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Irrfan Khan

عرفان خان

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Indian actor (1967–2020), born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan at Tonk and trained at the National School of Drama (1984), who broke through internationally with The Warrior (2001) and starred in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and The Lunchbox; he received the Padma Shri in 2011 and died at Mumbai in 2020.

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Roles
actor
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

1900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdelaziz Bouteflika · Abderrahmane Youssoufi · Abdul Azeez Madani · Abdul Hameed Azhari · Abdul Qadeer Khan

Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

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    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years2020

    Sources

    • Irrfan Khan — English Wikipedia
    • عرفان خان — Arabic Wikipedia
    • عرفان خان — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Irrfan Khan — Wikidata
    • Irrfan Khan — Bollywood Hungama feature on the religion debate (2016)
    • Irrfan Khan — NowRunning report on the Ramzan and Muharram remarks (2016)
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Irrfan Khan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/irrfan-khan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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