List of Pakistanis explained
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.
Heads of state or government
Civil / democratically elected administrators
Military / non-democratically elected administrators
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- General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- General Pervez Musharraf
Foreign ministers
Bureaucrats
Diplomats
Attorney General of Pakistan
Law officers of Advocate General Punjab
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 Rehman Rana, provincial assembly member
- 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"
- Faisal Khan Jamali, provincial assembly member
- Farhat Abbas, provincial senator
- Fatima Jinnah, sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, provincial assembly member
G – L
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 Waqas Khan, Pakistani politician[1]
- 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
- Saleem Ullah Khan Niazi Paikhel, agriculturist and politician, former member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab[2]
- 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
- 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 Kazim Hussain Shah, Sindh parliament member
- 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
Lawyers
See main article: List of Pakistani lawyers.
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
- 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’[3]
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former Chairman KRL, 1976-2001
- Khalid Saeed Khan, Principal of College of Physiotherapy[4]
- 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[5]
- Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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
- Akhtar Aly Kureshy Lawyer, Writer & Professor
- Arif Alvi, Chairman of Pakistan Dental Federation[8]
- 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
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
- 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, historian, author 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
- Muhammad Sherin
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[9]
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[10]
- 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
Arts, literature and other media personalities
Actors and actresses
For a categorical listing of actors in film, see
- 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)
YouTubers
See main article: List of Pakistani YouTubers.
Video jockeys
Architects
Artists and painters
See main article: List of Pakistani artists.
Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers
Fashion designers
Models
See main article: List of Pakistani models.
Visual effects
Journalists
See 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 Husain
- 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
- Syed Sardar Ahmed Pirzada, journalist, radio anchor, and socio-political analyst
- 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
See 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
Photographers
Writers and poets
See main article: List of Pakistani writers and List of Urdu poets.
Sports
Athletics
Boxing
Cricket
See main article: Lists of Pakistani cricketers.
Cycling
E-sports
Field hockey
See main article: List of Pakistani field hockey players.
Football
Golf
Mixed martial arts
Mountaineers
Sailing
Skiing
Snooker
Squash
Tennis
Police officers
Militants
Other
- Abdul Sattar Edhi, social worker
- Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate
- Aitzaz Hasan, schoolboy who died blocking a suicide bomber
- Akbar Sitara Brooj, child prodigy & cancer researcher at Oxford University
- Arfa Karim, computer prodigy
- Malala Yousafzai, education activist
- Syed Ali Akhtar, military officer
- Tooba Syed, feminist, political worker
- Zahida Kazmi, Pakistan's first female taxi driver
- Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, women's rights activist
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Punjab Assembly | Members - Members' Directory .
- Web site: Legislators from MIANWALI (PP-36 to PP-39). Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. 19 November 2015.
- http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-167464-Tamgha-i-Imtiaz-conferred-on-Faisal-Mushtaq "‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ awarded to Faisal Mushtaq"
- Web site: King Edward Medical University . 2011-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151112125040/http://kemu.edu.pk/physiotherapy.html . 2015-11-12 . dead .
- Web site: Prof. Anwar Nasim . 2009-07-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090819100455/http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof47.htm . 2009-08-19 .
- http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal2-speakers-biographies-atta-ur-rahman.htm Biography
- Web site: Dr. Waqar ul Qounain - Home Page. faculty.pucit.edu.pk. 2019-07-28.
- Web site: Sindh Governor House . 2008-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060723044944/http://www.governorsindh.gov.pk/pressrelease/news.asp?id=1338 . 2006-07-23 .
- News: In a first, minority Hindu young man selected to become GD pilot in PAF . 6 May 2020. Express Tribune. 16 September 2020.
- http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=109179 Pakistan’s King of Masalas spins his own magic
- Web site: TED2013 Talent Search.
- Web site: Untitled Document.
- Web site: Laraib Atta on being the VFX artist for Mission: Impossible – Fallout .
- Web site: Sohail Tanvir.
- Web site: Cricket: Pakistan Faces a Host of Problems – OhmyNews International.
