Ali Akbar (also spelled Ali Ekber) is a given name and may refer to:
- Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn (664–680), son of the third Shi'ah Imam, Husayn ibn Ali, and Umm Layla
- Ali Akbar (designer) (born 1974), Indonesian art director and photographer
- Ali Ekber Çiçek (1938–2006), Turkish musician
- Ali-Akbar Davar (1888–1937), Iranian prosecutor
- Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini, Iranian human rights activist
- Ali Akbar Jalali (born 1954), Iranian professor
- 'Ali Akbar Khata'i, the author of a book of China completed in 1516
- Ali Akbar Moradi, Iranian-Kurdish musician and composer
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri (born 1944), Iranian politician
- Ali Akbar Sadeghi (born 1937), Iranian artist
- Ali-Akbar Shahnazi (1897–1985), Iranian musician
- Ali Akbar Velayati (born 1945), Iranian politician
- Ali Akbar, alias of Alakbar Aliyev, Azerbaijani writer and journalist.
Famous quotes containing the word ali:
“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer—he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)