Akbar Khazaei (Persian: اکبر خزایی; born August 11, 1980, in Tehran, Iran) is the first and only Iranian international professional bodybuilding judge.

He was firstly an international amateur judge of the International Federation of bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) but later, he was appointed as the first professional judge of IFBB PRO bodybuilding competitions with an Iranian nationality.

In 1994, when he was only 14 years old, he chose bodybuilding and after that he exclusively focused on bodybuilding-related scientific studies in this field.

The reason for the importance of IFBB PRO professional judgment position is that few people in the world have been appointed as a professional bodybuilding judge,[7][8] and Akbar Khazaei is the first and only Iranian one who is a professional judge in international bodybuilding competitions, namely, IFBB PRO [9] [10][11][12][13][14] Akbar Khazaei has judged the bodybuilding competitions including Mr. Olympia in Tunisia, Iraq and Pakistan[15][16] as well as Ashour Classic in Libya.

[23][24] In 2022, Khazaei was invited to judge the American National Physique Committee (NPC) Bodybuilding Competition as well as and the 2022 Las Vegas Mr. Olympia,[25][26] but the American Embassy in Oman refused his visa application, so was not sent to judge these professional competitions.