Homa Darabi (Persian: هما دارابی; 1940–1994) was an Iranian child psychiatrist, academic, and political activist affiliated with the Nation Party of Iran.
[4] After completing her studies, she practiced in the village Bahmanieh, located in northern Iran.
[2] Darabi went to the United States to continue her studies, and obtained a pediatrics specialist degree in psychology.
[4] She returned to Iran in 1976 and was employed as a professor of child psychiatry at University of Tehran, while she became once again politically active against the Pahlavi dynasty.
[2] As a sign of protest, Darabi immolated herself by pouring petrol over her head on 21 February 1994, after she had taken her hijab off in a public thoroughfare near Tajrish.