The old and historical city of Lahore, now in Punjab (Pakistan), has been home to many famous personalities in Indian history, and later Pakistani history after 1947. A list of famous 'Lahoris', or people who lived in Lahore and added positively to its social, cultural and intellectual life, is given below. This is not complete and you may add to it.

This list is given in chronological order.

Notable Lahoris

 Lav, son of Rama, the legendary founder of Lahore. 
 Hazrat Ali al-Hajvery, patron Sufi saint of the city.
 Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, a ruler of the Delhi Sultanate who did much to embellish the city. 
 Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor
 Jahangir, Mughal Emperor
 Anarkali, famed dancing-girl of Mughal times. 
 Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress and early social hostess 
 Mian Mir Sahib, another very popular Sufi saint of the city.
 Madho Lal Hussain, 16th century Punjabi Sufi poet.
 Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sikh ruler of Punjab
 The Fakir Family of the old walled Lahore, owners of the Fakir Khana
 The Mian Family of Baghbanpura which produced many famous people 
 Sir Henry Lawrence, early British Indian administrator 
 Sir John Lawrence (later Lord Lawrence) first Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab
 Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Lieutenant-Governor
 John Lockwood Kipling, artist and art curator 
 Prof. Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, educationalist
 Sir Ganga Ram, engineer and philanthropist
 Rudyard Kipling, author 
 Hakim Ahmad Shuja, scholar, poet, writer and lyricist
 Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj playwright who immortalised the love story of Anarkali. 
 Allama Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan
 Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Premier of the Punjab and renovator of the Badshahi Mosque
 Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot Punjabi landowner and Muslim League supporter
 Amrita Sher-Gil, artist and tragic muse 
 Malik Barkat Ali lawyer, journalist and political figure 
 Ustad Allah Bux artist
 A.R. Chughtai, artist
 Shakir Ali artist and art teacher
 Anwar Kamal Pasha famous early film director and producer. 
 Faiz Ahmad Faiz poet and progressive, socialist journalist
 Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize winning physicist
 Anna Molka Ahmed artist, poet and art teacher at the University of the Punjab
 Madam Noor Jehan singer and early movie-star
 Sadequain, artist
 Riaz Shahid, film-maker and writer 
 Neelo, popular film actress. 
 Taufiq Rafat, poet and Punjabi translator
 Asma Jahangir, eminent lawyer and human rights activist.
 Yawar Hayat Khan early Pakistan Television director-producer.
 Altaf Hussain Pakistani film director. 
 Bapsi Sidhwa (née Bhandara) novelist and native of Lahore.
 Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Lahori politician and industrialist
 Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of the Punjab and bon vivant
 Reema, famous film actress, producer and director. 
 Imran Khan ex-sportsman and political reformer 
 Mohsin Hamid, novelist and socialite
Hammad Khan, humanitarian and Past District Interact Representative at Rotary International District 3272 2013-14

References

Further reading

 Griffin and Massey, Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab, revided edition 1910-11.
 WG Osborne, The Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh, London, 1846.
 Lady Emily Eden, Up the Country, new edition, London, 1983.
 Hakim Ahmad Shuja, Lahore ka Chelsea (Urdu), Lahore, 1969.
 Ian Talbot, Divided Cities: Lahore and Amritsar:1947-1957, Karachi, 2005 edition.
 FS Aijazuddin, Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19th Century, Lahore, n.d.
 WJ Glover, Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City, Karachi, 2011.
 B. Gascoine, The Great Mughals, London, 1971.
 M. Athar Tahir, Punjab Portraits, Lahore, 1992.
 Isobel Shaw, Pakistan Handbook 1988.

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