Middle Eastern Americans

Middle Eastern Americans are Americans with ancestry, origins, or citizenship from the Middle East.

Middle Eastern Americans

Total population
9,981,332 3.2% of the total U.S. population (2010)
Regions with significant populations
Continental United States, smaller populations in Alaska and Hawaii
Languages
English · Arabic · Aramaic · Azerbaijani · Hebrew · Kurdish · Persian · Turkish · others
Religion
Christianity: (Eastern Orthodoxy · Catholicism) Islam · Judaism · Druze · Zoroastrianism · Atheism · Yezidism · Agnosticism · Deism

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "Middle Eastern American" applies to anyone of Western Asian and North African extraction. This definition includes both indigenous Middle Eastern groups in diaspora (e.g. the Jewish diaspora, Kurdish Americans, Assyrian Americans, etc.) and current immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab League, Iran, Israel and Turkey.[1][2][3][4] Middle Eastern communities have been settling in America since at least the Dutch colonial period of New Amsterdam, when Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil found refuge there in 1654.

Population

Max Amini, Iranian American stand-up comedian

The population of Middle Eastern Americans totals at least 10 million, combining the estimates for Arab Americans (3.7 million[5]) and Jewish Americans (6.5 million).[6]

The population of Middle Eastern Americans includes both Arabs and non-Arabs. In their definitions of Middle Eastern Americans, U.S. Census Bureau and the National Health Interview Survey include peoples (diasporic or otherwise) from present-day Iran, Israel, Turkey and Armenia.[7][8]

As of 2013, an estimated 1.02 million immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) lived in the United States, making up 2.5 percent of the country's 41.3 million immigrants.[9] Middle Eastern and North African immigrants have primarily settled in California (20%), Michigan (11%), and New York (10%). U.S. Census Bureau data shows that from 2009 to 2013, the four counties with the most MENA immigrants were Los Angeles County, California; Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit), Cook County, Illinois (Chicago), and Kings County, New York (Brooklyn); these four counties collectively "accounted for about 19 percent of the total MENA immigrant population in the United States."[10]

By ethnicity

Although the U.S. Census has recorded race and ethnicity since the first census in 1790, this information has been voluntary since the end of the Civil War (non-whites were counted differently from 1787 to 1868 for the purpose of determining congressional representation).[11] As such, these statistics do not include those who did not volunteer this optional information, and so the census underestimates the total populations of each ethnicity actually present.[12]

Middle Eastern Americans in the 2000[13] - 2010 U.S. Census,[14] the Mandell L. Berman Institute, and the North American Jewish Data Bank[6]

Ancestry	2000	2000 (% of US population)	2010	2010 (% of US population)
Arab	1,160,729	0.4125%	1,697,570	0.5498%
Armenian	385,488	0.1370%	474,559	0.1537%
Assyrian/Chaldo-Assyrian	81,749	0.0290%	106,821	0.0346%
Azerbaijani	14,205	0.0050%		%
Iranian	338,266	0.1202%	463,552	0.1501%
Israeli	106,839	0.0380%	129,359	0.0419%
Jewish	6,155,000	2.1810%	6,543,820	2.1157%
Kurdish	9,423	0.0033%		%
Syriac	606	0.0002%		%
Tajik	905	0.0003%		%
Turkish	117,575	0.0418%	195,283	0.0633%
"Middle Eastern"	28,400	0.0101%		%
Total	8,561,129	3.033718%	9,981,332	3.227071%

Armenian American dancers in New York City in July 1976 during the United States Bicentennial

Although tabulated, "religious responses" were reported as a single total and not differentiated, despite totaling 1,089,597 in 2000.[13]

Independent organizations provide improved estimates of the total populations of races and ethnicities in the US using the raw data from the US Census and other surveys.

Estimates from the Mandell L. Berman Institute and the North American Jewish Data Bank put the total population of Jews between 5.34 and 6.16 million in 2000 and around 6.54 million in 2010.[6] Similarly, the Arab-American Institute estimated the population of Arab Americans at 3.7 million in 2012.[5]

According to a 2002 Zogby International survey, the majority of Arab Americans are Christian; the survey showed that 24% of Arab Americans were Muslim, 63% were Christian and 13% belonged to another religion or no religion.[15] Christian Arab Americans include Maronites, Melkites, Chaldeans, Orthodox Christians, and Copts; Muslim Arab Americans primarily adhere to one of the two main Islamic denominations, Sunni and Shia.[15]

Notable People

Academia

• Elias J. Corey, organic chemistry professor at Harvard University, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[16] (Lebanese parents)
• Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry", winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Michael E. DeBakey, pioneering Lebanese-American cardiovascular surgeon and researcher,[17] 1963 Lasker Award laureate
• Omar M. Yaghi, Jordanian-American reticular chemistry pioneer; winner of the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Mostafa El-Sayed, Egyptian-American US National Medal of Science laureate; leading nanoscience researcher; known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule
• Farouk El-Baz Egyptian-American space scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon
• Huda Zoghbi, Lebanese-American physician and medical researcher who discovered the genetic cause of the Rett syndrome
• Huda Akil, pioneering Syrian-American neuroscientist and medical researcher
• Yasmine Belkaid, Algerian-American immunologist, professor and a senior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Hunein Maassab, Syrian-American professor of epidemiology and the inventor of the live attenuated influenza vaccine
• Joanne Chory, plant biologist and geneticist (Lebanese)
• Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Lebanese)
• Noureddine Melikechi, Algerian-American Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physicist, member of the Mars Science Laboratory
• Michel T. Halbouty, Lebanese-American geologist and geophysicist; pioneer in oil field research
• Adah al-Mutairi (Saudi Arabian), inventor and scholar in nanotechnology and nanomedicine
• M. Amin Arnaout, Lebanese-American nephrologist and biologist
• Essam Heggy, Egyptian-American Planetary scientist
• Shadia Habbal, Syrian-American astronomer and physicist specialized in Space physics
• Mohamed Atalla, engineer, inventor of MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor), pioneer in silicon semiconductors and security systems, founder of Atalla Corporation[18]
• Charles Elachi, Lebanese-American professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech and the former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Fawwaz T. Ulaby Syrian-American professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, former Vice President of Research for the University of Michigan; first Arab-American winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
• Taher ElGamal, Egyptian-American cryptographer, inventor of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and the ElGamal signature scheme
• Ali H. Nayfeh, Palestinian-American mechanical engineer, the 2014 recipient of Benjamin Franklin Medal in mechanical engineering
• Dina Katabi, Syrian-American Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.
• Abbas El Gamal, Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur, the recipient of the 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award
• Oussama Khatib, roboticist and a professor of computer science
• Elias Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health (Algerian)
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, Lebanese-American technology innovator.[19][20] He received 43 patents covering his work. Among the patents were reported innovations in television transmission.
• Mohammad S. Obaidat (Jordanian), computer science/engineering academic and scholar
• Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures; Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center; Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University (Lebanese)
• Hany Farid, Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, pioneer in Digital forensics (Egyptian)
• Ahmed Tewfik, Egyptian-American electrical engineer, Professor and college administrator
• Munther A. Dahleh, Professor and Director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Palestinian)
• Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher, professor (Palestinian)
• Fouad Ajami, Professor of International Relations (Lebanese)
• Saddeka Arebi, professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley (Lybian)
• Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh, executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America[21] (Sudanese)
• Samih Farsoun, sociology professor at the American University[22] (Palestinian)
• Philip Khuri Hitti, historian of Arab culture and history (Lebanese)
• Philip S. Khoury, Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Lebanese)
• Laura Nader, cultural anthropologist (Lebanese)
• Edward Said, Palestinian-Lebanese American literary theorist and former professor at Columbia University
• Ahmed Ismail Samatar, prominent writer, professor and former dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College; Somali ancestry
• Nada Shabout, Professor of Art History at University of North Texas (Palestinian-Iraqi)
• Naseer Aruri, Chancellor Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (Palestinian)
• Nadia Abu El Haj, Author & Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and subject of a major tenure controversy case at Columbia University (Palestinian)
• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, former Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University, father of Lila Abu-Lughod (Palestinian)
• Lila Abu-Lughod, professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University (Palestinian)
• Leila Farsakh, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (Palestinian)
• Samih Farsoun, Professor of sociology at American University and editor of Arab Studies Quarterly (Palestinian)
• Nadia Hijab, Journalist with Middle East Magazine and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies (Palestinian)
• Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University (Palestinian-Lebanese)
• Joseph Massad, Professor at Columbia University known for his work on nationalism and sexuality in the Arab world (Palestinian)
• Hisham Sharabi Professor Emeritus of History and Umar al-Mukhtar Chair of Arab Culture at Georgetown University (Palestinian)
• Rosemarie Said Zahlan, historian, journalist & author, sister of Edward Said (Palestinian-Lebanese)
• Steven Salaita, former Professor of English at Virginia Tech, winner of Myers Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights 2007 (Palestinian)
• Majid Khadduri, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program (Iraqi)
• Thomas L. Saaty, Assyrian-Iraqi University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
• Nada Shabout, art historian and Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas[23][24][25][26][27][28][29] (Iraqi-Palestinian)
• Ella Shohat, professor, author and activist (Iraqi-Jewish)
• Saadi Simawe, translator, novelist and teacher (Iraqi)
• Aziz Sancar, Biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015 (Turkish)
• Donny George Youkhanna, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York, internationally known as "the man who saved the Iraqi National Museum."
• Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, teaches religion, science, and freedom at the University of Maryland, College Park; directs the Minaret of Freedom Institute[30][31] (Palestinian)
• Muhsin Mahdi, Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist.
• Talal Asad, anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center. (Saudi Arabian)
• Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University (Syrian)
• Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami (Lebanese)
• Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University (Lebanese)
• Robert Khayat, chancellor of the University of Mississippi (Lebanese)

• Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University (Iranian)
• Kamyar Abdi, archaeologist, former Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College (Iranian)
• Alexander Abian, mathematician, Iowa State University (Iranian-Armenian)
• Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University since 1988. (Iranian)
• Ervand Abrahamian, historian of Middle Eastern (particularly Iranian) history at City University of New York (Iranian)
• Janet Afary, author, feminist activist, and professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (Iranian)
• Gholam Reza Afkhami, senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at the Foundation for Iranian Studies
• Shahriar Afshar, physicist and inventor who is the namesake of the Afshar experiment
• Newsha Ajami, hydrologist specializing in urban water policy and sustainable water management; professor and Director of Urban Water Policy program at Stanford University
• Abass Alavi, Professor of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania[32]
• Leonardo Alishan, professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah (1978–1997)
• Abbas Alizadeh, archeologist of ancient Iran; former Senior Research Associate and Director of the Iranian Prehistoric Project at the University of Chicago
• Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies at Yale University
• Hooshang Amirahmadi, academic and political analyst. Professor of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
• Nahid Angha, Sufi scholar,. Co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism (IAS), founder of the International Sufi Women Organization, and executive editor of the journal Sufism: An Inquiry
• Anousheh Ansari, first Iranian in space and the first female space tourist;
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
• Abbas Ardehali, surgical director of UCLA's Heart and Lung Transplant program
• Saïd Amir Arjomand, professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, and Director of the Stony Brook Institute of Global Studies. Founding Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies
• Yahya Armajani, professor of history and soccer coach at Macalester College
• Reza Aslan, scholar of religious studies, television host, and author of No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Currently a professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside. Board member of the National Iranian American Council (NAIC)
• Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, structural engineer and professor at University of California, Berkeley; investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center towers due to the September 11 attacks
• Fakhreddin Azimi, professor of history at the University of Connecticut
• Babak Azizzadeh, facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Keck School of Medicine of USC
• Sussan Babaie, art historian and curator, specialist in Persian art and Islamic art of the early modern period.especially the Safavid dynasty
• Mir Bahmanyar, historical writer and former U.S. Army officer, who has written books on the U.S. Navy SEALs and the U.S. Army Rangers
• Shaul Bakhash, historian, expert in Iranian studies, George Mason University, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History
• Laleh Bakhtiar, author and translator of 25 books about Islam, many of which deal with Sufism. She is best known for her 2007 translation of the Qur'an, known as The Sublime Quran,
• Mehrsa Baradaran, law professor specializing in banking law at University of Georgia
• Iraj Bashiri, professor of History at the University of Minnesota specialist in the fields of Central Asian studies and Iranian studies
• Asef Bayat, professor of sociology and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Manuel Berberian, earth scientist, specializing in earthquake seismology, geophysics, archaeoseismology, and environmental geoscience
• Mina Bissell, scientist and biologist known for research on breast cancer; former head of life science at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• George Bournoutian, historian, professor of History at Iona College, and author of over 30 books on the history of Armenia, Iran, and the Caucasus
• Jennifer Tour Chayes, mathematical physicist & theoretical computer scientist, and world renowned leading expert on the modeling & analysis of dynamically growing graphs. Founder, Technical Fellow, & Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England & Microsoft Research New York
• Houchang Chehabi, historian, expert in Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, where he is professor of International Relations and History
• Aaron Cohen-Gadol, internationally renowned neurosurgeon specializing in surgical treatment of brain tumors and aneurysms
• Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City[33]
• Jaleh Daie, scientist, former professor of biology and department chairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rutgers University
• Richard Danielpour, Professor of Composition, Manhattan School of Music
• Touraj Daryaee, Iranologist and historian at the University of California, Irvine
• Armen Der Kiureghian, professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley, member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, current President of the American University of Armenia
• Keivan Deravi, economist at Auburn University at Montgomery
• Sibel Edmonds, former translator who worked as a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC)
• Mehrdad Ehsani, professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech; Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech
• Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation and plasmonic optics, nano- and graphene photonics, nano- and miniature antennas, and bio-inspired optical imaging, among many others
• Dara Entekhabi, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT. His main expertise is in the field of hydrology.
• Haleh Esfandiari, Middle East scholar and former director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is an expert on contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, as well as women's issues and democratic developments in the Middle East. She was one of the four Iranian-Americans falsely convicted and detained by the Iranian government in May 2007.
• Kamran Eshraghian, electrical engineer, notable for his work on VLSI and CMOS VLSI design
• Fariba Fahroo, mathematician, program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Along with I. M. Ross, she has published papers in pseudospectral optimal control theory. The Ross–Fahroo lemma and the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral method are named after her
• Fereydoon Family, leading physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics. He is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics at Emory University
• Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, professor and head of Biology department at Rutgers University
• Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, founder and director of the Tehran School of Social Work. Co-founder of the Family Planning Association of Iran, and former vice-president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
• Alimorad Farshchian, medical doctor, medical author, and founder and director of The Center of Regenerative Medicine in Miami, Florida
• Nariman Farvardin, President of Stevens Institute of Technology, and former Provost of University of Maryland
• Bobak Ferdowsi, systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission.
• Alexander L. George (born Alexander L. Givargis), behavioral scientist specialist in the psychological effects of nuclear crisis management, Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University
• Mohammadreza Ghadiri, chemist and professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute. Awarded the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in 1998
• Roozbeh Ghaffari, inventor, bioelectronics entrepreneur, biomedical engineering research faculty at Northwestern University[34]
• Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge
• Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, professor of religion at Reed College, and author of A History of Islam in America and Competing Visions of Islam in the United States.
• M.R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the faculty of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas, Austin
• Morteza Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Caltech.
• Jamshid Gharajedaghi, organizational theorist, management consultant, & adjunct professor of Systems thinking at Villanova University. B
• John Ghazvinian, author, historian and former journalist. Associate Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Doreen Granpeesheh, clinical psychologist, and producer of the documentary Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back.
• Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York[35] and former president of Brown University
• Mohammad Hajiaghayi, computer scientist known for his work in algorithms, game theory, network design, and big data. Jack and Rita G. Minker professor at the University of Maryland Dept. of Computer Science.
• Ali Hajimiri, inventor, technologist, and Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
• Reza Hamzaee, economist and BOG-Distinguished Professor of Economics at Missouri Western State University. Specialist in banking and managerial economics
• Babak Hassibi, electrical engineer, the inaugural Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering. Specialist in communications, signal processing and control.
• Payam Heydari, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine[36]
• Shireen Hunter, Research Professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
• Ahmad Iravani, philosopher, scholar, and clergyman. . Professor of theology at the University of California, Davis. Founder, President, and Executive Director of "Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East"
• Ali Jadbabaie, systems theorist, network scientist, and the JR East Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ali Jafari, professor of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University, Director of the CyberLab at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
• Hamid Jafarkhani, leading communication theorist and Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine[37]
• Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher at University of Toronto
• Farnam Jahanian, computer scientist and the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University
• Ali Javan, physicist, inventor of gas laser; Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT
• Hassan Jawahery, physicist, former spokesman of the BaBar Collaboration, and professor of Physics at the University of Maryland
• Majd Kamalmaz, psychotherapist who has been illegally detained in Syria since 2017
• Sepandar Kamvar, computer scientist, Stanford University
• Mehran Kardar, physicist and professor of physics at MIT,[38] and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute
• Morvarid Karimi, neurologist and medical researcher, specialist in neuroimaging of the pathophysiology of movement disorders. She was an assistant professor of Neurology in the Movement Disorders Section at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO
• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Iranist, scholar of modern Persian literature, and Professor and Founding Director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland[39]
• Elham Kazemi, mathematics educator and educational psychologist; Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington
• Firuz Kazemzadeh, historian of Russian and Iranian history, and Professor Emeritus of history at Yale University.
• Homayoon Kazerooni, roboticist & professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley;[40] director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory
• Fatemeh Keshavarz, scholar of Rumi and Farsi language & poetry, and poet in Persian and English; Director & Chair of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. Previously, was a professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis
• Ali Khademhosseini, Levi Knight Endowed Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. Holds a professorship in bioengineering, radiology, chemical, and biomolecular engineering.
• Laleh Khalili, professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She also writes regularly for Iranian.com
• Farid Khavari, economist, specialist in economics, environment, oil, healthcare, & the Middle East.
• Samira Kiani, Health Systems Engineer at Arizona State University. Her work combines CRISPR technology with synthetic biology. She is a 2019 AAAS Leshner Fellow.
• Farinaz Koushanfar, professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego
• Habib Levy, historian, specialist in the history of Jews in Iran; author of Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran: The Outset of the Diaspora.
• Esfandiar Maasoumi, econometrician and economist. He is a Distinguished Professor at Emory University and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub, prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator, and professor. Moved to the U.S. in 1991 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley
• Hoooman Majd, journalist, author, and commentator
• G. A. Mansoori, professor of chemical engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Alireza Mashaghi, biophysicist and medical scientist at Leiden University and Harvard University
• Bahram Mashhoon, general relativity physicist and professor of physics at the University of Missouri. Through his research works, he has given important contributions to general relativity, particularly to the gravitomagnetic clock effect. He is also active in the field of non-local gravity

• Daron Acemoglu, economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[41]
• Viken Babikian, professor at Boston University School of Medicine
• Peter Balakian, professor of Humanities at Colgate University
• Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy at New York University
• Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy at Portland State University
• Aram Chobanian, Dean of Boston University School of Medicine
• Harry Daghlian, academic scientist
• Richard Dekmejian, professor at University of Southern California
• James Der Derian, Watson Institute professor of International Studies and Political Science at Brown University
• Edward Goljan, professor of Pathology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
• Hrach Gregorian, writer and teacher on international conflict management and post-conflict peace building
• Vartan Gregorian, former President of Brown University and current President of the Carnegie Corporation
• Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013), professor emerita of English at Barnard College.
• Richard G. Hovannisian, professor of Armenian History at UCLA
• Raffi Indjejikian, professor of accounting at University of Michigan
• Joseph Albert Kechichian, author
• Mark Krikorian, Executive director of Center for Immigration Studies
• Robert Mehrabian, President of Carnegie Mellon
• Gevork Minaskanian, professor of organic chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Josh Pahigian, professor of global humanities at the University of New England
• George Piranian, professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan
• Barbara Sahakian, professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at University of Cambridge
• Mark Saroyan, professor of Soviet studies at Harvard and UC Berkeley
• Rashid Massumi, cardiologist and clinical professor, best known for his pioneering research in the field of electrophysiology. He was also known for bringing modern cardiology to Iran, and for being the cardiologist to the last Shah of Iran and, until 1980, Ayatollah Khomeini
• Noah McKay (born Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi), physician and author of Wellness at Warp Speed
• Robert Mehrabian, material scientist, former president of Carnegie Mellon University, and Chair, President, and CEO of Teledyne Technologies
• Houra Merrikh, microbiologist and a full professor at Vanderbilt University
• Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University; research fellow & co-director of the "Iran Democracy Project" at Stanford's Hoover Institution
• Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian Literature & Women's Studies at the University of Virginia, and the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages & Cultures.
• Mohsen Milani, foreign policy analyst, and professor of politics at the University of South Florida
• Abbas Mirakhor, economist; former Executive Director and Dean of Board of the International Monetary Fund (INF); Distinguished Scholar and Chair in Islamic Finance at Malaysia's INCEIF (International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance)
• Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University Professor; first female winner of the Fields Medal
• Afshin Molavi, author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics, particularly the Middle East and Asia.
• Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut candidate of the class of 2017
• Mehryar Mohri, professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Specialist in machine learning, automata theory and algorithms, speech recognition and natural language processing
• Parviz Moin, fluid dynamicist, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. 2011 inductee to the United States National Academy of Sciences
• Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and educator, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design[42]
• Farzad Mostashari, internal medicine physician, former national coordinator for health information technology at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Hossein Khan Motamed, surgeon, founder of the Motamed Hospital in Tehran, Iran, and personal physician of Mohammad Reza Shah.
• Negar Mottahedeh, cultural critic and film theorist
• Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus at Harvard University, specialist in pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. Former director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1987–1990), and inaugural director of Harvard's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program (2005–2011)
• Hamid Mowlana, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and founding director of the Division of International Communication at the School of International Service at American University.[43] In 2003, he was honored as an "Chehrehaye Mandegar" (Eternal One) by Iranian universities and academies.
• Eden Naby, Iranian-Assyrian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East, who is notable for her publications, research, and preservation work on Assyrian culture and history
• Firouz Naderi, former NASA director of Mars project.[44] Has also served in other various technical and executive positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• Hamid Naficy, cholar of cultural studies of diaspora, exile, & postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian & Middle Eastern cinemas. Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University .
• Paul M. Naghdi, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Specialist in continuum mechanics
• Majid M. Naini (مجید ناینی), Rumi scholar, computer scientist, former professor at University of Pennsylvania, writer on poetry, science, technology, and mysticism[45]
• Kayvan Najarian, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University; prominent Islamic philosopher
• Vali Nasr, author and scholar on the Middle East and Islamic world; Served as Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C.
• Angella Nazarian (née Angella Maddahi), former Professor of Psychology at Mount St. Mary's University, California State University, Long Beach & the Los Angeles Valley College. Co-founder of Looking Beyond
• Camran Nezhat, laparoscopic surgeon and director of Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University
• Kathy Niakan, human developmental and stem cell biologist. In 2016, she became the first scientist in the world to gain regulatory approval to edit the genomes of human embryos for research.
• Reza Olfati-Saber, roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College
• Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Firouz Partovi, physicist; founder and former chairman of the Faculty of Physics at the Sharif University of Technology. He has also taught at MIT and Harvard University.
• Massoud Pedram, computer engineer known for his research in green computing, power optimization (EDA), low power electronics and design, and electronic design automation.
• Gholam A. Peyman, ophthalmologist, retina surgeon, and inventor of LASIK eye surgery
• Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering
• Ali R. Rabi, scholar at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at University of Maryland, College Park; founding chair of the Middle Eastern Citizens Assembly; Initiated the International University of Iran in 2001.
• Samuel Rahbar, biomedical scientist, discovered the linkage between HbA1C and diabetes
• Hazhir Rahmandad, engineer and expert in dynamic modeling and system dynamics. Associate Professor in the System Dynamics group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Yahya Rahmat-Samii, professor and the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics at Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA
• Behzad Razavi, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Communications Circuit Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. y
• Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor & Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University, pioneer in semiconductors and optoelectronic devices.
• Zabihollah Rezaee, accountant, Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and Professor of accounting at the University of Memphis
• Sakineh (Simin) M. Redjali, psychologist and author. She was the first female professor at the National University of Iran
• Darius Rejali, professor of political science at Reed College and scholar specialized in the study of torture. He has served on the board of the Human Rights Review since 2000.
• Nouriel Roubini, one of the leading economists of our age; professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University; chairman of RGE Monitor
• Pardis Sabeti, world-renowned computational geneticist, Assistant Professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
• Ahmad Sadri, sociologist and professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College, and the James P. Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies since 2007. Active in the reform movement in Iran.
• Mahmoud Sadri, professor of Sociology at the Federation of North Texas Area Universities. His major interests are in religious, cultural & theoretical sociology, reform Islam and interfaith dialogue.
• Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies at Duke University, Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and columnist for On Being. Scholar of Islamic mysticism (Sufism)
• Mehran Sahami, professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford.
• Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and current NIOC chair in petroleum engineering at USC
• Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, and visiting fellow at the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution. His expertise is on demographic & energy economics and the economics of Iran & the larger Middle East
• David B. Samadi, vice Chairman of the Department of Urology and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[46]
• Eliz Sanasarian, professor of political science at the University of Southern California. Specialist ethnic politics and feminism, particularly regarding the Middle East and Iran
• Kamal Sarabandi, Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan
• Homayoun Seraji, Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and CalTech, former professor at Sharif University of Technology. Works in the field of robotics and space exploration.[47]
• Cyrus Shahabi, chair of the Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
• Mohammad Shahidehpour, Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and Chairman in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology
• Ghavam Shahidi, electrical engineer and IBM Fellow, Director of Silicon Technology at IBM's Watson's Laboratory
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University, full professor of history in Eastern Oregon University
• Manuchehr Shahrokhi, professor of Global Business-Finance at California State University;[48] Founding Editor of Global Finance Journal; Executive Director of Global Finance Association[49]
• Fatemeh Shams, contemporary Persian poet, and Assistant Professor of Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania
• Shahrokh Shariat, urologist; professor & chairman of the Department of Urology of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; adjunct professor of urology & medical oncology at Weill Cornell Medical Center & at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
• Nasser Sharify, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute
• Siamack A. Shirazi, scientist, professor and graduate coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Tulsa.
• Hamid Shirvani, architecture scholar, former president of Briar Cliff University, former chancellor of North Dakota University System.
• Rahmat Shoureshi, former President of Portland State University; former president, Provost & professor at New York Institute of Technology
• Sam Sofer, scientist who specializes in biological processes and bioreactor design.
• Saba Soomekh, professor of religious studies, women's studies, and Middle Eastern history at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. Author of books and articles on contemporary and historical Iranian Jewish culture
• Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, university lecturer at Sciences Po, researcher, and United Nations consultant in peacekeeping, conflict resolution, counter-terrorism and radicalization. Best known for her work in "Human Security"
• Kian Tajbakhsh, social scientist, urban planner, and professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University. One of the four Iranian-Americans falsely convicted and detained by the Iranian government in May 2007
• Ray Takeyh, Middle East scholar and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Kamran Talattof, Persian literature and Iranian culture; Director of Persian Program University of Arizona
• Vahid Tarokh, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Bass Connections Professor, a professor of mathematics (secondary), and computer science (secondary) at Duke University
• Nader Tehrani, designer, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, and former professor of architecture and department chair at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
• Cumrun Vafa, string theorist and Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University. Recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
• Richard Axel, olfactory system, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Julius Axelrod, neurotransmitters, Nobel Prize (1970)
• David Baltimore, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)[50]
• Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1980)[51]
• Richard Arnowitt, physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity
• Paul Berg, recombinant DNA, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Richard Bing, cardiologist
• Otto Saly Binswanger, toxicologist
• Konrad Bloch, cholesterol, Nobel Prize (1959)
• Baruch Blumberg, hepatitis B vaccine, Nobel Prize (1976)[52]
• Michael S. Brown, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Stanley Cohen, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering
• Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947)[53]
• Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer
• Carl Djerassi, contraceptive pill
• Brian David Dynlacht, biochemist, TFIID (1991) and CP110 (2002)
• Victor Dzau, President of the United States National Academy of Medicine
• Gerald Edelman, biologist, Nobel Prize (1972)[54]
• Gertrude Elion, drug development, Nobel Prize (1988)[55]
• Joseph Erlanger, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1945)
• Edmond H. Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
• Judah Folkman, cancer angiogenesis
• Rosalind Franklin, X-ray crystallographer
• Casimir Funk, vitamins
• Robert F. Furchgott, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1998)
• Alfred G. Gilman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)[56]
• Joseph L. Goldstein, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist and writer
• Paul Greengard, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000)
• Rachel Haurwitz, biochemist and structural biologist
• Michael Heidelberger, immunochemist
• Horace Hodes, pediatrician
• Jerome Horwitz, AZT
• H. Robert Horvitz, biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)[57]
• Hugh Iltis, botanist
• Eric R. Kandel, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000)[58]
• Charles Kelman, cataract surgery
• Albert Kligman, dermatologist
• Arthur Kornberg, DNA replication, Nobel Prize (1959)[59]
• Roger Kornberg, RNA transcription, Nobel Prize (2006) (son of Arthur Kornberg)
• Eric Lander, Human Genome Project
• Esther Lederberg, geneticist[60]
• Joshua Lederberg, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1958)
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Michael S. Levine, developmental biologist, discoverer of homeobox
• Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist
• Fritz Lipmann, coenzyme A, Nobel Prize (1953)[61]
• Otto Loewi, pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize (1936)
• Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist, Recovery International founder
• Salvador Luria, bacterial evolution, Nobel Prize (1969)
• Lynn Margulis, symbiogenesis, Gaia theory
• Matthew Meselson, DNA replication
• A. L. Mestel, pediatric surgeon, separation of conjoined twins (1968)
• Otto Meyerhof, glycolysis, Nobel Prize (1922)
• Stanley Miller, Miller-Urey experiment
• Arthur J. Moss, cardiologist
• Hermann Muller, geneticist, Nobel Prize (1946)
• Daniel Nathans, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1978)[62]
• Marshall Nirenberg, genetic code, Nobel Prize (1968)
• Gregory Pincus, contraceptive pill
• Karl Pribram, neurologist
• Stanley Prusiner, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Martin Rodbell, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Ora Mendelsohn Rosen, insulin receptor
• Albert Sabin, oral polio vaccine
• Jonas Salk, polio vaccine[63]
• Albert Schatz, streptomycin
• Béla Schick, diphtheria test
• Rudolf Schoenheimer, radioactive tracers
• Werner Spitz, forensic pathologist
• Leo Sternbach, valium
• Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)[64]
• Max Tishler, synthetic vitamins
• Harold Varmus, virologist, Nobel Prize (1989)[65]
• Selman Waksman, streptomycin, Nobel Prize (1952)
• George Wald, retina pigmentation, Nobel Prize (1967).[66]
• Charles Weissmann, interferon cloning
• Alexander S. Wiener, hematologist and co-discoverer of the Rh factor
• Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist, Nobel Prize (1977)
• Charles Yanofsky, geneticist
• Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist, Assistant professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University, recipient of Young Scientist Award in 2005 for the mechanism of spliceosomes
• Roxanne Varzi, associate professor of anthropology and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, documentary filmmaker, and writer
• Ehsan Yarshater, founder and Editor in Chief of Encyclopaedia Iranica, first full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II; Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies; Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University;[67]
• Seema Yasmin, Director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative at Stanford University
• Mohammad Yeganeh, economist, former Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (1973–1975), a professor of economics at Columbia University (1980–1985)
• Houman Younessi, researcher and educator in informatics, computer science, and molecular biology. Former research professor at the University of Connecticut;
• Lotfi A. Zadeh, mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley; father of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets
• Norm Zada, former adjunct mathematics professor, and founder of Perfect 10; son of Lotfi A. Zadeh
• Reza Zadeh, computer scientist at Stanford University
• Iraj Zandi, Emeritus Professor of Systems, University of Pennsylvania
• Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics,
• Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)[68]
• Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)[69]
• Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)[70]
• Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)[71]
• Erwin Chargaff, DNA pioneer
• Morris Cohen, metallurgist
• Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)[71]
• Henry Gilman, organometallic chemist
• Moses Gomberg, free radicals
• Norman Hackerman, chemist
• Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)[72]
• Rachel Haurwitz, biochemist and structural biologist
• Roald Hoffmann (1937–), chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)[73]
• Martin Kamen, carbon-14[74]
• Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist
• Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
• Bruce H. Lipshutz, organometallic chemist
• Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium[75]
• Yurii Sh. Matros, Jewish-American chemist and chemical engineer, developer of Matros reactor, founder of Matros Technologies Inc.
• Alexander Pines, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1991)[76]
• Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)[77]
• Wachtang Djobadze, historian
• Gabor A. Somorjai, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1998)[78]
• William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)[79]
• Richard Zare, chemist
• Esmail Zanjani, department chair of Department of Animal Biotechnology at University of Nevada, Reno. President of the International Society for Experimental Hematology
• David Chavchavadze, author
• Gregory Gabadadze, physics professor, New York University
• Michael Gregor, aircraft engineer
• Cyril Toumanoff, historian and genealogist
• Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence
• Leonard Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award
• Paul Baran, Polish-born engineer, co-invented packet switching[80]
• Daniel J. Bernstein, cryptologist, designed Salsa20, Stream cipher and Curve25519; sued the U.S. government about encryption (Bernstein v. United States) (1995)
• Lenore and Manuel Blum (Turing Award (1995)), Venezuelan-American computer scientists, computational complexity; parents of Avrim Blum (Co-training)[81]
• Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet[82]
• Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
• Wendell Brown, computer scientist, co-founder of Teleo and LiveOps
• Peter Elias, information theory
• Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist[83]
• Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)[84]
• Raphael Finkel, Jargon File
• William F. Friedman, cryptologist[85]
• Herbert Gelernter, artificial intelligence; father of Unabomber victim David Gelernter[86]
• Seymour Ginsburg, formal language theory
• Richard D. Gitlin, co-inventor of the digital subscriber line (DSL)[87]
• Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team[88]
• Herman and Adele Goldstine (born Katz), developers of ENIAC
• Philip Greenspun, web applications[89]
• Frank Heart co-designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet[90]
• Martin Hellman, public key cryptography, co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol, Turing Award (2015)[91][92]
• James Hendler, semantic web
• Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications
• Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP. Won Presidential Medal of Freedom and Turing Award (2004). Dubbed as the father of the internet along Vint Cerf
• Vint Cerf, co-invented TCP and IP. Won Presidential Medal of Freedom and Turing Award (2004). Dubbed as the father of the internet along Bob Kahn
• Milton Abramowitz (1915-1958), mathematician
• Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), abstract algebra *[93]
• Kenneth Appel, four-color problem [94]
• Robert Aumann, mathematician in game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
• Richard Bellman, dynamic programming
• Lipman Bers, non-linear elliptic equations [95]
• Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis
• Richard Brauer, modular representation theory
• Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry
• Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966)
• Richard Courant, mathematician
• George Dantzig, simplex algorithm
• Martin Davis, mathematician
• Max Dehn, mathematician
• Persi Diaconis, statistician
• Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936) [96]
• Leon Ehrenpreis, mathematician, Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem
• Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist
• Noam Elkies, mathematician
• Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist [97]
• William Feller, probability theory
• Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986)
• Murray Gerstenhaber, theoretical physics (Gerstenhaber algebra)
• Dorian Goldfeld, number theorist, Cole Prize
• Michael Golomb, theory of approximation [98]
• Solomon Golomb, polyominoes [94]
• Dovid Gottlieb, mathematition
• Branko Grünbaum (1929-2018), discrete geometry
• Paul Halmos, mathematician
• E. Morton Jellinek, biostatistician [99]
• Mark Kac, mathematician
• Irving Kaplansky, mathematician
• Edward Kasner, mathematician [100]
• Nick Katz, algebraic geometry
• Joseph B. Keller, applied mathematician, National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize, Royal Society (Foreign Member)
• Martin Kruskal, mathematician
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and mathematical physicist [101]
• Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005)
• Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology
• Emma Lehmer, mathematician [102]
• Norman Levinson, mathematician
• George Lusztig, representation theory
• Barry Mazur, mathematician
• Ernest A. Michael, general topology
• Louis Mordell, number theorist
• Boris Mordukhovich, variational analysis
• John von Neumann, mathematician [103]
• Emanuel Parzen, mathematician
• George Pólya, mathematician
• Shlomo Sternberg, mathematician
• Alfred Tarski, logician, mathematician, philosopher
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
• André Weil, mathematician
• Norbert Wiener, mathematician, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science
• Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990)
• Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry
• Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)[104][105]
• John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC[106]
• Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching and one of the pioneers of the internet
• Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm
• Solomon Kullback, cryptographer[107]
• Ray Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition[108]
• Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer
• Leonid Levin, Soviet Ukraine-born computer scientist, computational complexity; Knuth Prize (2012)[109]\
• Gary Seitz, mathematician
• Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004)
• Richard P. Stanley, mathematician
• Elias Stein, mathematician
• Barbara Liskov (born Huberman), first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, Turing Award (2008)[88][110]
• Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC
• John McCarthy, artificial intelligence, LISP programming language, Turing Award (1971)[111][112]
• Emil Post, logician
• Herbert Robbins, statistician
• Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis
• Arthur Rubin, mathematician
• Shlomo Sawilowsky, statistician
• Jack Minker, database logic[113]
• Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969); co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory[114]
• John von Neumann (born Neumann János Lajos), Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist[115]
• Seymour Papert, South African-born co-inventor — with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon — of the Logo programming language[116]
• Ken Perlin, Perlin noise
• Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)[117]
• Lawrence Rabiner, Digital signal processing, Speech processing
• Frank Rosenblatt, invented an artificial intelligence program called "Perceptrons" (1960)[118]
• Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis[119]
• Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, author, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
• Ben Shneiderman, human-computer interaction, information visualization[120]
• Herbert A. Simon, cognitive and computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)[121]
• Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst, NSA Hall of Honor (1999)
• Gustave Solomon, mathematician and electrical engineer who was one of the founders of the algebraic theory of error detection and correction[122][123]
• Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory[124]
• Richard Stallman, designed the GNU operating system, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American-Dutch computer scientist, creator of MINIX
• Warren Teitelman, autocorrect, Undo/Redo, Interlisp
• Jeffrey Ullman, compilers, theory of computation, data-structures, databases, awarded Knuth Prize (2000)[125]
• Peter J. Weinberger, contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the "W" in AWK), and the FORTRAN compiler FORTRAN 77[126]
• Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist; developer of ELIZA; the Weizenbaum Award is named after him[127]
• Norbert Wiener, cybernetics[128]
• Terry Winograd, SHRDLU[129][130]
• Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist[131]
• Stephen Wolfram, British-American computer scientist, designer of the Wolfram Language[132]
• George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001)
• Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)
• Yoram Barzel
• Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)[133]
• Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank[134]
• Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans[135]
• Arthur F. Burns, economic adviser to the Eisenhower administration (1953) and Chairman to the Federal Reserve (1970)[136]
• Mary M. Cohen, social economist, writer
• Peter Diamond, Nobel Prize (2010)
• Barry Eichengreen, professor at University of California, Berkeley
• Rashi Fein, health economist
• Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration[137]
• Amy Finkelstein, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the co-Director and research associate of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America.[138]
• Stanley Fischer, economist and the vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
• Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993)
• David D. Friedman, son of Milton Friedman
• Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)[139]
• Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank[140]
• John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)[141]
• Steven Kaplan
• Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)[142]
• Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)[143]
• Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)
• Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize (2007)[144]
• Robert O. Mendelsohn, environmental economist
• Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Hyman Minsky
• Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Toby Moskowitz, financial economist[145]
• Roger Myerson, Nobel Prize (2007)
• Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk
• Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Prize (2012)[146]
• Murray Rothbard, writer, Austrian School economist, anarcho-capitalist, libertarian writer[147]
• Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American macroeconomist[148]
• Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
• Alexei Abrikosov, condensed matter physics, Nobel Prize (2003)
• Ralph Alpher, background radiation, nucleosynthesis
• John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist
• Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967)
• Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
• David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science
• Niels Bohr, physicist
• Gregory Breit, physicist
• Samuel T. Cohen, physicist
• Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist, National Medal Of Science, Kavli Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom (Jewish)[149]
• Albert Einstein (German), theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) (naturalized citizen)
• Jeremy England, biophysicist
• Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics
• Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
• Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race[150][151][152])
• Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, current Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Davis
• Phoebus Dhrymes, former professor of economics at Columbia University
• K. C. Nicolaou, chemist and academic
• C. L. Max Nikias, engineer, academic, and 11th (and current) President of the University of Southern California
• Symeon C. Symeonides, dean of Willamette University College of Law
• Marius Vassiliou, computational scientist and research executive
• Vamık Volkan, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
• David Finkelstein, physicist
• James Franck, physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)
• Edward Fredkin, digital physicist
• Jerome Friedman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Murray Gell-Mann, quarks, Nobel Prize (1969)
• Donald A. Glaser, bubble chamber, Nobel Prize (1960)
• Sheldon Glashow, physicist, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Roy Glauber, physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
• Herbert Goldstein, Columbia physicist, author of standard textbook on classical mechanics
• Samuel Goudsmit, electron spin
• Brian Greene, string theorist
• David Gross, string theorist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Alan Guth, cosmic inflation
• Eugene Guth, polymer physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics
• Robert Herman, cosmology, background radiation, operations research
• Robert Hofstadter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)
• Robert Jastrow, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist
• Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist
• Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer
• Joseph B. Keller, mathematical physics, wave propagation, National Medal Of Science, Wolf Prize
• Daniel Kleppner, atomic research
• Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)
• Rudolf Kompfner, engineer and physicist
• Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and cosmologist
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist[101]
• Rolf Landauer, physicist, information theory
• Leon M. Lederman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• David Morris Lee, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
• Fritz London, quantum chemistry
• Theodore Maiman, first operable laser
• Albert A. Michelson, speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907)
• Alexander Migdal, theoretical high energy physics (naturalized citizen)
• Ben Roy Mottelson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Frank Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Robert)
• Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Frank), father of the atomic bomb
• Douglas D. Osheroff, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
• Jeremiah P. Ostriker, astrophysicist
• Abraham Pais, historian of science
• Wolfgang Pauli, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1945)
• Arno Allan Penzias, background radiation, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Martin Lewis Perl, physicist, Nobel Prize (1995)
• H. David Politzer, physicist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Alexander Polyakov, theoretical high energy physics
• Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
• Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize (1944)
• Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer
• Mark G. Raizen, physicist, quantum physics
• Sidney Redner, statistical physics
• L. Rafael Reif, Venezuelan-born American electrical engineer, president of MIT
• Frederick Reines, neutrino experiment, Nobel Prize (1995)
• Burton Richter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Carl Sagan, astronomer and science popularizer
• Arthur Schawlow, physicist, laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize (1981)
• Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• John Schwarz, string theory physicist
• Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Emilio G. Segrè, physicist, anti-proton, Nobel Prize (1959) (naturalized citizen)
• Mikhail Shifman, theoretical particle physicist (naturalized citizen)
• Michael F. Shlesinger
• Lee Smolin, physicist, loop quantum gravity
• Alan Sokal, Sokal affair
• Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Otto Stern, physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
• Andrew Strominger, Physicist, string theory
• Leonard Susskind, Physicist, string theory
• Leó Szilárd, nuclear physicist (naturalized citizen)
• Edward Teller, nuclear physicist
• Arkady Vainshtein, theoretical high energy physics (naturalized citizen)
• Alexander Vilenkin, cosmology (naturalized citizen)
• Steven Weinberg, physicist, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons[153]
• Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
• Edward Witten, mathematical physicist, Fields Medal (1990), founder of M-Theory, only physicist to win Fields Medal, and currently the driving force behind theoretical/mathematical physics
• George Zweig, quarks
• Gregory Gabadadze, physics professor, New York University
• Michael Gregor, aircraft engineer
• Alexander Kartveli, aircraft designer of the 20th century
• Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)
• Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)[154]
• Henry Schultz
• Cyrus Adler[155]
• Herbert Aptheker Marxist historian
• Bernard Bailyn[156]
• Daniel J. Boorstin[157]
• Norman Cantor
• Ariel Durant[158]
• Stanley Elkins[159]
• Richard Ettinghausen, art historian[160]
• Norman Finkelstein,[161] author and historian
• Robert Fogel, economist and historian[162]
• Peter Gay[163]
• Yosef Goldman[164]
• Deborah Hertz[165]
• Raul Hilberg[166]
• Richard Hofstadter[167]
• Joseph Jacobs,[168] editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Gabriel Kolko
• Bernard Lewis[169]
• Deborah Lipstadt[170]
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian[171]
• Erwin Panofsky[172]
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy[173]
• Meyer Schapiro[174]
• Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history[175]
• Barbara Tuchman[176]
• Stanley M. Wagner, rabbi and academic
• Howard Zinn[177]
• Anna Schwartz, economist who published A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), which laid a large portion of the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System.[178] President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)[179]
• Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
• Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Firouz Partovi, physicist
• Alec Rasizade, professor of history and political science
• Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)
• Ibrahim Ben Ali, doctor, casualty in a Baltimore yellow fever epidemic
• Zeynel A. Karcıoğlu, M.D., ophthalmic oncology and orbital diseases specialist, surgeon
• Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist, co-founder of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami
• Mehmet Öz, cardiothoracic surgeon and award-winning author who has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN
• Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founding member and first director of the think tank The Club of Rome, systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher, and planner[180]
• Herbert Stein
• Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)
• Lawrence Henry Summers, former Chief Economist at the World Bank
• Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank
• Dennis Baron, linguist
• Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)[181]
• Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
• Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist
• Talmy Givón, linguist
• Kamer Daron Acemoğlu - Turkish economist of Armenian descent
• Nouriel Roubini
• Azad Bonni, Edison Professor of Neurobiology and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine.
• Edip Yüksel, Islamic philosopher and intellectual, considered one of the prime figures in the modern Islamic reform and Quranism movements.
• John Shahidi, software developer and manager, brother of Sam
• Sam Shahidi, software developer and manager, brother of John
• Arif Dirlik
• Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic[182]
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages[183]
• Mary Haas, linguist
• Morris Halle, linguist
• Zellig Harris, structural linguist
• Ray Jackendoff, linguist
• Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
• Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist[184]
• Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"[185]
• William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)[186]
• George Lakoff, sociolinguist, focuses on how language influences politics[187]
• Fred Lukoff, linguist
• María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist[188]
• Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist[189]
• Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist
• Maria Polinsky, linguist
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics[190]
• Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf[191]
• Morris Swadesh, linguist
• Leonard Talmy, linguist
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics[192]
• Michel Thomas, linguist, language teacher
• Max Weinreich, linguist
• Uriel Weinreich, linguist
• Peter Achinstein, philosopher of science
• Mortimer Adler, philosopher (converted to Episcopalianism in 1984 and then to Catholicism in 2000)
• Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
• Max Black, analytic philosopher[193]
• Joseph Blau, philosopher[194]
• Ned Block, philosopher of mind
• Allan Bloom, political philosopher
• George Boolos, logician
• Justus Buchler
• Judith Butler
• Stanley Cavell, philosopher
• Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist
• Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
• Norman Daniels, political philosopher
• Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
• Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
• Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
• Irwin Edman
• Paul Edwards[195]
• Jonathan Epstein, philosopher
• Marvin Farber, philosopher, phenomenology
• Solomon Feferman, logician
• Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science
• Stanley Fish, literary theorist
• Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind
• Philipp Frank, logical positivist
• Tamar Szabo Gendler, philosopher of mind
• Eugene Gendlin, philosopher of the implicit
• Bernard Gert, ethicist
• Alvin Goldman, epistemology, Goldman's barn example
• Nelson Goodman, philosopher, metaphysical relativism, new riddle of induction
• Paul Gottfried, political philosopher
• Sam Harris, philosopher, author, neuroscientist
• Sidney Hook, philosopher
• Hans Jonas, philosopher
• Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
• Saul Kripke, logician
• Thomas S. Kuhn, philosopher of science
• Abraham Low, critic of psychoanalysis
• Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician
• Joseph Margolis, philosopher, pragmatism
• Sidney Morgenbesser, philosopher
• Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
• Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
• Robert Nozick, libertarianism
• Martha Nussbaum, ethics
• Richard Popkin, philosopher[196]
• Hilary Putnam, philosopher, functionalism
• Ayn Rand, founder of the Objectivist philosophy (a refugee from communist Russia)
• Murray Rothbard, political philosopher
• Daniel Rynhold, philosopher of religion
• Michael Sandel, communitarianism
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson, religious philosopher
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
• Susanna Siegel, philosopher of mind
• Joseph Soloveitchik, religious philosopher
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral philosopher
• Michael Walzer, philosopher
• Jack Russell Weinstein, philosopher
• Dan Wikler, ethicist
• Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher
• Edith Wyschogrod, philosopher
• Stephen Yablo, philosopher
• Alfred Adler, personality psychologist
• Elliot Aronson
• Solomon Asch, gestalt psychologist (Polish-born)
• Richard Bandler, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
• Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
• Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
• Cary Cooper, organizational psychologist
• Paul Ekman, facial expressions
• Albert Ellis, cognitive psychologist
• Leon Festinger, theory of cognitive dissonance
• Reuven Feuerstein
• Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908-1958), co-editor (with Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford) of The Authoritarian Personality (Polish-born)
• Erich Fromm, psychologist and humanistic philosopher
• Carol Gilligan, psychologist and ethicist
• Daniel Goleman, expert in emotional intelligence
• Irving Gottesman, behavioral genetics
• John Gottman, marriage and relationships
• Richard Herrnstein, pigeon-intelligence researcher
• Frederick Irving Herzberg, two-factor theory of job satisfaction
• Seymour Itzkoff, educational psychologist
• Irving Janis, social psychologist
• Arthur Janov, developer and proponent of primal therapy
• Boaz Kahana, psychologist
• Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize in Economics with Amos Tversky winner (2002)
• Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
• Kurt Lewin, motivational psychologist (field theory)
• Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist
• Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
• Abraham Low, neuropsychologist, founder of Recovery International
• Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
• Rivka Bertisch Meir, psychologist and psychotherapist
• Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
• Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
• Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
• Fritz Perls, gestalt therapy
• Steven Pinker, psychologist and writer
• Renee Rabinowitz, psychologist and lawyer
• Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
• David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
• Lee Ross, fundamental attribution error
• Peter Salovey, emotions, emotional intelligence
• Shalom H. Schwartz, value studies
• Francine Shapiro, creator of EMDR therapy
• Al Seckel, cognitive scientist, skeptic, and designer of the Darwin fish
• Martin Seligman, positive psychologist
• Herbert A. Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (1978)
• Hyman Spotnitz, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
• Robert Sternberg, intelligence and creativity
• Amos Tversky, prospect theory
• David Wechsler, intelligence testing
• George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
• Bernard Weiner, attribution theory
• Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist
• Daron Acemoglu, economist, of Armenian descent
• Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota professor, historian specializing in the Armenian Genocide[197]
• İlhan Aksay, professor, Princeton University[198]
• Özalp Babaoğlu, professor of computer science at University of Bologna
• Ciğdem Balım
• Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist[199]
• Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, associate professor of the practice in statistics at Duke University
• Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University[200]
• Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
• M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
• Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, holder of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Merve Kavakçı, George Washington University Professor and former Fazilet Party Parliamentarian exiled from Turkey for violating the Public Head Scarf Ban
• Hasan Özbekhan
• Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology[201]
• Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist[202]
• Vamık Volkan,[203] Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
• Nur Yalman,[204] octolingual Harvard University Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
• Osman Yaşar, professor and chair of the computational science department at State University of New York College at Brockport[205]
• K. Aslıhan Yener,[206] University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines

Business

The most famous ones include

• Mohamed Atalla, engineer, inventor of MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor), most frequently manufactured device in history. Pioneer in silicon semiconductors and security systems, founder of Atalla Corporation[207]
• Steve Jobs, co-founder and head of Apple
• Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook
• Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook
• Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook
• Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of its relational database management system[208]
• Larry Page, co-founder of Google
• Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
• Pierre Omidyar, Founder of eBay
• Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber; on board of directors of The New York Times Company
• Eugene Kleiner, the pioneer of Silicon Valley and founder of Kleiner Perkins
• Tony Fadell – product development manager at Apple Inc., co-inventor of iPod and iPhone
• Ralph H. Baer, inventor, video game developer, and engineer. Invented the first home video game console
• Rouzbeh Yassini, Inventor of the cable modem, Executive Director of the University Of New Hampshire Broadband Center Of Excellence and Founder of YAS Foundation.
• Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein (company)
• Robert A. Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax Media, parent company of publisher Bethesda Softworks, LLC.
• Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner - Founders of Warner Bros.
• Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. (Jewish origins)
• Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden and Arnold Greenberg - Founders of Snapple
• Zev Siegl, co-founder of Starbucks
• Michael Morhaime, co-founder and the former president of Blizzard Entertainment
• William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts
• Sarkis Acopian, inventor, industrialist, environmentalist; founded the Acopian Technical Company in 1957, where he designed and manufactured the first solar radio.
• Vahe Aghabegians, entrepreneur, founding member and executive director of UniPrint, Inc. (a printing house), and was the former president of The Romney Group, Inc.
• Benjamin M. Rosen, former Chairman and former Acting Chief Executive Officer of Compaq
• Hamid Akhavan, CEO of Siemens Enterprise Communications[209]
• Vahid Alaghband, founder and Chairman Balli Group PLC
• Siavash Alamouti, president and CEO of edge cloud software company mimic, former CTO Broad Band and INTEL fellow, inventor of Alamouti Code, code-communication engineer
• Mike Amiri, founder and Creative Director of AMIRI fashion line
• Amir Ansari, co-founder and CTO of Prodea Systems, co-founder and former CTO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI)
• Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female space tourist, co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc., co-founder and former CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI)
• Cyrus A. Ansary, businessman, President of Investment Services International Co., founder and current chairman of Fort Knox National Company, and chairman emeritus of American University
• Emik Avakian, inventor, owner of numerous patents including a breath-operated computer, mechanism that facilitates putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self-operating robotic wheel
• Farhad Azima, airline operator and entrepreneur; founder of Global International Airways, and owner of the Aviation Leasing Group and HeavyLift International
• Sardar Biglari, founder, CEO and chairman of Biglari Holdings
• Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist at the consulting firm IHS Markit, & formerly the Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Global Insight, Inc
• Michael Benjamin (born Michael Benjamin Bonheur), private investor focusing on internet companies, Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 2004
• Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, businesswoman, entrepreneur and economist. Founder and CEO of the hedge-fund Rock Creek Group, former treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank
• J. Darius Bikoff, CEO and founder of Energy Brands, which manufactures VitaminWater
• Howard Birndorf (1950–), co-founder of biotechnology companies Hybritech, Inc., Gen-Probe (merged with Hologic) and IDEC Pharmaceuticals (merged with Biogen)
• Alex Grass (1927–2009), founder of the Rite Aid Corporation
• Bennett Greenspan (1952–), co-founder of gene testing company Gene by Gene, Ltd. (Family Tree DNA)
• Rachel Haurwitz (1985–), co-founder of gene editing company Caribou Biosciences
• Joel Landau, co-founder of nursing home operator company The Allure Group and healthcare services company AlphaCare
• Arthur D. Levinson (1950–), CEO of biotechnology company Calico, former chairman of Genteelness
• Al Mann (1925–2016), founder of biotechnology companies Pacesetter Systems and the MannKind Corporation
• Stewart Rahr (1946–), founder of Kinray Inc.
• Richard Roberts (1957–), former owner of URL Pharma (acquired by the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in 2012)
• Martine Rothblatt (1954–), founder of biotechnology company United Therapeutics, co-founder of Sirius Satellite Radio
• Mortimer Sackler (1916–2010) and Raymond Sackler (1920–2017), former owners of Purdue Pharma (known for OxyContin); members of the Sackler family
• Leonard Schleifer (1953–), founder of biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
• Daniel E. Straus (1956–), founder of CareOne LLC and minority owner of NBA's Memphis Grizzlies
• Samuel D. Waksal (1947–), French-born founder of ImClone Systems, Kadmon Corporation
• Herbert Wertheim (1939–), founder of eye care products manufacturing company Brain Power Incorporated (BPI)
• Shahram Dabiri, video game producer, lead producer of World of Warcraft
• Jaleh Daie, Senior Managing Partner at Aurora Equity; former professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rutgers University. First woman to serve on the U.S. Space Foundation board of directors.
• Perry Daneshgari, entrepreneur, civil and mechanical engineer, and author. He is the founder of MCA and specializes in agile construction
• Stepan Pachikov, businessman
• Ali Partovi, investor
• Omid Kordestani, executive chairman of Twitter
• Kiana Danial, personal investing and wealth manager, CEO of Invest Diva
• Nader Darehshori, co-founder, chairman, president, and CEO of Aptius Education, director of State Street Corporation, former director of Aviva USA Corporation
• Bita Daryabari, philanthropist, entrepreneur and computer scientist
• Farzad Dibachi, serial entrepreneur and business executive. Co-founder and CEO of Inception.
• Avid Larizadeh Duggan, entrepreneur and venture capitalist
• Nazie Eftekhari, founder and principal architect of HealthEZ
• Kamran Elahian, founder and Chairman Global Catalyst Partners
• Henry Elghanayan, NYC real estate developer, co-founder and chairman of Rockrose Development Corporation
• Hossein Eslambolchi, former president and CEO of AT&T Labs and AT&T Global Network Operations
• Fardad Fateri, CEO of International Education Corporation
• Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder and CTO of Dropbox
• Nasir Gebelli, video game developer, founder of Sirius Software, programmer of Nintendo titles including Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy II, Secret of Mana, and Rad Racer. His design of the first fast action games on the Apple II computer established him as a pioneer in computer gaming
• Mark Ghermezian (of the Ghermezian family), co-founder, Executive Chairman, and former CEO of Braze, Inc
• Arthur T. Gregorian, oriental rug dealer based in Greater Boston, and author of books on oriental rugs
• Victor Haghani, financier, one of the founding partners of Long Term Capital Management. He has also founded Elm Partners, an active index investment fund, in 2011.
• Ali Hajimiri, inventor and entrepreneur in the field of electrical and biomedical engineering; Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at CalTech.
• Albert Hakim, businessman and a figure in the Iran-Contra affair. Co-founder of the Stanford Technology Trading Group International (STTGI)
• Kamran Hakim, New York City-based landlord, real estate developer and founder of the Hakim Organization
• Babak Hodjat, technologist and computer scientist.
• Neil Kadisha, CEO of Omninet Capital, LLC
• Samy Kamkar, entrepreneur, computer hacker, and privacy & security researcher on mobile phone tracking. Creator of the SkyJack hacking drone, the Evercookie, and the MySpace super-virus "Samy" worm.
• Darius Kazemi, computer programmer, social activist, and artist. Co-founder of the worker-owned technology collective Feel Train
• Sam Kazemian, software programmer; Co-Founder and President of Everipedia
• Salar Kamangar, former CEO of YouTube, senior executive at Google
• Kayvan Khalatbari, serial entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado . Founding partner of the Sexy Pizza restaurant chain, Birdy Magazine, Sexpot Comedy, Denver Relief Consulting, and Denver Relief, the longest continually operated cannabis company in Denver.
• Nader Khalili, architect. Inventor of the Superadobe and Ceramic houses construction techniques. Founder of the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth).
• Shaygan Kheradpir, businessman and technology executive. Former CIO of Verizon, former COO of Barclays Bank, and former CEO of Juniper Networks and Coriant.
• Mike Kohan, founder & owner of the Kohan Retail Investment Group based in Great Neck, NY, which owns 27 shopping malls as of late 2018
• Omid Kordestani, Executive Chairman of Twitter, former Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer, and special advisor at Google
• Isaac Larian, founder and CEO of MGA Entertainment; manufacturer of Bratz dolls
• Hamid Moghadam, chairman and CEO of Prologis, board member of Stanford Management Company
• Mahbod Moghadam, internet entrepreneur; co-founder and former Chief Community Officer of Everipedia, co-founder of Rap Genius (now Genius)
• Moj Mahdara, CEO of Beautycon Media, is an entrepreneur in the entertainment, digital, and emerging technology spaces
• Milton Malek-Yonan, Iranian-Assyrian entrepreneur and inventor of Malekized Rice
• Amir, Eskandar and Fraydun Manocherian, NYC-based real estate investors, founders of Manocherian Brothers and Pan Am Equities
• David A. Marcus, former President of PayPal, and current Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, where he heads the Facebook Messenger unit. Sits on the Coinbase board of directors. Iranian mother.
• Fariborz Maseeh, pioneer of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS), founder of IntelliSense, founder of Orlander LLC, and founder of Orbitron LP;
• Manny Mashouf, founder and former chairman of Bebe Stores
• Saul Maslavi, president and CEO of Jovani Fashion
• Cyrus Massoumi, co-founder of the investment fund "humbition." Founder and former CEO of Zocdoc
• Justin Mateen, co-founder and former CMO of Tinder
• David Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets microwavable meals. Brother of Paul.
• Paul Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets microwavable meals. Brother of David.
• Mohsen Moazami, entrepreneur; founder of Stanford Business Systems, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and Seif Capital. He is also a member of Cisco Systems executive staff
• Afshin Mohebbi, former president and COO of Qwest Communications International, Inc.
• Joseph Moinian, New York City real estate developer, founder of the Minion Group
• Jeff Moorad, businessman. Former General Partner and CEO of MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks, and former Vice-Chairman and CEO of MLB's San Diego Padres.
• Jahm Najafi, founder and CEO of Najafi Companies, a private equity firm. Vice Chairman and co-owner of the Phoenix Suns NBA team
• Ron Najafi, founder and CEO of Emery Pharma, and founder and former CEO of NovaBay Pharmaceuticals
• Mohammad Namazi, founder of the Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, and was a resident in America for over 30 years
• Ezri Namvar, founder of Namco Capital Group and former owner of the Security Pacific Bank
• David Nazarian, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Founder and CEO of Nimes Capital
• Izak Parviz Nazarian, businessman, managing partner at Omninet Capital
• Sam Nazarian, founder and CEO of the SBE Entertainment Group
• Younes Nazarian, businessma. Early investor in Qualcomm and Chairman of Nazarian Enterprises
• Farzad Nazem, former CTO and executive vice president of Yahoo!
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad, electrical engineer, r; founder & CEO of PARTOE, INC, co-founder and former CEO of Solar Notion, Inc. nts
• Fred Ohebshalom, New York City real estate developer and founder of Empire Management
• Joseph Parnes, investment advisor, founder and CEO of Technomart Investment Advisors
• Ali Partovi, entrepreneur and angel investor. Best known as co-founder of Code.org, iLike, LinkExchange, and an early advisor of Dropbox
• Prince Perci Piétro (born Percia Piétrolungo), real estate entrepreneur and founder of OWN Realty and OWN Financial. He is the son of Qajar Princess Shahnaz Shakoori
• Shervin Pishevar, entrepreneur, . Co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital
• Melih Abdulhayoğlu, founder, CEO, and president of Comodo Group[210]
• Ahmet Ertegün, founder and president of Atlantic Records
• Nesuhi Ertegün, executive at Atlantic Records, brother of Ahmet
• James Ben Ali Haggin, investor and founder of the Ben Ali Stakes
• Muhtar Kent, CEO and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company
• Murat Köprülü, investment professional and chairman of the American Turkish Society, and founder and chairman of the American Immigrant Society
• Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta Systems
• Erol Onaran, founder of Erol's
• Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and owner of Chobani
• Roozbeh Pournader, co-founder and co-developer of Persian Wikipedia
• Kamran Pourzanjani, early angel investor based in Los Angeles, California
• Sean Rad, co-founder, chairman and former CEO of Tinder
• Hooman Radfar, co-founder and former CEO of AddThis; current partner at Expa, a start-up studios based in San Francisco
• Mazdack Rassi, real estate and creative entrepreneur; co-founder of Milk Studios, Milk Makeup, and Camp David in New York City
• Mostafa Ronaghi, CTO and Senior Vice President at Illumina. He is also a molecular biologist specializing in DNA sequencing technology
• Kathy Rose (née Katayoun Azarmi), jewelry designer, entrepreneur, and actress. Creator of the jewelry line Kaviar Jewelry, now called Kathy Rose for Roseark. She is also the owner of the retail store Roseark, created in 2003.
• Ali Rowghani, COO of Twitter, and managing partner at Y Combinator
• Arman Sadeghi, entrepreneur and speaker
• Joel Simkhai, founder & former CEO of Grindr dating app
• Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar, founder and president of omNovia Technologies; co-founder and CEO of Xerzees Technologies, the company behind the mobile app Zurf
• Leonard Abramson, founder of the health maintenance organization U.S. Healthcare, Inc. (purchased by Aetna in 1996)
• Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, co-founder of the MAKO Surgical Corp.
• Leonard Adleman, co-founder of RSA Security LLC
• Jared Cohen, CEO of technology incubator company Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas)
• Alex d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
• George Arison, entrepreneur
• Teymuraz Bagration, nobleman, President of the Tolstoy Foundation
• Michael Dell, founder of DELL
• David Frankel, South African-born co-founder of Internet Solutions (IS), the largest ISP in Africa
• Andrew Grove, former COO, chairman and CEO (1st) of Intel
• Andi Gutmans, Jewish-American co-founder of Zend Technologies, co-creator of PHP, General Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• David and Orion Hindawi, founders of cybersecurity firm Tanium Inc.
• Irwin M. and Paul E. Jacobs, Qualcomm Incorporated
• Philippe Kahn (1952–), French-born creator of the camera phone, co-founder of the Borland Software Corporation
• Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Phil Katz, founder of PKWARE, Inc., creator of the Zip file format
• Steve Kirsch, founder of OneID, co-founder of the Frame Technology Corp. (now Adobe FrameMaker)
• Edwin H. Land, founder of the Polaroid Corporation
• Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems and cosmetics brand Urban Decay
• Joseph Lubin (entrepreneur), Canadian-American founder of blockchain software technology company ConsenSys, co-founder of Ethereum[211]
• Ken Oshman, former CEO of the Echelon Corporation, co-founder of the ROLM Corporation
• Ben Rosen, founding investor and former chairman of the Compaq Computer Corporation, co-founder of venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds
• Andy Rubin, co-developer of the Android operating system, co-founder of Android, Inc., Danger Inc. and Playground Global
• Michael G. Rubin, founder of eBay Enterprise, Inc. (formerly GSI Commerce, Inc.)
• Henry Samueli, co-founder of the Broadcom Corporation, owner of NHL's Anaheim Ducks (founded in 1993 by Disney as "the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim")
• Steve Sarowitz, founder of the Paylocity Corporation
• Kirill Tatarinov, Russian-born former CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc., former Executive VP of Microsoft Business Solutions
• Jack Tramiel, Polish-born founder of Commodore International and the Atari Corporation (bought from Warner Communications in 1984)
• Dan Kaminsky, co-founder of cybersecurity firm White Ops
• John Shahidi, businessman, software developer, music manager and music producer. CEO of Shots Studios (formerly RockLive)
• Sam Shahidi, businessman, software developer, music manager and music producer. CCO and CPO of Shots Studios (formerly RockLive)
• Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm Incorporated, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
• Stephen Wolfram, British-American founder of Wolfram Research
• Ben Shaoul, co-founder of Magnum Real Estate Group
• Darian Shirazi, founder of Radius. At age 19, he was the first intern hired by Facebook
• Henry D. Sahakian, founder and owner of Uni-Mart
• Rob Sobhani, chairman and CEO of Caspian Group, and founder and CEO of Faro Corporation; author and lecturer on energy issues, U.S. immigration policies, and U.S. policy towards the Middle East
• Parisa Tabriz, Director of Engineering at Google and computer security expert, nicknamed Google's "Security Princess." Co-founder of the Our Security Advocates conference
• Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer[212]
• Roxanne Varza, computer executive
• Sohrab Vossoughi, product designer, and founder of Ziba Design, a design and innovation consultancy based in Portland, Oregon
• Roxanne Varza, director of Station F in Paris, France, and former head of start-up activities for Microsoft in France. Co-founder of Girls in Tech Paris and Girls in Tech London, which organize computer code writing courses for women
• Rouzbeh Yassini, Inventor of the cable modem, Executive Director of the University Of New Hampshire Broadband Center Of Excellence and Founder of YAS Foundation.
• Bobby Yazdani, founder and former CEO of Saba Software
• Shayan Zadeh, founder of Zoosk
• Eli Zelkha, entrepreneur, and professor. He was the inventor of ambient intelligence
• Mohamed A. El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO (Egyptian)
• Alec Gores, founder of Gores Group; on the Forbes list of billionaires (LebanesePalestinian)
• Tom Gores, founder and CEO of Platinum Equity; on the Forbes list of billionaires (Lebanese-Palestinian)
• Sam Gores, founder of talent agency Paradigm Agency; on the Forbes list of billionaires[213] (LebanesePalestinian)
• Najeeb Halaby, former head of Federal Aviation Administration and CEO of Pan-American Airlines, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan (Lebanese-Syrian father)[214]
• Ray R. Irani, Chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum (Palestinian)
• Joseph Jacobs, founder of Jacobs Engineering, one of the leading engineering firms in the US (Lebanese)
• Mario Kassar, formerly headed Carolco Pictures[215] (Lebanese)
• John J. Mack, CEO of investment bank Morgan Stanley (Lebanese parents)[216]
• Maloof family, Lebanese family who owns numerous business properties in the Western United States, majority owners of the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino Hotel in Paradise, Nevada
• Sam Maloof (Lebanese parents)
• Sam Moore, founder and president of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest worldwide distributor of the Bible (Lebanese)
• Manuel Moroun, owner of CenTra, Inc., the holding company which controls the Ambassador Bridge and Michigan Central Depot
• Jacques Nasser, former president and CEO of Ford Motor Company (Lebanese)
• Musse Olol, Chairman of the Somali American Council of Oregon (SACOO), Somali ancestry
• Paul Orfalea, nicknamed "Kinko", entrepreneur, founder the copy-chain Kinko's (parents of Lebanese descent)
• Moose Scheib, founder and CEO of Loanmod.com; inventor of the modern day loan modification (Lebanese)
• Farouk Shami, founder of Farouk systems, a Houston-based company that manufactures hair care and spa products like CHI hair Irons (Palestinian)
• Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Scour, Red Swoosh and Uber (Jewish)
• Joe Sitt, real estate developer and founder of Thor Equities (Syrian grandparents)
• John Zogby (Lebanese), founder and current President/CEO of Zogby International
• Sam Yagan (born 1977), American entrepreneur and business executive, co-founder of SparkNotes, eDonkey, OkCupid, and Techstars Chicago, also CEO of Match Group, including Tinder.
• Rana el Kaliouby (1978–present), Egyptian-born American computer scientist, CEO of Affectiva, Researcher at MIT Media Lab, contributor to facial expression recognition research and technology development
• Huda Kattan, CEO of Huda Beauty
• Shakir al Khafaji, businessman
• Madeleine A. Pickens – business executive
• Magid Abraham – market research expert and businessman
• Nahim Abraham – businessman, philanthropist
• Tom Abraham – businessman, philanthropist
• Richard E. Rainwater – investor and fund manager
• Robert Khuzami – former director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. – businessman and founder of Colony Capital

Literature

• Khalil Gibran, writer, poet, and member of the New York Pen League; the third-best-selling poet of all time (Lebanese)
• William Peter Blatty, American writer best known for his 1971 horror novel The Exorcist (Lebanese)
• Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist, journalist, essayist, and professor (Moroccan)
• Mikhail Naimy, Nobel Prize-nominated author; member of the New York Pen League; well-known works include The Book of Mirdad (Lebanese)
• Edward Said, literary theorist, thinker, and the founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies (Palestinian)
• Ameen Rihani, "father of Arab American literature," member of the New York Pen League and author of The Book of Khalid, the first Arab American novel in English; also an ambassador
• Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere but Here (Syrian father)
• Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Egyptian father)
• Elmaz Abinader, poet, playwright, memoirist, writer (Lebanese)
• Diana Abu-Jaber, novelist and professor, author of Arabian Jazz and Crescent (Jordanian)
• Elia Abu Madi, poet, publisher and member of the New York Pen League (Lebanese)
• Etel Adnan, poet, essayist, and visual artist (Syrian father)
• Catherine Filloux, French-Algerian-American playwright
• Suheir Hammad, poet, playwright, artist, Tony Award winner, 2003 (Russel Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway)
• Samuel John Hazo, State Poet of Pennsylvania
• Lawrence Joseph, poet
• Lisa Suhair Majaj, poet and literary scholar
• Jack Marshall, poet and author (Iraqi father/Syrian mother)
• Khaled Mattawa, poet, recipient of an Academy of American Poets award
• Claire Messud, author, Algerian
• Naomi Shihab Nye, poet
• Abraham Rihbany, writer on politics and religion
• Steven Salaita, expert on comparative literature and post-colonialism, writer, activist (Palestinian/Jordanian)
• Colet Abedi, young adult novelist and television producer
• Salar Abdoh, novelist and essayist. Current director of the graduate program in creative writing at the City College of New York.
• Kaveh Akbar, poet and scholar
• Laleh Bakhtiar, writer and scholar
• Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, writer of books on health and wellness.
• Najmieh Batmanglij, acclaimed chef and cookbook author
• William D. S. Daniel, Iranian-Assyrian author, poet, and musician
• Parvin Darabi, writer and women's rights activist. Best known for book Rage Against the Veil
• Jasmin Darznik, author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life and Song of a Captive Bird
• Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
• FM-2030, author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist; author of Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World (1989)
• Sara Farizan, writer of young adult literature. Best known for novel, If You Could Be Mine (2013)
• Ezzat Goushegir, fiction writer & playwright
• Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, and journalist
• Hakob Karapents, novelist and short story writer whose works were written in both Armenian and English. Settled in the U.S. in 1947.
• Laleh Khadivi, novelist and documentary filmmaker
• Porochista Khakpour, novelist, essayist, and writer
• Tahereh Mafi, novelist of young adult fiction
• Mahtob Mahmoody, author of autobiographical memoir My Name is Mahtob and daughter of Betty Mahmoody, the author of Not Without My Daughter
• Faranak Margolese, writer, best known as author of Off the Derech
• Marsha Mehran, novelist, author of international bestsellers Pomegranate Soup (2005) and Rosewater and Soda Bread (2008)
• Shokooh Mirzadegi, novelist and poet, who worked for Ferdowsi magazine and Kayhān daily in the late 1960s in Iran.
• Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad and co-author of Iran Awakening with Shirin Ebadi, and reporter for Time magazine on Iran and the Middle East
• Melody Moezzi, writer, attorney, and author of Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims.
• Ottessa Moshfegh, writer, author of Eileen
• Farnoosh Moshiri, novelist, playwright, and librettist. Professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Houston-Downtown
• Dora Levy Mossanen, author of historical fiction
• Azar Nafisi, writer, best known for Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
• Gina Nahai, author of Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, and Caspian Rain
• Steven Naifeh, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Jackson Pollack and Vincent Van Gogh, co-author of 18 other books with Gregory White Smith, businessman, and artist
• Dina Nayeri, novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Author of A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea and Refuge
• Abdi Nazemian, author and screenwriter. Best known for The Walk-In Closet
• Ghazal Omid, nonfiction political writer, nonfiction children's book writer, speaker, NGO executive
• Shahrnoosh Parsipour, writer
• Susan Atefat Peckham, poet
• Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, memoirist, playwright, and fiction writer
• Dalia Sofer, writer, best known for The Septembers of Shiraz
• Neda Soltani, writer of My Stolen Face and political exile
• Mahbod Seraji, writer, best known for Rooftops of Tehran
• Mahmoud Seraji, a.k.a. "M.S. Shahed," poet best known for his trilogy Mazamir Eshgh (مزامیر عشق). Father of Mahbod Seraji
• Solmaz Sharif, poet, known for her debut poetry collection, Look. Currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University
• Andrew David Urshan, evangelist and author. Known as the "Persian Evangelist", ks
• Sholeh Wolpe, poet, editor and literary translator
• Walter Abish, novelist, poet, and short story writer
• Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses,[217] Random Hearts, and The Sunset Gang [218]
• Woody Allen, short story writer, screenwriter
• Mary Antin, memoir writer
• Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee [219]
• Jacob M. Appel, novelist (The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up) and short story writer (Einstein's Beach House)[220]
• Max Apple, novelist and short story writer, known for memoirs about his grandparents and his collection The Oranging of America, in which he fantastically reimagines the burgeoning commercial monoculture of the 1970s
• Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification[221]
• Shalom Auslander, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist
• Paul Auster, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist
• Herman Baer, author
• Melissa Bank, novelist
• David Michael Barrett, essayist, screenwriter and film producer
• Dorothy Walter Baruch, psychologist, children's stories and their development
• Peter S. Beagle, novelist
• Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts[222]
• Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters[223]
• Karen Bender, novelist and short story writer
• Anne Bernays, novelist and non-fiction writer
• Gina Berriault, novelist and short story writer
• Alfred Bester, science fiction writer, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953
• Robert Bloch, crime, science, and horror fiction writer, author of Psycho
• Harold Bloom, literary critic
• Judy Blume, young adult fiction writer
• José Antonio Bowen, president of Goucher College
• Jane Bowles, writer and playwright
• Joshua Braff, novelist
• Gayle Brandeis, novelist
• David Brin, science fiction writer
• Harold Brodkey, short story writer and novelist
• Judy Budnitz, fiction writer
• Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist and critic
• Abraham Cahan, novelist, short story writer, and journalist
• Hortense Calisher, novelist and short story writer
• Ethan Canin, novelist
• Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [224]
• Jerome Charyn, novelist, short story writer and playwright
• Alan Cheuse, novelist and short story writer
• Ze'ev Chafets, columnist and author
• Harlan Coben, mystery fiction writer
• Joshua Cohen, novelist
• Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer[225]
• Sloane Crosley, novelist, essayist
• Avram Davidson, science fiction writer
• Anita Diamant, novelist and non-fiction writer
• E.L. Doctorow, novelist[226]
• Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard [227]
• Harlan Ellison, science fiction writer
• Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction
• Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[228]
• Nora Ephron, novelist, screenwriter, essayist
• Joseph Epstein, short story writer
• Howard Fast, novelist
• Jules Feiffer, novelist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter
• Edna Ferber, playwright and novelist
• Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman
• Sid Fleischman, children's writer, screenwriter, novelist
• Barthold Fles,[229] literary agent and non-fiction writer
• Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
• Kinky Friedman, songwriter and novelist
• Alan Furst, historical spy novelist
• Herbert Gold, novelist
• Myla Goldberg, novelist
• Emma Goldman, anarchist writer[230]
• Rebecca Goldstein, novelist and philosopher
• Allegra Goodman, novelist and short story writer
• Vivian Gornick, essayist
• Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), children's writer and novelist
• Mark Harris, novelist and biographer
• Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22[231]
• Lillian Hellman, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, novelist
• Mark Helprin, novelist and journalist
• Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist[232][233]
• Russell Hoban, fantasy and science fiction writer
• Laura Z. Hobson, novelist
• Dara Horn, novelist
• Irving Howe, literary critic[234]
• Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer
• Fishel Jacobs, Jewish law, short story, children's writer Two Kings
• Rona Jaffe, novelist
• Erica Jong, novelist and poet, best known for second-wave feminist work Fear of Flying (1973)
• Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer (1972)
• Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman
• Garson Kanin, playwright, screenwriter
• Bel Kaufman, novelist, granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem
• Faye Kellerman, mystery writer
• Jonathan Kellerman, mystery and suspense writer, psychologist
• William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short-story writer
• Jamaica Kincaid, novelist and essayist
• Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
• Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird
• Nicole Krauss, best known for her three novels, Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010)
• Ewa Kuryluk, author of Veil of Veronica
• Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist[235]
• Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities[236]
• Eleanor Lerman, author and poet
• Bruno Lessing (pseudonym of Rudolph Edgar Block), science fiction writer
• Julius Lester, children's fiction, non-fiction
• Harry Levin, literary critic and Joyce scholar
• Ira Levin, novelist and playwright
• Sam Lipsyte, novelist and short story writer
• David Liss, historical novelist
• Norman Mailer, novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
• Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize
• Theresa Malkiel (1874-1949), novelist and essayist
• Cindy Margolis, author of Having a Baby... when the Old-fashioned Way Isn't Working, Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility
• Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist [237]
• Leonard Michaels, writer of short stories, novels, and essays
• Arthur Miller, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
• Derek B. Miller, novelist
• Walter Mosley, novelist
• Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works[238]
• Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama[239]
• Tillie Olsen, first-wave feminist writer, best known for her novella Tell Me a Riddle, title story in a collection of four short stories and winner of the O. Henry Prize in 1961
• Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist[240][241]
• Grace Paley, short story writer and poet; finalist for both National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize
• Sara Paretsky, mystery writer
• Dorothy Parker, humorist, poet and short story writer
• Harvey Pekar, comic book writer, music critic
• S. J. Perelman, humorist, essayist, screenwriter
• Joan Peters, author of From Time Immemorial
• Jodi Picoult, novelist[242]
• Daniel Pinkwater, children's and young adult author
• Belva Plain, novelist
• Chaim Potok, author and rabbi
• Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism[243]
• Lea Bayers Rapp,[244] non-fiction and children's fiction writer
• Charles Reznikoff, poet and novelist
• Laura Riding, novelist, poet, short story writer
• Harold Robbins, novelist
• Jonathan Rosen, editor, journalist, novelist, essayist
• Benjamin Rosebaum, science fiction writer
• Judith Rossner, novelist Looking for Mr. Goodbar
• Leo Rosten, humorist, novelist and short story writer
• Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer
• Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity[245]
• Norman Rosten, novelist[246]
• Mary Doria Russell, novelist
• Louis Sachar, children's writer
• Peter Sagal, author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)[247][248]
• J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye[249]
• James Salter, novelist and short story writer
• Sarah Schulman novelist, historian, screenwriter and playwright
• Lore Segal, novelist and children's writer
• Maurice Sendak, children's writer and illustrator
• Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer.
• Irwin Shaw, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer
• Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer
• Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
• Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer[250]
• Irving Shulman, novelist and screenwriter
• Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman
• Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet, screenwriter, cartoonist
• Roger L. Simon, novelist and screenwriter
• Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid), novelist
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize[251]
• Israel Joshua Singer, novelist and short story writer
• Tess Slesinger, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer
• Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
• Art Spiegelman, graphic novelist
• George Steiner (born 1929), literary critic[252]
• Daniel Stern, novelist[253]
• Louise Stern, novelist and playwright[254]
• Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award[255]
• R.L. Stine, novelist
• Herbert Tarr, novelist
• Calvin Trillin, journalist, poet, novelist
• Jonathan Tropper, novelist[256]
• Karen X. Tulchinsky, novelist and screenwriter
• Scott Turow, novelist and non-fiction writer
• Harry Turtledove, science fiction, fantasy and alternative history writer
• Leopold Tyrmand, writer[257]
• Leon Uris (1924-2009), historical novelist
• Lara Vapnyar, novelist and short story writer
• Judith Viorst (born 1932), known for her children's literature[258]
• Stanley M. Wagner (1932-2013), rabbi and academic
• Ayelet Waldman, novelist and essayist
• Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist
• Jennifer Weiner, novelist and short story writer
• Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894-1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy[259]
• Nathanael West, novelist
• Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books[260]
• Herman Wouk, novelist and non-fiction writer
• Anzia Yezierska, novelist
• Leonard S. Zinberg (Ed Lacy), novelist

Politics

• Mark Esper, 27th secretary of Defense (2019—) (Lebanese)
• Alex Azar, Secretary of Human health and service (2018—) (Lebanese)
• William Barr, Attorney General (2019—)
• Steven Mnuchin, 77th secretary of Treasury (2017—)
• James Abdnor, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota) (1981–1987)
• John Abizaid, retired general (Lebanese)
• James Abourezk, U.S. Senator (D-South Dakota) (1973–1979) (Lebanese ancestry)[261]
• Spencer Abraham, U.S. Secretary of Energy (2001–2005) and U.S. Senator (R-Mich.) Secretary of Energy under Bush (1995–2001) (Lebanese ancestry)
• Justin Amash, U.S. Representative (R-Michigan) (2011–), Palestinian and Syrian descent
• Victor G. Atiyeh, Governor of Oregon (R) (1979–1987) (Syrian)
• John Baldacci, Governor of Maine (D) (2003–2011) (Lebanese mother)
• Rosemary Barkett, U.S. federal judge and the first woman Supreme Court Justice and Chief Justice for the state of Florida (Syrian)
• Charles Boustany,[262] U.S. Representative from Louisiana; cousin of Victoria Reggie Kennedy[263] (Lebanese)
• Pat Danner, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Mo.) (1993–2001)
• Brigitte Gabriel, pro-Israel activist and founder of the American Congress For Truth (Lebanese)
• Philip Charles Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Special Envoy to Ronald Reagan (Lebanese)
• Lisa Halaby (a.k.a. Queen Noor), Queen-consort of Jordan and wife of King Hussein of Jordan (father is of Syrian descent)
• Darrell Issa, U.S. Congressman (R-California) (2001–) (Lebanese father)
• Joe Jamail, Renown American trial lawyer and billionaire, also known as the "King of Torts" (Lebanese)
• James Jabara, colonel and Korean War flying ace (Lebanese)
• Chris John, U.S. Congressman (D-Louisiana) (1997–2005) (Lebanese ancestry)
• George Joulwan, retired general, former NATO commander-in-chief (Lebanese)
• George Kasem, U.S. Congressman (D-California) (1959-1961)[264]
• Abraham Kazen, U.S. Congressman (D-Texas) (1967–1985) (Lebanese ancestry)
• Jill Kelley, global advocate and American socialite[265] (Lebanese)
• Victoria Reggie Kennedy, attorney and widow of late Senator Ted Kennedy (Lebanese)
• Muna Khalif, fashion designer and MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia (Somali)
• Johnny Khamis, Councilmember from San Jose (Lebanese)
• Ray LaHood, U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois) (1995–2009), U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2009–2013) (Lebanese and Jordanian ancestry)
• Darin LaHood, U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois) (2015–), son of Ray Lahood
• George J. Mitchell, U.S. Senator (D-Maine) (1980–1995) United States of America special envoy to the Middle East under the Obama administration, U.S. senator from Maine, Senate Majority Leader (Lebanese mother)
• Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, former Prime Minister of Somalia (Somali descent)
• Ralph Nader, politician and consumer advocate, author, lecturer, and attorney, candidate for US Presidency
• Jimmy Naifeh, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (D) (Lebanese ancestry)
• Mary Rose Oakar, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Ohio) (1977–1993)
• Abdisalam Omer, Foreign Minister of Somalia (Somali descent)
• Ilhan Omar, politician, DFL Party member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (Somali/Yemeni)
• Jeanine Pirro, former Westchester County District Attorney and New York Republican attorney general candidate (Lebanese parents)
• Dina Powell, current U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy (Egyptian)
• Nick Rahall, U.S. Congressman (D-West Virginia) (1977–2015) (Lebanese ancestry)
• Selwa Roosevelt (Lebanese), former Chief of Protocol of the United States and wife of the late Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
• Zainab Salbi, co-founder and president of Women for Women International (Iraqi)
• Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1993–2001) (Lebanese parents)
• Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire (R) (2017–), son of Governor John H. Sununu
• John E. Sununu, U.S. Senator (R-New Hampshire) (2003–2009) (father is of Lebanese and Palestinian ancestry)
• John H. Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire (R) (1983–1989) and Chief of Staff to George H.W. Bush (Lebanese and Palestinian ancestry)
• James Zogby (Lebanese), founder and president of the Arab American Institute
• Hady Amr diplomat, founding director of Brookings Doha Center (Lebanese father)
• Parry Aftab, Internet privacy and security lawyer, considered one of the founders of cyberlaw. Founder of the cybersafety organizations WiredSafety, StopCyberbullying and the consulting firm, WiredTrust
• Roozbeh Aliabadi, advisor and commentator on geopolitical risk and geoeconomics. Current partner at global affair practice at GGA in New York City, former Senior Advisor to the Department of Strategic Initiatives, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iran
• Mahnaz Afkhami, women's rights activist who served in the Cabinet of Iran from 1976 to 1978; Executive Director of the Washington-based Foundation for Iranian Studies, and the founder and president of the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
• Goli Ameri, former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, former U.S. public delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, and former Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the 1st district of Oregon.
• Cyrus Amir-Mokri, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department
• Jamshid Amouzegar, economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran (1977–1978). Immigrated to U.S. in 1978
• Hushang Ansary, former Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, former Ambassador of Iran to the United States (1967–1969) and Chairman of National Finance Committee of Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign.
• Arash Aramesh, lawyer, political commentator, and national security and foreign policy analyst. He is known for his appearances on CNN, Fox News, BBC News, and MSNBC to comment on foreign policy
• Gholam Reza Azhari, military leader and Prime Minister of Iran (1978–1979). Immigrated to the U.S. in 1979
• Pantea Beigi, human rights advocate, known for her media appearances commenting on the human rights conditions in Iran in the wake of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. She has served as an AmeriCorps member for the PeaceJam foundation, notably working with Dr. Shirin Ebadi in her efforts to address social and economic injustices of the youth in Iran
• Michael Benjamin, 1996 Republican candidate for the U.S. House from the 8th district of New York, and 2004 United States Senate Republican Primary candidate from New York
• Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division under the Trump Administration
• Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills, California (2007–2008, 2010–2011), first Iranian-born mayor of an American city
• Eugene Dooman, counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the period of critical negotiations between the U.S. and Japan before World War II
• Abdullah Entezam, Iranian diplomat, Iranian ambassador to France (1927) and to West Germany, secretary of the Iranian embassy in the United States. Father of Hume Horan
• Anna Eshoo, U.S. Representative of California's 18th congressional district
• Anna Eskamani, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Abbas Farzanegan, former governor of the state of Esfahan, communications minister and diplomat during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign. Key figure in facilitation of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1975
• Shireen Ghorbani, at-large member of the Salt Lake County Council, representing 1.1 million residents
• Rostam Giv, 3rd representative of Iranian Zoroastrians in Iranian parliament, senator of the Iranian Senate, and philanthropist to the Zoroastrian community in Iran, then United States, and the world. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1978.
• Ferial Govashiri, served as the Personal Secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House (2014-2017). Currently is the Chief of Staff to the Chief Content Officer of Netflix
• Hrach Gregorian, political consultant, educator, and writer. His work has taken him internationally as a consultant on international conflict management, and post-conflict peacebuilding
• Cyrus Habib, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, and President of the Washington State Senate. First and so far only Iranian-American elected to state office
• Kamal Habibollahi, last Commander of the Imperian Iranian Navy until the Iranian Revolution and the last CNO commander of the Pahlavi dynasty. Also held several minister positions under the military government of Gholam Reza Azhari in 1978. Immigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution
• Shamsi Hekmat, women's rights activist who pioneered reforms in women's status in Iran. Founded the first Iranian Jewish women's organization (Sazman Banovan Yahud i Iran) in 1947. After her migration to the U.S., she established the Iranian Jewish Women's Organization of Southern California s.
• Shahram Homayoun, political dissident of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and owner of "Channel One," a Persian satellite TV station based in Los Angeles that broadcasts into Iran daily
• Hume Horan, diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the Ivory Coast. Son of Abdullah Entezam
• Fereydoon Hoveyda, former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979). Since his exile to the U.S., senior fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP)
• Shaban Jafari, Iranian political figure, practitioner of Pahlevani and zoorkhaneh rituals. Key figure in the facilitation of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Exiled to the United States soon after the 1979 revolution
• Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi), first Iranian-American elected to New York State Senate
• Zahra Karinshak, attorney and politician.
• Mehdi Khalaji, political analyst, writer, and scholar of Shia Islamic studies. Senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. He has frequently contributed to journalistic outlets such as BBC, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New York Times
• Alan Khazei, social entrepreneur; founder and CEO of "Be The Change, Inc", dedicated to building coalitions among non-profit organizations and citizen . Co-founder and former CEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program
• Bijan Kian, businessman, member of the board of directors of the Export–Import Bank of the United States,Partner of Michael Flynn in the Flynn Intel Group, and worked with the Trump administration transition team in regards to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Paul Larudee, political activist and a major figure in the pro-Palestinian movement. He is involved in the International Solidarity Movement and the founder of the Free Gaza Movement and the Free Palestine Movement
• Ahmad Madani, former Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy (1979), governor of the Khuzestan province, and candidate of the first Iranian presidential election. After his exile to the United States in 1980, he was the chairman of the National Front outside of Iran.
• Cyrus Mehri, attorney and partner at Mehri & Skalet. Best known for helping establish the National Football League's (NFL) Rooney Rule
• Mariam Memarsadeghi, democracy and human rights advocate
• Ross Mirkarimi, former member of San Francisco City Council and former San Francisco Sheriff. Co-founder of the Green Party of California
• Mohammad Hassan Mirza II, last Crown Prince of Iran from the rule of the Qajar dynasty & heir apparent to the Qajar Sun Throne. Currently lives in Dallas, Texas.
• Shayan Modarres, civil right activist known for his representation of the family of Trayvon Martin, and a 2014 Democratic primary candidate for the U.S. House from the 10th district of Florida
• Esha Momeni, women's rights activist and a member of the One Million Signatures campaign
• David Nahai, environmental attorney, political activist, former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
• Adrin Nazarian, Member of the California State Assembly from the 46th district. First Iranian-American elected to the California State Legislature
• John J. Nimrod, minority rights activist and Illinois state senator of District 4 (1973-1983) of Iranian-Assyrian descent; notable for his promotion of Assyrian causes and for the rights of other under-represented minority groups throughout the world, such as Uyghurs and Tibetans
• Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst currently at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute, and previously at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is a national expert on immigration policy
• Vali Nasr, Shia scholar and poetical scientist. Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution
• Prince Abdul Reza Pahlavi, son of Reza Shah and half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Immigrated to the U.S. with other relatives immediately prior to the Islamic revolution of 1979
• Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. He was second in the order of succession to the Iranian throne prior to the Iranian revolution.
• Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Considered to be the "power behind her brother" and instrumental in the 1953 coup d'état which led him taking the throne. Served her brother as a Palace advisor and a strong advocate for women's rights.
• Farah Pahlavi, widow of Mohammad Reza Shah and former shahbanu (empress) of Iran
• Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. Currently resides in New York City
• Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, last heir apparent of the Imperial State of Iran and current head of the exiled House of Pahlavi. Oldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. Founder and former leader of the National Council of Iran. Currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
• Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Former president of the Red Lion and Sun Society. Exiled to the United States after the 1979 revolution
• Yasmine Pahlavi, lawyer and wife of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. Co-founder and former director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran. Currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland
• Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian royal and first culture minister of Iran (1964-1968). He was the second husband of Princess Shams Pahlavi. Immigrated to the U.S. and resided in Los Angeles after the 1979 revolution
• Trita Parsi, founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council. He regularly writes articles and appears on TV to comment on foreign policy
• Noraladin Pirmoazzen, Iranian politician who served as a member of the 6th and 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Ardabil, Nir, Namin and Sareyn. Immigrated to the U.S. in 2008.
• Azita Raji, former United States Ambassador to Sweden appointed by Barack Obama
• Farajollah Rasaei, Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy (1961-1972), the most Senior Naval Commander of the Iranian Navy. Exiled to the U.S. after the 1979 revolution
• Parviz Sabeti, former SAVAK deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah. One of the most powerful men in the last two decades of the Pahlavi regime. Exiled to the U.S. in 1979.
• Ahsha Safaí, elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 11
• David Safavian, disgraced former Chief of Staff of the United States General Services Administration
• Karim Sanjabi, Iranian politician of the National Front of Iran. Settled in the U.S. after the 1979 revolution
• Hajj Sayyah, famous world traveler and political activist. He is the first Iranian to obtain an American citizenship. Played a major role in the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 in Persia.
• Mohsen Sazegara, pro-democracy political activist and journalist. He held several offices in the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. His reformist policies clashed with the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, eventually resulting in his arrest and later exile. He currently resides in the U.S.
• Farhad Sepahbody, former Ambassador of Iran to Morocco (1976-1979). Exiled to the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution
• Soraya Serajeddini, Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist. Former Executive Vice President of the Kurdish National Congress of North America.
• Mehdi Shahbazi, political activist and businessman. He was known for protest against major oil companies at the grounds of his Shell Oil gas station franchises
• Azadeh N. Shahshahani, human rights attorney
• Ali Shakeri, activist and businessman. Serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California, Irvine, and is the founder and active member of Ettehade Jomhourikhahan-e Iran (EJI), which advocates for a democratic and secular republic in Iran. He was one of the four Iranian-Americans detained by the Iranian government in May 2007.
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, former prime minister of Iran (1960-1961, 1978-1979), former president of the Iranian Senate (1964-1978), and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran (1960). Exiled to the U.S. in the wake of the Iranian Revolution
• Faryar Shirzad, former Deputy National Security Advisor and White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush
• Yasmine Taeb, human rights attorney and Democratic National Committee official. She is a senior policy counsel at the Center for Victims of Torture
• Ramin Toloui, Assistant Secretary for International Finance, United States Department of the Treasury
• Bob Yousefian, former mayor of Glendale, California
• Steven Derounian, Republican, New York (1953–1965)[266]
• Adam Benjamin, Jr., Democrat, Indiana (1977–1982)
• Chip Pashayan, Republican, California (1979–1991)[266]
• Anna Eshoo, Democrat, California (1993—)[266]
• John E. Sweeney, Republican, New York (1999–2007)[266]
• Jackie Speier, Democrat, California (2008—)[266]
• Anthony Brindisi, Democrat, New York (2019—)[267]
• Robert Mardian, United States Assistant Attorney General (1970–1972)
• George Deukmejian, Republican, California (1983–1991)[268]
• George Deukmejian, California Attorney General (1979–1983)[268]
• Julia Tashjian, Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1983–1991)[269][266]
• Dickran Tevrizian, United States District Court for the Central District of California (1985–2005)
• Marvin R. Baxter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1991—)
• Brad Avakian, Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (2008—)
• Rachel Kaprielian, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles (2008–2014); Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Worforce Development
• George Deukmejian
• Joe Simitian
• Oscar S. Straus, 3rd Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1906—1909)
• Henry Morgenthau Jr., 52nd Secretary of the Treasury (1934—1945)
• Arthur Goldberg, 9th secretary of Labor and 6th US ambassador to the UN
• Abraham A. Ribicoff, 4th secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Edward H. Levi, 71st Attorney General (1975—1977)
• Harold Brown, 14th secretary of Defense (1977—1981)

See also

• Middle East
• Greater Middle East
• Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment

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Further reading

• Maghbouleh, Neda (2017). The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.