- female, 48 years old
- Leyla Zana (born May 3, 1961), is a former female Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, who was imprisoned for speaking Kurdish in the Turkish...
- male, 56 years old
- Mehmed Uzun, is a contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. He was born in Siverek, Urfa in Turkey in 1953. Although Kurdish was outlawed in Turkey...
- male, deceased (2000)
- Ahmet Kaya (28 October, 1957, Malatya, Turkey - 16 November, 2000, Paris, France) was a Kurdish poet, singer, and a leading artist in Turkey.
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- Amir Hassanpour, (1943-), is a prominent Iranian Kurdish scholar and researcher. He was born in Mahabad, in north-western Iran. He received...
- female, 43 years old
- Roya Toloui (1966-), is a prominent Iranian Kurdish journalist, human rights activist and feminist, currently residing in US. She was born in Baneh...
- male, deceased (2000)
- Ibrahim Ahmad, Ibrahim Ahmed or Ibrahîm Ehmed, was a Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. He was born in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan and s...
- male
- Şivan Perwer (born on December 23 1955 in Sarıdam (Sorî), Siverek as İsmail Aygün) is a poet, a singer a performer on the "tembûr" (lute) and a lead...
- male, 58 years old
- Farhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran...
- male, 53 years old
- Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, commonly known as Mullah Krekar, born July 7, 1956, is an Iraqi Kurd who came to Norway as a refugee from northern Iraq in...
- male
- Abdulla Goran was a Kurdish poet. He undoubtedly brought about a revolution in Kurdish poetry, and is also called the father of modern Kurdish...
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