List of scientists from Asia

This is a list of scientists from Asia.

## Afghanistan
:*Pages appear in :Category:Afghan scientists*
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## Armenia
*Boris Babaian - he got the awards (from the Soviet Union): the USSR State Prize for his achievements in 1974 in the field of computer-aided design, and the Lenin Prize in 1987 for the Elbrus-2 supercomputer design. Since 1984, he has been a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (later - Russian Academy of Sciences)
*Yuri Oganessian - oganesson is named after him; he is one of the discoverers of that element (Chemistry)

## Azerbaijan
*Vafa Guluzade - he was a Foreign Policy State Advisor for Azerbaijan President; the political scientist died in 2015.
*Ayaz Mutallibov, he was the first president of Azerbaijan; chemist
*Lotfi A. Zadeh - pioneer (or one of the earliest scientists) of fuzzy logic; computer scientist, electrical engineer, mathematician; d. in 2017

## Bangladesh
*Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri, was Governor of Bangladesh Bank (central bank of Bangladesh); economist
*Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences; chemist
*Muhammed Zafar Iqbal - he has a Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Story; he is a scholar of engineering and computer science.
*Taslima Nasrin, physician, writer

*A. K. M. Fazlul Haque (surgeon)

## China
## Cyprus
*Christopher A. Pissarides, he has a Nobel Prize; economist

## Georgia
*Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze was a member of the Parliament of Georgia; assyriologist (and therefore a linguist)
*Jamshid Giunashvili - he was a linguist (Iranologist); died in 2017

## India
## Indonesia
*Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie - a former president of Indonesia; aerospace engineering scientist
*Hary Gunarto, computer scientist
*J. B. Sumarlin, was minister of finance; economist

## Iran
## Iraq
*Ahmed Chalabi, was Deputy prime minister; mathematician
*Sinan Al Shabibi, was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq

## Israel
:*Pages appear in :Category:Israeli scientists*
*Yehoshua Matza; economist
*Ida Nudel; economist

## Japan
## Kazakhstan
*Serikbolsyn Abdildin, chairman of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan; economist
*Askar Dzhumadildayev -  member of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Science.

## Kyrgyzstan
*Askar Akayev - he is a former president of Kyrgyzstan; he is a natural scientist
*Myrzageldy Kemel, was a member of Mazhilis; economist

## Laos
*Daosavanh Sanamxay - the discoverer of the Laotian giant flying squirrel(en);  biologist

## Malaysia
*Ungku Abdul Aziz, was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, General Director of the Council on Language and Literature of Malaysia; economist
*Martin Khor, was executive director of the South Centre (intergovernmental organisation); economist

## Myanmar
*Hla Myint, he was a pioneer of the idea that export-orientation is one of the most useful "engine of growth".
*Tuang Za Khai, writer, biologist (Botany), born 1986

## Nepal
*Kumud Dhital - he is one of the members of the team that first transplanted a heart donated after circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has stopped beating; he is a surgeon.

## North Korea
*Ri Sung-gi (He is the inventor of Vinalon, and he got the Lenin Prize)

## Philippines
## South Korea
*Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American, former president of the World Bank; anthropologist, physician
*Benjamin W. Lee, Korean-American, known for his work on renormalization of the electro-weak model and gauge theory; physicist
*Yanghee Choi - he is a former minister of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning; he is a computer scientist.

## Sri Lanka
*Saman Kelegama, was Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (Sri Lanka); economist
*Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, won a Balzan Prize and a Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize; social anthropologist; d. 2014

## Thailand
*Phraya Anuman Ratchathon was the first Thai scholar to conduct a serious study of Thai folkloristics, taking notes on the nocturnal village spirits of Thai folklore;anthropologist, ethnographer, d. 1969
*Abhisit Vejjajiva, has been prime minister; economist

## Turkey
* List of Turkish scientists

## Vietnam
*Hieu Van Le, Vietnamese-born Australian, a former governor of South Australia; economist

*Ngô Bảo Châu - best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (en). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal; mathematician

## Related pages
*List of scientists from Africa
*List of scientists from Europe
*List of scientists from North America
*List of scientists from Oceania
*List of scientists from South America
*List of women scientists from Asia

## References