Seyyed Hossein Makki (Persian: سید حسین مکی) was an Iranian politician, orator and historian.

The son of a bazaari merchant,[2] Makki was an employee of National Iranian Railroad Company,[1] having previously served as a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force.

[3] He began his career as a journalist in 1941[1] and was a founding member of the Iran Party, as one of the few who was not Western-educated.

[2] He left his patron in 1949 to embrace a nationalist cause, befriending Mohammad Mossadegh and co-founding National Front.

[2] He was briefly imprisoned in 1955 and spent the rest of his life writing about Iranian history,[1] most notably the best-selling eight-volume series Tāriḵ-e bist sāla-ye Irān (Twenty Year History of Iran).