Actors and filmmakers

• Dev Anand
  Dev Anand
  Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...
  
  , Bollywood actor, director, film producer
• Khawaja Khurshid Anwar
  Khawaja Khurshid Anwar
  Khwaja Khurshid Anwar was a filmmaker, writer, director and music composer who gained extreme popularity both in India and Pakistan...
  
  , filmmaker, writer, director, composer
• Muamar Rana
• Mustafa Qureshi
• Nadeem
  Nadeem
  Nadeem is a masculine given name. It has the meaning "friend", "close companion", or "confidant"...
  
  
• Resham
  Resham
  Resham is a Pakistani film, television and theater actress based in Lahore. She debuted with Syed Noor's film, Jeeva in 1995 and later went on to star in a string of commercial hits in the late 1990s. She was noted for her performance as the upcoming model in Samina Peerzada's Inteha...
  
  
• Saba Hameed
  Saba hameed
  Saba Hameed , is a renowned and beloved female Pakistani television actress. Saba was born in Lahore.- Family :She has three sisters and one brother. She is the daughter of noted columnist and writer Hamid Akhtar...
  
  , Pakistani television actress
• Saeed Khan Rangeela
  Saeed Khan Rangeela
  Saeed Khan Rangeela was a Pakistani Lollywood actor, singer and director.His birthname was Mohammad Saeed Khan and he was born in Nangarhar, Afghanistan...
  
  , Lollywood actor, singer and director
• Sultan Rahi
  Sultan Rahi
  Sultan Muhammad , popularly known as Sultan Rahi, in a Muslim family of Saharanpur, was a notable Pakistani film actor who was prominent in Pakistan in Punjabi films during the 1970s and 1980s. He was mostly popular among people in Punjab, Pakistan and among Sikh and Punjabi community of India...
  
  , Pakistani film actor who was prominent in Punjabi films during the 1970s and 1980s
• Faisal Qureshi
  Faisal Qureshi (actor)
  Faisal Qureshi pronounced , also spelled Faysal, is a Pakistani television actor and veteran film actor.Qureshi is known as one of the most versatile actors in Pakistan, playing characters old and young, delinquent and religious, blind and deaf. He has stated that "I just want to make my country...
  
  

Artists

• Abdur Rahman Chughtai
  Abdur Rahman Chughtai
  Abdur Rahman Chughtai was a painter and intellectual from Pakistan who was best known for his "Chughtai" style of art, as well has his designs of postage stamps. He was awarded Pakistan's Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 1960, and the President of West Germany awarded him a GoldMedal in 1964 for his...
  
  
• Ajaz Anwar
  Ajaz Anwar
  Ajaz Anwar [ Urdu: اعجاز انور ] is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolour paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore.-Life:...
  
  
• Amrita Sher-Gil
  Amrita Sher-Gil
  Amrita Sher-Gil , was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.-Early...
  
  
• Anna Molka Ahmed
  Anna Molka Ahmed
  Anna Molka Ahmed was a famous Pakistani artist and pioneer of fine arts in the country after its independence in 1947. She was a professor of fine arts at the University of the Punjab in Lahore.-Background:...
  
  
• A. R. Hye
• Bhai Ram Singh
  Bhai Ram Singh
  Bhai Ram Singh MVO was one of pre-partition Punjab's foremost architects, dominating the scene for nearly 2 decades. Amongst his works is the Durbar Hall, Osborne House; Lahore Museum and Governor's House in Simla.-Mayo School of Arts:...
  
  , architect
• Nayyar Ali Dada
  Nayyar Ali Dada
  Nayyar Ali Dada is an architect, who is renowned in Pakistan.-Early life and Education:Born Nayyar Ali Zaidi, he was given his commonly recognized last name by a teacher for his painting and drawing skills...
  
  , architect
• Salima Hashmi
  Salima Hashmi
  Salima Hashmi is a Pakistani painter, artist, writer, anti-nuclear weapon activist and a professor who served for four years as the head of the National College of Arts...
  
  
• Shakir Ali, artist, art teacher, former head of the National College of Arts in Lahore
• Zahoor ul Akhlaq
  Zahoor ul Akhlaq
  Zahoor ul Akhlaq was a pioneering artist from Pakistan. He is known for his approach to painting, sculpture, design and architecture, as well as his teaching at the NCA in Lahore....
  
  

Cricketers

• Abdul Kardar
  Abdul Kardar
  Abdul Hafeez Kardar or Abdul Kardar was an international cricketer, who is one of the only three players to have played Test cricket for both India and Pakistan; the other two being Amir Elahi and Gul Mohammad...
  
  , Pakistan's first cricket captain
• Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir (cricketer)
  Abdul Qadir Khan is a former Pakistani international cricketer, later commentator and was recently the Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket Board. He resigned from the post because of his differences with the top brass of Pakistan cricket board...
  
  
• Abdul Razzaq
• Ahmed Shehzad
  Ahmed Shehzad
  Ahmed Shehzad is a Pakistani cricketer. He plays domestic cricket for Habib Bank Limited. He made his One Day International debut for Pakistan on 24 April 2009 against Australia.- Domestic Career:...
  
  
• Ijaz Ahmed
• Imran Farhat
  Imran Farhat
  Imran Farhat is a Pakistani cricketer who has played over 30 Tests and One Day Internationals for Pakistan, opening the batting in most of his international innings.-Career:...
  
  
• Imran Khan
  Imran Khan
  Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
  
  
• Kamran Akmal
  Kamran Akmal
  Kamran Akmal is a Pakistani cricketer who has played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for Pakistan as a wicket-keeper.- International career :He is a quick-scoring batsman and a wicket-keeper, who has achieved 6 centuries in Test innings...
  
  
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Mushtaq Ahmed
  Mushtaq Ahmed
  Mushtaq Ahmed is a retired Pakistani cricketer who specialised as a leg spin bowler. He was known for his hard-to-pick googly. He memorably trapped Graeme Hick in front with one during the 1992 World Cup final. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997...
  
  
• Nasir Jamshed
  Nasir Jamshed
  Nasir Jamshed is a Pakistani cricketer. He is an attacking left-handed opening batsman.- Career :Jamshed made his first class début at the age of just 15 and was soon selected to the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team for a series against Sri Lanka, making 204 in the second innings on his début.In the...
  
  
• Rameez Raja
  Rameez Raja
  Rameez Hasan Raja is a former Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket, who represented the Pakistan cricket team during the 1980s and 1990s. He also worked as captain of the national team...
  
  
• Saleem Malik
  Saleem Malik
  Saleem Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective...
  
  
• Salman Butt
  Salman Butt
  Salman Butt is a former Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test and ODI left-handed opening batsman. He made his Test debut on 3 September 2003 in the third Test against Bangladesh, and a year later made his ODI debut against West Indies on 22 September 2004. He was appointed captain of the...
  
  
• Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar is a Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test opening batsman for three seasons, before being dropped ahead of the 2004–05 season. Unusually for a Pakistani player, Umar has played more Tests than ODIs, as he was not given a prolonged run in the ODI side until 2003, when he played...
  
  
• Umer Akmal
  Umer Akmal
  Umar Akmal is a Pakistani cricketer. He made his ODI debut on 1 August 2009 against Sri Lanka and made his Test debut against New Zealand on 23 November 2009.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Wahab Riaz
  Wahab Riaz
  Wahab Riaz is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a left-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand batsman. Riaz is a former student of Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore...
  
  
• Wasim Akram
  Wasim Akram
  Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricketer and model. who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches....
  
  , former Pakistani left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman

Journalists

• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India. He was the chief editor of the weekly Chattan.-References:...
  
  
• Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza was a writer, poet, and journalist from the Indian subcontinent and later Pakistan. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He joined the Ahrar Party in 1932. After the partition of India, he started to...
  
  
• Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country....
  
  , novelist and journalist
• Muhammad Farooq
  Muhammad Farooq
  Muhammad Farooq is a journalist, Qari, Naat Khawan and newscaster from Pakistan. He was the founder editor of first Pakistani evening newspaper, Daily Evening Special from Quetta. He also worked as Joint Executive Editor Daily Mashriq Quetta. Nowadays he is working in Daily Pakistan Lahore as a...
  
  

Music

• Abrar ul Haq
• Ali Azmat
  Ali Azmat
  Ali Azmat is a Ali Azmat is a...
  
  
• Ali Zafar
  Ali Zafar
  Ali Zafar is a Pakistani musician, composer, song writer, singer, actor, painter and model, popular in Pakistan for his music, including his hit songs like "Channo", "Rangeen", "Chal Dil Merey", "Dekha", "Masty" and "Sajania"...
  
  
• Amanat Ali Khan
  Amanat Ali Khan
  Ustad Amanat Ali Khan was a Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the 'Pride of Performance' award by the government of Pakistan...
  
  
• Amjad Amanat Ali Khan
  Amjad Amanat Ali Khan
  Amjad Amanat Ali Khan, was a very popular classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan. Hailing from famous Patiala Gharana,-Early life and background:...
  
  
• Asad Amanat Ali Khan
  Asad Amanat Ali Khan
  Asad Amanat Ali Khan was a popular classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan. Hailing from famous Patiala Gharana, Asad was son of famous musician Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. Asad Amanat Ali Khan died relatively young of heart attack on April 8, 2007 in London.-Early life and...
  
  
• Atif Aslam
  Atif Aslam
  Atif Aslam is a Pakistani pop singer. He is widely recognized in South Asia and has given several hit songs such as Aadat, Woh Lamhe, Tere Bin, Bakhuda Tumhi Ho, Pehli Nazar Mein, Tera Hone Laga Hoon, Tu Jaane Na, Tere Liye. He is one of the most popular South Asian celebrity on Facebook with...
  
   (resident)
• Farida Khanum
  Farida Khanum
  Farida Khanum is a Pakistani Ghazal singer from Punjab. The Times of India has called her "Malika-e-Ghazal" ....
  
  
• Humera Arshad
  Humera Arshad
  Humera Arshad is a Pakistani pop singer. She is a renowned Pakistani folk, pop, culture and ghazal singer who has been classically trained. Her albums are Chori Kach Di and Gal Sun Dholna. Humera says she used to accompany her mother to majalis for sooz khwani from an early age, where her vocal...
  
  
• Iqbal Bahu
  Iqbal Bahu
  Muhammad Iqbal Bahoo, is a Pakistani sufi singer. He was born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, India, but migrated to Pakistan after Independence, and settled in Lahore. Iqbal Bahu mastered the Sufi tradition of the well-known Sufi saint Sultan Bahu...
  
  
• Iqbal Bano
  Iqbal Bano
  Iqbal Bano , PP was a highly acclaimed female Ghazal singer from Pakistan. She was best known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, but also sang easy-listening numbers in 1950s films....
  
  
• Jawad Ahmad
  Jawad Ahmad
  Jawad Ahmad is a Pakistani singer. Jawad first captured Pakistan's attention as a person who called attention to the transcendental existence of God through the song '"Allah Meray Dil kay Andar" which most say showed a way to inner peace...
  
  
• Malika Pukhraj
  Malika Pukhraj
  Malika Pukhraj was a highly popular singer of Pakistan. She was generally called as "Malika" meaning "The Queen." She is extremely popular for her rendition of Hafeez Jalandhri's song, Abhi to main jawan hoon , which is enjoyed by millions not only in Pakistan, but also in India...
  
  
• Musarrat Nazir
  Musarrat Nazir
  Musarrat Nazir is a singer and actress who sang and acted in many Urdu and Punjabi films. She also sang solo, mostly wedding and folk songs. She was born to a middle class family on October 13 1940. Her parents were of Kashmiri origin from Lahore...
  
  
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (resident)
• O. P. Nayyar
  O. P. Nayyar
  Omkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian film music director and composer born in Lahore, India, now in modern day Pakistan. He was particularly acclaimed for his peppy numbers.-Career:...
  
  , film music director and composer
• Shafqat Amanat Ali
  Shafqat Amanat Ali
  Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan is a Pakistani classical singer belonging to Patiala Gharana lineage. He is the youngest brother of the late Asad Amanat Ali Khan. He was the lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band Fuzön...
  
  
• Tahira Syed
  Tahira Syed
  Tahira Syed is a Ghazal and folk singer in Pakistan. She is the daughter of vocalist Begum Malika Pukhraj, and was the former wife of Naeem Bokhari.- Music career :...
  
  
• Tariq Tafu
  Tariq Tafu
  Tariq Tafu is a Punjabi singer from Pakistan. Born in Lahore, Tafu hails from a family of reputed musicians. He started playing music when he was as young as seven years of age and first came into prominence following the release of his popular single Lahore Lahore Aye in 2004...
  
  
• Waris Baig
  Waris Baig
  Waris Baig, is a Pakistani singer. He was born in Lahore, Punjab.Waris Baig started his career as a playback singer from Syed Noor's film Sangam released in 1997...
  
  

Politicians

• Aitizaz Ahsan
• Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
  Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
  Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is the amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah, a charity organization that is widely considered to be a cover organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba , one of the largest and most active militant Islamist terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan...
  
  , amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
• Imran Khan
  Imran Khan
  Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
  
  , Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
  The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is "Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem".-Founding:...
  
  
• Khawaja Saad Rafique
  Khawaja Saad Rafique
  Khawaja Saad Rafique is a Pakistani politician hailing from Punjab. He is an active central leader of PML-N. He has been elected as Member of the Pakistan National Assembly since 2002 and was reelected in the Pakistani General Election in 2008...
  
  
• Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
• Mian Shah Din
• Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court
• Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
  Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
  Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari was a figure in the history of Indian subcontinent and a leader of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam. After the partition of India he left politics and struggle for Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, chief of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan. In 1953...
  
   (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
  Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
  Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din was a figure in the history of Indian subcontinent and a leader of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam. After the partition of India he left politics and struggle for Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, chief of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan. In 1953 he...
  
   (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
• Mazhar Ali Azhar (Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
  Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
  Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam or Majlis-e-Ah'rãr-e-Islam , also known in short as Ahrar, was a conservative Sunni Muslim political party in Pakistan prior to the Partition of India...
  
  ), Member of the Legislative Assembly
  Member of the Legislative Assembly
  A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....
  
  
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
  Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
  Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan was a senior political figure in Pakistan. He was an ethnic Pathan. His ancestors migrated from Afghanistan to the present day Punjab...
  
   (Secretory General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam , 1945)
• Nawaz Sharif
  Nawaz Sharif
  Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani conservative politician and steel magnate who served as 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to July 1993, and from February 1997 to October 12, 1999...
  
  , former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  Prime Minister of Pakistan
  The Prime Minister of Pakistan , is the Head of Government of Pakistan who is designated to exercise as the country's Chief Executive. By the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan has the parliamentary democratic system of government...
  
  , leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N)
  Pakistan Muslim League (N)
  The Pakistan Muslim League is a conservative political party in Pakistan, affiliated with Western conservatism...
  
  
• Princess Sarvath El Hassan (resident), Crown Princess of Jordan for over 30 years, wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
• Raza Rabbani
  Raza Rabbani
  Mian Raza Rabbani is a senior Pakistan's law-maker and a Senator from Sindh to the Parliament of the Pakistan, representing Sindh Province . He is current Minister of Inter-Provincial Co-Ordination...
  
  
• Shahbaz Sharif
  Shahbaz Sharif
  Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is a well-known conservative Pakistani politician and currently President of Pakistan Muslim League . He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab since 2008...
  
  
• Shah Jahan
  Shah Jahan
  Shah Jahan Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) (Full title: His Imperial Majesty Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan...
  
  , emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628 until 1658
• Shahbaz Sharif
  Shahbaz Sharif
  Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is a well-known conservative Pakistani politician and currently President of Pakistan Muslim League . He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab since 2008...
  
  , President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)
• Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...
  
  , British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, commentator; regular contributor to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books
• Teji Bachchan, social activist who became a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; wife of Hindi literary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan; mother of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
  
  

Scholars

• Alfred Cooper Woolner
  A.C. Woolner
  Dr. Alfred Cooper Woolner was a noted Sanskrit scholar and professor as well as the Vice Chancellor of Punjab University, Lahore before Partition of India.-Punjab University:...
  
  , Sanskrit scholar
• Allama Mashriqi, mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar, founder of the Khaksar movement
  Khaksars
  The Khaksar movement was a  social movement based in Lahore, British India, established by Allama Mashriqi in 1931 to free India from the rule of the British Empire and establish a Hindu-Muslim government in India The word "Khaksar" is derived from the Persian language, Khak means dust, and Sar...
  
  
• Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri,Founder Minhaj-ul-Quran
  Minhaj-ul-Quran
  Minhaj-ul-Quran International is an international Sufi-based non-governmental organization founded by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in 1981 in Lahore, Pakistan...
  
  ,Religious Scholar, Islamic hadith
  Hadith
  The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....
  
   compiler,Author
• Israr Ahmed
  Israr Ahmed
  Israr Ahmed was a Pakistani Islamic theologian followed particularly in South Asia and also among the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. Born in Hissar, in India, the second son of a government servant, he is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an...
  
  , Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
  Tanzeem-e-Islami
  The Tanzeem-e-Islami is an Islamist religious organisation based in Lahore, Pakistan. Founded in 1975 by religious scholar Dr. Israr Ahmed, it advocates the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in Pakistan and worldwide. The Tanzeem was created after Israr Ahmed split from the Jamaat-e-Islami in...
  
  
• Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
• Sara Suleri
  Sara Suleri
  Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri, is an author and, since 1983, professor of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry as well as a recent interest in Edmund Burke. Her special concerns include postcolonial literatures and...
  
  , author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ) was an Indian origin American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars...
  
  , winner of Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  , astrophysicist
• Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi
  Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi
  Dr Mufti Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi Shaheed, , was a leading Sunni Islamic cleric from Pakistan who was well known for his moderate and anti-terrorist views...
  
  , Founder Jamia Naemia

Writers and poets

• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  Chaudhry Afzal Haq was a leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam and a political figure in the history of Sub-Continent India. He was also a founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. He founded Ahrar with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. He was elected for three times in Punjab Assembly. He was also a Member of...
  
   (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
• Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India. He was the chief editor of the weekly Chattan.-References:...
  
   (writer, historian)
• Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza was a writer, poet, and journalist from the Indian subcontinent and later Pakistan. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He joined the Ahrar Party in 1932. After the partition of India, he started to...
  
   (writer, historian)
• Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border, with a career spanning over six decades, she...
  
  , first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
• Ashfaq Ahmed
  Ashfaq Ahmed
  For disambiguation also see Ashfaq Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmed and Ishfaq AhmadAshfaq Ahmed, PP, SI was a distinguished writer, playwright, broadcaster, intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan. His prime qualities of heart and hand earned appreciations across the world...
  
  , writer, playwright, broadcaster
• Bapsi Sidhwa
  Bapsi Sidhwa
  Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is perhaps best known for her collaborative work with filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is...
  
  , novelist in English, author of Cracking India
  Cracking India
  Cracking India, is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.Sidhwa's novel deals with the partition of India and its aftermaths. This is the first novel by a female novelist from Pakistan which describes the fate of people in Lahore...
  
  , The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
  Water (novel)
  Water, , U.S., 2006, India; is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.-Plot summary:Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace...
  
  
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...
  
  , poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize
  Lenin Peace Prize
  The International Lenin Peace Prize was the Soviet Union's equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize, named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among peoples"...
  
   recipient
• Habib Jalib
  Habib Jalib
  Habib Jalib was a Pakistani revolutionary poet. A left-wing activist and politician, he was a staunch democrat who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression.-Early life:...
  
  
• Imtiaz Dharker
  Imtiaz Dharker
  Imtiaz Dharker is a Scottish Muslim, poet, artist and documentary film-maker.- Family and background:She was born in Lahore to Pakistani parents. She was brought up in Glasgow where her family moved when she was less than a year old...
  
  
• Mohsin Hamid
  Mohsin Hamid
  Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist .- Biography :...
  
  
• Moniza Alvi
  Moniza Alvi
  -Life and education:Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She was born to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire in England when she was a few months old. She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of her first book of poems - The...
  
  
• Muhammad Iqbal
  Muhammad Iqbal
  Sir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
  
  , philosopher, politician, poet
• Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
  
  , English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
• Saadat Hasan Manto
  Saadat Hasan Manto
  Saadat Hassan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, 'Bu' , 'Khol Do' , 'Thanda Gosht' , and his magnum opus, 'Toba Tek Singh'....
  
  , short story writer in Urdu