Wazir often refers to: Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister

Wazir may also refer to:

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Places

Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan

Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan

Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan

Other uses

Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction Wazir (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan Waziri language, a dialect of the Pashto language spoken in Waziristan region of Pakistan Wazir Khan Mosque, a mosque in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Wazir, a class for viziers in Brunei.

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People with the name

Wazir Khan (Lahore), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan

Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (died 1710), governor of Sirhind in the Mughal Empire

Wazir Ali Khan (1780–1817), fourth nawab of Awadh, India

Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), an Afghan prince, general, and emir

Wazir Arsala Khan, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in 1869

Wazir Ali (1903–1950), India Test cricketer

Wazir Mohammad (born 1929), former Pakistani cricketer

Haji Wazir (Bagram detainee), a detainee at Bagram who had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf Ali Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Mir Kalam (Mir Kalam Khan Wazir), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Khalil al-Wazir (1935–1988), Palestinian military leader and senior aide of Yasser Arafat Khalid Wazir (born 1936), former Pakistani cricketer Abdullah Wazir (born 1979), one of the Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay Wazir Mohammed Khan (died October 14, 1974), an Indian actor who acted in many movies including the first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) Safiya Wazir, American politician Usman Wazeer, Pakistani boxer Wazir Baig, Pakistani politician and former speaker of Gilgit Baltistan Assembly

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See also

Waziri (disambiguation) Vazir (disambiguation)

Arabic-language surnames

Arabic-language masculine given names

Masculine given names