List of people from Lahore

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Badshahi Mosque at night

This is a list of people who were born in Lahore or are otherwise known for their association with the city.

Actors and filmmakers

• Ahmad Ali Butt
• Ali Ejaz
• Amanullah (TV comedian)
• Amina Haq
• Anoushay Abbasi
• Anwar Kamal Pasha, film director and producer
• Ayesha Sana
• Ayesha Omar
• Badar Khalil
• Bahar Begum
• Chetan Anand (director), film maker
• David Gooderson
• Dev Anand
• Fawad Afzal
• Gabrielle Drake
• Iman Ali
• Jana Malik
• Janita Asma
• Kamini Kaushal
• Khalid Abbas Dar
• Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, filmmaker, writer, director, composer
• Kuldip Kaur
• Maya Ali, actress
• Meena Shorey
• Meera
• Muamar Rana
• Navin Nischol
• Nirma (actress)
• Percy Brandt
• Prem Chopra a Bollywood and Punjabi film actor
• Rabia Butt
• Rasheed Attre, music director (grandfather of Jimmy Attre)
• Reema Khan, actress
• Saba Hameed, Pakistani television actress
• Saeed Khan Rangeela, Lollywood actor, singer and director
• Sajal Ali, actress
• Dur e Fishan Slaeem, television actress
• Sami Khan
• Sarmad Khoosat
• Shaan, actor
• Shahid (actor)
• Shamim Bano
• Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, actor, director, producer
• Syed Ishrat Abbas
• Syed Noor
• Vaneeza Ahmed
• Yawar Hayat Khan, TV director/producer
• Yash Chopra Bollywood

Artists

• Abdur Rahman Chughtai
• Ajaz Anwar
• Amrita Sher-Gil
• Anna Molka Ahmed
• Bhai Ram Singh, architect
• Nayyar Ali Dada, architect
• Rashid Rana, artist
• Salima Hashmi
• Shakir Ali, artist, art teacher, former head of the National College of Arts in Lahore
• Shahzia Sikander, artist
• Sir Ganga Ram, philanthropist, architect, civil engineer, and agriculturist
• Zahoor ul Akhlaq

Businessmen

• Michael Chowdry, businessman
• Shahid Khan, richest person of Pakistani birth
• Mian Muhammad Mansha
• Syed Babar Ali

Economists

• Salman Shah, economist
• Shahid Javed Burki
• Ishrat Hussain

Journalists

• Ahmed Rashid
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza
• Kamran Shahid
• Khushwant Singh, novelist and journalist
• Mazhar Ali Khan, Socialist journalist
• Hamid Mir
• Hassan Nisar, columnist and anchor person
• Naeem Baig, novelist and short story writer.
• Olive Christian Malvery, investigative journalist.
• Sohail Warraich
• Arif Nizami, Pakistan Today

Medical professionals

• Amna Buttar - medical doctor
• Farid Ahmad Khan - Pakistani doctor and plastic surgeon who served as chairman and Dean of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex from 2015 to 2018, and Registrar of King Edward Medical University from 2011 to 2015.

Music and Dance

• Abrar ul Haq
• Ali Azmat
• Ali Zafar
• Amanat Ali Khan
• Annie Khalid
• Meesha Shafi
• Asad Amanat Ali Khan
• Atif Aslam
• Bilal Khan, singer
• Chahat Fateh Ali Khan
• Farida Khanum
• Ghulam Ahmed Chishti
• Humera Arshad
• Inayat Hussain, composer
• Iqbal Bahu
• Iqbal Bano
• Irene Perveen
• Jawad Ahmad
• Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
• Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak
• Malika Pukhraj
• Musarrat Nazir
• Noor Jehan (Madam)
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• O. P. Nayyar, film music director and composer
• Rashid Attre, film music director and composer
• Shafqat Amanat Ali
• Shamshad Begum
• Shiraz Uppal, singer and songwriter
• Tahira Syed
• Waris Baig
• Sahir Ali Bagga
• Saieen Zahoor, Sufi singer and dancer
• Zayn Malik, British singer-songwriter of Pakistani descent whose father is from Lahore.

Lawyers

Galaxy of Lawyers in Lahore High Court, Lahore.

• Justice Sir Mian Shah Din, the first Muslim judge of the Punjab Chief Court
• Akhtar Aly Kureshy
• Akram Sheikh
• Ahmad Awais
• S M Zafar
• Asma Jahangir
• Allah Bukhsh Karim Bukhsh Brohi
• Aitzaz Ahsan, barrister of Gray's Inn
• Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
• Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
• Babar Awan
• Hamid Khan
• Syed Ali Zafar
• Ashtar Ausaf Ali
• Khalid Ranjha
• Liaqat Ali Khan, barrister of Inner Temple
• Latif Khosa
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, barrister of Lincoln's Inn
• Mumtaz Mustafa
• Mahmud Ali Kasuri
• Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
• Rana Muhammad Akram Khan
• Rashid Rehman
• Shakeel ur Rahman Khan
• Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
• Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri
• Wasim Sajjad Dhanish
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, barrister of Lincoln's Inn
• Salman Aslam Butt

Politicians and Government Officers

• Fakir Syed Azizuddin, minister during Sikh rule
• Mumtaz Daultana, Punjabi politician
• Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot, Muslim League leader and politician
• Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi, early politician from Punjab
• Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz, Muslim League lady activist
• Syed Amjad Ali, senior politician and former Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Qamar Zaman Kaira
• Moonis Elahi
• Chaudhry Tahir Mahmood Chahal Jatt
• Aitizaz Ahsan
• Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
• Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf – former cricketer
• Khawaja Saad Rafique
• Maleeha Lodhi
• Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
• Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court
• Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
• Mazhar Ali Azhar (Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam), Member of the Legislative Assembly
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (Secretary General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, 1945)
• Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N)
• Princess Sarvath El Hassan (resident), Crown Princess of Jordan for over 30 years, wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
• Raza Rabbani
• Shahbaz Sharif
• Abdul Sattar Ranjoor, politician who lived briefly in Lahore

Saints

• Ali Hujwiri, Data Ganj-Baksh, patron Sufi saint of Lahore
• Mian Mir, Qadiri Sufi saint
• Madho Lal Hussain (Shah Hussain), Sufi poet
• Guru Ram Das, 4th Sikh Guru

Scholars

• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Orientalist scholar and early educationalist of British Punjab
• Alfred Cooper Woolner, Sanskrit scholar
• John Lockwood Kipling curator, artist and ethnologist, also father of Rudyard Kipling
• Allama Mashriqi, mathematician, political theorist, Islamic scholar, founder of the Khaksar movement
• Alamgir Hashmi, English and Comparative Literature scholar, author, literary editor and scholarly editor (social sciences and humanities)
• Ayesha Jalal, South Asian Historian
• Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, author of prize winning book, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed, 2012, 2014
• Muhammad Sharif, Pakistani cosmologist
• Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Founder Minhaj-ul-Quran, religious Scholar, Islamic hadith compiler, Author
• Nergis Mavalvala, Pakistani-American astrophysicist, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Science
• Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
• Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
• Sara Suleri, author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, astrophysicist
• Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Founder Jamia Naemia
• Syed Afzal Haider legal expert and scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
• Syed Waqar Jaffry Pakistani academic and researcher in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence
• Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, Talu-e-Islam
• Asghar Zaidi - Vice Chancellor GCU
• Abdul Hafeez Mirza - Pakistani writer, tourism worker, educationist and cultural activist.
• Jitendra Pal Singh Uberoi (1934–2024), sociologist and philosophical anthropologist

Sportspersons

• Ahmed QURESHI, swimmer, cricket, kabadi
• Muhammad Ahmed, footballer
• Rehan Butt, hockey player
• The Great Gama
• Zubair Jhara, wrestler
• Zahid Shareef, hockey player

Cricketers

• Aamer Sohail
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistan's first official cricket captain
• Abdul Qadir
• Abdul Razzaq
• Abid Ali
• Adnan Akmal
• Ahmed Shehzad
• Ali Naqvi
• Anam Amin
• Asif Masood
• Ata-ur-Rehman
• Azhar Ali
• Babar Azam
• Bismah Maroof
• Fazal Mahmood
• Gul Mohammad
• Humayun Farhat
• Ijaz Ahmed
• Ikramullah Sheikh
• Imam-ul-Haq
• Imran Butt
• Imran Farhat
• Imran Khan
• Imtiaz Ahmed
• Kamran Akmal
• Khan Mohammad
• Mahmood Hussain
• Mohammad Hussain
• Mohammad Khalil
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Mudassar Nazar
• Nashra Sandhu
• Nasir Jamshed
• Saad Nasim
• Saleem Altaf
• Saleem Malik
• Salman Butt
• Sami Aslam
• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Sarfraz Nawaz
• Shafiq Ahmed
• Sidra Nawaz
• Taufeeq Umar
• Umer Akmal
• Usman Salahuddin
• Usman Qadir
• Wahab Riaz
• Waqar Hasan
• Wasim Akram
• Waqar Younis
• Zafar Gohar
• Zulqarnain Haider

Royalty and nobility

• Jahangir
• Shah Jahan
• Nur Jahan
• Ustad Ahmad Lahori
• Wazir Khan
• Ranjit Singh
• Kharak Singh
• Nau Nihal Singh
• Duleep Singh
• Bamba Sutherland, last Sikh princess of the Punjab
• Anarkali, quasi-legendary Mughal concubine and aesthetic muse, after whom the Anarkali Bazaar is also named

Writers and poets

• Abdul Hamid Lahori
• Abu al-Barakat Munir Lahori
• Masud Sa'd Salman
• Abu-al-Faraj Runi
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja, poet, dramatist, writer and scholar
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
• Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri (writer, historian)
• Muhammad Asim Butt (Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist)
• Janbaz Mirza (writer, historian)
• Wasif Ali Wasif (conversationalist, writer, Sufism)
• Amjad Islam Amjad writer, poet and teacher
• Amrita Pritam, woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
• Ashfaq Ahmed, writer, playwright, broadcaster
• Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist in English, author of Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
• Bano Qudsia, novelist, playwright and spiritualist
• Daniyal Mueenuddin
• Enver Sajjad
• Muzaffar Warsi, Urdu poet
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
• Habib Jalib
• Imtiaz Dharker
• Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar
• Krishan Chander
• Masud Sa'd Salman Persian poet from the Ghaznavid period
• Moeen Nizami Urdu and Persian writer, poet, and scholar
• Moniza Alvi
• Mohsin Hamid
• Muneer Niazi
• Qasim Mahmood
• Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, politician, poet
• Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
• Alamgir Hashmi, English poet, essayist, fiction writer (born in Lahore)
• Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer in Urdu
• Qayyum Nazar, Urdu Language poet
• Khadija Mastoor, Urdu feminist writer
• Hajra Masroor, Urdu feminist writer
• Ali Arshad Mir, Punjabi poet and writer
• Vijay Kumar Chopra Writer
• Tariq Ali, British-Pakistani writer and Communist
• Muhammad Asim Butt, Urdu novelist and translator
• Amjad Islam Amjad

Aviators

• Ravish Malhotra, an air commodore of the Indian Air Force, who was also trained for spaceflight in the Soviet Union

Outlaws

• Jagga Gujjar, 20th century Lahore bandit

Others

• Kamran Lashari
• Ayesha Mumtaz, PCS officer
• Tahira Mazhar Ali , women's rights and political activist
• Pappu Samrat, choreographer
• Yousuf Salahuddin, socialite, philanthropist, ex-politician
• Laeeq Ahmed (1933–2014), commentator, broadcaster, television presenter

References

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