Amjad Khan

Amjad Zakaria Khan (12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992) was an Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films, the most famous being the iconic Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic Sholay and of Dilawar in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978).

Early life

Amjad Khan was born in Adezai, a small village of Peshawar, British India, to legendary actor Jayant. His brothers are actors Imtiaz Khan and Inayat Khan who acted in one film. His family was originally from the city of Peshawar, in modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan).

Khan was educated at St.Andrew's High School, in Bandra, Mumbai. He attended R D National College where he was the general secretary, the highest elected student body representative.

Career

Before Amjad Khan came to films he was a theatre actor. His first role was in the film Nazneen (1951). His next role was at the age of 17 in the film Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957). He made appearances in minor roles with father Jayant in a few films. He assisted K. Asif in Love And God in the late 1960s and had a brief appearance in the film. The film was left incomplete after Asif's death in 1971, and it ended up releasing in 1986. In 1973 he made his debut as an adult in Hindustan Ki Kasam.

Amjad Khan (cricketer, born 1966)

Amjad Khan (born 21 August 1966) is a Kashmiri born former American cricketer. Khan was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast and who could occasionally field as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

Khan made his first-class debut for Jammu and Kashmir in the 1988/89 Ranji Trophy against Delhi. He made one further first-class appearance for the state that season, which came against Haryana. In his two matches for the state, he scored 42 runs at a batting average of 10.50, with a high score of 22. The following year in 1989, Jammu and Kashmir did not participate in the Ranji Trophy due to the political unrest.

In 1990, he left Kashmir for the United States of America to find a safer and a better life. Playing for the New York Eagles, a Caribbean-centred club, he led them to three championship's in the Commonwealth Cricket League, the largest league in America. In 1996, Khan moved to Northern California and continued his run scoring spree on the west coast as well. A prolific run scorer in American domestic Cricket for close to two decades, Khan holds the record high score for a batsman in North America when he scored 304* in a quarter final match for United Cricket Club against Berkeley Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association in 1999, although this match is not a major cricket match. He is one of only three players to have scored a triple century in any form of limited overs cricket. Amjad achieved another unique feat on September 30, 2012 when he scored the "Fastest century in US cricket history".  in the final of the Eastern American Cricket Association's Twenty/20 Blitz. Playing the final at Baisley Park, in Richmond Hill, New York, Khan scored his century against Richmond Hill CC and it took him just 56 balls to reach the hundred that included 9 fours and 7 sixes.

Amjad Khan (squash player)

Amjad Khan (Urdu: امجد خان‎; born February 28, 1978 in Peshawar) is a Pakistani professional squash player.

He is currently ranked 89th.

Amjad turned pro in 1994.

He has won a total of 7 PSA titles. His last two being in 2000, first at the Pakistan circuit event II and followed by the Pakistan circuit event IV.

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