'''[[w:Pashtuns|Pashtuns]]''', known historically as ethnic '''Afghans''' and in the Indian subcontinent as '''Pathans''', form an ethnic group of approximately 5049 million people<ref>{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Paul M.|title=Pashto, Northern|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pbu|work=[[SIL International]]|publisher=[[Ethnologue]]: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition|location=Dallas, Texas|quote=''Ethnic population: 49,529,000 possibly total Pashto in all countries.''}}</ref> who mainly live in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Pashtuns (some pronounce it as ''Pakhtoons'') speak their native Pashto language but many of them are also fluent in Persian, Urdu and Hindi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pashtun {{!}} people|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pashtun|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>
==Notable people who relate to the Pashtun ethnicity==
