Alireza Afzalipour (26 March 1909 – 7 April 1993) (Persian: علیرضا افضلی‌پور) was an Iranian engineer, businessman and philanthropist who is known as the founder of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman because of his financial support and outstanding donation to Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman as well as Kerman Medical University.

He established his business in electronic products which made him a wealthy man.

He finally chose Kerman for the location of the university he intended to build.

After preliminary studies, about 50 hectares was allocated to the construction on 25 December 1974, and the work began with his 600,000,000-rial donation at the time.

His wife was Fakhereh Saba, an opera singer and university lecturer, who died on 14 July 2007 at age 82.