Wazir

'Wazir

Title

• Vizier, vazir or wazir, a high-ranking official, such as the Chief Minister of Muslim regimes starting with the Abbasid Caliphate.
• A vezér is a Hungarian high-ranking official or leader; may originate from the verb "vezet" (‘to lead’).

People

• Wazir Khan (Lahore), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan
• Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (died 1710), governor of Sirhind in the Mughal Empire
• Wazir Ali Khan (1780–1817), fourth nawab of Awadh, India
• Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), an Afghan prince, general, and emir
• Wazir Arsala Khan, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in 1869
• Wazir Ali (1903–1950), India Test cricketer
• Wazir Mohammad (born 1929), former Pakistani cricketer
• Khalid Wazir (born 1936), former Pakistani cricketer
• Khalil al-Wazir (1935–1988), Palestinian military leader and senior aide of Yasser Arafat
• Wazir (Bagram detainee, 2002), one of the few detainees at Bagram who had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf
• Abdullah Wazir (born 1979), one of the Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
• Sanam Sutirath Wazir (born 1989), Kashmiri human-rights activist

Places

• Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan

Other uses

• Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction
• Wazir (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar
• Wazir (Pashtun tribe), in Waziristan, Afghanistan
• Wazir (Khogyani clan), tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan

See also

• Waziri (disambiguation)