List of Tajik people

This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group.

Politics

• Sultan Pakhal Gibari - Founder of Sultanate of Swat, basically from Gibari (Magi)^[1] tribe of old Tajiks.
• Rustam Emomali, Mayor of Dushanbe and the eldest son of president Emomali Rahmon
• Habibullah Kalakani, former King of Afghanistan
• Abdurahmon Karimov, political party chairman in Tajikistan^[2]
• Jamshed Karimov, former Prime Minister of Tajikistan and a cousin of former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, commander and mujahideen in Afghanistan, assassinated by al Qaeda
• Rahmon Nabiyev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan and two time President of Tajikistan
• Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan
• Emomali Rahmon, current President of Tajikistan
• Kokhir Rasulzoda, current Prime Minister of Tajikistan
• Fawzia Koofi, politician, writer
• Babrak Karmal, Former President of Afghanistan
• Abdul Qadir, politician
• Anahita Ratebzad, a socialist and Marxist-Leninist politician
• Meena Keshwar Kamal, Feminist and human rights activist
• Faiz Ahmad, politician
• Abdul Latif Pedram, politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan
• Atta Muhammad Nur, politician
• Ahmad Massoud, politician and the founder of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
• Ahmad Zia Massoud, politician
• Shirinsho Shotemur, a founding father of Tajikistan alongside his confidant Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai

Military

• Sherali Mirzo, Minister of Defense since November 2013
• Emomali Sobirzoda, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan
• Negmatullo Kurbanov, Commanding Officer of the Tajik Internal Troops
• Abduhalim Nazarzoda, former Deputy Minister of Defense
• Latif Fayziyev, Commander of the Tajik Mobile Forces
• Saimumin Yatimov, Chairman of the State Committee for National Security
• Ramazon Rahimov, Minister of Internal Affairs
• Gulmurod Khalimov, lieutenant-colonel when commander of the police special forces of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan until 2015, he then defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Ismail Khan, Former Minister of Water and Energy and governor of Herat
• Abdul Qadir, Afghan Communist general. He is of Tajik origin
• Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military personnel. Fought in the Afghan-soviet war and then the Afghan civil wars. He was famously named the lion of Panjshir

Sports

• Sharif Nazarov, football coach
• Sherali Dostiev, male boxer
• Alisher Chingizov, Tajik swimmer
• Farshad Noor, Professional football player
• Farzad Mansouri, Taekwondo fighter
• Omid Musawi, Professional football player
• Omran Haydary, Professional football player

Business

• Rus Yusupov, co-founder of Vine and the co-founder and CEO of HQ Trivia

Entertainment

• Malika Kalontarova, Tajik-American actress
• Manizha
• Mayram Isoeva
• Gulchehra Baqoeva
• Bozgul Isoeva, ballet dancer
• Katerina Izmailova, 3-time Olympic swimmer
• Hammasa Kohistani, model

Arts and culture

• Zakir Sabirov
• Zuhur Habibullaev
• Rohat Nabieva Tajikistani historian

Science

• Salizhan Sharipov, cosmonaut
• Mohammed dawran, cosmonaut
• Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Tajik polymath
• Rumi, scholar and poet
• Avicenna, Tajik polymath, physician and philosopher
• Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Tajik astrologer and philosopher
• Nazif Shahrani, a professor of anthropology, Central Asian Studies
• Al-Muqanna, Tajik Islamic sect founder
• Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi, physician, lecturer
• Al-Isfizari, Islamic mathematician and astronomer from Harran
• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi, Tajik physician
• Abu Mansur Muwaffaq, Tajik physician
• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi, Tajik physician
• Abolfadl Harawi, Medieval Tajik astronomer
• Ahmad ibn Farrokh, Tajik physician
• Al-Taftazani, Tajik theologian, literary and philosopher

See also

• Lists of people by nationality

References