diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py b/django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py
index d24e69e0ce..5b660492e0 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ class MinimumLengthValidator:
     def __init__(self, min_length=8):
         self.min_length = min_length
 
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self.validate(*args, kwargs)
+
     def validate(self, password, user=None):
         if len(password) < self.min_length:
             raise ValidationError(self.get_error_message(), code="password_too_short")
@@ -175,6 +178,9 @@ class UserAttributeSimilarityValidator:
             raise ValueError("max_similarity must be at least 0.1")
         self.max_similarity = max_similarity
 
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self.validate(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def validate(self, password, user=None):
         if not user:
             return
@@ -241,6 +247,9 @@ class CommonPasswordValidator:
             with open(password_list_path) as f:
                 self.passwords = {x.strip() for x in f}
 
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self.validate(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def validate(self, password, user=None):
         if password.lower().strip() in self.passwords:
             raise ValidationError(
@@ -260,6 +269,9 @@ class NumericPasswordValidator:
     Validate that the password is not entirely numeric.
     """
 
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self.validate(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def validate(self, password, user=None):
         if password.isdigit():
             raise ValidationError(
diff --git a/docs/releases/5.2.txt b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
index 7af0b955f6..799fb4db85 100644
--- a/docs/releases/5.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/5.2.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ Minor features
   now have a new method ``get_error_message()``, which can be overridden in
   subclasses to customize the error messages.
 
+* The :ref:`password validator classes <included-password-validators>`
+  now have a new method ``__call__()``, calling the password validator class
+  object will perform ``validate()`` method.
+
 :mod:`django.contrib.contenttypes`
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/test_validators.py b/tests/auth_tests/test_validators.py
index d7e4968951..14d999ccf4 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/test_validators.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/test_validators.py
@@ -158,6 +158,19 @@ class MinimumLengthValidatorTest(SimpleTestCase):
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, expected_error % 3) as cm:
             CustomMinimumLengthValidator(min_length=3).validate("12")
 
+    def test_callable_validate(self):
+        expected_error = (
+            "This password is too short. It must contain at least %d characters."
+        )
+
+        validator = MinimumLengthValidator()
+        self.assertIsNone(validator("12345678"))
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError) as cm:
+            validator("1234567")
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.messages, [expected_error % 8])
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.error_list[0].code, "password_too_short")
+
 
 class UserAttributeSimilarityValidatorTest(TestCase):
     def test_validate(self):
@@ -263,6 +276,24 @@ class UserAttributeSimilarityValidatorTest(TestCase):
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, expected_error):
             CustomUserAttributeSimilarityValidator().validate("testclient", user=user)
 
+    def test_callable_validate(self):
+        user = User.objects.create_user(
+            username="testclient",
+            password="password",
+            email="testclient@example.com",
+            first_name="Test",
+            last_name="Client",
+        )
+        expected_error = "The password is too similar to the %s."
+
+        validator = UserAttributeSimilarityValidator()
+        self.assertIsNone(validator("testclient"))
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError) as cm:
+            validator("testclient", user=user)
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.messages, [expected_error % "username"])
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.error_list[0].code, "password_too_similar")
+
 
 class CommonPasswordValidatorTest(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_validate(self):
@@ -307,6 +338,15 @@ class CommonPasswordValidatorTest(SimpleTestCase):
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, expected_error):
             CustomCommonPasswordValidator().validate("godzilla")
 
+    def test_callable_validate(self):
+        expected_error = "This password is too common."
+        validator = CommonPasswordValidator()
+        self.assertIsNone(validator("a-safe-password"))
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError) as cm:
+            validator("godzilla")
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.messages, [expected_error])
+
 
 class NumericPasswordValidatorTest(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_validate(self):
@@ -334,6 +374,16 @@ class NumericPasswordValidatorTest(SimpleTestCase):
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, expected_error):
             CustomNumericPasswordValidator().validate("42424242")
 
+    def test_callable_validate(self):
+        expected_error = "This password is entirely numeric."
+        validator = NumericPasswordValidator()
+        self.assertIsNone(validator("a-safe-password"))
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError) as cm:
+            validator("42424242")
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.messages, [expected_error])
+        self.assertEqual(cm.exception.error_list[0].code, "password_entirely_numeric")
+
 
 class UsernameValidatorsTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_unicode_validator(self):