List of Pakistani Canadians

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This is a list of Pakistani Canadians.

Academics

Sajida Alvi – academic of Pakistani origin in Canada; historian of Islam in South Asia^[1]
Naz Ikramullah^[2]
Rukhsana Khan – children's author and storyteller
Munir Sheikh – 10th Chief Statistician of Canada, replaced Ivan Fellegi^[3]
Naweed Syed – Professor at and Head of Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy at the University of Calgary; first person to connect brain cells to a silicon chip^[4]^[5]
Zulfiqar Bhutta – Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto.

Arts and fashion

Pageants

Sonia Ahmed^[6] – President of Miss Pakistan World, Mrs. Pakistan World
Sara Ghulam – Miss World Canada 2007^[7]

Models

Yasmeen Ghauri – Victoria's Secret supermodel^[8]

Urdu poets

Musharraf Ali Farooqi – writer and translator
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee^[9]
Ashfaq Hussain – Urdu poet

Entertainment and media

Film

Hamza Haq – actor
Sitara Hewitt – actress^[10]
Omar Majeed – filmmaker^[11]
Ali Mukaddam – actor
Zarqa Nawaz – director and producer; known for CBC serial Little Mosque on the Prairie^[12]
Zaib Shaikh – actor^[13]
Kris Siddiqi – actor and comedian^[14]
Iman Vellani - actress
Ahad Raza Mir - actor

Journalists

Suroosh Alvi – journalist and co-founder of VICE magazine

Musicians

Tariq Hussain – singer-songwriter and radio host^[15]
Qurram Hussain – member of JoSH^[16]
Sohail Rana^[17]

TV personalities

Sabrina Jalees – Canadian comedian^[18]
Adnan Virk – sports anchor for ESPN^[19]

Politics

Salma Ataullahjan – Senator
Iqra Khalid – current member of the House of Commons of Canada
Wajid Khan – former member of the House of Commons of Canada^[20]
Yasir Naqvi – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and Attorney General of Ontario^[21]
Shafiq Qaadri – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario^[22]
Shad Qadri – Ottawa City Councillor for Ward 6^[23]
Shiraz Shariff – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta^{[citation needed]}
Salma Zahid – current member of the House of Commons of Canada

Sports

Cecil Pervez - Canadian cricket player^[24]
Qaiser Ali – Canadian cricket player^[25]
Umar Bhatti – Canadian cricket player^[26]
Saad Bin Zafar – Canadian cricketer^[27]
Rizwan Cheema – Canadian cricketer^[28]
Hamza Tariq – Canadian cricketer^[29]
Asif Dar – Canadian boxer^[30]^[31]
Mian Hussain – Canadian professional boxer^[32]
Obby Khan – offensive lineman of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers^{[citation needed]}^[33]
Maria Toorpakay Wazir – Pakistani squash player currently resident in Toronto, Ontario
Kaleem Sana - Canadian Cricketer

Others

Ali A. Rizvi – writer and podcaster
Zafar Bangash – commentator
Michael John Hamdani – forger^[34]
Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi – former recruit of the Islamic State group.^[35]
Malala Yousafzai – education activist

See also

References

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^ Baksh, Nazim; Lancester, John (11 September 2017). "Young Canadian ISIS recruit says he saw violence on scale he could never have imagined". CBS News.

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