Shadaab Khan (born 20 September 1973) is an Indian Hindi film actor, writer, and film director. He is the son of actor Amjad Khan.
Shadaab Khan was born on 20 September 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India (now Mumbai) into a Muslim family to parents Amjad Khan and Shaila Khan.
Shadaab is of Pashtun descent on his father's side, traced back to Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province (now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), where his grandfather Zakaria Khan, better known as Jayant, was born and raised. Through his mother, his grandfather is Akhtar ul Iman, an Urdu poet and screenwriter in the Hindi film industry who has written the dialogues for two of Yash Chopra's best-known movies, Waqt (1965) and Ittefaq (1969).
He has two siblings, brother Seemab Khan, a club cricketer, and sister Ahlam Khan, an actress and screenwriter married to actor Zafar Karachiwala. He is married to Rumana Achwa since 2005.
Shadaab Khan has been writing since the age of 8 and has published two fiction books: Shanti Memorial, a collection of novellas in the horror and thriller genres, in 2013 and Murder in Bollywood, a crime novel, in 2015.