Hazara people The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scat ...

make up the second or third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan with 8–12 million population, making 20%–25% of the total population of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...

(Some suggest the real population might reach 30%) where they mainly inhabit the Hazaristan region, as well as parts of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

, especially

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and

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

. The Hazaras have immigrated to

, Australia,

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...

, and North America in the last several decades also as part of these two intertwined diasporan groupings, as part of the

Hazara Hazara may refer to: Ethnic groups * The Hazaras, a Persian-speaking people of Afghanistan and Pakistan * Aimaq Hazara, Aimaq's subtribe of Hazara origin * Hazarawals, a Hindko-speaking people of the Hazara region of northern Pakistan * Hazar ...

and wider Afghan diaspora.

Politicians

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Muhammad Yusuf Khan Hazara Muhammad Yusuf Khan Hazara ( fa, محمد یوسف خان هزاره) known as Sulat al-Sultanah Hazara (); () was a politician and the first Sunni and Hazara representative member in the Iran parliament for National Consultative Assembly and h ...

Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Muhammad Ibrahim Khan may refer to: * Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (1915–2003), founder and first President of Azad Kashmir * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (judge) (died 1963), Judicial Commissioner of the Peshawar High Court * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (Pa ...

* Karim Khalili * Sultan Ali Keshtmand * Daoud Naji *

Ramazan Bashardost Ramazan Bashardost ( fa, رمضان بشردوست; born 1961) was former planning minister in Afghanistan and a current member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan. He was an independent candidate in the 2009 Afghan presidential election. Ea ...

* Mohammad Mohaqiq * Qazi Muhammad Essa * Habiba Sarabi * Sima Samar * Hussain Ali Yousafi * Muhammad Ali Jawid *

Maryam Monsef Maryam Monsef ( fa, مریم منصف) (born Monsefzadeh; November 7, 1984) is an Afghan Canadian former politician. She first was elected to represent the riding of Peterborough—Kawartha as a Liberal member the House of Commons of Can ...

* Abdul Khaliq Hazara *

Akram Yari Akram Yari ( prs, اکرم یاری) was a Maoist political organizer in Afghanistan. He was the leader and founder of the Progressive Youth Organization (PYO), a Marxist–Leninist organization which was formed on October 6, 1965. Early years ...

Ahmad Behzad Ahmad Behzad ( prs, احمد بهزاد) is an ethnic Hazara politician and former representative of the people of Herat province in the fifteenth and sixteenth parliamentary sessions of the Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Ahmad Behzad wa ...

Jan Ali Changezi Jan Ali Changezi ( ur, جان علی چنگیزی) is the former Minister for Quality Education in the Balochistan, Pakistan Government. He belongs to a lower-middle-class family. Started politics in student life. He belongs to the Pakistan People ...

* Qurban Ali Oruzgani * Abdul Haq Shafaq * Sayed Anwar Rahmati * Azra Jafari * Sayyid Ali Beheshti * Shah Gul Rezai * Sarwar Danish * Sayed Nasir Ali Shah * Haji Sayed Hussain Hazara * Abdul Wahed Sorabi *

Azizullah Royesh Azizullah Royesh (known as Aziz Royesh, fa, عزیز رویش) is a Hazara, social activist, teacher and writer from Afghanistan. Biography Aziz Royesh was born in 1969 in Fazel Baig, Kabul, Afghanistan. After leaving school at age 10, he ...

Ahmad Shah Ramazan Ahmad Shah Ramazan ( prs, احمدشاه رمضان) is an ethnic Hazara politician from Afghanistan. He was the representative of the people of Balkh Province during the sixteenth parliamentary term of Afghanistan Parliament who elected in 2010 ...

Dawood Ali Najafi Dawood Ali Najafi ( prs, داودعلی نجفی) (February 17, 1968) is a politician in Afghanistan. He is serving as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, a position he held since June 2010. Son of Salman Ali, Najafi lived in Pakistan as ...

Abdul Qayyum Sajjadi Abdul Qayyum Sajjadi ( prs, عبدالقیوم سجادی) was elected to represent Ghazni Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. He is a member of the Hazara ethnic group. He speaks English ...

Ghulam Ali Wahdat General Ghulam Ali Wahdat ( prs, غلام‌علی وحدت ) is a Hazara politician from Afghanistan. He served as governor of Bamyan province from (October, 2013 to June, 2015). Early life Ghulam Ali Wahdat, son of Nawazesh Ali, was born on ...

* Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili * Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili * Sayed Mustafa Kazemi * Sayed Mansur Naderi *

Abbas Ibrahim Zada Abbas Ibrahim Zada ( prs, عباس ابراهیم‌زاده) is a politician from Afghanistan. He is the former representative of the people of Balkh during the 16th parliamentary term of Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Abbas Ibrahim Zad ...

* Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan *

Sayed Hussein Anwari Sayed Hussein Anwari ( prs, سید حسین انوری) (1956 – 5 July 2016) was a politician in Afghanistan. He was a Shia and came from Mohammed Asef Mohseni's Harakat-e Islami (Islamic Movement party). Early life Anwari, an ethnic Hazar ...

Sayyed Mohammad Eqbal Munib Mohammad Eqbal Munib ( prs, محمد اقبال منیب) was a Hazara politician and the former governor of Ghor. Before that he had been governor of Sar-e Pol. As governor of Sar-e Pol Mohammad Eqbal Munib survived two attempts on his life ...

* Rahila Bibi Kobra Alamshahi * Zahera Ahmadyar Mawlayee *

Abdul Taleb Zaki Abdul Taleb Zaki ( prs, عبدالطالب ذکی) was an ethnic Hazara politician and a jihadist from Afghanistan. Abdul Taleb Zaki, son of Abdul Wahid born in 1960 in Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan. He is one of the jihadists of Hezbe Wahdat ...

* Asadullah Saadati *

Ghulam Husain Naseri Ghulam Husain Naseri ( prs, غلام‌حسین ناصری) is an ethnic Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He is the representative of the people of Maidan Wardak during the 16th term of Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Ghulam Husain Na ...

* Fahim Hashimy * Abbas Noyan *

Muhammad Hussain Fahimi Muhammad Hussain Fahimi ( prs, محمد حسین فهیمی) is an Afghan politician who represented the Sar-e Pol province in the 15th and 16th term of the Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Muhammad Hussain Fahimi was born in 1963 in the Ba ...

Military personnel

Abuzar Ghaznawi Abuzar ( fa, ابوذر, also Romanized as Abūz̄ar) is a village in Veysian Rural District, Veysian District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a c ...

Mehdi Mujahid Mawlawi Mehdi Mujahid (; 1988 – 17 August 2022) was an ethnic Hazara rebel from Afghanistan who led around 200 Hazara fighters during the Balkhab uprising. He was a Taliban commander before rebelling against the Taliban until he was killed ...

* Commander Shafi Hazara * General Khudaidad Khan * General Musa Khan * General Murad Ali Murad *

Flight lieutenant Flight lieutenant is a junior commissioned rank in air forces that use the Royal Air Force (RAF) system of ranks, especially in Commonwealth countries. It has a NATO rank code of OF-2. Flight lieutenant is abbreviated as Flt Lt in the Indi ...

Samad Ali Changezi * Air marshal

Sharbat Ali Changezi Air-Marshal Sharbat Ali Changezi ( Urdu: شربت على ݘݩگݐڒی; b. 10 March 1932), , is a retired three-star air officer in the Pakistan Air Force and a former fighter pilot who led the aerial operations in the Indo-Pakistani War of ...

* Younus Changezi * Bibi Ayesha * Ali Reza Tavassoli

Religious figures

Muhammad al-Fayadh Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Is'haq al-Fayadh (the word al-Fayadh also spelt al-Fayad), ( ar, مُحَمَّدْ إِِسْحَاقْ ٱلْفَیَّاض, prs, مُحَمَّداِسحٰاق فَیّٰاض) is one of the most senior Shi'a marja li ...

* Mohaqiq Kabuli * Ismail Balkhi * Sayyid Ali Beheshti * Ali Mohaqiq Nasab

Writers, poets and people in the media

* Faiz Muhammad Kateb * Amir Khosrow Dehlavi *

Hassan Poladi Hassan Poladi (also referred to as Hassan Foladi) was the writer of '' The Hazaras'', a book about the Hazara people. Poladi was born in Quetta, as a second-generation Hazara. He grew up and got his early education from local schools and college ...

* Ismail Balkhi * Basir Ahmad Dowlatabadi *

Haji Kazim Yazdani Haji Kazim Yazdani ( prs, حاجی کاظم یزدانی) a historical researcher and a writer, was born in a Hazara family in central Afghanistan. He is among the top historical researchers and writers in the country. His work has been publishe ...

* Kamran Mir Hazar *

Basir Ahang Basir Ahang ( prs, بصیر آهنگ) is a Hazara poet, journalist and human rights activist from Afghanistan. He obtained political refugee status in Italy and lives in the United Kingdom. Biography An ethnic Hazara, Ahang received his dip ...

* Mohsin Changezi *

Sayed Askar Mousavi Sayed Askar Mousavi ( prs, سید عسکر موسوی) is a writer and novelist from Afghanistan. He is the author of '' The Hazaras of Afghanistan'' published on January 29, 2009 by Cambridge University. Sayed Askar Mousavi was born in 1956 in ...

* Ali Baba Taj *

Ali-Shir Nava'i 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, fa, نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer ...

* Ali Mohaqiq Nasab * Qasim Akhgar *

Sayed Abutalib Mozaffari Sayed Abutalib Mozaffari ( prs, سید ابوطالب مظفری), (born 1966) is an ethnic Hazara poet and writer from Afghanistan. Early life Sayed Abutalib Mozaffari was born in 1966 in Khas Urozgan District of Urozgan Province of Afghani ...

* Jalila Haider

Actors

* Atossa Leoni * Shaima Rezayee * Hussain Sadiqi *

Abid Ali Nazish Abid Ali Nazish (2 January 1972 – 25 January 2012) was a Pakistani actor from the Ethnic group Hazara. On 25 January 2012, he was shot and killed while he and two others were driving around in Quetta, Pakistan. He was with the Federal Invest ...

* Ali Ahmadi *

Nikbakht Noruz Nikbakht Noruz () is an Afghan female actor, who played the lead role of ''Bakhtay'' a six-year-old girl in a French, Iranian feature film ''Buddha Collapsed out of Shame'' (2007) directed by Hana Makhmalbaf set in Bamyan, Afghanistan See also ...

Shamila Shirzad Shamila Shirzad ( fa, شمیلا شیرزاد; born 2006) is an Iranian actress. She rose to prominence for her performance as Zahra in the 2020 acclaimed drama film ''Sun Children'' which was shortlisted at the 93rd Academy Awards for Best For ...

Singers

* Sarwar Sarkhosh * Dawood Sarkhosh * Zahir Howaida *

Safdar Tawakoli Safdar Tawakoli ( fa, صفدر توکلی); (born 1942 in Yakawlang, Bamyan) is an ethnic Hazara musician from Afghanistan. He focuses and plays mostly Hazara folkloric and regional traditional music based on the dambura. Early life Safdar ...

Sayed Anwar Azad Sayed Anwar Azad ( fa, سید انور آزاد) is an ethnic Hazara folkloric singer from Afghanistan. He plays folkloric and regional traditional Hazara music on the dambura. Early life Seyed Anwar Azad was born in 1969, in Yakawlang, Bamyan, A ...

Elaha Soroor Elaha Soroor also spelled as Elaha Sorur ( prs, الهه سرور); (born in 1988) is a pop singer from Afghanistan. She participated in the musical reality show ''Afghan Star'', a television program similar to the ''Idol'' franchise. She is a m ...

Shakeeb Hamdard Shekeb Hamdard ( fa, شكیب همدرد), born as Ahmad Shekeb, is a well-known singer from Afghanistan. He is ethnically Hazara and currently continues his music career in the United States. He is the first winner of ''Afghan Star'', a realit ...

* Mr. Capone-E

Photographers

Barat Ali Batoor Barat Ali Batoor ( fa, برات علی باتور) is a professional freelancer photographer from Afghanistan. He started his professional career in 2002. Early life and photography Barat Ali Batoor was born in 1983, to a family Hazara in Afgh ...

Journalists

* Malek Shafi'i

Directors

Burhan Qurbani Burhan Qurbani ( fa, برهان قربانی) (born in Erkelenz on 15 November 1980) is a German film director, writer and actor of Afghan origin. His directing, writing, and acting works include ''Shahada'' (2010), ''20xBrandenburg'' (2010 TV do ...

Sports

Football

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* Zohib Islam Amiri * Moshtagh Yaghoubi *

Mustafa Amini Mohammad Mustafa Castillo Amini, known as Mustafa Amini, ( Dari: محمد مصطفی کاستیلو امینی, born 20 April 1993) is an Australian professional footballer who plays for Perth Glory and the Australian national team. Born in Sy ...

* Roholla Iqbalzadeh * Rahmat Akbari *

Zahra Mahmoodi Zahra Mahmoodi (born 1990) is the former captain of the Afghanistan Women's National Football player. She was a founding member of the Afghanistan women's national football team when it was first established in 2007 and remained a member until la ...

* Khodadad Azizi * Mohsin Ali * Masih Saighani *

Omran Haydary Omran Haydary (Dari: ; born 13 January 1998) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays for I liga side Arka Gdynia, on loan from Lechia Gdańsk, and the Afghanistan national team. Besides Poland, he has played in the Netherlands. Club car ...

* Zelfy Nazary *

Massih Wassey Massih Wassey (born 18 June 1988) is a professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Westfalia Kinderhaus. Born in West Germany, he made two appearances for the Canada national team. Career Wassey began his career in his hometo ...

* Moshtaq Ahmadi

Basketballer

Fardaws Aimaq Fardaws Aimaq (born January 6, 1999) is a Canadian basketball player for the California Golden Bears of the Pac-12 Conference. He previously played for the Mercer Bears, Utah Valley Wolverines, and Texas Tech Red Raiders. Early life and high scho ...

Boxing

* Haider Ali * Abrar Hussain *

Hamid Rahimi Hamid Rahimi ( fa, حمید رحیمی) is a boxer from Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Hazara who lives in Germany. In February 2012, he won the New World Boxing Union (WBU) Championship by defeating his Belarusian rival in Hamburg. He also hold ...

Karate

* Meena Hazara * Nargis Hameedullah

Taekwondo

* Rohullah Nikpai

Judo

* Friba Razayee

Wrestling

* Wakil Hussain Allahdad * Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri

Wushu

* Hussain Sadiqi

Martial arts

* Ali Ahmadi

Tennis

* Muzammil Murtaza

Business

* Saad Mohseni *

Fatema Akbari Fatema Akbari ( fa, فاطمه اکبری; born 1974) is an Afghan entrepreneur and women's advocate who is the founder of the Gulistan Sadaqat Company and non-governmental organization the Women Affairs Council. In 2011, she received the 10,00 ...

* Fahim Hashimy

Others

* Abdul Khaliq Hazara *

Shukria Tabassum Shukria Tabassum ( prs, شکریه تبسم) was a Hazara victim killed in the 2015 Zabul massacre in Zabul, Afghanistan. The Tabassum movement was named after her. Childhood and murder Shukria Tabassum belonged to the Hazara ethnic group of ...

References

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