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*[[Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan]], [[Pashtun]] Indian political and spiritual leader. |
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*[[Shahrukh khan]],King of bollywood |
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* Sneha Chhabra Khan,an actress and wife of Mohammed Iqbal Khan |
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*[[Nasir Khan]], an Indian actor |
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*[[Rakshanda Khan]], an Indian model, hostess and actress |
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*[[Arbaaz Khan]], an Indian actor (brother of Salman Khan) |
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*[[Malaika Arora Khan]], an Indian actress and model, wife of Arbaaz Khan |
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Revision as of 03:32, 16 December 2007
Khan (Nasta`liq: خان, Devanāgarī: ख़ान or ख़ाँ) is a widespread family name. It can have one of several connotations, all related to some extent to the title of Khan. The term is also used as a surname, or almost a suffix by people of Pathan (Pashtun) ethnicity living in Afghanistan, Western Pakistan, and India.[1]
It is used as a title by Muslim Rajput tribes, as cited by ancient sources such as the Baburnama [2] and cited below in the famous names section. It is also a family name for people that were bestowed the title of Khan Sahib or Khan Bahadur by the British Raj in modern-day Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
It is also a common surname in South Asian Muslim families, regardless of ancestral relationship to Pathans or to those bestowed with honorary titles.
Khan is up near the top of the list of common Pakistani surnames, along with honorary titles of North India such as Patel or Singh.[3]
As of the 1990 U.S. Census, Khan was ranked number 1728 among the most common surnames.[4] The surname Kahn, with which it is sometimes confused, ranked number 2591.
Politicians and military leaders
- Akram Khan (politician), a politician in British India, afterwards Pakistan
- Amir Khan (Pindari), a Pindari leader who fought the British in India in the early 19th century, later the Nawab of Tonk
- Abdul Hamid Khan, a Pakistani politician and chairman of the Balawaristan National Front
- Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, a diplomat who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977
- Arif Khan, a Taliban warlord in Afghanistan
- Ayub Khan, a Pakistani general who served as Field Marshal and politician
- Franklin Khan, a Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Fuad Khan, a Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricketer and politician
- Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Indian National Army, one of the three of the famed Red Fort Trio.
- Ismail Khan), an Afghan political leader
- Liaquat Ali Khan, a Pakistani politician
- Mohammed Daoud Khan, an Afghan politician
- Prince Aly Khan, a United Nations diplomat and vice president of the United Nations General Assembly representing Pakistan, as well as a well-known international playboy
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, a Pakistani general and diplomat
- Syed Ahmed Khan Islamic Indian scholar
- Noble Khan, a Trinidad and Tobago religious leader and senator
- Wajid Khan, a Canadian businessman and politician.
- Yahya Khan, a Pakistani politician
- Yusuf Khan (Dilip Kumar), an Indian politician and Bollywood actor
- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Pashtun Indian political and spiritual leader.
Indians in the movie & television industry
- Sneha Chhabra Khan,an actress and wife of Mohammed Iqbal Khan
- Nasir Khan, an Indian actor
- Rakshanda Khan, an Indian model, hostess and actress
- Anwar Khan, an Indian dialogue writer
- Negar Khan, an Indian actress
- Kader Khan, an Indian actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer, producer and director
- Sahil Khan, an Indian actor
- Ahmed Khan, an Indian actor
- Cezanne Khan, an Indian actor
- Aly Khan (actor), an Indian actor
- Sohail Khan, a Bollywood writer, producer, actor and director (brother of Salman Khan)
- Salim Khan, a Bollywood script writer (father of Salman Khan
- Gauri Khan, a producer and wife of Shahrukh Khan
- Aryan Khan, a Bollywood actor and son of Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan
- Suhana Khan, daughter of Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan
- Jiah Khan, an Indian Bollywood actress
- Gulrez Khan, an Indian actress
- Sanjay Khan, a Bollywood actor
- Aamir Khan, a prominent Bollywood actor (one of the superstars in famous Khan Trio)
- Ayub Khan(actor), an Indian actor
- Eijaz Khan, an Indian actor
- Fardeen Khan, an Indian actor (son of Feroz Khan)
- Farah Khan, Indian film director & Choreographer
- Feroz Khan, Indian actor and director (father of Fardeen Khan)
- Saif Ali Khan, an Indian actor
- Salman Khan, a prominent Bollywood actor (one of the superstars in famous Khan Trio)
- Shahrukh Khan, a prominent Bollywood actor (one of the superstars in famous Khan Trio)
- Soha Ali Khan, an Indian actor
- Zayed Khan, an Indian actor (son of Sanjay Khan and cousin of Fardeen Khan)
- Mohammad Iqbal Khan, an Indian actor
- Nigar Z Khan,an Indian actor, model
- Aziz Khan, an Indian Producer
- Sanjay Khan,an Indian actor
- Afsar Khan,an Indian production head
- Asif Khan, an Indian dialogue writer
- Amjad Khan, an Indian Bollywood actor
- Yusuf Khan (Dilip Kumar),an Indian film actor and member of the Rajya Sabha.
- Aleeza Khan, an Indian actor
- Rais Khan, an Indian associate assistant
- Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor
- Pervaz Khan, an Indian sound designer
- Ahmed Khan (Choreographer), an Indian Choreographer
- Altaf Khan, an Indian Cherographer
- Ustad Sultan Khan, an Indian singer
- Gul Khan, an Indian producer
- Faisal Raza Khan, an Indian actor
- Arbaaz Khan, an Indian actor (brother of Salman Khan)
- Malaika Arora Khan, an Indian actress and model, wife of Arbaaz Khan
- Sarah Khan, an Indian actress
- Gauhar Khan, an Indian actress & model
Sports figures
- Imran Khan, a former Pakistani cricketer
- Amir Khan (boxer), a British born Janjua Rajput
- Haroon Khan boxer, a British born Janjua Rajput
- Zaheer Khan, an Indian cricketer
- Irfan Khan (Irfan Pathan), an Indian cricketer[5]
- Naushad Khan, an Indian cricket coach
- Anwar Khan, a former Pakistani cricketer
- Majid Jahangir Khan, a former cricket player
- Athar Ali Khan, a Bangladeshi former cricketer, selector and cricket commentator
- Akram Khan (cricketer), a Bangladeshi former cricketer
- Aslam Sher Khan, an Indian former hockey player
- Jahangir Khan (cricketer)
- Jahangir Khan, a former Pakistani squash player
- Amjad Khan (cricketer), England cricket player
- Feroze Khan, field hockey player
- Younus Khan, a Pakistani crickter
- Moin Khan, a former Pakistani crickter
- Shahid Khan Afridi, a Pakistani crickter
- Jansher Khan, a former Pakistani squash player
- Mohammad Nafees Iqbal Khan, a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Tamim Iqbal Khan, a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Tareq Aziz Khan, a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Murad Khan, a Bangladeshi cricketer
Entertainers
- Akram Khan (dancer), a British Bangladeshi dancer
- Chaka Khan, an American R&B singer
- Natasha Khan, a British singer/song writer and bassist (niece of one of the squash players above) [1]
- Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist
- Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist
- Asad Amanat Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist, son of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
- Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist, son of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
- Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist
- Roy Khan, a Norwegian vocalist
- Ustad Amir Khan, an Indian classical vocalist
In fiction
- Khan Noonien Singh, a prominent Star Trek villain in an original series episode and in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Jaghatai Khan, the Primarch of the White Scars Space Marines chapter in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Khan, one of the villains in the Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars computer game
- Fahd Khan, fiction and his brother Faaiz Khan.
Others
- Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bengali-American structural engineer and designer of Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
- Sussanne Roshan (Suzanne Roshan-Khan), an Indian interior designer, wife of Hrithik Roshan, and sister of Zayed Khan
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani engineer, considered the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
- The (unknown) 'M Khan', the subject of many gag routines on The Mary Whitehouse Experience
- Mohammad Sidique Khan, a London train suicide bomber
- Mohisin Khan, a British Royal Air Force airman who refused to take part in the invasion of Iraq
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Vilayat Inayat Khan
- Zia Inayat Khan
- Noor Inayat Khan, a British spy in occupied France
- Natasha N.Khan, Executive Director of Sapna magazine
- Hassan Ali Khan, a Canadian born Pakistani/Indian CEO of Khan Empire and subgroups as H-Company, HAK Corp. and Street Empirez
References
- ^ Dawat Newspaper: Study of the Pathan Communities in four States of India
- ^ The Baburnama, 2002, W.M Thackston p273, Khan is a title used by the Janjua king Raja Sanghar Khan Janjua
- ^ Bolly What?: I Khan't Keep Track! - a brief ramble on bollywood's many khans
- ^ http://names.mongabay.com/surnames_K.htm
- ^ Rediff: The name is Irfan Khan, not Irfan Pathan
See also
emad ali khan also pathan bassam ali khan
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