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This is a list of notable people from the
Tajik ethnic group.
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
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
Salizhan Sharipov , cosmonaut
Mohammed dawran , cosmonaut
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi , Tajik polymath
Rumi , scholar and poet
Avicenna , Tajik polymath, physician and philosopher
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi , Tajik astrologer and philosopher
Nazif Shahrani , a professor of
anthropology ,
Central Asian Studies
Al-Muqanna , Tajik Islamic sect founder
Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi , physician, lecturer
Al-Isfizari , Islamic mathematician and astronomer from Harran
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi , Tajik physician
Abu Mansur Muwaffaq , Tajik physician
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi , Tajik physician
Abolfadl Harawi , Medieval Tajik astronomer
Ahmad ibn Farrokh , Tajik physician
Al-Taftazani , Tajik theologian, literary and philosopher