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.
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Artists
Authors
Punjabi
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1266)
- Shah Hussain (1539–1599)
- Sultan Bahu (1630–1691)
- Bulleh Shah (1680–1757)
- Waris Shah (1722–1798)
- Lutf Ali (1716–1794)
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901)
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907)
- Ali Haider Multani (1690–1785)
- Hashim (1735–1843)
- Qadir Yar (1802–1892)
- Mian Muhammad Baksh (1830–1907)
- Khawaja Ghulam Fareed (1845–1901)
- Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Hafeez Jalandhari
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
- Ustad Daman
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Shareef Kunjahi
- Ahmad Rahi
- Habib Jalib
- Anwar Masood
- Aizaz Ahmad Azar
- Mazhar Tirmazi
- Ali Arshad Mir
- Mir Tanha Yousafi
- Piro Preman, first female Punjabi-language poet. Born a Muslim but became an apostate
- Munir Niazi (1923-2006)
Urdu

Allama Muhammad Iqbal, one of founding fathers of Pakistan
- Hafeez Jalandhari - Author of the National Anthem of Pakistan
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
- Habib Jalib
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal - National Poet of Pakistan
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Anwar Masood
Architects
- Ustad Ahmad Lahori, chief architect of Taj Mahal
- Ataullah Rashidi, son of Ahmad Lahori
- Lutfullah Muhandis
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
Legendary
Military
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 Qamar Javed Bajwa, current 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 Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
- 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) 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
Recipient of Victoria Crosses
Music
Punjabi Folk
Sufi Qawwali
Classical Hindustani Gharanas
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
- 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 Hussain Bhatti
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
- Sheikh Waqas Akram
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
- Syeda Sughra Imam
- Wasim Sajjad
United Kingdom
Royalty
Mughal nobility

Adina Beg (1710 – 15 September 1758), last Nawab of Punjab
- Khair Andesh Khan Sani Kamboh
- Mohammad Khan Kamboh.[1]
- Wazir Khan,[2] Governor of Lahore
- Saadullah Khan,[3] Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire
- Shaikh Gadai Kamboh, Sadr-i-sadur of Mughal Empire[4]
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh, Governor of Bengal.[5]
- Adina Beg Arain, Governor of Lahore and Multan.[6]
Others
- Hussein Langah, founder of Langah dynasty from Langah tribe.[7]
- Khizr Khan, founder of the Sayyid dynasty.[8][9][10]
- Sultan Sarang Khan
- Jasrat Khokhar
- Mughlani Begum, female ruler of Punjab in 1753
- Ayn Ul Mulk Multani
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
- Tipu Sultan Muslim ruler in South India, orginally from Punjab. Fought against the British in the nineteenth century.
Scientists and academics

Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
- 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
- Nazir Ahmed, experimental physicist and first chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

Mahbub ul Haq, widely regarded as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century.[11]
- 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
Sportspersons
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 Khan
- 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
See Also
References
- Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India Henry Riven (2015-01-01). District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1904. Facsimile Publisher. p. 87.
- Koch, Ebba (2006). The complete Taj Mahal : and the riverfront gardens of Agra. Richard André. Barraud. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-500-34209-1. OCLC 69022179.
- Siddiqui, Shabbir A. (1986). "Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 47: 273–276. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44141552.
- Fisher, Michael Herbert (2019). A Short History of the Mughal Empire. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-7556-0491-3.
Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam)
- "Shahbaz Khan - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- Gujral, Maninder S. (2000-12-19). "ADINA BEG KHAN". The Sikh Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- Mubārak, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn (1891). The Ain I Akbari. Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 321.
- Easton, Richard M. (2019). India in the Persianate Age: 1000–1765. p. 117. ISBN 978-0520325128.
The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan...
- Digby, Simon (2014-10-13), After Timur Left: North India in the Fifteenth Century, Oxford University Press, pp. 47–59, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450664.003.0002, ISBN 978-0-19-945066-4, retrieved 2023-01-25,
And we find that a Khokhar chieftain, Khizr Khan who was sent to Timur as an ambassador and negotiator from the most adjacent area, the Punjab, ultimately became the power holder in Delhi, thanks to the contacts he had aquired [sic]
- Orsini, Francesca; Sheikh, Samira (2014). After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-century North India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-945066-4.
- "Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE | Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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