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• Fukuoka Prize 1989 Prize Awards and competitions Japan

  An award of the city of Fukuoka and the Fukuoka City International Foundation honouring outstanding work in preserving and creating Asian cultures, with an arts-and-culture category.

• Al Tazaj 1989 Restaurant Enterprise, brands and finance

  Al Tazaj.

• Kuveyt Türk Participation Bank 1989 Company Enterprise, brands and finance GermanyTürkiye

  A Turkish participation bank based in Istanbul, founded in 1989 as a special finance house under Turkish Council of Ministers Decision No. 831/7506 of 1983, subject to the Banking Law from 1999 and named Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası in May 2006; Kuwait Finance House is its largest shareholder.

• Real World Records 1989 Record label Music and nasheed

  A British world-music label founded in 1989 by Peter Gabriel and WOMAD's original members at Box, Wiltshire, to give musicians from around the world modern studios and wider audiences; it released Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Mustt Mustt, Night Song, The Last Prophet and Dust to Gold, and had sold over 3 million records by 1999.

• Ahmed Zewail 1989 Achievements and firstsFigures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian-American chemist, born in Damanhur in 1946, raised in Desouk and educated at Alexandria University. He founded femtochemistry and was known as the 'father of femtochemistry'; he received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, founded the Zewail City of Science and Technology, and died in 2016.

• Ali Maksum 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ali Maksum, the Indonesian shaykh and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Aziz Mian 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal (1942–2000) called the emperor of qawwali, one of the few who wrote their own lyrics; he began at the shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, sang so often for the army that he was dubbed the 'military qawwal', holds the record for the longest commercially released qawwali (about 115 minutes), received the Pride of Performance in 1989 and died on a concert tour of Iran.

• Bojan Bogdanović 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Croatian former basketball player (born 1989) from Mostar, who played in the NBA from 2014 to 2025 for Brooklyn, Washington, Indiana, Utah, Detroit and New York, led all scorers at the 2016 Rio Olympics for Croatia, and announced his retirement in June 2025 after recurring foot injuries.

• Dina Shihabi 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi Arabian actress working in the United States, born in Riyadh in 1989 and raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut and Dubai. She was the first Middle East-born woman accepted into both the Juilliard and NYU graduate acting programs, took her MFA from NYU in 2014, and is known for playing Hanin in Jack Ryan (2018), Dig 301 in Altered Carbon (2020) and Melody Pendras in Archive 81 (2022).

• Elnaz Rekabi 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iranian competition climber, born in Zanjan in 1989. She won bronze in the combined event at the 2021 World Championships and three medals at the Asian Championships. In October 2022 she competed in the Asian Championships final in Seoul without a headscarf, during the Mahsa Amini protests; her own posted explanation said the scarf had fallen off inadvertently, while the BBC later reported, citing an informed source, that her statement had been made under pressure.

• Ilwad Elman 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Somali-Canadian social activist, born in Mogadishu. She returned from Canada to Somalia in 2010 and works alongside her mother Fartuun Adan at the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre, where she co-founded Sister Somalia, the country's first rape crisis centre, and designed programmes for the disarmament and rehabilitation of child soldiers. She and her mother received the Right Livelihood Award in 2022.

• Israel Adesanya 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian-New Zealander mixed martial artist and former kickboxer (born 1989 in Lagos, raised in Rotorua). Two-time UFC middleweight champion: he unified the title in 2019 and defended it five times in his first reign, then regained it in 2023 as the division's first two-time champion, losing it in September 2023. A documentary about him, Stylebender, premiered at Tribeca in 2023.

• Kaveh Akbar 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iranian-American poet, novelist and editor, born in Tehran in 1989. He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the bestselling novel Martyr! (2024); he directs the undergraduate creative writing programme at the University of Iowa and is poetry editor of The Nation.

• Mahmoud al-Hasanat 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian preacher, orator and writer born in the Gaza Strip in 1989. He is known for short, impassioned sermons that circulate on YouTube — most famously 'Wa-yamkurun wa-yamkur Allah' — won the 'Orator of the Poor' award in 2018, and has written the books Tagharid and Jawaz Safar. He lives in Turkey after years of study in Sudan that included a brief detention in 2020.

• Muhammad al-Ghazali 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

• Muhammad Wilkerson 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  American football defensive end (born 1989) from Linden, New Jersey, a Temple standout taken by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft; a Pro Bowl selection and two-time Second-team All-Pro with the Jets before a final season with Green Bay in 2018. He is known as 'Mo'.

• Oki Setiana Dewi 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian actress, writer and preacher born in Batam in 1989. She became known for the lead role in the film Ketika Cinta Bertasbih (2009), studied Dutch literature at the University of Indonesia and later earned two doctorates in Islamic studies and Qur'anic studies, and in 2016 founded the Maskanul Huffadz foundation, which houses and sponsors orphaned and poor girls memorising the Qur'an. She preaches on television and on her YouTube channel.

• Omar Al Somah 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian striker born in Deir ez-Zor in 1989. He finished as the Saudi Pro League's top scorer in three straight seasons (2015, 2016 and 2017) with Al-Ahli, winning the 2016 league title, and has won 47 caps for Syria, scoring 23 goals. In 2026 he returned to Al-Wahda of Damascus.

• Raneem El Weleily 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian former professional squash player, born in Alexandria in 1989. World champion in 2017 and world No. 1 from September 2015, she won 23 tour titles and retired in 2020.

• Rico Verhoeven 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Dutch kickboxer, professional boxer and mixed martial artist born in Bergen op Zoom in 1989. He was Glory's longest-reigning heavyweight champion, holding the title for 4,220 days with a record thirteen defences. In 2026 he challenged Oleksandr Usyk for the WBC heavyweight boxing title in Egypt and lost by technical knockout.

• Rıza Kayaalp 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler at 130 kg, born in Yozgat in 1989. A five-time world champion and thirteen-time European champion, with an Olympic silver medal (2016) and two bronzes (2012, 2020). A four-year anti-doping ban was announced in 2025, which he said he would appeal, and the articles record a further European title in 2026.

• Ruhollah Khomeini 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ruhollah Khomeini (1900/1902–1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician, the leader of the Iranian Revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its supreme leader from 1979 until his death. A jurist and marja' in Twelver Shi'ism, he taught at Qom, was exiled to Turkey and then Iraq, returned to Iran in February 1979, and left works on jurisprudence and Islamic government, among them Islamic Government and Tahrir al-Wasila.

• Sa'id al-Mufti 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sa'id al-Mufti (26 June 1898 – 25 March 1989) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat of Circassian origin, of the Habjoka family of the Kabarday tribe, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Jordan between 1950 and 1956, held the interior and finance portfolios, and presided over the Senate in two periods (1956–1963 and 1965–1974). He was one of Jordan's founding notables: he hosted the Emir Abdullah at his house on his arrival from the Hejaz in 1921, led a force of a thousand Circassian fighters to Syria in 1920 in support of King Faisal after Maysalun, sat on the Consultative Council at the age of twenty, co-founded the Jordan People's Party in 1927, retired in 1974, and died and was buried in Amman.

• Sarra Besbes 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian épée fencer, born in Abu Dhabi in 1989 into a sporting family. A multiple African Championships gold medallist, she placed eighth at the London 2012 Olympics and fifth at Rio 2016, won bronze at the 2015 World Championships and a World Cup gold in Buenos Aires the same year, and also competed at Tokyo 2020.

• Serigne Abdou Ahad Mbacké 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese scholar (1914-1989), son of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba and third caliph-general of the Mourides from 1968 until his death. Under him Touba expanded rapidly: a hospital, a gendarmerie, bus stations and markets, the enlargement and Moroccan-style decoration of the Great Mosque, and a library holding 170,000 volumes.

• Tahmina Kohistani 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan sprinter in the 100 metres, born in Kapisa Province in 1989. She was Afghanistan's only female athlete at the 2012 London Olympics, where she set a personal best of 14.42 seconds, and she was named to the BBC's 100 Women list in 2015.

• Tom Facchine 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  American imam and scholar. He accepted Islam in 2010 while a student at Vassar College, then studied at the Islamic University of Madinah (2015-2020), graduating from its Faculty of Shariah. He is Research Director of Islam and Society at the Yaqeen Institute, resident scholar and imam of Utica Masjid in New York, and an instructor at Legacy International Online High School.

• Uzair Gul Peshawari 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Uzair Gul Peshawari, the Deobandi scholar and co-worker in India's freedom struggle; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sayed al-Naqshabandi 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian munshid, supplicant and reciter (1920–1976), founder of a school of ibtihalat whose voice became part of the Ramadan iftar on Egyptian radio; he recorded six supplications composed by Baligh Hamdi, among them 'Mawlay inni bi-babik', died on 14 February 1976 and was given the State Order (1979) and the Order of the Republic (1989) posthumously.