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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, for example 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.

A

Abdol-Hamid, founder of Arabic prose along with the fellow Persian Ibn Muqaffa.
Abdulrahman, Sheikh Muhammad, physician.
Amiri-simkooei, Alireza, Geodesist, university of Isfahan
Abhari, mathematician.
Abu Nasr e Mansur, mathematician.
Abu Wafa Buzjani, mathematician.
Azod al-Dowleh, prominent scientific patron
Ahmad ibn Farrokh, physician.
Ahmad Ibn Imad ul-din, physician and chemist.
Ala'eddin, constructed the Counterweight Trebuchet for Kubilai. He was thus honoured in the official history of China's Yuan Dynasty. (p119)
Alavi Shirazi, royal physician to India.
Al-Ghazali
Alhazen, or Ebne Heisam in Persian.
Al-Qumri, a Persian physician.
Amuli, Muhammad ibn Mahmud, physician.
An Shihkao
Aqa-Kermani, physician.
Aqsara'i, physician.
Arzani, Muqim, physician.
Astarabadi, physician.
Aufi, Muhammad, scientist and historian
Avicenna (Ibn Sina), physician, philosopher
Azophi, a.k.a. Abdorrahman Sufi, astronomer from Ray that invented the meridian ring.

B

Bahai, Sheikhpoet, mathematician, and astronomer,engineer,designer,faghih(religious scientist),Architect

Bal'ami, Samanid era scholar

Balkhi, a.k.a. Albumasar, mathematician

Balkhi, Ibn Sahl, geographer and mathematician

Ibn Balkhi

Barmak, Khaled, Bhuddist from Khorasan in the court of al-Mansur, initiated the Greek translation movement of the Abbasid House of Wisdom

Ibn Bibi, historian of the Seljuks of Rum.

Bukhtishu, Persian Christian physicians of Academy of Gundishapur

Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn, physician

Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn, physician

Bukhtishu, Yuhanna, physician

Burzoe, a.k.a. Borzouyeh-i Tabib, physician of Academy of Gundishapur

Birjandi astronomer and mathematician 16th century

Biruni, astronomer and mathematician

E

Esfarayeni, physician

F

Farabi, (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), philosopher

Farghani, a.k.a. Alfraganus, astronomer

Farsi, mathematician

Fazari, Ibrahim

Fazari, Mohammad

G

Geber; Jaber ibn Hayan, chemist

Gardezi, Abu Said, geographer and historian

Ghazzali (Algazel), philosopher

Gilani, Hakim, royal physician

Gorgani, Zayn al-Din Isma‘il ibn, royal physician

Gorgani, Abu Saeed, astronomer and mathematician

Gorgani, Rustam, physician

Gorgani e Masihi, see Masihi Gorgani, Avicenn'a master

H

Hajji Zayn al-Attar, physician

Hakim Ghulam Imam, physician

Hakim Muhammad Mehdi Naqi, physician

Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan, physician

Hallaj, Mystic-philosopher

Haly Abbas, prominent physician

Hamadani, Rashid al-Din, historian

Hamadani, Ali, physician

Mahmoud Behzad, The father of Persian modern biology science

Harawi, Abolfadl, astronomer of Buyid dynasty

Harawi, Muwaffak: See Al-Muwaffak, pharmacologist

Harawi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf, physician

Hasani, Qavameddin, physician

Hayyan, Jabir ibn, one of the most notable Islamic chemists

Hessaby, Mahmoud Mahmoud Hessaby, physician

I

Ibn Abi Sadiq, "The Second Hippocrates", Avicenna's disciple

Ibn Haytham, physicist

Ibn Khaseb, physician

Ibn Khordadbeh, geographer

Ibn Rustah

Ilaqi, Yusef, Avicenna's pupil

Ilyas, Yusef ibn, physician

Isfahani Abol-fath, mathematician

Ibn Sina, (Avicenna), Philosopher and Physician

Isfahani, Jalaleddin, physician

Isfahani, Husayn, physician

Istakhri, geographer, gives the earliest known account of windmills

J

Jaghmini, physician

Jaldaki, physician

Jarrah vizier from Khorasan

Juvayni, historian

Juzjani, Abu Ubaid, physician

Jamasb, philosopher

K

Karaji, mathematician

Kashani (Kashi), mathematician

Kazerouni, Masoud, physician

Kermani, Iwad, physician

Khajeh-Noori, Abbas Gholi, Father of Statistics in Iran

Khazeni, Abu Jafar, mathematician

Khazeni, Abolfath, physicist

Khayyám, Omar, poet, mathematician, and astronomer

Khorasani, Sultan Ali, physician

Khujandi, mathematician and astronomer

Kiamehr, Ramin, Geodesist

Khwarizmi (aka Al-Khwarazmi) creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer

Kushyar ibn Labban, mathematician, Nasavi's master

Kuhi, Rostam, mathematician

Kubra, Najmeddin

M

Mahani, mathematician

Mohammad, Baqer Al-Majlisi, historian, theologian, jurist and expert in narrative sciences

Muhammad Baqir Yazdi In the 17th century, He gave the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056.

Majusi, Ibn Abbas, physician

Marvazi, astronomer and mathematician

Marvazi, Abu Taher, philosopher

Masawaiyh or Masuya

Mashallah, of Jewish origins, from Khorasan who designed the city of Baghdad based on Firouzabad

Masihi Gorgani, Avicenna's master

Mirza Ali Hakim, physician

Miskawayh, philosopher

Mostowfi Qazvini, geographer

Mozaffar ibn Ismail of Herat, physicist and original author of Khazeni's Balance of Wisdom

Mullasadra, philosopher

Muqaffa, Ibn, founder of Arabic prose along with Abdol-Hamid.

bin Musa, Hasan, astronomer

bin Musa, Ahmad, astronomer

bin Musa, Muhammad, astronomer

Muwaffaq, Abu mansur, pharmacologist

N

Nagawri, physician

Nahavandi, Benjamin, Jewish scholar

Nahavandi, Ahmad, astronomer

Nakhshabi, physician

Nasavi, mathematician

Natili Tabari, physician

Naubakht, Zoroastrian designer of the city of Baghdad

Naubakht, Fadhl ibn

Nayrizi, mathematician

Naqshband, Baha ud-Din, philosopher

Neishaburi, physician

Nurbakhshi, physician

P

Paul the Persian, philosopher

Q

Qazi Zadeh, prominent Turkish born mathematician

Qazwini, Zakariya, physician.

R

Razi, Amin, geographer

Razi, Fakhreddin, philosopher

Razi, Zakariya (Rhazes), chemist and physicist

Razi, Najmeddin

Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad

Rashid al-Din, Physician and politician

S

Ardeshir Sepahsalar, philosopher.

Saghani Ostorlabi, astronomer.

Sahl, Fadl ibn

Sahl, Shapur ibn, physician.

Samarqandi, Najibeddin, physician.

Samarqandi, Ashraf, mathematician, astronomer.

Sarakhsi, Ahmad tayyeb, Famous physician of Academy of Gundishapur d900.

Shahrazuri, philosopher and physician.

Shirazi, Imad al-Din Mas'ud, physician.

Shirazi, Muhammad Hadi Khorasani, physician.

Shirazi, Qutbeddin, astronomer.

Shirazi, Mahmud ibn Ilyas, physician.

Shirazi, Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas, physician.

Shirazi, Qurayshi, physician.

Sijzi, mathematician.

Sijzi, Mas'ud, physician.

Soleiman ibn Hasan, physician.

Sufi, Abdol-rahman: see Azophi.

Suhrawardi, Shahab al-Din , philosopher.

T

Tabari, prominent historian.

Tabari, Natili: See Al-Natili

Tabari, Abul Hasan, physician.

Tabari, Ibn Sahl, Jewish convert physician. Master of Rhazes.

Tabrizi, Maqsud Ali, physician.

Tahir, Abdollah ibn. A medieval governor of Khorasan. Wrote Kitab al-Quniy, discussing irrigation techniques.

Tāriq, Yaqub ibn

Tunakabuni, physician.

Tughra'i, physician.

Tusi, Nizam ol-Molk, the great vizier.

Tusi, Nasireddin, mathematician, philosopher.

Tusi, Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Ahmad, author of the famous 12th century Ajayib al-Makhluqat (عجایب المخلوقات).

Tusi, Sharafeddin, mathematician.
U

Ulugh Beg, Timurid era astronomer.

Urdi, Mo'ayyeduddin, astronomer who made modifications to Ptolemy's model to account for discrepancies in observations.
V

Vatvat, scholar and physician.
Y

Yazdad, Ibn was a learned Persian vizier from Merv, Khorasan, of the Abbasid dynasty.

Yumn, Nazif ibn
Z

Zaiyat, Ibn was a learned Persian vizier from Gilan, of the Abbasid dynasty.

Zamakhshari, scholar and geographer.

Zarrin dast, oculist.Further Information
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