Bukhari (surname)
Bukhari (بخاري), also spelled as Bokhari, Bukhary and Bukhori, is a common surname in Central and Western Asia, meaning "from Bukhara" (in today's Uzbekistan). Its Arabic version al-Bukhari (Arabic: البخاري) was also used in the medieval Islamic world as a nisba (a specifier which is added at the end of names).
Males
- Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870), editor of Sahih al-Bukhari, the book of Hadith
- Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1199–1291), Naqvi Sufi saint and missionary
- Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar al-Bukhari (1211–1279), Yunnan's provincial governor, under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
- Jamal ad-Din Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī, (13th-century) Persian-speaking Muslim astronomer
- Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of the Naqshbandi tariqa
- Kirom Bukhoroi, 18th century Tajik poet
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (1892–1961), Muslim scholar and orator
- Patras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist and diplomat
- Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (1904–1975), Urdu broadcaster and first director-general of Radio Pakistan
- Lal Bokhari (1909–1959), Indian field hockey player
- Naeem Bokhari (born 1948), Pakistani lawyer and television personality
- Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (born 1952), Malaysian businessman
- Nayyar Hussain Bukhari (born 1952), Pakistani politician
- Shahid Hussain Bokhari (born 1952), Pakistani computer scientist
- Syed Faisal Bukhari (born 1963), Pakistani film and television director, producer, and cinematographer
- Nourdin Boukhari (born 1980), Dutch-born Moroccan footballer
- Syed Khuram Shahzad Bukhari (born 1980), Pakistani Climate Change Researcher Scholar[1]
- Mudassar Bukhari (born 1983), Pakistani-born Dutch cricketer
- Admiral Fasih Bokhari, Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistani navy
- Asghar Bukhari, founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
- Fida Hussain Bukhari, Pakistani religious scholar
Females
- Tahmena Bokhari (born 1978), Pakistani-Canadian beauty pageant titleholder and social worker
- Noor Bukhari (born 1982), Pakistani actress and model
- Shahnaz Bukhari, Pakistani clinical psychologist and women's rights activist
- Meher Bukhari, Pakistani journalist and TV host
The Bokhary family of Hong Kong
- Daoud Bokhary (born ca. 1919), Hong Kong businessman
- Kemal Bokhary (born 1947), Hong Kong judge
- Amina Mariam Bokhary, centre of Amina Bokhary controversy
References
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