Yadollah Sharifirad (Persian: یدالله شریفی‌راد) (born 24 March 1946, in Taleqan) is an Iranian former fighter pilot, former military attaché and writer.

Sharifirad was one of the most successful Iranian Northrop F-5 pilots during the Iran–Iraq War.

He ejected and was returned to Iran by Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas.

In 1987, he was ordered back to Iran by the government; upon his return, Sharifirad was accused of spying for the United States and imprisoned for over a year before being released.

[4] In 2010, Sharifirad wrote a book titled Flight of a Patriot, recounting the story of his life from his youth until his participation in the Iran-Iraq war, his arrest, imprisonment and torture, and immigration to Canada.