Pashtun writers

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".

Indian-Canadian film actor, script and dialogue writer

Afghan politician

Afghan writer and historian (1910–1984)

Pakistani squash player

poet

Afghan journalist

Afghan archaeologist (1939–2024)

Human rights activist

actor, filmmaker (1952–2011)

Afghan politician

Pakistani historian (1914-1988)