Famous People with Name Akhtar

Akhtar Hameed Khan            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Akhtar Hameed Khan: was a development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan, Bangladesh and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development. His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959).

Akhtar Hussain Albela            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Akhtar Hussain Albela: a Pakistan film, stage comedian actor. He was born in a small town Gojra of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab in 1941.Albela came to Lahore at a very young age to become an actor. Albela had a long film career as comedian but he did not succeed on silver screen. He was more popular as stage actor. His first film was Rishtay released in 1963. He had only one film Wardatia (1991) in main role and some of his other films are Badnam, Yaar Maar, Ishq Nachawe Gali Gali, Allah Ditta, Siren, International Luttairey, Majhoo, Abdullah The Great, Hero, and Khandan.

Akhtar Rasool            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Akhtar Rasool: is a former field hockey player and captain from Pakistan, who won the golden medal with the Men's National Hockey Team at the Hockey World Cups 1978 and again in 1982.

Akhtar Hussain            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Akhtar Hussain: was a field hockey player, who won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics for India and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics for Pakistan.

Akhtar Ali            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Akhtar Ali: a former tennis player of India. He was the member of the Indian team that reached the final of Davis Cup in 1967. He was a member of the Indian Davis Cup team continuously from 1958 to 1964. Helping win the Eastern region in 1961 Davis Cup. Former Captain of Indian Davis cup in 2008.[1]Later he turned to coaching and coached the players like Ramesh Krishnan, Vijay Amritraj, Anand Amritraj and Leander Paes. He is father of Zeeshan Ali, a former Indian national tennis champion.

Javed Akhtar            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Javed Akhtar: is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1962. An off spinner, he had success at first-class level, taking his wickets at an average of 18.17, but struggled in his only Test, failing to take a wicket.

Mansoor Akhtar            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Mansoor Akhtar: is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 19 Tests and 41 ODIs from 1980 to 1990.

Shoaib Akhtar            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Shoaib Akhtar: is a Pakistani cricketer, widely recognized as the fastest bowler in the world, earning him the name Rawalpindi Express. He set a world record by clocking 100mph twice. His ability to bowl fast yorkers, well disguised slow balls, swinging deliveries, and

Farhan Akhtar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Farhan Akhtar: an Indian film writer-director-actor-playback singer and producer.His directorial debut (Dil Chahta Hai, 2001) was highly praised and he has since been noted for his cult following. He made his acting debut with Anand Surapur's film, The Fakir of Venice (2007) [1][2][3], and his singing debut in Rock On!! (2008).Farhan Akhtar started his career by working as an apprentice with cinematographer-director, Manmohan Singh at age 17, for films like Lamhe (1991); before going on to assist director, Pankaj Parashar in film Himalayputra (1997), followed by working in a Television production house for three years, doing various jobs [4].