Frequent persons on Uzbekistan's street signs

Timur

26 Timur or Tamerlane was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An...

Ali-Shir Nava'i

20 'Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai...

Babur

11 Babur was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother respectively. He was also given the posthumous name...

Avicenna

9 Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian...

Ulugh Beg

8 Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh, better known as Ulugh Beg, was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician.

Islam Karimov

7 Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov was an Uzbek politician who led Uzbekistan and its predecessor state, the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, from 1989 until his death in 2016. He was the last First...

Sharof Rashidov

6 Sharof Rashidovich Rashidov was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1959 until his death in 1983. During his tenure the Uzbek SSR saw considerable...

Oybek

6 Oybek — shoir, yozuvchi, adabiyotshunos olim va jamoat arbobi. Oʻzbekiston xalq yozuvchisi (1965), Oʻzbekiston Fanlar akademiyasi akademigi (1943). Oybek hunarmand-boʻzchi oilasida tugʻilgan. Dastlab...

Yangi

5 Yangi was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the third Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period, though he is not attested in any known contemporary artefacts. He is listed among the...

Furqat

5 Zokirjon Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli (1859–1909), better known by his pen name Furqat, was an Uzbek author, poet, and political activist. He had a major influence on the development of modern Uzbek...

Yuri Gagarin

5 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Al-Farabi

5 Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder...

Ahmad Donish

4 Ahmad Donish — tojik olimi, yozuvchi, pedagog, faylasuf, mutafakkir va shoir, davlat arbobi va Buxoro amirligining Rossiya imperiyasidagi elchisi. XIX asr tojik maʼrifatparvarlari toʻgaragi rahbari....

Choʻlpon

4 Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov, most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon, was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular...

Abdulla Qodiriy

4 Abdulla Qodiriy, also spelt Abdullah Qodiriy and Abdullah Kadiri in English, was an Uzbek playwright, poet, writer, and literary translator. Qodiriy was one of the most influential Uzbek writers of...

Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi

4 Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi was an Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, teacher, and political activist. Niyazi is widely seen as one of the leading figures in the early development of...

Sodiq Azimov

3 Sodiq Azimovich Azimov – fizik olim, Oʻzbekiston Fanlar Akademiyasi akademigi (1962), Oʻzbekistonda xizmat koʻrsatgan fan va texnika arbobi (1964), fizika-matematika fanlari doktori (1955), professor...

Baha-ud-din Naqshband

3 Bahá-ud-dín Shah an-Naqshband Muhammad al-Uwaysi al-Bukhárí (1318–1389) was the founder of what would become one of the largest Sufi Sunni orders, the Naqshbandi.

Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy

3 Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy was an Uzbek mathematician and historian who served as the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.

Sobir Rakhimov

3 Sabir Umaruly Rakhimov was a Red Army Major general and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Rakhimov fought in World War II and commanded the 37th Guards Rifle Division from November 1944. Rahimov...

Lutfiy

3 Lutfiy yoki Mavlono Lutfiy — oʻzbek shoiri, orif va mutafakkir. Oʻz zamonining „malik ul-kalomi“.   

Shota Rustaveli

3 Shota Rustaveli, mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to...

Sultan Ali Mashhadi

3 Sultan ‛Ali Mashhadi, Persian: سلطان‌علی مشهدی was a Persian calligrapher and master of nastaliq script.

Magtymguly Pyragy

3 Magtymguly Pyragy, born Magtymguly, was a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who is considered to be the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.

Berdakh

3 Berdakh, pseudonym of Berdimurat son of Gargabay was a Karakalpak poet.                             

Abdurauf Fitrat

3 Abdurauf Fitrat was an Uzbek author, journalist, politician and public intellectual in Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule.

Abdulla Qahhor

3 Abdulla Qahhor was a Soviet and Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari and the...

Hamid Olimjon

3 Hamid Olimjon was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is considered to be one of the finest twentieth-century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet...

Yernazar Olakoʻz

3 Ernazar Olakoʻz — Qoraqalpoqlarning qoldovili urugʻidan boʻlgan biy, Qoraqalpoq xonligini tashkil etgan (1855—1856).

Chinghiz Aitmatov

3 Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature.

Usmon Nosir

3 Usmon Nosir was an Uzbek poet. It was said of the poet that he entered "as a thunder and lived a very short creative life as lightning."

Mikhail Lomonosov

3 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus...