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List of Pakistanis

Parliament House, Islamabad

Heads of state or government

Civil / democratically elected administrators

Military / non-democratically elected administrators

Foreign ministers

  • Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (27 December 1947—24 October 1954)
  • Aziz Ahmed (30 March 1977—5 July 1977)
  • Agha Shahi (14 January 1978—9 March 1982)
  • Zain Norani
  • Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (21 March 1982—1 November 1987)
  • Abdul Sattar (23 July 1993—19 October 1993)
  • Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali (16 November 1993—4 November 1996)
  • Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Caretaker: 11 November 1996—24 February 1997)
  • Gohar Ayub (25 February 1997—7 August 1998)
  • Sartaj Aziz
  • Abdul Sattar (23 July 1999—14 June 2002)
  • Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (23 November 2002—15 November 2007)
  • Inam-ul-Haq (Caretaker: 15 November 2007—24 March 2008)
  • Shah Mehmood Qureshi (31 March 2008—February 2011)
  • Hina Rabbani Khar (18 July 2011—11 May 2013)
  • Shah Mehmood Qureshi (20 August 2018)
  • Khawaja Muhammad Asif
  • Nawaz Sharif

Bureaucrats

Diplomats

  • A. S. Bokhari
  • Agha Shahi
  • Jamsheed Marker
  • Jauhar Saleem
  • Javid Husain
  • Maliha Lodhi
  • Prince Ali Khan
  • Khalid Amir Khan, Ambassador to Hungary, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
  • Riaz Khokhar
  • Najmuddin Sheikh
  • Tehmina Janjua
  • Tariq Azim Khan High Commissioner to Canada (from 2015-2018)

Attorney General of Pakistan

  • Aziz A Munshi
  • Makhdoom Ali Khan
  • Moulvi Anwar ul Haq
  • Irfan Qadir
  • Malik Mohammad Qayyum
  • Latif Khosa
  • Ashtar Ausaf Ali
  • Salman Aslam Butt
  • Khalid Jawed Khan
  • Iqbal Haider

Other major political figures

Judges

Lawyers

  • Ijaz Husain Batalvi
  • Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
  • S M Zafar
  • Akhtar Aly Kureshy
  • Hamid Khan
  • Asma Jahangir Senior ASC
  • Aitzaz Ahsan
  • Ashtar Ausaf Ali
  • Khalid Ranjha
  • Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
  • Mahmud Ali Kasuri
  • Ahmad Awais
  • Azam Nazeer Tarar
  • Wasim Sajjad
  • Ghulam Farooq Awan
  • Mirza Aziz Akbar Baig
  • Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
  • Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri
  • Akram Sheikh
  • Syed Ali Zafar
  • Naseer Ahmed Bhutta
  • Babar Awan
  • Rana Muhammad Akram Khan
  • Makhdoom Ali Khan
  • Khalid Anwer
  • Mohammed Jibran Nasir
  • Abid Hassan Minto
  • Shakeel ur Rahman
  • Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri
  • Farooq Naek
  • Salman Aslam Butt
  • Suman Kumari, first Hindu woman to be a judge in Pakistan
  • Asrar-ul-Haq Mian
  • Iqbal Haider
  • Abid Saaqi
  • Hina Jilani

Human rights activists and philanthropists

  • Asma Jahangir
  • Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
  • Naimatullah Khan, advocate, former Chairman of Al-Khidmat Foundation, former Mayor of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005
  • Hina Jilani
  • Abdul Sattar Edhi
  • Hakim Muhammad Saeed founder of Hamdard
  • Abid Qaiyum Suleri
  • Dr. Amjad Saqib founder of Akhuwat Foundation
  • Shoaib Sultan Khan
  • Masood Ul Mulk
  • Fatima Lodhi
  • Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, first woman minister in Pakistan and prominent social worker
  • Veeru Kohli

Academia

Scientists, researchers and scholars

  • Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics 1979, science advisor to the Government of Pakistan (1960–1974), founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), received the Sitara-e-Pakistan for contribution to science in Pakistan (1959) and founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani, Distinguished National Professor and Professor Emeritus, Quaid-e-Azam University; historian and archaeologist
  • Tariq Rahman, linguistic historian, HEC Distinguished National Professor and Emeritus Professor, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, scholar, critic, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Pirzada Qasim, scholar, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi
  • Attash Durrani, scholar, linguist, Director, Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Atta ur Rahman
  • Alamgir Hashmi, literary scholar, historian, critic, translator
  • Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Roots Millennium Schools, Executive Director of Roots School System, recipient of ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’[1]
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, nuclear physicist
  • Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear physicist, former Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), 1972–1991, Chairman, IAEA Board of Governors, 1986–87
  • Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear physicist and former Chairman of the PAEC
  • Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist and AS-ICTP laureate
  • Samar Mubarakmand, nuclear physicist, Chairman of the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM)
  • Anwar Ali, former Chairman of the PAEC
  • Shahid Hussain Bokhari, computer and aerospace engineer
  • Salimuzzaman Siddiqui PhD in organic chemistry
  • Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist
  • Javaid Laghari, aerospace engineer, former Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
  • Datuk Rahman Anwar Syed, entomologist responsible for discovering the biological method of oil palm pollination
  • Anwar Naseem, Advisor Science COMSTECH, Chairman National Commission on Biotechnology Pakistan, founding president of FABA[2]
  • Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987[3]
  • Ismat Beg, mathematician, PhD. University of Bucharest, 1982
  • Umar Saif, computer engineer, PhD. University of Cambridge, 2001
  • Syed Waqar Jaffry, Computer Scientist, Academician, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam.[4]
  • Ayub K. Ommaya, professor of neurosurgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England; expert in traumatic brain injuries; inventor of the Ommaya reservoir, which is used to provide chemotherapy directly to brain tumors
  • Abdul Jamil Khan, Principal of Ayub Medical College, Bolan Medical College, Frontier Medical College, Former Minister of Population
  • Hasnat Khan, heart surgeon, head of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences; also worked in Chelsea, London
  • Arif Alvi, Chairman of Pakistan Dental Federation[5]
  • Roger H. Armour, inventor of the hand-held ophthalmoscope
  • Sania Nishtar, cardiologist, health policy expert and minister
  • Muhammed Suhail Zubairy, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University, USl;holder of Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics
  • A G N Kazi
  • Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad (1913–2002), Executive Director of the World Bank for Pakistan and the Middle East
  • Mohammad Zubair Khan
  • Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, hero of Sindhi computing
  • Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi, former Chairman of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation
  • Ghulam Faruque Khan
  • Hafeez A. Pasha
  • Mahbub ul Haq, economist and co-creator of the Human Development Index (HDI)
  • Ishrat Hussain
  • Salman Shah
  • Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
  • Dr. Ziaul Haque
  • Asad Umar
  • Akhtar Hameed Khan
  • Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director Sustainable Development Policy Institute
  • Matin Ahmed Khan, marketing expert and management educator
  • Bernadette Louise Dean, former Principal of Kinnaird College for Women
  • Mary Emily Gonsalves, Sitara-e-Imtiaz
  • Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry
  • Jacqueline Maria Dias
  • Rubina Gillani
  • Dr. Nergis Mavalvala, Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 2010 MacArthur Fellow; part of the team that made the first direct gravitational wave observation
  • Adil Najam, founding Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University; former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
  • Prop. Dr. Ihsan Ali Sitara-i-Imtiaz Vice-Chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
  • Sardar Mohammad Khan, scholar of linguistics
  • Zulfiqar Bhutta
  • Anita Zaidi
  • Asghar Zaidi
  • Dr.Khalid Manzoor Butt Educationist & Scholar, Dean of Political Science Department GCU

School teachers

  • Oswald Bruno Nazareth
  • Zinia Pinto
  • Norma Fernandes, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz
  • Yolande Henderson

Religious scholars

  • Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, former Grand Mufti of Pakistan.
  • Molana Tariq Jamil, religious leader and member of Tablighi Jamaat
  • Mufti Rafi Usmani, President of Darul Uloom Karachi
  • Muhammad Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Mufti, Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee
  • Saqib Raza Mustafai, founder of Idara-tul-Mustafa
  • Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Ameer e Dawat-e-Islami, Co-founder of Dawat-e-Islami
  • Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, founder of Idara-tul-Mustafa
  • Israr Ahmed, religious leader and the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami
  • Muhammad Hussain Najafi, religious leader
  • Allama Hussain Bakhsh Jarra, religious leader
  • Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, religious scholar, Al-Mawrid International, Pakistan
  • Mufti Jafar Hussain, religious leader
  • Talib Jauhari, Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, Qur'anic interpreter, Urdu poet, historian and philosopher
  • Syed Munawar Hasan, former Chairman of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
  • Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, law professor, Sufi Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran
  • Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi, religious scholar, founder of Jamaa'at-e-Ahle Sunnat
  • Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, religious Quranic scholar, founder of Talu-e-Islam
  • Farhat Hashmi, founder of Al-Huda International
  • Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Ameer-e-Shariat
  • Amin Ahsan Islahi
  • Allamah Rasheed Turabi
  • Ayesha Jalal, religious leader and scholar
  • Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, historian
  • Khurshid Ahmad, scholar, Vice President of the Jamaat-e-Pakistan
  • Muzaffar Iqbal
  • Ehsan Elahi Zaheer Islamic scholar, author and founder of the Jamiat-E-Ahlihadees in Pakistan
  • Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  • Khurram Zaki, scholar and journalist
  • Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Director General, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad
  • Zubair Ali Zai
  • Moeen Nizami

Military personnel

See also: Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)
  • Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed (1914 – August 7, 1958), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
  • Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed (1938–1971), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed (1951 – August 20, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (1943 – December 6, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed (1949 – December 10, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed (1944 – December 17, 1971), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed (1970 – July 5, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Lalak Jan Shaheed (1967 – July 7, 1999), Nishan-E-Haider
  • Major Malik Munawar Khan Awan (died May 1981), Sitara-e-Jurat, 1965 war hero who captured Area Rajouri, Budhil and Mehdar from India during Operation Gibraltar
  • General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara, 4th Army Commander-in-Chief, 4th Governor of West Pakistan and 10th Governor of Balochistan
  • General Sawar Khan, former Vice Chief of Army Staff
  • General Iftikhar Janjua, Hilal-e-Jurat, 1971 war hero of Rann of Kutch operations
  • General Muhammad Shariff, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1977
  • General Iqbal Khan, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) 1980–1984
  • General Zafar H. Naqvi, Army Air Defence Commander
  • General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), think tank head
  • General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
  • General Abdul Waheed Kakar, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
  • General Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Ambassador to the United States
  • General Rahimuddin Khan, 7 year Martial Law Governor of Balochistan and provincial hero
  • General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) & Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
  • General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition
  • General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS)
  • General Nadeem Raza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC)
  • Admiral Shahid Karimullah
  • Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan
  • Lieutenant General, Akhtar Hussain Malik (died August 22, 1969), Hilal-i-Jurat, 1965 war hero
  • Lieutenant General, Abdul Ali Malik, 1965 war hero for his role in the Battle of Chawinda
  • Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, former DG ISI
  • Lieutenant General Zaheer-ul-Islam, former DG ISI
  • Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, former DG ISI
  • Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar, former DG ISI
  • Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa, former DG ISPR & Commander southern command, Chairman CPEC Authority
  • Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, former DG ISI, Commander XXX Corps (Pakistan)
  • Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, DG ISI
  • Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, former Governor of East Pakistan
  • Vice Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed, The First Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy
  • Air Vice Marshall Eric Gordon Hall
  • Major General Athar Abbas former DG ISPR, Ambassador to Ukraine
  • Major General Julian Peter
  • Major General Noel Israel Khokhar
  • Major General Asif Ghafoor, former DG ISPR, GOC Okara 40th Infantry Division
  • Major General Babar Iftikhar, DG ISPR
  • Rear Admiral Leslie Mungavin
  • Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf
  • Brigadier Mervyn Cardoza
  • Brigadier Daniel Austin
  • Air Commodore Nazir Latif
  • Air Commodore Muhammad Mehmood Alam (M M Alam)
  • Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
  • Wing Commander Mervyn Middlecoat
  • Squadron Leader Peter Christy
  • Squadron Leader Sarfraz Rafiqui
  • Captain Hercharn Singh
  • Rahul Dev, first person from the Hindu community to recruited in the Pakistan Air Force.[6]

Businesspeople and industrialists

  • Shahid Khan, owner of automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate Corp, in Urbana, Illinois; owner of a NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Mian Muhammad Mansha, industrialist and businessman
  • Bashir Ali Mohammad, Gul Ahmed Group
  • Mian Muhammad Latif, Chenab Group, ChenOne
  • Mir Shakil ur Rehman, Jang Group
  • Iqbal Ali Lakhani, Lakson Group
  • Chaudhry Ahmed Saeed, Chairman of the Servis Group, former Managing Director in and Chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC)
  • Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Chairman of the ARY Group
  • Malik Riaz, CEO Bahria Town
  • Sikandar Sultan, Managing Director of Shan Food Industries[7]
  • Jahangir Siddiqui, owner of JS Group
  • Jahangir Khan Tareen, owner of sugar mills
  • Shiza Shahid, co-founder of Malala Fund
  • Fiza Farhan, co-founder of Buksh Foundation

Bankers

Arts, literature and other media personalities

Writers and poets

Main articles: List of Pakistani writers and List of Urdu poets

Actors and actresses

Artists and painters

Photographers

  • Farah Mahbub
  • Huma Mulji
  • Zaigham Zaidi
  • Tapu Javeri
  • Sarfaraz K. Niazi

Film and TV directors and documentary filmmakers

  • Anwar Kamal Pasha
  • Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
  • Riaz Shahid
  • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Sabiha Sumar
  • Shoaib Mansoor
  • Usman Peerzada
  • Yawar Hayat Khan

Visual effects

Fashion designers

Models

Main article: List of Pakistani models

Journalists

Main article: List of Pakistani journalists

Musicians

Main article: List of Pakistani musicians

Video jockeys

  • Anoushey Ashraf
  • Ayesha Omar
  • Mahira Khan

Sports

Squash

Athletics

  • John Permal, sprinter
  • Kamal Salman Masud, swimmer
  • Lianna Swan, swimmer
  • Kiran Khan, swimmer

Boxing

  • Muhammad Waseem, WBC Silver Flyweight Champion
  • Amir Khan, undisputed light-welterweight world champion
  • Hussain Shah
  • Jan Mohammad Baloch (1950-2012), Pakistani former olympian boxer, coach

Cricket

E-sports

  • Syed Sumail Hassan

Field hockey

Golf

Sailing

  • Munir Sadiq

Snooker

Tennis

Football

  • Lt Col. (R) Younus Changezi, former member of national football team
  • Muhammad Essa, striker of the national football team
  • Kaleemullah Khan, striker of the national football team; currently playing Sacramento Republic FC
  • Jaffar Khan, legendary goalkeeper

Mountaineers

Skiing

  • Amina Wali

Mixed martial arts

  • Bashir Ahmad

Police officers

  • Chaudhry Aslam Khan
  • Malik Saad
  • Allah Dino Khawaja
  • Nasir Durrani
  • Moazzam Jah Ansari
  • Pushpa Kumari Kohli, first Hindu woman to become a first police officer in Pakistan

Militants

  • Abdul Rauf Azhar
  • Ajmal Kasab, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
  • Fazlullah
  • Ghazi Baba, mastermind of 2001 Delhi parliament attack
  • Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
  • Hakimullah Mehsud
  • Ilyas Kashmiri, Al Qaeda operative
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11
  • Malik Ishaq
  • Masood Azhar
  • Qari Hussain
  • Ramzi Yousef, convict in world trade centre bombing
  • Rashid Rauf
  • Riaz Basra
  • Sufi Muhammad
  • Wali-ur-Rehman
  • Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi

Other

  • Abdul Sattar Edhi, social worker
  • Aitzaz Hasan, schoolboy who died blocking a suicide bomber
  • Arfa Karim, computer prodigy
  • Malala Yousafzai, education activist
  • Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, women's rights activist
  • Tooba Syed, feminist, political worker
  • Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate

References

  1. ^ "‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ awarded to Faisal Mushtaq", The News International, Islamabad, 26 March 2013. Retrieved on 13 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  3. ^ Biography Archived 2008-04-21 at the Wayback Machine at the British Council website. Retrieved on 26 May 2008
  4. ^ "Dr. Waqar ul Qounain - Home Page". faculty.pucit.edu.pk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-07-23. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
  6. ^ "In a first, minority Hindu young man selected to become GD pilot in PAF". Express Tribune. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  7. ^ Pakistan’s King of Masalas spins his own magic April 27, 2008 The News
  8. ^ "TED2013 Talent Search".
  9. ^ "Untitled Document".
  10. ^ "Sohail Tanvir".
  11. ^ "Cricket: Pakistan Faces a Host of Problems – OhmyNews International".

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