12 Notable alumni of
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
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The Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is 2138th in the world, 511th in Asia, and 16th in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ali Shariati
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- translatorpolitical activistpoetessayistsociologist
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Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century, and has been called the "ideologue of the Islamic Revolution", although his ideas did not end up forming the basis of the Islamic Republic.
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Mostafa Pourmohammadi
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was Minister of Interior from 2005 to 2008 and Minister of Justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 execution of MEK prisoners.
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Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
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- translatorlinguisthistorianuniversity teacheressayist
- Biography
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Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.
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Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Sayyid Hassan Aghaee Firouzabadi was an Iranian military officer. He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces—the most senior military authority in Iran—from 1989 to 2016. After that, he was appointed a senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran and a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
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Mahmoud Alavi
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- politician
- Biography
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Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi is an Iranian conservative politician who currently serves as the Special Aide to the President of Iran since 2024. He was formerly minister of intelligence in first and second government of Hassan Rouhani.
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Kazem Sami
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- politicianphysicianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Kazem Sami was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of The Liberation Movement of People of Iran (JAMA).
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Mohammad Farhadi
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Mohammad Farhadi is an Iranian physician, politician and former Minister of Science, a position he held from 26 November 2014 until 20 August 2017. He was previously President of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2013 to 2014, Minister of Health from 1997 to 2001 in the first cabinet of President Mohammad Khatami, Minister of Culture and Higher Education from 1985 to 1989 in the second cabinet of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and President of the University of Tehran in 1985. He was also Vice President of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the first years of 1980's.
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Gholam Hossein Mozaffari
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- politician
- Biography
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Gholam Hossein Mozaffari is an Iranian executive director and politician who currently serves as the governor general of Razavi Khorasan Province since 2024. Mozaffari was a member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, representing Nishapur.
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Effat Shariati
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- politician
- Biography
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Effat Shariati is a former Member of the Parliament of Iran, and former head of the Iran Women Faction. She was born in Kerman, and from the earlier years of Iran's Islamic Revolution she started cultural and political works. During the Iran–Iraq War she was the writer of war-related programs on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the official TV and radio station. In 1991, she was selected as the head of the women's committee of Grand Khorasan state, and the advisor of the governor of Grand Khorasan. After 6 years, she joined IRIB in the role of Cultural Advisor of the direct manager of Grand Khorasan IRIB. Then in 2002 she was selected in the 7th Parliament election as the Member of Parliament for Mashhad, a religious city of Shia Muslims. She is the only female MP of the eastern side of Iran. After 8 years of serving as an advisor to the Minister of Culture and General Director of women office, she was elected for the 3rd time as a member of parliament this time from Kerman province. She is a member of the commission on economic affairs of parliament right now.
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Roya Toloui
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- journalisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Roya Toloui is a prominent Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights activist and feminist, currently residing in the US. She was born in Baneh in western Iran. She received her high school diploma at Baneh and her PhD in Medical laboratory from University of Mashad.
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Reza Farahmand
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Reza Farahmand is an Iranian film director, most known for documentary films.
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Hossein Saberi
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Hossein Saberi is an Iranian academic, translator and researcher with a special interest in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. He is professor of jurisprudence (fiqh) in the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and the current Director of FUM Press.
