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Mirza Baba
Mirza Baba (میرزا بابا) was a Persian court painter who served the Qajar dynasty and became chief painter, or naqqash-bashi, to Fath-Ali Shah in Tehran.
Mirza Delibasic
Mirza Delibasic (Mirza Delibašić, 1954–2001), Bosnian basketball shooting guard; Euroleague champion with Bosna Sarajevo 1979, Real Madrid 1981–83, Olympic gold 1980 and world champion 1978 with Yugoslavia; FIBA Hall of Fame 2007.
Mirza Dzomba
Mirza Džomba (born 1977, Rijeka) is a retired Croatian handball right wing, Olympic champion 2004, world champion 2003, Champions League winner 2006 with Ciudad Real, later a TV commentator.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician who was elected the country's 23rd president in 2026, after serving as a minister and as secretary-general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 2016.
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov (Mirzə Fətəli Axundov, 1812–1878) was an Azerbaijani writer, philosopher, and literary critic called the "Muslim Molière"; his six comedies founded Azerbaijani drama, and a 1873 Baku performance began professional theater there.
Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh
Mirza Fath Ali Akhundzadeh (میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده) was an Azerbaijani playwright and alphabet reformer, a founder of Azerbaijani drama who served as a translator in the Russian administration of the Caucasus.
Mirza Firoz Shah
Mirza Firoz Shah (فیروز شاہ) was a Mughal prince who became a rebel commander in the Indian uprising of 1857–58, mustering a following at Mandsaur in Malwa.
Mirza Ghazi Beg
Mirza Ghazi Beg (میرزا غازی بیگ) was the last Tarkhan ruler of Thatta in Sindh, governing from 1600 until his death, after which Sindh passed under direct Mughal governors.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (مرزا غلام احمد)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (مرزا غلام احمد), also known as Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, was an Indian religious leader who founded the Ahmadiyya movement in Punjab in 1889.
Mirza Hadi Ruswa
Mirza Hadi Ruswa (مرزا ہادی رسوا) was an Urdu novelist of Lucknow, best known for Umrao Jan Ada (1899), cited as the first Urdu novel.
Mirza Haidar Dughlat
Mirza Haidar Dughlat (میرزا حیدر دوغلت), a Chagatai Turko-Mongol commander and cousin of Babur, ruled Kashmir from about 1540 until his death in 1551 and wrote the Tarikh-i Rashidi.
Mirza Hakim
Mirza Hakim (میرزا حکیم), fully Mirza Muhammad Hakim, was a Mughal prince and son of Humayun who ruled Kabul until 1585 and twice invaded the Punjab in rivalry with Akbar.
Mirza Husayn Nuri Tabarsi
Mirza Husayn Nuri Tabarsi (میرزا حسین نوری طبرسی), known as Muhaddith Nuri, was a Shi'i hadith scholar of Qajar Iran whose Mustadrak al-Wasa'il adds over 23,000 reports to Wasa'il al-Shi'a.
Mirza Ismail
Mirza Ismail (ಮಿರ್ಜಾ ಇಸ್ಮಾಯಿಲ್) was an Indian statesman, born in Bangalore in 1883, who served as Diwan of Mysore from 1926 to 1941 and later as prime minister of Jaipur and Hyderabad.
Mirza Itesamuddin
Mirza Itesamuddin (مرزا ایتسام الدین) was a Bengali munshi and diplomat who in 1765 became the first known educated South Asian to travel to Europe, visiting Britain and France.
Mirza Kalich Beg
Mirza Kalich Beg (مرزا قليچ بيگ; 1853–1929), honorifically styled Shams-ul-Ulama, was a Sindhi writer and civil servant who wrote several hundred books and pioneered the Sindhi novel.
Mirza Mahdi Khan Astarabadi
Mirza Mahdi Khan Astarabadi (میرزا مهدی خان استرآبادی) was the court secretary and official historiographer of Nader Shah, serving him for seventeen years until 1747.
Mirza Malkam Khan
Mirza Malkam Khan (میرزا ملکمخان; 1833–1908) was an Iranian reformist intellectual and diplomat of Armenian origin who served as minister in London and founded the newspaper Qanun.
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (مرزا مسرور احمد)
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (مرزا مسرور احمد), known as Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, is the fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, elected for life in 2003.
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janan
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janan (مرزا مظہر جانِ جاناں), also titled Shamsuddin Habibullah, was a Naqshbandi Sufi master and Persian and Urdu poet of Delhi, 1699 to 1781.
Mirza Mohammad Hasan Shirazi
Mirza Mohammad Hasan Shirazi (میرزا محمدحسن شیرازی), known as Mirzai Shirazi, was a leading Shiite cleric in Samarra, Iraq, remembered for the Tobacco Boycott of 1891 against the British Regie monopoly.
Mirza Mohammad Kalantar
Mirza Mohammad Kalantar (میرزا محمد کلانتر) was an 18th-century Iranian administrator and diarist whose Ruznameh chronicle is a primary source for the Zand-Qajar transition of 1789 to 1794.
Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda
Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda (مرزا محمد رفیع سودا) was an 18th-century Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi, regarded as the greatest satirist of classical Urdu poetry.
Mirza Mustafa Efendi
Mirza Mustafa Efendi (c. 1630–1722) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm under Sultan Ahmed III in 1714–1715, the first permitted to authenticate fetvas with his personal seal.
Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Masood
Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Masood (1906-1991), Indian field hockey vice-captain and 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medallist; later private secretary to Maulana Azad, UNESCO mission chief, and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Mirza Nathan
Mirza Nathan (مرزا ناتن), born Alauddin Isfahani and titled Shitab Khan, was a Mughal officer in Bengal who wrote the Baharistan-i-Ghaybi, the only contemporary chronicle of its conquest.
Mirza Rafi'a
Mirza Rafi'a (میرزا رفیعا) was the Persian official Mohammad Rafi' Ansari, who served as accountant-general at Isfahan and wrote the Dastur al-Moluk, a late Safavid administrative manual.
Mirza Rahmat Baig
Mirza Rahmat Baig (Mirza Rahmath Baig Quadri), AIMIM politician from Hyderabad, Telangana; former driver rose to Legislative Council MLC for Hyderabad Local Authorities (2023-2029), elected unopposed, expelled by AIMIM in August 2026 over an alleged video controversy and refused to resign.
Mirza Sahiban (مرزا صاحباں)
Mirza Sahiban (مرزا صاحباں), one of Punjab's four great tragic romances with Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal and Sassi-Punnun: Kharal Jat Mirza elopes with Sial chief's daughter Sahiban, who breaks his arrows; her brothers kill him. First versified by Peelu, retold by Hafiz Barkhurdar and in many films.
Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer
Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer (مرزا سلامت علی دبیر) was an Urdu poet of Delhi origin, a master of the marsiya elegy, who died in Lucknow in 1875.