Aftab ( fa, آفتاب ''âftâb'', meaning "sun" or properly "sunshine") is a surname and a masculine given name.

Notable people with this given name

* Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, Pakistani politician * Aftab Ahmed, several people *

Aftab Ali Aftab Ali ( bn, আফতাব আলী; 1907–1972) was an early 20th-century Bengali social reformer, politician and entrepreneur. His work is recognised to have helped thousands of British Asian lascars to migrate, settle and find employmen ...

, British Asian politician * Aftab Baloch, former Pakistani cricketer *

Aftab Gul Aftab Gul Khan (Urdu: آفتاب گل خان) (born 31 March 1946) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in six Test matches from 1969 to 1971. Gul was an opening batsman who represented a number of first-class sides in Pakistan from 1964 ...

, former Pakistani cricketer * Aftab Habib, English cricketer *

Aftab Jawaid Aftab Jawaid (also transliterated Aftab Javed; ur, آفتاب جاوید) is a former squash player from Pakistan, who was one of the game's leading players in the 1960s. He won the British Amateur championship three times (in 1963, 1964 and 1965) ...

, former squash player from Pakistan *

Aftab Ahmad Khan Lieutenant-General Aftab Ahmad Khan was a Pakistan Army Infantry Officer, born in Batala, Gurdaspur District, British India on 22 October 1923 to the illustrious family of Khan Bahadur Mian Altaf Hussain Khan (1874–1946) and Mehndi Begum. ...

, Pakistan Army Infantry officer *

Aftab Ahmed Khan Aftab Ahmed Khan (27 February 1940 — 21 January 2022) was an Indian police officer (IPS)-turned-politician from Mumbai, noted for his encounter killings of gangsters from the Mumbai organized crime syndicates. He is also known as the founder ...

, Indian politician *

Aftab Shaban Mirani Aftab Shaban Mirani () is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from May 2014 to May 2018. He served as 18th Chief Minister of ...

, Pakistani politician * Aftab Pureval, American politician *

Aftab Sachak Aftab Sachak (born 16 July 1952) is an African British actor. He went to an English public school before studying acting. He made his television debut in ''King of the Ghetto'' in 1986 and played the serious minded shop keeper, Ashraf Karim, ...

, Afghan-born British actor *

Aftab Iqbal Shamim Aftab Iqbal Shamim ( ur, ; born 16 February 1933 in Jhelum, Pakistan) is an Urdu language poet and an educator from Pakistan. Career Aftab Iqbal was born in Jhelum, Pakistan in 1933. Aftab Iqbal Shamim had served as a professor of English lit ...

, Urdu-language poet *

Aftab Shamshudeen Aftabodeen Shamshudeen (born 9 July 1977) is a Guyanese-born cricketer who has played one One Day International for Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to ...

, Guyanese-born cricketer {{Surname Persian masculine given names Bangladeshi masculine given names Persian words and phrases