Moghaddam Explained

Moghaddam or Moghadam (Persian: مقدم: "first", "preceding"); is a Persian language surname which in both of its Latin transcriptions (Moghaddam and Moghadam) of the Perso-Arabic alphabet is also common among the Iranian diaspora. Notable people with the surname include:

Moghadam

• Salar Moghadam (born 1986), Iranian musician

Moghaddam

• Nasser Moghaddam (1921–1979), Iranian general
• Afshin Moghaddam (1945–1976), Iranian singer
• Bita Moghaddam, neuroscientist
• Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (born 1951), Iranian conservative politician
• Valentine Moghaddam (born 1952), American-Iranian feminist scholar, sociologist, activist and author
• Hamid Moghaddam (born 1956), Iranian-born American business executive and philanthropist
• Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (1959–2011), Iranian engineer and military officer
• Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam (born 1961), Iranian retired military officer
• Reza Moghaddam (born 1962), British-Iranian economist
• Mandana Moghaddam (born 1962), Swedish-Iranian contemporary visual artist
• Mehdi Sojoudi Moghaddam (born 1962), Iranian writer
• Morteza Kermani Moghaddam (born 1965), Iranian former footballer
• Fathali M. Moghaddam, Iranian psychologist
• Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam (born 1971), Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist
• Masoud Fouladi Moghaddam (born 1985), Iranian record producer, artist and DJ
• Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam, Iranian diplomat and one of four Iranians abducted in Lebanon on 4 July 1982

See also

• Moqaddam (disambiguation)