List of Afghans
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The following is a list of notable Afghan people, which includes all the ethnic groups of the modern state of Afghanistan. It also includes historical figures coming from the present day borders of Afghanistan, even if they were non-Pashtuns. If looking for a list of Pashtuns living or historical, please refer to the link above which lists specifically Pashtun people, the old definition of Afghan.
Monarchs
Presidents
Politicians and diplomats
Scientists
- Mohammad Qayoumi – engineer; president of San Jose State University
- Avicenna (980–1037) – father of modern medicine
- Sediq Afghan – mathematician and philosopher
- Zemaryalai Tarzi – archeologist
- Nazif Shahrani – professor of anthropology
- Ghulam Sediq Wardak – inventor
- Nake M. Kamrany – professor of economics
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand – astronaut
- M. Ishaq Nadiri – professor of economics
- Abbas Noyan – engineer
- Abdul Karim Mustaghni
- Mohammad Amin Fatemi – physician
- Sayed Hassan Akhlaq – philosopher
- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani – philosopher
- Massouda Jalal – pediatrician
- Habib Mangal – physician
- Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi – physician
- Daud Shah Saba – geologist
- Sima Samar – physician
- Habiba Sarobi – hematologist
- Abdul Qayum Tutakhail – physician
- Hamidullah Qalandarzai – engineer
- Kabir Stori – psychologist
- Hedayat Amin Arsala – economist
Entrepreneurs
Historians
- Abdul Hai Habibi (1910–1984)
- Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar (1898–1978)
- Abdul Shakoor Rashad (1921–2004)
- Abu Mansour al-Hosein ibn Muhammad al-Marghani
- Akram Assem
- Zalmay A. Gulzad
- Hafiz-i Abru
- Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara
- Omara Khan Massoudi – geographer, historian
Media people (including actors and film directors)
- Azita Ghanizada
- Siddiq Barmak (born 1962) – directed the drama film Osama (2003)
- Abdul Wahid Nazari (born 1953)
- Latif Ahmadi – director of Afghan Film, Afghanistan's state-run film company
- Aryan Khan (born 1980)
- Haji Kamran
- Mamnoon Maqsoodi (born 1966)
- Mithaq Kazimi – produced the documentary film 16 Days in Afghanistan (2007)
- Ariel Nasr – directed the documentary film The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012); produced the short film Buzkashi Boys (2012)
- Sonia Nassery Cole – directed the drama film The Black Tulip (2010)
- Abdul Ghafoor Breshna – painter, music composer, poet and film director
- Marina Golbahari
- Nelufar Hedayat
- Kader Khan
- Ahmed Latif
- Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada
- Nelofer Pazira
- Saeed Orokzai
- Leena Alam- Actress
- Hadji Gul- Actor
Writers (including journalists)
- Ahmad Javeed Ahwar (born 1987)
- Nelufar Hedayat
- Khaled Hosseini (born 1965)
- Sakena Yacoobi
- Nelofer Pazira
- Qiamuddin Khadim
- Mahmud Tarzi (1865–1933)
- Sultan Munadi (1976–2009)
- Fariba Nawa (born 1973)
- Sayed Ihsanuddin Taheri
Poets
- Rumi (1207–1273)
- Fatima Bhutto
- Pir Roshan (1525–1582/1585)
- Qahar Asi (1335)
- Khushal Khan Khattak(1613–1689)
- Rahman Baba (1650–1715)
- Khalilullah Khalili (1907–1987)
- Ghani Khan (1914–1996)
- Hamza Baba (1907–1994)
- Hakim Sanai (1080–1131)
- Kabir Stori (1942–2006)
- Jami (1414–1492)
- Mahmūd Tarzī (1830–1900)
- Wasef Bakhtari
- Matiullah Turab[1]
- Parween Pazhwak (born 1967)
- Nazo Tokhi
Sportspeople
- Raees Ahmadzai – cricketer
- Nasratullah Nasrat – cricketer
- Qaher Hazrat – cyclist
- Dawlat Zadran – cricketer
- Sandjar Ahmadi – footballer
- Shamsuddin Amiri – footballer
- Javed Ahmadi – cricketer
- Yamin Ahmadzai – cricketer
- Gulbudeen Naib – cricketer
- Jan Alam Hassani – volleyballer
Musicians (including composers)
- Omar Akram – Grammy Award-winning Afghan-American recording artist, composer and pianist
- Soosan Firooz – actress and rapper
- Ahmad Zahir
- Farhad Darya
- Latif Nangarhari
- Shafiq Mureed
- Mozhdah Jamalzadah
- Nasrat Parsa
- Aryana Sayeed
- Miri Maftun
Women activists
- Fawzia Koofi
- Anahita Ratebzad (born 1930)
- Roqia Abubakr
- Masuma Esmati Wardak
- Malalai Joya (born 1978)
- Fatema Akbari
Others
- Mir Masjidi Khan (died 1841) – Afghan resistance leader
- Sharbat Gula (born 1972)
- Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896–1998) – founder of Bank-e-Melli Afghanistan
- Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād – painter
- Ali-Shir Nava'i – poet, writer, politician, linguist, mystic and painter
- Youssof Kohzad – writer, painter, playwright, artist, poet and actor
- Zallascht Sadat – model
- Vida Samadzai – model
- Abdul Latif Pedram – professor of literature
See also
References
- ^ Ahmed, Azam (19 August 2013). "An Afghan Shapes Metal and Hard Poetry". The New York Times.