Zarifa Aliyeva

Zarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva (Azerbaijani: Zərifə Əziz qızı Əliyeva; 28 April 1923 – 15 April 1985) was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and professor.

Zarifa Aziz was born in Shahtakhkty village, Sharur to ethnic Azerbaijani parents in 1923.

Her father was Aziz Aliyev, People's Commissar of Public Health Services of the Azerbaijan SSR and later the first secretary of the Communist party's oblast committee of Dagestan.

Much of Aliyeva's working life was spent at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Advanced Medical Studies.

She was the author of 14 monographs, hundreds of research papers, and 12 rationalization proposals.