List of Uzbeks

This is a list of notable people of Uzbek ethnicity, regardless of their countries.

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Uyg‘un
, poet, writer, and politician
Sylvia Nasar, American writer, economist and journalist
Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, author, composer, playwright, poet, and political activist
Gʻafur Gʻulom, poet, writer, and literary translator
Jahangir Mamatov, journalist, author, politician, political analyst, and linguist
Ismat Xushev, journalist, author, and political analyst
Abdulla Oripov, poet, politician, literary translator, and former head of the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan
Komil Yashin, playwright, Hero of Socialist Labour
Erkin Vohidov, poet, playwright, and literary translator
Zulfiya, writer
Abdulla Qahhor, novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator
Odil Yakubov
, writer
Muhammadsharif Soʻfizoda, poet

Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, or Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire
Islam Karimov, first President of Uzbekistan
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, current President of Uzbekistan
Muhammad Yunus Nawandish, was the Mayor of Kabul from after his appointment by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in January 2010
Abdul Rashid Dostum, former Afghan warlord of Uzbek ethnicity
Abdulla Aripov, current Prime Minister
Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, Uzbek politician from Afghanistan
Abdusamat Taymetov, first Uzbek pilot
Alla Anarov, supreme soviet deputy and double Hero of Socialist Labour

Azad Beg, Abdul Waris Karimi, was an Uzbek doctor serving in the Pakistan Army
Muhammad Khudayar Khan, ruler of Kokand
Nasruddin Khan, last ruler of Khanate of Kokand, who was settled in Peshawar after Khanate was abolished
Khalifatabad
Gul Mohammad Pahalwan, former Afghan warlord from an Uzbek ethnicity
Uzbek politician in Afghanistan

Suraya Dalil, Afghan physician and politician
Husn Banu Ghazanfar, is a politician in Afghanistan, formerly served as the Minister of Women's Affairs
Delbar Nazari, is an Afghanistan politician who serves as Minister for Women's Affairs
Afghan Civil war
Afghan National Army
Junbish-i Milli
Mohammad Hashim Zare, is the current governor of Samangan, Afghanistan
Muhammad Shaybani, Uzbek emperor and warrior
Rasul Pahlawan, Uzbek military leader in Afghanistan and Brother of Abdul Malik Pahlawan