List of Pakistanis

Pakistan is the fifth most populous nation in the world. Below is a list of some notable people who relate to the country. See Pakistani people for a list of pages about notable Pakistanis by category.

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Heads of state or government

Civil / democratically elected administrators

• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; first Governor General of Pakistan, and the main founder of Pakistan.
• Liaquat Ali Khan
• Khawaja Nazimuddin
• Ghulam Muhammad
• Iskander Mirza
• Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
• Chaudhry Fazal Ellahi
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
• Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
• Muhammad Ali Bogra
• Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
• Feroz Khan Noon
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Muhammad Khan Junejo
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan
• Benazir Bhutto
• Farooq Leghari
• Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
• Balakh Sher Mazari
• Moeen Qureshi
• Malik Meraj Khalid
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali
• Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
• Shaukat Aziz
• Wasim Sajjad
• Mohammad Mian Soomro
• Yousaf Raza Gillani
• Raja Pervez Ashraf
• Nawaz Sharif
• Mamnoon Hussain
• Arif Alvi
• Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
• Asif Ali Zardari
• Imran Khan
• Shehbaz Sharif

Military / non-democratically elected administrators

• Field Marshal Ayub Khan
• General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan
• General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• General Pervez Musharraf

Foreign ministers

• Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (27 December 1947—24 October 1954)
• Aziz Ahmed (30 March 1977—5 July 1977)
• Agha Shahi (14 January 1978—9 March 1982)
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (21 March 1982—1 November 1987)
• Abdul Sattar (23 July 1993—19 October 1993)
• Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali (16 November 1993—4 November 1996)
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Caretaker: 11 November 1996—24 February 1997)
• Gohar Ayub (25 February 1997—7 August 1998)
• Sartaj Aziz
• Abdul Sattar (23 July 1999—14 June 2002)
• Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (23 November 2002—15 November 2007)
• Inam-ul-Haq (Caretaker: 15 November 2007—24 March 2008)
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi (31 March 2008—February 2011)
• Hina Rabbani Khar (18 July 2011—11 May 2013)
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi (20 August 2018)
• Khawaja Muhammad Asif
• Nawaz Sharif
• Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Bureaucrats

• Roedad Khan
• Sartaj Aziz
• Nargis Sethi
• Tariq Bajwa
• Fazalur Rehman
• Mohammed Ikramullah
• Rizwan Ahmed
• Tasneem Noorani
• Usman Ali Isani
• Qudrat Ullah Shahab
• Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
• Jawad Rafique Malik
• Sikandar Sultan Raja
• Nasir Mahmood Khosa
• Rabiya Javeri Agha
• Fawad Hassan Fawad
• Kamran Lashari

Diplomats

• A. S. Bokhari
• Agha Shahi
• Jamsheed Marker
• Jauhar Saleem
• Javid Husain
• Maliha Lodhi
• Prince Ali Khan
• Khalid Amir Khan, Ambassador to Hungary, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
• Riaz Khokhar
• Najmuddin Sheikh
• Tehmina Janjua
• Tariq Azim Khan, High Commissioner to Canada (from 2015 to 2018)
• Abdus Salim Khan
• Shahryar Khan

Attorney General of Pakistan

• Aziz A Munshi
• Makhdoom Ali Khan
• Malik Mohammad Qayyum
• Latif Khosa
• Ashtar Ausaf Ali
• Salman Aslam Butt
• Khalid Jawed Khan
• Iqbal Haider
• Mansoor Usman Awan
• Shehzad Ata Elahi

Other major political figures

A – F

• Abdul Ghani, provincial assembly member
• Abdul Majeed, provincial assembly member
• Abul A'la Maududi, writer of Tafhim-ul-Quran , founder of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
• Abdul Qadir Patel, Advisor to President of Pakistan and National Assembly Member
• Adnan Wazir, provincial assembly member
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Akhtar Khan, provincial assembly member
• Ali Madad Jattak, provincial assembly member
• Ali Shah, provincial assembly member
• Allama Mashriqi
• Altaf Hussain, founding member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London
• Anwar Kamal Khan, senior leader of political party PMLN
• Asif Khan, provincial assembly member
• Aurangzeb Khan, provincial assembly member
• Bahadur Yar Jung
• Bakht Muhammad, provincial assembly member
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
• Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, coined the word "Pakistan"
• Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi
• Faisal Khan, provincial assembly member
• Faisal Khan Jamali, provincial assembly member
• Fatima Jinnah, sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, provincial assembly member

G – L

• Allama Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Tahreek-e- Pakistan activist, associate of the Quaid-e-Azam and a scholar on the Quran
• Ghulam Faruque Khan
• Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri
• Iftikhar Ahmad Khan Jadoon, provincial assembly member
• Ihtisham Ali, provincial assembly member
• Imran Khan, ex-cricket player, former prime minister in Pakistan
• Ishfaq Ahmed, provincial assembly member
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Liaqat Ali, provincial assembly member

M – R

• Mahmud Ali, leader in the Pakistan Movement, statesman and journalist
• Makhdoom Zada Muhammad Aftab Haider, provincial assembly member
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
• Mian Muhammad Umar, provincial assembly member
• Mir Saeed Ahmed Langove, provincial assembly member
• Mir Shoaib Nosherwani, provincial assembly member
• Mufti Mahmud, founding member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Muhammad Azam Khan, provincial assembly member
• Muhammad Iqbal Khan, provincial assembly member
• Muhammad Riaz, provincial assembly member
• Mohammad Usman, provincial assembly member
• Mohammad Usman, former National assembly member
• Muhammad Yamin, provincial assembly member
• Mukhtar Ahmed Malik, provincial assembly member-elect
• Munir Hussain, provincial assembly member
• Murtaza Khan, provincial assembly member
• Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani
• Naseer Khan Khoso , provincial assembly member
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Ahrari leader
• Nek Muhammad Khan, provincial assembly member
• Qazi Hussain Ahmed, ex-Chairman of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan

S – Z

• Sahib of Manki Sharif
• Samad Khan, provincial assembly member
• Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar
• Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, founder of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam.
• Shafi Ullah Jan, provincial assembly member
• Shah Abu Tarab Khan Bangash, provincial assembly member
• Shahzada Mohiuddin
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
• Sikandar Hayat Khan, Premier of the Province of Punjab and senior statesman
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
• Syed Zafar Ali Agha, provincial assembly member
• Tariq Mehmood Aryani, provincial assembly member
• Ubaid Ullah, provincial assembly member
• Wali Muhammad, provincial assembly member
• Zahir Khan, provincial assembly member
• Zar Alam Khan, provincial assembly member

Judges

• Justice A. R. Cornelius
• Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar
• Justice Sir Abdur Rashid
• Justice S. Anwarul Haq
• Justice Dorab Patel
• Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
• Justice Hamoodur Rahman
• Justice Ajmal Mian
• Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
• Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
• Justice Mohammad Haleem
• Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah
• Justice Muhammad Munir
• Justice Muhammad Rustum Kiani
• Justice Muhammad Shahabuddin
• Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali
• Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah
• Justice Qadeeruddin Ahmed
• Justice Rana Bhagwandas
• Justice Sajjad Ali Shah
• Justice Mukhtiar Ahmad Junejo
• Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif
• Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed
• Justice Haziqul Khairi
• Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza
• Justice Saqib Nisar
• Justice Asif Saeed Khosa
• Justice Allama Khalid Mahmood
• Justice Gulzar Ahmed
• Justice Athar Minallah
• Justice Ali Baqar Najafi
• Justice Zahid Hussain
• Justice Ali Baqar Najafi

Lawyers

Group of lawyers in Lahore High Court, Lahore: Zafar Iqbal Kalanauri and Akhtar Aly Kureshy, Mirza Qayyum and Wallana Sahib

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Pakistani lawyers.

• Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
• S M Zafar
• Akhtar Aly Kureshy
• Hamid Khan
• Asma Jahangir, Senior ASC
• Aitzaz Ahsan
• Ashtar Ausaf Ali
• Khalid Ranjha
• Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
• Mahmud Ali Kasuri
• Ahmad Awais
• Wasim Sajjad
• Ghulam Farooq Awan
• Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
• Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri
• Akram Sheikh
• Syed Ali Zafar
• Naseer Ahmed Bhutta
• Babar Awan
• Rana Muhammad Akram Khan
• Makhdoom Ali Khan
• Khalid Anwer
• Mohammed Jibran Nasir
• Abid Hassan Minto
• Shakeel ur Rahman
• Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
• Farooq Naek
• Salman Aslam Butt
• Suman Kumari, first Hindu woman judge in Pakistan
• Iqbal Haider
• Hina Jilani
• Azam Nazeer Tarar

Human rights activists and philanthropists

• Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of Edhi Foundation
• Ruth Pfau, founder of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre
• Ramzan Chhipa, founder of Chhipa Welfare Association
• Hakim Muhammad Saeed, founder of Hamdard Pakistan
• Ansar Burney, founder of Ansar Burney Trust International
• Dr. Amjad Saqib, founder of Akhuwat Foundation
• Naimatullah Khan, advocate, former Chairman of Al-Khidmat Foundation
• Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
• Irfan Pardesi, founder and President of Zee Foundation
• Mushtaq Chhapra, founder of The Citizens Foundation
• Sheema Kermani, founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan
• Asma Jahangir
• Hina Jilani
• Abid Qaiyum Suleri
• Shoaib Sultan Khan
• Masood Ul Mulk
• Fatima Lodhi
• Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, first woman minister in Pakistan and prominent social worker
• Veeru Kohli
• Dadi Leela (1916–2017), educationist, music teacher, philanthropist
• Gulalai Ismail
• Syeda Ghulam Fatima
• Fouzia Saeed
• Tabassum Adnan

Academia

Scientists, researchers and scholars

• Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics 1979, science advisor to the Government of Pakistan (1960–1974), founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), received the Sitara-e-Pakistan for contribution to science in Pakistan (1959) and founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste
• Akbar Sitara Brooj is a cancer researcher at NHS England & Oxford University, she made multiple world records & is a child prodigy & motivation speaker.
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, Distinguished National Professor and Professor Emeritus, Quaid-e-Azam University; historian and archaeologist
• Jamal Malik, Professor and Chair of Islamic studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany
• Tariq Rahman, linguistic historian, HEC Distinguished National Professor and Emeritus Professor, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, scholar, critic, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
• Pirzada Qasim, scholar, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi
• Attash Durrani, scholar, linguist, Director, Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Atta ur Rahman
• Alamgir Hashmi, literary scholar, historian, critic, translator
• Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, chief executive officer (CEO) of Roots Millennium Schools, executive director of Roots School System, recipient of ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’ ^[1]
• Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former Chairman KRL, 1976-2001
• Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear engineer, former Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), 1972–1991, chairman, IAEA Board of Governors, 1986–87
• Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear physicist and former Chairman of the PAEC
• Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist and AS-ICTP laureate
• Samar Mubarakmand, nuclear physicist, Chairman of the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM)
• Anwar Ali, former Chairman of the PAEC
• Shahid Hussain Bokhari, computer and aerospace engineer
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, PhD in organic chemistry
• Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist
• Javaid Laghari, aerospace engineer, former Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
• Datuk Rahman Anwar Syed, entomologist responsible for discovering the biological method of oil palm pollination
• Anwar Naseem, Advisor Science COMSTECH, Chairman National Commission on Biotechnology Pakistan, founding president of FABA ^[2]
• Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987 ^[3]
• Ismat Beg, mathematician, PhD University of Bucharest, 1982
• Umar Saif, computer engineer, PhD University of Cambridge, 2001
• Syed Waqar Jaffry, Computer Scientist, Academician, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam. ^[4]
• Ayub K. Ommaya, professor of neurosurgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; expert in traumatic brain injuries; inventor of the Ommaya reservoir, which is used to provide chemotherapy directly to brain tumors
• Abdul Jamil Khan, Principal of Ayub Medical College, Bolan Medical College, Frontier Medical College, Former Minister of Population
• Hasnat Khan, heart surgeon, head of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences; also worked in Chelsea, London
• Arif Alvi, Chairman of Pakistan Dental Federation ^[5]
• Roger H. Armour, inventor of the hand-held ophthalmoscope
• Sania Nishtar, cardiologist, health policy expert and minister
• Muhammed Suhail Zubairy, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University, USl;holder of Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics
• A G N Kazi
• Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad (1913–2002), executive director of the World Bank for Pakistan and the Middle East
• Mohammad Zubair Khan
• Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, hero of Sindhi computing
• Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi, former Chairman of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
• Ghulam Faruque Khan
• Hafeez A. Pasha
• Mahbub ul Haq, economist and co-creator of the Human Development Index (HDI)
• Ishrat Hussain
• Salman Shah
• Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
• Dr. Ziaul Haque
• Asad Umar
• Akhtar Hameed Khan
• Matin Ahmed Khan, marketing expert and management educator
• Bernadette Louise Dean, former Principal of Kinnaird College for Women
• Mary Emily Gonsalves, Sitara-e-Imtiaz
• Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry
• Jacqueline Maria Dias
• Rubina Gillani
• Dr. Nergis Mavalvala, Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 2010 MacArthur Fellow; part of the team that made the first direct gravitational wave observation
• Adil Najam, founding Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University; former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
• Prop. Dr. Ihsan Ali Sitara-i-Imtiaz Vice-Chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
• Sardar Mohammad Khan, scholar of linguistics
• Zulfiqar Bhutta
• Anita Zaidi
• Asghar Zaidi
• Eqbal Ahmed, political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of Near East
• Dr.Khalid Manzoor Butt, educationist and scholar, Dean of Political Science Department GCU
• Hakim Syed Ali Ahmad Nayyar Wasty, scholar (history of medicine)
• Amer Iqbal, Pakistani American theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics
• Syed Hamid Nawab, Professor of Electrical and Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University;  co-author of widely used textbook Signals and Systems (1997), published by Prentice Hall (Pearson); researcher in signal processing and machine perception with application to auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems
• Khaleel Chisty, virologist

School teachers

• Oswald Bruno Nazareth
• Zinia Pinto
• Norma Fernandes, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz
• Yolande Henderson
• Salima Begum

Religious scholars

• Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, former Grand Mufti of Pakistan.
• Jawad Naqvi, Shia Islamic scholar
• Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Islamic Scholar, Founder of TLP
• Molana Tariq Jamil, religious leader and member of Tablighi Jamaat
• Mufti Rafi Usmani, President of Darul Uloom Karachi
• Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza, Islamic scholar, speaker, and researcher. Founder of Islamic Research Academy, Jehlum.
• Syed Adnan Kakakhail, Mufti, Muslim Scholar, Founder and CEO of Al-Burhan Institute
• Muhammad Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Mufti, Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee
• Saqib Raza Mustafai, founder of Idara-tul-Mustafa
• Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Ameer e Dawat-e-Islami, co-founder of Dawat-e-Islami
• Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, founder of Idara-tul-Mustafa
• Israr Ahmed, religious leader and the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami
• Muhammad Hussain Najafi, religious leader
• Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra, religious leader
• Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, religious scholar, Al-Mawrid International, Pakistan
• Mufti Jafar Hussain, religious leader
• Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, Qur'anic interpreter, Urdu poet, historian and philosopher
• Syed Munawar Hasan, former Chairman of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
• Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, law professor, Sufi Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran
• Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, religious scholar, founder of Jamaa'at-e-Ahle Sunnat
• Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, religious Quranic scholar, founder of Talu-e-Islam
• Farhat Hashmi, founder of Al-Huda International
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Ameer-e-Shariat
• Amin Ahsan Islahi
• Ayesha Jalal, religious leader and scholar
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, historian
• Khurshid Ahmad, scholar, Vice President of the Jamaat-e-Pakistan
• Muzaffar Iqbal
• Ehsan Elahi Zaheer Islamic scholar, author and founder of the Jamiat-E-Ahlihadees in Pakistan
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
• Khurram Zaki, scholar and journalist
• Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Director General, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad
• Zubair Ali Zai
• Moeen Nizami

Military personnel

See also: Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan), Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan), and Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan)

• Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed (1914 – August 7, 1958), Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed (1938–1971), Nishan-E-Haider
• Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed (1951 – August 20, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (1943 – December 6, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
• Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed (1949 – December 10, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
• Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed (1944 – December 17, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
• Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed (1970 – July 5, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
• Lalak Jan Shaheed (1967 – July 7, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Malik Munawar Khan Awan (died May 1981), Sitara-e-Jurat, 1965 war hero who captured Area Rajouri, Budhil and Mehdar from India during Operation Gibraltar
• General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara, 4th Army Commander-in-Chief, 4th Governor of West Pakistan and 10th Governor of Balochistan
• General Sawar Khan, former Vice Chief of Army Staff
• General Iftikhar Janjua, Hilal-e-Jurat, 1971 war hero of Rann of Kutch operations
• General Muhammad Shariff, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1977
• General Iqbal Khan, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1980–1984
• General Zafar H. Naqvi, Army Air Defence Commander
• General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), think tank head
• General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
• General Abdul Waheed Kakar, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
• General Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Ambassador to the United States
• General Rahimuddin Khan, 7 year Martial Law Governor of Balochistan and provincial hero
• General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) & Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
• General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition
• General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
• General Nadeem Raza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
• Admiral Shahid Karimullah
• Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan
• Lieutenant General, Akhtar Hussain Malik (died August 22, 1969), Hilal-i-Jurat, 1965 war hero
• Lieutenant General, Abdul Ali Malik, 1965 war hero for his role in the Battle of Chawinda
• Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, former DG ISI
• Lieutenant General Zaheer-ul-Islam, former DG ISI
• Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, former DG ISI
• Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar, former DG ISI
• Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa, former DG ISPR & Commander southern command, Chairman CPEC Authority
• Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, former DG ISI, Commander XXX Corps (Pakistan)
• Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, DG ISI
• Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, former Governor of East Pakistan
• Air Vice Marshall Eric Gordon Hall
• Major General Athar Abbas former DG ISPR, Ambassador to Ukraine
• Major General Julian Peter
• Major General Noel Israel Khokhar
• Major General Asif Ghafoor, former DG ISPR, GOC Okara 40th Infantry Division
• Major General Babar Iftikhar, DG ISPR
• Rear Admiral Leslie Mungavin
• Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf
• Brigadier Mervyn Cardoza
• Brigadier Daniel Austin
• Air Vice Marshall (R) Farooq Umar
• Air Commodore Nazir Latif
• Air Commodore (R) Muhammad Mehmood Alam (M M Alam)
• Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
• Wing Commander Mervyn Middlecoat
• Squadron Leader Peter Christy
• Squadron Leader Sarfraz Rafiqui
• Captain Hercharn Singh
• Rahul Dev, first person from the Hindu community to recruited in the Pakistan Air Force ^[6]

Businesspeople and industrialists

• Abdul Razaq Dawood, founder of Descon
• Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Chairman of the ARY Group
• Bashir Ali Mohammad, Gul Ahmed Group
• Byram Avari, Chairman of the Avari Group
• Chaudhry Ahmed Saeed, Chairman of the Servis Group, former managing director in and Chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC)
• Fiza Farhan, co-founder of Buksh Foundation
• Hussain Dawood, investor, educationalist and philanthropist
• Iqbal Ali Lakhani, Lakson Group
• Jahangir Khan Tareen, owner of sugar mills
• Jahangir Siddiqui, owner of JS Group
• Malik Riaz, Pakistani business tycoon who is the founder of Bahria Town
• Mian Amir Mahmood, Pakistani politician and founder of the Punjab Group of Colleges
• Mian Muhammad Latif, Chenab Group, ChenOne
• Mian Muhammad Mansha, industrialist and businessman
• Mir Shakil ur Rehman, Jang Group
• Sadruddin Hashwani, founder and chairman of Hashoo Group
• Shiza Shahid, co-founder of Malala Fund
• Shahid Khan, owner of automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate Corp, in Urbana, Illinois; owner of the NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars
• Sikandar Sultan, managing director of Shan Food Industries ^[7]
• Syed Babar Ali, former caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan, founder of Packages Limited, Milkpak Limited–now Nestlé Pakistan and Lahore University of Management Sciences

Bankers

• Agha Hasan Abedi
• Ishrat Husain
• Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
• Muhammad Mian Soomro
• Shahid Javed Burki
• Shamshad Akhtar
• Zahid Hussain
• Shaukat Aziz, banker and former Prime Minister
• Mian Muhammad Mansha
• Mir Mohammad Ali Khan, Pakistani investment banker

Arts, literature and other media personalities

Writers and poets

Main articles: List of Pakistani writers and List of Urdu poets

• Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Rasul Bux Palejo
• Syed Sibte Hassan
• Saadat Hassan Manto
• Khawar Rizvi
• Patras Bokhari
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Syed Irfan Ali Shah
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Mohsin Naqvi
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza
• Abdullah Hussain
• Ahmad Faraz
• Shaikh Ayaz
• Amar Jaleel
• Sohail Sangi
• Anwar Pirzada
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Afrasiab Khattak
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Qalandar Momand
• Siddiq Ismail
• Anwer Maqsood
• Ashfaq Ahmad
• Bano Qudsia
• Daud Kamal
• Fatima Surayya Bajia
• Ghulam Abbas
• Habib Jalib
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja
• Hakim Said
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Idris Azad
• Ishtiaq Ahmad
• Iftikhar Arif
• Ihsan Danish
• Jon Elia
• Kazi Zainul Abedin
• Khurshid Rizvi
• Majeed Amjad
• Mazhar Kaleem
• Mohsin Hamid
• Mohammed Hanif
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Noon Meem Danish
• Noon Meem Rashid
• Obaidullah Aleem
• Mirza Ather Baig
• Parveen Shakir
• Qateel Shafai
• Raees Warsi
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
• Vazir Agha
• Wasif Ali Wasif
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
• Zamir Jafri
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Amjad Islam Amjad
• Anwar Masood
• Moeen Nizami
• Fatima Bhutto
• Abdur Rauf Urooj (c. 1932–1990)
• Mohiuddin Nawab

Actors and actresses

For a categorical listing of actors in film, see Category:Pakistani film actors

• Adeeb, actor
• Adil Murad, actor
• Afzal Khan, actor
• Ajab Gul, actor
• Anjuman, actress
• Ayesha Sana, actress
• Aamina Sheikh, actress
• Babar Ali, actor
• Babra Sharif, actress
• Badar Munir, actor
• Darpan, actor
• Deeba, actor
• Faysal Qureshi, actor
• Fawad Khan, actor
• Hamza Ali Abbasi, actor
• Hareem Farooq, actress
• Humayun Saeed, actor
• Husna, actress
• Imran Abbas, actor
• Inayat Hussain Bhatti, actor
• Ismat Zaidi, actress
• Ismael Shah, actor
• Javed Sheikh, actor
• Kamal Irani, actor
• Mahira Khan, actress
• Marina Khan, actress
• Maya Ali
• Mohib Mirza, actor
• Meera, actress
• Mehmood Aslam, actor
• Mohammad Ali, actor
• Moin Akhter, actor
• Munawar Zarif, actor
• Mustafa Qureshi, actor
• Nadeem Baig, actor
• Nadia Khan, actress
• Naeem Hashmi, actor
• Kamal Irani, actor
• Nasira Zuberi, actress
• Neelo, actress
• Rahat Kazmi, actor
• Saba Qamar, actress
• Sabiha Khanum, actress
• Saeed Khan Rangeela, actor
• Saima, actress
• Sami Khan, actor
• Samina Pirzada, actress
• Sana Nawaz, actress
• Sangeeta, actor
• Shaan Shahid, actor
• Shafi Muhammad Shah, actor
• Shahid, actor
• Shamim Ara, actress
• Sohail Ahmad, actor
• Somy Ali, actress
• Sultan Rahi, actor
• Talat Husain, actor
• Talish, actor
• Tariq Aziz, actor
• Waheed Murad, actor
• Yousaf Khan, actor
• Zahid Ahmed (actor)
• Zeba, actress
• Amanullah Khan (actor)

Artists and painters

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Pakistani artists.

• Abdur Rahman Chughtai
• Ahmed Saeed Nagi
• Ajaz Anwar
• Anna Molka Ahmed
• A. R. Nagori
• Asim Butt
• Allah Bakhsh (painter)
• Bashir Mirza
• Huma Mulji
• Ijaz ul Hassan
• Eqbal Mehdi
• Ismail Gulgee
• Jamil Naqsh
• Laraib Atta
• Lubna Agha
• Moeen Faruqi
• Rashid Rana
• Sadequain
• Saira Wasim
• Sara Shakeel
• Shahid Mahmood
• Shakir Ali
• Saeed Akhtar
• Hanif Ramay
• Shazia Sikander
• Suhail Ahmad
• Zahoor ul Akhlaq
• Zubeida Agha
• Iqbal Hussain
• Khalid Iqbal

Photographers

• Farah Mahbub
• Huma Mulji
• Zaigham Zaidi
• Tapu Javeri
• Sarfaraz K. Niazi

Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers

• Aehsun Talish
• Anwar Kamal Pasha
• Farooq Rind
• Kashif Nisar
• Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
• Nazar-ul-Islam
• Riaz Shahid
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• Sabiha Sumar
• Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
• Shoaib Mansoor
• Usman Peerzada
• Yawar Hayat Khan

Visual effects

• Muqeem Khan ^{[8] [9]}
• Laraib Atta ^[10]

Fashion designers

• Amir Adnan
• Deepak Perwani
• Hassan Sheheryar Yasin
• Junaid Jamshed
• Kamiar Rokni
• Omar Mansoor

Models

Main article: List of Pakistani models

• Aminah Haq
• Humaima Malick
• Iffat Rahim
• Iman Ali
• Imran Abbas
• Mehreen Raheel
• Reema Khan
• Tooba Siddiqui
• Vaneeza Ahmad
• Zara Sheikh
• Ayaan Ali

Journalists

Main article: List of Pakistani journalists

• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza
• Ansar Abbasi
• Ahmad Faruqui
• Ahmed Rashid
• Ardeshir Cowasjee, columnist and businessman
• Arman Sabir, journalist working for BBC; earlier he was associated with DAWN for several years
• Asghar Ali Engineer
• Hassan Nisar
• Hameed Nizami
• Imran Aslam
• Irfan Husain, columnist
• Javed Malik, journalist, working for ARY
• Kamal Siddiqi
• Kamran Khan, Geo TV
• Khalid Hasan
• Maliha Lodhi
• Mazhar Ali Khan, journalist, editor and publisher
• Mehmood Sham, columnist
• Mishal Hussain
• Murtaza Razvi
• Nadeem Malik
• PJ Mir, journalist working for ARY
• Shahid Javed Burki
• Shahid Mahmood, journalist working for ARY
• Dr.Shahid Masood, journalist, ex-Chairman of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV)
• Sohail Warraich, anchor on Geo TV
• Surendar Valasai
• Syed Saleem Shahzad
• Tahir Mirza
• Talat Hussain, journalist working for AAJ TV
• Zamir Niazi
• Ian Fyfe, DAWN sports reporter
• Khurram Zaki, journalist and TV host
• Abdullah Malik (1920–2003), journalist, writer

Musicians

Main article: List of Pakistani musicians

• Abida Parveen
• Amjad Sabri, Qawwal and Naat Khawan
• Aaroh
• Abrar-ul-Haq
• Atif Aslam
• Ali Azmat
• Alam Lohar and Arif Lohar
• Ahmed Rushdi, film song singer
• Ali Zafar
• Amanat Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Amjad Bobby, film music composer
• Atif Aslam
• Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi
• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Bohemia, rapper and music producer
• Hadiqa Kiyani
• Hamid Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Imran Khan, Punjabi singer
• Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, film music composer
• Mehdi Hassan, film singer
• Masood Rana, film singer
• Mustafa Zahid
• Nadia Ali, singer
• Naser Mestarihi, hard rock musician
• Naseebo Lal, film singer
• Nashad, film music composer
• Nisar Bazmi, film music composer
• Noor Jehan
• Noori
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Robin Ghosh, film music composer
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
• Rahim Shah
• Rohail Hyatt
• Sabri Brothers, qawwali musicians
• Sahir Ali Bagga
• Sajjad Ali
• Shamim Nazli
• Shehzad Roy
• Salman Ahmad
• Sohail Rana, film music composer
• Sheraz Uppal
• Waqar Ali
• Zeb and Haniya
• Alamgir, pop music singer
• Ali Haider (singer)
• Fakhir
• Farida Khanum
• Hadiqa Kiani
• Jawad Ahmed
• Junaid Jamshed
• Jassi Lailpuria
• Malika Pukhraj
• Najam Sheraz
• Nazia Hasan, pop singer
• Zohaib Hasan
• Tina Sani
• S. B. John
• Jassi Lailpuria
• Ahmad Raza Khan
• Siddiq Ismail
• Khursheed Ahmad

Video jockeys

• Anoushey Ashraf
• Ayesha Omar
• Mahira Khan

Architects

• Kausar Bashir Ahmed
• Nayyar Ali Dada
• Habib Fida Ali
• Abdur Rahman Hye
• Yasmeen Lari
• Umar Farooq
• Nasreddin Murat-Khan

YouTubers

Main article: List of Pakistani YouTubers

• Amna Riaz
• Mooroo
• Muhammad Ali Mirza

Sports

Squash

• Jansher Khan, 8 time world open champion, 4 time super series champion, 6 time British champion
• Aamir Atlas Khan
• Farhan Mehboob
• Hashim Khan, 8 time British champion
• Jahangir Khan, 6 time world champion, 10 time British champion
• Carla Khan
• Mansoor Zaman
• Qamar Zaman, British champion
• Zaheer Abbas, legendary cricketeer

Athletics

• John Permal, sprinter
• Kamal Salman Masud, swimmer
• Lianna Swan, swimmer
• Kiran Khan, swimmer

Boxing

• Muhammad Waseem, WBC Silver Flyweight Champion
• Amir Khan, undisputed light-welterweight world champion
• Hussain Shah
• Jan Mohammad Baloch (1950-2012), Pakistani former olympian boxer, coach

Cricket

Main article: Lists of Pakistani cricketers

• Imran Khan
• Anil Dalpat
• Imam-ul-Haq
• Salman Butt
• Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1989)
• Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1991)
• Shaheen Afridi
• Nasir Jamshed
• Javed Miandad
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar
• Mohammad Hafeez
• Abdul Qadir
• Abdul Razzaq
• Aamer Sohail
• Danish Kaneria
• Fazal Mahmood
• Faisal Iqbal
• Fawad Alam
• Hanif Mohammad
• Imran Abbas
• Imran Nazir
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Javed Burki
• Junaid Khan
• Kamran Akmal
• Khan Mohammad
• Majid Khan
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Mohammad Amir
• Mohammad Asif
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Moin Khan
• Mushtaq Ahmed
• Rashid Latif
• Saeed Ajmal
• Saeed Anwar
• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Sarfraz Ahmed
• Sarfraz Nawaz
• Sajjida Shah
• Shahid Afridi
• Sohail Tanvir ^[11]
• Shahid Khan Afridi
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Shoaib Malik
• Umar Akmal
• Umar Gul ^[12]
• Waqar Younis
• Wasim Akram
• Yasir Hameed
• Yasir Shah
• Younis Khan
• Zaheer Abbas
• Zahid Ahmed (cricketer)
• Zahid Fazal
• Babar Azam
• Fakhar Zaman

E-sports

• Syed Sumail Hassan

Field hockey

Main article: List of Pakistani field hockey players

• Hassan Sardar
• Samiullah
• Shahbaz Ahmad
• Shahid Ali Khan
• Sohail Abbas
• Tahir Zaman
• Samiullah Khan
• Basit Ali
• Mohammad Zahid
• Shahnaz Sheikh
• Islahuddin
• Jack Britto
• Imran Mayo
• Mahmood-ul Hassan

Golf

• Taimur Hussain

Sailing

• Munir Sadiq

Snooker

• Khurram Hussain Agha
• Mohammed Yousuf
• Naveen Perwani
• Saleh Mohammed
• Muhammad Asif

Tennis

• Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
• Haroon Rahim

Football

• Masood Fakhri
• Etzaz Hussain
• Harun Hamid
• Muhammad Essa
• Kaleemullah Khan
• Qayyum Changezi
• Moideen Kutty
• Jaffar Khan
• Qazi Ashfaq
• Abdul Wahid Durrani
• Abdul Ghafoor Majna
• Zesh Rehman
• Easah Suliman
• Abdullah Iqbal
• Abdullah Shah
• Alamgir Ghazi
• Otis Khan
• Muhammad Waheed
• Hassan Bashir
• Saddam Hussain

Mountaineers

• Ashraf Aman
• Nazir Sabir
• Hassan Sadpara
• Meherban Karim
• Samina Baig
• Amir Mehdi
• Abdul Jabbar Bhatti
• Ali Sadpara

Skiing

• Amina Wali

Mixed martial arts

• Bashir Ahmad

Police officers

• Chaudhry Aslam Khan
• Safwat Ghayur
• Malik Saad
• Allah Dino Khawaja
• Nasir Durrani
• Moazzam Jah Ansari
• Pushpa Kumari Kohli, first Hindu woman police officer in Pakistan

Militants

• Abdul Rauf Azhar
• Ajmal Kasab, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
• Fazlullah
• Ghazi Baba, mastermind of 2001 Delhi parliament attack
• Hafiz Saeed
• Hakimullah Mehsud
• Ilyas Kashmiri, Al Qaeda operative
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11
• Malik Ishaq
• Masood Azhar
• Qari Hussain
• Ramzi Yousef, convict in world trade centre bombing
• Rashid Rauf
• Riaz Basra
• Sufi Muhammad
• Wali-ur-Rehman
• Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi

Other

• Akbar Sitara Brooj, child prodigy & cancer researcher at Oxford University
• Abdul Sattar Edhi, social worker
• Aitzaz Hasan, schoolboy who died blocking a suicide bomber
• Arfa Karim, computer prodigy
• Malala Yousafzai, education activist
• Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, women's rights activist
• Tooba Syed, feminist, political worker
• Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate
• Zahida Kazmi, Pakistan's first female taxi driver

See also

• List of Punjabi Muslims
• List of Pashtuns
• List of Sindhis
• List of Muhajirs
• List of Kashmiris

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External links

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