Kamboj

The Kamboj (Devanagari: कंबोज, Nastaliq: کمبوج, Gurumukhi: ਕੰਬੋਜ ALA-LC: Kamboj), also Kamboh (Nastaliq: کمبوہ ALA-LC: Kamboh), is a caste and cultivating community of India and Pakistan that originated from the central Punjab region.

Muslim Kamboj are known as Kamboh; they were particularly influential in the administration and the military of the Mughal Empire from the times of Akbar onward. Some famous personalities include Shahbaz Khan Kamboh and Shaikh Gadai Kamboh.

Religion
As per the 1931 census of British Punjab, most Kambojs followed Sikhism (42.4%) and Islam (41.5%), with a considerable minority following Hinduism (16.1%).

Muslim members of the community are called as Kamboh. The Hindu Kambojs and the Sikh Kambojs are found in the Punjab, Haryana and Jammu regions in India, while most of the Muslim Kambohs are found in the province of Punjab in Pakistan.

Numbers
As per the 2017 Pakistani census, Kamboj made around 5% of Lahore's population, which back then amounted to some 550 000 individuals out of a total population of 11 million.

Notable people

 * Shahbaz Khan Kamboh
 * Khair Andesh Khan Kamboh
 * Muhammad Saleh Kamboh
 * Khair Andesh Khan Sani Kamboh
 * Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh
 * Shaikh Gadai Kamboh
 * Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh
 * Jamali Kamboh
 * Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh
 * Hasan Mahmudi Kamboh
 * Bhagat Singh Thind
 * Udham Singh
 * Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh
 * Jathedar Bhai Tehal Singh Dhanju
 * Baba Amar Singh Nibber
 * Sunder Singh Lyallpuri
 * Fazal Malik Akif
 * Har Karan Ibn Mathuradas Kamboh Multani
 * Muhammad Yamin Khan
 * Upinderjit Kaur
 * Sardar Atma Singh
 * Lal Singh (politician)
 * Prithipal Singh
 * Babar Azam
 * Kamran Akmal
 * Umar Akmal