33 Notable alumni of Amirkabir University of Technology
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
Amirkabir University of Technology is ranked #1,001 in the world and #7 in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Amirkabir University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Amirkabir University of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Gholamreza Heydari
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Gholamreza Heydari is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who was a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district. He formerly represented Tafresh County, where he originally comes from.
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2. Fatima Ebrahimi
physicist
Fatima Ebrahimi is an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. She carries out theoretical and computational plasma physics research for applications including fusion energy and space and astrophysical plasmas.
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3. Hassan Makaremi
1950-. (aged 76)
painter
writer
calligrapher
Hassan Makaremi is an Iranian artist, painter and calligrapher, Psychoanalyst and Human Rights Activists.
4. Nasrollah Jahangard
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Nasrollah Jahangard is an Iranian politician and former deputy minister of ICT in Technology and Innovation.
5. Bardia Sadrenoori
1968-. (aged 58)
musician
pianist
Bardia Sadrenoori, also spelled Bardia Sadr-e-noori, is an Iranian pianist, chamber musician, music improvisator and author. His style is classical Persian piano as musical improvisator. he has a lot of experience performing and collaborating with other musicians and artists. In France, he performed for the first time with a non-equal-tempered piano in January 2022 in Rennes. In Iran, he is...
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6. Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh
1956-. (aged 70)
economist
academic
politician
Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh is an Iranian conservative politician who has represented Hamedan Province constituencies in the Parliament of Iran since 2013.
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7. Hashem Yekezareh
1956-. (aged 70)
entrepreneur
engineer
Hashem Yekezareh is an Iranian engineer and industrial executive. Previously a senior executive for SAIPA, he serves as the Chairman of the Managing Board of Iran Khodro, Iran's largest car manufacturer since 2013. He was also chairman of Saipa Diesel (12 years), Pars Khodro (7 years) and Iran Khodro Diesel (4 years).
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8. Bahaedin Adab
1945-2007 (aged 62)
civil engineer
engineer
politician
Bahaedin Adab, also spelled Bahaeddin or Bahaoddin Adab, Kurdish "Baha Adab" (21 August 1945 – 16 August 2007) was an Iranian Kurdish politician, engineer and philanthropist. A reformist, he served as an independent deputy in the Islamic Consultative Assembly for two terms from 1996 to 2004. He co-founded the Karafarin Bank in 2001 and the Kurdish United Front in 2005.
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9. Mosa Kalantari
1948-1981 (aged 33)
politician
Mousa Kalantari was the cabinet minister of transportation in the government of Abolhassan Banisadr. He was the elder brother of Isa Kalantari.
10. Esfandiar Ekhtiyari
1966-. (aged 60)
researcher
academic
politician
Esfandiar Ekhtiyari,, full name Esfandiar Ekhtiyari Kasnavieh Yazd (Persian: اسفندیار اختیاری کسنویه یزد), is a Zoroastrian Iranian scientist and politician. He is both a professor in Textile Engineering at Yazd University, and was the holder of the Iranian Parliament's reserved seat for the Zoroastrian minority from 2008 to 2024. As a former Member of Parliament, he used to speak on...
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11. Heshmat Tabarzadi
1959-. (aged 67)
journalist
politician
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is an Iranian democratic activist. Tabarzadi has been arrested several times on charges related to his political activities, most recently in December 2009. In October 2010, a court sentenced him to nine additional years in jail and 74 lashes, a sentence that was reduced to eight years on appeal.
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12. Fatemeh Hosseini
1985-. (aged 41)
politician
Sayyideh Fatemeh Hosseini is an Iranian Reformist politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Iran, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr, from 2016 to 2020. Hosseini was the youngest member of the 10th Parliament of Iran.
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13. Mohammad Saeedikia
1946-. (aged 80)
engineer
politician
Mohammad Saeedikia is an Iranian politician who was the former head of Mostazafan Foundation (Foundation of the Oppressed and Disabled), from 2014 to 2019. He served as a government minister in different cabinets last of which was minister of housing and urban development from 2005 to 2009.
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14. Mohsen Mirdamadi
1955-. (aged 71)
journalist
politician
Mohsen Mirdamadi Najafabadi is an Iranian academic and politician. He is the Deputy Secretary General of "Ettehad-e Mellat", the largest pro-reform political party in Iran. After the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections, he was sentenced to and put to 6 years of prison, among other leaders of reformist party. Previously, he was elected as a member of the Parliament of Iran...
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15. Hamid Chitchian
1957-. (aged 69)
engineer
politician
Hamid Chitchian is an Iranian politician and the former intelligence head. He had been energy minister of Iran from 15 August 2013 until 20 August 2017.
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16. Soheila Jolodarzadeh
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Soheila Jolodarzadeh is an Iranian reformist politician who was a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district. Jolodarzadeh is the first woman to be elected as a "Secretary of the Board of Parliament of Iran" in the history of Islamic Republic.
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17. Abbas Abdi
1956-. (aged 70)
activist
engineer
journalist
politician
Abbas Abdi is an Iranian reformist. He is also a journalist, self-taught sociologist, and social activist.
18. Mostafa Hashemitaba
1946-. (aged 80)
politician
Mostafa Hashemitaba is an Iranian reformist politician. Hashemitaba served as Iran's minister of industries and vice president, as well as head of National Olympic Committee of Iran. He is described as having 'centrist' views.
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19. Mohammad Fazeli
1974-. (aged 52)
sociologist
Mohammad Fazeli is an Iranian sociologist and former assistant professor at Shahid Beheshti University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of science. He got fired from university in the "third wave of purging political professors". He is advisor to Iranian Minister of Energy. Fazeli was the research deputy of Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and...
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20. Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Ebrahim Asgharzadeh is an Iranian political activist and politician. He served as a member of the 3rd Majlis (Iran's legislature) from 1988–1992 and as a member of the first City Council of Tehran from 1999–2003. His career in politics started as one of the leaders of the group Muslim student followers of the Imam's line that took over the American...
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21. Majid Tavakoli
1986-. (aged 40)
political activist
Majid Tavakoli is an Iranian student leader, human rights activist and political prisoner. He used to be a member of the Islamic Students' Association at Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology, where he studied shipbuilding. He was arrested at least three times by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, during the student protests over the disputed Presidential Election of 2009. In response...
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22. Parviz Fattah
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Parviz Fattah Gharabaghi is an Iranian conservative politician and former member of the Revolutionary Guard. He has been head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order since 2023.
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23. Naeimeh Eshraghi
1965-. (aged 61)
chemical engineer
politician
Naeimeh Eshraghi is an Iranian politician who is from the family of Ayatollah Khomeini.
24. Ezzatollah Zarghami
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Ezzatollah Zarghami is an Iranian conservative politician and former minister of Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts. He is a former military officer. Zarghami was Deputy of Minister in Culture and Islamic Ministry as well as Defence Ministry before holding office as the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting from 2004 to 2014.
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25. Pejman Bazeghi
1974-. (aged 52)
actor
Pejman Bazeghi is an Iranian actor.
26. Behzad Nabavi
1941-. (aged 85)
politician
Behzad Nabavi is an Iranian reformist politician. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Iran and was one of the founders of the Reformist party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization. Before his career as a democratic reformist, Nabavi was considered an ideologue of the Iranian Islamic left until conservatives in the 1990s sidelined that force.
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27. Abdolali Ali Asghari
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Abdulali Ali-Asgari is an Iranian executive director. He was former CEO of Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Corporation from January 2022 to December 2024. He is also an Iranian media executive who was the former director-general of IRIB.
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28. Farzaneh Sharafbafi
1973-. (aged 53)
businessperson
military flight engineer
Farzaneh Sharafbafi is an Iranian manager and academic who was the Chairwoman and was the CEO of Iran Air.
29. Fakhroddin Ahmadi
1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher
politician
Fakhreddin Ahmadi-Danesh-Ashtiani is an Iranian politician and scholar and the former Minister of Education.
30. Kamran Daneshjoo
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
31. Ahmad Motamedi
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Ahmad Motamedi is an Iranian politician & member of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)'s Electrical Engineering faculty.
32. Mehdi Ghazanfari
1961-. (aged 65)
civil servant
Mehdi Ghazanfari Khansari is an Iranian politician and the current chairman of the National Development Fund of Iran since October 2021. He was Minister of Industries and Business from 3 August 2011 to 15 August 2013 and Minister of Commerce in the second cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 9 August 2009 to 3 August 2011.
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33. Hamid Mirzadeh
1950-. (aged 76)
teacher
academic
politician
Hamid Mirzadeh is an Iranian politician and academic who was the 3rd president of the Islamic Azad University system.