List of Pashto-language poets
This is a list of Pashto language poets.
Folkloric
16th century
- Pir Roshan, poet, warrior, intellectual (1525–1585)
17th and 18th century
- Khushal Khattak, national poet, warrior, chief (1613–1689)
- Nazo Tokhi, poet, national heroine, mother of Mirwais Hotak (1651–1717)
- Rahman Baba, poet (1653–1711)
- Abdul Hamid Baba, poet (?–c.1732)
- Hussain Hotak, poet, king (?–1738)
- Afzal Khan Khattak, poet, grandson of Khushal Khattak (?–c.1770)
- Ahmad Shah Durrani, poet, king, founder of Afghanistan (1723–1773)
