Esmail Merat (Persian: اسماعیل مرآت‎; March 7, 1893 – December 18, 1949) was Iran's minister of education during Reza Shah reign.

[4] After passing few years in Switzerland and France,[5] because of World War I and consequent difficulties, returned to Iran.

In 1915, the ministry of education asked him and other students who returned from Europe to work in Dar ul-Funun as a teacher.

After few months he abdicated this position and start working in ministry of economic affairs and finance.

Later in 1941, Mohammad Ali Foroughi asked him to return to his position, but he didn't accept because of hard working condition in those days.