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Bukhari (بخاري), also spelled as Bokhari, Bukhary and Bukhori, is a common surname in Central and Western Asia, meaning "from Bukhara" (in today Uzbekistan). Its Arabic version Al-Bukhari (Arabic: البخاري) was also used in the medieval Islamic world as a nisbat (a specifier which is added at the end of names). The most known Al-Bukhari is Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, the Sunni scholar. The list includes:
- Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (Editor of 'Sahih Bukhari, the most renowned book of Hadith)
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (Muslim scholar, orator)
- Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
- Syed Ahmed Shah Patras Bokhari (Humorist, diplomat)
- Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary
- Justice Kemal Bokhary
- Admiral Fasih Bokhari
- Shahid Bokhari
- Naeem Bukhari (Lawyer, TV personality)
- Adnan Bukhari
- Ameer Bukhari
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