List of people from Punjab, Pakistan
This is a list of notable people from Punjab, Pakistan.
Religious and spiritual figures
National figures
Muhammad Iqbal, one of the founding fathers and the national poet of Pakistan. Iqbal was of mixed Kashmiri and Punjabi heritage.[1]
Pakistan Armed Forces
- General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Qamar Javed Bajwa, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
- Lt Gen Abdul Ali Malik
- Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua
- Maj Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik
- Major Tufail Muhammad, recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider (NH)
- Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, recipient of NH
- Major Muhammad Akram, recipient of NH
- Major Shabbir Sharif, recipient of NH
- Captain Muhammad Sarwar, recipient of NH
- Naik Saif Ali Janjua, recipient of NH
- Lace Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, recipient of NH
- Sowar Muhammad Hussain, recipient of NH
Politicians
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former Army Chief of Staff and former President of Pakistan (1977–1988)
- Ahsan Ullah Chaudhary, former market head of Punjab, Pakistan
- Shabbir Gujjar, former Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, politician
- Yousaf Raza Gillani, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (Pakistan Peoples Party)
- Qamar Zaman Kaira, former Minister (Pakistan Peoples Party)
- Shah Mehmood Qureshi, politician PTI
- Usman Dar, former SAPM on Youth affairs
- Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving parliamentarian of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999
- Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament
- Amir Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Kalabagh, Governor of East Pakistan
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan (PPP)
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, current president of PML(Q)
- Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Chief Minister of Punjab (2002–2007)
- Tanveer Islam, politician and businessman
- Muhammad Mansha Ullah Butt, former provincial minister for local bodies
- Khawaja Muhammad Asif, former defence minister of Pakistan
Writers and Poets
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar
- Shah Hussain
- Sultan Bahu
- Bulleh Shah
- Ali Haider Multani
- Lutf Ali
- Waris Shah
- Qadir Yar
- Mian Muhammad Baksh
- Khawaja Ghulam Fareed
- Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Hafeez Jalandhari
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
- Ustad Daman
- Hasan Manto
- Shareef Kunjahi
- Ahmad Rahi
- Habib Jalib
- Anwar Masood
- Aizaz Azar
- Mazhar Tirmazi
- Ali Arshad Mir
- Mir Tanha Yousafi
Sportspersons
- Masood Fakhri, footballer
- Ajaz Akhtar, cricketer
- Amir Iqbal Khan, boxer
- Abdul Khaliq, sprinter
- Shoaib Akhtar, cricketer
- Abdul Razzaq, cricketer
- Wasim Akram, cricketer
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer
- Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer
- Waqar Younis, cricketer and sports presenter
- Shahnaz Sheikh, hockey player
- Shoaib Malik, cricketer
- Misbah-ul-Haq, cricketer
- Saeed Anwar, cricketer
- Muhammad Amir, cricketer
Scientists
- Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his contributions to the Electroweak force
- Riazuddin, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
- Masud Ahmad, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
- Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
- Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)
Film and TV artists
- Sultan Rahi, actor
- Shaan Shahid, actor
- Bilal Ashraf, actor
- Humayun Saeed, actor
- Ali Zafar, actor
Singers
- Abrar ul Haq, Punjabi folk + Pop singer
- Alam Lohar, Punjabi folk singer
- Arif Lohar, Punjabi folk singer
- Pathanay Khan, Punjabi folk singer
- Inayat Hussain Bhatti, Punjabi folk singer
- Musarrat Nazir, Punjabi folk singer
- Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
- Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
- Badar Miandad, qawwali singer
- Ghulam Farid Sabri, qawwali singer
- Maqbool Ahmad Sabri, qawwali singer
- Amjad Sabri, qawwali singer
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
- Noor Jehan, classical singer
- Atif Aslam, pop singer
Others
- Chaudhary Niaz Ali Khan (civil engineer)
References
- Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir. Stray reflections: a note-book of Allama Iqbal. ISBN 978-969-35-2734-6. OCLC 894183786.
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