List of Uyghurs

Contents 1 Famous Kings and Historical Figures 2 First East Turkestan Republic Politicians 3 Second East Turkestan Republic Politicians 4 Writers, Poets 5 Political Activists 6 Musicians 7 Dancers 8 Communist Politicians 9 Detainees in Guantanamo 10 Sportspeople

Famous Kings and Historical Figures

• Tomur Helpe
• Bayanchur Khan
• Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan
• Baurchuk Art Tekin
• Rabban Bar Sauma
• Mar Yaballaha III
• Dost Muhammad
• Kebek Sultan
• Makhmud Khan
• Yunus Khan also known as Ali, Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Akhmad Alach also known as Ahmed, Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Mansur Khan Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Sultan Said Khan
• Abdurashid Khan

• Iparhan (Xiang Fei)
• Jakhangir Khoja

• Maqsud Shah
• Yulbars Khan

• Hala Bashi- a Uyghur General who served the Ming dynasty during the Miao Rebellions (Ming Dynasty)
• Sayyid Husain (Sayyid Hussein)- Uyghur homosexual lover of the Zhengde Emperor.

First East Turkestan Republic Politicians

• Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
• Hoja-Niyaz
• Isa Alptekin
• Muhammad Amin Bughra
• Abdullah Bughra
• Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra
• Timur Beg
• Isma'il Beg

Second East Turkestan Republic Politicians

• Elihan Tore
• Ehmetjan Qasim
• Gheni Batur

Writers, Poets

• Abdurehim Otkur
• Zordun Sabir
• Turghun Almas
• Durnyam Mashurova
• Lutpulla Mutellip
• Yusuf Balasaghuni (Yusuf Has Hajip)
• Kahar Barat (born 1950), historian
• Jian Bozan
• Tohti Tunyaz
• Ziya Samedi
• Musa Sayrami (1836-1917), historian
• Ähmät Yüknäki
• Abduxaliq Uyghur
• Mahmud al-Kashgari
• Ali-Shir Nava'i
• Nurmuhemmet Yasin
• Muhammad Rohi Uighur al-Kashgari

See large list of Uyghur poets here

• Yusup Ilyas

Political Activists

• Örkesh Dölet (known as Wuerkaixi, his first name in pinyin)
• Huseyincan Celil
• Erkin Alptekin
• Rebiya Kadeer
• Ismail Semed
• Anwar Yusuf Turani

Musicians

• Abdulla abdurehim
• Ablajan
• Amannisa Khan
• Askar Memet
• Aytulan
• Bahaguli
• Dilber
• Dilnaz Akhmadieva
• Erkin Abdulla
• Hoshur Qari
• Kerman
• Koresh Kusen
• Murat Nasyrov
• Omerjan Alim

Dancers

• Dilnar Abdulla
• Mayire Ametjan
• Rena Abdukrim
• Umut

Communist Politicians

• Ismail Tiliwaldi
• Saifuddin Azizi
• Tömür Dawamet
• Ismail Amet
• Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit
• Shokrat Zakir
• Nur Bekri
• Jerla Isamudin

Detainees in Guantanamo

• Dawut Abdurehim
• Abu Bakker Qassim
• A'Del Abdu Al-Hakim
• Akhdar Qasem Basit
• Nag Mohammed

Sportspeople

• Mehmet Tursun Chong (Maimaitituersun Qiong) Chinese Olympic boxer