Kourosh Safavi[1] (Persian: کورش صفوی; 27 June 1956 – 11 August 2023) was an Iranian linguist, translator, and university professor.

He was the vice-president of the Linguistics Society of Iran and a professor at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran.

[3] He also translated into Persian books written by many notable linguists and writers such as Noam Chomsky (Language and Mind and Language and Thought), Roman Jakobson, Ferdinand de Saussure (Course in General Linguistics), Hösle, Goethe (West-östlicher Diwan) and Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World).

Fourteen years later they returned to Iran where he earned a Mathematics diploma from Hadaf High School in Tehran.

[4] In his youth, Safavi was accustomed to linguistic and philological debates, as his father would have such discussions with many notable people, such as Dr. Parviz Natel Khanlari.