List of Afghans

This article is about the "citizens of Afghanistan". For others, see List of Pashtuns.

The following is a list of prominent Afghan people, which includes all the ethnic groups of the modern state of Afghanistan.

List of monarchs

Main article: List of monarchs of Afghanistan

Presidents

Main article: List of Presidents of Afghanistan

• Mohammed Omar, spiritual leader of the Taliban

Politicians and diplomats

Main article: Politics of Afghanistan

Poets

• Nazo Tokhi (1651 – 1717)
• Khushal Khan Khattak (1613 – 1689)
• Khalilullah Khalili (1907 – 1987)
• Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi
• Rumi (1207 - 1273)
• Hakim Sanai (1080 - 1131)
• Jami (1414 - 1492)
• Rahman Baba (1650 - 1715)

Historians

• Abdul Hai Habibi (1910 - 1984)
• Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar (1898 - 1978)
• Abdul Shakoor Rashad (1921 - 2004)

Filmmakers and actors

• Siddiq Barmak(born 1962), Osama
• Mithaq Kazimi, 16 Days in Afghanistan
• Abdul Wahid Nazari (born 1953)
• Latif Ahmadi, director of Afghan Film
• Aryan Khan(born 1980)
• Haji Kamran
• Mamnoon Maqsoodi(born 1966)

Singers or musicians

Main article: List of Afghan singers

Writers and journalists

• Nelufar Hedayat
• Khaled Hosseini (born 1965)
• Sakena Yacoobi
• Ashraf Haidari
• Nelofer Pazira
• Mustafa Kazemi
• Bilal Sarwary
• Mahmud Tarzi (1865 - 1933)
• Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam
• Sultan Munadi (1976 - 2009)
• Fariba Nawa (born 1973)

Archaeologist

Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939)

Women activists

• Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956 - 1987), leader of the first Afghan feminist group, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
• Khadija Ahrari
• Dr. Anahita Ratebzad (born 1930)
• Roqia Abubakr
• Masuma Esmati Wardak
• Malalai Joya (born 1978)
• Fatema Akbari

Cosmonaut

• Abdul Ahad Mohmand (born 1959)

Others

• Sharbat Gula (born 1972)
• Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896 - 1998), founder of Bank-e-Melli Afghanistan