List of people from Punjab, Pakistan

This is a list of notable people from Punjab, Pakistan.

Religious and spiritual figures

 * Fariduddin Ganjshakar
 * Bahauddin Zakariya
 * Rukn-e-Alam
 * Shah Hussain
 * Mian Mir
 * Sultan Bahu
 * Shah Inayat Qadri
 * Bulleh Shah
 * Waris Shah
 * Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri
 * Mian Muhammad Baksh
 * Khwaja Ghulam Farid
 * Meher Ali Shah

National figures

 * Allama Muhammad Iqbal
 * Rahmat Ali
 * Liaquat Ali Khan
 * Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
 * Jahanara Shahnawaz
 * Naseer Ahmed Malhi
 * Shaukat Hayat Khan
 * Ghazanfar Ali Khan
 * Zafar Ali Khan
 * Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi

Pakistan Armed Forces

 * General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * General Qamar Javed Bajwa, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
 * Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
 * Lt Gen Abdul Ali Malik
 * Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua
 * Maj Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik
 * Major Tufail Muhammad, recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider (NH)
 * Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, recipient of NH
 * Major Muhammad Akram, recipient of NH
 * Major Shabbir Sharif, recipient of NH
 * Captain Muhammad Sarwar, recipient of NH
 * Naik Saif Ali Janjua, recipient of NH
 * Lace Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, recipient of NH
 * Sowar Muhammad Hussain, recipient of NH

Politicians

 * Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former Army Chief of Staff and former President of Pakistan (1977–1988)
 * Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
 * Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, politician
 * Yousaf Raza Gillani, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (Pakistan Peoples Party)
 * Qamar Zaman Kaira, former Minister (Pakistan Peoples Party)
 * Shah Mehmood Qureshi, politician PTI
 * Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving parliamentarian of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999
 * Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament
 * Amir Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Kalabagh, Governor of East Pakistan
 * Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan (PPP)
 * Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, current president of PML(Q)
 * Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Chief Minister of Punjab (2002–2007)

Lawyers

 * S M Zafar
 * Ashtar Ausaf Ali
 * Syed Ali Zafar
 * Akhtar Aly Kureshy
 * Azam Nazeer Tarar
 * Hamid Khan

Writers and Poets

 * Fariduddin Ganjshakar
 * Shah Hussain
 * Sultan Bahu
 * Bulleh Shah
 * Ali Haider Multani
 * Lutf Ali
 * Waris Shah
 * Qadir Yar
 * Mian Muhammad Baksh
 * Khawaja Ghulam Fareed
 * Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
 * Zafar Ali Khan
 * Muhammad Iqbal
 * Hakim Ahmad Shuja
 * Hafeez Jalandhari
 * Faiz Ahmad Faiz
 * Ustad Daman
 * Hasan Manto
 * Shareef Kunjahi
 * Ahmad Rahi
 * Habib Jalib
 * Anwar Masood
 * Aizaz Azar
 * Mazhar Tirmazi
 * Ali Arshad Mir
 * Mir Tanha Yousafi

Sportspersons

 * Masood Fakhri, footballer


 * Ajaz Akhtar, cricketer
 * Amir Iqbal Khan, boxer
 * Abdul Khaliq, sprinter
 * Shoaib Akhtar, cricketer
 * Abdul Razzaq, cricketer
 * Wasim Akram, cricketer
 * Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer
 * Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer
 * Waqar Younis, cricketer and sports presenter
 * Shahnaz Sheikh, hockey player
 * Shoaib Malik, cricketer
 * Misbah-ul-Haq, cricketer
 * Saeed Anwar, cricketer
 * Muhammad Amir, cricketer

Scientists

 * 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
 * Masud Ahmad, 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)

Film and TV artists

 * Sultan Rahi, actor
 * Shaan Shahid, actor
 * Bilal Ashraf, actor
 * Humayun Saeed, actor
 * Ali Zafar, actor

Singers

 * Abrar ul Haq, Punjabi folk + Pop singer
 * Alam Lohar, Punjabi folk singer
 * Arif Lohar, Punjabi folk singer
 * Pathanay Khan, Punjabi folk singer
 * Inayat Hussain Bhatti, Punjabi folk singer
 * Musarrat Nazir, Punjabi folk singer
 * Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
 * Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
 * Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
 * Badar Miandad, qawwali singer
 * Ghulam Farid Sabri, qawwali singer
 * Maqbool Ahmad Sabri, qawwali singer
 * Amjad Sabri, qawwali singer
 * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer
 * Noor Jehan, classical singer
 * Atif Aslam, pop singer

Others

 * Chaudhary Niaz Ali Khan (civil engineer)