- Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: May 1977 – 14 July
2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. - Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the gas laser at MIT.
- Firouz Naderi, associate director, Project Formulation and Strategy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.
- 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).
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay.
- Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,[23] co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics, inventor of the HULC.
- Ali Hajimiri, Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.
