page_title: Bukhara
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Bukhara / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Trade couple Tagi Zargaron in Bukhara.
context_page_description: Bukhara is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan. It is the nation's fifth-largest city. It had about 263,400 people at the 2009 census. People have lived in the area for at least five millennia, and the city has existed for half that time. The city is on the Silk Road. That made it a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion. The historic center of Bukhara, which has many mosques and madrassas, is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. There are many Uzbeks and Tajiks. The city has Jews and other ethnic minorities.
context_section_description: Many important people lived in Bukhara in the past. Most famous of them are:
  Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari (810-870) - Islamic scholar and compiler of hadiths
  Avicenna (Abu Ali ibn Sina) (980-1037) - physician and person of encyclopedic knowledge
  Bal'ami: Abolfazl Muhammad and his son Abu-Ali Mohammad, two famous viziers of Samanid kings, historians and patrons of art and literature
  Abubakr Narshakhi (10th century) - historian who wrote History of Bukhara
  Hazrat Syed Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari(c. 595-690 AH, 1199-1291 CE)
  Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389)
  Amir Kulal (died in 1370)
  Kiromi Bukhoroi
  An Lushan
  Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954)
  Abdurauf Fitrat
  Oksana Chusovitina
caption: Trade dome Tagi Zargaron 16-th century (photo 2003)
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