List of Iranian scientists and scholars

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Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model.
Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qotbeddin Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model.

[edit] Classical (pre-modern) Era

The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian scientists and engineers that lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.

In some cases, their exact ancestry is unclear. By "Iranian", all the peoples of historic Persia are meant, i.e. what is today Iran, Afghanistan, and all the countries of Central Asia ("common modern definition") that were historically part of the Persian empire and populated by Iranian tribes with Iranian or Persianate culture.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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  • Ulugh Beg, Timurid era astronomer.
  • Urdi, Mo'ayyeduddin, astronomer who made modifications to Ptolemy's model to account for discrepancies in observations.

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  • Vatvat, scholar and physician.

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  • Zaiyat, Ibn was a learned Persian vizier from Gilan, of the Abbasid dynasty.
  • Zamakhshari, scholar and geographer.
  • Zarrin dast, oculist.

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  • Meyerhof, Casey Wood, and Hirschberg also have recorded the names of at least 80 oculists who contributed treatises on ophthalmic subjects from the beginning of 800 CE to the full flowering of Muslim medical literature in 1300 CE, and whose names have not all appeared here.

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