List of Yazidi people
The following is a list of notable persons of Yazidis.
A
- Ali Atalan, politician
- Arab Shamilov, novelist
- Amar Suloev, mixed martial artist, hitman
- Amin Farhan Jejo, Yazidi politician and author
- Ibrahim Khalil, The Yazidi folk singer and songwriter
- Aslan Usoyan, Russian mafia boss
- Al-Hasan ibn Adi, religious heir of ‘Adī ibn Sakhr
- Amirkhan Mori, owner and chairman of the Regions Group
- Aziz Tamoyan,was the president of the Yezidi National Union
- Sheikh Ali Ilyas is the current Baba Sheikh (religious leader) of the Yazidi community since November 2020
D
- Dalal Khario, Women's Rights Award recipient, former captive of ISIS
- Deniz Undav, footballer
E
- Emerîkê Serdar, journalist, writer, translator
- Emine Evdal, writer, linguist and poet
- Eskerê Boyîk, poet and writer
- Ezidi Mîrza, 17th century governor of Mosul, Yezidi leader and hero
F
- Fakhr ad-Din ibn Adi, Yezidi saint
- Farida Khalaf, former ISIS captive
G
- Guram Adzhoyev, former footballer
H
- Hazim Tahsin Beg, current Yezidi leader
- Hemoyê Shero, nineteenth century Yezidi tribal leader
- Heciyê Cindî, linguist and researcher
- Heydar Şeşo, founder and supreme commander of the Yazidi self-defense militia Protection Force of Ezidkhan
- Khdr Hajoyan, President of the Yezidi National Union, chief executive officer of "Ezdikhana" newspaper.
J
- Jalile Jalil, historian, writer and Kurdologist
- Jangir Agha, national hero
K
- Khalil Rashow, academic, writer and researcher
- Khanna Omarkhali (Xana Omarxali), academic, writer and researcher focusing mainly on Yazidism
- Khurto Hajji Ismail, current Baba Sheikh of the Yazidi[1]
- Kseniya Borodina (paternal side), television presenter and actress[2]
- Kyaram Sloyan, soldier killed and beheaded by Azerbaijani soldiers
L
- Lamiya Aji Bashar, human rights activist
M
- Mahmoud Ezidi, Peshmerga fighter
- Misha Aloyan, boxer
- Meyan Khatun, Yazidi princess
- Mir Tahsin Saied Beg, current hereditary leader (Mīr, or prince) of the Yazidi people
- Mir Jafar Dasni, launched an uprising in 838
- Mahma Xelil, mayor of Sinjar in Nineveh Province, Iraq.
N
- Nadia Murad, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
O
- Ordîxanê Celîl, writer and academic
P
- Pîr Xidir Silêman, writer, teacher and parliamentarian
R
- Roman Amoyan, Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympian
- Ronya Othmann, writer and journalist
S
- Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Shaykh
- Sakhr Abu l-Barakat, Shaykh
- Sheikh Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan, Shaykh
- Sheikh Khairy Khedr, Commander and founder of the Yazidi militia Malik Al-Tawus Troop
- Samand Siabandov, hero of the Soviet Union
- Shir Sarim, Yazidi leader who led an uprising against Safavid Persia during the reign of Shah Ismail I.
- Sheikh Ali Ilyas, current Baba Shekh
- Souzan Barakat, Yazidi girl, murder victim
T
- Têmûrê Xelîl, journalist, writer and translator
- Tosinê Reşîd, writer, poet and playwright
U
- Usuv Beg, 19th and 20th century Yezidi leader in Armenia
V
- Vian Dakhil, member of the Iraqi parliament
W
- Wansa, Yazidi princess
X
- Xelîlê Çaçan Mûradov, writer and journalist
Z
- Zara Mgoyan, pop singer, actress and social activist
- Zakhar Kalashov, Russian mafia boss
- Ismail Özden, Yezidi PKK commander in Shingal.
References
- ^ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UNHCR’s ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION NEEDS OF IRAQI ASYLUM-SEEKERS. Geneva, August 2007
- ^ "Top-15 Beautiful Kurdish and Yazidi Women".