Pashtun people

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

Pashtuns are an Iranian ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans even into the 1970s, although the constitution of 1923 began the use of 'Afghans' as a demonym for all citizens of the Kingdom, regardless of their ethnic group, to create an Afghan national identity.

President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006

Afghan novelist

founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)

Supreme Leader of Afghanistan since 2021

King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)

Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban (1960–2013)

President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969

former Pakistani president (1917–1980)

King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)

co-founder and political leader of the Afghan Taliban

Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901

Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India

Founder of the Suri Empire in India (1472-1545)

Prime Minister of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

first Emir of Afghanistan (1823-1863)

King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933

Afghan politician, mujahid and drug trafficker (born 1949)

Emir of Afghanistan (1901-1919)

Emir of Afghanistan (1839-1842) and ruler of the Durrani Empire (1803-1809)

Afghan astronaut

politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992)

2nd leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

King of Afghanistan in 1929

Emir of Afghanistan (1863-1879)

Hotak ruler of Iran from 1722 to 1725

Afghan poet

emir of Afghanistan (1842-1845)

Afghan leader of the Haqqani network (1939–2018)

Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)

Emir of Afghanistan during 1879 (1849–1923)

Afghan ruler and founder of the Hotak dynasty (1673–1715)

Emir of Afghanistan1793 to 1801

Hotak emir of Afghanistan (died 1730)

Emir of Afghanistan (1879-1880)

1801 to 1803 and 1809 to 1818

Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Deputy Information Minister of Afghanistan

Emir of Afghanistan (1919)

Afghan singer

Dadullah (1966 – May 11, 2007) was the Taliban's most senior militant commander in Afghanistan until his death in 2007. He was also known as Maulavi or Mullah Dadullah Akhund (). He also earned the nickname of Lang, meaning "lame" (as in Timur Lang), because of a leg he lost during fighting.

Queen consort of Afghanistan (1918-2002)

Pakistani Taliban Militant leader (1974-2009)

Emir in Pakistan

Emir of Afghanistan from 1866 to 1867

Minister of Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Pashtun Sufi Saint

Afghan woman

acting prime minister of Afghanistan since 2023

Afghan mujahideen commander and politician (born 1946)

Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1955-2001)

Emir of Afghanistan

Pakistani Taliban leader

Emir of Afghanistan Ayub Shah in 1819 to 1823

Indian actor

Afghan Mujahideen commander (1919–2006)

Emir of Afghanistan from 1867 to 1868

Emir of Afghanistan

Head of the House of Barazkai since 2007 (born 1934～2024)