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'''Khan''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ɑː|n}}) is a [[surname]] deriving from the [[title]] ''[[khan (title)|khan]]'', originating from the [[Eurasian Steppe#Divisions|Central and Eastern Steppe]] during [[Ancient history|antiquity]] and popularized by [[List of Turkic dynasties and countries|Turkic dynasties]] in the rest of Asia during the medieval period. Used in the [[Rourans]] firstly, and also by the early [[List of Bulgarian monarchs|rulers of Bulgaria]], it was more widely spread by the [[Islam]]ic chieftains in what is now Turkey, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Anglo-Indian+Dictionary#v=onepage&q=khan&f=false Khan] entry in ''[[Hobson-Jobson]]: the Anglo-Indian dictionary''</ref><ref>As cited in ''The [[Baburnama]]'', 2002, [[Wheeler Thackston|W.M. Thackston]] p273.</ref><ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Krum</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Rajendra Kumar Sharma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq99HbGpIWsC&pg=PA159|title=Rural Sociology|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|year=1997|isbn=978-81-7156-671-6|page=159}}</ref>
'''Khan''' ({{IPAc-en|h|ɑː|n}}) is a [[surname]] deriving from the [[title]] ''[[khan (title)|khan]]'', originating from the [[Eurasian Steppe#Divisions|Central and Eastern Steppe]] during [[Ancient history|antiquity]] and popularized by [[pashtuns]] and [[List of Turkic dynasties and countries|Turkic dynasties]] in the rest of Asia during the medieval period. Used in the [[Rourans]] firstly, and also by the early [[List of Bulgarian monarchs|rulers of Bulgaria]], it was more widely spread by the [[Islam]]ic chieftains in a wide region spanning from [[Turkey]] to the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rcjmiBm8hHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Anglo-Indian+Dictionary#v=onepage&q=khan&f=false Khan] entry in ''[[Hobson-Jobson]]: the Anglo-Indian dictionary''</ref><ref>As cited in ''The [[Baburnama]]'', 2002, [[Wheeler Thackston|W.M. Thackston]] p273.</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Rajendra Kumar Sharma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq99HbGpIWsC&pg=PA159|title=Rural Sociology|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|year=1997|isbn=978-81-7156-671-6|page=159}}</ref>


Khan is a common surname among [[Muslim]]s of [[Central Asia]]n and [[South Asia]]n origin, and in people having [[Mongol]] or [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] origin. It is one of the [[lists of most common surnames|most common surnames]] in the world, shared by over 12 million people in Asia and 24 million worldwide.<ref>[http://forebears.io/surnames/khan "Khan"] (surname distribution), ''Forebears.io'', 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2018.</ref> It is the surname of over 108,674 [[British Asians]], making it the 12th most common surname in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forebears.co.uk/england|title=England Genealogy Resources & Parish Registers|website=forebears.co.uk}}</ref>
Khan is a common surname among [[Muslim]]s of [[Central Asia]]n and [[South Asia]]n origin, and in people having [[Mongol]] or [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] origin. It is particularly popular among people of or originating from [[Pakistan]], [[India]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Afghanistan]];<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Krum</ref> it is often affiliated with the [[Pashtuns]] in the Indian subcontinent.<ref name="ReferenceA">People of India Volume XLII Part Three edited by A Hassan & J C Das page 1139 to 1141 Manohar Publications</ref> Khan is one of the [[lists of most common surnames|most common surnames]] in the world, shared by over 12 million people in Asia and 24 million worldwide.<ref>[http://forebears.io/surnames/khan "Khan"] (surname distribution), ''Forebears.io'', 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2018.</ref> It is the surname of over 108,674 [[British Asians]], making it the 12th most common surname in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forebears.co.uk/england|title=England Genealogy Resources & Parish Registers|website=forebears.co.uk}}</ref>


==People==
==People==

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Not to be confused with Kahn or Kan (surname).


Khan (/hɑːn/) is a surname deriving from the title khan, originating from the Central and Eastern Steppe during antiquity and popularized by pashtuns and Turkic dynasties in the rest of Asia during the medieval period. Used in the Rourans firstly, and also by the early rulers of Bulgaria, it was more widely spread by the Islamic chieftains in a wide region spanning from Turkey to the Indian subcontinent.[1][2][3]

Khan is a common surname among Muslims of Central Asian and South Asian origin, and in people having Mongol or Turkic origin. It is particularly popular among people of or originating from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan;[4] it is often affiliated with the Pashtuns in the Indian subcontinent.[5] Khan is one of the most common surnames in the world, shared by over 12 million people in Asia and 24 million worldwide.[6] It is the surname of over 108,674 British Asians, making it the 12th most common surname in the United Kingdom.[7]

People

Scholars, intellectuals and academics

Politicians and rulers

Actors and entertainers

See also: Khans of Bollywood
  • Aamir Khan, Indian actor, film producer and director
  • Abdul Karim Khan, Indian classical vocalist
  • Abdul Wahid Khan, Indian musician, mentor of many singers like Muhammad Rafi and Ram Narayan
  • Adil Khan, Norwegian actor of Pashtun and Punjabi descent
  • Adnan Sami Khan, Indian singer, playback singer and music composer
  • Aiman Khan, Pakistani film and television actress, sister of actress Minal Khan
  • Akram Khan (dancer), British dancer of Bangladeshi descent
  • Anik Khan, Bangladesh-born American rapper
  • Ali Akbar Khan, Bangladesh Bengali sarod player
  • Alvira Khan Agnihotri, Indian film producer and fashion designer (Salman Khan's sister and Salim Khan's daughter)
  • Amar Khan, Pakistani director, writer and television actress
  • Amjad Khan, Indian actor and director
  • Apu Islam Khan, Bangladeshi actress and model (former wife of Shakib Khan)
  • Arbaaz Khan, Indian actor, director and film producer (Salman Khan's brother)
  • Asad Amanat Ali Khan (1955–2007), Pakistani vocalist
  • Ayesha Sultana Khan (Sharmila Tagore), actress, model, Central Board of Film Certification chairperson (mother of Saif Ali Khan)
  • Ayub Khan, Indian television and film actor (Nasir Khan's son and Dilip Kumar's nephew)
  • Bat for Lashes, stage name of Natasha Khan, British singer-songwriter and musician
  • Bilal Khan (disambiguation), several people
  • Cassius Khan, Canadian Indian classical musician in New Westminster, known as the Ghazal/Tabla Wizard
  • Chaka Khan, American R&B singer
  • Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan), Indian actor of Pashtun origin
  • Faisal Khan, Indian actor (Aamir Khan's brother)
  • Farah Khan, Indian film director, choreographer, dancer and fashion designer
  • Faraaz Khan, Indian film actor of 1990s and early 2000s
  • Fardeen Khan, Indian actor (son of Feroz Khan)
  • Fawad Khan, Pakistani film actor and singer, also worked in Indian films
  • Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director and film producer (father of Fardeen Khan)
  • Feroze Khan, Pakistani television actor and producer
  • Gauahar Khan, Indian model and actress
  • Gul Khan, Indian television producer
  • Guz Khan (born 1986), English comedian and actor
  • Helen Richardson Khan, Indian actress (wife of Salim Khan)
  • Hina Khan, Indian television actress
  • Imran Khan (Bollywood actor) (born Imran Pal), Indian American actor, works in Bollywood (Aamir Khan's nephew)
  • Imran Khan (singer), Dutch singer of Punjabi descent
  • Irrfan Khan (1967–2020), Indian actor (in Indian films and Hollywood films)
  • Jiah Khan, British-American actress who worked in Indian Bollywood films
  • Junaid Khan, Pakistani film actor, singer and writer
  • Kabir Khan, Indian director, screenwriter, cinematographer and film producer
  • Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian actress (wife of Saif Ali Khan, member of Kapoor family, daughter of actor Randhir Kapoor and actress Babita)
  • Khalil Ullah Khan, film and TV actor, 1976 winner of Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • King Khan, real name Arish Khan, Indian/French-Canadian musician
  • Krutika Desai Khan, Indian actress working in film, television and theatre
  • Mahira Khan, Pakistani drama and film actress, also works in Bollywood
  • Mansoor Khan, Indian director, film producer and screenwriter (Nasir Hussain's son, Aamir Khan's cousin)
  • Marco Khan, Iranian actor
  • Mehboob Khan, Indian director, film producer, actor and writer
  • Minal Khan, Pakistani television actress, sister of actress Aiman Khan
  • Nahnatchka Khan, American television writer and producer
  • Nasir Hussain Khan, Indian director, film producer and screenwriter (Aamir Khan's uncle)
  • Nasir Khan, Indian actor (Dilip Kumar's brother)
  • Nazir Ahmed Khan, Indian director, film producer and actor in British India and then Pakistan (brother-in-law of filmmaker K. Asif)
  • Nikhat Khan, Indian film producer (Aamir Khan's sister)
  • Noor Khan, Pakistani television actress and sister of actress Sarah Khan
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani vocalist
  • Parvati Khan, Indo-Trinidadian singer and model who worked in Bollywood
  • Praga Khan, real name Maurice Engelen, Belgian techno musician
  • Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, vocalist
  • Rehan Khan, Bollywood singer from Goa
  • Riyaz Khan, South Indian actor
  • Roy Sætre Khantatat, Norwegian singer, better known as Roy Khan
  • Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani vocalist
  • Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor (son of Sharmila Tagore, husband of Kareena Kapoor)
  • Sajid Khan, Indian actor and singer
  • Sajid Khan, Indian film director and actor
  • Salim Khan, Indian screenwriter and scriptwriter (father of Salman Khan), part of screenwriting duo Salim–Javed
  • Salman Khan, Indian actor and film producer
  • Sana Khan, Indian model and television actress
  • Sanjay Khan, Indian actor, director and film producer (father of Zayed Khan)
  • Sarah Khan, Pakistani TV actress in Urdu television serials
  • Saroj Khan, Indian choreographer
  • Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor, film producer (known as King Khan)
  • Sahil Khan, Indian actor
  • Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personality
  • Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress (Saif Ali Khan's sister, daughter of actress Sharmila Tagore)
  • Sohail Khan, Indian actor, director and film producer (brother of Salman Khan)
  • Sudhir, real name Shah Zaman Khan Afridi, actor
  • Tahir Hussain Khan, Indian director and film producer (Aamir Khan's father)
  • Tariq Khan, Indian actor (Aamir Khan's cousin, Nasir Hussain's nephew)
  • Valentino Khan, American DJ, music producer, guitarist, singer, songwriter
  • Zareen Khan, Bollywood actress who has also appeared in Tamil and Punjabi films
  • Zayed Khan, Indian actor (Sanjay Khan's son, Sussanne Khan's brother, brother-in-law of Hrithik Roshan)

Sportspeople

In science and technology

  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani engineer, 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
  • Ishfaq Ahmad Khan, Pakistani scientist in particle and nuclear physics
  • Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani scientist in nuclear physics, credited as the father of Pakistan's Atomic Project
  • Mohammad Islam Khan (1957–2010), Indian glycobiologist, scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory
  • Naeem Ahmad Khan (1928–2013), Pakistani nuclear physicist and university professor of physics
  • K. Ahmed Khan, Indian scientist and businessman who had success in using plastic for road construction
  • Shaukat Hameed Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist
  • Mohammad Ajmal Khan, physician in Delhi, India, one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia University
  • Muhammad Siddiq Khan (1910–1978), librarian of the Central Library of the University of Dhaka and the founder of the university's Department of Library Science
  • Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Pakistani agricultural scientist, professor of horticulture at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in Pakistan
  • Razib Khan, Bengali-American geneticist

Other professions

  • Abul Kashem Khan (1905–1991), jurist, political leader, and industrialist from Bangladesh
  • Alan Khan (born 1971), South African radio presenter
  • Amjad Khan (1940–1992), Indian film producer
  • Fazal Khan, Pakistani lawyer and Pashtun human rights activist
  • Gauri Khan (born 1971), Indian interior designer and film producer (wife of Indian star Shahrukh Khan)
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan, (1882–1927), founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International
  • Irene Khan (born 1956), Bangladeshi lawyer, former Secretary General of Amnesty International
  • Kiran Rao Khan (born 1973), Indian director, film producer and screenwriter (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[8]
  • Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (1752–1805/6), Indian tax-collector and travel-writer
  • Mohammad Sidique Khan (1974–2005), London train suicide bomber
  • Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan (1833–1901) British-Indian administrator and aristocrat
  • Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944), British spy in occupied France
  • Oghuz Khan, legendary forefather of the Turkic people
  • Peter Khan (born Afghan-Khan), 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.
  • Sussanne Khan (born 1975), Indian interior fashion designer and entrepreneur
  • Syed Ahmed Khan (1817–1898), Islamic scholar
  • Tariq Ali Khan (born 1943), British-Pakistani writer, intellectual and socialist
  • Tasmin Lucia Khan (born 1980), British Bangladeshi journalist and news presenter for BBC News
  • Tony Khan (born 1982), American businessman; co-owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C. along with his father Shahid, and CEO of All Elite Wrestling
  • Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916–2004), former head of the Sufi Order International
  • Usman Khan (terrorist) (1991-2019), Islamic terrorist and perpetrator of the 2019 London Bridge stabbing
  • Zia Inayat Khan, the Pir of the Sufi Order International

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ↑ Khan entry in Hobson-Jobson: the Anglo-Indian dictionary
  2. ↑ As cited in The Baburnama, 2002, W.M. Thackston p273.
  3. ↑ Rajendra Kumar Sharma (1997). Rural Sociology. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 159. ISBN 978-81-7156-671-6.
  4. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Krum
  5. ↑ People of India Volume XLII Part Three edited by A Hassan & J C Das page 1139 to 1141 Manohar Publications
  6. ↑ "Khan" (surname distribution), Forebears.io, 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "England Genealogy Resources & Parish Registers". forebears.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Origin of 'M Khan' Graffiti". Everything2.com. 12 April 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
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