List of Punjabi Muslims

Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally, or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.

Artists

 * Allah Bakhsh
 * Abdur Rahman Chughtai
 * Ahmed Parvez
 * Bashir Mirza
 * Zubeida Agha
 * Rashid Rana
 * Quddus Mirza

Classical

 * Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1266)
 * Shah Hussain (1539–1599)
 * Sultan Bahu (1630–1691)
 * Bulleh Shah (1680–1757)
 * Ali Haider Multani (1690–1785)
 * Lutf Ali (1716–1794)
 * Waris Shah (1722–1798)
 * Hashim (1735/1752–1843)
 * Shah Mohammad (1780–1862)
 * Qadir Yar (1802–1892)
 * Mian Muhammad Baksh (1830–1907)
 * Khawaja Ghulam Fareed (1845–1901)

Modern

 * Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
 * Hakim Ahmad Shuja
 * Hafeez Jalandhari
 * Faiz Ahmad Faiz
 * Ustad Daman
 * Saadat Hasan Manto
 * Shareef Kunjahi
 * Ahmad Rahi
 * Habib Jalib
 * Anwar Masood
 * Muhammad Iqbal
 * Aizaz Ahmad Azar
 * Mazhar Tirmazi
 * Ali Arshad Mir
 * Mir Tanha Yousafi

Urdu

 * Hafeez Jalandhari
 * Faiz Ahmad Faiz
 * Habib Jalib
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
 * Saadat Hasan Manto
 * Zafar Ali Khan
 * Ashfaq Ahmed
 * Anwar Masood

Persian

 * Muhammad Saleh Kamboh
 * Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh
 * Abdul Hamid Lahori

Business

 * Anwar Pervez, founder of Bestway
 * Ashar Aziz, founder of FireEye in Silicon Valley
 * Bashir Tahir, former CEO of Dhabi Group
 * Fred Hassan, director at Warburg Pincus
 * James Caan, founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
 * Malik Riaz, founder of Bahria Town,
 * Mansoor Ijaz, founder of Crescent Investment Management Ltd
 * Mian Muhammad Latif, founder of Chenab Group
 * Mian Muhammad Mansha, founder of Nishat Group
 * Michael Chowdrey, founder of Atlas Air
 * Muhammad Zahoor, owner of ISTIL Group
 * Shahid Khan, owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
 * Sohaib Abbasi, former CEO of Informatica
 * Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway

Folklore

 * Dulla Bhatti
 * Heer Ranjha
 * Mirza Sahiba
 * Sayful Muluk
 * Sohni Mahiwal
 * Sassui Punnhun

Legendary

 * Baba Ratan Hindi
 * Dulla Bhatti

Air Force

 * Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
 * Air Chief Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
 * Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana
 * Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
 * Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
 * Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
 * Air Marshal Nur Khan
 * Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
 * Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Nishan-e-Haider

Army

 * General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * General Zia ul Haq, former Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan
 * General (R) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
 * General (R) Tikka Khan, former COAS of the Pakistan Army and Victor of the Rann of Kutch
 * General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * General Asim Munir, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa
 * Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
 * Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
 * Lt Gen (R) Mahmud Ahmed
 * Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali
 * Maj Gen (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan
 * Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua, most senior Pakistani officer killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the front line
 * Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
 * Maj Gen (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan
 * Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
 * Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
 * Maj Gen (R) Ashraf Rashid
 * Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar
 * Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
 * Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
 * Major Tufail Muhammad, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Major Muhammad Akram, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Naik Saif Ali Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, Nishan-e-Haider
 * Sowar Muhammad Hussain, Nishan-e-Haider

Navy

 * Admiral (R) Muhammad Asif Sandila
 * Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir

Recipients of the Victoria Cross

 * Khudadad Khan, operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the Western Front
 * Shahamad Khan, covered a 150 yard gap at the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
 * Abdul Hafiz, charged at enemy lines in Burma
 * Sher Shah Awan, commanded a platoon ambushed by the Japanese, his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
 * Fazal Din, ran through the chest in Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it

Punjabi Folk

 * Alam Lohar
 * Arif Lohar
 * Inayat Hussain Bhatti
 * Iqbal Bahu
 * Khawaja Pervez
 * Musarrat Nazir
 * Pathanay Khan
 * Saieen Zahoor
 * Samina Syed
 * Shaukat Ali
 * Shazia Manzoor
 * Tahira Syed

Sufi Qawwali

 * Fateh Ali Khan
 * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
 * Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
 * Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
 * Badar Miandad
 * Ghulam Farid Sabri
 * Maqbool Ahmad Sabri
 * Amjad Sabri

Classical Hindustani Gharanas

 * Shaukat Hussain
 * Ustad Tafu Khan
 * Tari Khan
 * Barkat Ali Khan
 * Amanat Ali Khan
 * Bade Fateh Ali Khan
 * Ghulam Ali
 * Hamid Ali Khan
 * Asad Amanat Ali Khan
 * Farida Khanum
 * Salamat Ali Khan
 * Sharafat Ali Khan
 * Shafqat Ali Khan

Modern Playback

 * Abdullah Qureshi
 * Abrar-ul-Haq
 * Aima Baig
 * Ali Aftab Saeed
 * Ali Azmat
 * Ali Sethi
 * Ali Zafar
 * Annie Khalid
 * Asrar Shah
 * Atif Aslam
 * Bilal Saeed
 * Bohemia
 * Faakhir Mehmood
 * Fakhar-e-Alam
 * Farhad Humayun
 * Farhan Saeed
 * Goher Mumtaz
 * Hadiqa Kiani
 * Haroon
 * Humaira Arshad
 * Humaira Channa
 * Imran Khan
 * Javed Bashir
 * Jawad Ahmad
 * Khursheed Bano
 * Mahvash Waqar
 * Masood Rana
 * Meesha Shafi
 * Mustafa Zahid
 * Nabeel Shaukat Ali
 * Naheed Akhtar
 * Naseebo Lal
 * Naseem Begum
 * Noor Jehan
 * Nouman Javaid
 * Sahir Ali Bagga
 * Salman Ahmad
 * Sanam Saeed
 * Sara Raza Khan
 * Shamoon Ismail
 * Shiraz Uppal
 * Shuja Haider
 * Tassawar Khanum
 * Umair Jaswal
 * Uzair Jaswal
 * Waris Baig
 * Zil-e-Huma
 * Zubaida Khanum
 * Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan

Politicians

 * Allama Muhammad Iqbal
 * Chaudhry Afzal Haq
 * Chaudhry Amir Hussain
 * Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
 * Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
 * Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
 * Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
 * Choudhary Rahmat Ali
 * Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
 * Feroz Khan Noon
 * Ghulam Bibi
 * Hamza Shahbaz
 * Hanif Ramay
 * Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
 * Liaqat Ali Khan
 * Malik Amjad Ali Noon
 * Malik Anwer Ali Noon
 * Ghulam Muhammad
 * Malik Meraj Khalid
 * Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
 * Mazhar Ali Azhar
 * Mian Iftikharuddin
 * Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
 * Mian Umar Hayat
 * Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
 * Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
 * Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
 * Mushahid Hussain Syed
 * Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
 * Nawaz Sharif
 * Nisar Ali Khan
 * Omer Sarfraz Cheema
 * Rana Sanaullah Khan
 * Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
 * Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan
 * Saqlain Anwar Sipra
 * Sardar Ayaz Sadiq
 * Shahbaz Sharif
 * Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
 * Shahid Hussain Bhatti
 * Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
 * Sheikh Waqas Akram
 * Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
 * Syeda Sughra Imam
 * Wasim Sajjad

United Kingdom

 * Anas Sarwar
 * Humza Yusuf
 * Sajid Javid
 * Sajjad Karim

Royalty

 * Shaikha Khokhar, Khokhar Chieftain
 * Jasrat Khokhar, Khokhar Chieftain

Mughal nobility

 * Sarang Khan Gakhar
 * Kamal Khan Gakhar
 * Shaikh Gadai Kamboh, Lord Chief Justice of Mughal Empire
 * Shahbaz Khan Kamboh, Governor of Bengal.
 * Saadullah Khan, Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire
 * Lutfullah Khan
 * Hifzullah Khan
 * Mutawassil Khan
 * Hidayat Muhi-ud-Din Khan
 * Khair Andesh Khan Kamboh I
 * Khair Andesh Khan Kamboh II
 * Īsā Khan Munj
 * Adina Beg, Governor of Lahore and Multan.

People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin
Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:
 * Hussein Langah, Sultan of Langah dynasty
 * Muzaffar Shah I, founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty and Sultan of Gujarat
 * Khizr Khan, founder of the Sayyid dynasty and Sultan of Delhi.
 * Hyder Ali, the Sultan of Mysore
 * Ustad Ahmad Lahori, the chief architect of Taj Mahal
 * Ayn-Al Mulk Multani, General of Delhi Sultanate

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

 * Ahmed Khan Kharal - a rebel leader in West Punjab in the 1857 Rebellion
 * Maulana Shah Abdul Qadir Ludhianvi - a rebel leader in East Punjab in the 1857 Rebellion
 * Sherbaz Khan Abbasi - led the Murree rebellion in 1857
 * Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi - one of the founders of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
 * Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi - founder of Khaksar movement
 * Nizam Lohar, Blacksmith rebel against the British Indian Empire
 * Malangi (bandit), Robinhood of Kasur in Colonial Punjab
 * Mohammed Zaman Kiani, Patriot serviceman of the Azad Hind Fauj who organised battle against the British Empire and raids against the Dogra Ruler in the Kashmir Jihad
 * Shah Nawaz Khan, A Commander of the Indian National Army tried for waging war against the King Emperor by the British Occupiers of India
 * Habib Jalib, Pakistani left-wing revolutionary poet and anti-martial law activist

Scientists and academics

 * Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his contributions to the Electroweak force
 * Riazuddin, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
 * Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
 * Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)
 * Asad Abidi, professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
 * Masud Ahmed, theoretical physicist and one of the leading figures of the Theoretical Physics Group - the group that developed the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
 * Ishtiaq Ahmed, professor of political science at the University of Stockholm
 * Farooq Azam, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
 * Tariq Ali, political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual
 * Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
 * Nayyar Ali Dada, architect in modernist architecture
 * Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist
 * Tasawar Hayat, mathematician
 * Shahbaz Khan, hydrologist and director of the UNESCO cluster office in Jakarta
 * Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, nuclear engineer
 * Salim Mehmud, rocket scientist
 * Atif Mian, professor of economics, public policy and finance at Princeton University
 * Zia Mian, physicist and co-director of the program on science and global security at Princeton University
 * Ghulam Murtaza, theoretical physicist
 * Qaiser Mushtaq, mathematician
 * Adil Najam, dean of global studies at Boston University
 * Khalil Qureshi, physical chemist
 * Muneer Ahmad Rashid, mathematical physicist

Association Football

 * Masood Fakhri

Cricket

 * Aamer Malik
 * Aamer Sohail
 * Aaqib Javed
 * Abdul Hafeez Kardar
 * Abdul Qadir
 * Abdul Razzaq
 * Aizaz Cheema
 * Asif Masood
 * Ata-ur-Rehman
 * Azeem Hafeez
 * Azhar Mahmood
 * Fazal Mahmood
 * Ijaz Ahmed
 * Imran Farhat
 * Imran Nazir
 * Imtiaz Ahmed
 * Intikhab Alam
 * Inzamam-ul-Haq
 * Kamran Akmal
 * Khan Mohammad
 * Mahmood Hussain
 * Majid Khan
 * Maqsood Ahmed
 * Mohammad Hafeez
 * Mohammad Ilyas
 * Mohammad Nazir
 * Mohammad Wasim
 * Mohammad Yousuf
 * Mohammed Asif
 * Moin Khan
 * Mudassar Nazar
 * Mushtaq Ahmed
 * Pervez Sajjad
 * Rameez Raja
 * Rocky Khan
 * Saeed Ahmed
 * Saleem Altaf
 * Saleem Elahi
 * Saleem Malik
 * Salman Butt
 * Saqlain Mushtaq
 * Sarfraz Nawaz
 * Shabbir Ahmed
 * Shoaib Akhtar
 * Shoaib Malik
 * Shujauddin
 * Sohail Tanvir
 * Tahir Naqqash
 * Talat Ali
 * Taufeeq Umar
 * Waqar Hasan
 * Waqar Younis
 * Wasim Akram
 * Wasim Raja
 * Zaheer Abbas

Freestyle Wrestling

 * Muhammad Inam
 * Muhammad Bashir
 * Zaman Anwar

Weightlifting

 * Nooh Dastgir

Field hockey

 * Abdul Rashid
 * Asif Bajwa
 * Hanif Khan
 * Hasan Sardar
 * Kalimullah
 * Kamran Ashraf
 * Manzoor Hussain
 * Muhammad Shahbaz
 * Shahbaz Ahmed
 * Shahnaz Sheikh
 * Sohail Abbas
 * Wasim Feroz