# List of Pakistanis

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

* Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; first Governor General of Pakistan, and the main founder of Pakistan.
* Liaquat Ali Khan
* Khawaja Nazimuddin
* Ghulam Muhammad
* Iskander Mirza
* Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
* Chaudhry Fazal Ellahi
* Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
* Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
* Muhammad Ali Bogra
* Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
* Feroz Khan Noon
* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
* Muhammad Khan Junejo
* Ghulam Ishaq Khan
* Benazir Bhutto
* Farooq Leghari
* Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
* Balakh Sher Mazari
* Moeen Qureshi
* Malik Meraj Khalid
* Zafarullah Khan Jamali
* Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
* Shaukat Aziz
* Wasim Sajjad
* Mohammad Mian Soomro
* Yousaf Raza Gillani
* Raja Pervez Ashraf
* Nawaz Sharif
* Mamnoon Hussain
* Arif Alvi
* Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
* Asif Ali Zardari
* Imran Khan
* Shehbaz Sharif

### Military / non-democratically elected administrators

* Field Marshal Ayub Khan
* General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan
* General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
* General Pervez Musharraf

## Foreign ministers

* Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (27 December 1947—24 October 1954)
* Aziz Ahmed (30 March 1977—5 July 1977)
* Agha Shahi (14 January 1978—9 March 1982)
* Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (21 March 1982—1 November 1987)
* Abdul Sattar (23 July 1993—19 October 1993)
* Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali (16 November 1993—4 November 1996)
* Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Caretaker: 11 November 1996—24 February 1997)
* Gohar Ayub (25 February 1997—7 August 1998)
* Sartaj Aziz
* Abdul Sattar (23 July 1999—14 June 2002)
* Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (23 November 2002—15 November 2007)
* Inam-ul-Haq (Caretaker: 15 November 2007—24 March 2008)
* Shah Mehmood Qureshi (31 March 2008—February 2011)
* Hina Rabbani Khar (18 July 2011—11 May 2013)
* Shah Mehmood Qureshi (20 August 2018)
* Khawaja Muhammad Asif
* Nawaz Sharif
* Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

## Bureaucrats

* Roedad Khan
* Sartaj Aziz
* Nargis Sethi
* Tariq Bajwa
* Fazalur Rehman
* Mohammed Ikramullah
* Rizwan Ahmed
* Tasneem Noorani
* Usman Ali Isani
* Qudrat Ullah Shahab
* Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
* Jawad Rafique Malik
* Sikandar Sultan Raja
* Nasir Mahmood Khosa
* Rabiya Javeri Agha
* Fawad Hassan Fawad
* Kamran Lashari

## Diplomats

* A. S. Bokhari
* Agha Shahi
* Jamsheed Marker
* Jauhar Saleem
* Javid Husain
* Maliha Lodhi
* Prince Ali Khan
* Khalid Amir Khan, Ambassador to Hungary, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
* Riaz Khokhar
* Najmuddin Sheikh
* Tehmina Janjua
* Tariq Azim Khan, High Commissioner to Canada (from 2015 to 2018)
* Abdus Salim Khan
* Shahryar Khan

## United Nations officials

* A. S. Bokhari
* Nafis Sadik
* Iqbal Riza
* Patras Bokhari

## Attorney General of Pakistan

* Yahya Bakhtiar
* Aziz A Munshi
* Makhdoom Ali Khan
* Malik Mohammad Qayyum
* Latif Khosa
* Ashtar Ausaf Ali
* Salman Aslam Butt
* Khalid Jawed Khan
* Iqbal Haider
* Mansoor Usman Awan
* Shehzad Ata Elahi

## Law officers of Advocate General Punjab

* Ahmad Awais
* Shahid Karim
* Akhtar Aly Kureshy

## 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"
* Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi
* Faisal Khan, provincial assembly member
* 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

* Allama Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Tahreek-e- Pakistan activist, associate of the Quaid-e-Azam and a scholar on the Quran
* Ghulam Faruque Khan
* Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri
* Iftikhar Ahmad Khan Jadoon, provincial assembly member
* Ihtisham Ali, provincial assembly member
* Imran Khan, ex-cricket player, former prime minister in Pakistan
* Ishfaq Ahmed, provincial assembly member
* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
* Liaqat Ali, provincial assembly member

### 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
* 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
* 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
* Shahzada Mohiuddin
* Sanath Singh
* Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
* 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

* Justice Shafi-ur-Rahman
* Justice A. R. Cornelius
* Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar
* Justice Sir Abdur Rashid
* Justice S. Anwarul Haq
* Justice Dorab Patel
* Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
* Justice Hamoodur Rahman
* Justice Ajmal Mian
* Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
* Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
* Justice Mohammad Haleem
* Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah
* Justice Muhammad Munir
* Justice Muhammad Rustum Kiani
* Justice Muhammad Shahabuddin
* Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali
* Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah
* Justice Qadeeruddin Ahmed
* Justice Rana Bhagwandas
* Justice Sajjad Ali Shah
* Justice Mukhtiar Ahmad Junejo
* Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif
* Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed
* Justice Haziqul Khairi
* Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza
* Justice Saqib Nisar
* Justice Asif Saeed Khosa
* Justice Allama Khalid Mahmood
* Justice Gulzar Ahmed
* Justice Athar Minallah
* Justice Ali Baqar Najafi
* Justice Zahid Hussain

## Lawyers

* Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
* S M Zafar
* Akhtar Aly Kureshy
* Hamid Khan
* Asma Jahangir, Senior ASC
* Aitzaz Ahsan
* Ashtar Ausaf Ali
* Khalid Ranjha
* Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
* Mahmud Ali Kasuri
* Ahmad Awais
* Wasim Sajjad
* Ghulam Farooq Awan
* Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
* Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri
* Akram Sheikh
* Syed Ali Zafar
* Naseer Ahmed Bhutta
* Babar Awan
* Makhdoom Ali Khan
* Khalid Anwer
* Mohammed Jibran Nasir
* Abid Hassan Minto
* Shakeel ur Rahman
* Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
* Farooq Naek
* Salman Aslam Butt
* Suman Kumari, first Hindu woman judge in Pakistan
* Iqbal Haider
* Hina Jilani
* Azam Nazeer Tarar

## 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
* Mushtaq Chhapra, founder of The Citizens Foundation
* Sheema Kermani, founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan
* Asma Jahangir
* Hina Jilani
* Abid Qaiyum Suleri
* 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
* Aman Ullah Malik Professor and Dr. Serving as Principal Punjab University Law College Lahore.
* 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’
* Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former chairman KRL, 1976-2001
* Khalid Saeed Khan, principal of College of Physiotherapy
* 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
* Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987
* Ikram Chughtai, researcher, translator, historian, and biographer.
* 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.
* 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
* 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 Chishty, virologist

### School teachers

* Oswald Bruno Nazareth
* Zinia Pinto
* Norma Fernandes, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz
* Yolande Henderson
* Salima Begum

## 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
* 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
* Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, law professor, Sufi Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran
* Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, religious scholar, founder of Jamaa'at-e-Ahle Sunnat
* 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

* 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
* Lieutenant general Bahadur Sher (1922–1983)

## 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
* 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

* Agha Hasan Abedi
* Ishrat Husain
* Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
* Muhammad Mian Soomro
* Shahid Javed Burki
* Shamshad Akhtar
* Zahid Hussain
* Shaukat Aziz, banker and former Prime Minister
* Mian Muhammad Mansha
* Mir Mohammad Ali Khan, Pakistani investment banker

## Arts, literature and other media personalities
### Actors and actresses

    For a categorical listing of actors in film, see Category:Pakistani film actors
* 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

* Amna Riaz
* Mooroo
* Muhammad Ali Mirza

### Video jockeys

* Anoushey Ashraf
* Ayesha Omar
* Mahira Khan

## Architects

* Kausar Bashir Ahmed
* Nayyar Ali Dada
* Habib Fida Ali
* Abdur Rahman Hye
* Yasmeen Lari
* Umar Farooq
* Nasreddin Murat-Khan

## Artists and painters

* Abdur Rahman Chughtai
* Ahmed Saeed Nagi
* Ajaz Anwar
* Anna Molka Ahmed
* A. R. Nagori
* Asim Butt
* Allah Bakhsh (painter)
* Bashir Mirza
* Huma Mulji
* Ijaz ul Hassan
* Eqbal Mehdi
* Ismail Gulgee
* Jamil Naqsh
* Laraib Atta
* Lubna Agha
* Moeen Faruqi
* Rashid Rana
* Sadequain
* Saira Wasim
* Sara Shakeel
* Shahid Mahmood
* Shakir Ali
* Saeed Akhtar
* Hanif Ramay
* Shazia Sikander
* Suhail Ahmad
* Zahoor ul Akhlaq
* Zubeida Agha
* Iqbal Hussain
* Khalid Iqbal

## Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers

* Aehsun Talish
* Anwar Kamal Pasha
* Farooq Rind
* Kashif Nisar
* Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
* Nazar-ul-Islam
* Riaz Shahid
* Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
* Sabiha Sumar
* Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
* Shoaib Mansoor
* Usman Peerzada
* Yawar Hayat Khan

## Fashion designers

* Amir Adnan
* Deepak Perwani
* Hassan Sheheryar Yasin
* Junaid Jamshed
* Kamiar Rokni
* Omar Mansoor

### Models

* Aminah Haq
* Humaima Malick
* Iffat Rahim
* Iman Ali
* Imran Abbas
* Mehreen Raheel
* Reema Khan
* Tooba Siddiqui
* Vaneeza Ahmad
* Zara Sheikh
* Ayaan Ali

### Visual effects

* Muqeem Khan
* Laraib Atta

## 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
* Rauf Klasra
* 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
* Surendar Valasai
* Syed Saleem Shahzad
* 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
* Imran Riaz Khan Pakistani journalist
* Wajahat Saeed Khan Pakistani journalist

## 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

* Farah Mahbub
* Huma Mulji
* Zaigham Zaidi
* Tapu Javeri
* Sarfaraz K. Niazi

## Writers and poets

* Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz
* Rasul Bux Palejo
* Syed Sibte Hassan
* Saadat Hassan Manto
* Khawar Rizvi
* Patras Bokhari
* Ibn-e-Insha
* Syed Irfan Ali Shah
* Chaudhry Afzal Haq
* Mohsin Naqvi
* Agha Shorish Kashmiri
* Janbaz Mirza
* Abdullah Hussain
* Ahmad Faraz
* Shaikh Ayaz
* Amar Jaleel
* Sohail Sangi
* Anwar Pirzada
* Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
* Afrasiab Khattak
* Alamgir Hashmi
* Qalandar Momand
* Siddiq Ismail
* Anwer Maqsood
* Ashfaq Ahmad
* Bano Qudsia
* Daud Kamal
* Fatima Surayya Bajia
* Ghulam Abbas
* Habib Jalib
* Hakim Ahmad Shuja
* Hakim Said
* Ibn-e-Insha
* Ibn-e-Safi
* Idris Azad
* Ishtiaq Ahmad
* Iftikhar Arif
* Ihsan Danish
* Jon Elia
* Kazi Zainul Abedin
* Khurshid Rizvi
* Majeed Amjad
* Mazhar Kaleem
* Mohsin Hamid
* Mohammed Hanif
* Mustansar Hussain Tarar
* Noon Meem Danish
* Noon Meem Rashid
* Obaidullah Aleem
* Mirza Ather Baig
* Parveen Shakir
* Qateel Shafai
* Raees Warsi
* Saadat Hasan Manto
* Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
* Vazir Agha
* Wasif Ali Wasif
* Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
* Zamir Jafri
* Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
* Amjad Islam Amjad
* Anwar Masood
* Moeen Nizami
* Fatima Bhutto
* Abdur Rauf Urooj (c. 1932–1990)
* Mohiuddin Nawab

## Sports
### Athletics

* John Permal, sprinter
* Kamal Salman Masud, swimmer
* Lianna Swan, swimmer
* Kiran Khan, swimmer

### Boxing

* Muhammad Waseem, WBC Silver Flyweight Champion
* Amir Khan, undisputed light-welterweight world champion
* Hussain Shah
* Jan Mohammad Baloch (1950-2012), Pakistani former olympian boxer, coach

### Cricket

* Imran Khan
* Anil Dalpat
* Imam-ul-Haq
* Salman Butt
* Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1989)
* Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1991)
* Shaheen Afridi
* Nasir Jamshed
* Javed Miandad
* Abdul Hafeez Kardar
* Mohammad Hafeez
* Abdul Qadir
* Abdul Razzaq
* Aamer Sohail
* Danish Kaneria
* Fazal Mahmood
* Faisal Iqbal
* Fawad Alam
* Hanif Mohammad
* Imran Abbas
* Imran Nazir
* Inzamam-ul-Haq
* Javed Burki
* Junaid Khan
* Kamran Akmal
* Khan Mohammad
* Majid Khan
* Misbah-ul-Haq
* Mohammad Amir
* Mohammad Asif
* Mohammad Yousuf
* Moin Khan
* Mushtaq Ahmed
* Rashid Latif
* Saeed Ajmal
* Saeed Anwar
* Saqlain Mushtaq
* Sarfraz Ahmed
* Sarfraz Nawaz
* Sajjida Shah
* Shahid Afridi
* Sohail Tanvir
* Shahid Khan Afridi
* Shoaib Akhtar
* Shoaib Malik
* Umar Akmal
* Umar Gul
* Waqar Younis
* Wasim Akram
* Yasir Hameed
* Yasir Shah
* Younis Khan
* Zaheer Abbas
* Zahid Ahmed (cricketer)
* Zahid Fazal
* Babar Azam
* Fakhar Zaman

### Cycling

* Sabia Abbat

### E-sports

* Syed Sumail Hassan
* Arslan Ash

### Field hockey

* Hassan Sardar
* Samiullah
* Shahbaz Ahmad
* Shahid Ali Khan
* Sohail Abbas
* Tahir Zaman
* Samiullah Khan
* Basit Ali
* Mohammad Zahid
* Shahnaz Sheikh
* Islahuddin
* Jack Britto
* Imran Mayo
* Mahmood-ul Hassan

### Football

* Muhammad Umer
* Masood Fakhri
* Abdul Ghafoor
* Moosa Ghazi
* Qayyum Changezi
* Ali Nawaz Baloch
* Muhammad Essa
* Sharafat Ali
* Haroon Yousaf
* Qazi Ashfaq
* Zesh Rehman
* Moideen Kutty
* Etzaz Hussain
* Harun Hamid
* Kaleemullah Khan
* Jaffar Khan
* Easah Suliman
* Abdullah Iqbal
* Alamgir Ghazi
* Hassan Bashir

### Golf

* Taimur Hussain
* Akhtar Aly Kureshy

### Mixed martial arts

* Bashir Ahmad

### Mountaineers

* Ashraf Aman
* Nazir Sabir
* Hassan Sadpara
* Meherban Karim
* Samina Baig
* Amir Mehdi
* Abdul Jabbar Bhatti
* Ali Sadpara

### Sailing

* Munir Sadiq

### Skiing

* Amina Wali

### Snooker

* Khurram Hussain Agha
* Mohammed Yousuf
* Saleh Mohammed
* Muhammad Asif

### Squash

* Jansher Khan, 8 time world open champion, 4 time super series champion, 6 time British champion
* Aamir Atlas Khan
* Farhan Mehboob
* Hashim Khan, 8 time British champion
* Jahangir Khan, 6 time world champion, 10 time British champion
* Carla Khan
* Mansoor Zaman
* Qamar Zaman, British champion
* Zaheer Abbas, legendary cricketeer

### Tennis

* Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
* Haroon Rahim

## Police officers

* Chaudhry Aslam Khan
* Safwat Ghayur
* Malik Saad
* Allah Dino Khawaja
* Nasir Durrani
* Moazzam Jah Ansari
* Pushpa Kumari Kohli, first Hindu woman police officer in Pakistan

## Militants

* Abdul Rauf Azhar
* Ajmal Kasab, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
* Fazlullah
* Ghazi Baba, mastermind of 2001 Delhi parliament attack
* Hafiz Saeed
* Hakimullah Mehsud
* Ilyas Kashmiri, Al Qaeda operative
* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11
* Malik Ishaq
* Masood Azhar
* Qari Hussain
* Ramzi Yousef, convict in world trade centre bombing
* Rashid Rauf
* Riaz Basra
* Sufi Muhammad
* Wali-ur-Rehman
* Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi

## Other dignitaries

* 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
* Asif Bashir, Pakistani rescue worker
* Malala Yousafzai, education activist
* Syed Ali Akhtar, military officer
* Tooba Syed, feminist, political worker
* Umar Farooq Zahoor, businessman and a fugitive sought for financial crimes
* Zahida Kazmi, Pakistan's first female taxi driver
* Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, women's rights activist
* Abdul Rauf Seemab, Potter
* Laeeq Ahmed