This is a list of notable Kurds, chronologically listed:

6th century-15th century

Mir Jafar Dasni Mir Jafar bin Mir Hasan Dasni ( ku, Mîr Ceferê Dasnî), also known as Jafar bin Faharjis, was a Kurdish leader who in 838 launched an uprising against Abbasid Caliph al-Mutasim in the area north of Mosul. After being defeated at Babagesh he resi ...

(d. c. 841) *

Ibn al-Dahhak Ibn al-Dahhak (died 927) was a Kurdish chieftain, who abandoned Islam, converted to Christianity and entered the service of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (reigned 920–944). Romanos gave him rich gifts and sent him back to his base, ...

(d. 927) *

Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Rawadi Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Rawadi was the founder of the Rawadid dynasty, ruling parts of Armenia and Azarbaijan in the mid 10th-century. He was succeeded by his son Abu'l-Hayja Husayn I between 953–956. Biography Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Rawadi ...

(d. c. 953–956) * Muhammad ibn Shaddad (d. 955) * Daysam ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi (d. c. 957) *

Evdilsemedê Babek Evdilsemedê Babek or Abdussamed Babek (born in Hakkâri; 972–1019) was a Kurdish poet who with Ali Hariri were the first to write in Kurdish (Kurmanji). Beside Kurdish, Babek also wrote in Arabic and has been described as the first Kurdish poet ...

(972–1019) * Lashkari ibn Muhammad (d. 978) *

Hasanwayh Hasanwayh (also spelled Hasanuya), also known as Abu'l-Fawaris, was the Kurdish founder of the Hasanwayhid dynasty, ruling from 961 to 979. Biography Hasanwayh was the son of a certain Husayn and was from the Kurdish tribe of Barzikani. By 961, ...

(d. 979) * Badr ibn Hasanwayh () * Marzuban ibn Muhammad ibn Shaddad (d. 985) * Pîr Mansûr (d. 989) *

Abu Nasr Husayn II Abu Nasr Husayn II was the supposed Rawadid '' amir'' (ruler) of Adharbayjan from 1001 to 1025. A son of the Rawadid ''amir'' Abu'l-Hayja Mamlan I, Abu Nasr Husayn II's regnal period is disputed in scholarship. According to the contemporary Arme ...

() * Ali Hariri (1009–1079/80) * Abu’l-Fatḥ Moḥammad b. ʿAnnāz (d. 1010/1) * Zahir ibn Hilal ibn Badr () * Hilal ibn Badr () * Fadluya () * Fadl ibn Muhammad (d. 1031) * Abu'l-Fath Musa () * Lashkari ibn Musa () * Abu Nasr Mamlan II () * Abu Mansur Wahsudan (d. 1059) * Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl (d. 1067) * Anushirvan ibn Lashkari (d. c. 1067) *

Ashot ibn Shavur Ashot ibn Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl was a Shaddadid prince, the second son of Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl. During the captivity of his older brother Fadl ibn Shavur by the Georgians in 1068, he ruled in his stead as emir of Arran for eight ...

() * Manuchihr ibn Shavur () * Fadl ibn Shavur (d. 1073) * Fadlun ibn Fadl ()''The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranic World'', C.E. Bosworth, ''The Cambridge History of Iran:The Saljuq and Mongol Period'', Vol. 5, ed. J.A. Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 95. * Badh ibn Dustak (d. 1093/6) * Fakhr-un-Nisa (11th century) * Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah (11th century)F. Daftary, "Intellectual Traditions in Islam", I.B.Tauris, 2001. pg 147: "But the origins of the family of Shaykh Safi al-Din go back not to Hijaz but to Kurdistan, from where, seven generations before him, Firuz Shah Zarin-kulah had migrated to Azerbaijan" *

Ibn al-Azraq al-Fariqi Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Azraq al-Fāriqī () () was a chronicler from Mayyafariqin, present-day Silvan. His major work, ''Ta'rikh Mayyafariqin wa-Amid'' ("the history of Mayyafariqin and Amid"), is written in Arabic. His ethnic origins aren't ...

(1116–1176) *

Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Manuchihr Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Manuchihr was a Shaddadid emir of Ani, formerly an Armenian royal capital, from 1118 to 1124. A son and successor of Manuchihr b. Shavur, Abu'l-Aswar was accused by the contemporary Armenian historian Vardan Areveltsi of ...

() * Fadl ibn Shavur ibn Manuchihr () * Fakr al-Din Shaddad ibn Mahmud () * Saladin (1137–1193) * Al-Adil I (1145–1218) * Fadl ibn Mahmud () * Sayf al-Din al-Amidi (1156–1233) * Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) *

Shahanshah ibn Mahmud Shahanshah ibn Mahmud was the Kurdish Shaddadid emir of Ani from 1164 to 1174. With Shahanshah b. Mahmud's accession, the Shaddadids were reestablished in Ani, which had mostly been under Georgian control since 1161. This was a result of the victo ...

() * Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (c. 1169–1225) * Shirkuh (d. 1169) * Az-Zahir Ghazi (1172–1216)Cawley, Charles (2007) "Rulers of Aleppo, Damascus, Hamah, Homs, Khelat (Ayubids)" ''Medieval Lands Project''
accessed 27 December 2008 * Najm ad-Din Ayyub (d. 1173) *

Sultan ibn Mahmud Sultan ibn Mahmud was the last known Shaddadid emir of Ani reigning in parts of the dynasty's possessions from at least 1174 to 1199. He is known exclusively from the epigraphic data. At the time of Sultan and his immediate predecessors, Ani bec ...

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Al-Ashraf Musa __NOTOC__ Al-Ashraf, either from ( ar, الأشرف, 'the most noble') or (, 'the nobles'), may refer to: People * Al-Ashraf Al-Barsbay, Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt (1422–1438) * Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Mamluk Sultan (1501–1516) * Al-Ash ...

(1178–1237) *

Al-Mu'azzam Isa () (1176 – 1227) was the Ayyubid emir of Damascus from 1218 to 1227. The son of Sultan al-Adil I and nephew of Saladin, founder of the dynasty, al-Mu'azzam was installed by his father as governor of Damascus in 1198 or 1200. After his father's ...

(1176–1227) * Al-Kamil (1117–1238) * Turan-Shah (d. 1180) * Ibn al-Salah (1181–1245) * Al-Mu'azzam Turanshah ibn Salah al-Din (c. 1181 – 1260) * Bahramshah () * Farrukh Shah (d. 1182) * Muhammad ibn Shirkuh (d. 1186)Necipoğlu G. (ed.) Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture vol. XI E>J> Brill, Leiden 1994 p. 47 * Al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad (1189– c. 1216) * Al-Muzaffar I Umar (d. 1191) * Tughtakin ibn Ayyub (d. 1197) * Al-Aziz Uthman (d. 1198) * Al-Mansur I Muhammad (12th century) * Fakhraddin (12th century) *

Izz al-Din Usama Izz al-Din Usama was a 12th-century Ayyubid ''emir'' and a nephew of Saladin. Emir of Ajlun and Kawkab In 1183, he was ordered by Saladin to build the Ajlun Castle, Rabbadh Fortress at Ajlun in northern Jordan (known as ''al-Urdunn'' at the time) w ...

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Masud ibn Namdar Masud ibn Namdar was a KurdishV. Minorsky, Studies in Caucasian history, Cambridge University Press, 1957, page 34: ‘’The author of the collection of documents relating to Arran Masu’ud b. Namdar (c. 1100) claims Kurdish nationality”. Pg 3 ...

(12th century) * Mehmed Reshan (12th century) * Nasirdin (12th century) * Sejadin (12th century) * Al-Awhad Ayyub (d. 1210) * Al-Adil II (1221–1248) * An-Nasir Yusuf (1228–1260) * Al-Mujahid (d. 1240) *

As-Salih Ayyub Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (5 November 1205 – 22 November 1249), nickname: Abu al-Futuh ( ar, أبو الفتوح), also known as al-Malik al-Salih, was the Ayyubid Kurdish ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249. Early life In 1221, as-S ...

(1205–1249) *

An-Nasir Dawud An-Nasir Dawud (1206–1261) was a Kurdish ruler, briefly (1227–1229) Ayyubid sultan of Damascus and later (1229–1248) Emir of Kerak. An-Nasir Dawud was the son of Al-Mu'azzam, the Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus from 1218 to 1227. On his fathe ...

(1206–1261) * Al-Aziz Muhammad (c. 1213–1236) *

Sitt al-Sham Fatimah Khatun bint Najm ad-Dīn Abu al-Shukr Ayyub ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (died 1220), popularly known as Sitt al-Sham, was a second sister of Saladin, probably older than Rabi'a Khatun. She is known for founding Al-Shamiyah al-Kubra Madrasa. ...

(d. 1220) * Al-Ashraf Musa, Emir of Homs (1229–1263) *

Dayfa Khatun Dayfa Khatun ( ar, ضيفة خاتون; died 1242) was Ayyubid princess, and the regent of Aleppo from 26 November 1236 to 1242, during the minority of her grandson An-Nasir Yusuf. She was an Ayyubid princess, as the daughter of Al-Adil, Sultan o ...

(d. 1242) *

As-Salih Ismail As-Salih Ismail may refer to: *As-Salih Ismail, Emir of Damascus, the Ayyubid ruler of Damascus in the mid-13th century *As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt, the Mamluk sultan of Egypt between 1342 and 1345 *As-Salih Ismail al-Malik As-Salih Isma ...

(d. 1245) * Al-Mansur Ibrahim (d. 1246) *

Al-Muzaffar Ghazi Al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shihab ad-Din Ghazi ibn al-Adil Abu Bakr ibn Najm ad-Din Ayyub was the Ayyubid ruler of Mayyafariqin (1220–1247). Al Muzaffar Ghazi was one of the sons of the Sultan Al-Adil, who ruled minor Ayyubid states in the Middle Ea ...

(d. 1247) * Ibn al-Hadjib (d. 1249) * Al-Ashraf Musa, Sultan of Egypt () * Al-Muazzam Turanshah (d. 1250) * Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252/3–1334) *

Sulaiman Shah Shahab al Din Sulaiman shah ( ar, شهاب الدین سلیمان شاه, ku, Şehabeddin Suleyman Şah شەھابەدین سولەیمان شا, d. February 1258 AD) was a Kurdish governor of Kurdistan and an Abbasid officer who was promoted ...

(d. 1258) * Abulfeda (1273–1332) * Al-Kamil Muhammad (d. 1260) * Shabankara'i (1298–1358) * Al-Shahrazuri (13th century) *

Amadin Amadin or ‘Emad ad-Dīn () was a 13th-century Yazidi saint. Family tree Amadin was one of the nine sons of Sheikh Shems Sheikh Shems or Melek Shams ad-Din () is a holy figure venerated in Yazidism, he is considered one of the Seven Divine Be ...

(13th century) * Husam al-Din Chalabi (13th century) * Khatuna Fekhra (13th century) *

Saʿd al-Din al-Humaidi Saʿd al-Din al-Humaidi or al-Humaydi was a 13th-century Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdist ...

(13th century) * Sheikh Mand (13th century) * Sheikh Obekr (13th century) *

Sadr al-Din Musa Sadr al-Din Musa(1305-1391)(صدر الدين) was the son and successor of Safi-ad-din Ardabili. His mother was Bibi Fatima, daughter of Zahed Gilani. Sadr al-Din directed the Safaviyya for 59 years. During this time, the activities of the Safaviy ...

(1305–1391) * Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi (1325–1404) *

Nusrat al-Din Ahmad Nusrat al-Din Ahmad was the Hazaraspid ruler (''atabeg'') of Luristan from 1296 to 1330. He succeeded his father Afrasiyab I after the latters execution under the orders of their suzerain, the Ilkhanate ruler Ghazan (). Before his rise to kingship ...

(d. 1330) * Al-Afdal Muhammad (d. 1341) * Mele Perîşan (1356–1431) * Sayyid Husayn Ahlati (d. 1397) * Mela Huseynê Bateyî (1417–1495) * Izz al-Din Shir (d. 1423) *

Khvajeh Ali Safavi Khvajeh Ali Safavi ( fa, خواجه علی سیاهپوش; died 1427) was a son of Sadr al-Dīn Mūsā and grandson of Safi-ad-din Ardabili. He assumed leadership of the Safavid order after his father's death. According to Rudi Matthee / '' Ency ...

(d. 1427) *

Idris Bitlisi Idris Bitlisi ( 18 January 1457 – 15 November 1520), sometimes spelled Idris Bidlisi, Idris-i Bitlisi, or Idris-i Bidlisi ("Idris of Bitlis"), and fully ''Mevlana Hakimeddin İdris Mevlana Hüsameddin Ali-ül Bitlisi'', was an Ottoman Kurdis ...

(1457–1520) * Shaykh Junayd (d. 1460) * Ismail I (1487–1524) *

Hosam al-Din Ali Bitlisi Hosam al-Din Ali Bitlisi Nurbakhshi (died 1494/95) was a Kurdish Sufi author. He was the father of the noted historian Idris Bitlisi. According to Tahsin Yazici / '' Encyclopædia Iranica'', nothing is known about Hosam al-Din's early life; howe ...

(d. 1494/5) * Mahmud the Kurd (15th century) * Sultan Sahak (late 14th century to early 15th century)

16th century-19th century

* Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543–1603) * Şêx Şemsedînê Exlatî (1558–1674) * Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi (1570–1632) * Melayê Cizîrî (1570–1640) * Asenath Barzani (1590–1670) *

Feqiyê Teyran Feqiyê Teyran (born Mir Mehemed, , 1590–1660) was a Kurdish poet who wrote in Kurmanji. He is best known for his work Zembîlfiroş, and is also credited for writing the first literary account of the Battle of Dimdim which took place in 1609 ...

(1590–1660) *

Halo Khan Ardalan Halo Khan Ardalan ( ku, Helo Xan/ھەڵۆ خان) was one of the most famous Ardalan rulers in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. He ruled the autonomous Ardalan state from 1590 to 1616. He is known as the most powerful Ardalan ruler. He ruled o ...

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Yusuf Yaska Yusuf Yaska ( ku, یۆسف یاسکە, 1592-1636) was a Kurdish poet, considered, along with Mistefa Bêsaranî, to be one of the early members of Gorani poetry after Mele Perîşan. The content of his ghazals were about love and nature. Little ...

(1592–1636) *

Shir Sarim Shir Sarim or Sarim Khan was a Yazidis, Yazidi Kurds, Kurdish leader who led an uprising against Safavid dynasty, Safavid Persia during the reign of Ismail I, Shah Ismail I. Sarim was described as being a ”hundred and ten years old, with a white ...

(16th century) * Ezidi Mirza (1600–1651) * Ali Janbulad (d. 1610) *

Ibrahim al-Kurani Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Hassan ibn Shihab al-Din al-Kurani al-Madani ( ar, برهان الدين إبراهيم بن حسن بن شهاب الدين الكوراني المدني, 1023-1101 AH, or 1615-1690 CE), was a Gorani Kurdish Sufi maste ...

(1615–1690) * Ganj Ali Khan (d. 1624/5) * Soleyman Khan Ardalan () *

Shahrokh Sultan Zanganeh Shahrokh Sultan Zanganeh ( fa, شاهرخ سلطان زنگنه, died 1639), was a Kurdish aristocrat who belonged to the Zanganeh tribe, a Sunni Kurdish tribe native to the Kermanshah Province. Not much is known about Shahrokh Sultan. In 1639, ...

(d. 1639) *

Mistefa Bêsaranî Mistefa Bêsaranî (, 1642–1701), was a Kurdish Sufi and poet who wrote in Gorani. He was from the village of Bêseran of Ardalan. Biography Besarani was born in 1642 in Bêseran, Sarvabad and studied jurisprudence, the Quran, and later on ...

(1642–1701) *

Ahmad Khani Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

(1650–1707) * Ali Mardan Khan (d. 1657) *

Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh ( fa, شیخ علی خان زنگنه, died 1689), was an Iranian statesman of Kurdish origin, who served as the grand vizier of the Safavid king (''shah'') Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694) from 1669 to 1689. Due to his effort ...

(d. 1689) *

Ali Beg Zanganeh Ali Beg Zanganeh was a Kurds, Kurdish nobleman from the Zanganeh (tribe), Zanganeh tribe, who served in various offices under the Safavids. During the reign of Abbas I of Persia, Abbas I (r. 1571–1629), Ali Beg occupied the “holder of the rein� ...

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Mir Xanzad Mir Xanzad (or Khanzad) was a military commander and ruler of the Soran Emirate in the late 16th or early 17th century. Xanzad was the sister of Mir Sulaiman, who ruled the Soran Emirate in the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an ...

(17th century) * Sarı Süleyman Bey (17th century) *

Khana Qubadi Khana Qubadi (, 1700–1759) was a Kurdish poet from the Jaff tribe who wrote in Gorani. He belonged to the Hawrami school of poetry in the Ardalan principality and lived in Derne which was the capital of Derteng, Hulwan and Bajelan dynasties wh ...

(1700–1759) *

Almas Khan-e Kanoule'ei Sarhang Almas Khan (), was a Kurdish poet from the village of Kenule in Kermanshah, then under the rule of the Zand dynasty The Zand dynasty ( fa, سلسله زندیه, ') was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (1751–1779) that ...

(1706–1777) * Mohamed Pasha Jaff (b. 1714) * Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh (d. 1716) * Marif Nodeyi (1753–1838/9) *

Xelîlê Sêrtî Xelîlê Sêrtî (1754–1843) was a Kurdish mullah and author most known for his contributions to the Kurdish madrasas. He wrote in Arabic and Kurdish and his main works are ''Nehcu'l-Enam'' and ''Rîsaleya Tecwîdê.'' Biography Xelîlê Sêrt ...

(1754–1843) * Zaro Aga (1764–1934) *

Al-Barzanjī Abd al-Karīm al-Barzanjī (d. 1764) was a Kurdish Shafi'i jurist who served as the Shafi'i Mufti of Medina. He hailed from the Shahrizor region and was from the Barzanji tribe. References External links English translation of Jaliyat al-Ka ...

(d. 1764) *

Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi Quolam Reza Khan Arkawazi (born c. 1765 in Ilam – died c. 1834) was a Kurdish poet and ascetic and a prominent literary figure from Pish-e Kuh region near Khorramabad in Iran. He wrote in both Feyli and Gorani. Biography Little is known ab ...

(1765–1834) * Suleiman al-Halabi (1777–1800) *

Khâlid-i Shahrazuri Mawlana Khâlid Sharazuri also known as Khâlid-i Baghdâdî and Mawlana Khalid (1779–1827) was a Kurdish people, Kurdish Sufi, and poet by the name of Shaykh Diya al-Dīn Khalid al-Shahrazuri, the founder of a branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi ...

(1779–1827) * Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Naqshbandi (1781–1867) *

Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz (; also known as ''Mirê Kor'' - the "blind prince"; born in Rawandiz; 1783–1838) was Kurdish Mir of the Soran Emirate (1813–1838). He led an unsuccessful attack against the Emirate of Botan of Bedir Khan Beg in 183 ...

(1783–1838) * Şeyda Hewramî (1784–1852) *

Allahqoli Khan Zanganeh Allahqoli Khan Zanganeh was a Kurdish nobleman from the Zanganeh tribe, who served as the governor of Kermanshah under the Zand dynasty from the mid-1750s until his death in 1785, when the Ardalan Ardalan ( ku, میرنشینی ئەردەڵا ...

(d. 1785) * Aziz Khan Mokri (1792–1871) * Ahmad Bag Komasi (1796–1877) * Mahmud Bayazidi (1797–1859) *

Yaqub Maydashti Yaqub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( Arabic: يَعْقُوب ابْنُ إِسْحَٰق ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيم, literally: "''Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham''" ar, يَعْقُوب , translit=Yaqub; also later ''Israil'', Arabic: � ...

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Abdullah Pasha Bajalan Abdullah Pasha Bajalan was the third Kurdish hereditary governor of the Pashlik of Zohab and chief of the Bajalan tribe during the mid-1700s. In the spring of 1754, he fought against Karim Khan Zand when the latter occupied the Kermanshah region. ...

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Elî Teremaxî Elî Teremaxî or Ali Taramakhi ( ku, عەلی تەرەماخی, translit=Elî Teremaxî), was a Kurdish linguist, writer and teacher who lived in the late 17th century or early 18th century, credited for writing the first Kurdish grammar book in ...

(17th century or 18th century) *

Haydar Khan Zanganeh Haydar Khan Zanganeh was a Zand official of Kurdish origin. He belonged to the Zanganeh tribe, a Sunni Kurdish tribe native to Kermanshah. He served in high-offices under the Zand ruler Karim Khan (r. 1751-1779), and was twice sent as a diplomat t ...

(18th century) * Ibrahim Pasha al-Dalati (18th century) * Nalî (1800–1856) * Salim (1800–1866) * Bedir Khan Beg (1803–1869) * Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848) *

Mawlawi Tawagozi Mawlawi Tawagozi, pen name Maʿdumi, better known as Mawlawi (1806-1882/3, ku, مەولەوی تاوەگۆزی) was a Kurdish poet and leading Kurdish literary figure in the 19th century. He wrote in Gorani, Arabic and Persian. Biography Mawl ...

(1806–1882/3) * Kurdî (1806/12–1850) * Jafar Qoli Khan Donboli (d. 1814) * Haji Qadir Koyi (1817–1897) *

Kurt İsmail Hakkı Pasha Kurt İsmail Hakkı Pasha (1818 – 1897) was an Ottoman field marshal, who participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. References 1818 births 1897 deaths Ottoman Army generals People from Kars Field marshals of the Ottoman Empi ...

(1818-1897) * Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi (1820-1900) * Wali Dewane (1826–1881) *

Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor Mirza Reza Kalhor (born 1829 – died 1892) was a 19th-century Iranian calligrapher of Kurdish origin, known for his mastery of the Nastaʿlīq script technique. A member of the Kalhor tribe of Kermanshah, he initially followed the typical triba ...

(1829–1892) * Mahwi (1830–1906) *

Said Pasha Kurd Said Pasha Kurd ( Sulaymaniyah 183420 October 1907 Constantinople) was an Ottoman Kurdish statesman, son of Hussein Pasha of Sulaymaniyah. Family He was the brother of Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha and brother in law of Mustafa Yamulki, father of Şe ...

(1834–1907) *

Riza Talabani Sheikh Riza Talabani ( ku, شێخ ڕەزای تاڵەبانی, Şêx Rizayê Talebanî) was a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic. Most of his poetry consists of Satire, Ribaldry, F ...

(1835–1910) *

Mustafa Zihni Pasha Mustafa Zihni Pasha (1838 Sulaimaniyah - 1929 Constantinople) was the son of a Baban prince, born in Sulaimaniyah he accompanied his father into exile to Constantinople. As an Ottoman Kurd Mustafa Zihni held a number of influential Ottoman admi ...

(1838–1929) * Ibrahim Pasha Milli (1843–1908) * Wafayi (1844–1902) *

Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan (born in Cizre 1847/48; died 1911) was an Ottoman Kurdish politician and a member of the Bedir Khan family. Early life and education Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan was born in Cizre, at a time his father Bedir Khan Beg was invo ...

(1847–1911) * Lady Adela (1847–1924) * Mirza Ebdilqadire Paweyi (1850–1910) * Abdulkadir Ubeydullah (1851–1925) * Emin Ali Bedir Khan (1851–1926) * Diyap Yıldırım (1852–1932) *

Osman Efendîyo Babij Osman Efendîyo Babij or Osman Esad (born 1852 in Siverek – died in 1929 in Siverek) was a Kurdish religious figure and Mufti of Siverek whose 1903 book ''Mawlûd'' is known to be the second published book in Zaza. Biography Babij was born in ...

(1852–1929) * Saeb (1854–1910) * Hariq (1856–1909) *

Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan (1858 1915) was a Kurdish nationalist and journalist who published the first ever Kurdish language newspaper, '' Kurdistan'', in 1898. He was also a son of Bedir Khan Beg, the last Kurdish Mîr and mutesellim of the ...

(1858–1915) * Edeb (1860–1918) *

Sabat Islambouli Sabat M. Islambouli (1867 – 1941) was one of the first Kurdish female physicians from Syria. She was born to a Kurdish Syrian family. She has had variations of the spelling of her name and is also known as Sabat Islambooly, Tabat Islambouly, Tab ...

(b. 1860s–1941) *

Shamdin Agha Shamdin Agha (also known as Shamlin Agha; died 1860) was a commander of Kurdish irregulars in the service of the Ottoman governors of Damascus and Sidon Eyalet. In effect, he was powerful paramilitary chieftain in Damascus. His descendants became ...

(d. 1860) *

Sheikh Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi Shah Muhammad Ali Hisâm-ad-Dîn Naqshbandî ( Arabic: الشيخ مُحَمَّدْ علي حسام الدين نقشبندي, fa, محمد علي حسام الدین نقشبند, Turkish: Şâh Ali Hüsâmeddîn) also known as Hâzrat-i Shâ ...

(1861–1939) * Seyid Riza (1863–1937) * Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan (1864–1918) * Cheragh-Ali Khan Zanganeh (d. 1864) *

Abdulhakim Arvasi Abdulhakim Arvasi or Sayyeed Abd al Haqeem-i Arvasi (1865–1943) was a Sunni Kurdish Islamic scholar. Life Arvasi was born in the village of Arvas (present-day Doğanyayla). Arvasi lived in the times of the late Ottoman Empire and the early ...

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Mevlanzade Rifat Bey Mevlanzade Rifat Bey (1869 in Constantinople – 1930 in Aleppo), was an Ottoman-Kurdish journalist and poet, his family originated from Süleymaniye and were decedents of Khâlid-i Shahrazuri. Early life and family Mevlanzade's grandfather wa ...

(1865–1930) * Sheikh Said (1865–1925) *

Şerif Pasha Mehmet Şerif Pasha (1865, Üsküdar, Istanbul - December 22, 1951; Catanzaro, Italy), a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1 ...

(1865–1951) * Ehmedê Xasî (1866/7–1951) *

Haji Mala Saeed Kirkukli Zada Haji Mala Saeed (1866–1937) was a Kurdistan politician who represented Sulaimaniyah City. He was a member of parliament, and was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Kurdistan Kingdom. References *Family tree for Old Sulayamaniya Families ...

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Mustafa Yamulki Mustafa Yamulki (25 January 1866 – 25 May 1936), also known as "Nemrud" Mustafa Pasha, was a Kurdish people, Kurdish military officer,The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, Wadie Jwaideh chairman of the Ottoman military cour ...

(1866–1936) * Han Mahmud (d. 1866) * Piramerd (1867–1950) * İshak Sükuti (1868–1902) * Abdullah Cevdet (1869–1932) *

Faramarz Asadi Faramarz Asadi was the (Mirza (noble), Mirza) prince of the Feyli (tribe), Feyli Kurds and the tribal chief (Sheikh) of the Malekshahi (tribe), Malekshahi in Iran and Iraq. In World War II he was the Wali, vali of the Ilam province. Faramarz Asadi ...

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Ibrahim Hananu Ibrahim Hananu or Ibrahim Hanano (1869–1935) ( ar, إبراهيم هنانو, Ibrāhīm Hanānū) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman municipal official and later a leader of a Hananu Revolt, revolt against the French presence in northern Syria. He w ...

(1869–1935) * Hajj Nematollah (1871–1920) *

Kurd Fuad Pasha Kurd Fuad Pasha, born in Constantinople, was a Vice President of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan. Fuad was the son of Said Pasha Kurd, nephew to Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha and brother of Şerif Pasha. He was a cavalry officer and gradu ...

Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha (1871, Constaninople -1920), an Ottoman Kurd, governor and minister, was the son of Husein Pasha, half brother of Said Pasha Kurd and uncle of Şerif Pasha and Kurd Fuad Pasha. He attended the Üsküdar Rüştiye Mektebi ...

(1871–1920) * Meyan Khatun (1873/4–1957/8) *

Jangir Agha Jangir Agha (, , , c. 1874–1943) was a prominent military and social figure of Armenia in the early 20th century. He is considered a national hero of the Yazidi people. He died in prison after bing arrested during the Great Purge in 1938; he was ...

(1874–1943) * Narî (1874–1944) *

Muhammad Kurd Ali Muhammad Kurd Ali ( ar, محمد كرد علي, 1876–1953) was a notable Syrian scholar, historian and literary critic in the Arabic language. He was the founder and director of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus (1918) till his de ...

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Said Nursî Said Nursi ( ota, سعيد نورسی, ku, Seîdê Nursî ,سەعید نوورسی‎; 1877 – 23 March 1960), also spelled Said-i Nursî or Said-i Kurdî, and commonly known with the honorifics Bediüzzaman (meaning "wonder of the age") an ...

(1877–1960) * Aziz Feyzi Pirinççizâde (1878–1933) * Mahmud Barzanji (1878–1956) *

Ahmed Uthman Ahmed Uthman Effendi (also spelled Ahmed Othman) (1879 – December 10, 1946) also known as Ahmed Effendi, ( ku, ئه‌حمه‌د عوسمان ئه‌فه‌ندى) ( ar, أحمد عثمان أفندي) was a Kurdish politician from Arbil, Erbi ...

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Kâzım İnanç Kâzım İnanç (1880; Diyarbakır, Diyarbekir Vilayet - 21 September 1938; Ankara) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He was of Kurdish origin.Abdullah Beg Benari (1880–1939) *

Muhammad Amin Zaki Muhammed Amin Zaki Bey, (1880 Sulaymaniyah –1948 Sulaymaniyah), was a Kurdish writer, historian and politician. He was born in Sulaimaniya, son of Hagi Abdul Rahman. After studying in Sulaimaniya Military School and Baghdad Military High School, ...

(1880–1948) *

Hasan Hayri Hasan Hayri or Hasan Hayri Kanko ( ku, Hesen Xeyrî Beg), (d 1881 (1497), Akpınar, Hozat, Tunceli) - (1925), was a Kurdish politician from Dersim. Early life Hasanli was the son of Beyzade Murtaza Agha. After completing primary and secondary ...

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Mufti Penjweni Mala Abdullah Tutonji or Mufti Penjweni (موفتی پێنجوێنی in Kurdish language, Kurdish), (1881 – 1952), was a Kurdish people, Kurdish poet.Halid Beg Cibran Miralay Halid Beg Cibran () (born 1882 in Varto, Muş; 14 April 1925 in Bitlis) was a Kurdish soldier in the Ottoman Army and chairman of the Azadî organization. Early life and education He was born in Varto in 1882. His father Mahmud Bey was ...

(1882–1925) * Haji Baba Sheikh (1882–1947) *

Sayed Ali Asghar Kurdistani Sayed Ali Asghar Kurdistani ( fa, سید علی‌اصغر کردستانی‎; 1882–1936) was a Kurdish people, Kurdish singer and musician. He is one of the first Kurdish singers that his voice was recorded. Most of the Kurds and Iranians, e ...

(1882–1936) * Süreyya Bedir Khan (1883–1938) * Sheikh Ubeydullah (d. 1883) *

Celal İbrahim Celal İbrahim (1884 – 21 March 1917) was an Ottoman footballer of Kurdish origin and one of the founders of Galatasaray. He was also known as ''Kürt Celal'' which translates in English as ''Kurdish Celal''. Career İbrahim spent the entire ...

(1884–1917) * İsmet İnönü (1884–1973) * Ali Saip Ursavaş (1885–1939) * Simko Shikak (1887–1930) *

Halis Öztürk Halis Öztürk (Kurdish: Xalis Begê Sîpkî, Turkish: Sipkanlı Halis Bey, 1889 in Tutak, Turkey - 24 September 1977 Kayseri) was a Kurdish chieftain and Turkish politician. Life Halis was born in the Tutak Kazası of Bayazıt Sancağı, Er ...

(1889–1977) * Abdul Aziz Yamulki (1890–1981) * Bakr Sidqi (1890–1937) * Ekrem Cemilpaşa (1891–1973) * Taufiq Wahby (1891–1984) *

Hapsa Khan Hapsa Khan ( ku, حەپسەخان) was an early Kurdish population, Kurdish feminist and nationalist leader who founded the first women's school in Iraq. The organisation was called the Kurdish Women's Association. She was born in 1891 in Sulayma ...

(1891–1953) * Ihsan Nuri (1892/3–1976) * Celadet Alî Bedirxan (1893–1951) * Nuri Dersimi (1893–1973) * Qazi Muhammad (1893–1947) * Mohammad Hosni (1894–1969) * Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi (1895–1951) * Kamuran Alî Bedirxan (1895–1978) * Nur Ali Elahi (1895–1974) *

Ahmed Barzani Ahmed Mohammad Barzani (1896 – 11 January 1969) ( ku, ئه‌حمه‌د محه‌ممه‌د بارزانی / Ehmed Mihemed Barzanî), also known as Khudan ( ku, Xodan / خودان), was the head of the Barzani tribe in Kurdistan. Sheikh Ahm ...

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Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Sheikh Abdul Qadir ( ku, شێخ نوری شێخ ساڵح, translit=Şêx Nûrî Şêx Salih) was an Iraqi Kurdish newspaper editor, activist, and poet. He was from the Barzanji tribe of Kurdistan. Nuri was born in t ...

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Arab Shamilov Arab Shamilov ( ku, Ә'рәб Шамилов, translit=Erebê Şemo, 23 October 1897 – 1978) was a Yazidis, Yazidi Kurds, Kurdish novelist who lived in the Soviet Union. Early career During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, he served as an i ...

(1897–1978) * Husni al-Za'im (1897–1949) * Ahmed Mukhtar Jaff (1898–1934) *

Qani Qani (1898-1965) was the pen name of Muhammad Kabuli, a prominent Kurdish poet. He was born in the village of Rîshen, around Mariwan Mariwan ( fa, مريوان; ) also known as Qale Marīvān - "Fort Marivan"; formerly, Dezhe Shahpur (Persian: ...

(1898–1965) * Rafiq Hilmi (1898–1960) *

Kara Fatima Khanum Kara Fatima Khanum ("Black Lady Fatima". Kurdish: Fata Reş) was a female chieftain of a Kurdish tribe from Marash (present Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Turkey). Her lifetime spanned the 19th century, though her exact dates are not easy to ref ...

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Kunj Yusuf Pasha Kunj Yusuf Pasha (also spelled ''Kanj Yusuf Pasha'') was the Ottoman governor of Damascus Eyalet between 1807 and 1810. He was an ethnic Kurd. As governor, Kunj Yusuf enacted discriminatory policies against religious minority groups in Damascus an ...

(19th century) * Osman Pasha Jaff (19th century) * Yezdanşêr (19th century)

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1900s–1940s

Abdul Karim Mudarris Mala Abdul Karim Mudarris or Maulana Sheikh Abdul Karim Mudarris (1902 — 2005) (, ), also known as Nami, was a Kurdish Faqih, Mufti of Iraq, and Quran interpreter in addition to being a poet, writer, as well as a translator. He was known by th ...

(1901–2005) * Muhammad Wali Kermashani (1901–?) * Cigerxwîn (1903–1984) *

Leyla Bedir Khan Leyla Bedir Khan (or Bedirxan) (1903, Constantinople1986, Paris) was a ballet dancer and a Kurdish princess of the Bedir Khan family. Biography Leyla Bedir Khan's birthdate is disputed, but it was likely 31 July 1903 as she was born in Constant ...

(1903–1986) * Mustafa Barzani (1903–1979) *

Abdullah Goran Abdulla Goran (, b. in 1904 in Halabja - died 1962 in Sulaymaniyah) was a leading Kurdish poet and translator of the 20th century. Biography Abdulla was born in Halabja in 1904 and received his education in local schools and the pedagogical insti ...

(1904–1962) * Ali Merdan (1904–1981) *

Karim Sanjabi Karim Sanjabi ( fa, کریم سنجابی; 11 September 1905 – 4 July 1995) was an Iranian politician of National Front. Early life He was born in Kermanshah in September 1905 to the chief of the Kurdish Sanjâbi tribe. He studied law and ...

(1905–1995) * Osman Sabri (1905–1993) * Emînê Evdal (1906–1964) *

Abdolqader Zahedi Abdolqader Zahedi (1907-2005) was a high-ranking Sunni religious figure and Iranian Kurdish politician. He received a clerical education and was not a war veteran. He was a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2005. He died in Saqqez ...

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Alaaddin Sajadi Alaaddin Sajjadi (1907–1984) was a Kurdish writer, poet and academic. He was born in Iraqi Kurdistan. He finished his religious studies and became a cleric in 1938. He began working in the field of journalism in 1939, and became the Editor-in-Chi ...

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Nado Makhmudov Nado Khdoi Makhmudov ( hy, Նադո Խդոի Մախմուդով, ku, Nadoyê Xudo Maxmedov) (1907–1990) was a Kurdish writer and public figure of the Soviet Union. Biography Early years Nado Makhmudov was born on January 1, 1907, in the vill ...

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Heciyê Cindî Heciyê Cindî ( hy, Հաջիե Ջնդի Ջաուարի; 1908–1990) was a Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia. Cindî was born into a Yazidi Kurdish family in the village of Yemençayir (Emançayîr) near Kars in modern Turkey. Dur ...

(1908–1990) *

Qanate Kurdo Qanate Kurdo or Kanat Kalashevich Kurdoev, (; 1909 –1985), was a Kurdish philologist and professor. He was born in Susuz in Russian Empire and developed Kurdish studies in various fields. Biography In 1928, he went to Saint Petersburg to co ...

(1909–1985) * Samand Siabandov (1909–1989) * Qedrîcan (1911–1972) * Khalid Bakdash (1912–1995) * Mohammad Ghazi (1913–1998) * Ibrahim Ahmad (1914–2000) * Ahmed Kuftaro (1915–2004) * Wansa (1917–2015) * Dildar (1918–1948) *

Saleh Yousefi Salih Al-Yousify ( ku, ساڵح یوسفی January, 1918 – 25 June 1981) was a Kurdish Iraqi poet and politician, former minister, and one of the most active members in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Al-Yousify was one of the founder ...

(1918–1981) * Nûredin Zaza (1919–1988) * Ibrahim Amin Baldar (1920–1998) * Musa Anter (1920–1992) *

Abdurrahman Sharafkandi Abd al-Rahman ( ar, عبد الرحمن, translit=ʿAbd al-Raḥmān or occasionally ; DMG ''ʿAbd ar-Raḥman''; also Abdul Rahman) is a male Arabic Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''a ...

(1921–1991) *

Daham Miro Daham Miro ( ku, Deham Mîro; Arabic: دهام ميرو) (January 1921-November 2010) was a Kurdish political leader and former chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDPS). Daham Miro was born in Sêgirka Mîro ("Miro’s three hill ...

(1921–2010) * Ezaddin Husseini (1921–2011) * Hassan Zirak (1921–1973) * Hemin Mukriyani (1921–1986) *

Mustafa Pasha Bajalan Mustafa Pasha Bajalan (Turkish: Mustafa Paşa Bacalan; 1921–?), was an Ottoman Kurdish general and administrator, He was the final head of the Bajalan family and his father was the last hereditary governor of the Pashlik of Zohab. History Musta ...

(d. 1921) * Ahmad Hardi (1922–2006) *

Tahir Tewfiq Tahir Tewfiq ( ku, تایەر تۆفیق, ar, طاهر توفیق, also Tayer Tofiq) (1922–1987) was a popular Kurdish musician and singer. He was born in the city of Koya around Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern ...

(1922–1987) * Baba Mardoukh Rohanee (1923–1989) * Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015) * Karim Zand (1924–2017) * Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf (1924–2009) * Xelîlê Çaçan Mûradov (1924–1981) * Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj (1925–2013) *

Ghader Abdollahzadeh Qadir Abdullahzada (23 October 1925 – 21 May 2009, ku, قادر عەبدوڵڵازادە ,Qadir Ebdulazade, also known as Qale Mere, ku, قالەمەڕە) born in village of Kulice in northwestern Iran, is one of the best known Kurdish tr ...

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Mohammad Mamle Muhammad Mamle ( fa, محمد ماملی , ku, Mihemedî Mamlê, 1925 – 23 January 1999) was a Kurdish musician and singer. He renewed hundreds of Kurdish folkloric songs. He died on 23 January 1999 at the age of 74 in the Kurdish city of Mah ...

(1925–1999) * Siamak Yasemi (1925–1994) * Karim Hisami (1926–2001) *

Moshe Barazani Moshe Barazani, also Barzani ( he, משה ברזני; June 14, 1926 – April 21, 1947), was an Iraqi-born Kurdish Jew and a member of Lehi ("Freedom Fighters of Israel," aka the "Stern Gang") underground movement in pre-state Mandate Palestin ...

(1926–1947) * Ahmed Arif (1927–1991) *

Mehdi Halıcı Mehdi Halıcı (born 10 April 1927 in Konya, died 8 April 2008 in İzmir) was a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin who wrote several novels and books about Kurdish and Turkish culture and history. He was also widely known as Cemşid Bender, the pse ...

(1927–2008) *

Muhamad Salih Dilan Dilan (in Kurdish: محه‌ممه‌د ساڵح دیلان) is regarded as one of the most influential Kurdish Poets and one of the greatest Arabic maqam, maqam singers of his time. He was one of the few early poets that brought a revolution in ...

(1927–1990) *

Shami Kermashani Shami Kermashani ( ku, شامیی کرماشانی, lit=Şamî Kirmaşanî,), also known as Shamurad Mushtaq (1927–November 23, 1984), was a famous Kurdish poet from the city of Kermanshah, Iran, also known as Iranian Kurdistan. He has composed ...

(1927–1984) * Turgut Özal (1927–1993) * Akram Hamid Begzadeh Jaff (1929–2010) *

Kâmran İnan Kamran Inan (1929 – 23 November 2015), Turkish politician, statesman of Kurdish origin, diplomat and scholar. He was born in Hizan, Bitlis Province. Representative in Parliament from Van and Bitlis numerous times. Graduate of Ankara Universi ...

(1929–2015) * Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929–2013) * Nusrat Bhutto (1929–2011) *

Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou ( ku, عه‌بدولڕه‌حمان قاسملوو, translit=Ebdulrehman Qasimlû; fa, عبدالرحمان قاسملو; 22 December 1930 – 13 July 1989) was an Iranian Kurdish politician and leader. Ghassemlou was t ...

(1930–1989) *

Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the Dersim ...

(1931–1990) * Medet Serhat (1931–1994) * Ibrahim Heski (d. 1931) * Nadir Nadirov (1932–2021) *

Ordîxanê Celîl Ordîxanê Celîl (''Ordikhan Dzhasimovich Dzhalilov'' or ''Ordikhan-e Jalil'' or ''Ordikhane Dzhalil'' ) (1932–2007) was a Kurdish scholar. Born in Yerevan to a Yazidi family, he entered the philology department of the University of Yerevan i ...

(1932–2007) *

Shahab Sheikh Nuri The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan ( ku, , Komełey Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran, lit=Society of Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan), commonly shortened to Komalah ( ku, Komełe; fa, کومله), is a social-dem ...

(1932–1976) *

Hemoye Shero Hemoye Shero, Hamu Shiru, (died 1932), was a nineteenth century Yezidi tribal leader from the Shingal Mountains in what was the Ottoman Empire is now part of northern Iraq. Hemoye Shero was instrumental in transforming one of the Yezidi social c ...

(d. 1932) *

Ahmad Moftizadeh Ahmad Moftizadeh ( ku, ئەحمەد موفتیزادە, translit=Ehmed Muftîzade, fa, احمد مفتی‌زاده; February 1933 – 9 February 1993) was an influential political and religious thinker among the Sunni Kurdish minority in Irani ...

(1933–1993) * Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) *

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(1933–2018) * Khurto Hajji Ismail (1933–2020) * Tahseen Said (1933–2019) *

Efat Ghazi Efat Ghazi ( fa, عفت قاضی; 2 November 1935 – 6 September 1990) was a Kurdish refugee from Iran who was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990. Efat Ghazi was born in a Kurdish family in Iranian Kurdistan. Her father, Qazi M ...

(1935–1990) * Abdülmelik Fırat (1934–2009) *

Usuv Beg Usuv Beg or Usub Bek Temuryants (died on January 12, 1934) was a Yezidi from Armenia and a member of the parliament of the First Republic of Armenia, a major political, national, and a military leader. Since 1896 he had been a leader of the Yazidis ...

(–1934) *

Emerîkê Serdar Emerîkê Serdar (Amarik Davreshovich Sardaryan) (8 February 1935 - 19 February 2018) was a Yazidi–Kurdish writer from Armenia. He was born in the village of Pampa Kurda (Sîpan) in Armenian SSR. Life and career Emerîkê Serdar's parents, ...

(1935–2018) *

Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan (born 1935), is a Kurdish writer. He was born in Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. He moved to Sweden as political asylum seeker in 1978, and he has been living in Uppsala Sweden since then. The most famous of his early wor ...

(1935–) * Adel Karasholi (1936–) * Ahmad Ghazi (1936–2015) *

Ali Askari Ali Askari (1936–1978) was a Kurdish politician. He was a prominent leader in Iraqi Kurdistan and his political party was the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Early life and childhood He was born in 1936 in the village of Goptapa in Kurdis ...

(1936–1978) *

Celîlê Celîl Celîlê Celîl (1936–present) is a Kurdish historian, writer and Kurdologist. He was born in Yerevan to a Yazidi Kurdish family and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad. He wrote his thesis regarding th ...

(1936–) *

Suwara Ilkhanizada Suwara Ilkhanizada ( fa, سواره ایلخانی‌زاده, ckb, سواره ئیلخانیزاده‎; 1937–1976) was a Kurdish poet and writer. He was born in the village of Turjan near Saqqez in the north-west of Iran. He went to local s ...

(1937–) * Yılmaz Güney (1937–1984) *

Ayşe Şan Ayşe Şan (Aysha Shan) (1938, in Diyarbakır – 18 December 1996, in İzmir) was a Kurdish singer. She was also known by the names ''Eyşana Kurd, Eyşe Xan, Eyşana Eli.'' She is considered one of the most legendary voices in contemporary Kur ...

(1938–1996) * Fuad Masum (1938–) *

Mahmoud Othman Mahmoud Ali Othman (born 1938) was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). ...

(1938–) * Mazhar Khaleqi (1938–) * Sadegh Sharafkandi (1938–1992) *

Şerafettin Elçi Şerafettin Elçi (14 March 1938 – 25 December 2012) was a Kurdish lawyer, politician, government minister and statesman in Turkey. He was one of the pioneers of Kurdish politics in Turkey. Early years Şerafettin Elçi was born in Cizre, � ...

(1938–2012) *

Yaşar Kaya Yaşar Kaya (born 1938, Kars, Turkey–2016, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan) was a Turkish-Kurdish politician and publisher of the pro-Kurdish newspaper ''Özgür Gündem''. Together with authors like Ismail Besikçi and Musa Anter, he was a co-founder ...

(1938–2016) *

Jalal Dabagh Jalal Dabagh ( ku, Celal Debax , جەلال دەباغ) (born 1939) is a Kurdish politician and writer/journalist. Life Jalal Dabagh was born on May 12, 1939, in Silêmanî city in south Kurdistan. He is one of nine children, five sons and fou ...

(1939–) *

Ferzende Ferzende or Ferzende Beg (Kurdish: ''Ferzende Begê Hesenî'', Turkish: ''Hasenanlı Ferzende Bey'' Muş - 1939; Qasr-e Qajar Prison, Tehran, Iran), was a Kurdish Heseni tribesman, soldier and politician. Life Sheikh Said Rebellion Ferzende w ...

(d. 1939) *

Zakia Hakki Zakia Ismael Hakki ( ar, زكية إسماعيل حقي; born 18 November 1939, d. 22 August 2021) was a Feyli Kurdish lawyer who was appointed Iraq's first female judge in 1959, becoming the first woman of an Arabian nation to be appointed as a ...

(1939–) * Mehdi Zana (1940–) *

Sherko Bekas Sherko Fayaq Abdullah (; 2 May 1940 – 4 August 2013), was a Kurdish poet. He was born on 2 May 1940 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region in Iraq as the son of the poet Fayak Bekas. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kurdish national poet, an ...

(1940–2013) *

Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, (born, 1941, Iran) commonly known as just Haji Ahmadi, is an Iranian Kurdish leader. He leads a group called the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), a group fighting against the Iranian government for the creation of an aut ...

(1941–) *

Ali Ashraf Darvishian Ali Ashraf Darvishian ( fa, علی‌اشرف درویشیان‎; 25 August 1941 – 26 October 2017) was an Iranian story writer and scholar of Kurdish descent. After finishing teacher-training college, he would teach at the poverty-stricke ...

(1941–2017) * Eskerê Boyîk (1941–) * Mehmet Ali Birand (1941–2013) * Tosinê Reşîd (1941–) * Ahmet Türk (1942–) * Emre Taner (1942–) * Yusuf Ekinci (1942–1994) * Amir Hassanpour (1943–2017) * Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat (1943–2019) *

Necmettin Büyükkaya Necmettin Büyükkaya also known as Neco (1943–1984) was a prominent Kurdish activist and cadre of the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths in Turkey who was tortured to death in prison. Biography Büyükkaya was born in 1943 in the villag ...

(1943–1984) * Soad Hosny (1943–2001) *

Tofy Mussivand Tofy Mussivand (Persian:توفیق موسیوند, born c. 1943 in Varkaneh, Hamadan Province, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian medical engineer of Kurdish origin who invented an Artificial Cardiac Pump, a device that pumps blood and takes over the ...

(1943–) * Idris Barzani (1944–1987) *

Latif Rashid Abdul Latif Rashid (; born 10 August 1944), also known as Latif Rashid () is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and the ninth president of Iraq, following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under th ...

(1944–) *

Mahmoud Ezidi Hashim Ilyas Silo ( ku, Haşim Îlyas Silo; 1944 – 18 August 1979, known as Mahmoud Ezidi, was a famous Yazidi Peshmerga fighter loyal to Kurdistan Democratic Party, who led many successful military confrontations against the regime of Ba'athis ...

(1944-1979) *

Mahmud Baksi Mahmud Baksi (Mahmûd Baksî), (16 September 1944 – 19 December 2000), was a Kurdish writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in the Batman Province of Turkey. He began to publish a newspaper titled ''Batman Gazetesi'' in 1967 ...

(1944–2000) * Nawshirwan Mustafa (1944–2017) * Rassul Mamand (1944–1994) * Yitzhak Mordechai (1944–) *

Aref Tayfour Aref Tayfour is the former Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly from 2010 to 2014. He was succeeded by Aram Sheikh Mohammad from the Gorran Movement. A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was elected to the post by the Assembly on ...

(1945–) *

Bahaedin Adab Bahaedin Adab ( fa, بهاءالدين ادب), also spelled Bahaeddin or Bahaoddin Adab, Kurdish "Baha Adab" (21 August 1945 – 16 August 2007) was a prominent Iranian Kurdish people, Kurdish politician and engineer and philanthropist. He was ...

(1945–2007) * Munzur Çem (1945–2022) *

Mustafa Hijri Mustafa Hijri ( ku, مستەفا ھیجری, fa, مصطفی هجری) is an Iranian-Kurdish politician who is the current leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). Political life Born in 1945 in the West Azarbaijan Province o ...

(1945–) * Rahmi Saltuk (1945–) *

Rauf Hassan Rauf Hassan ( ku, ڕەئووف حەسەن) is a Kurdish writer who was born in 1945 in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Iraqi Kurdistan. He was imprisoned during the rule of the Ba'ath Party regime, because of his critical articles he wrote aga ...

(1945–) * Rojen Barnas (1945–) *

Abdulla Pashew Abdulla Pashew, or (), is a contemporary Kurdish poet. He was born in 1946 in Hewlêr, Iraqi Kurdistan. He studied at the Teachers' Training Institute in Hewlêr (Erbil), and participated in the Foundation Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union i ...

(1946–) * Fuad Hussein (1946–) *

Jawhar Namiq Jawhar Namiq Salm (Salim Sorani) (July 1, 1946 – March 22, 2011), was a political leader and first president of the Kurdistan National Assembly. Early life Jawhar Namiq Salim Ismail Darwish Murad Khan was born in 1946 in the village Birlout, ...

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Khalil al-Zahawi Khalil al-Zahawi ( ku, خەلێل زەهاۆی; 1946 – 25 May 2007) was a Kurdish Islamic calligrapher, and one of Iraq’s most prominent calligraphers. Life and career An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying cal ...

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Masoud Barzani Masoud Barzani ( ku, ,مه‌سعوود بارزانی, translit=Mesûd Barzanî}; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of ...

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Mojtaba Mirzadeh Mojtaba Mirzadeh ( fa, مجتبی میرزاده) (18 March 1946 – 17 July 2005) was a renowned Kurdish Iranian Violin, Kamancheh, and Setar player who was influential in Persian classical music. He played, composed and arrangement music fo ...

(1946–2005) * Sedigh Kamangar (1946–1989) * Şahînê Bekirê Soreklî (1946–) *

Dilshad Meriwani Dilshad Meriwani (March 28, 1947 – March 13, 1989) was an influential Kurdish poet, actor, writer, songwriter, and film director as well as a historian and activist who was executed by the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein era on March 13, ...

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Latif Halmat Latif Halmat ( ku, Letîf Helmet ,لەتیف ھەڵمەت; born 1947) is a Kurdish poet. He was born in town of Kifri, Iraq and began writing poems in 1963. He worked as a journalist during the 1970s and 1980s. He has published 20 poetry books in Ku ...

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Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin (1944–2015) was a Kurdish poet and politician. He was a prisoner several times until he went into exile to Sweden where he worked as an X-ray technician. He was a descendant of a leader of the Sheikh Said rebellion. Earl ...

(1944–2015) * Mohammad Saber Ismail (1947–) * Reşo Zîlan (1947–) * Rowsch Shaways (1947–2021) * Cankurd (1948–) *

Foad Mostafa Soltani Foad Mostafa Soltani ( fa, فؤاد مصطفی سلطانی; 1948 – 31 August 1979) was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Organisation of the Toilers of Kurdistan, popularly known as Komala. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mostafa Soltani, ...

(1948–1979) * Hero Ibrahim Ahmed (1948–) *

İhsan Arslan Mehmet İhsan Arslan (born 1 January 1948 in Sason) is a Turkish businessman and politician of Kurdish origin, a founding member of the deputy for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and also a former member of the Grand National Assembly of T ...

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Keça Kurd Keça Kurd (1948) is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet, linguist and translator. She was born in the village of ''Xirbê Cihûya'' in northeastern Syria. She received her bachelor's degree in Qamishli and continued her studies in Kurdish litera ...

(1948–) * Mihemed Şêxo (1948–1989) *

Narmin Othman Narmin Othman (born c.1948, Arabic: نيرمين عثمان; Kurdish Nermîn Osman) is the Iraqi Minister for the Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She was Minister of Wome ...

(1948–) * Omer Fattah Hussain (1948–) *

Abbas Vali Professor Abbas Vali (born 1949) is a Kurdish political and social theorist specialising in modern and contemporary political thought and modern Middle Eastern Politics. Biography Vali was born in 1949 in Mahabad, Iran. He received his primary a ...

(1949–) * Abdulla Mohtadi (1949–) *

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

(1949–) * Adel Murad (1949–2018) *

Hüseyin Erdem Hüseyin Erdem (born 1949) is a Kurdish author and screenwriter who has published several works in German, Turkish and Kurdish. He has lived in Germany since 1980 and is a language teacher of Turkish and Kurdish. In 1988 he founded the PEN Centre of ...

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Kamran Hedayati Kamran Hedayati ( fa, کامران هدایتی ''kâmrân hedâyati''; 1 April 1949 in Iranian Kurdistan – 6 July 1996 in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Iranian Kurdish dissident who was assassinated in Sweden in the 1990s. In January 1994, Hedayati ...

(1949–1996) * Mohammad Hossein Karimi (1949–1979) * Najmiddin Karim (1949–2020) * Têmûrê Xelîl (1949–) * Ramzi Nafi (1917–1949)

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Arsalan Baiz Arsalan Baiz ( ku, ئه‌رسه‌لان بایز, born 14 July 1950) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Baiz was born in Erbil and graduated in Kurdish language from the University of Baghdad. Baiz was made S ...

(1950–) * Behrouz Gharibpour (1950–) * Hacı Karay (1950–) *

Homayoun Ardalan Homayoun Ardalan ( Kurdish: ھۆمایون ئەردەڵان, ''Homayoun Ardalan''; 2 February 1950 – 17 September 1992) was the official representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Germany and a member of the Central Commi ...

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Hüseyin Kalkan Hüseyin Kalkan () was mayor of Batman in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, and a member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). He gained international notoriety November 2008 after he announced plans to sue Christopher Nolan, director of '' The Dar ...

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Rafiq Sabir Rafiq Sabir ( ku, Refîq Sabir; born in 1950) is a contemporary Kurdish poet. He was born in ''Qaladzê'' in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Baghdad University. He moved to Sweden in 1989. He writes in the ...

(1950–) * Salaheddine Bahaaeddin (1950–) * Shahram Nazeri (1950–) *

Abdul Rahman Mustafa Abdul Rahman Mustafa, The Kurdish mayor-governor of Kirkuk, was elected in 2003 by multiethnic Kirkuk City Council under supervision of Coalition Provisional Authority in Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Has a law degree from Baghdad University. Visited ...

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Cemîl Bayik Cemîl Bayik (born 1951 in Keban, Elazığ) is one of the five founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and is among the organization's top leadership. He is a member of the 12-man leadership council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (Koma ...

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Ferhad Shakely Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He began publishing poetry in 1968 ...

(1951–) * Pouran Derakhshandeh (1951–) * Salih Muslim (1951–) * Salim Barakat (1951–) *

Abbas Kamandi Abbas Kamandi ( ku, عەباس کەمەندی; January 1, 1952 – May 21, 2014) was a Kurdish singer, songwriter, poet, writer, painter, and film director. :fa:عباس کمندی He was born in Sanandaj and was the son of Ali Kamandi. Discogr ...

(1952–2012) * Ali Haydar Kaytan (1952–) *

Hüseyin Velioğlu Hüseyin Velioğlu (born Hüseyin Durmaz; 1952 – 17 January 2000) was the leader of the Kurdish Hezbollah, a militant extremist organization in the early 1990s. Velioğlu led one of the wings of this organization. He was killed in a police ope ...

(1952–2000) * Ibrahim Tatlises (1952–) *

İsmail Özden İsmail Özden (1952 Şimzê, Beşiri – 15 August 2018), aka Mam Zêki Shingali, was a Yazidi Kurdish member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party ( ku, Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK), famous for the leading role he played in the resistance to t ...

(1952–2018) * Khalil Rashow (1952–) * Kosrat Rasul Ali (1952–) * Leyla Qasim (1952–1974) * Mahmut Alınak (1952–) * Mala Bakhtiyar (1952–) *

Mehemed Malmîsanij Mehmet Tayfun ''alias'' Malmîsanij (born 1952 in Diyarbakır) is a Kurdish author and linguist. He mostly writes in Zazaki. He often writes under the pseudonym Malmîsanij. He studied at the University of Ankara, and was under arrest three times ...

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Murat Bozlak Murat Bozlak, (30 December 1952, Şereflikoçhisar–4 January 2015) was a Kurdish politician active in several political parties. He was the president of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ...

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Omar Hamdi Omar Hamdi (1952–2015), known as Malva, was a Syrian Kurdish artist who lived and worked in Vienna, Austria. Biography Omar Hamdi was born in 1952 in Al-Hasakah, Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=S ...

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Pîr Xidir Silêman Pîr Xidir Silêman (1952 - 15 November 2021) was a Kurdish-Yazidi writer, teacher and parliamentarian. He was born 1952 in the town of Ain Sifni in Shekhan, Iraq. He completed his secondary education in Shekhan in 1970 and studied Kurdish la ...

(1952–2021) * Ali Haydar Yıldız (1953–1973) *

Fawaz Hussain Fawaz Hussain or Fawaz Husên (born 1953), is a contemporary Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in northeastern Syria. He pursued his studies in Sorbonne from 1978 to 1992, and received PhD in French language and literature in 1988. He is a ...

(1953–) * Hoshyar Zebari (1953–) *

Jalal Barzanji Jalal Barzanji (July 1, 1953) is a contemporary Kurdish poet, writer and activist known for his multifaceted contributions to literature and culture, in Iraqi Kurdistan and Canada. Barzanji served on the board of Writers' Union in Iraqi K ...

(1953–) * Mohammad Tofiq Rahim (1953–) *

Mehmed Uzun Mehmed Uzun (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much t ...

(1953–2007) *

Orhan Miroğlu Orhan Miroğlu (born 1 January 1953, Mardin, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Mhallami origin and columnist for Taraf and Today's Zaman. Education and early life Born in the village of Gelinkaya, Miroğlu spent his youth in Batman and Diya ...

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Yekta Uzunoğlu Yekta Uzunoğlu (Kurdish: Yekta Geylanî) (b.1953, Silvan, Diyarbakır (Kurdish: Farqîn / Diarbekir)) is a doctor, writer, human rights fighter, translator and entrepreneur. Biography He was born in 1953 in Silvan, Diyarbakır. In 1971 he went ...

(1953–) * Murat Karayılan (1954–) *

Najiba Ahmad Najiba Ahmad (born 1954) (Kurdish:نه‌جیبە ئه‌حمه‌د, Necîbe Ehmed; pronounced ) is a contemporary Kurdish writer, poet, and translator Life and career Ahmad was born in northern city of Kirkuk in 1954. She studied Kurdish langua ...

(1954–) * Selim Sadak (1954–) *

Fadıl Öztürk Fadıl Öztürk (1955, Tunceli, Turkey) is a Kurdish writer and poet. He continues to write literary and political work. He was jailed for ten years. On 8 December 2004, he took part of the campaigned 'Demands of Kurds in Turkey' that has been publi ...

(1955–) * Hatip Dicle (1955–) * Hikmet Fidan (1955?–2005) *

Ilana Eliya Ilana Eliya (born April 24, 1955 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli singer of Kurdish descent. Biography Ilana Eliya's family was originally from Iraqi Kurdistan and immigrated to Jerusalem shortly after the founding of Israel. In her childhood, sh ...

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Imad Ahmad Sayfour Imad Ahmad Sayfour (born 1955) is a Kurdish, Iraqi politician. He was born in Khanaqin in 1955 and graduated from Baghdad Technical Institute in 1980. He is a senior member of Iraqi President Jalal Talebani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and has ...

(1955–) * Mohammed Haji Mahmoud (1955–) *

Nasser Razazi Naser Razzazi ( ku, ناسر ڕەزازی ,Nasir Rezazî, born June 21, 1955) is a Kurdish singer, poet and writer. His music encompasses traditional Kurdish folk songs in four different Kurdish dialects, Soranî, Kurmanji, Hewramî (Zhawaroee) a ...

(1955–) * Orhan Doğan (1955–2007) * Perwîz Cîhanî (1955–) *

Rohat Alakom Rohat Alakom (born 1955) is a Kurdish author from Kars, Turkey who writes his books in Kurdish, Turkish and Swedish. He was born in a village of Kağızman a district of Kars Province. He went to high school in Kağızman, Later, he went to the ...

(1955–) * Şivan Perwer (1955–) * Abdulbaset Sieda (1956–) * Arjen Arî (1956–2012) *

Cuneyd Zapsu Hasan Cuneyd Zapsu (born 19 November 1956 in İstanbul) is a Turkish businessman of Kurdish and Balkan origins. He was a co-founder of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey as well as the founder of Balsu, one of the world's leading ...

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Lokman Polat Lokman Polat (born 1956 in Lice, Diyarbakır Province) is a Swedish writer of Kurdish origin. Before 1980, he was involved in publishing political commentaries and news. He has been arrested several times due to his activities in the field of Kurdi ...

(1956–) * Mahsum Korkmaz (1956–1986) *

Mazlum Doğan Mazlum Doğan (born 1956, Seydan, Mazgirt, Dersim – died 21 March 1982, Diyarbakır, Turkey) was a journalist and a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He was a Kurdish Alevi. He was the first chief editor of the party's newspa ...

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Mullah Krekar Najmuddin Vahid Faraj Ahmad ( ku, نەجمەدین وەحید فەرەج ئەحمەد, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar ( ku, مه‌لا کرێکار), is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militiant who was the founder and f ...

(1956–) * Nizamettin Arıç (1956–) *

Musa Farisoğulları Musa Farisoğulları (born 1956, Genç, Bingöl) is a Kurdish politician and a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education He attended primary and secondary education as well as the vocational school at Diyarb ...

(1956–) * Ahmet Kaya (1957–2000) *

Ali Akbar Moradi Ali Akbar Moradi ( ku, عەلی ئەکبەر مورادی; born 1957) is a well known Kurdish musician and composer. He was born in Gahvareh in the Kermanshah Province of Iran. He started music at a very early age, and learned the Kurdish ''maqam ...

(1957–) * Ciwan Haco (1957–) *

Dana Ahmed Majid Dana Ahmed Majid (born 1957) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, A former high-ranking member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and now a leading member of the Gorran Movement, he was the Governor of Sulaymaniah and former head of Asayesh security ...

(1957–) * Edip Yüksel (1957–) *

Hesenê Metê Hesenê Metê (born 1957) is a prominent Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Erxanî near Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. He has been living in Sweden since the 1980s. He has translated works by Pushkin and Dostoyevski in ...

(1957–) * Mustafa Aydogan (1957–) *

Najmadin Shukr Rauf Najmadin Shukr Rauf Zanganeh or "Mama Risha" (, July 1, 1957 – January 25, 1985), was a prominent Kurdish member of the Peshmerga loyal to the PUK. He is known for his courage and fearlessness, he became a heroic and courageous Peshmerga and fo ...

(1957–1985) *

Sırrı Sakık Sırrı Sakık (born 1 August 1957, Yörecik, Muş Province, Turkey) is a Turkish-Kurdish journalist and politician. He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Mayor of Ağrı. He was elected in the 2023 Turkish parliamenta ...

(1957–) * Zafer Çağlayan (1957–) *

Dilshad Said Dalshad Said ( ku, Dilşad Seîd ar, دلشاد محمد سعيد; born in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1958) is a contemporary Kurdish musician. Biography After graduating from the music institute of Baghdad, he worked as an assistant of the condu ...

(1958–) * Kamal Qadir (1958–) *

Mashaal Tammo Mashaal Tammo, also Mash'al Tammo (Arabic: مشعل تمو ''Mashʿal Tammo'', Kurmanji: ''Mişel Temo''; 1958 – October 7, 2011) was a Syrian politician and activist who supported the interests of the minority of the Kurds. Tammo was relea ...

(1958–) * Merziye Feriqi (1958–2005) *

Mostafa Moloudi Mustafa Mauludi is a kurdish politician and the ex-leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iran) The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP; ku, حیزبی دێموکراتی کوردستان, translit=Hizba Dêmokrata Kurdistanê, abbreviated HDK; ...

(1958–) *

Nursel Aydoğan Nursel Aydoğan (*17 November 1958, Yenişehir, Bursa, Turkey), is a Turkish politician and former MP for Diyarbakır. Early life and education In 1983 she graduated from Hacettepe University department of food engineering. Since then she has ...

(1958–) * Osman Öcalan (1958–) * Serdar Roşan (1958–) *

Seyed Khalil Alinezhad Seyed Khalil Alinezhad (alternative spelling: Seyyed Khalil Alinejad; Kurdish: سەید خەلیل عالینژاد, born 1958, Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, Iran – 2001, Gothenburg, Sweden) was a great master of the spiritual instrument t ...

(1958–2001) *

Sherzad Hafiz Sherzad Hafiz (Kurdish language, Kurdish: شێرزاد حافز, born May 14, 1958) is a current Member of Gorran Movement. Sherzad Hafiz was a former Member of Parliament in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq for Gorran Movement. He was ...

(1958–) *

Tara Jaff Tara Jaff ( 2012) Tara Jaff ( ku, تارا جاف, Tara Gaf) is a Kurdish musician who has been exposed to many ancient influences. Over the years, Jaff experimented with different string instruments, but it was her fascination with the ancient ...

(1958–) * Bakhtiar Amin (1959–) * Firat Cewerî (1959–) *

İmam Taşçıer İmam Taşçıer (1 January 1959, Bismil, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Political career İmam Taşçıer was elected to the Turkish Parliament rep ...

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Müslüm Doğan Müslüm Doğan (born 15 October 1959) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who served as the Minister of Development in the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015. He was elected as a Memb ...

(1959–) *

Ata Nahai Ata Nahai is an Iranian novelist and short story writer who writes in Sorani Kurdish. He was born in Baneh in 1960. He was graduated from high school in 1978, receiving a diploma of literature. As to the revolutionary atmosphere of Iran in 1979 a ...

(1960–) * Barham Salih (1960–) *

Bayan Nouri Dr Bayan Nouri Tawfeeq Nadir (born 11 January 1960, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician who was Minister of Women's Affairs from 18 October 2014 to 16 August 2015.Edibe Şahin Edibe Şahin (born 1960 in Nazımiye, Tunceli, Turkey) was the mayor of the municipality of Tunceli (Mamekiye), the capital of Tunceli Province in Eastern Anatolia, for the Democratic Society Party (DTP). She is of Kurdish Alevi origin. Early li ...

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Eyaz Zaxoyî Eyaz Youssef Ahmed or Eyaz Zaxoyi (20 February 1960 Zakho – 20 January 1986 Mosul),RadioRudaw
was ...

(1960–1986) * Jalal Jalalizadeh (1960–) *

Salih Fırat Salih Fırat (born 1 January 1960) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adıyaman since 12 June 2011. Early life and career Born in Adıyaman, he ...

(1960–) * Soraya Serajeddini (1960–2006) *

Ali Bapir Ali Bapir, A.K.A Mamosta Ali Bapir ( ku, عه‌لی باپیر) is a Kurdish Islamic scholar and politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is the founder and current president of the Kurdistan Justice Group (formerly known as the Islamic Group of Kurd ...

(1961–) * Amirkhan Mori (1961–) *

Derwich Ferho Ferho Derwich (born 2 October 1961 in Mzizah, Turkey) is one of the chairmen (along with his brother Medeni Akgül) of the Kurdish Institute of Brussels in Belgium. He arrived in Belgium as a refugee on 3 February 1977. In 1978, he founded ''T ...

(1961–) *

Farhad Pirbal Farhad Pirbal ( ckb, فەرھاد پیرباڵ; born 20 August 1961) is a Kurdish people, Kurdish writer, philosopher, singer, poet, painter and critic. He was born in the city of Erbil, Erbil (Hawler) in South Kurdistan, Southern Kurdistan. He stu ...

(1961–) * Guram Adzhoyev (1961–) * Gültan Kışanak (1961–) *

Hassan Rahmanpanah Hassan Rahmanpanah ( ku, حەسەن ڕەحمان پەنا; born 1961) is an Iranian political activist, communist and a prominent member of both the Central Committee of Komalah (CPI) and the Communist Party of Iran. Biography Hassan Rahmanpana ...

(1961–) *

Jano Rosebiani Jano Rosebiani ( ku, Cano Rojbeyanî) is an Iraqi-Kurdish American filmmaker. He is the winner of numerous international awards and has been listed in the top 35 world filmmakers in the book "Cineaste Uit De Schaduw" (Filmmakers from the Shad ...

(1961–) * Leyla Zana (1961–) *

Nizamettin Taş Nizamettin Taş (born 1961 in Varto), also known as Botan Rojhilat , was one of the oldest military commanders of the PKK. He was born in Varto, Turkey, and joined the PKK in 1986 and became the military commander of the organisation in 1995. He ...

(1961–) * Saeed Farajpouri (1961–) * Savaş Buldan (1961–) * Zübeyir Aydar (1961–) *

Abderrahman Sadik Karim Abderrahman Sadik Karim born at 2 March 1962 in Kirkuk was Minister of Environment in the first cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) was the provisional government of Iraq from 13 July 200 ...

(1962–) * Abdolreza Rajabi (1962–) *

Adham Barzani Adham Sheikh Othman Sheikh Ahmad Barzani (born April 16, 1962) is a former member of Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly. He is former Kurdish President Massoud Barzani's cousin. The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah (KRH) was led by Adham Barzani ...

(1962–) * Ardeshir Kamkar (1962–) * Hüseyin Kenan Aydın (1962–) *

Adnan Karim Adnan Karim ( ckb, عدنان کریم; born 1963) is a prominent Kurdish singer, known for his song adaptations of classical Kurdish poems. He is also a painter. Early life Adnan Karim Rashid was born in 1963 in Kirkuk. Although coming from a f ...

(1963–) *

Adnan Selçuk Mizrakli Adnan ( ar, عدنان, 'adnān) is the traditional ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs of Northern, Western, Eastern and Central Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia who descend from Qahtan. His ancestry can be traced b ...

(1963–) *

Azad Bonni Azad Bonni is a Canadian and American neuroscientist of Kurdish origin. The focus of his research is to understand the mechanisms of neuronal connectivity in the brain. From October 2012 until June 30, 2019, he was the Edison Professor of Neuro ...

(1963–) *

Gülser Yıldırım Gülser Yıldırım (born 1 January 1963, Nusaybin, Mardin Province, Mardin) is a Kurds in Turkey, Turkish Kurd politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey), Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and former member of the Grand National Assembly ...

(1963–) * Hülya Avşar (1963–) * Karim Mohammedzadeh (1963–1990) * Kayhan Kalhor (1963–) * Kemal Bülbül (1963–) *

Mariwan Halabjaee Mariwan Halabjaee or Mariwan Halabjayi ( ku-2, مەریوان ھەڵەبجەیی,;Alternate spellings: Mariwan, Marywan, Marewan / Halabjaee, Halabjay, Halabjayee, Halabjaye, Halabjayi, Halabjai. born 9 June 1963) is an Iraqi Kurdish writer, pub ...

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Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand (, born on 23 March 1963) is an Iranian Kurdish activist and journalist born in Divandarreh. He was the editor of ''Payam-e Mardom''. He is also the founder of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization (''Rêxistina Mafê Mirova ...

(1963–) *

Seyran Ateş Seyran Ateş (born 20 April 1963) is a German lawyer and a Muslim feminist. She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims. Ateş is best known for challenging conventional ideas in I ...

(1963–) *

Mahir Hassan Mahir Hassan (Kurdish: ماهیر حەسەن,Mahîr Hassan; born on January 10, 1963) is a Kurdish actor and playwright, known for the film ''Star Rebellion''. Early life He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Sulayman ...

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Fatma Kurtulan Fatma Kurtulan (* 1 March 1964, Kahramanmaras, Turkey) is a Turkish Kurd politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey. After graduating from Pazarcık high school, Kurtulan worked on social projects in the Küçükdikili munic ...

(1964–) *

Hasan Saltık Hasan Saltık (; 1964 – 2 June 2021) was a Turkish record producer. He was the 1991 founder of Kalan Müzik, a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul specialized in releasing Saltık's recordings of traditional ethnic and fo ...

(1964–2021) * Huner Saleem (1964–) * Latif Yahia (1964–) *

Leyla Güven Leyla Güven (born 6 May 1964, Cihanbeyli, Konya, Turkey) is HDP MP for Hakkari, co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and former mayor of the municipality of Viranşehir in the Şanlıurfa Province of Southeast Anatolia of Turkey, wh ...

(1964–) *

Mano Khalil Mano Khalil is a Kurdish-Swiss film director living in Switzerland. He studied history and law at Damascus University and moved to Czechoslovakia in 1987 to study fiction and film direction. Between 1990 and 1995 he worked as an independent film ...

(1964–) * Nazand Begikhani (1964–) * Şeyhmus Dağtekin (1964–) * Yüksel Yavuz (1964–) *

Aysel Tuğluk Aysel Tuğluk (; born 17 July 1965 in Elâzığ, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician from Turkey and was a founding member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey. Aysel Tuğluk is currently imprisoned at the Kocaeli F-Type Prison, located n ...

(1965–) *

Ayşe Gökkan Ayşe Gökkan (born 1965 in Kulince, Sanliurfa) is a Kurdish journalist, feminist, spokeswoman of the Free Women Movement (TJA) and a former Mayor of Nusaybin. As a journalist, she has been active in news outlets such as Özgür Gündem or Azadi ...

(1965–) * Bekir Bozdağ (1965–) *

Bengi Yıldız Bengi Yildiz (born 15 November 1965 in Kozluk, Batman Province, Turkey) was a Member of Parliament of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) for Batman, Turkey. Bengi Yildiz is a lawyer by training, graduating from Istanbul University Law Faculty ...

(1965–) *

Gurbetelli Ersöz Gurbetelli Ersöz (1965, Palu, Elazığ– 8 October 1997, South Kurdistan) was a chemist, journalist and later also member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Biography Gurbetelli was born in Palu, Elazığ, and studied chemistry at the ...

(1965–1997) * Jan Dost (1965–) *

Abdullah Demirbaş Abdullah Demirbaş (born 1966, Sise, Diyarbakir, Turkey) was s former mayor of the municipality of Sur in the city of Diyarbakir, of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Early life and education After graduating in sociology at Firat Univer ...

(1966–) * Bachtyar Ali (1966–) * Diyar Dersim (1966–) * İshak Sağlam (1966–) * Mahabad Qaradaghi (1966–2020) * Nechirvan Barzani (1966–) * Roya Toloui (1966–) *

Tahir Elçi Tahir Elçi (1966, Cizre – 28 November 2015) was a Kurdish lawyer and the chairman of Diyarbakır Bar Association. Early life and education He went to primary and secondary school in Cizre and graduated from Dicle University in 1991. In 1993 ...

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Yıldız Tilbe Yıldız Tilbe (born 16 July 1966) is a Turkish singer of Kurdish descent and one of the best-selling musical artists in Turkey, known especially for her eastern-infused ballads. Life and career Yıldız Tilbe was born in the Gültepe district ...

(1966–) * Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu (1966–) *

Alican Önlü Alican Önlü (born 27 December 1967, Nazimye, Turkey) is a politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Throughout his political career he was a politician in a variety of parties suc ...

(1967–) *

Helîm Yûsiv Helîm Yûsiv (Amûdê, 1967) is a Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as- ...

(1967–) *

Kajal Ahmad Kajal Ahmad (born 1967) is a contemporary Kurdish poet and journalist, known for the show ''Dijebaw'' on Kurdsat. She started writing poetry in 1987. About Ahmad was born in Kirkuk in 1967 of Kurdish ancestry. She began writing poetry in 1986, ...

(1967–) * Mehmet Şimşek (1967–) *

Meral Danış Beştaş Meral Danış Beştaş (born 5 April 1967) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament since 7 June 2015. Early life and education Born in Mardin, Beştaş graduated from Dicle U ...

(1967–) * Nadhim Zahawi (1967–) *

Nalin Pekgul Nalin Pekgul (née Baksi, born 30 April 1967) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, nurse and former parliamentarian. She was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Swedish Parliament. Life Pekgul was born in Batman, Turkey, but migrated to ...

(1967–) * Pervin Buldan (1967–) * Yılmaz Erdoğan (1967–) *

Ali Atalan Ali Atalan (born 5 January 1968 in Midyat) is a Kurdish-German politician of Yazidi faith. He is a former member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with Die Linke in Germany, and the Turkish Parliament with the Peoples' Democratic Party ( ...

(1968–) *

Bejan Matur Bejan Matur (born 14 September 1968, Kahramanmaraş) is a Kurdish poet and writer from Turkey. Background Matur was born to an Alevi Kurdish family on 14 September 1968 in the city of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey's Mediterranean Region. Her first s ...

(1968–) * Gani Mirzo (1968–) * Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu (1968–) *

İbrahim Ayhan İbrahim Ayhan (10 February 1968 – 20 September 2018) was a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and a former Member of Parliament for Şanlıurfa. Personal life and professional career Born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa, he graduated from the Y ...

(1968–2018) * Metin Göktepe (1968–1996) * Xalîd Reşîd (1968–) * Bahman Ghobadi (1969–) *

Bahoz Erdal Bahoz Erdal, also known as Fahman Husain ( ku, Fehman Hûseyn , also spelled Fehman Hüseyin) (born 3 August 1969), in Kurdistan in Syria is a top commander in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He is originally from Dêrik in Syrian Kurdistan. ...

(1969–) *

Çağlar Demirel Çağlar Demirel (born 29 July 1969, Kulp, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education Çağlar Demirel was b ...

(1969–) * Dilsa Demirbag Sten (1969–) * Masrour Barzani (1969–) *

Mohammad Oraz Mohammad Oraz (Kurdish language, Kurdish: Mihemed Ewraz, fa, محمد اوراز; 1969 in Naghadeh, Iran – September 7, 2003 in Islamabad, Pakistan) was an Iranian mountain climber. He was the second Iranian climber after Hooman Aprin to conque ...

(1969–2003) *

Mustafa Atici Mustafa Atici (born 2 October 1969, Elbistan, Turkey) is a Kurds in Switzerland, Swiss politician of Kurdish descent from the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Social Democratic Party (SP) and a member of the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), ...

(1969–) *

Sevahir Bayındır Sevahir Bayındır (* 1 January 1969, Karlıova, Bingöl Province, Turkey) is a Kurdish MP for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Şırnak, Eastern Turkey. Bayındır attended high school in Trabzon, going on to study nursing at the Ege U ...

(1969–) * Widad Akrawi (1969–) *

Amineh Kakabaveh Amineh Kakabaveh (, fa, اَمینه کاکاباوه; born 6 December 1970) is a Swedish independent politician of Iranian Kurdish descent. Having been a member of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan since her youth, she took refuge in Swede ...

(1970–) *

Ayhan Bilgen Ayhan Bilgen (born 28 January 1971, Sarıkamış, Kars Province) is a journalist, politician and former mayor of Kars from the Peoples' Democratic Party. Early life and education He studied political sciences at the Ankara University and Soc ...

(1970–) * Ayşe Polat (1970–) * Besime Konca (1970–) * Sara Kaya (1970–) *

Sirwan Barzani Sirwan Saber Barzani (born ) is an Iraqi Kurdish businessman and military commander. He is a member of the Kurdish Barzani family. He is the older brother of Saywan Barzani, an Kurdish diplomat. Sirwan is the nephew of the former President of I ...

(1970–) * Tuncer Bakırhan (1970–) *

Ahmet Aslan Ahmet Aslan (born 1971 in Hozat, Tunceli)Ahmet Aydın Ahmet Aydın (born 1 March 1971) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adıyaman since 22 July 2007. Born in the district of Kahta, Adıyaman, he ...

(1971–) *

Asya Abdullah Asya Abdullah is a Kurdish politician working to establish democratic autonomy in Rojava, Northern Syria. Asya Abdullah is the current co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the former co-chair of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TE ...

(1971–) * Dilba (1971–) *

Gülnaz Karataş Gülnaz Karataş (1971–25 October 1992), nom de guerre, Berîtan, was a female fighter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). She became a Kurdish cultural figure after dying, and a symbol of women within the guerrilla movement. Early life ...

(1971–1992) * Hasret Gültekin (1971–1993) *

Hozan Canê Hozan Canê (born Saide Inac in 1971) is a contemporary German-Kurdish singer, who is famous for her contributions to Kurdish music. Life She was born in the region of Karayazı in Erzurum province, Turkey. After elementary school, she moved ...

(1971–) *

Jamil Rostami Jamil Rostami (born 1971 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran) is a Kurdish film director. In 2002 he made his first short film titled ''The Trouble of Being a Boy'' in Kurdish, which was screened in 24 domestic and international Festivals and w ...

(1971–) *

Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki (born 1971, Diyarbakır) is a jurist and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). He is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Batman. Early life and education Tiryaki was born in Di ...

(1971–) * Osman Baydemir (1971–) *

Selma Irmak Selma Irmak (born 8 March 1971, Kızıltepe, Turkey), is a Kurds in Turkey, Kurdish politician from Turkey and former MP for the Peace and Democracy Party (Turkey), Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey), People`s ...

(1971–) *

Shahram Alidi Shahram Alidi ( fa, شهرام علیدی, born 11 December 1971, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is also a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Alidi is part of a generation of f ...

(1971–) *

Sibel Yiğitalp Sibel Yiğitalp (1 February 1971, Mardin, Turkey) is a politician of Kurdish descent and a former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the People's Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education Sibel Yiğitalp was born in Ma ...

(1971–) *

Vian Dakhil Vian Dakhil (, born 1971 in Mosul) is a current member of the Iraqi parliament. She is the only Yazidi Kurd in the Iraqi Parliament. Background Dakhil gained international attention during a plea for assistance for Yazidi people trapped in the S ...

(1971–) *

Abdullah Zeydan Abdullah Zeydan (born 13 March 1972 in Yüksekova) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). Education He attended primary school and high school in Yüksekova in the Hakkari Province. Po ...

(1972–) * Azad Zal (1972–) *

Eros Kurdi Aras Fatih Rasul (born September 26, 1972), known by the stage names Aras Koyi ( ku, ئاراس کۆیی), is a Kurds, Kurdish-Swedes, Swedish singer, songwriter, director, scenarist, producer and Philanthropy, philanthropist. Early life and edu ...

(1972–) * Hamdi Ulukaya (1972–) *

Juwan Fuad Masum Juwan Fuad Masum (born 1972) is an Iraqi politician who was the Minister of Telecommunications, serving in the Iraqi Transitional Government. Juwan Fouad Masum is the daughter of Fuad Masum, the former Iraqi president. She is a member of the ...

(1972–) *

Nurettin Demirtaş Nurettin Demirtaş (born 1972) was a former Kurdish politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey and a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Early life and education He grew up and attended secondary school in Diyarbakır ...

(1972–) * Azad (1973–) * Bafel Talabani (1973–) * Herro Mustafa (1973–) *

Houzan Mahmoud Houzan Mahmoud (born 1973) is a Kurdish feminist, writer and anti-war activist born in South Kurdistan. She was one of the speakers at the anti-war rally in March 2003 in London and is the co-founder of the Culture Project, a platform for Kurdi ...

(1973–) * Kazim Öz (1973–) * Mehmet Yavuz (1973–2019) *

Saliha Aydeniz Salihe Aydeniz (born 1973, Ergani, Turkey) is a Turkish politician from Kurdish descent of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and a current member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Since November 2019, she is the co-chair of the DBP. E ...

(1973–) * Selahattin Demirtaş (1973–) *

Servet Kocakaya Servet Kocakaya (born 19 May 1973) is a Zaza–Kurdish singer-songwriter. He sings mostly in Turkish but also has songs in Kurmancî and Zazakî Personal life Servet Kocakaya was born in 1973 in the town of Solhan in the Bingöl Province. His ...

(1973–) * Şehrîbana Kurdî (1973–) *

Şevval Sam Türkdeniz Şevval Sam (; born 11 November 1972) is a Turkish singer and actress. She is the daughter of Leman Sam, who is also a singer. She is known for her performance on ''Yasak Elma'' as Ender, and other TV series, including ''Süper Baba'' ...

(1973–) *

Choman Hardi Choman Hardi ( ku, چۆمان هەردی),(born 1974) is a Kurdish poet, translator and painter. Background She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and two collections of English poems, ''Life for Us'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and ''Co ...

(1974–) * Leyla Birlik (1974–) * Serhat Baran (1974–) * Seyed Ali Jaberi (1974–) * Aynur Doğan (1975–) * Bedia Özgökçe Ertan (1975–) * Celal Başkale (1975–2012) * Farzad Kamangar (c. 1975–2010) *

Faysal Sarıyıldız Faysal Sarıyildiz (born 10 April 1975, Cizre) is a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former Member of Parliament representing the Sırnak Province. Education and early life He studied mechanical engineering at the Un ...

(1975–) *

Hisham Zaman Hisham Zaman (born 1 February 1975) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter of Kurdish origin. He graduated from the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2004. His films center on the stories and inner dilemmas of characters united by a c ...

(1975–) * Mehmet Ali Aslan (1975–) * Sadet Karabulut (1975–) * Sebahat Tuncel (1975–) *

Sevim Dağdelen Sevim Dağdelen (born 4 September 1975) is a German politician and a member of the Left Party (). Early years Born in Duisburg to Kurdish immigrants, Sevim Dağdelen finished high school in 1997, and studied law first at the University of Marb ...

(1975–) *

Vala Fareed Vala Fareed (born 1975) is a Minister of State for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She was previously elected as the first female speaker of the legislature in February 2019. Born in Erbil, Fareed has a degree in law, and was elected to the Kurdist ...

(1975–) *

Ayla Akat Ata Ayla Akat Ata (born 16 February 1976) is a Kurdish–Turkish jurist and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). She is a women's rights activist and the co-founder of the Free Women's Congres ...

(1976–) *

Evrim Alataş Evrim Alataş (born 15 April 1976; Gölpınar, Akçadağ – 12 April 2010; Diyarbakır) was a Kurdish writer, journalist, screenwriter and human rights activist. Alataş is described as the first female Kurdish writer of Turkey. Her works includ ...

(1976–2010) *

Feleknas Uca Feleknas Uca (born 17 September 1976) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish descent. From 1999 to 2009, she was member of the European Parliament from Germany, serving with Die Linke. Feleknas Uca was at one time the world's only Yazidi parliamenta ...

(1976–) * Hemin Hawrami (1976–) *

İdris Baluken İdris Baluken (born 2 July 1976) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who currently serves as a parliamentary group leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) since April 2014. He previously served as a parliamentary group leader for t ...

(1976–) *

Lahur Talabany Lahur Talabany, born 1975; (Kurdish: لاهور تاڵەبانی) also known as Lahur Sheikh Jangi Talabany is the former Co-President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the former Director of the Zanyari Agency, one of two intelligenc ...

(1976–) *

Özlem Cekic Özlem Sara Cekic (born 7 May 1976) is a Danish-Kurdish former politician and member of parliament for the Socialist People's Party (SF), who is now general-secretary of the organisation Brobyggerne (the Bridge-builders) - Center for Dialog Cof ...

(1976–) * Zara (Turkish singer) (1976–) * Bekir Kaya (1977–) * Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (1977–) * Gulan Avci (1977–) *

Hişyar Özsoy Hişyar Özsoy, (born 26 June 1977, Yeniköy, Bingöl) is a Turkish politician and academic of Kurdish descent. He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Education an ...

(1977–) *

Nisti Stêrk Nisti Stêrk (born 29 October 1977) is a Swedish-Kurdish actress and comedian. Nisti Stêrk has been writing all her life, but does not want to call herself an author. She is first and foremost an actress and a comedian. Stêrk has created the ...

(1977–) * Omed Khoshnaw (1977–) * Qubad Talabani (1977–) * Shibal Ibrahim (c. 1977–) * Rojda Felat (1977–) * Birzo Majeed (1978–) * Blend Saleh (1978–) * Caucher Birkar (1978–) * Düzen Tekkal (1978–) *

Firsat Sofi Firsat Sofi Ali ( ku, فرسەت سۆفی, 21 May 1978 – 18 November 2020) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Biography He was born in Gazna village in Choman District. Firsat was the Governor of Erbil un ...

(1978–2020) *

Kurd Maverick Kurd Maverick (born Cihan Ötün) is a German House producer and DJ. Biography He is of Kurdish origin.Rojda Aykoç Rojda (born Kadriye Şenses in 1978, also known as Rojda Şenses) is a contemporary Kurdish singer. Biography She was born in the village of Tütün, in the Kurtalan district of Siirt province, Turkey. After finishing primary school, she moved ...

(1978–) * Shahram Mokri (1978–) * Shaswar Abdulwahid (1978–) *

Yousif Muhammed Sadiq Yousif Muhammed Sadiq ( ku, یووسف محەممەد سادق, born 14 July 1978) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician of the Movement for Change (Gorran). Sadiq was born in Khurmal, Halabja Governorate. He was elected as Speaker of the Parliament ...

(1978–) * Feryal Clark (1979–) * Mohsen Chavoshi (1979–) *

Sheikh Ali Ilyas Sheikh Ali Ilyas (born 1979, ) is the Baba Sheikh of the Yazidis since November 2020. Biography Ilyas was born in Sheikhan, Dohuk Province in Iraq in 1979. His father was the Yezidi spiritual leader from 1978 to 1995. Ilyas was sworn in at Lalis ...

(1979–) * Zeynel Doğan (1979–)

1980s-2000s

* Rojda Demirer (1980–) *

Sherko Moarefi Sherko Moarefi (1980–November 4, 2013) was a Kurdish activist and political prisoner who was executed in Saghez prison in Iran. Moarefi was arrested by Iranian authorities in 2008, convicted on two political charges, and executed in 2013. S ...

(1980–2013) *

Mustafa Sarp Mustafa Sarp (born November 5, 1980, in Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer who last played for Manisaspor as a midfielder. Career On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, it was announced that he is a member of Galatasaray. Sarp has chosen ...

(1980–) * Zuhal Demir (1980–) *

Pervin Chakar Pervin Chakar (born Pervin Çakar, in Mardin, 1981) is a Kurdish opera singer from Turkey. Having been trained as a singer in Turkey and Italy, she currently resides in Germany. Early life and education Chakar was born into a Kurdish family f ...

(1981–) * Golriz Ghahraman (1981–) * Hawar Mulla Mohammed (1981–) * Khalid Mushir (1981–) * Khanna Omarkhali (1981–) *

Remziye Tosun Remziye Tosun is a Kurdish politician from Turkey who has been a deputy of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament since the parliamentary elections in June 2018. In March 2020, Tosun was charged by prosecutors with "incitin ...

(1981–) * Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1981) *

Sinan Kaloğlu Sinan Kaloğlu (born 10 June 1981) is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. International career Kaloğlu made his first appearance Turkey national team on 12 April 2006 against Azerbaijan in Tofik ...

(1981–) * Xatar (1981–) *

Ebru Günay Ebru Günay (born 1 January 1982, Bingöl, Turkey) is a jurist and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was elected a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 2018 and is currently the spokeswoman of the HDP. ...

(1982–) * Ehsan Fatahian (1982–) *

Fidan Doğan Fidan Doğan (17 January 1982 – 9 January 2013) was a Kurdish activist and member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, who worked at the Kurdish information centre in Paris and also represented the Brussels-based Kurdish National Congress in F ...

(1982–2013) *

Gökay Akbulut Gökay Akbulut (born 16 November 1982) is a German politician and social scientist. She is currently serving in the Bundestag (federal parliament) as a member of The Left Party from the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Early life, edu ...

(1982–) * Jwan Hesso (1982–) * Majid Kavian (1982–2011) *

Zeynab Jalalian Zeynab Jalalian ( fa, زينب جلاليان; born March 10, 1982 in Dim Qeshlaq, Maku County) is a Kurdish Iranian who has been convicted a mohareb and sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for allegedly being a member of the Kurdi ...

(1982–) *

Behrouz Boochani Behrouz Boochani ( fa, بهروز بوچانی; born 23 July 1983) is a Iranian Kurdistan, Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in New Zealand. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Regional Proce ...

(1983–) * Belçim Bilgin (1983–) *

Burhan G Burhan Genç Koç (), known as Burhan G (born 20 January 1983), is a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer. He has released three albums including '' Burhan G'' in 2010 and ''Din for evigt'', both certified platinum in Denmark. Hit ...

(1983–) * Chopy Fatah (1983–) * Mohammedali Yaseen Taha (1983–) * Salt Bae (1983–) *

Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1983) Selçuk Şahin may refer to: * Selçuk Şahin (footballer, born 1981), Turkish footballer * Selçuk Şahin (footballer, born 1983), Turkish footballer {{hndis, Sahin, Selcuk ...

Shwan Jalal Shwan Jalal (born 14 August 1983) is a professional football coach and former goalkeeper. He is currently goalkeeping coach at Newcastle United. He was capped five times for the England C team, and was later called up for the Iraq national team ...

(1983–) * Sohrab Pournazeri (1983–) *

Taban Shoresh Taban Shoresh (born 1983) is a British aid worker, women's rights activist and founder of non-profit organisation: The Lotus Flower. She is also a Kurdish (Anfal) genocide survivor. Early life Due to her father's involvement with the Peshmerga ...

(1983–) * Zara (Russian singer) (1983–) *

Ali Hama Saleh Ali Hama Saleh Taha (Kurdish: عەلی حەمە ساڵح تەها, romanised: Elî Heme Saleh Teha, born 16 April 1984) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, He was a member of the Kurdistan Region parliament The Parliament of Kurdistan ( ku, پە ...

(1984–) *

Bovar Karim Bovar Mohammed Karim ( ku, Bêwar Mihemmed Kerîm/بێوار محەمد كەريم, born 4 May 1984) is a Swedish footballer. Early life Bovar Karim was born in Paris to a Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ...

(1984–) *

Dilo Doxan Dilo Doxan (born 1 January 1984) is a Kurdish musician from Syria. Doxan was born in the neighbourhood of Tirbesipîyê in the city of Qamisli and completed his education there. Since Doxan grew up in a Kurdish musician family and was raised ...

(1984–) * Hevrin Khalaf (1984–) *

Jassim Mohammed Haji Jassim Mohammed Haji ( ar, جاسم محمد حاجي, ku, Casim Mihemed Hecî; born 3 May 1984) is an Iraqi footballer who plays as a defender for Iraqi club Duhok. He is formerly a member of the Iraq national team. Honours Duhok * 2009� ...

(1984–) * Kawa Hesso (1984–) * Haftbefehl (1985–) * Isaac Tutumlu (1985–) *

Sane Jaleh Sane Jaleh ( fa, صانع ژاله, ''Sāne jāle'') also Sanea Jaleh, Saneh Jaleh, or Sani Zhaleh (May 22, 1985 – February 14, 2011) was an Iranian student at the University of Arts. He was one of two students shot dead during the February 14, ...

(1985–2011) * Bengin Ahmad (1986–) *

Dashni Morad Dashni Morad ( ku, Deşnê Mûrad, ckb, دەشنێ موراد; born 1 January 1986) is a Kurdish singer, songwriter, television presenter, human rights & environmental activist. Born in Kurdistan, she moved to Holland as a refugee with her fami ...

(1986–) * Hanna Jaff (1986–) *

Kadir Talabani Kadir Talabani (born June 1, 1986) is a Norwegian-Kurdish actor born in Kirkuk, Iraq. After his family got involved in the establishment of the PUK political party in 1975, the Talabanis lived in exile in various locations in the Middle East. Kad ...

(1986–) * Navid Mohammadzadeh (1986–) * Rang Shawkat (1986–) * Ziaeddin Niknafs (1986–) *

Brwa Nouri Brwa Hekmat Nouri ( ku, بڕوا نوری; born 23 January 1987) is an Iranian born Kurdish professional footballer who plays for Indonesian club Bali United as a midfielder. In 2016, he made his debut for the Iraq national team. Club career ...

(1987–) *

Dara Mohammed Dara Mohammed Habib ( ar, دارا محمد حبيب ) (born June 25, 1987) is an Iraqi football player of Kurdish ethnicity, who played at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup The 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was the eighth Confederations Cu ...

(1987–) *

Darin Darin may refer to Places *Darin, Anbarabad, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *Darin, Jebalbarez-e Jonubi, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *Darin, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran *Darin, Yazd, a villa ...

(1987–) *

Leyla İmret Leyla İmret (born 1987) is a Kurdish politician She grew up in Germany but returned to her home country in 2013 and was elected mayor of Cizre on 31 March 2014. She was dismissed from her position by the government on 11 September 2015 after the ...

(1987–) *

Ömer Öcalan Ömer Öcalan (born 1987) is a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a current member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Early life and education He was born in 1987 in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa, as a son of Mehmet and Fehim ...

(1987–) *

Rawez Lawan Rawez Farhad Lawan (born 4 October 1987) is a Swedish former professional footballer of Kurdish descent who played primarily as a midfielder. Lawan joined AC Horsens in the summer of 2006, and played an important role in the club's successful s ...

(1987–) * Voria Ghafouri (1987–) *

Eren Derdiyok Eren Derdiyok (born 12 June 1988) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a striker. He is a former Swiss international. Early life Derdiyok was born in Basel, Switzerland, into a Kurdish family from Turkey. He also holds Turkish citiz ...

(1988–) * Halgurd Mulla Mohammed (1988–) *

Helly Luv Helan Abdulla (Kurdish: هێلین عەبدوڵڵا; born 16 November 1988), better known by her stage name Helly Luv (ھێڵی لۆڤ), is a Kurdish-Finnish singer, dancer, choreographer, actress and model. She rose to fame after uploading cove ...

(1988–) * KC Rebell (1988–) * Kurdo (rapper) (1988–) * Leila Mustafa (1988–) * Lilla Namo (1988–) * Makwan Amirkhani (1988–) *

Nûdem Durak Nûdem Durak is a Kurdish singer, folk musician and political prisoner from Northern Kurdistan imprisoned by Turkey. In 2015 she was arrested and sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for singing Kurdish political songs, regarded as eviden ...

(1988–) * Zyzz (1989–2011) *

Bahare Alavi Bahara Alavi (1989 – 2011) was an Iranian human rights activist, women's rights defender and blogger (writer). She was born to a Kurdish family in 1989 in the city of Saqqez, Iran. She was a member of the campaign to collect One Million Signatu ...

(1989–2011) *

Rezan Zuğurlu Rezan Zuğurlu was mayor of the Turkish district of Lice in Diyarbakır Province. She is a member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Personal life Zuğurlu was born into a family of Kurdish activists and grew up in southeastern Turkey d ...

(1988/9–) *

Ahmad Al Saleh Ahmad Al Saleh ( ar, أَحمَد الصَّالِح; born 20 May 1990) is a Syrian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Syrian club Al-Jaish and the Syria national team. Al Saleh was banned for life by the SFA afte ...

(1989–) * Aram Khalili (1989–) *

Deniz Naki Deniz Naki (born 9 July 1989) is a German professional footballer of Kurdish origin who played as an attacking midfielder. Club career Naki began his football career at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, but could never make it past its reserves. On 2 Febru ...

(1989–) * Tuğba Hezer Öztürk (1989–) * Capo (rapper) (1990–) * Jiloan Hamad (1990–) *

Mervan Çelik Mervan Çelik (born 26 May 1990) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a winger for GAIS. He has previously played for GAIS, Rangers, Pescara, Gençlerbirliği, Akhisar Belediyespor, Häcken, and Fatih Karagümrük. He has repre ...

(1990–) *

Kianoush Rostami Kianoush Rostami ( fa, کیانوش رستمی, born 23 July 1991) is an Iranian Kurdish Olympian weightlifter. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the 85 kg event, winning the gold medal and setting a new world record with a total lift ...

(1991–) * Helin Bölek (1992–2020) *

Kaveh Rezaei Kaveh Rezaei ( fa, کاوه رضایی) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Tractor club in Persian Gulf Pro League and Iran national team. Club career Foolad Rezaei started his career at Foolad. In the 2010–1 ...

(1992–) * Nur Tatar (1992–) * Lanja Khawe (1993–) * Nadia Murad (1993–) *

NOURI Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, ar, نوري, ko, 누리, syr, ܢܘܪܝ) is a name which may refer to: Given name * Nuri Ja'far (1914 – 1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education * NOURI (artist) (born 1993), Ne ...

(1993–) * Ramin Hossein-Panahi (1995–2018) * Reynmen (1995–) * Mahmoud Dahoud (1996–) *

Zeki Majed Zeki Majed (born 13 November 1996) is a Kurdish filmmaker and poet. He was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. Biography His first poem, ''Eyes Never Dry'', won first prize at Pendle War Poetry Competition. He wrote multiple love poems, praisin ...

(1996–) * Dersim Dağ (1996–) * Berkin Elvan (1999–2014) * Eno (rapper) (1998–) * Fero47 (1998–)

Others

* Ahmet Dağtekin *Ala Talabani *Dindar Najman *Fadhil Omer *Habibollah Latifi *Howar Ziad *Ibrahim Alizade *Îlham Ehmed *Musa Herdem *Nuriye Kesbir *Rebwar Fatah *Riya Qahtan *Ari Shwan

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurdish People Lists of people by ethnicity Kurdish people, *