List of Famous people named Mukhtar

Mukhtar Ansari is a politician from Uttar Pradesh. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency a record five times. He was the prime accused in the BJP leader Krishnanand Rai murder case but later found not guilty in 2019.

Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov was a Kazakh writer, a social activist, a Doctor of Philology, and an honored academic of the Soviet Union (1946). He was born on September 28, 1897 and raised in Semey (Kaskabulak).

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is an Indian politician and the current Union Minister of Minority Affairs.

Mukhtar Shakhanov is a prominent Kazakh writer, lawmaker, and the Kazakh ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. He is also a Member of Parliament for Majilis, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Zhalyn.

Mukhtar Kabyluly Ablyazov is a former chairman of Bank Turan Alem, co-founder and a leader of the unregistered political party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (QDT). He was also the former head of the state-owned Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) as well as briefly holding the position of Minister for Energy, Industry, and Trade in Kazakhstan.

Mukhtar Abdullahi Ali is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al-Nassr and the Saudi Arabia national football team. He was born in Jeddah and moved to London as an infant.

Mukhtar Rabatuly Aymakhanov is a Russian cosmonaut; he was originally a Kazakhstani cosmonaut.

Mukhtar Magauin is a Kazakh writer and publicist. He was born in the district of Chubar-Tau in Semey region of Kazakhstan on 2 February 1940. He graduated at the Kazakh state university (1962) and the doctorate (1965) there. He was head of the literary criticism department at the “Kazakh literature” newspaper in Almaty. He publishes several scholarly articles and books and novels.

Mukhtar Abraruly Kul-Mukhammed is a Kazakh politician who served as the First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan from 2016 to 2018, adviser to the President of Kazakhstan from 2015 to 2016, 2014 to 2015, and 2003 to 2014, Minister of Culture and Information from 2013 to 2014, State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2013, Minister of Culture from 2008 to 2012, akim of Kyzylorda Region from 2007 to 2008, Akorda Press Secretary from 2004 to 2007, and the Minister of Culture, Information and Public Accord from 2001 to 2004.