List of Tajik people explained
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
- Amrullah Saleh, former Vice President of Afghanistan
- Sayid Abdulloh Nuri, founder and leader of Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
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
- Mohammad Qasim Fahim, former Marshal of Afghanistan, former Minister of Defense of Afghanistan and former Vice President
- Mir Masjidi Khan, Resistance leader against the British Empire in the First Anglo-Afghan War
- Mir Bacha Khan Kohdamani, Resistance leader against the British Empire in the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Sayyid Husayn, former Minister of Defense and Saqqawist leader
- Purdil Khan, former Marshal and Minister of Defense of Afghanistan, Saqqawist leader
- Faizal Maksum, Tajik Basmachi Leader
- Bismillah Khan, Former Minister of Defense
Sports
Business
Entertainment
Arts and culture
Science
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Bellew . Henry Walter . An inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan, prepared and presented to the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists (1891) .
- Web site: Tajikistan. 2002. The World Factbook. CIA. 19 December 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110830115201/http://www.x.com.pe/ciastats/print/ti.html. 30 August 2011 .
