33 Notable alumni of
Amirkabir University of Technology
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The Amirkabir University of Technology is 1220th in the world, 262nd in Asia, and 8th in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from the Amirkabir University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pejman Bazeghi
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- actor
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Pejman Bazeghi is an Iranian actor.
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Behzad Nabavi
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- politician
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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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Naeimeh Eshraghi
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- chemical engineerpolitician
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Naeimeh Eshraghi is an Iranian politician who is from the family of Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Parviz Fattah
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- politician
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Sayyid Parviz Fattah 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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Ezzatollah Zarghami
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- politician
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Sayyid 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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Mostafa Hashemitaba
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- politician
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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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Abbas Abdi
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- politicianactivistengineerjournalist
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Abbas Abdi is an Iranian reformist. He is also a journalist, self-taught sociologist, and social activist.
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Abdolali Ali Asghari
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- politician
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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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Mohammad Fazeli
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- sociologist
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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 the general editor of the Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS).
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Kamran Daneshjoo
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- politician
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Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
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Heshmat Tabarzadi
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- journalistpolitician
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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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Majid Tavakoli
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- political activist
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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 to allegations that he cross-dressed as a disguise to avoid arrest, a campaign protesting his imprisonment featured men posting photos of themselves wearing hijab.
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Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
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- politician
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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 embassy and held American embassy staff hostage for 444 days.
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Fatemeh Hosseini
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- politician
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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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Mohammad Saeedikia
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- engineerpolitician
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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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Mohsen Mirdamadi
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- journalistpolitician
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Mohsen Mirdamadi 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 (the 6th Majlis) from 2000 until 2004, during which time he chaired the parliament's Commission of National Security and Foreign Policy. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1997 in Foreign Relations. He has served in various political roles since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, including serving as the governor of Khuzestan province in the last years of the Iran-Iraq war. He was among the organizers of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Hamid Chitchian
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- engineerpolitician
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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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Soheila Jolodarzadeh
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- politician
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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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Hamid Mirzadeh
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- politicianfaculty memberteacher
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Hamid Mirzadeh is an Iranian politician and academic who was the 3rd president of the Islamic Azad University system.
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Fakhruddin Ahmadi Danesh-Ashtiani
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- politicianfaculty member
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Fakhreddin Ahmadi-Danesh-Ashtiani is an Iranian politician and scholar and the former Minister of Education.
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Mehdi Ghazanfari
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- civil servant
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Mehdi Ghazanfari 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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Mosa Kalantari
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- politician
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Mousa Kalantari was the cabinet minister of transportation in the government of Abolhassan Banisadr. He was the elder brother of Isa Kalantari.
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Esfandiar Ekhtiyari
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- politicianfaculty memberresearcher
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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 behalf of the Zoroastrian community of Iran. He has rebuked, and worked to prevent or end, laws and practices discriminatory towards his coreligionists. He was a member of the Education and Research Committee of the Iranian Parliament.
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Farzaneh Sharafbafi
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- businesspersonmilitary flight engineer
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Farzaneh Sharafbafi is an Iranian manager and academic who was the Chairwoman and was the CEO of Iran Air.
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Hashem Yekezareh
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- entrepreneurengineer
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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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Mohammad Mehdi Mofatteh
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- politicianfaculty membereconomist
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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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Ahmad Motamedi
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- politician
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Seyyed Ahmad Motamedi is an Iranian politician & member of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)'s Electrical Engineering faculty.
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Bahaedin Adab
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
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Bahaedin Adab, also spelled Bahaeddin or Bahaoddin Adab, Kurdish "Baha Adab" (21 August 1945 – 16 August 2007) was a prominent Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer and philanthropist. He was born in Sanandaj and had a civil engineering master's degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique). He died of cancer on 16 August 2007 in Tehran. He was buried in "Bahasht Mhamadi" Behesht-e Mohammadi cemetery in Sanandaj alongside his parents.
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Gholamreza Heydari
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- politician
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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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Nasrollah Jahangard
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- politician
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Nasrollah Jahangard is an Iranian politician and former deputy minister of ICT in Technology and Innovation.
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Fatima Ebrahimi
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- physicist
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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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Hassan Makaremi
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- writercalligrapherpainter
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Hassan Makaremi is an Iranian artist, painter and calligrapher, Psychoanalyst and Human Rights Activists.
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Bardia Sadrenoori
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- musicianpianist
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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 the founder and director of Radnoandish cultural and artistic institute, as well as organizer of festivals of art and concerts.
