Famous Kings and Historical Figures

• Tomur Helpe
• Bayanchur Khan
  Bayanchur Khan
  Bayanchur Khan , was an Uyghur khagan from 747 to 759 AD. His official titles were "Ay Tengrida Qut Bolmish" and "El Etmish Bilge Qaghan" . His Tang Dynasty-invested title was Yingwuweiyuanpiqiejuo Khan or Yingwu Khan in short...
  
  
• Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan
  Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan
  Satuq Boghra Khan was a Kara-Khanid Khan; in 934, he was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.According to 12th century historian Jamal Qarshi's History of Kashgar, Satuq was first taught about Islam by Nasr, a wealthy merchant from Bukhara...
  
  
• Baurchuk Art Tekin
  Baurchuk Art Tekin
  Baurchuk Art Tekin was a ruler, with a title of Idikut, of the Buddhist Uyghur kingdom in Beshbalik , Kara-Khoja and Kumul between 1208 and 1235...
  
  
• Rabban Bar Sauma
  Rabban Bar Sauma
  Rabban Bar Sauma , also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma, , was a Turkic/Mongol monk turned diplomat of the Nestorian Christian faith. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Mongol-controlled China to Jerusalem with one of his students, Rabban Markos...
  
  
• Mar Yaballaha III
• Dost Muhammad
  Dost Muhammad (Moghul Khan)
  Dost Muhammad Khan was Khan of eastern Moghulistan from 1462 until his death. He was the son of Esen Buqa II.When Esen Buqa died in 1462, the Dughlat amirs were divided over whether they should follow his son Dost Muhammad, who was then seventeen, or his brother Yunus Khan...
  
  
• Kebek Sultan
  Kebek Sultan
  Kebek Sultan Oghlan was Khan of eastern Moghulistan from 1468 or 1469 until his death. He was the only son of Dost Muhammad....
  
  
• Makhmud Khan
  Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan)
  Sultan Mahmud Khan , was Khan of Tashkent and of the Moghuls of western Moghulistan . He was the eldest son of Yunus Khan...
  
  
• Yunus Khan
  Yunus Khan
  Yunus Khan , was Khan of Moghulistan from 1462 until his death. He is identified by many historians with Ḥājjī `Ali , of the contemporary Chinese records.- Background and Family :...
  
   also known as Ali, Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Akhmad Alach
  Ahmad Alaq
  Ahmad Alaq , was Khan of eastern Moghulistan from 1487 to 1503. He was the second son of Yunus Khan. His mother was Shah Begum, fourth daughter of Badakhshan prince Lali, who was considered to be the descendant of Alexander the Great....
  
   also known as Ahmed, Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Mansur Khan
  Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan)
  Mansur Khan , was the khan of Eastern Moghulistan from 1503 until his death. He was the eldest son of Ahmad Alach.-Life:...
  
   Khan of Turpan during the Ming Turpan Border Wars
• Sultan Said Khan
  Sultan Said Khan
  Sultan Said Khan ruled the state of Yarkand in Uyghurstan/Eastern Turkestan from September, 1514, to July, 1533. He was born in 1487 in Moghulistan and was a direct descendant of the first Moghul Khan, Tughlugh Timur, who had founded the state of Moghulistan in 1348...
  
  
• Abdurashid Khan
  Abdurashid Khan
  Abdurashid Khan , was the ruler of Yarkand Khanate in Uyghurstan between 1533 and 1560 years.Khan was a descendant of the first moghul khan-Tughluk Timur Khan and was born in 1508...
  
  

• Iparhan
  Fragrant Concubine
  The Fragrant Concubine is a figure in Chinese legend who was taken as a consort by the Qianlong Emperor during the 18th century. Although the stories about her are believed to be mythical, they may have been based on an actual concubine from western China who entered the harem of the emperor in...
  
   (Xiang Fei)
• Jakhangir Khoja
  Jihangir
  Jahanghir Khoja, Jāhangīr Khwāja, or Jihangir Khoja was a member of the influential East Turkestan Āfāqī khoja clan, who managed to wrest Kashgaria from the Qing Empire's power for a few years in the 1820s.-Career:...
  
  

• Maqsud Shah
  Maqsud Shah
  Maqsud Shah , was the Uyghur Khan or Prince of the Kumul Khanate from 1908 to 1930. He also held the title Hami Wang, King/Prince of Hami.-Reign:He succeeded his father Muhammmad Shah in 1908 as Khan of Kumul...
  
  
• Yulbars Khan
  Yulbars Khan
  Yulbars Khan , courtesy name Jingfu , was a Uighur born in Yangi Hissar in 1888. He entered the service in the Kumul Khanate of Muhammad Khan of Kumul and later his son Maksud Shah. He served as an advisor at the court, until when Maksud died in March 1930, governor Jin Shuren abolished the khanate...
  
  

• Hala Bashi- a Uyghur General who served the Ming dynasty
  Ming Dynasty
  The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
  
   during the Miao Rebellions (Ming Dynasty)
  Miao Rebellions (Ming Dynasty)
  The Miao Rebellions were a series of Rebellions of the aboriginal Miao and other aboriginal tribes of southern China. The Ming Dynasty crushed the rebels with overwhelming force...
  
  
• Sayyid Husain (Sayyid Hussein)- Uyghur homosexual lover of the Zhengde Emperor.

First East Turkestan Republic

First East Turkestan Republic

The First Eastern Turkestan Republic , or Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan , or, Republic of Uyghurstan, was a short-lived breakaway would-be Islamic republic founded in 1933...

 Politicians

• Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
  Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
  -Life:Sabit Damulla Abdulbaqi was born in 1883, in county of Atush in theKashgar vilayet, in Qeshqer -Life:Sabit (Sawut) Damulla Abdulbaqi was born in 1883, in county of Atush in theKashgar vilayet, in Qeshqer -Life:Sabit (Sawut) Damulla Abdulbaqi was born in 1883, in county of Atush in theKashgar...
  
  
• Hoja-Niyaz
  Hoja-Niyaz
  Hoja Niyaz Haji also Khoja or Xoja Niyaz Haji was a Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang against the Kumul Khanate, the Chinese governor Jin Shuren, and later the Hui warlord Ma Chung-ying...
  
  
• Isa Alptekin
  Isa Alptekin
  Isa Yusuf Alptekin or ʿĪsa Yūsuf Alptekin ; 1901 – 17 December 1995) was a Uyghur political leader, exiled from China in 1949.He was born at 1901 in Yengisar County, Kashgar, Qing Dynasty...
  
  
• Muhammad Amin Bughra
  Muhammad Amin Bughra
  Muhammad Amin Bughra also Muḥammad Amīn Bughra , Муххамад Эмин Бугро, was a Turkic Muslim leader, who planned to set up an independent state, the First East Turkestan Republic....
  
  
• Abdullah Bughra
  Abdullah Bughra
  Abdullah Bughra , was a Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic. He was the younger brother of Muhammad Amin Bughra and older brother of Emir Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra. He commanded Uighur and Kirghiz forces during the Battle of Kashgar against the Chinese Muslimm 36th Division...
  
  
• Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra
  Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra
  Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra , was an Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic. He was the younger brother of Muhammad Amin Bughra and Abdullah Bughra. He commanded Uighur and Kirghiz forces during the Battle of Kashgar against the Chinese Muslim 36th Division...
  
  
• Timur Beg
  Timur Beg
  Timur Beg , or Timur Sijan was a Uighur rebel military leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in Turpan Rebellion . He associated with the Turkic nationalist Young Kashgar Party and appointed himself as 'Timur Shah'. He and other Uighurs...
  
  
• Isma'il Beg
  Isma'il Beg
  Isma'il Beg , was a uighur who dislodged Ma Zhancang's Chinese Muslim troops from Aksu on May 31, 1933. He was then appointed Tao-yin of Aksu. He was a supporter of the Khotan Emirs Abdullah Bughra and his brothers.-References:...
  
  

Second East Turkestan Republic

Second East Turkestan Republic

The Second East Turkestan Republic, usually known simply as the East Turkestan Republic , was a short-lived Soviet-backed Turkic people's republic which existed in the 1940s in three northern districts of Xinjiang province of the Republic of China, what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...

 Politicians

• Elihan Tore
  Elihan Tore
  Elihan Tore Saghuniy (ʿAli Khan Türe or Alihan Tore Shakirjan Khoja ogli) Алихан -тюре was president of the Second East Turkistan Republic....
  
  
• Ehmetjan Qasim
• Gheni Batur
  Gheni Batur
  Gheni Batur is an Uyghur national hero.He was among the first 20 horsemen who began uprising in Nilka County of Ili valley of Sinkiang in September,1944 against Kuomintang Sinkiang provincial government, which eventually led to the establishment of Second East Turkestan Republic in northern...
  
  

Writers, Poets

• Abdurehim Otkur
  Abdurehim Ötkür
  Abdurehim Tileshüp Ötkür was a popular Uyghur author and poet.Ötkür was born in Kumul, Xinjiang. He graduated from Xinjiang University in 1942. He then worked as the editor of the newspaper Altay Geziti till 1949...
  
  
• Zordun Sabir
  Zordun Sabir
  Zordun Sabir is a popular Uyghur author. His most famous work is the historical novel "Anayurt".-Books:*Zordun Sabir, Anayurt, Almaty: Nash Mir...
  
  
• Turghun Almas
  Turghun Almas
  Turghun Almas was an Uyghur historian and poet born in Kashgar. He was criticized for his "support for ethnic nationalist separatists" by Wang Lequen. He was jailed from 1943 to 1946 and again from July 1947 to April 1949 for his political activities...
  
  
• Durnyam Mashurova
  Durnyam Mashurova
  Durnyam Mashurova is anUyghur writer and poet in Kazakhstan.She wrote lyrics to songs performed by Dervishi, an Uyghur music band in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Durnyam Mashurova is best known for her controversial memoirs "A Life Lived Not in Vain" describing life of her husband Azat Mashurov which...
  
  
• Lutpulla Mutellip
  Lutpulla Mutellip
  Lutpulla Mutellip is one of the important figures in modern Uyghur literature. Although he died very young, at the age of 23, he had a strong influence on modern Uyghur literature, and especially on Uyghur poetry. His poems are reputed for the beauty of his language...
  
  
• Yusuf Balasaghuni (Yusuf Has Hajip)
• Kahar Barat
  Kahar Barat
  Kahar Barat is an Uyghur-American historian, known for his work on Buddhism and Islam in Xinjiang.Kahar Barat was born in Yili in 1950.He earned his M.A. degree in Turkology from the Central University for Ethnic Minorities in Beijing; he received his Ph.D...
  
   (born 1950), historian
• Jian Bozan
  Jian Bozan
  Jian Bozan was a prominent Chinese Marxist historian.-Early years and education:...
  
  
• Tohti Tunyaz
  Tohti Tunyaz
  Tohti Tuniyaz is an ethnic Uyghur historian and writer. Tohti graduated from the history department of the Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, in 1984 and was assigned to work for the China National Standing Committee...
  
  
• Ziya Samedi
  Ziya Samedi
  Ziya Samedi was a Uyghur author who emigrated to Kazakstan.Ziya was born in Yarkand County, near Almaty, Kazakhstan. After having gone to Soviet elementary and middle schools, he moved to Ghulja...
  
  
• Musa Sayrami
  Musa Sayrami
  Mullā Mūsa Sayrāmī was a historian from Xinjiang, known for his account of the events in that region in the 19th century, in particular the Dungan Rebellion of 1864-1877...
  
   (1836-1917), historian
• Ähmät Yüknäki
• Abduxaliq Uyghur
  Abduxaliq Uyghur
  Abduhalik Uyghur was a Uyghur poet.Abudhalik began his studies in a Madrasah at the age of eight. He studied Arabic, Persian, and Uyghur classics...
  
  
• Mahmud al-Kashgari
• Ali-Shir Nava'i
• Nurmuhemmet Yasin
• Muhammad Rohi Uighur al-Kashgari

• Yusup Ilyas

Political Activists

• Örkesh Dölet (known as Wuerkaixi, his first name in pinyin
  Pinyin
  Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
  
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• Huseyincan Celil
  Huseyincan Celil
  Huseyincan Celil is an Uyghur imam of Chinese and Canadian citizenship. He became the subject of a controversial court case in 2006 when he was arrested in Uzbekistan, extradited to China against the objections of the Canadian government, and sentenced to life in prison on charges of terrorism...
  
  
• Erkin Alptekin
  Erkin Alptekin
  Erkin Alptekin is a Uyghur activist and separatist. From Germany, he has helped found many separatist and Uyghur nationalist organizations, the best known of which are the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization and the World Uyghur Congress...
  
  
• Rebiya Kadeer
  Rebiya Kadeer
  Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang Autonomus Region of the People's Republic of China...
  
  
• Ismail Semed
  Ismail Semed
  Ismail Semed was an Uighur activist executed by China for "attempting to split the motherland".A Chinese court found Semed guilty of separatism for involvement in the ETIM and sentenced him to death. The government executed him by a gunshot to the heart on 8 February 2007.Human rights group said...
  
  

Musicians

• Abdulla abdurehim
• Ablajan
• Amannisa Khan
  Amannisa Khan
  Amannisa Khan, sometimes called Amanni Shahan, is credited with collecting and thereby preserving the Twelve Muqam, part of the Uyghur musical legacy. The Muqam of Xinjiang has been designated by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity.Amannisa Khan was the daughter of a forester...
  
  
• Askar Memet
• Aytulan
• Bahaguli
• Dilber
  Dilber
  Dilber Yunus . Born in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Dilber is a lyric soprano with coloratura technique. She has been called the "Philomela of China," in reference to the Athenian King Pandion I's daughter, who, according to legend, turned into a nightingale.Dilber was...
  
  
• Dilnaz Akhmadieva
  Dilnaz Akhmadieva
  Dilnaz Akhmadieva is a Kazakh pop singer and actress of Uyghur origin, born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She was married to Ayaz Khan Behttani a Pakistani singer, but the couple later on divorced....
  
  
• Erkin Abdulla
  Erkin Abdulla
  Erkin Abdulla was born in Qarghiliq. Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. He started to study guitar since childhood. In 1999, he graduated from Central University for Nationalities. Because he was very fond of music, he became a professional pop singer, and set up Erkin Music Group...
  
  
• Hoshur Qari
• Kerman
• Koresh Kusen
• Murat Nasyrov
  Murat Nasyrov
  Murat Ismailovich Nasyrov was a Russian pop singer of Uyghur ethnicity....
  
  
• Omerjan Alim

Communist Politicians

• Ismail Tiliwaldi
  Ismail Tiliwaldi
  Ismail Tiliwaldi was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2007 and is currently a Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress....
  
  
• Saifuddin Azizi
• Tömür Dawamet
  Tömür Dawamet
  Tömür Dawamat was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.Tomur is an ethnic Uyghur. He started his working career in May 1950 and later became the local leader from 1954 to 1964...
  
  
• Ismail Amet
• Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit
  Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit
  Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003. He currently serves as the vice chairman of 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ....
  
  
• Shokrat Zakir
• Nur Bekri
  Nur Bekri
  Nur Bekri is the current Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. He is of Uyghur ethnicity and was born and raised in his native Xinjiang. He has spent his entire life in the Region, aside from a short stint as the Deputy Mayor of Feicheng, Shandong...
  
  
• Jerla Isamudin

Detainees in Guantanamo

• Dawut Abdurehim
  Dawut Abdurehim
  On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a nine page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.-Dawut Abdurehim v. George W. Bush:A writ of habeas corpus, Dawut Abdurehim v. George W...
  
  
• Abu Bakker Qassim
  Abu Bakker Qassim
  -Transcript:Qassim chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a ten page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
  
  
• A'Del Abdu Al-Hakim
• Akhdar Qasem Basit
  Akhdar Qasem Basit
  Akhdar Qasem Basit is a Uyghur citizen of China who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....
  
  
• Nag Mohammed
  Nag Mohammed
  Edham Mamet is an Uyghur refugee best known for the more than seven years he spent in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba...
  
  

Sportspeople

• Mehmet Tursun Chong
  Maimaitituersun Qiong
  Qiong Maimaitituersun is a Chinese amateur boxer, who qualified for the 2008 Olympics in his native country at Light welterweight. He lost his opening match to Gennady Kovalev of Russia on a 15-8 decision...
  
  (Maimaitituersun Qiong) Chinese Olympic boxer