List of Kurds

This list is a list of notable Kurds.

## Nobility 
*sasanid
*median Sadakiyans* (770–827)
*Shaddadids (951–1199)
*Rawwadids* (955–1071)
*Marwanids (959–1014)
*Hasanwayhids (959–1014)
*Annazids (990/991–1117)
*Ayyubids (1171–1341)
*Hazaraspids (1115–1425) 
## Politicians 
* Ahmad Moftizadeh - was an influential political and religious thinker among the Sunni Kurdish minority in Iranian Kurdistan. He is best known for his leading role in negotiating democratic freedoms for the Kurdish people in Iran during the country's Islamic Revolution. Moftizadeh led one of three major Kurdish factions during the Islamic Revolution that were demanding increased rights for Kurds in the new government. His negotiations ultimately failed and the new revolutionary authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran ordered the arrest of Moftizadeh and several of his followers. Moftizadeh died shortly after his release from prison on 9 February 1993 due to severe torture and mistreatment by Iranian prison authorities
* Mehmet Şerif Pasha – Kurdish nationalist leader, one of founders of Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress
* Mahmud Barzanji – Politicial leader, king of short-lived Kingdom of Kurdistan 
* Mustafa Barzani – Politician, leader and general
* Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou – Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)
* Mustafa Yamulki – Military officer, education misnister of short-lived Kingdom of Kurdistan 
* Qazi Muhammad – Politicial leader, who founded the KDPI and headed the short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad

### Turkish politicians 
**Presidents of Turkey** 

* Turgut Özal – 8th president of Turkey 

**Ministers of Turkey**
* Mehdi Eker – Former minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey 
* Hikmet Çetin – Former Ministers of Foreign Affairs  of Turkey 
* Binali Yıldırım – Former prime minister or Turkey and former AK Party chairman 
* Mehmet Şimşek – Former minister of Finance and Deputy Prime minister of Turkey 
* Kutbettin Arzu – Justice minister of Turkey 
* Zafer Çağlayan – Former minister of Economy and Industry and Technology of Turkey 

### British politicians 
* Nadhim Zahawi – Minister of Equalities and Intergovernmental Relations of UK

### Dutch politicians 
* Dilan Yeşilgöz Zagerius – Minister of Justice of the Netherlands

### Belgian politicians 
* Zuhal Demir – Flemish minister of environment, Justice, Tourism and Energy of Belgium

### Iraqi politicians
**Presidents of Iraq**
*Abdul Latif Rashid – 9th president of Iraq
*Jalal Talabani – 6th president of Iraq
*Fuad Masum – 7th president of Iraq
*Barham Salih – 8th president of Iraq
**Others** 
*Abd al-Karim Qasim – Former prime minister of Iraqi Republic 
*Masoud Barzani – 1st president of Kurdistan region
*Kosrat Rasul Ali – Former leader of PUK,  minister, and former vice president of the Kurdistan Region 
*Nechirvan Barzani – 2nd president of Kurdistan region
*Qubad Talabani – Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region

### Iranian politicians 
* Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf – Former mayor of Tehran

## Scholars 
*Ahmad Moftizadeh-Ahmad Muftizadeh was a political and religious thinker and an influential poet and writer among the Kurds of Iran and possibly Iraq
* Ehmedê Xanî – intellectual, scholar, mystic and poe
* Celadet Alî Bedirxan – Diplomat, writer, linguist, journalist and political activist
*Yûnis Reuf – Poet and humanist
* Arab Shamilov – Writer, poet, journalist, interpreter
* Abdurrahman Sharafkandi– Writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator
* Qanate Kurdo – philologist and professor
* Mallah Xidir Ehmed Şawaysî Mîkayalî – Poet and translator
* Abdullah Cevdet – Intellectual, writer and physician

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