Bangash (Pashto: بنګښ) is the name of a Pashtun clan. The Bangash clan inhabit regions within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the Kurram Agency, the Miranzai Valley (Hangu, Sarozai, Doaba, Darsamand Jandi and Tall city) bordering the Samana Range, Naryab, Tirah, Kohat and Peshawar within the Sarhad province of Pakistan. Some Bangash also inhabit the Rudain, Kaimganj and Farrukhabad regions in India, most notable of whom were the Nawabs of Farrukhabad who established their own Afghan colony.

The Bangash inhabit the Miranzai valley (Hangu), the Kohat defile in British territory (now North West Pakistan), and the valley of Kurram river in Afghanistan. They are said to be the descendants of a person named Ismail, who was surnamed Bankash or Bangash (meaning "root-destroyer"). The Samilzai Bangash, in particular, are noted for their bravery and could turn 3000 plus fighting men. The Bangash inhabited the Kurram valley for several hundred years.^{[citation needed]} The emperor Babur (A.D. 1504), the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, mentions the names of the local Pashtun tribes in his biography. Babur describes a population of approximately 5600 Bangash located in Kuramm, which was formerly divided into Bangash-i-Bala and Bangash Payan, Upper and Lower Bangash, and lists Bangash as one of the fourteen provinces then dependent on Kabul. Babur wished to conquer these provinces, but was unable to conquer the territory bounded on the north by the Koh-i-Sufaid down as far as Bannu, where Bangash, Turis, Wazirs live, as is clear from his comments: "Bangash is another tuman [of Kabul]. The area round about is full of Afghan highway robbers such as the Khugiani, Khirilchi, Turi and Landar. Since it is isolated they do not pay the desired revenue. As greater tasks such as the conquest of Qandahar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Hindustan occupied me, there has been no opportunity to subjugate the Bangash".

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.