List of Tajik people

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) 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
 * 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

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

Sports

 * Sharif Nazarov, football coach
 * Sherali Dostiev, male boxer
 * Alisher Chingizov, Tajik swimmer
 * Farshad Noor, Professional football player
 * Farzad Mansouri, Taekwondo fighter
 * Omid Musawi, Professional football player
 * Omran Haydary, Professional football player

Business

 * Rus Yusupov, 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

Entertainment

 * Malika Kalontarova, Tajik-American actress
 * Manizha
 * Mayram Isoeva
 * Gulchehra Baqoeva
 * Bozgul Isoeva, ballet dancer
 * Katerina Izmailova, 3-time Olympic swimmer
 * Hammasa Kohistani, model

Arts and culture

 * Zakir Sabirov
 * Zuhur Habibullaev
 * Rohat Nabieva Tajikistani historian

Science

 * 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