The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 181 Celebrities, 1 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 35th most number of Celebrities behind Ecuador and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Celebrities of all time. This list of famous Afghan Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Afghan Girl (1972 - )
With an HPI of 52.67, Afghan Girl is the most famous Afghan Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The portrait was shot at Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, while Gula was residing there as an Afghan refugee fleeing the Soviet–Afghan War. Despite the photograph's high global recognition, Gula's identity remained unknown until 2002, when her whereabouts were verified and she was photographed for the second time in her life. Having lived and raised a family in Pakistan for 35 years, Gula was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2016 and subsequently deported to Afghanistan in 2017 on the charge of possessing forged identity documents. However, in November 2021, Gula was granted asylum in Italy, three months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as celebrities born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living celebrities include Afghan Girl.
