List of Pakistani Canadians

This is a list of Pakistani Canadians.

Academics

 * Sajida Alvi – academic of Pakistani origin in Canada; historian of Islam in South Asia
 * Naz Ikramullah
 * Rukhsana Khan – children's author and storyteller
 * Munir Sheikh – 10th Chief Statistician of Canada, replaced Ivan Fellegi
 * 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
 * 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.

Pageants

 * Sonia Ahmed – President of Miss Pakistan World, Mrs. Pakistan World
 * Sara Ghulam – Miss World Canada 2007

Models

 * Yasmeen Ghauri – Victoria's Secret supermodel

Urdu poets

 * Musharraf Ali Farooqi – writer and translator
 * Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
 * Ashfaq Hussain – Urdu poet

Film

 * Hamza Haq – actor
 * Sitara Hewitt – actress
 * Omar Majeed – filmmaker
 * Ali Mukaddam – actor
 * Zarqa Nawaz – director and producer; known for CBC serial Little Mosque on the Prairie
 * Zaib Shaikh – actor
 * Kris Siddiqi – actor and comedian
 * 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
 * Qurram Hussain – member of JoSH
 * Sohail Rana

TV personalities

 * Sabrina Jalees – Canadian comedian
 * Adnan Virk – sports anchor for ESPN

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
 * Yasir Naqvi – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and Attorney General of Ontario
 * Shafiq Qaadri – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
 * Shad Qadri – Ottawa City Councillor for Ward 6
 * Shiraz Shariff – former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
 * Salma Zahid – current member of the House of Commons of Canada

Sports

 * Cecil Pervez - Canadian cricket player
 * Qaiser Ali – Canadian cricket player
 * Umar Bhatti – Canadian cricket player
 * Saad Bin Zafar – Canadian cricketer
 * Rizwan Cheema – Canadian cricketer
 * Hamza Tariq – Canadian cricketer
 * Asif Dar – Canadian boxer
 * Mian Hussain – Canadian professional boxer
 * Obby Khan – offensive lineman of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * 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
 * Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi – former recruit of the Islamic State group.
 * Malala Yousafzai – education activist