List of Urdu authors

This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers.

A

 * Allama Rashid ul Khairi
 * Akbar Allahabadi
 * Ali Akbar Natiq
 * Maikash Akbarabadi
 * Akhtar Sheerani
 * Ada Jafri
 * Aizaz Ahmad Azar
 * Jamiluddin Aali
 * Ghulam Abbas
 * Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
 * Mirza Adeeb
 * Chaudhry Afzal Haq
 * Wazir Agha
 * Anwaar Ahmad
 * Aziz Ahmad
 * Ashfaq Ahmed
 * Faruqi Nisar Ahmed
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
 * Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
 * Waheed Akhtar
 * Amjad Islam Amjad
 * Majeed Amjad
 * Rasheed Amjad
 * Mir Amman
 * Rais Amrohvi
 * Satyapal Anand
 * Sahar Ansari
 * Syed Amin Ashraf
 * Syed Waheed Ashraf
 * Hasan Askari
 * Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
 * Abul Kalam Azad
 * Idris Azad
 * Jagan Nath Azad
 * Muhammad Husain Azad
 * Abdul Hameed
 * Ayub Sabir
 * Amjad Parvez

B

 * Bekal Utsahi
 * Obaidullah Baig
 * Fatima Surayya Bajia
 * Ahmad Bashir
 * Rajinder Singh Bedi
 * Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
 * Abdaal Bela
 * Patras Bokhari
 * Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan

C

 * Mohinder Pratap Chand
 * Krishan Chander
 * Harcharan Chawla
 * Ismat Chughtai
 * Kausar Chandpuri

D

 * Ehsan Danish
 * Khwaja Mir Dard
 * Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
 * Abdul Qavi Desnavi
 * Attash Durrani

E

 * Jaun Elia

F

 * Faiz Ahmed Faiz
 * Farhat Ishtiaq
 * Ahmed Faraz
 * Bushra Farrukh
 * Aslam Farrukhi
 * Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
 * Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
 * Farman Fatehpuri
 * Niaz Fatehpuri
 * Kanwal Feroze
 * Bhupendra Nath Kaushik "Fikr"
 * Maulana Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri “Ambar”

G

 * Altaf Gauhar
 * Mirza Ghalib
 * Firaq Gorakhpuri
 * Majnoon Gorakhpuri
 * Tahir Aslam Gora

H

 * Altaf Hussain Hali
 * Muhammad Hamidullah
 * Maulvi Abdul Haq
 * Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
 * Zahida Hina
 * Panchakshari Hiremath
 * Ashfaq Hussain
 * Intizar Hussain
 * Rafiq Hussain
 * Qurratulain Hyder
 * Hashim Nadeem
 * Hasrat Mohani

I

 * Muhammad Ilyas
 * Ibn-e-Insha
 * Ibrahim Jalees
 * Muhammad Iqbal
 * Ibn-e-Safi
 * Ishtiaq Ahmad

J

 * Jigar Moradabadi
 * Jaun Elia
 * Ali Sardar Jafri
 * Habib Jalib
 * Jameel Jalibi
 * Khalid Jawed

K

 * Mazhar Kaleem
 * Abul Khair Kashfi
 * Agha Shorish Kashmiri
 * Nasir Kazmi
 * Khalique Ibrahim Khalique
 * Ghulam Mustafa Khan
 * Muhammad Khan
 * Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
 * Syed Ahmed Khan
 * Zafar Ali Khan
 * Dushyant Kumar
 * Kanhaiya Lal Kapoor

M

 * Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
 * Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr
 * Mohammad Ali Jauhar
 * Mubarak Ali
 * Josh Malihabadi
 * Arsh Malsiani
 * Saadat Hasan Manto
 * Anwar Maqsood
 * Hajra Masroor
 * Khadija Mastoor
 * Abul Ala Maududi
 * Mohsin Mighiana
 * Mir Taqi Mir
 * Janbaz Mirza
 * Momin Khan Momin
 * Mumtaz Mufti
 * Mohsinul Mulk
 * Makhdoom Mohiuddin
 * Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
 * Majaz

N

 * Naseem Hijazi
 * Tahir Naqvi
 * Gopi Chand Narang
 * Mir Gul Khan Nasir
 * Zehra Nigah
 * Shibli Nomani
 * Asif Noorani
 * Naeem Baig
 * Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi
 * Moeen Nizami
 * Mohiuddin Nawab
 * Nimra Ahmed Khan

P

 * Munshi Premchand

Q

 * Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
 * Attaul Haq Qasmi
 * Bano Qudsia
 * Haider Qureshi
 * Qudratullah Shahab

R

 * Ahfaz ur Rahman
 * Razia Butt
 * Rasheed Akhtar Nadvi
 * Bushra Rahman
 * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
 * Shakeelur Rahman
 * Shafiq ur Rahman
 * Samina Raja
 * Malik Ram
 * Noon Meem Rashid
 * Fahmida Riaz
 * Abbas Rizvi
 * Khurshid Rizvi
 * Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
 * Rauf Parekh
 * Qamar Siddiqui
 * Rashid-un-Nisa

S

 * Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
 * Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
 * Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser
 * Shaukat Thanvi
 * Sulaiman Nadvi
 * Agha Sadiq
 * Ibne Safi
 * Ghazi Salahuddin
 * Akhtar Raza Saleemi
 * Mirza Sauda
 * Qasim Mahmood
 * Mahmood Shaam
 * Qudratullah Shahab
 * Saif Ahmad
 * Abdul Halim Sharar
 * Qateel Shifai
 * Abul Lais Siddiqui
 * Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi
 * Shaukat Siddiqui
 * Parveen Shakir
 * Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri

T

 * Umrao Tariq

U

 * Umera Ahmad

W

 * Wahab Ashrafi
 * Muzaffar Warsi
 * Raees Warsi
 * Raza Naqvi Wahi
 * Wasif Ali Wasif

Y

 * Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

Z

 * Zafar Ali Khan
 * Razia Sajjad Zaheer
 * Sajjad Zaheer
 * Anwer Zahidi
 * Ali Jawad Zaidi
 * Mustafa Zaidi
 * Ibrahim Zauq
 * Kanwal Ziai