List of Famous people born in Afghanistan

Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer and columnist. Born in Kabul, she is daughter of politician Murtaza Bhutto, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter of former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. She was raised in Syria and Karachi, and received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College, followed by an master's degree from the University of London.

Mustafa Masi Nayyem is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, and public figure who took part in Euromaidan in Ukraine. Formerly, he was a reporter for the newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine", the TVi channel, and the Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!", and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014, he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. He has been described as a reformist parliamentarian. Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Atiq Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker.

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Is'haq al-Fayadh, is one of the most senior Shi'a marja living in Iraq after Ali al-Sistani.

Zohre Esmaeli is a model, designer and author from Afghanistan. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She was said to be the only international top model from Afghanistan in 2014.

Khatool Mohammadzai is an Afghan brigadier general who serves in the Afghan National Army. She was first commissioned in the military of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan during the 1980s, when she became the first woman from the country to be trained as a paratrooper; she has since logged over 600 jumps in her career. She continued to serve in the Afghan military as an instructor until the Taliban took power in 1996. Reinstated to the military created after the United States invasion in 2001, she became the first woman in Afghan history to reach general officer rank.

Karim Khalili is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party. Most recently he was Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council from 2017 until its dissolvement in 2019. He was selected as a candidate for Second Vice President of Afghanistan in 2002 by Hamid Karzai; they were elected in 2004 and left office in 2014. Since 1989, he has also been one of the main leaders of the Wahdat political party of Hazara.

Azita Ghanizada is an American actress.

Abdul Ahad Mohmand is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Pashtun, first Afghan citizen and fourth Muslim to journey to outer space.

Aryana Sayeed is an Afghan singer, songwriter and TV personality. She sings mostly in Persian/Dari but also has many songs in Pashto. She is one of Afghanistan's most famous musical artists, performing regularly in concerts and philanthropic festivals within and outside Afghanistan. Sayeed has also had host roles in musical television shows for the 1TV and TOLO networks.