Bakhtiyor Akhmedovich Ikhtiyarov (Uzbek: script=Latn|Baxtiyor Ixtiyorov / Uzbek: Бахтиёр Ихтиёров, Russian: Бахтиёр Ахмедович Ихтияров; 28 March 1940 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Uzbek actor.
Ikhtiyarov was born in Bukhara. He started his career as a theatre actor, but in 1964 he starred in Ali Hamroyev's Yor-yor, one of the most successful Uzbek comedies of all time. Following that, he became a well-known actor and regularly appeared in many movies from 1964 on. In 1989, he was given the title People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR.[1]
He was married to the actress, People's Artist of Uzbekistan Mariam Ikhtiyarovа (nee Ruzmetova, born in 1939).[2]
Ikhtiyarov died on 21 November 2021 in Tashkent.[3]