# List of Urdu authors

This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Allama Rashid ul Khairi
* Akbar Allahabadi
* Ali Akbar Natiq
* Maikash Akbarabadi
* Akhtar Sheerani
* Ada Jafri
* Aizaz Ahmad Azar
* Jamiluddin Aali
* Ghulam Abbas
* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
* Mirza Adeeb
* Chaudhry Afzal Haq
* Wazir Agha
* Anwaar Ahmad
* Aziz Ahmad
* Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad
* Ashfaq Ahmed
* Faruqi Nisar Ahmed
* Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
* Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
* Waheed Akhtar
* Zamin Ali
* Amjad Islam Amjad
* Majeed Amjad
* Rasheed Amjad
* Mir Amman
* Rais Amrohvi
* Satyapal Anand
* Sahar Ansari
* Syed Amin Ashraf
* Syed Waheed Ashraf
* Hasan Askari
* Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
* Abul Kalam Azad
* Idris Azad
* Jagan Nath Azad
* Muhammad Husain Azad
* Abdul Hameed
* Ayub Sabir
* Amjad Parvez

## B

* Bekal Utsahi
* Obaidullah Baig
* Fatima Surayya Bajia
* Ahmad Bashir
* Rajinder Singh Bedi
* Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
* Abdaal Bela
* Patras Bokhari
* Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan

## C

* Mohinder Pratap Chand
* Krishan Chander
* Harcharan Chawla
* Ismat Chughtai
* Kausar Chandpuri

## D

* Ehsan Danish
* Khwaja Mir Dard
* Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
* Abdul Qavi Desnavi
* Attash Durrani

## E

* Jaun Elia

## F

* Faiz Ahmed Faiz
* Farhat Ishtiaq
* Ahmed Faraz
* Bushra Farrukh
* Aslam Farrukhi
* Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
* Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
* Farman Fatehpuri
* Niaz Fatehpuri
* Kanwal Feroze
* Bhupendra Nath Kaushik "Fikr"
* Maulana Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri “Ambar”

## G

* Altaf Gauhar
* Mirza Ghalib
* Firaq Gorakhpuri
* Majnoon Gorakhpuri
* Tahir Aslam Gora

## H

* Altaf Hussain Hali
* Muhammad Hamidullah
* Maulvi Abdul Haq
* Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
* Zahida Hina
* Panchakshari Hiremath
* Ashfaq Hussain
* Intizar Hussain
* Rafiq Hussain
* Qurratulain Hyder
* Hashim Nadeem
* Hasrat Mohani

## I

* Muhammad Ilyas
* Ibn-e-Insha
* Ibrahim Jalees
* Muhammad Iqbal
* Ibn-e-Safi
* Ikram Chughtai
* Ishtiaq Ahmad

## J

* Jigar Moradabadi
* Jaun Elia
* Ali Sardar Jafri
* Habib Jalib
* Jameel Jalibi
* Khalid Jawed

## K

* Mazhar Kaleem
* Abul Khair Kashfi
* Agha Shorish Kashmiri
* Nasir Kazmi
* Khalique Ibrahim Khalique
* Ghulam Mustafa Khan
* Muhammad Khan
* Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
* Syed Ahmed Khan
* Zafar Ali Khan
* Dushyant Kumar
* Kanhaiya Lal Kapoor

## L

* Nurul Ain Lari

## M

* Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
* Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr
* Mohammad Ali Jauhar
* Mubarak Ali
* Josh Malihabadi
* Arsh Malsiani
* Saadat Hasan Manto
* Anwar Maqsood
* Hajra Masroor
* Khadija Mastoor
* Abul Ala Maududi
* Mohsin Mighiana
* Mir Taqi Mir
* Janbaz Mirza
* Momin Khan Momin
* Mumtaz Mufti
* Mohsinul Mulk
* Makhdoom Mohiuddin
* Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
* Majaz

## N

* Naseem Hijazi
* Tahir Naqvi
* Gopi Chand Narang
* Mir Gul Khan Nasir
* Zehra Nigah
* Shibli Nomani
* Asif Noorani
* Naeem Baig
* Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi
* Moeen Nizami
* Mohiuddin Nawab
* Nimra Ahmed Khan

## P

* Munshi Premchand
* Patras Bokhari
* Munir Niazi

## Q

* Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
* Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
* Attaul Haq Qasmi
* Bano Qudsia
* Haider Qureshi
* Qudratullah Shahab

## R

* Ahfaz ur Rahman
* Razia Butt
* Rasheed Akhtar Nadvi
* Bushra Rahman
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
* Shakeelur Rahman
* Shafiq ur Rahman
* Samina Raja
* Malik Ram
* Noon Meem Rashid
* Fahmida Riaz
* Abbas Rizvi
* Khurshid Rizvi
* Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
* Rauf Parekh
* Qamar Siddiqui
* Rashid-un-Nisa

## S

* Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
* Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
* Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser
* Shaukat Thanvi
* Sulaiman Nadvi
* Imdad Sabri
* Agha Sadiq
* Ibne Safi
* Ghazi Salahuddin
* Akhtar Raza Saleemi
* Mirza Sauda
* Qasim Mahmood
* Mahmood Shaam
* Qudratullah Shahab
* Saif Ahmad
* Abdul Halim Sharar
* Qateel Shifai
* Abul Lais Siddiqui
* Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi
* Shaukat Siddiqui
* Parveen Shakir
* Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri

## T

* Umrao Tariq

## U

* Umera Ahmad

## W

* Wahab Ashrafi
* Muzaffar Warsi
* Raees Warsi
* Raza Naqvi Wahi
* Wasif Ali Wasif

## Y

* Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

## Z

* Zafar Ali Khan
* Razia Sajjad Zaheer
* Sajjad Zaheer
* Anwer Zahidi
* Ali Jawad Zaidi
* Mustafa Zaidi
* Ibrahim Zauq
* Kanwal Ziai