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.

Civil / democratically elected administrators

 * Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; first Governor General of Pakistan, and the main founder of Pakistan.
 * Liaquat Ali Khan
 * Khawaja Nazimuddin
 * Ghulam Muhammad
 * Iskander Mirza
 * Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
 * Chaudhry Fazal Ellahi
 * Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
 * Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
 * Muhammad Ali Bogra
 * Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
 * Feroz Khan Noon
 * Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
 * Muhammad Khan Junejo
 * Ghulam Ishaq Khan
 * Benazir Bhutto
 * Farooq Leghari
 * Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
 * Balakh Sher Mazari
 * Moeen Qureshi
 * Malik Meraj Khalid
 * Zafarullah Khan Jamali
 * Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
 * Shaukat Aziz
 * Wasim Sajjad
 * Mohammad Mian Soomro
 * Yousaf Raza Gillani
 * Raja Pervez Ashraf
 * Nawaz Sharif
 * Mamnoon Hussain
 * Arif Alvi
 * Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
 * Asif Ali Zardari
 * Imran Khan
 * Shehbaz Sharif

Military / non-democratically elected administrators

 * Field Marshal Ayub Khan
 * General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan
 * General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
 * General Pervez Musharraf

Foreign ministers

 * Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (27 December 1947—24 October 1954)
 * Aziz Ahmed (30 March 1977—5 July 1977)
 * Agha Shahi (14 January 1978—9 March 1982)
 * Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (21 March 1982—1 November 1987)
 * Abdul Sattar (23 July 1993—19 October 1993)
 * Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali (16 November 1993—4 November 1996)
 * Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Caretaker: 11 November 1996—24 February 1997)
 * Gohar Ayub (25 February 1997—7 August 1998)
 * Sartaj Aziz
 * Abdul Sattar (23 July 1999—14 June 2002)
 * Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (23 November 2002—15 November 2007)
 * Inam-ul-Haq (Caretaker: 15 November 2007—24 March 2008)
 * Shah Mehmood Qureshi (31 March 2008—February 2011)
 * Hina Rabbani Khar (18 July 2011—11 May 2013)
 * Shah Mehmood Qureshi (20 August 2018)
 * Khawaja Muhammad Asif
 * Nawaz Sharif
 * Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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

 * A. S. Bokhari
 * Agha Shahi
 * Jamsheed Marker
 * Jauhar Saleem
 * Javid Husain
 * Maliha Lodhi
 * Prince Ali Khan
 * Khalid Amir Khan, Ambassador to Hungary, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
 * Riaz Khokhar
 * Najmuddin Sheikh
 * Tehmina Janjua
 * Tariq Azim Khan, High Commissioner to Canada (from 2015 to 2018)
 * Abdus Salim Khan
 * Shahryar Khan

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
 * Akhtar Aly Kureshy

A – F

 * Abdul Ghani, provincial assembly member
 * Abdul Majeed, provincial assembly member
 * Abul A'la Maududi, writer of Tafhim-ul-Quran, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
 * Abdul Qadir Patel, Advisor to President of Pakistan and National Assembly Member
 * Adnan Wazir, provincial assembly member
 * Agha Shorish Kashmiri
 * Akhtar Khan, provincial assembly member
 * Ali Madad Jattak, provincial assembly member
 * Ali Shah, provincial assembly member
 * Allama Mashriqi
 * Altaf Hussain, founding member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London
 * Anwar Kamal Khan, senior leader of political party PMLN
 * Asif Khan, provincial assembly member
 * Aurangzeb Khan, provincial assembly member
 * Bahadur Yar Jung
 * Bakht Muhammad, provincial assembly member
 * Chaudhry Afzal Haq
 * Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
 * Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, coined the word "Pakistan"
 * Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi
 * Faisal Khan, provincial assembly member
 * Faisal Khan Jamali, provincial assembly member
 * Farhat Abbas, provincial senator
 * Fatima Jinnah, sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
 * Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, provincial assembly member

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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 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 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 Ali Baqar Najafi

Lawyers

 * Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
 * S M Zafar
 * Akhtar Aly Kureshy
 * Hamid Khan
 * Asma Jahangir, Senior ASC
 * Aitzaz Ahsan
 * Ashtar Ausaf Ali
 * Khalid Ranjha
 * Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
 * Mahmud Ali Kasuri
 * Ahmad Awais
 * Wasim Sajjad
 * Ghulam Farooq Awan
 * Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
 * Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri
 * Akram Sheikh
 * Syed Ali Zafar
 * Naseer Ahmed Bhutta
 * Babar Awan
 * Rana Muhammad Akram Khan
 * Makhdoom Ali Khan
 * Khalid Anwer
 * Mohammed Jibran Nasir
 * Abid Hassan Minto
 * Shakeel ur Rahman
 * Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
 * Farooq Naek
 * Salman Aslam Butt
 * Suman Kumari, first Hindu woman judge in Pakistan
 * Iqbal Haider
 * Hina Jilani
 * Azam Nazeer Tarar

Human rights activists and philanthropists

 * Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of Edhi Foundation
 * Ruth Pfau, founder of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre
 * Ramzan Chhipa, founder of Chhipa Welfare Association
 * Hakim Muhammad Saeed, founder of Hamdard Pakistan
 * Ansar Burney, founder of Ansar Burney Trust International
 * Dr. Amjad Saqib, founder of Akhuwat Foundation
 * Naimatullah Khan, advocate, former Chairman of Al-Khidmat Foundation
 * Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
 * Irfan Pardesi, founder and President of Zee Foundation
 * Mushtaq Chhapra, founder of The Citizens Foundation
 * Sheema Kermani, founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan
 * Asma Jahangir
 * Hina Jilani
 * Abid Qaiyum Suleri
 * Shoaib Sultan Khan
 * Masood Ul Mulk
 * Fatima Lodhi
 * Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, first woman minister in Pakistan and prominent social worker
 * Veeru Kohli
 * Dadi Leela (1916–2017), educationist, music teacher, philanthropist
 * Gulalai Ismail
 * Syeda Ghulam Fatima
 * Fouzia Saeed
 * Tabassum Adnan

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
 * 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’
 * Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former Chairman KRL, 1976-2001
 * Khalid Saeed Khan, Principal of College of Physiotherapy
 * 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
 * Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987
 * 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.
 * 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
 * Akhtar Aly Kureshy Lawyer, Writer & Professor
 * Arif Alvi, Chairman of Pakistan Dental Federation
 * 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 Chisty, virologist

School teachers

 * Oswald Bruno Nazareth
 * Zinia Pinto
 * Norma Fernandes, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz
 * Yolande Henderson
 * Salima Begum

Religious scholars

 * Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, 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
 * Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza, Islamic scholar, speaker, and researcher. Founder of Islamic Research Academy, Jehlum.
 * 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
 * Muhammad 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

 * Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed (1914 – August 7, 1958), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
 * Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed (1938–1971), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed (1951 – August 20, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (1943 – December 6, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed (1949 – December 10, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed (1944 – December 17, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed (1970 – July 5, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Lalak Jan Shaheed (1967 – July 7, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
 * Major Malik Munawar Khan Awan (died May 1981), Sitara-e-Jurat, 1965 war hero who captured Area Rajouri, Budhil and Mehdar from India during Operation Gibraltar
 * General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara, 4th Army Commander-in-Chief, 4th Governor of West Pakistan and 10th Governor of Balochistan
 * General Sawar Khan, former Vice Chief of Army Staff
 * General Iftikhar Janjua, Hilal-e-Jurat, 1971 war hero of Rann of Kutch operations
 * General Muhammad Shariff, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1977
 * General Iqbal Khan, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1980–1984
 * General Zafar H. Naqvi, Army Air Defence Commander
 * General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), think tank head
 * General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
 * General Abdul Waheed Kakar, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
 * General Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Ambassador to the United States
 * General Rahimuddin Khan, 7 year Martial Law Governor of Balochistan and provincial hero
 * General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) & Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
 * General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition
 * General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
 * General Nadeem Raza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
 * Admiral Shahid Karimullah
 * Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan
 * Lieutenant General, Akhtar Hussain Malik (died August 22, 1969), Hilal-i-Jurat, 1965 war hero
 * Lieutenant General, Abdul Ali Malik, 1965 war hero for his role in the Battle of Chawinda
 * Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, former DG ISI
 * Lieutenant General Zaheer-ul-Islam, former DG ISI
 * Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, former DG ISI
 * Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar, former DG ISI
 * Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa, former DG ISPR & Commander southern command, Chairman CPEC Authority
 * Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, former DG ISI, Commander XXX Corps (Pakistan)
 * Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, DG ISI
 * Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, former Governor of East Pakistan
 * Air Vice Marshall Eric Gordon Hall
 * Major General Athar Abbas former DG ISPR, Ambassador to Ukraine
 * Major General Julian Peter
 * Major General Noel Israel Khokhar
 * Major General Asif Ghafoor, former DG ISPR, GOC Okara 40th Infantry Division
 * Major General Babar Iftikhar, DG ISPR
 * Rear Admiral Leslie Mungavin
 * Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf
 * Brigadier Mervyn Cardoza
 * Brigadier Daniel Austin
 * Air Vice Marshall (R) Farooq Umar
 * Air Commodore Nazir Latif
 * Air Commodore (R) Muhammad Mehmood Alam (M M Alam)
 * Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
 * Wing Commander Mervyn Middlecoat
 * Squadron Leader Peter Christy
 * Squadron Leader Sarfraz Rafiqui
 * Captain Hercharn Singh
 * Rahul Dev, first person from the Hindu community to recruited in the Pakistan Air Force

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
 * 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

 * Agha Hasan Abedi
 * Ishrat Husain
 * Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
 * Muhammad Mian Soomro
 * Shahid Javed Burki
 * Shamshad Akhtar
 * Zahid Hussain
 * Shaukat Aziz, banker and former Prime Minister
 * Mian Muhammad Mansha
 * Mir Mohammad Ali Khan, Pakistani investment banker

Actors and actresses

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


 * Adeeb, actor
 * Adil Murad, actor
 * Afzal Khan, actor
 * Ajab Gul, actor
 * Anjuman, actress
 * Ayesha Sana, actress
 * Aamina Sheikh, actress
 * Babar Ali, actor
 * Babra Sharif, actress
 * Badar Munir, actor
 * Darpan, actor
 * Deeba, actor
 * Faysal Qureshi, actor
 * Fawad Khan, actor
 * Hamza Ali Abbasi, actor
 * Hareem Farooq, actress
 * Humayun Saeed, actor
 * Husna, actress
 * Imran Abbas, actor
 * Inayat Hussain Bhatti, actor
 * Ismat Zaidi, actress
 * Ismael Shah, actor
 * Javed Sheikh, actor
 * Kamal Irani, actor
 * Mahira Khan, actress
 * Marina Khan, actress
 * Maya Ali
 * Mohib Mirza, actor
 * Meera, actress
 * Mehmood Aslam, actor
 * Mohammad Ali, actor
 * Moin Akhter, actor
 * Munawar Zarif, actor
 * Mustafa Qureshi, actor
 * Nadeem Baig, actor
 * Nadia Khan, actress
 * Naeem Hashmi, actor
 * Kamal Irani, actor
 * Nasira Zuberi, actress
 * Neelo, actress
 * Rahat Kazmi, actor
 * Saba Qamar, actress
 * Sabiha Khanum, actress
 * Saeed Khan Rangeela, actor
 * Saima, actress
 * Sami Khan, actor
 * Samina Pirzada, actress
 * Sana Nawaz, actress
 * Sangeeta, actor
 * Shaan Shahid, actor
 * Shafi Muhammad Shah, actor
 * Shahid, actor
 * Shamim Ara, actress
 * Sohail Ahmad, actor
 * Somy Ali, actress
 * Sultan Rahi, actor
 * Talat Husain, actor
 * Talish, actor
 * Tariq Aziz, actor
 * Waheed Murad, actor
 * Yousaf Khan, actor
 * Zahid Ahmed (actor)
 * Zeba, actress
 * Amanullah Khan (actor)

Architects

 * Kausar Bashir Ahmed
 * Nayyar Ali Dada
 * Habib Fida Ali
 * Abdur Rahman Hye
 * Yasmeen Lari
 * Umar Farooq
 * Nasreddin Murat-Khan

Artists and painters

 * Abdur Rahman Chughtai
 * Ahmed Saeed Nagi
 * Ajaz Anwar
 * Anna Molka Ahmed
 * A. R. Nagori
 * Asim Butt
 * Allah Bakhsh (painter)
 * Bashir Mirza
 * Huma Mulji
 * Ijaz ul Hassan
 * Eqbal Mehdi
 * Ismail Gulgee
 * Jamil Naqsh
 * Laraib Atta
 * Lubna Agha
 * Moeen Faruqi
 * Rashid Rana
 * Sadequain
 * Saira Wasim
 * Sara Shakeel
 * Shahid Mahmood
 * Shakir Ali
 * Saeed Akhtar
 * Hanif Ramay
 * Shazia Sikander
 * Suhail Ahmad
 * Zahoor ul Akhlaq
 * Zubeida Agha
 * Iqbal Hussain
 * Khalid Iqbal

Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers

 * Aehsun Talish
 * Anwar Kamal Pasha
 * Farooq Rind
 * Kashif Nisar
 * Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
 * Nazar-ul-Islam
 * Riaz Shahid
 * Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
 * Sabiha Sumar
 * Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
 * Shoaib Mansoor
 * Usman Peerzada
 * Yawar Hayat Khan

Fashion designers

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

Models

 * Aminah Haq
 * Humaima Malick
 * Iffat Rahim
 * Iman Ali
 * Imran Abbas
 * Mehreen Raheel
 * Reema Khan
 * Tooba Siddiqui
 * Vaneeza Ahmad
 * Zara Sheikh
 * Ayaan Ali

Visual effects

 * Muqeem Khan
 * Laraib Atta

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
 * 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
 * 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

Musicians

 * Abida Parveen
 * Amjad Sabri, Qawwal and Naat Khawan
 * Aaroh
 * Abrar-ul-Haq
 * Atif Aslam
 * Ali Azmat
 * Alam Lohar and Arif Lohar
 * Ahmed Rushdi, film song singer
 * Ali Zafar
 * Amanat Ali Khan, ghazal singer
 * Amjad Bobby, film music composer
 * Atif Aslam
 * Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi
 * Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, ghazal singer
 * Bohemia, rapper and music producer
 * Hadiqa Kiyani
 * Hamid Ali Khan, ghazal singer
 * Imran Khan, Punjabi singer
 * Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, film music composer
 * Mehdi Hassan, film singer
 * Masood Rana, film singer
 * Mustafa Zahid
 * Nadia Ali, singer
 * Naser Mestarihi, hard rock musician
 * Naseebo Lal, film singer
 * Nashad, film music composer
 * Nisar Bazmi, film music composer
 * Noor Jehan
 * Noori
 * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
 * Robin Ghosh, film music composer
 * Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
 * Rahim Shah
 * Rohail Hyatt
 * Sabri Brothers, qawwali musicians
 * Sahir Ali Bagga
 * Sajjad Ali
 * Shamim Nazli
 * Shehzad Roy
 * Salman Ahmad
 * Sohail Rana, film music composer
 * Sheraz Uppal
 * Waqar Ali
 * Zeb and Haniya
 * Alamgir, pop music singer
 * Ali Haider (singer)
 * Fakhir
 * Farida Khanum
 * Hadiqa Kiani
 * Jawad Ahmed
 * Junaid Jamshed
 * Jassi Lailpuria
 * Malika Pukhraj
 * Najam Sheraz
 * Nazia Hasan, pop singer
 * Zohaib Hasan
 * Tina Sani
 * S. B. John
 * Jassi Lailpuria
 * Ahmad Raza Khan
 * Siddiq Ismail
 * Khursheed Ahmad

Photographers

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

Video jockeys

 * Anoushey Ashraf
 * Ayesha Omar
 * Mahira Khan

Writers and poets

 * Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj
 * Faiz Ahmed Faiz
 * Rasul Bux Palejo
 * Syed Sibte Hassan
 * Saadat Hassan Manto
 * Khawar Rizvi
 * Patras Bokhari
 * Ibn-e-Insha
 * Syed Irfan Ali Shah
 * Chaudhry Afzal Haq
 * Mohsin Naqvi
 * Agha Shorish Kashmiri
 * Janbaz Mirza
 * Abdullah Hussain
 * Ahmad Faraz
 * Shaikh Ayaz
 * Amar Jaleel
 * Sohail Sangi
 * Anwar Pirzada
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
 * Afrasiab Khattak
 * Alamgir Hashmi
 * Qalandar Momand
 * Siddiq Ismail
 * Anwer Maqsood
 * Ashfaq Ahmad
 * Bano Qudsia
 * Daud Kamal
 * Fatima Surayya Bajia
 * Ghulam Abbas
 * Habib Jalib
 * Hakim Ahmad Shuja
 * Hakim Said
 * Ibn-e-Insha
 * Ibn-e-Safi
 * Idris Azad
 * Ishtiaq Ahmad
 * Iftikhar Arif
 * Ihsan Danish
 * Jon Elia
 * Kazi Zainul Abedin
 * Khurshid Rizvi
 * Majeed Amjad
 * Mazhar Kaleem
 * Mohsin Hamid
 * Mohammed Hanif
 * Mustansar Hussain Tarar
 * Noon Meem Danish
 * Noon Meem Rashid
 * Obaidullah Aleem
 * Mirza Ather Baig
 * Parveen Shakir
 * Qateel Shafai
 * Raees Warsi
 * Saadat Hasan Manto
 * Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
 * Vazir Agha
 * Wasif Ali Wasif
 * Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
 * Zamir Jafri
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
 * Amjad Islam Amjad
 * Anwar Masood
 * Moeen Nizami
 * Fatima Bhutto
 * Abdur Rauf Urooj (c. 1932–1990)
 * Mohiuddin Nawab

YouTubers

 * Amna Riaz
 * Mooroo
 * Muhammad Ali Mirza

Athletics

 * John Permal, sprinter
 * Kamal Salman Masud, swimmer
 * Lianna Swan, swimmer
 * Kiran Khan, swimmer

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

 * Imran Khan
 * Anil Dalpat
 * Imam-ul-Haq
 * Salman Butt
 * Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1989)
 * Asif Ali (cricketer, born 1991)
 * Shaheen Afridi
 * Nasir Jamshed
 * Javed Miandad
 * Abdul Hafeez Kardar
 * Mohammad Hafeez
 * Abdul Qadir
 * Abdul Razzaq
 * Aamer Sohail
 * Danish Kaneria
 * Fazal Mahmood
 * Faisal Iqbal
 * Fawad Alam
 * Hanif Mohammad
 * Imran Abbas
 * Imran Nazir
 * Inzamam-ul-Haq
 * Javed Burki
 * Junaid Khan
 * Kamran Akmal
 * Khan Mohammad
 * Majid Khan
 * Misbah-ul-Haq
 * Mohammad Amir
 * Mohammad Asif
 * Mohammad Yousuf
 * Moin Khan
 * Mushtaq Ahmed
 * Rashid Latif
 * Saeed Ajmal
 * Saeed Anwar
 * Saqlain Mushtaq
 * Sarfraz Ahmed
 * Sarfraz Nawaz
 * Sajjida Shah
 * Shahid Afridi
 * Sohail Tanvir
 * Shahid Khan Afridi
 * Shoaib Akhtar
 * Shoaib Malik
 * Umar Akmal
 * Umar Gul
 * Waqar Younis
 * Wasim Akram
 * Yasir Hameed
 * Yasir Shah
 * Younis Khan
 * Zaheer Abbas
 * Zahid Ahmed (cricketer)
 * Zahid Fazal
 * Babar Azam
 * Fakhar Zaman

Cycling

 * Sabia Abbat

E-sports

 * Syed Sumail Hassan

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

 * Masood Fakhri
 * Etzaz Hussain
 * Harun Hamid
 * Muhammad Essa
 * Kaleemullah Khan
 * Qayyum Changezi
 * Moideen Kutty
 * Jaffar Khan
 * Qazi Ashfaq
 * Abdul Wahid Durrani
 * Abdul Ghafoor Majna
 * Zesh Rehman
 * Easah Suliman
 * Abdullah Iqbal
 * Abdullah Shah
 * Alamgir Ghazi
 * Otis Khan
 * Muhammad Waheed
 * Hassan Bashir
 * Saddam Hussain

Golf

 * Taimur Hussain

Mixed martial arts

 * Bashir Ahmad

Mountaineers

 * Ashraf Aman
 * Nazir Sabir
 * Hassan Sadpara
 * Meherban Karim
 * Samina Baig
 * Amir Mehdi
 * Abdul Jabbar Bhatti
 * Ali Sadpara

Sailing

 * Munir Sadiq

Skiing

 * Amina Wali

Snooker

 * Khurram Hussain Agha
 * Mohammed Yousuf
 * Naveen Perwani
 * 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

 * Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
 * Haroon Rahim

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

 * Abdul Rauf Azhar
 * Ajmal Kasab, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
 * Fazlullah
 * Ghazi Baba, mastermind of 2001 Delhi parliament attack
 * Hafiz Saeed
 * Hakimullah Mehsud
 * Ilyas Kashmiri, Al Qaeda operative
 * Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11
 * Malik Ishaq
 * Masood Azhar
 * Qari Hussain
 * Ramzi Yousef, convict in world trade centre bombing
 * Rashid Rauf
 * Riaz Basra
 * Sufi Muhammad
 * Wali-ur-Rehman
 * Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi

Other

 * Akbar Sitara Brooj, child prodigy & cancer researcher at Oxford University
 * Abdul Sattar Edhi, social worker
 * Aitzaz Hasan, schoolboy who died blocking a suicide bomber
 * Arfa Karim, computer prodigy
 * Malala Yousafzai, education activist
 * Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, women's rights activist
 * Tooba Syed, feminist, political worker
 * Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate
 * Zahida Kazmi, Pakistan's first female taxi driver