Asteroids named after people called Shahriar
(15002) Shahriarbayegan
Shahriar Bayegan (1951–2021) was an Iranian physicist who was a member of the faculty at the Physics Department at Tehran University, Iran, for almost forty years. He served as the director of graduate studies (1983–1990) and department chair (2003–2005). Shahriar co-founded the university's Physics Ph.D. program and led the creation of the School of Physics.Discovered 29 November 1997 by LINEAR, Socorro