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

Military / non-democratically elected administrators

Foreign ministers

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

United Nations officials

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
  • Muhammad Amjad Pervaiz

Other major political figures

A – F

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[1]
  • 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[2]
  • 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
  • Justice Jawad Hassan

Lawyers

Human rights activists and philanthropists

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[3]
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former chairman KRL, 1976-2001
  • Khalid Saeed Khan, principal of College of Physiotherapy[4]
  • 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[5]
  • Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987[6]
  • Ikram Chughtai, researcher,[7][8][9] 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.[10]
  • 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
  • Arif Alvi, Chairman of Pakistan Dental Federation[11]
  • 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, 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
  • 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

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[14]
  • 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

Arts, literature and other media personalities

Actors and actresses

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

YouTubers

  • Amna Riaz
  • Mooroo
  • Muhammad Ali Mirza

Video jockeys

Architects

Artists and painters

Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers

Fashion designers

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

Models

Visual effects

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

Photographers

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

Writers and poets

Sports

Athletics

  • John Permal, sprinter
  • Kamal Salman Masud, swimmer
  • Lianna Swan, swimmer
  • Kiran Khan, swimmer
  • Syndey Phillip Greve, Olympic Boxer

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

Cycling

  • Sabia Abbat

E-sports

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

Golf

  • Taimur Hussain

Mixed martial arts

  • Bashir Ahmad

Mountaineers

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

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

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

See also

  • List of people by city in Pakistan
  • List of Kashmiris
  • List of Muhajirs
  • List of Pakistani qaris
  • List of Pashtuns
  • List of Punjabi Muslims
  • List of Sindhis

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