---
name: "Ziauddin Yousafzai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ziauddin-yousafzai"
fi1m_id: "ziauddin-yousafzai"
imdb_id: "nm6485830"
tmdb_id: 1517736
wikidata_id: "Q8071389"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:54:41.946772+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ziauddin Yousafzai

## Identity

Ziauddin Yousafzai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ziauddin-yousafzai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ziauddin-yousafzai
- **IMDb ID:** nm6485830
- **TMDB ID:** 1517736
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8071389
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziauddin_Yousafzai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8071389, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6485830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1517736

Actor. Born 1 January 1969 in Pakistan.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1969, Pakistan
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziauddin_Yousafzai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8071389, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6485830/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1517736

## Biography

Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani educational activist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the father of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and as co-founder of the Malala Fund, which promotes girls' education worldwide.

Born in 1969 in Shangla, Pakistan, he has worked as a teacher and school founder, advocating for education in the Swat Valley before and after the Taliban insurgency. He appeared as himself in the 2015 documentary *He Named Me Malala* and published the memoir *Let Her Fly* in 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *He Named Me Malala* (2015), Fi1m 60, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/he-named-me-malala.md)

## Gallery

- ![Ziauddin Yousafzai](https://film.one/media/person/4167531/gallery-365d55f5691c.jpg) Ziauddin Yousafzai — Fahim Farooq, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Photo_of_Ziauddin_Yousafzai.jpg/1280px-Photo_of_Ziauddin_Yousafzai.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Martin Schulz remet le prix Sakharov à Malala Yousafzai au Parlement européen de Strasbourg. (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/4167531/gallery-741c8780bcdc.jpg) Martin Schulz remet le prix Sakharov à Malala Yousafzai au Parlement européen de Strasbourg. (2013) — Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Remise_du_Prix_Sakharov_%C3%A0_Malala_Yousafzai_Strasbourg_20_novembre_2013_01_%28cropped%29_2.jpg/1280px-Remise_du_Prix_Sakharov_%C3%A0_Malala_Yousafzai_Strasbourg_20_novembre_2013_01_%28cropped%29_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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