Great people of Uzbekistan

AliSher Navai Mir Ali Sher Navai (also spelled Nevai) (Uzbek: Alisher Navoiy also known as Nizamidin Alsher Nawai - (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) was a Central Asian Turkic politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet. He was the greatest representative of Chagatai language (old Uzbek) literature. He significantly contributed to the development of the Uzbek language and is widely considered to be the founder of Uzbek literature. Ali Shir Navai was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navai- (meaning "melodic" or "melody maker"). Because of his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, he is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places and institutions in Uzbekistan and other Turkic countries are named after Ali Shir Navai. Navoiy Province, the city of Navoiy, the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoiy, the Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, and Navoiy Airport — all are named after him. Many of Navai's ghazals have become part of Uyghur 12 Muqam and popular Uzbek folk songs and, especially by Sherali Jorayev, and his works have been staged as plays by Uzbek playwrights.