20 Iranian sociologists

Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist as well as an anthropologist who was "one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary Iranian ethnographers". He popularized the term gharbzadegi – variously translated in English as "westernstruck", "westoxification", and "Occidentosis" –, producing a holistic ideological critique of the West "which combined strong themes of Frantz Fanon and Marx".

Bahare Arvin is an Iranian sociologist and reformist politician who is member of City Council of Tehran. She was a participant in 2007 World Economic Forum.

Hajar Chenarani is an Iranian sociologist, academic, and politician. She was elected to the Islamic Consultative Assembly in 2016.

Ali Darabi, is an Iranian sociologist, researcher, professor and media executive. He is vice chairman of IRIB, a post he held since 21 July 2004.

Nasser Fakouhi is an Iranian anthropologist, writer and translator.

Mohammad Fazeli is an Iranian sociologist and assistant professor at Shahid Beheshti University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of science. 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).

Abdollah Guivian is an Iranian writer and sociologist whose work focuses on anthropology of religion, media studies and Iranian Armenians. He was the founding editor of the journal Communication Research. Guivian is credited as the "father of video clips in Iran".

Ebrahim Hajiani is an Iranian sociologist whose work focuses on futures studies, identity, sociology of religion and secularism. He is the deputy head of the Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and a former head of Iranian Students Polling Agency.

Keyhan Hashemnia is an Iranian politician who served as the governor of Gilan Province. He was previously Deputy Governor of Gilan for planning from May 2008 until June 2011.

Farhang Holakouee is an Iranian psychologist, sociologist, economist and radio personality. His radio program—hosted in the past by 670 KIRN and currently by Radio Hamrah—offers relationship advice to callers in Persian. Dr. Holakouee was born in Shiraz, Iran and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Mohammadreza Jalaeipour is an Iranian sociologist and political activist.

Anvar Khāmahʼī was an Iranian sociologist, economist, journalist, and politician, who wrote many books in his specialty fields, including his analytical and critical book Revisionism from Marx to Mao Tse-Tung. Khamei gained his B.Sc. in sociology and his Ph.D. in economics from the Heidelberg University and the University of Freiburg, respectively. In addition, he held a M.Sc. degree in journalism. He was a university professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, and a UNESCO fellow. Khamei was an activist of the Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s, but he quit in January 1948, and concentrated on his journalistic and academic activities. He believed in social democracy, or in other words, the Third Way, for the most of his life. Anvar Khamei was a multilinguist, being proficient in German, French, and English languages, in addition to his mother tongue Persian language, with many publications in all those languages. He died on 20 November 2018 at the age of 101 from respiratory failure. He was a descendant of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.

Seyed Javad Miri Meynagh is a Swedish-Iranian sociologist and associate professor of sociology at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He is known for his expertise on social theory and Islamic thinkers.

Ehsān Narāghi was an Iranian sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviser

Soleiman Pakseresht is an Iranian sociologist and associate professor at Bu-Ali Sina University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of cyberspace. He was also the deputy of Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare.

Ali Rabei, also known by his nickname Ebad, is an Iranian politician and former intelligence officer. He served as the labour minister from 2013 to 2018. He was an adviser to the former President Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2005. On 4 August 2013, he was nominated for as minister of labour to the incumbent cabinet by Hassan Rouhani. He is also professor at Payame Noor University.

Shahra Razavi is an Iranian-born academic and senior United Nations official specialising in gender and social development. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University, Razavi is currently Director of the Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.

Parvaneh Salahshouri is an Iranian sociologist and reformist politician who is currently a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district.

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 Iranian Revolution", although his ideas ended up not forming the basis of the Islamic Republic.

Gholam-Abbas Tavassoli was an Iranian sociologist, emeritus at University of Tehran and chancellor of Isfahan University.