Bukhari (surname)

Bukhari (بخاري), also spelled as Bokhari, Bukhary and Bukhori, is a common surname in Central and Western Asia, meaning "from Bukhara" (in today's Uzbekistan). Its Arabic version Al-Bukhari (Arabic: البخاري‎) was also used in the medieval Islamic world as a nisba (a specifier which is added at the end of names).

Males

• Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870), editor of Sahih al-Bukhari, the book of Hadith
• Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1199–1291), Naqvi Sufi saint and missionary
• Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar al-Bukhari (1211–1279), Yunnan's provincial governor, under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
• Jamal ad-Din Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī, (13th-century) Persian-speaking Muslim astronomer
• Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of the Naqshbandi tariqa
• Kirom Bukhoroi, 18th century Tajik poet
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (1892–1961), Muslim scholar and orator
• Patras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist and diplomat
• Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (1904–1975), Urdu broadcaster and first director-general of Radio Pakistan
• Lal Bokhari (1909–1959), Indian field hockey player
• Naeem Bokhari (born 1948), Pakistani lawyer and television personality
• Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (born 1952), Malaysian businessman
• Nayyar Hussain Bukhari (born 1952), Pakistani politician
• Shahid Hussain Bokhari (born 1952), Pakistani computer scientist
• Syed Faisal Bukhari (born 1963), Pakistani film and television director, producer, and cinematographer
• Nourdin Boukhari (born 1980), Dutch-born Moroccan footballer
• Mudassar Bukhari (born 1983), Pakistani-born Dutch cricketer
• Admiral Fasih Bokhari, Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistani navy
• Asghar Bukhari, founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK
• Fida Hussain Bukhari, Pakistani religious scholar

Females

• Tahmena Bokhari (born 1978), Pakistani-Canadian beauty pageant titleholder and social worker
• Noor Bukhari (born 1982), Pakistani actress and model
• Shahnaz Bukhari, Pakistani clinical psychologist and women's rights activist
• Meher Bukhari, Pakistani journalist and TV host

The Bokhary family of Hong Kong

• Daoud Bokhary (born ca. 1919), Hong Kong businessman
• Kemal Bokhary (born 1947), Hong Kong judge, son of Daoud
• The Hon. Mrs Justice Verina Saeeda Bokhary, SBS, Hong Kong judge and wife of Kemal^[1]
• Amina Mariam Bokhary, centre of Amina Bokhary controversy, Hong Kong resident, niece of Kemal

References

1. Face to Face with Justice Kemal Bokhary: A Life in Law, Hong Kong Lawyer, by Hans Mahncke