- Source: List of Afghans
The following is a list of notable Afghan people, which includes all the ethnic groups of the modern state of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has gone through territorial changes. This list generally excludes Ethnic Pashtuns who originate from regions that were not controlled by Afghanistan at the time, though there are exceptions for certain figures who are prominent to Pashtuns. It also includes historical figures coming from the present day borders of Afghanistan, even if they were non-Pashtuns.
Monarchs
Humayun (reigned 26 December 1530 – 17 May 1540) Second Mughal emperor
Demetrius I of Bactria (c. 200 – c. 180 BCE) King of Bactria
Eucratides I (reigned 171–145 BC) King of the Bactrian Empire
Menander I (reigned 165/155–130 BC) Indo-Greek king
Mahmud of Ghazni (reigned 998 – 30 April 1030) Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire
Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (reigned 1163 – 11 February 1203) Sultan of the Ghurid Empire
Muhammad of Ghor (reigned 1173–1202) Sultan of the Ghurid Sultanate
Muhammad Shah (reigned 27 September 1719 – 26 April 1748) 13th Mughal Emperor
Abu Sa'id Mirza (reigned Samarkand: 1451–1469,Herat: 1459–1469) Ruler of the Timurd empire
Alauddin Khalji (reigned 19 July 1296 – 4 January 1316) Turco-Afghan Ruler of Delhi Sultanate
Ulugh Beg II (reign 1461–1502) Timiurd Ruler of Kabul and Ghazni
Sayed Kayan Sayed Nadir Shah Al-Hussaini Kayani who was known as Sayed Kayan was a prominent Islamic philosopher, religious and political figure.
Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza Timiurd Ruler of khorasan
Sher Shah Suri (1537 – 22 May 1545) Founder of the Suri Empire in India,
Sultan Husayn Bayqara (reigned 1469 – 4 May 1506) Amir of the Timurid Empire
Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747–1772) was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded by some (though there is no historical record) as the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan
Jalal-ud-din Khalji (reigned 13 June 1290 - 19 July 1296) Founder of the Khalji dynasty, 12th Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate
Kalu Khan Yousufzai - Yousufzai Afghan monarch of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. known for the Battle of Malandari Pass (1586)
Presidents
Politicians and diplomats
Muhammad Yunus Nawandish, was the Mayor of Kabul from after his appointment by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in January 2010
Mohammad Siddiq Chakari
Sayed Mansur Naderi Former Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Abdul Ahmad Zahedi Niqala
Sadat Mansoor Naderi, Former State Minister for Peace
Wahid Omar
Amrullah Saleh the second Panjshir resistance
Rafael Pinhasi Israeli politician
Mahmud Tarzi Afghan politician and intellectual, known as founder of Afghan journalism
Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi
Zalmay Khalilzad Afghan-American diplomat and foreign policy expert
Rangin Dadfar Spanta
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Ali Ahmad Khan Afghan politician and self proclaimed Emir of Afghanistan for a few weeks
Ismael Balkhi Hazara political leader and reformist
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak diplomat, scholar and poet
Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist) Afghan politician, diplomat, and military officer
Mohammed Aziz Khan Afghan prince and diplomat
Abdur Rahim Khan (governor) Afghan governor of Herat
Abdul Rashid Dostum Afghan warlord
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, Former MP and Senior Advisor to President Ashraf Ghani
Juma Khan Hamdard governor of Paktia Province from 2007 to 2015
Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam(died November 820) served twice as the Abbasid Caliphate's governor of Egypt.
Sayed Mohammad Ali Jawid Afghan politician
Khairullah Khairkhwa current Afghan Minister of Information and Culture and a former Minister of the Interior.
Dawood Laghmani Afghan politician
Abdur Rahman Mahmudi, medical doctor and politician
Kubra Noorzai Afghan politician. She was the first woman to become a government minister in the country.
Nasima Razmyar Afghan-Finnish politician, elected to the Finnish Parliament in 2015
Mohammad Nabi Omari Afghan politician, governor of Khost province and held for nearly twelve years in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay
Abdul Ali Mazari political leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party
Khushnood Nabizada Chief of Staff to State Ministry for Peace (SMP)
Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk born in Balkh, Persian vizier of the Seljuq Empire and then the Abbasid Caliphate.
Shah Mahmud Khan Prime Minister of Afghanistan from May 1946 to 7 September 1953, under King Mohammed Zahir Shah's monarchy
Abdul Hadi Dawi Afghan poet, diplomat and government official.
Naqibullah Orya Khail, leader of Hezb-e-Jawanan Musalman Afghanistan
Military figures
Kamal al-Din Gurg (died late 1315 or early 1316), general of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji.
Adham Khan general of Akbar the Great, third Mughal empire
Mullah Omar Mujahideen leader, co-founder of the Taliban and served as its first leader
Ahmad Shah Massoud military commander
Jalaluddin Haqqani Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network
Ala al-Dawla Mirza Timurid prince and a grandson of the Central Asian ruler Shah Rukh
Bairam Khan military commander and commander-in-chief of the Mughal army
Wazir Akbar Khan Afghan prince, general and Emir
Habibullāh Kalakāni leader of the Saqqawists
Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist) military officer in the Afghan Air Force
Commander Shafi Hazara ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan
Kabir Andarabi military official
Sayed Jafar Naderi Military Official and former governor of Baghlan province.
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf Mujahideen commander
Dadullah Taliban's senior military commander in Afghanistan until his death in 2007
Obaidullah Akhund Defence Minister in the Afghan Taliban government of 1996–2001
Amin Wardak major Afghan Mujahideen leader
Abdul Raziq Achakzai Afghan Army Lieutenant General and Police Chief, considered to be one of the most powerful security officials in Afghanistan for the last few years of his life
Tahir ibn Husayn General and Governor of Khurasan during the Abbasid caliphate
Masrur al-Balkhi senior military officer in the late-9th century Abbasid Caliphate
Azad Khan Afghan military commander
Sardar Shah Wali Khan political and military figure in Afghanistan
Mohammad Akram, vice Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army; died in a suicide attack in 2005.
Mohammad Fahim (1957-2014), Marshal in the Afghan National Army
Khoshal Sadat Pashtun military officer
Scientists
Entrepreneurs
Historians
Actors and film directors
Writers (including journalists)
= Poets
=Artists
Dust Muhammad – born in Herat, Persian painter of miniatures, calligrapher, and art historian. Disciple of Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād – (1455–1535), painter
Ali-Shir Nava'i – (1441–1501)
Mariam Ghani – visual artist, photographer, filmmaker
Lida Abdul – video artist and performance artist
Malina Suliman – graffiti artist, metalworker, and painter
Abdul Ghafoor Breshna – one of Afghanistan's most talented artists
Shamsia Hassani – graffiti artist, a fine arts lecturer, and the associate professor of Drawing and Anatomy Drawing at the Kabul University
Religious figures
Ibrahim ibn Adham – early ascetic Sufi saint
Asif Mohseni – Afghan Twelver Shi'a Marja'
Muqatil ibn Sulayman – scholar of Islam, wrote earliest, possibly first commentaries of the Quran
Hiwi al-Balkhi – 9th century exegete and critic of the bible
Ali Hujwiri – 11th-century sunni Muslim mystic, theologian and preacher.
Shahid Balkhi – Persian theologian, philosopher, poet and Sufi. Famous Persian poet Rudaki has a poem in Balkhi's elegy.
Ali al-Qari – Islamic scholar
Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari – Afghan Sufi master
Sheikh Mohammad Rohani – Sufi cleric born around 1220 AD
Abobaker Mojadidi – spiritual Muslim leader and socio-political activist
Ahmed Gailani – was the leader of the Qadiriyyah Sufi order in Afghanistan
Mirza Muhammad Ismail – Afghan religious scholar and the first convert to the Ahmadiyya faith
Sultan Balkhi – 14th century Muslim saint, known for preaching Islam in Bengal
Ibn Hibban – scholar, Muhaddith, historian and author of well-known works
Malak Yousaf Afghan – primogenitor of the Qazyan family
Sportspeople
Musicians (including composers)
Female activists
Others
See also
Demographics of Afghanistan
Lists of people by nationality
List of Hazara people
List of Pashtuns
List of Tajik people
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bahasa Pashtun
- Mohammad Nabi Omari
- Innocence of Muslims
- Kekristenan di Afganistan
- Perang Soviet–Afganistan
- Insiden desak-desakan Mina 2015
- List of Afghans
- List of regions of Afghanistan by Human Development Index
- List of airlines of Afghanistan
- List of heads of state of Afghanistan
- List of Afghanistan War (2001–2021) documentaries
- List of Afghan flags
- List of wars involving Afghanistan
- List of Afghan artists
- List of companies of Afghanistan
- List of political parties in Afghanistan