Malala Yousafzai ( Urdu  ; Pashto    ; an haife ta a ranar 12 ga watan Yuli shekarar 1997), wanda kuma aka fi sani da suna Malala, ta kasance yar gwagwarmayar Pakistan ce don ilimin mata kuma itace mace mafi karancin shekaru data samu lambar yabo ta Nobel. An san ta ne don bayar da kariya ga 'yancin ɗan adam, musamman ilimin mata da yara a cikin mahaifarta ta Swat Valley a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, arewa maso yammacin Pakistan, inda Taliban a koyaushe ta hana yara zuwa makaranta . Batun bayar da tallafin nasa ya zama wani yunkuri na kasa da kasa, kuma a cewar tsohon Firayim Minista Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, ta zama "shahararren dan kasa" na kasar. Yousafzai an haife ta ne a cikin dangin Pashtun a Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Iyalinta sun zo ne don gudanar da jerin makarantu a yankin. Ta yin la'akari da Muhammad Ali Jinnah da Benazir Bhutto a matsayin misalai na mata, musamman tunanin mahaifinta da aikin dan adam ya karfafa mata gwiwa.