# List of people from Punjab, Pakistan

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

* 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, 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)