List of Kurds
This is a list of notable Kurds, chronologically listed:
6th century-15th century
- Jaban al-Kurdi
- Bahlool Mahi
- Mir Jafar Dasni
- Ibn al-Dahhak
- Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Rawadi
- Muhammad ibn Shaddad
- Daysam ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi
- Evdilsemedê Babek
- Lashkari ibn Muhammad
- Hasanwayh
- Al-Mawardi
- Badr ibn Hasanwayh
- Marzuban ibn Muhammad ibn Shaddad
- Abu Hanifa Dinawari
- Abu Nasr Husayn II
- Ali Hariri
- Abu’l-Fatḥ Moḥammad b. ʿAnnāz
- Zahir ibn Hilal ibn Badr
- Hilal ibn Badr
- Fadluya
- Fadl ibn Muhammad
- Abu'l-Fath Musa
- Lashkari ibn Musa
- Abu Nasr Mamlan II
- Abu Mansur Wahsudan
- Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl
- Anushirvan ibn Lashkari
- Ashot ibn Shavur
- Manuchihr ibn Shavur
- Fadl ibn Shavur
- Fadlun ibn Fadl
- Badh ibn Dustak
- Fakhr-un-Nisa
- Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah
- Ibn al-Azraq al-Fariqi
- Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Manuchihr
- Fadl ibn Shavur ibn Manuchihr
- Fakr al-Din Shaddad ibn Mahmud
- Saladin
- Al-Adil I
- Fadl ibn Mahmud
- Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
- Shahanshah ibn Mahmud
- Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din
- Shirkuh
- Az-Zahir Ghazi
- Najm ad-Din Ayyub
- Sultan ibn Mahmud
- Al-Ashraf Musa
- Al-Mu'azzam Isa
- Al-Kamil
- Cakir al-Kurdi
- Turan-Shah
- Ibn al-Salah
- Al-Mu'azzam Turanshah ibn Salah al-Din
- Bahramshah
- Farrukh Shah
- Muhammad ibn Shirkuh
- Al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad
- Al-Muzaffar I Umar
- Tughtakin ibn Ayyub
- Al-Aziz Uthman
- Al-Mansur I Muhammad
- Fakhraddin
- Izz al-Din Usama
- Masud ibn Namdar
- Mehmed Reshan
- Nasirdin
- Sejadin
- Al-Awhad Ayyub
- Al-Adil II
- An-Nasir Yusuf
- Al-Mujahid
- As-Salih Ayyub
- An-Nasir Dawud
- Al-Aziz Muhammad
- Sitt al-Sham
- Al-Ashraf Musa, Emir of Homs
- Dayfa Khatun
- As-Salih Ismail
- Al-Mansur Ibrahim
- Al-Muzaffar Ghazi
- Ibn al-Hadjib
- Al-Ashraf Musa, Sultan of Egypt
- Al-Muazzam Turanshah
- Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati
- Safi-ad-din Ardabili
- Abulfeda
- Al-Kamil Muhammad
- Shabankara'i
- Al-Shahrazuri
- Amadin
- Husam al-Din Chalabi
- Khatuna Fekhra
- Saʿd al-Din al-Humaidi
- Sheikh Mand
- Sheikh Obekr
- Sadr al-Din Musa
- Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi
- Nusrat al-Din Ahmad
- Al-Afdal Muhammad
- Mele Perîşan
- Sayyid Husayn Ahlati
- Mela Huseynê Bateyî
- Izz al-Din Shir
- Khvajeh Ali Safavi
- Idris Bitlisi
- Hosam al-Din Ali Bitlisi
- Mahmud the Kurd
- Sultan Sahak
16th century–19th century
- Sharafkhan Bidlisi
- Şêx Şemsedînê Exlatî
- Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi
- Melayê Cizîrî
- Asenath Barzani
- Feqiyê Teyran
- Halo Khan Ardalan
- Yusuf Yaska
- Shir Sarim
- Ezidi Mirza
- Ali Janbulad
- Ibrahim al-Kurani
- Ganj Ali Khan
- Soleyman Khan Ardalan
- Shahrokh Sultan Zanganeh
- Mistefa Bêsaranî
- Ahmad Khani
- Ali Mardan Khan
- Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh
- Ali Beg Zanganeh
- Mir Xanzad
- Sarı Süleyman Bey
- Khana Qubadi
- Almas Khan-e Kanoule'ei
- Mohamed Pasha Jaff
- Karim Khan Zand
- Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh
- Marif Nodeyi
- Xelîlê Sêrtî
- Zaro Aga
- Al-Barzanjī
- Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi
- Suleiman al-Halabi
- Khâlid-i Shahrazuri
- Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Naqshbandi
- Mohammed el Kebir
- Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz
- Şeyda Hewramî
- Allahqoli Khan Zanganeh
- Aziz Khan Mokri
- Ahmad Bag Komasi
- Mahmud Bayazidi
- Yaqub Maydashti
- Abdullah Pasha Bajalan
- Elî Teremaxî
- Haydar Khan Zanganeh
- Ibrahim Pasha al-Dalati
- Nalî
- Salim
- Bedir Khan Beg
- Mastoureh Ardalan
- Mawlawi Tawagozi
- Kurdî
- Jafar Qoli Khan Donboli
- Haji Qadir Koyi
- Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi
- Wali Dewane
- Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor
- Mahwi
- Said Pasha Kurd
- Riza Talabani
- Mustafa Zihni Pasha
- Ibrahim Pasha Milli
- Wafayi
- Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan
- Lady Adela
- Mirza Ebdilqadire Paweyi
- Abdulkadir Ubeydullah
- Emin Ali Bedir Khan
- Diyap Yıldırım
- Osman Efendîyo Babij
- Saeb
- Hariq
- Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan
- Edeb
- Sabat Islambouli
- Shamdin Agha
- Sheikh Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
- Seyid Riza
- Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan
- Cheragh-Ali Khan Zanganeh
- Abdulhakim Arvasi
- Mevlanzade Rifat Bey
- Sheikh Said
- Şerif Pasha
- Ehmedê Xasî
- Haji Mala Saeed Kirkukli Zada
- Mustafa Yamulki
- Han Mahmud
- Piramerd
- Sabat Islambouli
- İshak Sükuti
- Abdullah Cevdet
- Faramarz Asadi
- Ibrahim Hananu
- Hajj Nematollah
- Kurd Fuad Pasha
- Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha
- Meyan Khatun
- Jangir Agha
- Narî
- Muhammad Kurd Ali
- Ibrahim Heski
- Said Nursî
- Aziz Feyzi Pirinççizâde
- Mahmud Barzanji
- Ahmed Uthman
- Kâzım İnanç
- Abdullah Beg Benari
- Muhammad Amin Zaki
- Hasan Hayri
- Mufti Penjweni
- Halid Beg Cibran
- Haji Baba Sheikh
- Sayed Ali Asghar Kurdistani
- Süreyya Bedir Khan
- Sheikh Ubeydullah
- Celal İbrahim
- Ali Saip Ursavaş
- Simko Shikak
- Halis Öztürk
- Abdul Aziz Yamulki
- Bakr Sidqi
- Ekrem Cemilpaşa
- Taufiq Wahby
- Hapsa Khan
- Ihsan Nuri
- Celadet Alî Bedirxan
- Nuri Dersimi
- Qazi Muhammad
- Mohammad Hosni
- Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi
- Kamuran Alî Bedirxan
- Nur Ali Elahi
- Ahmed Barzani
- Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji
- Arab Shamilov
- Husni al-Za'im
- Ahmed Mukhtar Jaff
- Qani
- Rafiq Hilmi
- Kara Fatima Khanum
- Kunj Yusuf Pasha
- Osman Pasha Jaff
- Hemoye Shero
- Usub Bek Temuryan
- Yezdanşêr
20th century
1900s–1940s
- Abdul Karim Mudarris
- Muhammad Wali Kermashani
- Cigerxwîn
- Leyla Bedir Khan
- Mustafa Barzani
- Abdullah Goran
- Ali Merdan
- Karim Sanjabi
- Osman Sabri
- Emînê Evdal
- Abdolqader Zahedi
- Alaaddin Sajadi
- Nado Makhmudov
- Heciyê Cindî
- Qanate Kurdo
- Samand Siabandov
- Qedrîcan
- Khalid Bakdash
- Baba Ali Shaikh Mahmood
- Mohammad Ghazi
- Ibrahim Ahmad
- Ahmed Kuftaro
- Wansa
- Dildar
- Saleh Yousefi
- Nûredin Zaza
- Ibrahim Amin Baldar
- Musa Anter
- Abdurrahman Sharafkandi
- Daham Miro
- Ezaddin Husseini
- Hassan Zirak
- Hemin Mukriyani
- Mustafa Pasha Bajalan
- Ahmad Hardi
- Tahir Tewfiq
- Baba Mardoukh Rohanee
- Yaşar Kemal
- Karim Zand
- Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf
- Xelîlê Çaçan Mûradov
- Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj
- Ghader Abdollahzadeh
- Mohammad Mamle
- Siamak Yasemi
- Karim Hisami
- Moshe Barazani
- Ahmed Arif
- Mehdi Halıcı
- Muhamad Salih Dilan
- Shami Kermashani
- Turgut Özal
- Akram Hamid Begzadeh Jaff
- Kâmran İnan
- Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti
- Nusrat Bhutto
- Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
- Cemal Süreya
- Medet Serhat
- Nadir Nadirov
- Ordîxanê Celîl
- Shahab Sheikh Nuri
- Ahmad Moftizadeh
- Jalal Talabani
- Jamal Nebez
- Khurto Hajji Ismail
- Tahseen Said
- Efat Ghazi
- Abdülmelik Fırat
- Emerîkê Serdar
- Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan
- Adel Karasholi
- Ahmad Ghazi
- Ali Askari
- Celîlê Celîl
- Suwara Ilkhanizada
- Yılmaz Güney
- Ayşe Şan
- Fuad Masum
- Mahmoud Othman
- Mazhar Khaleqi
- Sadegh Sharafkandi
- Şerafettin Elçi
- Yaşar Kaya
- Jalal Dabagh
- Ferzende
- Zakia Hakki
- Mehdi Zana
- Sherko Bekas
- Nozad Saleh Rifaat
- Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi
- Ali Ashraf Darvishian
- Eskerê Boyîk
- Mehmet Ali Birand
- Tosinê Reşîd
- Ahmet Türk
- Emre Taner
- Yusuf Ekinci
- Amir Hassanpour
- Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
- Necmettin Büyükkaya
- Soad Hosny
- Tofy Mussivand
- Idris Barzani
- Latif Rashid
- Mahmoud Ezidi
- Mahmud Baksi
- Nawshirwan Mustafa
- Yitzhak Mordechai
- Aref Tayfour
- Bahaedin Adab
- Munzur Çem
- Mustafa Hijri
- Rahmi Saltuk
- Rauf Hassan
- Rojen Barnas
- Abdulla Pashew
- Fuad Hussein
- Jawhar Namiq
- Khalil al-Zahawi
- Masoud Barzani
- Mojtaba Mirzadeh
- Sedigh Kamangar
- Şahînê Bekirê Soreklî
- Dilshad Meriwani
- Latif Halmat
- Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin
- Mohammad Saber Ismail
- Reşo Zîlan
- Rowsch Shaways
- Cankurd
- Foad Mostafa Soltani
- Hero Ibrahim Ahmed
- İhsan Arslan
- Keça Kurd
- Mihemed Şêxo
- Narmin Othman
- Omer Fattah Hussain
- Abbas Vali
- Abdulla Mohtadi
- Abdullah Öcalan
- Adel Murad
- Hüseyin Erdem
- Kamran Hedayati
- Mohammad Hossein Karimi
- Najmiddin Karim
- Têmûrê Xelîl
- Ramzi Nafi
1950s-1970s
- Arsalan Baiz
- Behrouz Gharibpour
- Hacı Karay
- Homayoun Ardalan
- Hüseyin Kalkan
- Rafiq Sabir
- Abdulwahid Muhammed Salih
- Salaheddine Bahaaeddin
- Shahram Nazeri
- Abdul Rahman Mustafa
- Cemîl Bayik
- Ferhad Shakely
- Pouran Derakhshandeh
- Salih Muslim
- Salim Barakat
- Abbas Kamandi
- Ali Haydar Kaytan
- Hüseyin Velioğlu
- Ibrahim Tatlises
- İsmail Özden
- Khalil Rashow
- Kosrat Rasul Ali
- Leyla Qasim
- Mahmut Alınak
- Mala Bakhtiyar
- Mehemed Malmîsanij
- Murat Bozlak
- Omar Hamdi
- Pîr Xidir Silêman
- Ali Haydar Yıldız
- Fawaz Hussain
- Hoshyar Zebari
- Jalal Barzanji
- Mohammad Tofiq Rahim
- Mehmed Uzun
- Orhan Miroğlu
- Yekta Uzunoğlu
- Murat Karayılan
- Najiba Ahmad
- Selim Sadak
- Beytocan
- Fadıl Öztürk
- Hatip Dicle
- Hikmet Fidan
- Ilana Eliya
- Imad Ahmad Sayfour
- Mohammed Haji Mahmoud
- Nasser Razazi
- Orhan Doğan
- Perwîz Cîhanî
- Rohat Alakom
- Şivan Perwer
- Abdulbaset Sieda
- Arjen Arî
- Cuneyd Zapsu
- Lokman Polat
- Mahsum Korkmaz
- Mazlum Doğan
- Mullah Krekar
- Nizamettin Arıç
- Musa Farisoğulları
- Ahmet Kaya
- Ali Akbar Moradi
- Ciwan Haco
- Dana Ahmed Majid
- Edip Yüksel
- Hesenê Metê
- Mustafa Aydogan
- Najmadin Shukr Rauf
- Sırrı Sakık
- Zafer Çağlayan
- Dilshad Said
- Kamal Qadir
- Mashaal Tammo
- Merziye Feriqi
- Mostafa Moloudi
- Nursel Aydoğan
- Osman Öcalan
- Serdar Roşan
- Seyed Khalil Alinezhad
- Sherzad Hafiz
- Tara Jaff
- Bakhtiar Amin
- Firat Cewerî
- İmam Taşçıer
- Müslüm Doğan
- Ata Nahai
- Barham Salih
- Bayan Nouri
- Edibe Şahin
- Eyaz Zaxoyî
- Jalal Jalalizadeh
- Salih Fırat
- Soraya Serajeddini
- Ali Bapir
- Amirkhan Mori
- Derwich Ferho
- Farhad Pirbal
- Guram Adzhoyev
- Gültan Kışanak
- Hassan Rahmanpanah
- Jano Rosebiani
- Leyla Zana
- Nizamettin Taş
- Saeed Farajpouri
- Savaş Buldan
- Zübeyir Aydar
- Abderrahman Sadik Karim
- Abdolreza Rajabi
- Adham Barzani
- Ardeshir Kamkar
- Hüseyin Kenan Aydın
- Adnan Karim
- Adnan Selçuk Mizrakli
- Azad Bonni
- Gülser Yıldırım
- Hülya Avşar
- Karim Mohammedzadeh
- Kayhan Kalhor
- Kemal Bülbül
- Mariwan Halabjaee
- Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
- Seyran Ateş
- Mahir Hassan
- Fatma Kurtulan
- Hasan Saltık
- Huner Saleem
- Latif Yahia
- Leyla Güven
- Mano Khalil
- Nazand Begikhani
- Şeyhmus Dağtekin
- Yüksel Yavuz
- Aysel Tuğluk
- Ayşe Gökkan
- Bekir Bozdağ
- Bengi Yıldız
- Gurbetelli Ersöz
- Jan Dost
- Abdullah Demirbaş
- Bachtyar Ali
- Diyar Dersim
- İshak Sağlam
- Mahabad Qaradaghi
- Nechirvan Barzani
- Roya Toloui
- Tahir Elçi
- Yıldız Tilbe
- Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu
- Alican Önlü
- Helîm Yûsiv
- Kajal Ahmad
- Mehmet Şimşek
- Meral Danış Beştaş
- Nadhim Zahawi
- Nalin Pekgul
- Pervin Buldan
- Yılmaz Erdoğan
- Ali Atalan
- Bejan Matur
- Gani Mirzo
- Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu
- İbrahim Ayhan
- Metin Göktepe
- Xalîd Reşîd
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Bahoz Erdal
- Çağlar Demirel
- Dilsa Demirbag Sten
- Masrour Barzani
- Mohammad Oraz
- Mustafa Atici
- Sevahir Bayındır
- Widad Akrawi
- Amineh Kakabaveh
- Ayhan Bilgen
- Ayşe Polat
- Besime Konca
- Sara Kaya
- Sirwan Barzani
- Tuncer Bakırhan
- Ahmet Aslan
- Ahmet Aydın
- Asya Abdullah
- Dilba
- Gülnaz Karataş
- Hasret Gültekin
- Hozan Canê
- Jamil Rostami
- Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki
- Osman Baydemir
- Selma Irmak
- Shahram Alidi
- Sibel Yiğitalp
- Vian Dakhil
- Abdullah Zeydan
- Azad Zal
- Eros Kurdi
- Hamdi Ulukaya
- Juwan Fuad Masum
- Nurettin Demirtaş
- Azad
- Bafel Talabani
- Herro Mustafa
- Houzan Mahmoud
- Kazim Öz
- Mehmet Yavuz
- Saliha Aydeniz
- Selahattin Demirtaş
- Servet Kocakaya
- Şehrîbana Kurdî
- Şevval Sam
- Choman Hardi
- Leyla Birlik
- Serhat Baran
- Seyed Ali Jaberi
- Aynur Doğan
- Bedia Özgökçe Ertan
- Celal Başkale
- Farzad Kamangar
- Faysal Sarıyıldız
- Hisham Zaman
- Mehmet Ali Aslan
- Sadet Karabulut
- Sebahat Tuncel
- Sevim Dağdelen
- Vala Fareed
- Ayla Akat Ata
- Evrim Alataş
- Feleknas Uca
- Hemin Hawrami
- İdris Baluken
- Lahur Talabany
- Özlem Cekic
- Zara (Turkish singer)
- Bekir Kaya
- Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius
- Gulan Avci
- Hişyar Özsoy
- Nisti Stêrk
- Omed Khoshnaw
- Qubad Talabani
- Shibal Ibrahim
- Rojda Felat
- Birzo Majeed
- Blend Saleh
- Caucher Birkar
- Düzen Tekkal
- Firsat Sofi
- Hilmi Doğan
- Kurd Maverick
- Rojda Aykoç
- Shahram Mokri
- Shaswar Abdulwahid
- Yousif Muhammed Sadiq
- Feryal Clark
- Mohsen Chavoshi
- Sheikh Ali Ilyas
- Zeynel Doğan
1980s-2000s
- Rojda Demirer
- Rewşan Çeliker
- Sherko Moarefi
- Mustafa Sarp
- Zuhal Demir
- Pervin Chakar
- Golriz Ghahraman
- Hawar Mulla Mohammed
- Khalid Mushir
- Khanna Omarkhali
- Remziye Tosun
- Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1981)
- Sinan Kaloğlu
- Xatar
- Ebru Günay
- Ehsan Fatahian
- Fidan Doğan
- Gökay Akbulut
- Jwan Hesso
- Majid Kavian
- Zeynab Jalalian
- Behrouz Boochani
- Belçim Bilgin
- Burhan G
- Chopy Fatah
- Karzan Kardozi
- Mohammedali Yaseen Taha
- Salt Bae
- Selçuk Şahin (footballer born 1983)
- Shwan Jalal
- Sohrab Pournazeri
- Taban Shoresh
- Zara (Russian singer)
- Ali Hama Saleh
- Bovar Karim
- Dilo Doxan
- Hevrin Khalaf
- Jassim Mohammed Haji
- Kawa Hesso
- Jwan Yosef
- Sherwan Haji
- Haftbefehl
- Isaac Tutumlu
- Sane Jaleh
- Bengin Ahmad
- Dashni Morad
- Hanna Jaff
- Kadir Talabani
- Navid Mohammadzadeh
- Rang Shawkat
- Ziaeddin Niknafs
- Brwa Nouri
- Dara Mohammed
- Darin
- Leyla İmret
- Ömer Öcalan
- Rawez Lawan
- Voria Ghafouri
- Eren Derdiyok
- Halgurd Mulla Mohammed
- Helly Luv
- KC Rebell
- Kurdo (rapper)
- Leila Mustafa
- Lilla Namo
- Makwan Amirkhani
- Nûdem Durak
- Zyzz
- Bahare Alavi
- Rezan Zuğurlu
- Ahmad Al Saleh
- Aram Khalili
- Deniz Naki
- Tuğba Hezer Öztürk
- Jiloan Hamad
- Mervan Çelik
- Capo (rapper)
- Kianoush Rostami
- Helin Bölek
- Kaveh Rezaei
- Newroz Uysal Aslan
- Nur Tatar
- Lanja Khawe
- Nadia Murad
- NOURI
- Ramin Hossein-Panahi
- Reynmen
- Mahmoud Dahoud
- Zeki Majed
- Dersim Dağ
- Deniz Undav
- Berkin Elvan
- Eno (rapper)
- Fero47
- Dadvan Yousuf
- Eren Berkay Doğan
- Rahman Necati Doğan