List of people from Lahore explained
This is a list of people who were born in Lahore or are otherwise known for their association with the city.
Artists
- Abdur Rahman Chughtai[1]
- Ajaz Anwar
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Anna Molka Ahmed
- Bhai Ram Singh, architect
- Nayyar Ali Dada, architect
- Rashid Rana, artist
- Salima Hashmi
- Shakir Ali, artist, art teacher, former head of the National College of Arts in Lahore
- Shahzia Sikander, artist
- Sir Ganga Ram, philanthropist, architect, civil engineer, and agriculturist
- Zahoor ul Akhlaq
Businessmen
Economists
Journalists
Medical professionals
Music and Dance
Lawyers
Politicians and Government Officers
- Fakir Syed Azizuddin, minister during Sikh rule
- Mumtaz Daultana, Punjabi politician
- Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot, Muslim League leader and politician
- Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi, early politician from Punjab
- Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz, Muslim League lady activist
- Syed Amjad Ali, senior politician and former Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Qamar Zaman Kaira
- Moonis Elahi
- Chaudhry Tahir Mahmood Chahal Jatt
- Aitizaz Ahsan
- Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
- Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf – former cricketer
- Khawaja Saad Rafique
- Maleeha Lodhi
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
- Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court
- Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Mazhar Ali Azhar (Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam), Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (Secretary General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, 1945)
- Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan (resident), Crown Princess of Jordan for over 30 years, wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
- Raza Rabbani
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Abdul Sattar Ranjoor, politician who lived briefly in Lahore
Saints
Scholars
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Orientalist scholar and early educationalist of British Punjab
- Alfred Cooper Woolner, Sanskrit scholar
- John Lockwood Kipling curator, artist and ethnologist, also father of Rudyard Kipling
- Allama Mashriqi, mathematician, political theorist, Islamic scholar, founder of the Khaksar movement
- Alamgir Hashmi, English and Comparative Literature scholar, author, literary editor and scholarly editor (social sciences and humanities)
- Ayesha Jalal, South Asian Historian
- Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, author of prize winning book, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed, 2012, 2014
- Muhammad Sharif, Pakistani cosmologist
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Founder Minhaj-ul-Quran, religious Scholar, Islamic hadith compiler, Author
- Nergis Mavalvala, Pakistani-American astrophysicist, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Science
- Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
- Sara Suleri, author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, astrophysicist
- Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Founder Jamia Naemia
- Syed Afzal Haider legal expert and scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
- Syed Waqar Jaffry Pakistani academic and researcher in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence
- Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, Talu-e-Islam
- Asghar Zaidi - Vice Chancellor GCU
- Abdul Hafeez Mirza - Pakistani writer, tourism worker, educationist and cultural activist.
- Jitendra Pal Singh Uberoi (1934–2024), sociologist and philosophical anthropologist
Sportspersons
Cricketers
Royalty and nobility
Writers and poets
- Abdul Hamid Lahori
- Abu al-Barakat Munir Lahori
- Masud Sa'd Salman
- Abu-al-Faraj Runi
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja, poet, dramatist, writer and scholar
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
- Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri (writer, historian)
- Muhammad Asim Butt (Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist)
- Janbaz Mirza (writer, historian)
- Wasif Ali Wasif (conversationalist, writer, Sufism)
- Amjad Islam Amjad writer, poet and teacher
- Amrita Pritam, woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
- Ashfaq Ahmed, writer, playwright, broadcaster
- Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist in English, author of Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
- Bano Qudsia, novelist, playwright and spiritualist
- Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Enver Sajjad
- Muzaffar Warsi, Urdu poet
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
- Habib Jalib
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar
- Krishan Chander
- Masud Sa'd Salman Persian poet from the Ghaznavid period
- Moeen Nizami Urdu and Persian writer, poet, and scholar
- Moniza Alvi
- Mohsin Hamid
- Muneer Niazi
- Qasim Mahmood
- Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, politician, poet
- Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
- Alamgir Hashmi, English poet, essayist, fiction writer (born in Lahore)
- Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer in Urdu
- Qayyum Nazar, Urdu Language poet
- Khadija Mastoor, Urdu feminist writer
- Hajra Masroor, Urdu feminist writer
- Ali Arshad Mir, Punjabi poet and writer
- Vijay Kumar Chopra Writer
- Tariq Ali, British-Pakistani writer and Communist Tahir Aslam Gora, Canadian-Pakistani Writer, Poet, Novelist & Broadcaster
- Alam Faqri, Sunni Muslim Scholar, author
Aviators
Outlaws
Others
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- Tahira Mazhar Ali, women's rights and political activist
- Pappu Samrat, choreographer
- Yousuf Salahuddin, socialite, philanthropist, ex-politician
- Laeeq Ahmed (1933–2014), commentator, broadcaster, television presenter
References
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Notes and References
- Web site: Profile at Chughtai Museum website. Chughtai Museum. 20 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20101230025031/http://www.chughtaimuseum.com/index.php. 30 December 2010. dead.
- News: Lahore-born entrepreneur among US richest people. Dawn. September 22, 2012. September 25, 2012. Ahsan. Raza.
