Hajir Darioush (Persian: هژیر داریوش‎, 11 August 1938, Bandar Pahlavi, Iran – 2 October 1995, Blagnac, France) was an Iranian film maker, described by Javed Jabbar in 1982 as "the leader of the organised progressive Iranian cinema". He took his own life in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France, in 1995. In 1979, he emigrated to France. He was director at the University of Toulouse. Darioush was the president of the First International Film Festival of Iran in 1966, and acted as artistic director for National Iranian Radio and Television.