Editing Kabul (section)

==Notable people==
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=== Rulers ===
* [[Gaju Khan|Gaju Khan Yousafzai]] (c. 1490–1565), Pashtun revolutionary leader who served under the banner of [[Sher Shah Suri|Sher Shah Sur]] of the [[Sur Empire]]

=== Politicians ===
* [[Sher Ali Khan]] (c. 1825–1879), former Emir of Afghanistan
* [[Abdur Rahman Khan]] (born between 1840 and 1844 – 1901), Emir of Afghanistan
* [[Amanullah Khan]] (1892–1960), Emir of Afghanistan during the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War|Independence War]] till abdication in 1929
* [[Habibullāh Kalakāni]] (1891–1929), Revolutionary rebel leader and ruler of Afghanistan in 1929
* [[Mohammed Zahir Shah]] (1914–2007), the last king of Afghanistan
* [[Hafizullah Amin]] (1929–1979), former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
* [[Babrak Karmal]] (1929–1996), former President of Afghanistan
* [[Zamina Begum]] (1917–1978), former Afghan princess and first lady of Afghanistan
* [[Sibghatullah Mojaddedi]] (1926–2019), former President of Afghanistan
* [[Anahita Ratebzad]] (1931–2014), former Minister of Social Affairs and Tourism of Afghanistan
* [[Abdullah Abdullah]] (born 1960), former chief executive officer of Afghanistan
* [[Shukria Barakzai]] (born 1970), Afghan politician and former ambassador of Afghanistan to Norway
* [[Roya Rahmani]] (born 1978), former Afghan diplomat, who served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to the United States
* [[Nasima Razmyar]] (born 1984), Afghan-Finnish politician

=== Religious figures ===
* [[Abu Khalid al-Kabuli]] (live during 7th century), a prominent early Islamic figure, known for his close companionship with [[Ali al-Sajjad|Ali Zayn al Abidin]], fourth [[Imam]] of [[Shia Islam]]
* [[Abu Hanifa]] (born 7th century), prominent Islamic scholar and the founder of the [[Hanafi school]] of jurisprudence, one of the four major [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] legal schools, whose ancestors hailed from the Kabul region
* [[Mir Zahid Harawi]] (born 17th century), religious scholar and historian, worked and died in Kabul
* [[Mohaqiq Kabuli]] (born 1928), [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver Shia]] [[Marja'|Marja]]'

=== Musicians ===
* [[Mohammad Hussain Sarahang]] (1924–1983), singer
* [[Abdul Rahim Sarban]] (1930–1993), singer
* [[Nainawaz]] (1935–1979), artist, poet and composer
* [[Farhad Darya]] (born 1962), singer
* [[Ahmad Zahir]] (1946–1979), singer
* [[Aryana Sayeed]] (born 1985), singer

=== Athletes ===
* [[Salim Durani]] (1934–2023), former cricketer and only Indian Test cricketer to have been born in Afghanistan
* [[Siyar Bahadurzada]] (born 1984), mixed martial artist, former [[Shooto]] Middleweight Champion, and first athlete from Afghanistan to fight in the [[Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]]
* [[Asghar Afghan]] (born 1987), retired cricketer, Afghanistan's former captain who ended his career with the highest T20I wins as captain
* [[Omar Nazar]] (born 1978), footballer
* [[Zubayr Amiri]] (born 1990), footballer for SC Hessen Dreieich and the Afghanistan national team
* [[Karim Janat]] (born 1998), cricketer, brother to [[Asghar Afghan]]
* [[Naveen-ul-Haq]] (born 1999), cricketer
* [[Hamid Rahimi]] (born 1983), boxer

=== Actors and Actresses ===
* [[Azita Ghanizada]] (born 1978 or 1979), American actress
* [[Leena Alam]] (born 1978), film actress
* [[Vida Samadzai]] (born 1978), actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
* [[Annet Mahendru]] (born 1985), Afghan-born American actress
* [[Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada]] (born 1997), former child actor

=== Writers and Poets ===
* [[Saib Tabrizi]] (born c. 1592) Persian poet who spent several years in Kabul under the patronage of Mirzā Aḥsan-Allāh Ẓafar Khan, the governor of Kabul at the time
* [[Khaled Hosseini]] (born 1965), Afghan-American novelist
* [[Homeira Qaderi]] (born 1980), writer
* [[Nainawaz]] (1935–1979), artist, poet and composer

=== Journalists ===
* [[Sayed Hamid Noori]] (born 1965), journalist
* [[Mustafa Nayyem]] (born 1981), Afghan-[[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] journalist who was influential in sparking the [[Euromaidan]]
* [[Yama Wolasmal]] (born 1982), journalist
* [[Farahnaz Forotan]] (born 1992), journalist
* [[Wahida Faizi]] (born 1994), journalist

=== Activists ===
* [[Adela Mohseni]] (born c. 1972), women's rights activist{{Div col end}}