اعتماد , Rakhshān Bani E'temād, born 3 April 1954 in Tehran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered as Iran's premier female director, her...
Ahmad Jalali
Ahmad Jalali (Born in 1949 Shahroud) is an Iranian scholar and philosopher.
He authored a dozen articles in social, cultural, historical, philosophical, political and international fields. Jalali was instrumental in registering five Iranian sites...
Ja'far Shahidi
Jafar Shahidi (1918 – 13 January 2008)(Persian: سید جعفر شهیدی) was a notable scholar of Persian language and literature and a renowned historian of Islam.
Shahidi was born in Boroujerd. He studied both in University and Seminary and hold a PhD...
Mohamad Ali Sepanlou
Mohamad Ali Sepanlou (born in Tehran 1941) is an Iranian writer and literary figure.
Mohammad Ali Sepanlou received his diploma from Dar ul-Funun high school. He graduated from Tehran University’s Faculty of Law in 1963.
Davoud Hermidas-Bavand
Davoud Hermidas-Bavand (born 1934 in Tehran) is a renowned Iranian political scientist.
Bavand obtained with honors a bachelor’s degree in law and political sciences from Tehran University in 1957. He left Iran in 1958 and he was conferred a...
Javad Hamidi
Javad Hamidi (born in Hamadan in 1918, killed by a speeding motorcycle in Tehran in 2002) was an Iranian painter and poet. He studied at the Tehran University's faculty of Fine Arts and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.
He taught painting in Tehran...
Homa Katouzian
Homa Katouzian, PhD (born Homayoun Katouzian, Persian: محمد علی همايون کاتوزیان , on 17 November 1942 in Tehran) is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian’s formal...
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer who is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tehran...
Ahmad Fardid
Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید) (Born in 1909, Yazd – 16 August 1994, Tehran) was a prominent Iranian philosopher and an inspiring and dedicated professor of Tehran University. He is considered by a few who do not know him well to be among...
Farshid Mesghali
Farshid Mesghali (Persian: فرشید مثقالی , born July 1943 in Isfahan) is an Iranian graphic designer, illustrator, and author.
Studying painting at Tehran University, he began his professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1964....
Sima Bina
Simā Binā (Persian: سیما بینا) (born 1944 in Birjand, Iran) is a master of Persian classical music and Iran's top researcher, composer, singer and song-writer of Iranian folk music. She is currently living in Cologne, Germany.
After graduating from...
Nasrollah Kasraian
Nasrollah Kasraian (Persian: نصرالله کسرائیان , born 1944 in Khorramabad, Iran) is a famous Iranian photographer.
A graduate in law from Tehran University, Nasrollah Kasraian has been engaged in photography since 1966. The Kasraian family is an...
Caro Lucas
Caro Lucas is an renowned Armenian Iranian scientist.
Lucas was born to a wealthy family and received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering (Fanni) University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1973 and the Ph.D. degree...
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (Persian: رضا, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran ) is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza.
Deghati was born in Tabriz, Iran. He studied Architecture at University of Teheran. A French citizen, today Reza is a...
Javad Nurbakhsh
Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (10 December 1926 - 10 October 2008) was the Master (pir) of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order from 1953 until he died. He was also a psychiatrist and a successful writer in the fields of both psychiatry and Sufi mysticism.
Dr....
Reza Davari Ardakani
Reza Davari Ardakani (born 1933 in Ardakan) is an Iranian philosopher and university professor lecturer. He is also President of The Academy of Sciences of IR Iran.
Davari received primary and secondary education in Arkadan, and after leaving school...
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi (born 1972 in Khomein Shahr) is an Iranian screenwriter and film director.
Asghar Farhadi is a graduate of Theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. Farhadi...
Fazlollah Reza
Fazlollah M. Reza (born on January 1, 1915 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian university professor.
He graduated from Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran in 1938 by receiving his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He received his...
Ahmad Zeidabadi
Ahmad Zeidabadi is a notable Iranian journalist, academic, writer and political analyst.
Ahmad Zeidabadi hold a doctorate degree in international relations from Tehran University. His articles appeared in many newspapers and other media such as Rooz...
Ghobad Shiva
Ghobad Shiva (Persian: قباد شیوا , born 1940 in Hamadan, Iran) is an Iranian graphic designer.
He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He then spent several years acquiring practical experience in graphic art...
Morteza Avini
Sayyed Morteza Avini (also spelled Aviny) (1947 – 9 April 1993) was a distinguished Iranian photographer of the Iran-Iraq war.
Avini was born in 1947 in Ray, south of Tehran. After earning a master's degree in architecture from Tehran University, he...
Mana Neyestani
Mana Neyestani is an Iranian cartoonist. He is the brother of Touka Neyestani, who is also a cartoonist.
Riots erupted by ethnic Azeris in Iran when they took offense in Mana Neyestani's cartoon, published in the children's section of the 12 May...
Ardeshir Mohassess
Ardeshir Mohasses (also spelt Ardashir Mohases, Persian: اردشير محصص , born on 9 September 1938 in Rasht - died 9 October 2008 in New York) was an Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, residing in New York.
He was born in Rasht and was brought up in...
Ahmad Reza Dehpour
Ahmad Reza Dehpour (Born 1948 in Iran) is an Iranian pharmacologist and biomedical scientist.
Dehpour studied pharmacy at Tehran University and received a PhD degree in Pharmacology from Tehran Medical School. He was editor in chief of the journal ...
Jalal Zolfonun
Jalal Zolfonun (sometimes spelt or pronounced Jalal Zoufonoun, Persian: جلال ذوالفنون , born 1937 in Abadeh, Fars, Iran) is a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.
Jalal Zolfonun received his earliest musical training...
Bahram Bayzai
Bahrām Bayzāi (also spelt Bahrām Beizai, Bahrām Beyzaie, Persian: بهرام بیضائی, born 26 December 1938 in Tehran) is an Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer, and researcher.
Bahram Bayzai is the son...
Nasser Taghvaee
Nāsser Taghvāí (also spelt Nāser Taghvāee, Persian: ناصر تقوایی , born 1941) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Abadan, Iran, he graduated from the Faculty of Literature in Tehran University. After early experiences as a...
Ali Shariatmadari
Ali Shariatmadari (born 1924, Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian academic and educationist. He was President of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990-1998. He is currently Professor of Education at the Teacher Training University in Tehran.
He...
Fariborz Sahba
Fariborz Sahba (Persian: فريبرز صهبا, born 1948) is an Iranian Bahá'í architect, now living in Canada.
He has a Masters degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran. Among his designs are:
He is also the chief-editor of Varqá, an...
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh (Persian: غلامرضا آقازاده) (born Khoy, Iran on 15 March 1949) is an Iranian Politician. Aghazadeh served as the Vice President for Atomic Energy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the president of the Atomic Energy...
Behrouz Afagh
Behrouz Afagh is Head of BBC World Service's Asia & Pacific Region.
He is editorially and managerially responsible for the BBC's broadcasts and multimedia services in the Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Pashto,...
Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani is an Iranian scholar and university professor.
He holds a Ph.D. in Persian Literature and a Ph.D. in Islamic Theology from Tehran University where he was a Professor at the School of Literature and at the School of Theology...
Mohsen Nourbakhsh
Seyed Mohsen Nourbakhsh (born 18 May 1948 – died 23 March 2003) (Persian: سید محسن نوربخش ) was an Iranian economist, most famous as Governor of the Central Bank of Iran and the former Minister of Economic and Finance of Iran.
Born in Isfahan,...
Mohammad Moin
Mohammad Moin (Persian: محمد معین) (July 12, 1914, Rasht, Iran — July 4, 1971, Tehran, Iran) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranology.
Mohammad Moin obtained his BA in literature and philosophy from University of Tehran (?...
Parviz Natel-Khanlari
Parviz Natel-Khanlari (1914 - 1991 Tehran, Iran) (Persian: پرویز ناتل خانلری) was a Iranologist, linguist, author, researcher and university professor.
Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University with a doctorate degree in Persian...
Ezzat Negahban
Ezatollah Negahban (March 1, 1926 – 2 February, 2009) was an Iranian archaeologist known as the father of Iranian modern archaeology.
Prof. Ezat O. Negahban was born Ahvaz, Iran. After graduating from Firouz Bahram High School, In 1949 he finished...
Sina Motalebi
Sina Motalebi (Motallebi, سينا مطلبی; born 21 April 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, based in London.
He is currently the Editor of ZigZag magazine, a website based on the content of journalists and citizen's contributions following their...
Abdolhossein Zarinkoob
Abdolhossein Zarinkoob (in Persian: عبدالحسين زرينکوب, also spelled Zarrinkoub) (May 19, 1923 , Borujerd - September 15, 1999, Tehran) was a prominent scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history.
He was born on...
William Chittick
William C. Chittick is a leading translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic...
Simin Daneshvar
Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور) (born on April 28, 1921 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian academic, renowned novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English, German, Italian and Russian into Persian. Daneshvar has a...
Abbas Marufi
Abbas Maroufi (Persian: عباس معروفی, born May 17, 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian novelist and journalist. His most famous novel is The Symphony of the Dead.
Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while...
Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
Mohsen Vaziri (Persian: محسن وزیری مقدم, born 1924 in Tehran) is an Iranian painter and a professor of art.
In 1946 he received Diploma of Fine Arts Academy from University of Tehran. In 1955 he moved to Italy for further studies. In 1958, he was...
