Alavi (surname)

{{see also|Alawi (disambiguation)}}

Notable people with the surname Alavi include:

• Ali Alavi, Theoretical chemist
• Patrick Alavi, a German Musician
• Abass Alavi, is Professor of Radiology and Neurology
• Abrar Alvi, was an Indian film writer, director and actor
• Ameer Faisal Alvi Awan, was the first General Officer Commanding of the elite Special Service Group of Pakistan Army
• Arif Alvi, is president of Pakistan
• Bozorg Alavi, was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual
• Hakim ‘Alavi, was a royal Persian physician of the 18th century
• Hasan Jamil Alvi, is a former Pakistani cricketer
• Moniza Alvi, is a Pakistani-British poet and writer
• Rashid Alvi, a politician from Indian National Congress party is presently a Member of the Parliament of India
• Samroj Ajmi Alvi, is a Bangladeshi actress and model.
• Sajida Alvi, is a female academic of Pakistani origin in Canada
• Sattar Alvi, is a Pakistan Air Force's veteran fighter pilot and retired Air Commodore of Pakistan Air Force .
• Shamsur Rehman Alvi, is a journalist with Hindustan Times
• Suroosh Alvi, is a Pakistani Canadian journalist and film-maker
• Shahood Alvi, is a television actor, Pakistan
• Mahmoud Alavi, is the Minister of Intelligence of Iran
• Mohammad Alavi (nuclear engineer), is an Iranian nuclear engineer
• Mohammad Alavi Gorgani, is a leading scholar in Najaf, Iraq
• Mohammad Alvi, is an Iranian footballer
• Yousef Alavi, is a mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory