- Caro Lucas
Caro Lucas is an Iranian scientist. Lucas first 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 from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. He is a Professor, and a member (as well as the founder- Director) of Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, …
- Manouchehr Mottaki
Manouchehr Mottaki is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate. Mottaki holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Tehran and a bachelor's degree from Bangalore University in India. Before becoming a minister in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, he served as Ambassador to Turkey and Japan.
- Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani (born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, Iranologist, and author. Milani is a Visiting Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. He is also a Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. Milani has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1000 years ago. Graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1966, …
- Ali Akbar Velayati
Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian politician and a pediatrician, currently an Advisor in International Affairs to the Supreme Leader. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran for about 16 years (December 15, 1981 - August 20, 1997), making him the longest-serving Foreign Minister in Iranian history. Velayati served for two terms under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi from 1981 to 1988 and then two more terms under President Hashemi Rafsanjani from 1988 to 1997.
- Mahmoud Hessaby
Mahmoud Hessaby (February 23, 1903 - September 3, 1992) was a prominent Iranian scientist, researcher and distinguished professor of the University of Tehran. Hessaby was born in Tehran; at the age of seven he moved to Beirut where he began attending school. At the age of seven he memorised the "Qur'an" by heart and later he started to read the masterpieces of Persian literature.
- Ehsan Yarshater
Ehsan Yarshater (born April 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran) is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He is famous for editing the monumental Encyclopedia Iranica along with 40 other editors and 300 authors from various academic institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also famous for editing the third volume of the Cambridge History of Iran, …
- Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel born in 1945 in Tehran, Iran, is the chairman of the Iranian parliament. He is the first non-cleric in the post since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. While officially ranking as the last (30th) candidate of Tehran in the Iran Majlis election, 2000 after some recounts by the Council of Guardians which had led to annulation of 700,000 Tehrani votes and removal of Alireza Rajaei and Ali Akbar Rahmani from the top 30, …
- Javad Nurbakhsh
Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh is the present master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. Dr. Nurbakhsh was born in Kerman, Iran, in 1926. He studied medicine at the University of Teheran, graduating in 1952. In 1962, he was invited to undertake post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He then returned to Tehran where he completed his studies in psychiatry, and later became professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Teheran University until his retirement in 1977. Dr.
- Mohammad-Reza Aref
Dr Mohammad Reza Aref (born 1941 in Yazd) is an Iranian (Persian) politician and university professor. From 2001 to 2005, he was the First Vice President of Iran, under President Mohammad Khatami. He was succeeded by Parviz Dawoodi. Aref was a chancellor of University of Tehran (1994-1997) and then the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone (PTT), a post later renamed to Minister of Communications and Information Technology, from August 28, 1997 to June, 2000.
- Kamal Kharazi
Seyed Kamal Kharazi, 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 Manouchehr Mottaki, as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- Mostafa Tajzadeh
Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh is an Iranian progressive, reformist politician, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front. Tajzadeh served as the Political Vice Minister of the Ministry of Interior of Iran in the government of Mohammad Khatami, and under the Minister Abdollah Noori, since 1997, after being introduced to Noori by Gholamhossein Karbaschi and Mohammad Atrianfar. The first Iranian elections for the City and Village Councils of Iran happened under Tajzadeh.
- Hossein Elahi Ghomshei
Dr. Hossein Mohyeddin Elahi Ghomshei known as (Elahi Ghomshei) (In Persian حسین محی الدین الهی قمشه ای), is a world-renowned Iranian scholar, author and lecturer on Persian literature and Islamic mysticism. He is famous for his literary versatility, his proofund understanding of his topics and his poweful memory.
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, also spelled Ramazanzadeh, was the former spokesman and secretary of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the presidency of Muhammad Khatami. Ramezanzadeh is an assistant professor in faculty of Law and Political Science of University of Tehran, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front. He was the governor of the Kurdistan Province of Iran from 1997 to 2001.
- Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta (Born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian scientist and inventor of the "invisibility cloak" or "plasmonic cover". He received his B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering (Fanni) at University of Tehran in 1978, and his Ph.D. degree from Caltech in 1982.
- Janet Afary
Janet Afary is an Iranian author, feminist activist and researcher in history, political sciences and women studies. Her research field includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender and sexuality in modern Iran. She is known for her writings and research on the Persian Constitutional Revolution. Afary is an associate professor of Middle East Studies & Women's Studies at Purdue University.
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh
Lotfi Asker Zadeh (born February 4, 1921) is a mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan as Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh (or Askar Zadeh), to a Russian mother and an Iranian Azeri father (from Ardabil, center of Ardabil province of Iran), grew up in Iran, studied at Alborz High School and University of Tehran, …
- Zahra Rahnavard
Zahra Rahnavard was the chancellor of Al-zahra University in Tehran, Iran, from September 23, 1998 to 2006, and a Political Adviser to the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. She was the first Iranian woman appointed as a chancellor of a university since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She was nominated to this post by former Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mostafa Moin.
- Habibolah Bitaraf
Habibolah Bitaraf was Power Minister for 8 years in Mohammad Khatami presidency. He is a University of Tehran alumnus. During his serving as a Power minister, many huge national projects were launched such as numerous power plants and dam construction projects.
- Parviz Varjavand
Parviz Varjavand (1934 - June 10, 2007) was a notable Iranian archaeologist, researcher and University Professor. He is a former Iranian Minister of Culture and a member of the National Front party. Professor Varjavand graduated with an MA from the University of Tehran and also obtained a PhD in the Renovation of Monuments and Classical Architecture of Iran from the University of Sorbonne in France.
- Bijan Namdar Zangeneh
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh is an Iranian politician. He was the Iranian Minister of Petroleum, appointed by President Mohammad Khatami. He was replaced by Kazem Vaziri as the temporary supervisor of the ministry on August 29, 2005, as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He received his engineering degree from Tehran university. He was the Minister of Energy in Hashemi Rafsanjani's cabinet, and the Minister of Oil in Khatami's adminisration.
- Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani
Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani (Born 1937) in Zanjan is an Iranian theologian, politician and University lecturer. Zanjani is known for being the first and only cleric president of University of Tehran. Zanjani hold no secular academic degree and was appointed by Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, the minister of Science, Research, and Technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet in 27 December 2005.
- Fereydoon Moshiri
Fereydoon Moshiri (b. August 1926 in Tehran, Iran - d. October 24 2000 in Tehran) was one of the most prominent contemporary Persian poets who versified in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem. He is best known as conciliator of classical Persian poetry at one side with the New Poetry initiated by Nima Yooshij at the other side. One of the major contributions of Moshiri's poetry, …
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari (b.1936 Iran) is a highly influential Iranian theologician, philosopher and thinker. In the spirit of the political Shia in 60s and 70s Iran, Shabestari also felt closely associated with the thinking of religious intellectuals such as Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Ali Shariati, as well as the politically motivated cleric Morteza Motahhari. In 1970 Shabestari became director of the Shiite Islamic Center in the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, …
- Hassan Khosrowshahi
Hassan Khosrowshahi (born 1940, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born Canadian entrepreneur. In Iran, Khosrowshahi earned degrees in economics and law from the University of Tehran. He settled in Vancouver in 1981. In 1982, Khosrowshahi founded Canadian electronics retailer, Future Shop. The chain expanded throughout western Canada and Ontario in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The chain later expanded further into Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
- Hamid Jafarkhani
Hamid Jafarkhani, born in 1966 in Tehran, is a Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on communications theory, particularly coding and wireless communications and networks. Prior to studying at the University of Tehran, he was ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984.
- Reza Davari Ardakani
Reza Davari Ardakani (born 1933 in Ardakan) is an Iranian philosopher and university lecturer. He is also President of The Iranian Academy of Sciences. He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Tehran, where he is currently employed as professor of psychology. From 1979 to 1981, he was dean at the faculty of literature and humanities, University of Tehran, and the head of Iranian National Commission for UNESCO from 1979 to 1982.
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini is the iCORE Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
- Behjat Sadr
Behjat Sadr (born 1924) is a famous Iranian painter whose works have been exhibited in major cities across the world, such as New York, Paris, and Rome. She was born to parents Mohammad Sadr Mahallati and Ghamar Amini Sadr in Arak in 1924. Sadr began her studies at the University of Tehran faculty of fine arts. After her graduation, she won a scholarship to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.
- Hossein Gol-E-Golab
Hossein Gol-e-Golab also given as "Hosayn Golgolab", (1897 - 1985) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran. Gol-e-Golab was born in Tehran, and studied at the Elmiya School and Darolfonoon. He learned to play both the setar and tar as a boy. He taught at Dar al-Forum and later enrolled at the law school there, earning degrees in law and political science in 1922.
- Zabihollah Safa
Zabihollah Safa (May 7, 1911 in Shahmirzad, Persia (Iran) - April 29, 1999 in Lübeck, Germany) was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran. His main contribution to the field of Iranian studies is seen in his seminal and comprehensive works on the history of Persian literature. He was also a regular contributor to the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Behzad Ghorbani
Behzad Ghorbani is an Iranian zoologist, born March 26, 1971, in Tehran. He graduated from the University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University (The National University of Iran). The first Iranian planarialogist, he identified two new species, Dugesia iranica, and Dugesia persica, in 1997. They were found in the Karaj River.
- Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti
Ayatollah Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) was an Iranian cleric, the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic Party, and the head of the Islamic Republic's judicial system. He was assassinated together with more than seventy members of the Islamic Republic party on June 28, 1981. Beheshti was born in Isfahan and studied both at the University of Tehran and under Allameh Tabatabaei in Qom.
- Hamid Etemad
Hamid Etemad is an associate Professor of International Business and world-renowned researcher, at the Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is best known for his pioneering and innovative work in the fields of International Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business. He received a M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran as well as MBA, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He was inducted to the UC Berkeley Chapter of Beta, Gamma, …
- Leila Khatami
Leila Khatami (born 1975) is a daughter of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, and a research mathematician working in commutative algebra. She obtained her PhD in 2003 at the University of Tehran from Siamak Yassemi. She has also been mentioned occasionally in the Western media in reference to her father's personal situation
- Samuel Rahbar
Samuel Rahbar (born in 1929 in Hamedan, Iran) is an Iranian scientist who discovered HbA1C, a form of hemoglobin used primarily to identify plasma glucose concentration over time. He obtained his MD from the University of Tehran in 1953 and a PhD degree in immunology from the same university in 1963. From 1952 to 1960 Dr. Rahbar pursued mainly clinical activities in Abadan and Tehran returning to academic life as a postdoctoral fellow in 1959.
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh
Mohsen Nourbakhsh was an Iranian economist, most famous as Governor of the Central Bank of Iran. Born in Isfahan, Nourbakhsh got his bachelor degree from University of Tehran in economics, and he received his Master of Art and PHD from University of California at Davis, in econometrics. He got his first government position in 1980, and later served as Member of Parliament from 1987-89, and Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance from 1989-93.
- Bijan Kamkar
Bijan Kamkar is a Iranian Kurdish musician. He is a member of Kamkarha and is the lead singer for the group. He also plays tar, robab, tombak and daf - the Kurdish drum which he has introduced to the classical Iranian repertoire. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran.
- Janet Kohan-Sedq
Janet Kohan-Sedq (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 degree in physical education from the University of Tehran. Her crowning achievement was at a track and field meet in October 1965. There, Kohan-Sedq broke the 100 metre and 60 metre hurdle records.
- 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 graduated with a BA in Law from University of Tehran in 1951 and went on to complete his higher education in the United States, gaining an MA in Secondary School Education at the University of Michigan in 1957.
- Amir Hassanpour
Amir Hassanpour, (1943-), is a prominent Iranian Kurdish scholar and researcher. He was born in Mahabad, in north-western Iran. He received Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English language in 1964 from University of Tehran. He taught in the secondary schools of Mahabad in the period of 1965-66. In 1968, he began studying linguistics at Tehran University, and received his M.A. in 1970.