Governors of Azerbaijan (Iran)

There is an incomplete list of governors of Azerbaijan, a region in northwestern Iran.

Kings of Media Atropatene

 * Atropates from 320s BC til an unknown date
 * Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC) ruled in 221 BC or 220 BC, a contemporary of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus III the Great. He is said to be a paternal grandson of the Persian King Darius II from his marriage to the daughter of Gobryas
 * Mithridates (100 BC – 66 BC), ruled from 67 BC to c. 66 BC who was father-in-law of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great
 * Darius I (c. 85 BC – c. 65 BC), ruled c. 65 BC
 * Ariobarzanes I (c. 85 BC – 56 BC), ruled from 65 BC to 56 BC
 * Artavasdes I (65 BC – 20 BC), ruled from 56 BC until 31 BC. Son of the above named Ariobarzanes and a son-in-law of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
 * Asinnalus (flourished 1st century BC), ruled from 30 BC to an unknown date in the 20s BC
 * Ariobarzanes II (40 BC – 4), ruled sometime from 28 BC to 20 BC until 4 AD and served as King of Armenia from 2 BC to 4
 * Artavasdes II, who served as Artavasdes III (20 BC – 6), King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from 4 AD to 6 AD
 * Artabanus (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 38 AD), grandson of Artavasdes I, ruled from 6 until 10
 * Vonones (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 51 AD), brother of Artabanus and ruled from 11? until 51
 * Pacorus (flourished 1st century & first half of 2nd century), son of the above named and ruled from 51 AD until 78 AD

Early Islamic rulers

 * Al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, governor of Adharbayjan
 * Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, governor of Adharbayjan (731-733)
 * Sa'id ibn Amr al-Harashi, governor of Adharbayjan (733-735)
 * Yahya ibn Khalid, governor of Adharbayjan (765-?)
 * Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin, governor of Adharbayjan (835-?)
 * Mankjur al-Farghani (837-?)

Sajid dynasty

 * Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Saj, Afshin of Azerbaijan (889–901)
 * Devdad ibn Muhammad, Emir of Azerbaijan (901)
 * Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj, Emir of Azerbaijan (901–928)
 * Subuk, Emir of Azerbaijan (919–922)
 * Abu'l-Musafir al-Fath, Emir of Azerbaijan (928–929)

10th century governors

 * Wasif al-Shirvani
 * Muflih al-Saji (c. 929–935)
 * Daysam ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi (ca. 937/8–942)
 * Abu Mansur Muhammad

Sallarid dynasty

 * Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (919–941)
 * Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (941/2–949)
 * Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–953)
 * Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–957)
 * Justan I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–960)
 * Ismail ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan (960–?)
 * Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–979)
 * Nuh ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan
 * Marzuban II ibn Ismail, ruler of Azerbaijan

Golden Horde governor of Azerbaijan (claimant)

 * Chormaqan 1230 - 1241
 * Baiju Noyan 1241 - 1260
 * Shiramun 1260 -

Timurid governors of Azerbaijan

 * Miran Shah

Safavid governors of Azerbaijan

 * Haqqverdi Sultan ?-1593
 * Farhad Khan Qaramanlu (1593)
 * Zu'l Fiqar Qaramanlu
 * Shahbandeh Beg Torkman (1st term)
 * Qarachaqay Khan (1618-1620)
 * Shahbandeh Beg Torkman (2nd term)
 * Rustam Khan (1632–1633)
 * Bijan Beg
 * Aliqoli Khan
 * Vakhtang VI of Kartli
 * Prince Bakar of Kartli
 * Safiqoli Khan Ziyadoghlu Qajar (aka Aliqoli Khan)
 * Mohammad-Ali Khan of Tabriz (1719-1720)
 * Mikhri (Mehdi?) Khan

Qajar governors of Azerbaijan

 * Abbas Mirza (1798-?)
 * Djahangir Mirza
 * Fereydoon Mirza (1831-?)
 * Nosrat-od-Dowleh Firouz Mirza (1837-1850)
 * Bahman Mirza Qajar (1841-?)
 * Mehdi Qoli Hedayat (1908-1911)

Pahlawi governors of Azerbaijan

 * Mozaffar Alam (1950-?)
 * Mohsen Rais (1958-1960)