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

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

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

(Some suggest the real population might reach 30%) where they mainly inhabit the

Hazaristan Hazaristan ( fa, هزارستان, Hazāristān), or Hazarajat ( fa, هزاره‌جات, Hazārajāt) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains in the western extremities of the H ...

region, as well as parts of

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

, especially

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

and

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

. The Hazaras have immigrated to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

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, and

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

Afghan diaspora Afghan diaspora refers to the Afghan people that reside and work outside of Afghanistan. They include citizens of Afghanistan who have immigrated to other countries. The majority of the diaspora has been formed by Afghan refugees since the star ...

Politicians

* Abdul Ali Mazari * Muhammad Yusuf Khan Hazara * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan *

Karim Khalili Karim Khalili ( fa, کریم خلیلی) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party. Most recently he was Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council from 2017 until its dissolvement in 2019. He was selec ...

Sultan Ali Keshtmand Sultan Ali Keshtmand ( fa, سلطان‌علی کشتمند; born May 22, 1935, in Kabul), sometimes transliterated Kishtmand, was an Afghan politician. He served twice as Chairman of the Council of Ministers during the 1980s, from 1981 to 1988 a ...

* Daoud Naji *

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

Mohammad Mohaqiq Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq ( prs, حاجی محمد محقق; born 26 July 1955 in Balkh) is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament. He is also the founder and chairman of the People's Islamic Unity Party of A ...

Qazi Muhammad Essa Qazi Muhammad Isa ( ur, ); (17 July 1914 – 19 June 1976) was a Pakistani politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, re ...

Habiba Sarabi Habiba (Arabic: حَبِيْبَه, ''ḥabībah''), alternatively Habibah and Habeeba , is a female given name of Arabic origin meaning ''beloved'', ''sweetheart'', or ''lover'', stemming from the male name Habib. Habiba or Habibah may refer t ...

Sima Samar Sima Samar ( fa, سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is an Afghan woman and human rights advocate, activist and social worker within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2 ...

* Hussain Ali Yousafi * Muhammad Ali Jawid *

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

Abdul Khaliq Hazara Abdul Khaliq Hazara may refer to: *Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin) Abdul Khaliq known as Abdul Khaliq Hazara ( fa, عبدالخالق هزاره), (1916 — December 18, 1933) was a Hazara student who assassinated Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of ...

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

* Ahmad Behzad * Jan Ali Changezi *

Qurban Ali Oruzgani Qurban Ali Urozgani ( prs, قربان‌علی اروزگانی) was the previous governor of Daykundi Province of Afghanistan. He was selected as governor by President Karzai in April 2010. He belongs to Hazara ethnic of Afghanistan. Early lif ...

Abdul Haq Shafaq Abdul Haq Shafaq ( prs, عبدالحق شفق) is an ethnic Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Faryab, Daykundi, Samangan and Sar-e Pol provinces. Abdul Haq Shafaq is former commander of the Hezbe Wahdat. After t ...

Sayed Anwar Rahmati Anwar Rahmati ( fa, انور رحمتی; born 1959) is an ethnic Arab- Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He was a governor of Daykundi province beginning on November 22, 2018. Previously he served as Governor of Sar-e Pol from May 25, 2010 to A ...

* Azra Jafari *

Sayyid Ali Beheshti Sayyid Ali Beheshti ( fa, سید علی بهشتی) was a leader of the Shia Hazara ethnic group of Afghanistan, who became president of the '' Shura-yi Enqelabi-yi Ettefaq-i Islami-yi Afghanistan'' (Revolutionary Council of the Islamic Union of ...

* Shah Gul Rezai *

Sarwar Danish Muhammad Sarwar Danish ( prs, ; born 1961) is an Afghan politician who was the second vice president of Afghanistan, from 2014 to 2021. He was previously the acting minister of justice from 2004 to 2010 and acting minister of higher education f ...

Sayed Nasir Ali Shah Sayed Nasir Ali Shah (Urdu and haz, ) is a Pakistani politician and parliamentarian from the Pakistan Peoples Party who is an elected member of the National Assembly (MNA). Shah hails from the city of Quetta in Balochistan and belongs to the H ...

Haji Sayed Hussain Hazara Haji Sayed Hussain Hazara (born Quetta, British India; 15 February 1917, 9 August 2002 – Quetta, Pakistan) was a Pakistani politician. He belonged to the Hazara people. He was a member of National Awami Party and was trialed in Hyderabad Tribu ...

Abdul Wahed Sorabi Abdul (also transliterated as Abdal, Abdel, Abdil, Abdol, Abdool, or Abdoul; ar, عبد ال, ) is the most frequent transliteration of the combination of the Arabic word '' Abd'' (, meaning "Servant") and the definite prefix '' al / el'' (, mea ...

* Azizullah Royesh * Ahmad Shah Ramazan * Dawood Ali Najafi *

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

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

Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili ( prs, محمدحسین صادقی نیلی) was one of the jihadist leaders in Afghanistan. Early life Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili, was born on 1940, in a family of Hazara, in the Nili village of Daykundi. He ...

* Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili *

Sayed Mustafa Kazemi Sayed Mustafa Kazemi ( prs, سید مصطفی کاظمی, 1959 – November 6, 2007) from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician. He was one of the leaders and the spokesman for the opposition movement known as the United National Front. He was ...

* Sayed Mansur Naderi * Abbas Ibrahim Zada * Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan *

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

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

* Rahila Bibi Kobra Alamshahi * Zahera Ahmadyar Mawlayee * Abdul Taleb Zaki *

Asadullah Saadati Asadullah Sa'adati ( prs, اسدالله سعادتی) is an ethnic Hazara politician in Afghanistan. He was the representative of this province during the 16th term of Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Asadullah Saadati was born on 2 April ...

* Ghulam Husain Naseri *

Fahim Hashimy Fahim Hashimi ( fa, فهیم هاشمی; born 27 September 1980) is an ethnic Hazaras, Hazara politician from Afghanistan. Between May 2019 and August 2020, Hashimy was the former Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Afghani ...

Abbas Noyan Abbas Noyan ( prs, عباس نویان) is an ethnic Hazara politician. He is Afghanistan's ambassador to Sweden, from the Islamic Republic that fell in August 2021 to the Taliban. Previously he served as a Member of Parliament to Wolesi Jirga, t ...

* Muhammad Hussain Fahimi

Military personnel

* Abdul Ali Mazari * Abuzar Ghaznawi * Mehdi Mujahid *

Commander Shafi Hazara Commander Shafi Hazara ( prs, قومندان شفیع هزاره) was an ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan. He was a senior commander during the resistance of west Kabul and Hazarajat between 1991 and 1996. In the 1990s he led H ...

* General Khudaidad Khan * General Musa Khan * General Murad Ali Murad *

Flight lieutenant Flight lieutenant is a junior Officer (armed forces)#Commissioned officers, commissioned rank in air forces that use the Royal Air Force (RAF) RAF officer ranks, system of ranks, especially in Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries. I ...

Samad Ali Changezi * Air marshal Sharbat Ali Changezi *

Younus Changezi Lt. Col. (R) Younus Changezi ( ur, ﻳﻮﻧﺲ ﭼﻨﮝﻴﺰﻯ) (born 4 November 1944) is a politician from Baluchistan, Pakistan and a former football player. He belongs to the minority Hazara community. He served in the army for a long pe ...

Bibi Ayesha Bibi Ayesha ( prs, بی‌بی عایشه) is a military leader and the only known female warlord in Afghanistan. She controls a force of 50-150 men in the Nahrin district of Baghlan Province. Also known as ''Kaftar'' ( prs, قوماندان ک� ...

Ali Reza Tavassoli Ali Reza Tavassoli ( fa, علیرضا توسلی; 1962 – 28 February 2015) was the Afghan commander of the Fatemiyoun Brigade until he was killed in action fighting Jabhat al-Nusra in Daraa, Syria. Biography Ali Reza Tavassoli was born in 196 ...

Religious figures

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

Mohaqiq Kabuli , location = Kabul, Afghanistan , Title = Grand Ayatollah , Period = , Predecessor = , Successor = , ordination = , post = Grand Ayatollah , birth_date = , birth_place = Turkman ...

Ismail Balkhi Sayed Isma'el Balkhi ( prs, سید اسماعیل بلخی) was one of the most prominent Hazara reformist leaders in 20th-century Afghanistan. An innovative poet and well-known mystic, charismatic political leader and untiring reformist; B ...

Ali Mohaqiq Nasab Ali Mohaqiq Nasab (Persian: آیت الله علی محقق نسب) is a liberal Afghan Shi'ite Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭāl ...

Writers, poets and people in the media

* Faiz Muhammad Kateb * Amir Khosrow Dehlavi * Hassan Poladi *

* Basir Ahmad Dowlatabadi * Haji Kazim Yazdani * Kamran Mir Hazar * Basir Ahang *

Mohsin Changezi Mohsin Changazi, ( haz, محسن چنگیزی ) (born 3 September 1979), is a Pakistani Urdu poet of Hazara descent. He has participated several poetry gatherings in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. He has also received awards including the Tam ...

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

Ali Baba Taj Ali Baba Taj ( ur, علی بابا تاج) is an Urdu, Persian and Hazaragi poet, based in Quetta, Pakistan. He is known for his use of nazm style in Urdu poetry. He received his Master's Degree in Persian language and literature from the Univer ...

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

* Qasim Akhgar * Sayed Abutalib Mozaffari *

Jalila Haider Jalila Haider (Urdu/ fa, جلیله حیدر) is a Pakistani human rights attorney and political activist from Quetta in Balochistan, Pakistan. She is known to be the first woman lawyer from Quetta's Hazara minority, and an advocate for the rig ...

Actors

* Atossa Leoni * Shaima Rezayee * Hussain Sadiqi *

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

* Ali Ahmadi * Nikbakht Noruz * Shamila Shirzad

Singers

Sarwar Sarkhosh Sarwar Sarkhosh ( Dari-Persian: ) was a singer and one of the Hazara nationalists in Afghanistan. He is the elder brother of Dawood Sarkhosh, a famous singer of the Hazara people. Early life Sarwar Sarkhosh was born in 1942, in Urozgan Pr ...

* Dawood Sarkhosh * Zahir Howaida * Safdar Tawakoli * Sayed Anwar Azad *

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

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

Mr. Capone-E Fahd Azam (born April 27, 1976), known professionally as Mr. Capone-E, is a Pakistani-American rapper. He is the owner of Hi-Power Entertainment. Early life Mr Capone E was born in Pakistan to an ethnic Hazara family. He and his family move ...

Photographers

* Barat Ali Batoor

Journalists

* Malek Shafi'i

Directors

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

Sports

Football

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Zohib Islam Amiri Zohib Islam Amiri ( prs, ذهیب اسلام امیری; born 15 February 1990) is a professional footballer from Afghanistan who plays as a centre-back for A.S. Blainville and the Afghanistan national team. Early life Amiri was born on 15 Feb ...

Moshtagh Yaghoubi Moshtagh Hossain Yaghoubi (; in Dari: مشتاق حسین یعقوبی) aka Mosa (born 8 November 1994) is an Afghan-born Finnish footballer who plays for SJK. Early life Moshtagh Yaghoubi was born on 8 November 1994 to an ethnic Hazara famil ...

* Mustafa Amini * Roholla Iqbalzadeh * Rahmat Akbari * Zahra Mahmoodi *

Khodadad Azizi Khodadad Azizi ( fa, خداداد عزیزی; born 22 June 1971) is an Iranian football coach and former player who played as a striker. Club career After playing for a few clubs in Iran and following his performance in Asia, he moved to Germa ...

Mohsin Ali Mohsin Ali ( ur, ) is a professional track and field athlete from Pakistan who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. He won the 110 m hurdles title at the 2010 South Asian Games in Dhaka. He represented Pakistan at the 2011 Asian Athletics ...

Masih Saighani Masih Saighani (Dari: مسیح سیغانی; born 22 September 1986) is an Afghan footballer who plays as a defender for German club Türk Gücü Friedberg in Hessenliga. Club career Aizawl On 26 August 2017, Saighani signed for the I-Lea ...

* Omran Haydary * Zelfy Nazary * Massih Wassey * Moshtaq Ahmadi

Basketballer

* Fardaws Aimaq

Boxing

* Haider Ali * Abrar Hussain *

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

Karate

* Meena Hazara *

Nargis Hameedullah Nargis Hameedullah ( ur, ; born 15 December 1998; Quetta, Pakistan) is a Pakistani karateka who won bronze medal in the 2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 1 ...

Taekwondo

Rohullah Nikpai Rohullah Nikpai ( prs, روح‌الله نیکپا; born June 15, 1987) is an ethnic Hazara taekwondo practitioner and two-time Olympic bronze medalist from Afghanistan. Career Nikpai started his training in Kabul, Afghanistan, at the age of ...

Judo

* Friba Razayee

Wrestling

Wakil Hussain Allahdad Wakil Hussain Allahdad (1986-2018) was an ethnic Hazara wrestler, entrepreneur and community first responder in Afghanistan. History Wakil Hussain Allahdad was born in 1986 in Afghanistan in a family who were members of the Hazara ethnic gro ...

Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri Muhammad Ebrahim Khedri ( prs, محمد ابراهیم خدری) known as Pahlawan Ebrahim (); (11 April 1938 – 22 May 2022) was an ethnic Hazara wrestler from Afghanistan, who competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics in th ...

Wushu

* Hussain Sadiqi

Martial arts

* Ali Ahmadi

Tennis

Muzammil Murtaza Muzammil Murtaza (born 12 November 1999), is Pakistani tennis player. He won the silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games as a member of the Pakistani team in a men's team event. Murtaza has a career high ATP singles ranking of 1,365 ...

Business

Saad Mohseni Saad Mohseni (Persian: سعد محسنی) is an Afghan Australian businessman and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of MOBY Group, launched in Afghanistan in 2002 and now active across South and Central Asia and the ...

* Fatema Akbari *

Others

* Shukria Tabassum

References

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