Kazmi
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Kazmi or Kazemi is the surname
Surname
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 for a family belonging to the offsprings of Muhammad
Muhammad
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's great-grandson Imam Musa al-Kadhim
Musa al-Kadhim
' was the seventh of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'a Islam. He was the son of Imam and his mother was Hamidah Khātūn, a student and former Zanjiyyah slave...

. They belong to the Sayyid
Sayyid
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 community. Kazmi (or people belonging to this family) can be found all over the world especially in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

, Iraq
Iraq
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 and the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent.

Notable people with the surname Kazmi

  • Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, was a well known scholar and Sufi of international fame, living in Multan, Pakistan
  • Arsalan Kazmi
    Arsalan Kazemi
    Arsalan Kazemi Naeini is an Iranian basketball player who currently plays for Rice University and the Iran national basketball team.He was the captain of the Iranian under-18 national basketball team and has previously played for the main team of Zob Ahan Isfahan at the age of 17 before travelling...

    , Iranian basketball player
  • Farhad Kazmi
    Farhad Kazemi
    Farhad Kazemi is an Iranian football manager. With many professional clubs in his résumé, Kazemi has established himself as one of the top coaches in a country which has many enthusiastic football lovers – Iran....

    , Iranian football manager
  • Ghulam Murtaza Shah Kazmi (G. M. Syed)
    G. M. Syed
    G. M. Syed was a political leader who pioneered the Jeay Sindh movement for the freedom of Sindh from Pakistan. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism...

    , was a Sindhi nationalist, leftist, revolutionary and a sufi
  • Syed Jamil Hussain Kazmi, Well known personlity and Nazim of Union Council Dhaman Syedan, Rawalpindi
  • Hadi Kazmi
    Hadi Kazemi
    Hadi Kazemi is an Iranian actor mostly recognised for his role as Nezam Du Barareh in Mehran Modiri's comedy series Shabhaye Barareh, an Iranian satire television series broadcast by the IRIB network.-Filmography:...

    , Iranian actor
  • Hussain Kazmi
    Hossein Kazemi
    Hossein Kazemi is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Rah Ahan in Iran's Premier Football League.He has also featured in an episode of a TV serie in Iran, with former Esteghlal team-mate, Alireza Ansarian.-Club career:...

     (1979-), Iranian footballer
  • Iqbal Kazmi
    Iqbal Kazmi
    Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi is a human rights activist and journalist and is based out of city of Karachi...

    , human rights activist and journalist
  • Zameer Hassan Kazmi, was a well-known English writer from India
  • Mithaq Kazimi
    Mithaq Kazimi
    Mithaq Kazimi is a film director and producer, mostly known for his documentary film 16 Days in Afghanistan and founding member of Dawn Breakers International Film Festival...

    , filmmaker
  • Mustafa Kazmi
    Sayed Mustafa Kazemi
    Sayed Mustafa Kazemi from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician. He was one of the leaders and the spokesmen for the opposition movement known as the United National Front. He was a former minister of commerce in the Afghan Transitional Government...

     (1962-2007), Afghan politician
  • Nasir Kazmi
    Nasir Kazmi
    Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi, was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He was one of the greatest poets of this era, especially in the use of "ista'aaray" and "chhotee beher". Kazmi was born on December 8, 1925 at Ambala in British India.-Education and Career:Kazmi was educated at Ambala, Simla and Lahore...

    , was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan
  • Nikhat Kazmi
    Nikhat Kazmi
    Nikhat Kazmi is a senior correspondent and well-known film critic from India, who has been writing for The Times of India, since 1987.-Books:* If Shakespeare was a gun: a play. Writers Workshop, 1984....

    , is a popular and well-known film critic from India
  • Dr. S.M. Aqil Kazmi, is a well-known engineer and ex Professor at IIT Delhi, India
  • S.M. Ali Kazmi Kazmi, is ex Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Dr. H.A.Kazmi, is a well-known infrastructure engineer and ex CEO, SNC-Lavalin Infrastructure, India
  • Pratima Kazmi
    Pratima Kazmi
    Pratima Kazmi is an Indian television actress who has worked in many Bollywood movies and Hindi television drama series. Although she now works in Hindi movies & dramas, she started her career in 1997 with an UK's English film called Sixth Happiness, produced by an Indian director Waris Hussein,...

    , is an Indian television actress
  • Rahat Kazmi
    Rahat Kazmi
    Rahat Kazmi is a famous Pakistani television actor, a talk-show anchor, a professional speaker and an academician. He is married to renowned Pakistani actress, producer and director Saira Kazmi, with whom he fell in love when he started his acting career. He has two children from Saira, Ali Kazmi...

    , is a famous Pakistani television actor, talk-show anchor, a professional speaker and an academician
  • Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi (Bari Imam)
    Bari Imam
    Bari Imam , or Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, is the patron saint of Islamabad and the greater Potohar region. His spiritual title is Sultan-ul-Fuqra. His father, Syed Mehmood Shah, a sufi of standing, shifted his family from Karsal Village, Chakwal, to Bagh village, presently called Aabpara, Islamabad....

    , was a Sufi poet and philosopher
  • Shah Syed Ali Kazmi
    Shah Seyyed Ali Kazemi
    Ali Kazemi, born in Moud, was crown prince Marcel's grandfather, and the last tribal leader of Birjand at the beginning of the Pahlavi Dynasty of Reza Shah Pahlavi...

     (?-1984), Iranian tribal leader and public official
  • Shameel Kazmi, is a Pakistan-born Omanian cricketer
  • Tahir Kazmi
    Tahir Kazmi
    Tahir Kazmi was a Pakistani cricketer.Tahir made his first-class debut during the 1978-79 season, for Baluchistan, against Sind, scoring eight runs in the two innings in which he batted....

    , was a Pakistani cricketer
  • Zahra Kazmi
    Zahra Kazemi
    Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ‎ was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal, Canada, who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest....

     (1949-2003), Iranian-Canadian journalist
  • Zhaleh Kazmi
    Zhaleh Kazemi
    Zhaleh Kazemi was a famous Iranian television producer, news anchor and painter. She was also a voice actress for Persian-dubbed films in Iranian cinema.- Source :*...

     (1944-2005), Iranian painter and news anchor
  • Syed Naeem Hussain Shah Kazmi , CEO IT World Networks
  • Syed Yasser Kazmi ,CEO MYASA Network Solutions
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