Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi (Persian: حمید تقوی; 1955 – 27 December 2014) was an Iranian military officer and commander in the Quds Force.

[3] He joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) immediately after the outbreak of the Iran–Iraq War in 1980 and recruited forces from Dasht-e Azadegan, forming a Military Intelligence Unit in Susangerd in southern Iran.

[4][5] According to the head of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, he “was present in most of the important battles against ISIL and played a key role in the Liberation of Jurf Al Sakhar”.

[6] "Taqavi was killed while conducting an operation in cooperation with the Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilization Forces to counter ISIL militants in the vicinity of the Al-Askari shrine", according to a statement by Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

[7] On 30 December 2014, thousands of officers from the Revolutionary Guards gathered in Tehran for Taqavi's funeral, including Qasem Soleimani.