People from Herat

right|thumb|Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, dated 1553. The image blends Persian literature|Persian poetry and [[Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature.]]

Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)

Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)

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

Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)

Timurid ruler

11th-century Sufi scholar and saint

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

Timurid monarch

Timurid Empire ruler (1424-1469)

Persian Timurid islamic scholar, diplomat and historian

queen and chief consort of Shah Rukh, the emperor of the Timurid Empire

Afghan rapper and activist

Afghan businessman

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, commonly known as Khvandamir (, also spelled Khwandamir; 1475/76–1535/36) was a Persian historian who was active in the Timurid, Safavid and Mughal empires. He is principally known for his Persian universal history, the Habib al-siyar (The beloved of careers), which was regarded by both the Safavids and Mughals as their first official court account.

Member of royal family

Ghiyath ud-din Baysunghur ( غیاث‌الدین بایسنقر) commonly known as Baysonqor or Baysongor, Baysonghor or (incorrectly) as Baysunqar, also called Sultan Bāysonḡor Bahādor Khan (1397–1433) was a prince of the Timurid dynasty and a grandson of Timur. He was known as a patron of arts and architecture, the leading patron of the Persian miniature in Iran, commissioning the Baysunghur Shahnameh and other works, as well as being a prominent calligrapher.

Timurid ruler in Khurasan

Afghan politician

monarch

Arab philologist

Astronomer, Engineer

Afghan Islamic philosopher and scholar (died 1605/06)

Afghanistan robotics expert

Timurid monarch

Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire

Timurid prince and Governor of Herat from 1433 to 1448

Teacher and founder of the Herat Online School

politician in Afghanistan

Arab lexicographer, philologist and grammarian

Iranian artist and calligrapher (c. 1476–1544)

Safavid Crown Prince (1568–1586)

Canadian politician

Afghan politician, physician, and human rights activist

17th century Safavid military officer and provincial governor

Afghan singer

Afghan musician

writer and poet

shāfi'ī judge and jurist

Afghan singer

Ex-Governor of Herat Province, Afghanistan

18th-century Islamic scholar

Afghan painter (born 1965)

Iranian poet

Afghan mullah (1982–2022)