List of Punjabi Muslims explained
Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally, or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Artists
Authors
Punjabi
Classical
Modern
Urdu
Persian
Business
- Anwar Pervez, founder of Bestway
- Ashar Aziz, founder of FireEye in Silicon Valley
- Bashir Tahir, former CEO of Dhabi Group
- Fred Hassan, director at Warburg Pincus
- James Caan, founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
- Malik Riaz, founder of Bahria Town,
- Mansoor Ijaz, founder of Crescent Investment Management Ltd
- Mian Muhammad Latif, founder of Chenab Group
- Mian Muhammad Mansha, founder of Nishat Group
- Michael Chowdrey, founder of Atlas Air
- Muhammad Zahoor, owner of ISTIL Group
- Shahid Khan, owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
- Sohaib Abbasi, former CEO of Informatica
- Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway
Folklore
Legendary
Military
Air Force
Army
- General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Zia ul Haq, former Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan
- General (R) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
- General (R) Tikka Khan, former COAS of the Pakistan Army and Victor of the Rann of Kutch
- General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Asim Munir, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
- Lt Gen (R) Mahmud Ahmed
- Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali
- Maj Gen (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan
- Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua, most senior Pakistani officer killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the front line
- Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
- Maj Gen (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan
- Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
- Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
- Maj Gen (R) Ashraf Rashid
- Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar
- Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
- Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
- Major Tufail Muhammad, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Muhammad Akram, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
- Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
- Naik Saif Ali Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
- Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, Nishan-e-Haider
- Sowar Muhammad Hussain, Nishan-e-Haider
Navy
Recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Khudadad Khan, operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the Western Front Shahamad Khan, covered a 150 yard gap at the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
- Abdul Hafiz, charged at enemy lines in Burma Sher Shah Awan, commanded a platoon ambushed by the Japanese, his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
- Fazal Din, ran through the chest in Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it
Music
Punjabi Folk
Sufi Qawwali
Classical Hindustani Gharanas
Modern Playback
Politicians
United Kingdom
Royalty
Mughal nobility
People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin
Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
Scientists and academics
- Farooq Azam, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
- Tariq Ali, political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual
- Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
- Nayyar Ali Dada, architect in modernist architecture
- Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist
- Tasawar Hayat, mathematician
- Shahbaz Khan, hydrologist and director of the UNESCO cluster office in Jakarta
- Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, nuclear engineer
- Salim Mehmud, rocket scientist
- Atif Mian, professor of economics, public policy and finance at Princeton University
- Zia Mian, physicist and co-director of the program on science and global security at Princeton University
- Ghulam Murtaza, theoretical physicist
- Qaiser Mushtaq, mathematician
- Adil Najam, dean of global studies at Boston University
- Khalil Qureshi, physical chemist
- Muneer Ahmad Rashid, mathematical physicist
Sportspersons
Association Football
Cricket
Freestyle Wrestling
Weightlifting
Field hockey
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Fisher, Michael Herbert . A Short History of the Mughal Empire . 2019 . I.B. Tauris . 978-0-7556-0491-3 . en . Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam).
- Web site: Shahbaz Khan - Banglapedia . 2022-09-28 . en.banglapedia.org.
- Siddiqui. Shabbir A.. Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan. 1986. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 47. 273–276. 44141552. 2249-1937.
- Book: Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India Henry Riven . District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1904 . 2015-01-01 . Facsimile Publisher . 87.
- Web site: Gujral . Maninder S. . 2000-12-19 . ADINA BEG KHAN . 2022-09-28 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
- Book: Mubārak, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn . The Ain I Akbari . 1891 . Asiatic Society of Bengal . 321 . en.
- Book: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay . Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 . 2024-03-19 . University of Texas Press . 978-1-4773-2879-8 . en . The latter sultanate was founded by a former Tughluq governor, perhaps from a family of Punjabi Khatri converts, who took the title Muzaffar Shah in the early fifteenth century but reigned for only a short time..
- Book: Eaton, Richard M. . India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 . 2019-07-25 . Penguin UK . 978-0-14-196655-7 . 105 . en . The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan, illustrates the transition to an increasingly polycentric north India..
- Book: Olson . James Stuart . Historical Dictionary of the British Empire . Shadle . Robert . 1996 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 978-0-313-27917-1 . 773 . en . Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore..
- Book: Dalrymple, William . The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire . 2019-09-10 . Bloomsbury USA . 978-1-63557-395-4 . 264 . en . The second power was a new force, which in the 1770s was just emerging and beginning to flex its military muscles: the Mysore Sultanate of Haidar Ali and his formidable warrior son, Tipu Sultan. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army, where he introduced many of the innovations he had learned from observing French troops at work in the Carnatic Wars..
- Book: Gott, Richard . Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt . 2022 . Verso Books . 978-1-83976-422-6 . 47 . en . Haidar Ali was an illiterate Punjabi who rose from the ranks of the Mysore army to become its commander. . Richard Gott . 26 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226134346/https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=guhOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=haidar+punjabi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ0fSUlq2DAxXInf0HHYHEDQQQ6AF6BAgHEAM . 26 December 2023 . live.
- Book: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition: Supplement . 1980-01-01 . Brill Archive . 978-90-04-06167-5 . en . Contemporary writers mention him by his honorific title, Ayn-Al Mulk, with the nisba Multani, because he hailed from Multan.
- Book: Iqtidar Alam Khan . Historical Dictionary of Medieval India . Scarecrow . 2008 . 9780810864016 . 107.
