List of Tajik people

This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group, an Eastern Iranic people native to modern day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. This list also includes other closely associated ethnicities to Tajiks.

Politicians

Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan, founder of the Jamiat-e Islami.
Habibullah Kalakani, former King of Afghanistan

Rustam Emomali, Mayor of Dushanbe and the eldest son of president Emomali Rahmon
Abdurahmon Karimov, political party chairman in Tajikistan^[1]
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
Emomali Rahmon, current President of Tajikistan
Kokhir Rasulzoda, current Prime Minister of Tajikistan
Fawzia Koofi, politician, writer
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
Amrullah Saleh, former Vice President of Afghanistan
Sayid Abdulloh Nuri, founder and leader of Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan

Military

Asaf Khan I (16th century) noble of the Mughal Empire
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
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

Farshad Noor, Professional football player
Omid Musawi, Professional football player
Omran Haydary, Professional football player
Sharif Nazarov, football coach
Alisher Chingizov, Professional swimmer
Sherali Dostiev, Professional boxer currently competing in AIBA’s Light flyweight division
Shamil Aliev, Former professional wrestler who competed in the men's light heavyweight category
Farzad Mansouri, Taekwondo fighter
Somon Makhmadbekov, Professional judoka wrestler who came 3rd place in 2024 Summer Olympics of Paris in the Men’s 81 kg event
Nematullo Asranqulov, Professional Judoka wrestler who won a silver medal for his division (middleweight) at the 2007 Asian Judo Championships
Temur Rakhimov, Professional Judoka wrestler who won bronze medal at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris’s Men's +100 kg event
Rasul Boqiev, Professional Judoka wrestler who won bronze medal at the 2007 World Judo Championships. Tajikistan's first ever Olympic medal, at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Komronshokh Ustopiriyon, Professional Judoka wrestler who competed in 2016 Summer Olympics of Rio de Janeiro and won 2 gold medals (2016, 2017) in Asian Judo Championships’s middleweight class
Mukhamadmurod Abdurakhmonov, Judoka wrestler who competed in 2016 Summer Olympics’s Men's +100 kg event
Sherali Bozorov, Professional Judoka wrestler who won a silver medal for his division (Half-Middleweight) at the 2007 Asian Judo Championships
Saidahtam Rahimov, Professional Judoka wrestler who competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Khayrullo Nazriev, Professional Judoka wrestler who competed in the men's half-heavyweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Akmal Murodov, Professional Judoka wrestler who represented Tajikistan in the men's 81 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Behruzi Khojazoda, Professional sambist and Judoka wrestler
Khushqadam Khusravov, Professional sambist and Judoka wrestler
Rustam Boqiev, Professional judoka wrestler
Rauf Hukmatov, Professional judoka wrestler
Parviz Sobirov, Professional judoka wrestler
Makhmud Muradov, Professional MMA fighter who competed in the UFC’s Middleweight division
Abdul Azim Badakhshi, Former professional MMA fighter and Kickboxer
Siyar Bahadurzada, Former professional MMA fighter who competed in the UFC’s Welterweight division
Muhammad Naimov, Professional MMA fighter who currently competes in the UFC’s Featherweight division

Business

Rus Yusupov, Jewish-American co-founder of Vine and the co-founder and CEO of HQ Trivia
Roya Mahboob, businesswoman
Mahmoud Saikal, a Tajik diplomat and international development specialist
Manizha Wafeq, businesswoman

Musicians and singers

Tajikistan

Classical/Folk

Pop

Rock/Metal

Afghanistan

Classical/Ghazal

Pop

Folk

Miri Maftun

Uzbekistan

Pop

Literature Figures

Authors and poets

Arts and culture

Science

References

^ "Tajikistan". The World Factbook. CIA. 2002. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

[1] "Tajikistan". The World Factbook. CIA. 2002. Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

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