Akhtar
Akhtar ( Persian اختر) is a Persian female and (predominantly) male given name and family name with the meaning " star ", which occurs particularly in India and Pakistan. A spelling variant of the name is Akhter .
Name bearer
First name
- Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914–1999), Pakistani development activist and social scientist
- Akhtar Mansur († 2016), Afghan Taliban leader
Intermediate name
- Nazia Akhter Juthi (* around 1965), Bangladeshi badminton player
family name
- Adeel Akhtar (born 1980), British actor
- Asifa Akhtar (* 1971), Pakistani biochemist
- Ayad Akhtar (* 1970), American actor, writer and playwright of Pakistani origin
- Doli Akhtar (* 1986), Bangladeshi swimmer
- Farhan Akhtar (* 1974), Indian film director
- Gulraiz Akhtar (born 1943), Pakistani hockey player
- Javed Akhtar (* 1945), Indian screenwriter, poet and songwriter
- Khaled Akhtar (* 1941), Pakistani sailor
- Muhammad Akhtar (* 1930), Pakistani wrestler
- Naeem Akhtar (born 1961), Pakistani hockey player
- Najma Akhtar (* 1962), British jazz singer
- Salman Akhtar (* 1946), Indian-American psychoanalyst and university professor
- Sayeba Akhter (* 1953), Bangladeshi doctor, holder of the Ekushey Padak
- Shabana Akhtar (* 1972), Pakistani long jumper
- Shoaib Akhtar (* 1975), Pakistani cricketer
- Taslima Akhter (* 1974), Bangladeshi photographer