Bukhari (surname)
Bukhari (بخاري), also spelled as Bokhari, Bukhary and Bukhori, is a common surname in Central and Western Asia, meaning "from Bukhara" (in today's Uzbekistan). Its Arabic version Al-Bukhari (Arabic: البخاري) was also used in the medieval Islamic world as a nisba (a specifier which is added at the end of names).
Males
Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870), editor of Sahih al-Bukhari, the book of Hadith
Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1199–1291), Naqvi Sufi saint and missionary
Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar al-Bukhari (1211–1279), Yunnan's provincial governor, under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Jamal ad-Din Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī, (13th-century) Persian-speaking Muslim astronomer
Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of the Naqshbandi tariqa
Kirom Bukhoroi, 18th century Tajik poet
Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (1892–1961), Muslim scholar and orator
Patras Bokhari (1898–1958), Pakistani humorist and diplomat
Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari (1904–1975), Urdu broadcaster and first director-general of Radio Pakistan
