# Changezi

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**Changezi** is a [Turkic](/source/Turkic_peoples)-origin surname in Pakistan and India. It is the equivalent of Iranian and Afghan [Changizi](/source/Changizi_(disambiguation)) and comes from the name of [Changez Khan](/source/Changez_khan) (Genghis Khan) and/or his soldiers who came to [West](/source/West_Asia) and [South Asia](/source/South_Asia). It is common among [Moghol](/source/Moghol_people), [Mughal](/source/Mughal_tribe), [Hazara](/source/Hazara_people), [Aimaq](/source/Aimaq_people), and some Turkic peoples within [Central](/source/Central_Asia), South and West Asia in particular.[1]

## Notable people with this name

- [Asghar Ali Changezi](/source/Asghar_Ali_Changezi), Pakistani boxer
- [Ismail Changezi](/source/Ismail_Changezi), Pakistani television actor.
- [Yagana Changezi](/source/Yagana_Changezi), pseudonym of Mirza Wajid Husain (1884–1956), Indian Urdu-language poet
- [Younus Changezi](/source/Younus_Changezi) (born 1944), Pakistani footballer and politician
- [Naseem Mirza Changezi](/source/Naseem_Mirza_Changezi),[2] Indian independence activist
- [Wajahat Mirza Changezi](/source/Wajahat_Mirza), Indian screenwriter and film director of the 1950s–60s
- [Mohsin Changezi](/source/Mohsin_Changezi), Pakistani Urdu poet
- [Mushtaque Changezi](/source/Mushtaque_Changezi), Pakistani filmmaker
- [Sharbat Ali Changezi](/source/Sharbat_Ali_Changezi), Pakistani general[1]
- [Jan Ali Changezi](/source/Jan_Ali_Changezi),[3], Pakistani politician

## References

1. [Hope fades away for Hazaras of Pakistan](https://www.dawn.com/news/730474/hope-fades-away-for-hazaras-of-pakistan) Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 June 2012, Retrieved 17 December 2017

1. [Profile of Naseem Mirza Changezi on thedelhiwalla.com website](http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/2016/10/24/the-biographical-dictionary-of-delhi-naseem-mirza-changezi-b-old-delhi-1910/comment-page-1/) Published 24 October 2016, Retrieved 17 December 2017

1. [Profile of Jan Ali Changezi on Provincial Assembly of Balochistan website](http://www.pabalochistan.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/26/351) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110126021540/http://www.pabalochistan.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/26/351) 26 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 17 December 2017

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