Esmaeil Elmkhah (Persian: اسماعیل علم‌خواه, 30 December 1936 – 1988) was an Iranian featherweight weightlifter.

In 1958 he won a silver medal at the Asian Games and set four unofficial world records: one in the snatch, one in the press and two in the total.

[2] Elmkhah was born in Rasht, but grew up in Tehran.

He had a sister, and lost his parents when he was a child.

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