# List of Yazidi people

The following is a list of notable persons of Yazidis.

## A

* Ali Atalan, politician
* Arab Shamilov, novelist
* Amar Suloev, mixed martial artist, hitman
* Amin Farhan Jejo, Yazidi politician and author
* Ibrahim Khalil, The Yazidi folk singer and songwriter
* Aslan Usoyan, Russian mafia boss
* Al-Hasan ibn Adi, religious heir of ‘Adī ibn Sakhr
* Amirkhan Mori, owner and chairman of the Regions Group
* Aziz Tamoyan,was the president of the Yezidi National Union
* Sheikh Ali Ilyas is the current Baba Sheikh (religious leader) of the Yazidi community since November 2020

## D

* Dalal Khario, Women's Rights Award recipient, former captive of ISIS
* Deniz Undav, footballer

## E

* Emerîkê Serdar, journalist, writer, translator
* Emine Evdal, writer, linguist and poet
* Eskerê Boyîk, poet and writer
* Ezidi Mîrza, 17th century governor of Mosul, Yezidi leader and hero

## F

* Fakhr ad-Din ibn Adi, Yezidi saint
* Farida Khalaf, former ISIS captive

## G

* Guram Adzhoyev, former footballer

## H

* Hazim Tahsin Beg, current Yezidi leader
* Hemoyê Shero, nineteenth century Yezidi tribal leader
* Heciyê Cindî, linguist and researcher
* Heydar Şeşo, founder and supreme commander of the Yazidi self-defense militia Protection Force of Ezidkhan
* Khdr Hajoyan, President of the Yezidi National Union, chief executive officer of "Ezdikhana" newspaper.

## J

* Jalile Jalil, historian, writer and Kurdologist
* Jangir Agha, national hero

## K

* Khalil Rashow, academic, writer and researcher
* Khanna Omarkhali (Xana Omarxali), academic, writer and researcher focusing mainly on Yazidism
* Khurto Hajji Ismail, current Baba Sheikh of the Yazidi
* Kseniya Borodina (paternal side), television presenter and actress
* Kyaram Sloyan, soldier killed and beheaded by Azerbaijani soldiers

## L

* Lamiya Aji Bashar, human rights activist

## M

* Mahmoud Ezidi, Peshmerga fighter
* Misha Aloyan, boxer
* Meyan Khatun, Yazidi princess
* Mir Tahsin Saied Beg, current hereditary leader (Mīr, or prince) of the Yazidi people
* Mir Jafar Dasni, launched an uprising in 838
* Mahma Xelil, mayor of Sinjar in Nineveh Province, Iraq.

## N

* Nadia Murad, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient

## O

* Ordîxanê Celîl, writer and academic

## P

* Pîr Xidir Silêman, writer, teacher and parliamentarian

## R

* Roman Amoyan, Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympian
* Ronya Othmann, writer and journalist

## S

* Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Shaykh
* Sakhr Abu l-Barakat, Shaykh
* Sheikh Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan, Shaykh
* Sheikh Khairy Khedr, Commander and founder of the Yazidi militia Malik Al-Tawus Troop
* Samand Siabandov, hero of the Soviet Union
* Shir Sarim, Yazidi leader who led an uprising against Safavid Persia during the reign of Shah Ismail I.
* Sheikh Ali Ilyas, current Baba Shekh
* Souzan Barakat, Yazidi girl, murder victim

## T

* Têmûrê Xelîl, journalist, writer and translator
* Tosinê Reşîd, writer, poet and playwright

## U

* Usuv Beg, 19th and 20th century Yezidi leader in Armenia

## V

* Vian Dakhil, member of the Iraqi parliament

## W

* Wansa, Yazidi princess

## X

* Xelîlê Çaçan Mûradov, writer and journalist

## Z

* Zara Mgoyan, pop singer, actress and social activist
* Zakhar Kalashov, Russian mafia boss
* Ismail Özden, Yezidi PKK commander in Shingal.