Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (20 December 1961, Искандер Асанович Тайманов) is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory. He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a Ph.D. student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov. Some topics of his work are and Willmore surfaces. He is the author of the textbook Lectures on Differential Geometry.