Los kazajos son un pueblo túrquico que habita en las zonas norte de Asia central, es una de las étnias constituyentes de Kazajistán, y es una de las minorías principales en países como Rusia y China. En el pasado fueron famosos por sus ansias de libertad, su habilidad como jinetes y la caza con águilas semidomesticadas. En la actualidad se les conoce por la rapidez con la que está creciendo la economía de Kazajistán. Étnicamente, son una mezcla entre los primitivos turcos y las tribus mongoles.

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The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Kazakh: Қазақ, قازاق , Қазақтар, قازاقتار ; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Mongolia), the region also known as Eurasian sub-continent. Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465, when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu'l-Khayr Khan. The Kazakhs are descendants of the Turkic and medieval Mongol tribes – Argyns, Dughlats, Naimans, Jalairs, Khazars, Qarluqs; and of the Kipchaks and Cumans, and other tribes such as the Huns, and ancient Iranian nomads like the Sarmatians, Saka and Scythians from East Europe populated the territory between Siberia and the Black Sea and remained in Central Asia and Eastern Europe when the nomadic groups started to invade and conquer the area between the 5th and 13th centuries AD. Kazakhs were one of the nations most severely affected by the Soviet famine of 1932–33, with 37% of the total population dying.

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