List of people from Muzaffargarh

This is a list of notable people from Muzaffargarh city and Muzaffargarh District.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Scholars

• Uday Bhanu Hans, State poet of Haryana ^[1]
• Fazal Ali Qureshi ^[2]
• Hafiz Riaz Hussain Najafi
• Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi

Artist

• Pathanay Khan, Singer ^{[3] [4]}
• Tauqeer Nasir, Actor ^[5]

Sports

• Azhar Hussain, wrestler ^[6]
• Milkha Singh, ^[7] Indian track and field sprinter

Rulers

• Nawab Muzaffar Khan, founder of Muzaffargarh ^[8]
• Tahir Khan Nahar Chief of vast terrioty at Seet pur, Muzaffargarh, ^[9]

Politicians

Main article: Politics of Muzaffargarh

• Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti
• Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi
• Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti
• Ghulam Murtaza Raheem Khar
• Ghulam Mustafa Khar, former Governor of Punjab and former Chief Minister of Punjab
• Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar, politician
• Hammad Nawaz Khan
• Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister and the first female foreign minister
• Nawabzada Iftakhar Ahmed Khan Babar ^[10] - PPPP MNA from NA-184 Muzaffargarh-IV
• Jamshed Dasti, politician
• Liaqat Baloch, politician
• Malik Ahmad Karim Qaswar Langrial
• Mohsin Ali Qureshi
• Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani, former governor of West Pakistan
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, A prominent political figure in Pakistan
• Shabbir Ali Qureshi
• Safina Saima Khar
• Sardar Ashiq Hussain, politician
• Sultan Mehmood, politician
• Tehmina Dasti

Members of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan

• Muhammad Shabbir Ali - ^[11] PTI MNA from NA-181 Muzaffargarh-I
• Mahar Irshad Ahmad Khan - PPPP MNA from NA-182 Muzaffargarh-II
• Malik Ghulam Raza Rabbani Khar PPPP MNA from NA-183 Muzaffargarh-III
• Sardar Aamir Talal Khan Gopang - PTI MNA From NA-186 Muzaffargarh-VI
• Syed Basit Sultan Bukhari - ^[12] PTI MNA from NA-185 Muzaffargarh-V

Members of the 17th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab

• Malik Ghulam Qasim Hanjra ^[13] - PMLN - 268 - Muzaffargarh-I
• Azhar Abbas Chandia ^[14] - PMLN - 269 - Muzaffargarh-II
• Abdul Hayi Dasti ^[15] - PTI - 270 - Muzaffargarh-III
• Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan ^[16] - PTI - 271 - Muzaffargarh-IV
• Zehra Batool - PTI - 272 - Muzaffargarh-V
• Syed Muhammad Sibtain Raza - PTI- 273 - Muzaffargarh-VI
• Muhammad Raza Hussain Bukhari ^[17] - PTI - 274 - Muzaffargarh-VII
• Khurrum Sohail Khan Laghari ^[18] - PTI - 275 - Muzaffargarh-VIII
• Muhammad Aoon Hamid ^[19] - PTI - 276 - Muzaffargarh-IX
• Mian Alamdar Abbas Qureshi - PTI - 277 - Muzaffargarh-X
• Niaz Hussain Khan ^[20] - PTI - 278 - Muzaffargarh-XI
• Muhammad Ashraf Khan Rind ^[21] - PTI - 279 - Muzaffargarh-XII

Others

• Sardar Kaure Khan Jatoi, leading personality for his social services
• Dewan Prem Chand, Indian Army officer
• Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi, Pakistani diplomat and author ^[22]
• Mukhtar Mai, human rights activist
• Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, Indian freedom fighter
• Zohra Shah - killed for mistakenly releasing her masters’ parrots. ^{[23] [24]}

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6. "Glasgow 2014 - Azhar Hussain Profile". results.glasgow2014.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2014. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
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23. "Pakistan: 8-Year-Old Zohra Shah, a Caged Soul Killed for Setting Birds Free". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
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