Azad Arif oglu Rahimov (Azerbaijani: Azad Arif oğlu Rəhimov, October 8, 1964 – April 30, 2021[2]) was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Minister of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Republic.

[3] Rahimov was born into the family of a housekeeper on October 8, 1964, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

From 1998 until February 7, 2006, Rahimov was the executive director of Italdesign,[4] a company whose subsidiary SerbAz has been implicated in an infamous case of worker mistreatment.

[7][8] With the re-establishment of Youth and Sports as a separate ministry, Rahimov was appointed the minister.

He died on 30 April in New York, where he had been seeking treatment for lung cancer and liver cirrhosis.