Javad Heyat (Persian: جواد هیئت; 25 May 1925 – 12 August 2014) was an Iranian surgeon and writer.

Javad Heyat was born in 1925 in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, and belonged to an aristocratic Iranian Azerbaijani family.

[1] Back in the Iranian capital Tehran, Heyat pursued a remarkable medical career at Hedayat hospital, where he performed the first open heart surgery in Iran.

[1] In 1983, Heyat briefly moved to the United States in order to participate in the first Conference of Turkic studies at the University of Indiana.

[1] According to Gilles Riaux, Heyat was a "leading figure in the Iranian medical community", and a "recognized expert on Turkish affairs, in Ankara and elsewhere".