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.[citation needed]
Notable people with the surname include:
Moghaddam
edit- Afshin Moghaddam (1945–1976), Iranian singer
- Bita Moghaddam, neuroscientist
- Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam (born 1961), Iranian retired military officer
- Fathali M. Moghaddam, Iranian psychologist
- Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (born 1951), Iranian conservative politician
- Hamid Moghaddam (born 1956), Iranian-born American business executive and philanthropist
- Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (1959–2011), Iranian engineer and military officer
- Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam (born 1971), Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist
- Mahta Moghaddam, Iranian-American electrical engineer and academic
- Mandana Moghaddam (born 1962), Swedish-Iranian contemporary visual artist
- Maryam Moghaddam (born c.1970), Iranian actress and filmmaker
- Masoud Fouladi Moghaddam (born 1985), Iranian record producer, artist and DJ
- Mehdi Sojoudi Moghaddam (born 1962), Iranian writer
- Morteza Kermani Moghaddam (born 1965), Iranian former footballer
- Nasser Moghaddam (1921–1979), Iranian general
- Reza Moghaddam (born 1962), British-Iranian economist
- Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam, Iranian diplomat, one of four Iranians abducted in Lebanon in 1982