Malala Yousafzai
ملاله یوسفزۍ
Yousafzai in 2019

Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj];^[2] born 12 July 1997),^[2][3] also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.^[4] She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.