Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij (Persian: نجمیه خلیلی باتمانقلیج, IPA: [nædʒmiːˈje bɒːtmɒːŋɢeˈliːdʒ]) is an Iranian-American chef and cookbook author.

Born in Tehran, she fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979, moving first to France, then the United States, building a career as a cookbook author as she went.

[2] She and her husband fled to Vence, France as refugees, where she studied cooking and began translating her mother's recipes into French resulting in her first cookbook, Ma Cuisine d'Iran.

[11] Julia Moskin of The New York Times wrote about her latest cookbook, "Magisterial ... An engrossing visual feast of modern Iran...

"[13] On November 5, 2018, The Washington Post published an article about her written by James Beard Award winning writer Mayukh Sen with the headline "Najmieh Batmanglij is the grande dame of Iranian cooking.