title: Moghaddam
text: # Moghaddam
  
  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
  