Daryoush Ashouri (Persian: داریوش آشوری, born August 2, 1938, in Tehran) is a prominent Iranian thinker, author, translator, researcher, and public intellectual.

Ashoori has worked extensively as an author, essayist, translator, literary interpreter, encyclopedist, and lexicologist.

His intellectual interests cover a wide interdisciplinary range, including political sciences, literature, philosophy and linguistics.

He has made vast contributions to developing the Persian vocabulary and terminology in human sciences and philosophy by coining new words and modifying existing ones.

His works in this domain are compiled in his Farhang-e 'olum-e ensāni (A Dictionary of Human Sciences).