Hidayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan (6 August 1917 – 12 September 2016) was a British-French classical composer, conductor and Representative-General of the International Sufi Movement.
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor- un- Nissa Inayat Khan, GC( 1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), aka Nora Inayat- Khan, was a British heroine of World War II renowned for her service in the Special Operations Executive.
She also went by the name Nora Baker and was a published author of Indian and American descent who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service in the SOE, the highest civilian decoration in the UK.
As an SOE agent she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from Britain into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II, and was Britain's first Muslim war heroine.
Amir Inayat Khan Shahani
Amir Inayat Khan Shahani is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from May 2013 to May 2018.
Andy Wigmore
Andrew Bruce Wigmore is a British political activist, former diplomat and trap shooter.
He is known for his work on the Leave.
EU campaign during the UK's 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union, and is a prominent associate of Arron Banks and Nigel Farage.
He represented Belize in trap shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Vilayat Inayat Khan( 19 June 1916 17 June 2004) was a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Order of Sufism.
His teaching derived from the tradition of his father, Inayat Khan, founder of The Sufi Order in the West, combined with western culture.
One of his sisters was Noor Inayat Khan GC MBE.
He taught in the tradition of universal Sufism, which views all religions as rays of light from the same sun.
His parents met at the New York City ashram of American yogi, Pierre Bernard, half- brother of his mother Pirani Ameena Begum.
In 1975 he founded the Abode of the Message, which serves as the central residential community of the Sufi Order International, a conference and retreat center, and a center of esoteric study.
Arron Banks
Arron Fraser Andrew Banks( born 1966) is a British businessman and political donor.
He is the co-founder( with Richard Tice) of the Leave.
EU campaign.
Banks was previously one of the largest donors to the UK Independence Party( UKIP) and helped Nigel Farage ’s campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
In November 2018 the National Crime Agency opened an investigation into Banks following concerns raised over the source of his funding.
In September 2019, the National Crime Agency dropped its investigations into Banks and Leave.
EU.
The NCA found" no evidence that any criminal offences have been committed."
He has been reported to have had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials as well as being offered business opportunities in Russia in the run -up to the Brexit referendum.
He has denied any wrongdoing and said:" There was no Russian money and no interference of any type."
His 2016 book" The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem& Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign" was ghostwritten by Isabel Oakeshott.
Banks claimed he was suspended from UKIP in March 2017, but UKIP said his membership had" lapsed earlier in the year".
Inayat Khan (historian)
Inayat Khan( 1628- 1671) was a historian during the Mughal Empire.
In his work the" Shahjahannama" he chronicled the life of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Yakzan Hugo Valdez
Yakzan Hugo Valdez (Hugo Salvador Valdez, Oct 20, 1937 - May 24, 1993) was a Sheikh of the Sufi Order International initiated by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and of the Mevlevi Order initiated by Suleyman Hayati Dede, Sheikh of Konya.
Yakzan was additionally a celebrated master of the Dances of Universal Peace as originated by Samuel L. Lewis and an acknowledged peer of the Sheikhs of the Sufi Islamia Ruhaniat Society.
Yakzan was a long term resident of Honolulu, Hawaii.
He established Sufi communities in Hawaii, Chile, and Spain.
Yakzan was born in Jujuy, Argentina, and was tutored as a child under the educational curriculum of Rudolf Steiner.
He moved to New York City as a young man where he studied design and Ikebana.
Enamored with the teachings of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan as taught by his son, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Yakzan received multiple initiations culminating in initiation as Sheikh of the Sufi Order.
Yakzan created a series of trainings or “intensives” that distilled the teachings of Oscar Ichazo of the Arica School and the principles of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way in combination with the tenets of Sufism as derived from the work of Ibn 'Arabi, Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Murshid Samuel L. Lewis.
Yakzan was a charismatic teacher of Sufism, the Path of Love.
A number of renowned teachers and spiritual masters visited and taught in Hawaii as guests of Yakzan and the Sufi Order of Honolulu.
Among their number were Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Reshad Feild, Pierre Elliot of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and his son Hugh Elliot, Suleyman Hayati Dede, Sheikh of Konya and his son Jelaluddin Loras, Sheikh Vasheest Davenport, Shaykha Tasnim Hermila Fernandez, and Zuleikha.
Ameena Begum
Pirani Ameena Begum (Hindustani: अमीरा बेगम / امینہ بیگم) (born Ora Ray Baker; 8 May 1892 – 1 May 1949) was the wife of Sufi Master Inayat Khan and the mother of their four children: WWII heroine Noor-un-Nisa (1914-1944), Vilayat (1916-2004), Hidayat (1917-2016) and Khair-un-Nisa (Cliaire) (1919).
Baker first met Khan when she attended one of his lectures in San Francisco, after which the pair quickly fell in love.
However, resistance from Baker's family prevented them from marrying until 1913, at which point she took the name "Ameena Begum".
After living in London and Moscow for a time, the family settled in Suresnes, near Paris.
She left a collection of 101 poems, "A Rosary of one hundred and one beads".
Some poems were lost during World War II, but 54 have been preserved and were published in 1998.
She was a cousin of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church in the USA.
Hidayat Inayat Khan wrote: "In 1926, Hazrat Inayat Khan gave my Mother an exceptional initiation as "Pirani", which was only to be given to her.
That special initiation was not to be given to any one else in the Sufi Movement, either in the present or in the future".
Hazrat Inayat Khan said in his Autobiography that without Ameena Begum's help he would never have been able to bring his Sufi Message to the Western world..
Zia Inayat Khan
Zia Inayat- Khan( born 1971) is a scholar and teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his grandfather, Inayat Khan.
He is president of the Inayati Order and founder of Suluk Academy, a school of contemplative study with branches in the United States and Europe.

Question: Are Arron Banks and Hidayat Inayat Khan both from the same country?