Khan (surname)
For the Mongol title, see Khan (title).
Not to be confused with Kahn.
Khan (Urdu, Pashto: خان) is a surname and title of Central Asian or Mongolian origin.
Use as a title
The surname Khan originates with the Mongolian honorific khan. Originally used in the Mongol Empire, and later more widely by Islamic chieftains in South Asia.[1][2]
Other usage
Khan is a widespread Islamic surname in most countries of Central and South Asia. Khan is the surname of over 80,000 Islamic Britons, mostly British Asian, making it the 80th most common surname in the United Kingdom, and one of only a handful in the 100 most common surnames which are of neither British nor Irish origin.[3]
List of people called Khan
Malik Umar Hayat Khan as an Honorary Lieutenant of the 18th King George's Own Lancers, early 20th century watercolour by Major A.C. Lovett (1862–1919)
- Asaf Khan, Wazir (Prime Minister) of Emperor Jahangir and Shahjahan
- Akram Khan (born 1970), Indian politician
- Alivardi Khan (1671–1756), Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
- Amir Khan (Pindari) (1768–1834), Pindari leader in the early 19th century, later the Nawab of Tonk
- Asif Nawaz Khan Janjua (1937–1993), former Chief Of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Ataur Rahman Khan (1907–1991), a Bengali activist politician, later Chief Minister of East Pakistan
- Ayub Khan (field marshal), ex army general/dictator and president of Pakistan
- Bostan Khan Tarin, 19th century Pashtun clan warrior
- Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan (1911–1967), Pakistani Federal Minister for Home Affairs 1964–1966
- Chaudhry Aurangzeb Khan a famous Minhas Rajput during the British era
- General Fateh Naseeb Khan, Chief General of Alwar Armed Forces
- Franklin Khan, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Fuad Khan (born 1955), Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar, one of Pakistan's first Federal Ministers
- Iftikhar Khan (1909–1949), had been nominated to become the first local Commander in Chief of Pakistan
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Badshah Khan (1890–1988) Pashtun leader and activist
- Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin OBE (1877–1939), senior political figure of the North-West Frontier Province, British India
- Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso (1909–1956), Baloch leader, MLA West Pakistan Assembly from 1953 to 1956
- Khudadad Khan (1888–1971), Minhas, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Lieutenant General Ghulam Jilani Khan (1925–1999), Governor of Punjab 1980 to 1985
- M.J. Khan, member of the Houston City Council
- Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970), Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan (1875–1944), an elected member of the Council of State of India
- Muhammad Hamidullah Khan (1938–2011), Bangladeshi military leader, politician and author
- Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932–1993), former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Muhammed Akbar Khan, the first Muslim to become a General in British Indian Army
- Murshid Quli Khan (c. 1665–1727), founder of the Nawab rulers in Bengal
- Nawab Qaim Khan, a 14th-century Ameer of the Delhi Sultanate and chief of Qaimkhani clan
- Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan (1895–1951), former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Nisar Ali Khan (born 1954), current opposition leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Prince Aly Khan (1911–1960), Pakistani United Nations diplomat
- Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan (1933–2003), diplomat, UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977
- Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan (1913–1978), Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
- Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan, President of AJK
- Raja Muhammed Sarfraz Khan (1905–1968), a member of the Pakistan Movement
- Raja Sakhi Daler Khan Mangral, Kashmiri freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
- Raja Saroop Khan, former Governor of Punjab
- Rana Khudadad Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League (Punjab)
- Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan (1922–2005), Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Speaker of the Punjab Assembly from 2008
- Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan (c. 1949), Pakistani Federal Minister (1990–1993, 1997–1999, 2002–2004)
- Rana Phool Muhammad Khan, MPA from Bhai Pheru (Phool Nagar)
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (born 1920), a Pakistani general and diplomat
- Sardar Farooq Khan Leghari (1940–2010), first Baloch president of Pakistan
- Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, played very active role and fought against Dogra army
- Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (1915–2003), founder of Azad Jammu Kashmir State
- Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan (1915–1998), senior political figure and lieutenant of the Quaid-i-Azam in the Punjab
- Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan (born 1934), former Prime Minister and President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- Sardar Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan (1892–1942), KCSI, a Premier of the Punjab
- Shah Nawaz Khan (general) (1914–1983), Major General of the Indian National Army, one of the three of the famed Red Fort Trio
- Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua (1914–1983), Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
- Shah Nawaz Khan, freedom fighter in India of the Janjua Rajput
- Shaista Khan, Mughal governor of Bengal from 1664 to 1688
- Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893–1985), the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan
- Sultan Suleiman Khan (Suleiman the Magnificent) (1494–1566) Ottoman Turkish Sultan
- Raja Tikka Khan (1915–2002), former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Muhammad Yusaf Khan (born 1948), former Vice Chief Of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
Actors and entertainers
Shahrukh Khan
- Aamir Khan, Indian actor (of the Khan trio)
- Adnan Sami Khan (Playback singer, Music Composer)
- Adil Khan (Norwegian Actor of Pashtun and Punjabi descent)
- Akram Khan (dancer), a British dancer of Bangladeshi descent
- Ali Akbar Khan, a Bangladesh Bengali sarod player
- Arbaaz Khan, Indian actor/director/producer (brother of Salman Khan)
- Asad Amanat Ali Khan, a Pakistani vocalist
- Bat for Lashes, real name Natasha Khan, British singer-songwriter and musician of Pakistani descent
- Chaka Khan, an American R&B singer
- Farah Khan, Indian film director, choreographer and fashion designer
- Fardeen Khan, Indian actor (son of Feroz Khan)
- Feroz Khan, Indian actor and director (father of Fardeen Khan)
- Helen Richardson Khan, Indian actress (wife of Salim Khan)
- Imran Khan, Indian actor
- Imran Khan (singer), Dutch singer of Pakistani Punjabi descent
- Irrfan Khan, Indian actor
- Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian actress (wife of Saif Ali Khan)
- King Khan, real name Arish Khan, Indian/French-Canadian musician
- Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress (wife of Arbaaz Khan)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani vocalist
- Praga Khan, real name Maurice Engelen, Belgian techno musician
- Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani vocalist
- Roy Sætre Khantatat, Norwegian singer, better known as Roy Khan
- Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
- Salim Khan, Indian script writer (father of Salman Khan)
- Salman Khan, Indian actor (of the Khan trio)
- Sanjay Khan, Indian actor/director/producer (father of Zayed Khan)
- Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani vocalist
- Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor, King of Bollywood (of the Khan trio)
- Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor
- Sohail Khan, Indian actor/director/producer (brother of Salman Khan)
- Sudhir, real name Shah Zaman Khan Afridi, Pakistani actor
- Yusuf Khan (stage name Dilip Kumar), Indian actor of Pashtun origin
- Zayed Khan, Indian actor (brother-in-law of Hrithik Roshan)
In sports
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Imran Khan, a former Pakistani cricketer, philanthropist and Chairmain of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Amir Khan, a British (Pakistani Origin) who became the WBA Light-welterweight World Champion.
- Akram Khan (cricketer), former captain of the Bangladeshi Cricket Team
- Amir Khan (British boxer), a British boxer
- Athar Ali Khan, a Bangladeshi former cricketer, selector and cricket commentator
- Carla Khan, a Pakistani squash player
- Imran Khan, a former Pakistani cricketer turned political reformer
- Jahangir Khan, former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan
- Jansher Khan, former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan
- Mir Sultan Khan, a former British chess champion
- Murad Khan, a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Nafees Iqbal (Mohammad Nafees Iqbal Khan), a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Nasim Khan (cricketer born 1976), a Pakistani cricketer
- Shahid Khan Afridi, a Pakistani cricketer
- Simon Khan, an English golfer
- Tamim Iqbal (Tamim Iqbal Khan), a Bangladeshi cricketer
- Younus Khan, a Pakistani crickter
- Vitaly Khan, a Kazakhstani freestyle swimmer
- Zaheer Khan, an Indian Marathi-speaking cricketer
In science and technology
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, an engineer from Pakistan, considered the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
- Fazlur Khan, Bengali-American structural engineer and designer of Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
- Geoffrey Khan, (b. 1958), professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Cambridge.
- M S Khan (1910–1978), a Bengali academic from Bangladesh, "father of the Library and Information Science discipline in Bangladesh"
- Salman "Sal" Khan, a Bangladeshi-American educator, famous for Khan Academy
Others
- Abul Kashem Khan (1905–1991), jurist, political leader, and industrialist from Bangladesh
- Ahmed Raza Khan (1856–1921), an Sunni Islamic Scholar of south Asia
- Alan Khan (born 1971), South African radio presenter
- Amjad Khan (1940–1992), Indian film producer
- Gauri Khan (born 1971), wife of Indian star Shahrukh Khan
- Hazrat Inayat Khan, (1882–1927), the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International
- Irene Khan (born 1956), Secretary General of Amnesty International
- Kiran Rao Khan (born 1973), wife of Indian star Aamir Khan
- The (unknown) 'M Khan', the subject of many gag routines on The Mary Whitehouse Experience because of long-standing graffiti visible from a major London road[4]
- Mohammad Sidique Khan (1974–2005), a London train suicide bomber
- Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan (1833–1901) British-Indian administrator and aristocrat
- Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944), a British spy in occupied France
- Prof. Omer Salim Khan (Omer Tarin), Pakistani poet, writer, scholar and mystic.
- Peter Khan (born Afghan-Khan), an Australian member of the Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith
- Shahid Khan (born 1950), Pakistan-born American businessman; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C.
- Sultaan Khan, Social activist and entrepreneur
- Suzanne Khan Roshan, an Indian interior designer, wife of Hrithik Roshan, daughter of Sanjay Khan, and sister of Zayed Khan
- Syed Ahmed Khan (1817–1898), an Islamic scholar
- Tariq Ali Khan (born 1943), well-known British-Pakistani writer, intellectual and Socialist
- Tasmin Lucia Khan (born 1980), a British Bangladeshi journalist and news presenter for BBC News
- Vilayat Inayat Khan, (1916–2004), former head of the Sufi Order International
- Zia Inayat Khan, the Pir of the Sufi Order International
Fictional characters
- Haman Khan, a prominent Gundam villain in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and the principal antagonist in its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ; and her father Maharaja Khan
- Jaghatai Khan, the Primarch of the White Scars Space Marines chapter in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Kamal Khan, the main villain in the James Bond film Octopussy
- Kamal Khan, Mohammed Khan, two Pashtun characters in Rudyard Kipling's famous poem, The Ballad of East and West
- Khan (comics), Marvel Comics character
- Khan, one of the villains in the Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars computer game
- Khan, a Chinese-American detective from the Khan! 1975 US television series
- Khan Noonien Singh, a prominent Star Trek villain in an original series episode and the principal antagonist in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, then later Star Trek Into Darkness
- Konstam Khan, a character from Diana Wynne Jones' book "The Homeward Bounders"
- Manga Khan, a DC Comics character
- Mr Khan, the titular character of the British sitcom Citizen Khan
- Nadir Khan, in Susan Kay's retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, "Phantom", is the name given to the character known only as "The Persian" and "Daroga" in the original book
- Noel Kahn, Pretty Little Liars character
- Rizwan Khan, main character in the 2010 Bollywood film My Name Is Khan
- Shao Khan, the main antagonist in the Mortal Kombat video game series who is based on a typical Mongolian warlord
- Shere Khan, the tiger, in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, also adapted as a cartoon character in a famous Walt Disney Productions movie in 1967
- Shiwan Khan, a recurring enemy of The Shadow
- The Mandarin archenemy of Iron Man whose real name is Khan also from Marvel Comics
- Kamala Khan, the fourth character to assume the identity of the Marvel Comics superheroine Ms. Marvel.
See also
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- Kahn (German/Jewish surname)
- Kan (surname)
- Khan (disambiguation) (other meanings)
References
- ↑ Khan entry in Hobson-Jobson: the Anglo-Indian dictionary
- ↑ As cited in The Baburnama, 2002, W.M. Thackston p273.
- ↑ "Khan in the UK". Surname.sofeminine.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
- ↑ "Origin of 'M Khan' Graffiti". Everything2.com. 2001-04-12. Retrieved 2012-06-09.