Tashkent People

Peter Osaze Odemwingie (Russian: Питер Осазе Одемвингие; born 15 July 1981) is a Soviet-born Nigerian footballer who plays for Premier League club West Bromwich Albion as a striker. His name, Osaze, means "God chooses (for you)".

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbek: Rustam Qosimjonov; Russian: Рустам Касымджанов) (born December 5, 1979) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster, best known for winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. He...

Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (born 5 September 973 in Kath, Khwarezm, died 13 December 1048 in Ghazni ), known as Alberonius in Latin and Al-Biruni in English, was a Persian Muslim scholar and polymath of the 11th century.....