Kurdish nationalists

1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)

Kurdish politician

Founder and Supreme Guide of the Republic of Mahabad (1893–1947)

Kurdish writer

King of Kurdistan (1878–1956)

Sheikh known for the Sheikh Said Rebellion (1865–1925)

Iraqi politician (1896-1969)

Kurdish soldier and politician (1892-1976)

Kurdish poet (1920-1991)

Ottoman politician (1826-1883)

Iraqi Kurdish poet and political activist (1918–1948)

Iraqi Kurdish politician (1944–2017)

Ottoman diplomat (1865-1951)

Turkish statesperson (1958–2021)

Assassinated Iranian/Kurdish politician (1938-1992)

Iraqi politician (1944-1987)

Kurdish Islamic intellectuals and politicians in Iraqi Kurdistan

writer, novelist and translator (1914-2000)

Turkish statesperson (1895–1978)

President of the Republic of Ararat

Iranian Kurdish militant leader

Iraqi politician

Kurdish guerilla (1957–1985)

thumb|200px|From left to right: Halis Öztürk|Sipkanlı Halis Bey, Ihsan Nuri Pasha, Hasenanlı Ferzende Bey Ferzende or Ferzende Beg (Kurdish: Ferzende Begê Hesenî, Turkish: Hasenanlı Ferzende Bey born 1889 in Hınıs, Erzurum - 1939; Qasr-e Qajar Prison, Tehran, Iran), was a Kurdish Heseni tribesman, soldier and politician.

Turkish statesperson (1899–1977)

Iraqi Kurdish poet (1922–2006)

kurdish Islamist rebel and poet

Iranian architect

Iraqi politician

Kurdish writer and politician (1898–1960)

Kurdish politician, writer and poet (1919-1988)

Kurdish Iraqi politician

kurdish Islamic scholar and politician

Iraqi politician

iraqi-Kurdish insurgent leader

Turkish politician of Kurdish ancestry (born 1961)

Turkish statesperson (1891–1968)

Turkish statesperson (1957–2015)

Commander of special first brigade forces Kurdistan Regional Government