Malala Yousafzai; born 12 July 1997; is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan; where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement. Pictures From History Pictures From History