Introduction
Founded by Amir Kabir, then theList of presidents
* Mirza Mohammad-Ali Khan Shirazi (1851–52) * Aziz Khān Mokri (1852) * Mirzā Mohammad Khān ''Amir-Tumān'' (1852–57) * Ali-Qoli Mirzā ''Etezād os-Saltaneh'' (1857–80) * Ali-Qoli Khān Hedayāt ''Mokhber od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1880–96) * Jafar-Qoli Khān Hedāyat ''Nayyer ol-Molk'' ( fa) * Mohammad-Hossein Khān ''Adib od-Dowleh'' * Rezā-Qoli Khān Hedāyat ''Nayyer ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1896–1906)Notable teachers
* Dr. Jakob Eduard Polak (1818–1891) – medicine and pharmacy * Lieutenant August Karl Krziž ( hr) (1814–1886) – artillery * Captain Joseph Czarnotta – mineralogy * Captain Zatti – engineering * Alfred Baron de Gumoëns – infantry * Johann von Nemiro – cavalry * Michele Materazzo * Francesco Materazzo * Luigi Pesce * Enrico Andreini – infantry * Focchetti – pharmacy, physics and chemistry * Jules Richard ( fa) (1852–1891) – French language * Ernest Cloquet *Notable alumni
Politicians
* Mirzā Hossein Khān ''Moshir od-Dowleh'' ''Sepahsālār'' (1828–1881) – prime minister (1871–73) * Ali-Qoli Khān Hedāyat ''Mokhber od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1829–1897) – politician * Jafar-Qoli Khān Hedāyat ''Nayyer ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1832–1915) – politician * Mirzā Mahmoud Khān ''Moshāver ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1834–1920) – politician * Narimān Khān Enāgolopiān ''Qavām os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1836–18??) – diplomat * Prince Abdolhamid Mirzā ''Nāser od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1840–1892) – politician * Mohammad-Hassan Khān ''Etemād os-Saltaneh'' ( ru) (1843–1896) – politician * Dr. Mirzā Ali-Naghi Khān ''Hakim ol-Molk'' ( fa) (18??–1903) – physician and politician * Prince Abdolmajid Mirzā ''Eyn od-Dowleh'' (1845–1927) – prime minister * Prince Abdossamad Mirzā ''Ezz od-Dowleh'' (1845–1929) – politician * Mortezā-Qoli Khān Hedāyat ''Sanie od-Dowleh'' (1856–1911) – politician * Prince Kāmrān Mirzā ''Nāyeb os-Saltaneh'' (1856–1928) – prime minister (1909) * Prince Abdolhossein Mirzā ''Farmān-Farmā'' (1857–1939) – prime minister (1915) * Abbās-Qoli Khān Ādamiyat ( fa) (1861–1939) – politician * Abolhassan Khān Ardalān ''Fakhr ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1862–1926) – politician * Mahmoud Khān Alāmir ''Ehteshām os-Saltaneh'' (1863–1936) – politician and diplomat * Mousā Khān Hakimi ''Nazm os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1864–1944) – politician * Prince Mohammad Mirzā ''Kāshef os-Saltaneh'' (1866–1929) – diplomat and entrepreneur * Mirzā Jafar Khān Esfandiāri ''Yamin ol-Mamālek'' ( fa) (1867–1917) – politician * Dr. Mohammad Sheikh ''Ehyā ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1868–1938) – physician and politician * Mirzā Nasrollāh Khān Khalatbari ''Etelā ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1868–1962) – politician * Mortezā Khān ''Momtāz ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1869–19??) – politician * Dr. Farajollāh Ziāei ''Ziā ol-Atebba'' ( fa) (1870–19??) – physician and politician * Ebrahim Hakimi ''Hakim ol-Molk'' (1871–1959) – prime minister (1945–47) * Mostafā Khān Navāei ''Nayyer os-Soltān'' ( fa) (1873–1940) – politician * Hedāyat-Qoli Khān ''Etezād ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1873–1953) – politician * Esmāil Khān Adib ''Moāzed ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1874–1923) – politician * Yahyā Shams Malekārā ( fa) (1874–1945) – politician * Mirzā Jahangir Khān Sur-e-Esrafil (1875–1908) – journalist and political activist * Mirzā Ebrāhim Khān ''Amid os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1875–19??) – politician * Mirzā Ahmad Khān ''Etelā os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1875–19??) – politician * Dr. Hossein-Qoli Qezel-Ayāgh ( fa) (1875–1957) – physician and politician * Dr. Hossein Khān Bahrāmi ''Ehyā os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1876–1940) – politician * Prince Soleimān Mirzā Eskandari (1876–1944) – political activist * Mirzā Hassan Khān Esfandiāri ''Mohtashem os-Saltaneh'' (1876–1945) – politician * Asadollāh Ghaffārzādeh ( fa) (1876–19??) – journalist and political activist * Hossein Samiei (1876–1954) – politician * Khalil Fahimi ''Fahim ol-Molk'' ( ru) (1876–1953) – politician * Dr. Ali Khān Partow-Azam ''Hakim Azam'' ( fa) (1877–1938) – physician and politician * Mohammad-Ali Foroughi ''Zokā ol-Molk'' (1877–1942) – prime minister (1925–26, 1933–35 and 1941–42) and scholar * Abdolhamid Saqafi ''Matin os-Saltaneh'' ( fa) (1878–1917) – journalist and politician * Mohammad-Ali Farzin ( fa) (1878–1941) – politician * Prince Nosratollāh Mirzā ''Amir Azam'' ( fa) (1879–1916) – politician * Ebrāhim Monshizādeh ( fa) (1879–1918) – political activist * Mirzā Nasrollāh Khān Sheibāni ''Jalil ol-Molk'' ( fa) (1879–1959) – politician * Yār-Mohammad Khān Afshār ''Sardār Saeid'' ( fa) (1880–1936) – politician * Prince Mohammad-Hāshem Mirzā Afsar ( fa) (1880–1940) – politician * Ahmad Fereydouni ( fa) (1881–1969) – politician * Mirzā Loqmān Nahourāi ( fa) (1882–19??) – politician * Gholām-Hossein Rahnamā ( fa) (1882–1946) – minister of education * Mirzā Farajollāh Khān Bahrāmi ''Dabir Azam'' ( fa) (1882–1948) – politician * Sediqeh Dowlatābādi (1882–1961) – journalist and political activist * Ali-Akbar Hakimi ( fa) (1883–19??) – politician * Mirzā Hassan Farahmand ''Mokhber Hozour'' ( fa) (1883–19??) – politician * Ehsānollāh Khān Doustdār (1884–1939) – politician * Dr. Hassan Loqmān Adham ''Hakim od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1884–1957) – physician and politician * Dr. Ebrāhim Heshmat (1885–1919) – physician and politician * Ali-Akbar Dāvar (1885–1937) – minister of justice * Kāzem Khān Mojdehi ''Motamed Divān'' ( fa) (1885–1964) – politician * Ali-Asghar Zarrinkafsh ( fa) (1885–1969) – politician * Ali Mansour ''Mansour ol-Molk'' (1886–1974) – prime minister (1940–41) * Ahmad Akhgar ( fa) (1888–1969) – politician * Asadollāh Yamin Esfandiāri ''Yamin ol-Mamālek'' ( fa) (1889–1955) – politician * Jamāleddin Akhavi ( fa) (1891–1983) – politician * Ghāsem Ghani ( fa) (1893–1952) – diplomat * Ali-Akbar Siāsi (1895–1990) – minister of foreign affairs * Ali Soheili (1896–1958) – prime minister (1942–44) * Mousā Nouri Esfandiāri (1896–1972) – minister of foreign affairs * Dr. Javād Āshtiāni ( fa) (1896–1981) – minister of health * Abdolhossein Masoud Ansāri ( fa) (1896–1984) – diplomat * Abbās Eskandari (1897–1955) – politician * Abolghāsem Narāghi ( fa) (1899–1945) – politician * Abdollāh Entezām (1899–1982) – diplomat * Ebrāhim Fakhrāei ( fa) (1899–1988) – politician * Nasrollāh Entezām (1900–1980) – diplomat * Shamseddin Amir-Alāei ( fa) (1900–1994) – politician * Hossein Naghavi ( fa) (1901–1964) – politician * Dr. Mehdi Āzar ( fa) (1901–1994) – physician and politician *Military personnel
* General Amānollāh Khān Jahānbāni ''Ziā od-Dowleh'' (1869–1923) – Cossack Brigade general * Admiral Ahmad Khān Daryābeigi (18??–1923) – Imperial Iranian Navy (IIN) admiral * General Mahmoud Khosrowpanāh ''Ezām os-Soltān'' ( fa) (1886–1972) – Gendarmerie general * General Hādi Khānshaqāqi ''Hesn od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1889–1959) – IIA general * General Ali-Asghar Naghdi ( fa) (1895–1966) – IIA general and minister of war * Admiral Gholām-Ali Bāyandor (1898–1941) – IIN admiral * Colonel Sharafeddin Ghahramāni ( fa) (1900–1942) – Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) pilot * General Hāj-Ali Razmārā (1901–1951) – Imperial Iranian Army (IIA) general and prime minister (1950–51) * General Ahmad Zanganeh ( fa) (1904–19??) – IIA general * General Abbās Izadpanāh ( fa) (1905–19??) – IIA general * Admiral Farajollāh Rasāei (1908–2002) – IIN admiral * General Mohammd-Taghi Riāhi (1911–1988) – IIA general * General Mohammad-Vali Gharani (1913–1979) – IIA general * General Hassan Toufāniān (1913–1998) – IIAF general * Admiral Abbās Ramzi Atāei (1928–2018) – IIN admiral * Admiral Kamāl Habibollāhi (1930–2016) – IIN admiralReligion
* Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Adíbu'l-ʻUlamá (Adíb) (1848-1919) – writer, Apostle of Baháʼu'lláh, Hand of the Cause of the Bahá’í FaithScholars
* Prince Jalāleddin Mirzā (1827–1872) – historian * Dr. Mohammad Mirzā Kermānshāhi ( fa) (1828–1908) – physician * Mirzā Abolfazl Golpāygāni (1844–1914) – Bahá’í scholar * Dr. Ali-Akbar Khān Nafisi ''Nāzem ol-Atebbā'' (1847–1924) – physician * Dr. Mirzā Mahmoud Khān Boroujerdi ( fa) (1856–1903) – physician * Dr. Khalil Saqafi ''Alam od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1862–1944) – physician * Ali-Mohammad Farahvashi ''Motarjem Homāyoun'' ( fa) (1875–1968) – scholar * Dr. Amir Khān Amir-Alam ( fa) (1876–1961) – physician and politician * Dr. Valiollāh Nasr ( fa) (1878–1945) – physician and politician * Abdolazim Gharib ( ru) (1879–1965) – linguist * Dr. Mehdi Malekzādeh ( fa) (1881–1955) – physician * Dr. Abdollāh Ahmadieh ( fa) (1886–1959) – physician * Dr. Hossein Khān Motamed (1893–1955) – surgeon * Isā Sedigh (1894–1978) – scholar * Abbās Eghbāl Āshtiāni (1896–1956) – historian * Badiozzamān Forouzānfar (1897–1970) – scholar * Abdorrasoul Khayyāmpour ( fa) (1898–1979) – scholar * Nasrollāh Falsafi ( fa) (1901–1981) – scholar * Mohammad Mohit Tabātabāei ( fa) (1901–1992) – scholar * Dr. Ahmad Farhād ( fa) (1902–1971) – physician * Mojtabā Minovi (1903–1977) – historian * Dr. Mahmoud Najmābādi ( fa) (1903–2000) – physician * Hossein-Qoli Mostaān ( fa) (1904–1983) – scholar * Dr. Hossein Rezāei ( fa) (1904–1993) – psychologist * Mehdi Bayāni ( fa) (1906–1968) – scholar * Dr. Abdolhossein Mirsepāsi ( fa) (1907–1976) – psychologist * Abolghāsem Ghaffāri ( fa) (1907–2013) – scientist * Mohsen Hashtroodi (1908–1976) – mathematician * Dr. Morteza Kaveh (1905-1986) - vaccine & serum pioneer * Habib Nafisi (1908–1984) – scholar * Yahyā Mahdavi ( fa) (1908–2000) – psychologist * Asadollāh Āl-e Bouyeh ( fa) (1908–2002) – mathematician * Dr. Ebrāhim Chehrāzi ( fa) (1908–2010) – psychologist * Dr. Mohammad Gharib (1909–1975) – physician * Khānbābā Bayāni ( fa) (1909–1997) – scholar * Mohammad Mohaqqeqi ( fa) (1910–1970) – cleric * Ahmad Fardid (1910–1994) – philosopher * Zabihollāh Safā (1911–1999) – scholar * Mohammad Moin (1914–1971) – lexicographer * Parviz Nātel Khānlari (1914–1990) – scholar and politician * Mostafā Moqarrabi ( fa) (1914–1998) – scholar * Abolghāsem Kheradjou ( fa) (1915–1986) – economist * Hossein Khatibi ( fa) (1916–2001) – scholar * Dr. Ali Farr ( fa) (1916–2016) – physician * Mohammad-Javād Mashkour ( fa) (1918–1995) – linguist * Abbās Yamini Sharif ( fa) (1919–1989) – scholar * Sādegh Kiā ( fa) (1920–2001) – linguist * Fereydoun Ādamiyat (1920–2008) – historian and diplomat * Enāyatollāh Rezā (1920–2010) – historian * Hāshem Kārdoush ( fa) (1922–2015) – scholar * Mortezā Rāvandi ( fa) (1923–1999) – historian * Dr. Noureddin Mojtahedi ( fa) (1923–2002) – physician * Jalāleddin Āshtiāni ( fa) (1924–2015) – scholar * Ehsān Narāghi (1926–2012) – sociologist * Houshang Alam ( fa) (1928–2007) – linguist * Mahmoud Rouholamini ( fa) (1928–2011) – anthropologist * Dr. Mohammad Shafiezādeh ( fa) (1928–2014) – physician * Seifollāh Kāmbakhshfard (1929–2010) – archaeologist * Bāgher Āqeli ( fa) (1929–2013) – historian * Dr. Hājeb Mortāz ( fa) (b. 1931) – physician * Zardosht Houshvar ( fa) (b. 1931) – scholar * Mazāher Mosaffā ( fa) (1932–2019) – scholar * Dr. Mortezā Katbi ( fa) (b. 1932) – psychologist * Mohammad Taghi Sadr ( fa) (1933–2018) – mathematician * Yahyā Ardalān ( fa) (1934–2014) – scholar * Seyyed Nasrollah Sadrolhoffazi (1934-2022) – judge * Mohammad-Rahim Sarrāf ( fa) (b. 1936) – archaeologist * Ahmad Tafazzoli (1937–1997) – linguist * Hormoz Milāniān ( fa) (1937–2014) – linguist * Abbās Shafiei (1937–2016) – chemist * Dāriush Āshouri (b. 1938) – scholar * Dāriush Farhoud ( fa) (b. 1938) – physician * Abbās Alijānzādeh Ārāni ( fa) (b. 1938) – linguist * Shamseddin Mojābi (1939–2012) – scholar * Mohammad-Rezā Ziāei ( fa) (b. 1939) – scholar * Dāriush Farhoud ( fa) (b. 1939) – physician * Ahmad Kāzemi ( fa) (b. 1940) – historian * Amir Hassanpour (1943–2017) – linguist * Bahman Keshāvarz ( fa) (1944–2019) – lawyer * Ali Tābandeh ''Mahboub-Ali Shāh'' ( fa) (1945–1997) –Artists and writers
* Hossein Towfigh, Editor-in-Chief of ''Towfigh Magazine'' * Mirzā Ali-Akbar Khān ''Mozayyan od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1844–1920) – painter and musician * Mirzā Mehdi Khān Shaqāqi ''Momtahen od-Dowleh'' ( fa) (1844–1920) – architect * Mohammad Khān Ghaffāri ''Kamāl ol-Molk'' (1847–1940) – painter * Mirzā Aboutorāb Ghaffāri ( fa) (1847–1890) – painter * Prince Abdollāh Mirzā ( fa) (1850–1908) – photographer * Esmāil Jalāyer (19th cent.) – painter * Gholām-Rezā Khān Minbāshiān ( fa) (1861–1935) – musician * Arsalān Khān ''Nāser Homāyoun'' ( fa) (1866–1920) – musician * Fekri Ershād ''Moayed ol-Mamālek'' (1869–1916) – playwright * Hossein-Ali Khān Hendesi Gorān ( fa) (1871–1932) – architect * Gholām-Hossein Khān Darvish (1872–1926) – musician * Mirzā Ahmad Khān Mahmoudi ''Kamāl ol-Vezāreh'' ( fa) (1874–1930) – playwright * Hossein Hangāfarin ( fa) (1875–1952) – musician * Mehdi Ivānov ( fa) (1875–1968) – photographer * Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (1879–1956) – politician, author and linguist * Hādi Hāeri ( fa) (1886–1977) – writer * Esmāil Āshtiāni ( fa) (1892–1970) – scholar * Hossein Jodat ( fa) (1892–1990) – writer * Abbās Forāt Yazdi ( ar) (1894–1968) – poet * Abdollāh Dādvar ( fa) (1894–1977) – musician * Ali-Akbar Kāveh ( fa) (1894–1990) – calligrapher * Hossein Gol-e Golāb (1895–1985) – musician * Mohammad-Ali Amirjāhed ( fa) (1896–1977) – songwriter * Ebrāhim Mansouri ( fa) (1899–1970) – musician * Esmāil Zarrinfar ( fa) (1901–1993) – musician * Mortezā Moshfeq Kāzemi ( ru) (1902–1978) – novelist * Javād Badiezādeh ( fa) (1902–1980) – musician * Sādegh Hedāyat (1903–1951) – novelist * Abolhassan Amidi ( fa) (1903–1980) – writer and journalist * Mirzā Soroush Lohrāsp ( fa) (1904–1980) – writer and philanthropist * Esmāil Mehrtāsh ( fa) (1904–1996) – musician * Ahmad Ārām ( fa) (1904–1998) – writer * Mohammad-Taghi Mostafavi ( fa) (1905–1980) – archaeologist * Rezā Mashāyekhi ( fa) (1905–1990) – translator * Hossein-Ali Vaziritabār ( fa) (1906–1958) – musician * Rouhollāh Khāleghi (1906–1965) – musician * Hassan Rādmard ( fa) (1906–1978) – musician * Hassan Mashhoun ( fa) (1906–1979) – musician * Masoud Farzād ( fa) (1906–1981) – writer * Gholām-Hossein Khān Minbāshiān ( fa) (1907–1980) – musician * Mohammad-Hossein Shahriār (1907–1988) – poet * Ebrāhim Sahbā ( fa) (1911–1999) – writer * Houshang Vaziri ( fa) (1911–2003) – journalist * Mehdi Barkeshli ( fa) (1912–1988) – musician * Ahmad Nāzerzādeh ( fa) (1913–1976) – writer * Mohammad Ghāzi (1913–1998) – writer and translator * Lotfollāh Mofakham-Pāyān ( fa) (1915–1984) – musician * Ebrāhim Karimābādi (1917–1981) – journalist * Jafar Bozorgi ( fa) (1917–2006) – actor * Ebrāhim Modarresi ( fa) (1918–2007) – writer and journalist * Mohammad-Hossein Jalili ( fa) (1919–1979) – poet * Mohammad Bahmanbeigi (1920–2010) – writer and philanthropist * Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad (1923–1969) – writer * Houshang Montaseri ( fa) (1923–2015) – translator * Dāriush Asadzādeh ( fa) (1923–2019) – actor * Abdollāh Tavakkol ( fa) (1924–1999) – translator * Fereydoun Moshiri (1926–2000) – poet * Hassan Tofigh ( fa) (1926–2020) – cartoonist and journalist * Siāvash Kasrāei (1927–1996) – poet * Mohammad-Taghi Masoudieh ( fa) (1927–1999) – musician * Homāyoun Nour-Ahmar ( fa) (1927–2013) – translator * Mahmoud Tolouei ( fa) (1930–2015) – writer * Ahmad Rasoulzādeh ( fa) (1930–2015) – voice actor * Ahmad Samiei ( fa) (b. 1930) – musician * Jahāngir Malek ( fa) (1933–2002) – musician * Farāmarz Pāyvar (1933–2009) – musician * Farrokh Tamimi ( fa) (1934–2002) – poet * Dāvoud Navvābi ( fa) (b. 1934) – translator * Manouchehr Neyestāni ( fa) (1936–1982) – poet * Fereydoun Farrokhzād (1936–1992) – singer and poet * Bāgher Āyatollāhzādeh ( fa) (1936–2007) – architect * Nāder Ebrāhimi (1936–2008) – writer * Mohsen Sharif ( fa) (1936–2016) – writer * Esmāil Shangeleh ( fa) (b. 1936) – actor * Bahrām Beyzāei (b. 1938) – film director * Abolhassan Tahāminejād ( fa) (b. 1938) – voice actor * Nowzar Parang ( fa) (1937–2006) – songwriter * Mohammad-Ali Sepānlou (1940–2015) – poet * Ahmadreza Ahmadi (b. 1940) – poet and screen writer * Mohammad-Ebrāhim Jafari ( fa) (1940–2018) – painter * Manouchehr Ehterāmi ( fa) (1941–2009) – writer * Mostafā Eslāmieh ( fa) (1941–2016) – writer * Mohammad-Ali Najafi ( fa) (b. 1945) – film director * Masoud Houshmand ( fa) (1946–2010) – songwriter * Atāollāh Omaidvār ( fa) (b. 1946) – architect and painter * Hamid-Rezā Afshār ( fa) (b. 1955) – actorSee also
* ''Danesh'' *References and notes
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