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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian doctors that lived from medieval times up until the beginning of the modern age. By "Iranian", all the peoples of historic

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

are meant, i.e., what is today

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, and all the countries of

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

("common modern definition") that were historically part of the Persian empire, whether or not such people were ethnic Persians or Iranians. In some cases, their exact ancestry is unclear. They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of", but nevertheless their names and work are somehow linked to the words "Iranian" and/or "Persian".

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* Abdolrahman, Sheikh Muhammad * Abhari, mathematician *

Ahmad ibn Farrokh Ahmad ibn Farrukh, also written Ahmad-i Farrokh, was a 12th-century Persian physician from Herat. He was one of the teachers of Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani. He is author of a Persian medicine encyclopaedia titled ''Kifayah'' that is no longer extan ...

* Ahmad Ibn Imad ul-din and chemist * Al-Qumri, Persian physician * Al-Nafis, Persian physician * Amuli, Muhammad ibn Mahmud * Aqa-Kermani * Aqsara'i * Arzani, Muqim *

Astarabadi Astarabadi ( fa, استرآبادی) is an Iranian surname, derived from the city of "Astarabad" (former name of Gorgan) in northern Iran. It may refer to: * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858 or 1859 – 1921), Iranian writer, satirist, and women's ...

* Avicenna (Ibn Sina), philosopher

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Bukhtishu The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian-Syriac name which can be found as early as at ...

, Persian Christian physicians of

Academy of Gundishapur The Academy of Gondishapur ( fa, فرهنگستان گندی‌شاپور, Farhangestân-e Gondišâpur), also known as the Gondishapur University (دانشگاه گندی‌شاپور Dânešgâh-e Gondišapur), was one of the three Sasanian ...

* Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn * Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn * Bukhtishu, Yuhanna *

Burzoe Borzuya (or Burzōē or Burzōy or Borzouyeh, ) was a Persian physician in the late Sassanid era, at the time of Khosrow I. He translated the Indian '' Panchatantra'' from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian). Both his translation and the or ...

, aka Borzouyeh-i Tabib of

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Ctesias Ctesias (; grc-gre, Κτησίας; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire. Historical events Ctesias, who lived in the fi ...

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* Esfarayeni

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* Gilani, Hakim, royal physician * Gorgani, Zayn al-Din Isma‘il ibn, royal physician * Gorgani, Rustam * Gorgani e Masihi, see Masihi Gorgani, Avicenna's master

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Hajji Zayn al-Attar Haji Zayn Attar ( 1329–1403) was a 14th-century Persian physician. He is best known as the author of the Persian language pharmacopoeia ''Ekhtiyarat i Badi i''. Biography Attar was born in 1329-1330 CE (730 AH) in Shiraz, and lived during t ...

* Hakim Ghulam Imam * Hakim Muhammad Mehdi Naqi * Hakim Muhammad Sharif Khan *

Haly Abbas 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi ( fa, علی بن عباس مجوسی; died between 982 and 994), also known as Masoudi, or Latinized as Haly Abbas, was a Persian physician and psychologist from the Islamic Golden Age, most famous for the ''Kitab ...

, prominent physician * Harawi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf * Hasani, Qavameddin

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* Jaghmini * Jaldaki * Juzjani, Abu Ubaid

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* Kazerouni, Masoud * Kermani, Iwad * Khazeni, Abolfath, physicist * Khorasani, Sultan Ali

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* Majusi, Ibn Abbas * Masihi Gorgani, Avicenna's master * Muwaffaq, Abu mansur, pharmacologist *

Masawaiyh Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (circa 777–857), ( ar, يوحنا بن ماسويه), also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus, or Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesuë the Elder was a Persian or Assyrian East Syriac ...

or Masuya

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* Nagawri *

Nakhshabi Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi was a 14th-century Persian physician and Sufi living in India. He died in 1350. According to a statement in a manuscript now at The National Library of Medicine, Nakhshabi himself transcribed and illustrated a Persian trans ...

* Natili Tabari * Neishaburi * Nurbakhshi

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Ostanes Ostanes (from Ancient Greek, Greek ), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes, is a legendary Persians, Persian magus and alchemist. It was the pen-name used by several pseudepigraphy, pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic ...

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* Qazwini, Zakariya

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* Razi, Zakariya (Rhazes), chemist and physicist, discoverer of Alcohol

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* Sahl, Shapur ibn * Samarqandi, Najibeddin *

Shahrazuri Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuri was a 13th-century Muslim physician, historian and philosopher. He was of Kurdish origin. It appears that he was alive in AD 1288. However, it is also said that he died in the same year. Shahrazuri was ...

, philosopher and physician * Shirazi, Imad al-Din Mas'ud * Shirazi, Muhammad Hadi Khorasani * Shirazi, Mahmud ibn Ilyas * Shirazi, Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas * Shirazi, Qurayshi * Sijzi, Mas'ud

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* Tabari, Abul Hasan * Tabari, Ibn Sahl, Jewish convert physician Master of

Rhazes Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (full name: ar, أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, translit=Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī, label=none), () rather than ar, زکریاء, label=none (), as for example in , or in . In m ...

* Tabrizi, Maqsud Ali * Tunakabuni * Tughra'i

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Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat was a 13th-century Persian physician. The National Library of Medicine possesses an untitled Persian treatise on general preparation of food and drink which gives the author as Amin al-Din Rashid Vatvat and specifi ...

, scholar and physician

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