Beg (surname)

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Beg is a title and honorific degived from the Turkish title "bey". Names of many people traditionally include this honorific, such as Ulugh Beg. In modern times it also serves as a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Arif Beg (1935-2016), Indian politician
• Azad Beg (born 1952), Turkish politician
• Farhat N. Beg, American physicist
• Manzoor Alam Beg (1931-1998), Bangladeshi photographer
• M. A. B. Beg (1934-1990), Pakistani theoretical physicist
• Mirza Afzal Beg
• Mirza Aslam Beg (born 1931), Pakistani general
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg
• Mirza Mehboob Beg (born 1949), Indian politician
• Mohammad Saleem Beg, Indian art conservator, historian and columnist
• Muazzam Beg (born 1978), Indian Bollywood film writer and director
• Zahid Beg, Indian politician