List of people from Punjab, Pakistan

For a list of notable Punjabis, see List of Punjabi people.

This is a list of notable people from Punjab, Pakistan.

Religious and spiritual figures

• Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism
• Fariduddin Ganjshakar
• Bahauddin Zakariya
• Rukn-e-Alam
• Shah Hussain
• Mian Mir
• Sultan Bahu
• Shah Inayat Qadiri
• Bulleh Shah
• Waris Shah
• Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri
• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
• Khwaja Ghulam Farid
• Meher Ali Shah

National figures

Muhammad Iqbal, one of the founding fathers and the national poet of Pakistan. Iqbal was of mixed Kashmiri and Punjabi heritage.

• Allama Muhammad Iqbal
• Rahmat Ali
• Liaquat Ali Khan
• Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
• Jahanara Shahnawaz
• Naseer Ahmed Malhi
• Shaukat Hayat Khan
• Ghazanfar Ali Khan
• Zafar Ali Khan
• Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi

Pakistan Armed Forces

• Zia-ul-Haq, former Army Chief of Staff and former President of Pakistan (1977–1988)
• General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
• General Qamar Javed Bajwa, former 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

• Amir Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Kalabagh, Governor of East Pakistan
• Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Politician
• Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving parliamentarian of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999
• Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan (PPP)
• Hamza Shahbaz, former CM of Punjab (2022)
• Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018–2022)
• Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament
• Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab (2024)
• Mian Aslam Iqbal, Provincial Minister of Industries & Commerce (2018–2022)
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, politician
• Pervaiz Elahi, first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Chief Minister of Punjab (2002–2007)
• Qamar Zaman Kaira, former Minister (Pakistan Peoples Party)
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi, politician PTI
• Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, current president of PML(Q)
• Usman Buzdar, Chief Minister of Punjab (2018–2022)
• Yasmin Rashid, Provincial Minister of Health (2018–2022)
• Yousaf Raza Gillani, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (Pakistan Peoples Party)
• Zulfi Bukhari, Politician

Lawyers

• Syed Muhammad Zafar
• Ashtar Ausaf Ali
• Syed Ali Zafar
• Akhtar Aly Kureshy
• Azam Nazeer Tarar
• Hamid Khan
• Salman Akram Raja

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

• Arshad Nadeem, javelin thrower and Olympic Gold Medalist
• 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
• Babar Azam, cricketer
• Imran Khan, cricketer
• Haris Rauf, cricketer
• Shadab Khan, cricketer
• Ramiz Raja, cricketer & commentator
• Zain Mehmood, off-road rally driver and businessman

Scientists

Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani to win a Nobel prize in Physics.

• 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 and 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
• Shaukat Ali, folk singer

Others

• Chaudhary Niaz Ali Khan (civil engineer)

References

1. Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir. Stray reflections: a note-book of Allama Iqbal. ISBN   978-969-35-2734-6. OCLC   894183786.
2. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-03-01.