List of University of Karachi alumni

This is a list of alumni of the University of Karachi.

A

 * Jamiluddin Aali – Urdu poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar
 * Manzoor Ahmad – philosopher
 * Rukhsana Ahmad – writer, playwright, and translator
 * Afaq Ahmed – leader of Mohajir Qaumi Movement Pakistan
 * Israr Ahmed – Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure
 * Riaz Ahsan – professor and former president of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association
 * Mohammed Ajeeb – former Lord Mayor of Bradford
 * Munir Akram – former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations
 * Ahmed Ali – co-founder of Progressive Writers Movement & Association; novelist; short story writer; critic; translator; diplomat; scholar
 * Sohail Aman – Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force
 * Zafar Ishaq Ansari – scholar of Islamic studies
 * Moinuddin Aqeel – author, critic, linguist, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
 * Shakil Auj – Scholar of Islamic Studies and founder of Al-Tafseer Welfare Trust
 * Shaukat Aziz – former Prime Minister of Pakistan; former Citibank executive officer

B

 * Wali Khan Babar – GEO News journalist
 * Anmol Baloch – television actress and model
 * Sanam Baloch – television actress
 * Ansar Burney – human rights and civil rights activist

D

 * Noon Meem Danish – poet
 * Joseph R. D'Cruz – professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management
 * Quentin D'Silva – former chairman and chief executive, Shell Pakistan Limited

F

 * Aslam Farrukhi – Urdu author, critic, poet, linguist, scholar and broadcaster
 * Tarek Fateh – writer, novelist, columnist, author
 * Farman Fatehpuri – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics

G

 * Khalida Ghous – scholar of international relations and human rights; activist

H

 * Husain Haqqani – Pakistan's ambassador to the United States
 * Hussain Haroon – Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations
 * Abrar Hasan – lawyer and constitutional expert
 * Masuma Hasan – first female Ph.D. and first female Federal Secretary of Pakistan
 * Syed Munawar Hasan – Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
 * Nehal Hashmi – Senator, General secretary PML-N Sindh
 * Mehwish Hayat – model
 * Zahida Hina – columnist, author, poet
 * Abdul Rasheed Hussain – Maldivian politician and public figure
 * Altaf Hussain – leader and founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement

I

 * Ibn-e-Insha – Urdu poet humorist and travelogue writer

J

 * Jameel Jalibi – linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature
 * Nasreen Jalil – Naib Nazima of Karachi; MQM leader
 * Sana Javed – actress and model, best known for blockbuster drama Khaani

K

 * Abul Khair Kashfi – author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
 * Hiroji Kataoka – scholar of Urdu in Japan; exchange student in the early 1970s
 * Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects
 * Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
 * Rana Muhammad Akram Khan – former chairman, Punjab Bar Council

L

 * Anthony Theodore Lobo – Roman Catholic bishop

M

 * Rehman Malik – senator, Minister of Interior, Government of Pakistan
 * A. C. Matin – microbiologist and immunologist
 * Nisar Memon – former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
 * Ajmal Mian – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Haseena Moin – playwright, drama writer
 * Gholam Mujtaba – politician and Pakistani American
 * Waheed Murad – film actor

N

 * Farooq Naek – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, ex-Law Minister
 * Abdul Hameed Nayyar – physicist, peace activist
 * Michael Nazir-Ali – Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England
 * Asif Noorani – newspaper and television writer

P

 * Zinia Pinto – principal of the elite St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi) from 1963 to 1999

Q

 * Muhammad Ahmed Qadri – Islamic scholar and political scientist, founder of Islamic Educational and Cultural Research Center
 * Pirzada Qasim – scholar, Urdu poet and Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi

R

 * Raza Rabbani – senator
 * Atta ur Rahman – chairman of HEC; director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
 * Raheel Raza – author
 * Nisha Rao – lawyer and activist

S

 * Arman Sabir – BBC and Dawn journalist
 * Faisal Sabzwari – deputy parliamentary leader of MQM
 * Nida Sameer – anchorperson of Geo News
 * Syed Sajjad Ali Shah – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Rashid Minhas Shaheed – PAF Officer; received Nishan-e-Haider
 * Parveen Shakir – Urdu poet, teacher, civil servant of the Government of Pakistan
 * Bina Shaheen Siddiqui
 * Muhammad Ali Siddiqui – philosopher and critic
 * Naweed Syed - inventor of the neurochip
 * Nazim Hussain Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui – former Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Shahid Aziz Siddiqi – former Federal Secretary, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
 * Takeshi Suzuki – professor of Urdu in Japan, exchange student from 1960 to 1962

T

 * Atif Tauqeer – journalist, poet, writer and vlogger

U

 * Muhammad Taqi Usmani – Hanafi Islamic scholar; served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

W

 * Fauzia Wahab – politician in the Pakistan Peoples Party
 * Raees Warsi – poet; author; founder and president of Urdu Markaz New York

Z

 * Muhammad Ziauddin – Pakistani journalist, economist and historian