Šganda Salem Choheili (Persian: سالم چحیلی; born 1935 in Ahvaz, Iran[1]} is an Iranian Mandaean scribe, teacher, and author.

[2] Salem Choheili later served as Slovak linguist Rudolf Macúch's primary Neo-Mandaic linguistic informant in 1989,[4]: 37  as well as a guide for Norwegian-American scholar Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley during her 1996 field trip to Iran.

[3]: 211 After serving in the Iranian military, Salem Choheili focused on transcribing Mandaic manuscripts.

[2] On April 12, 1989, he finished copying a handwritten manuscript of the Mandaean Book of John.

Dr. Sinan Abdullah, the son of physicist Abdul Jabbar Abdullah, brought a photocopy of the manuscript to Niskayuna, New York, United States, which was later transferred to Colonie, New York.