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Dilyara Alakbar qizi Aliyeva (Azerbaijani: Dilarə Əliyeva) (14 December 1929 – 19 April 1991) was an Azerbaijani philologist, translator, Women's rights activist, and Member of The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan from 1990–1991.

She later worked in several positions at the Nizami Institute, where she studied the literary heritage of the medieval poet Nizami and the historical interactions and comparisons between Azeri and Georgian literature. Aliyeva became a senior researcher at the Institute and then the head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval Literature. She was also a senior researcher in the Department of Literary Relations and The Department of Legal Studies.

She was a member of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan from 1960. In 1988, she received her Ph.D. in philology and joined the Azerbaijan Popular Front, where she soon became one of its executives.