# List of University of Tehran people

Here is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Tehran and Tehran University of Medical Sciences, commonly including alumni, chancellors, current and former faculty members, students, and others.

## Academics

* Mostafa Azkia, University of Tehran professor of sociology
* Bahram Beyzai, playwright and filmmaker
* Hossein Bashiriyeh, political scientist, visiting professor at Syracuse University
* Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, professor of political geography, Mayor of Tehran
* Mehdi Bazargan, head of the engineering department, former Prime Minister
* Hossein Gol-e-Golab, professor
* Mahmoud Hessaby, professor of physics
* Parviz Jabehdar Maralani, professor of electrical engineering
* Noureddin Kianouri, architect and political leader
* Caro Lucas, Intelligent Control professor
* Abbas Milani, professor, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University
* Mostafa Moeen, director of the Immunology, Asthma and Allergy Research Institute
* Jamshid Momtaz, professor of law
* Mohammad Mosaddegh, taught in law faculty, former Prime Minister of Iran
* Hossein Nasr, philosopher, Dean of Faculty, and Academic Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1968 to 1972
* Malcolm Nokes MC, nuclear scientist, Institute of Nuclear Science, 1966–69
* Ali Ardashir Larijani, professor of philosophy
* Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, professor of art
* Gholam-Reza Pourmand, professor of urology
* Sayed Ebrahim Dibaj, professor of philosophy
* Mohammad Ali Sahraian, neurologist and researcher
* Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki, professor of biophysics
* Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, professor of electrical engineering
* Assad Sheikholeslami Sanandaji, theologian and professor at Tehran University
* Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, professor of demography
* Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, professor of theater
* Ali Akbar Velayati, professor of medicine
* Siamak Yassemi, Member of The World Academy of Science(TWAS)
* Syed Rahim Moshiri, professor of human geography and physical geography
* Abdul Hamid Zangeneh, professor, dean of the law faculty

## Administrative
### College founders

* Dr. Mahmoud Hesābi, founder

### Chancellors

* 1. Dr. Ali-Asghar Hekmat (1934–38)
* 2. Dr. Esmāil Merāt (1938–40)
* 3. Dr. Isā Sedigh Sedigh Alam (1940)
* 4. Dr. Mohammad Tadayyon (1940–41)
* 5. Dr. Mostafā Adl Mansour os-Saltaneh (1941–42)
* 6. Dr. Ali-Akbar Siāsi (1942–54)
* 7. Dr. Manouchehr Eghbāl (1954–57)
* 8. Dr. Ahmad Farhād Motamed (fa) (1957–63)
* 9. Dr. Jahānshāh Sāleh (fa) (1963–68)
* 10. Dr. Fazlollāh Rezā (1968–69)
* 11. Dr. Alinaghi Alikhani (1969–71)
* 12. Dr. Houshang Nahāvandi (1971–76)
* 13. Dr. Ahmad Houshang Sharifi (fa) (1976–77)
* 14. Dr. Ghāsem Motamedi (fa) (1977–78)
* 15. Dr. Abdollāh Sheibāni (fa) (1978–79)
* 16. Dr. Mohammad Maleki (1979)
* 17. Dr. Hassan Ārefi (fa) (1980–81)
* 18. Dr. Ali Mehdizādeh Shahri (fa) (1981)
* 19. Dr. Abolghāsem Gorji (fa) (1981–82)
* 20. Dr. Dr. Abbās Sheibāni (1982–83)
* 21. Dr. Bahman Yazdi Samadi (fa) (1983–85)
* 22. Dr. Mohammad Farhādi (1985)
* 23. Esmāil Evini (fa) (1985)
* 24. Dr. Hossein Foroutan (fa) (1985–88)
* 25. Dr. Mohammad Rahimiān (fa) (1989–93)
* 26. Dr. Gholām-Ali Afrouz (fa) (1993–94)
* 27. Dr. Mohammad-Rezā Āref (1994–97)
* 28. Dr. Mansour Khalili Erāghi (fa) (1997–2002)
* 29. Dr. Rezā Faraji-Dānā (2002–05)
* 30. Abbās-Ali Amid Zanjāni (2005–07)
* 31. Dr. Farhad Rahbar (2007–14)
* 32. Dr. Mahmoud Nili Ahmadābādi (2014–21)

## Alumni
### Nobel laureates

* Shirin Ebadi and faculty member [Nobel Peace Prize 2003].

### Scientists and technology

* Seyed Kazem Alavipanah, professor of Remote Sensing
* Lotfi A. Zadeh, inventor of fuzzy logic
* Moslem Bahadori, physician and university lecturer
* Caucher Birkar mathematecian
* Ahmad Reza Dehpour, professor
* Nader Engheta, inventor of Plasmonic cover
* Hassan Farsam, university lecturer
* Mehdi Ghalibafian, civil engineer
* Hossein Gol-e-Golab, professor
* Mehdi Golshani, university lecturer
* Hamid Jafarkhani, University lecturer
* Ali Javan, inventor of gas laser
* Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, professor of engineering and inventor
* Kamaloddin Jenab, physics pioneering faculty
* Caro Lucas, Intelligent Control professor
* Alireza Mashaghi, scientist and physician
* Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, engineer, school and university administrator
* Toffy Musivand, inventor of artificial cardiac pump
* Kaveh Pahlavan, wireless networking researcher
* Samuel Rahbar, discovered HbA1C
* Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA.
* Alireza Rastegar, inventor, president of the international federation of inventors' associations, winner of ISESCO technology prize in 2003
* Yousef Sobouti, founder of IASBS
* Saeed Sohrabpour, president of the Sharif University of Technology

### Intellectuals, scholars, and philosophers

* Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, intellectual
* William Chittick, scholar
* Elahi Qomshe'i, philosopher and university lecturer
* Dariush Shayegan, philosopher
* Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher
* Javad Tabatabai, political philosopher
* Parviz Varjavand professor of archeology

### Architects

* Foad Rafii, architect
* Hooshang Seyhoon, architect, Dean of College of Fine Arts

### Artists and musicians

* Mehrdad Afsari, photographer
* Hossein Alizadeh, musician and university lecturer
* Morteza Avini, photographer
* Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, filmmaker
* Asghar Farhadi, director
* Mansooreh Hosseini, artist
* Haleh Jamali, Iranian artist
* Arghavan Khosravi, Iranian painter and sculptor
* Abbas Kiarostami, filmmaker
* Janet Mikhaili (Faculty of Fine Arts), illustrator
* Noreen Motamed, painter
* Behjat Sadr, artist
* Amir Reza Salari, cinematographer and director
* Khosrow Shakibai, actor
* Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, professor of art

### Athletes

* Mojtaba Abedini (born 1984), Olympic fencer
* Janet Kohan-Sedq, athlete

### Linguists and literary figures

* Hossein Towfigh, Editor-in-Chief, Towfigh Magazine
* Fereshteh Ahmadi, writer
* Pegah Ahmadi, poet and literary critic
* Amir-Hossein Aryanpour, dictionarist and translator
* Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, poet, journalist, professor of Persian literature
* Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodooshan, author
* Adib Boroumand, poet, politician and researcher
* Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, linguist
* Hossein Hafezian, political scientist and author
* Razi Hirmandi, translator and writer
* Siavash Kasraie, poet
* Shahriar Mandanipour, author
* Dr. Seyed Ali Mirlohi Falavarjani, Retired Arabic Literature Professor from University of Isfahan, Founder of Islamic Azad University of Falavarjanin 1984
* Mohammad Moin, linguist and university lecturer
* Fereydoun Motamed, linguist
* Ahmad NikTalab, Iranian poet, author, and linguistic
* Ramak NikTalab, Iranian author and translator
* Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist
* Ehsan Yarshater, Iranologist
* Abdolhossein Zarinkoob, Iranologist

### Politicians

* Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former Vice President
* Abbas Amir-Entezam, former Deputy Prime Minister
* Jamshid Amuzegar, Prime Minister
* Mohammad Reza Aref, former Vice President
* Mohammad Beheshti, Ayatollah
* Habibolah Bitaraf, cabinet minister
* Mostafa Chamran, former Vice President and Minister of Defense
* Rahman Dadman, cabinet minister
* Abbas Ahmad Akhondi, current professor, current cabinet minister
* Manuchehr Eghbal, Prime Minister
* Adib Boroumand, leader of National Front
* Hossein Fatemi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, former chairman of the Iranian Parliament
* Fatemeh Haghighatjou, former MP
* Saeed Hajjarian, former Presidential advisor and reformist
* Mustafa Hijri, leader of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
* Mohammed Ali Jafari, IRGC Chief Commander
* Mehdi Karroubi, reformist politician and chairman of National Trust Party
* Kamal Kharrazi, cabinet minister, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
* Mohammad Reza Khatami, former secretary-general of the Islamic Iran Participation Front
* Ahmad Khorram, cabinet minister
* Elaheh Koulaei, current professor, former Member of Parliament
* Ali Larijani, speaker of Parliament and former president of IRIB
* Alireza Marandi academic, current Member of Parliament
* Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister
* Mohsen Mirdamadi, Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front
* Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, former head of the Ministry of Intelligence and attorney-general
* Heydar Moslehi, current head of Ministry of Intelligence
* Manuchehr Mottaki, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Prime Minister
* Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, cabinet minister
* Mohsen Nourbakhsh, former Governor of the Central Bank, cabinet minister, former Member of Parliament
* Zahra Rahnavard, politician and artist
* Massoud Rajavi, leader of PMOI
* Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, current professor, spokesman for Khatami's administration
* Mohsen Rezaee, current secretary of the Expediency Council, former IRGC Chief Commander
* Ezzatollah Sahabi, politician
* Yadollah Sahabi, politician
* Kazem Sami, former Minister of Health
* Jafar Sharif-Emami, former Prime Minister of Iran
* Ebrahim Sheibani, Iranian Ambassador, former Governor of the Central Bank
* Mostafa Tajzadeh, former vice minister
* Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, Minister of Health and Medical Education
* Parviz Varjavand, former Minister of Culture
* Ali Akbar Velayati, cabinet minister, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Ebrahim Yazdi, former Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement of Iran
* Javad Zarif, former ambassador to the United Nations

### Others

* Ahmad Batebi, human rights activist
* Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, human rights activist
* Adel Ferdosipour, journalist, football commentator, television show host, and university professor
* Heydar Ghiai, architect, professor of architecture
* Saeed Hajjarian, journalist
* Darya Safai, women's rights activist
* Mahlagha Mallah, environmental activist
* Nasser Moghadam, former head of SAVAK
* Akbar Mohammadi, student protester
* Younan Nowzaradan, surgeon, TV personality, and author
* Fazrollah Reza, professor
* Kasra Nouri, lawyer
* Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad, professor of metallurgy at MIT
* Mehdi Sadaghdar, YouTube comedian, electrical engineer
* Ahmad Zeidabadi, journalist