List of Pakistanis

Heads of state or government

Civil / democratically elected administrators

• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; first Governor General of Pakistan, and the main founder of Pakistan.
• Liaquat Ali Khan
• Khawaja Nazimuddin
• Ghulam Muhammad
• Iskander Mirza
• Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
• Chaudhry Fazal Ellahi
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
• Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
• Muhammad Ali Bogra
• Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
• Feroz Khan Noon
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Muhammad Khan Junejo
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan
• Benazir Bhutto
• Farooq Leghari
• Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
• Balakh Sher Mazari
• Moeen Qureshi
• Malik Meraj Khalid
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali
• Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
• Shaukat Aziz
• Wasim Sajjad
• Mohammad Mian Soomro
• Asif Ali Zardari
• Yousaf Raza Gillani
• Raja Pervez Ashraf
• Nawaz Sharif
• Mamnoon Hussain
• Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
• Imran Khan

  Military / non-democratically elected administrators

• Field Marshal Ayub Khan
• General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan
• General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• General Pervez Musharraf

  Foreign ministers

• Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
• Aziz Ahmed
• Agha Shahi
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
• Abdul Sattar
• Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
• Gohar Ayub
• Sartaj Aziz
• Abdul Sattar
• Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
• Inam-ul-Haq
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi
• Hina Rabbani Khar
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi

  Bureaucrats

• Roedad Khan
• Sartaj Aziz
• Nargis Sethi
• Tariq Bajwa
• Fazalur Rehman
• Mohammed Ikramullah
• Rizwan Ahmed
• Tasneem Noorani
• Usman Ali Isani
• Qudrat Ullah Shahab
• Syed Abu Ahmad Akif
• Jawad Rafique Malik
• Sikandar Sultan Raja
• Nasir Mahmood Khosa
• Rabiya Javeri Agha
• Fawad Hassan Fawad]

  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

  Attorney General of Pakistan

• Makhdoom Ali Khan
• Latif Khosa

• Ashtar Ausaf Ali
• Salman Aslam Butt

  Other major political figures

• Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, coined the word "Pakistan"
• Allama Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Tahreek-e- Pakistan activist, associate of the Quaid-e-Azam and a scholar on the Quran
• Allama Mashriqi
• Syed Abul A'la Maududi, writer of Tafhim-ul-Quran, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
• Anwar Kamal Khan, senior leader of political party PMLN
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
• Mahmud Ali, leader in the Pakistan Movement, statesman and journalist
• Sardar Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Premier of the Province of Punjab and senior statesman
• Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan
• Sahib of Manki Sharif
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar
• Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung
• Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
• Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
• Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Ahrari leader
• Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi
• Shahzada Mohiuddin
• Ghulam Faruque Khan
• Qazi Hussain Ahmed, ex-Chairman of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
• Imran Khan, ex-cricket player, current prime minister in Pakistan
• Mufti Mahmud, founding member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

  Judges

• Justice A. R. Cornelius
• Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar
• Justice Sir Abdur Rashid
• Justice S. Anwarul Haq
• Justice Dorab Patel
• Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
• Justice Hamoodur Rahman
• Justice Ajmal Mian
• Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
• Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
• Justice Mohammad Haleem
• Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah
• Justice Muhammad Munir
• Justice Muhammad Rustum Kiani
• Justice Muhammad Shahabuddin
• Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali
• Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah
• Justice Qadeeruddin Ahmed
• Justice Rana Bhagwandas
• Justice Sajjad Ali Shah
• Justice Mukhtiar Ahmad Junejo
• Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif
• Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed
• Justice Haziqul Khairi
• Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza
• Justice Saqib Nisar
• Justice Asif Saeed Khosa
• Justice Allama Khalid Mahmood

  Lawyers

• Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan
• Akhtar Aly Kureshy
• Hamid Khan
• Asma Jahangir
• Aitzaz Ahsan
• Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
• Mahmud Ali Kasuri
• Azam Nazir Tarar
• Ahmad Awais
• 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
• Farooq Naek
• Salman Aslam Butt

  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
• 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

  Academia

Scientists, researchers and scholars

• Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics 1979, science advisor to the Government of Pakistan, founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, received the Sitara-e-Pakistan for contribution to science in Pakistan 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 of Roots Millennium Schools, Executive Director of Roots School System, recipient of ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’
• Abdul Qadeer Khan, nuclear physicist
• Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear physicist, former Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, 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
• 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 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
• Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987
• 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.
• 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
• 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, 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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

• Mufti Rafi Usmani, President of Darul Uloom Karachi
• Muhammad Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Mufti, Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee
• 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
• Tariq Jameel
• 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

• Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Lieutenant General, Akhtar Hussain Malik, Hilal-i-Jurat, 1965 war hero
• Lieutenant General, Abdul Ali Malik, 1965 war hero for his role in the Battle of Chawinda
• Lalak Jan Shaheed, Nishan-E-Haider
• Major Malik Munawar Khan Awan, 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 1977
• General Iqbal Khan, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee 1980–1984
• General Zafar H. Naqvi, Army Air Defence Commander
• General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff, think tank head
• General Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff, Ambassador to the United States
• General Rahimuddin Khan, 7 year Martial Law Governor of Balochistan and provincial hero
• General Raheel Sharif, Chief of Army Staff
• Air Commodore Muhammad Mehmood Alam
• Squadron Leader Sarfraz Rafiqui
• Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, former Governor of East Pakistan
• Admiral Shahid Karimullah
• Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan
• Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
• Air Vice Marshall Eric Gordon Hall
• Air Commodore Nazir Latif
• Wing Commander Mervyn Middlecoat
• Squadron Leader Peter Christy
• Major General Julian Peter
• Major General Noel Israel Khokhar
• Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf
• Brigadier Mervyn Cardoza
• Brigadier Daniel Austin
• Rear Admiral Leslie Mungavin
• Captain Hercharn Singh

  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
• Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Chairman of the ARY Group
• Malik Riaz, CEO Bahria Town
• Sikandar Sultan, Managing Director of Shan Food Industries
• 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

• Agha Hasan Abedi
• Ishrat Husain
• Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi
• Muhammad Mian Soomro
• Shahid Javed Burki
• Shamshad Akhtar
• Zahid Hussain

  Arts, literature and other media personalities

Writers and poets

• Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Rasul Bux Palejo
• Syed Sibte Hassan
• Saadat Hassan Manto
• Khawar Rizvi
• Patras Bokhari
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Syed Irfan Ali Shah
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Mohsin Naqvi
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza
• Abdullah Hussain
• Ahmad Faraz
• Shaikh Ayaz
• Amar Jaleel
• Sohail Sangi
• Anwar Pirzada
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Afrasiab Khattak
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Qalandar Momand
• Siddiq Ismail
• Anwer Maqsood
• Ashfaq Ahmad
• Bano Qudsia
• Daud Kamal
• Fatima Surayya Bajia
• Ghulam Abbas
• Habib Jalib
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja
• Hakim Said
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Idris Azad
• Ishtiaq Ahmad
• Iftikhar Arif
• Ihsan Danish
• Jon Elia
• Kazi Zainul Abedin
• Khurshid Rizvi
• Majeed Amjad
• Mazhar Kaleem
• Mohsin Hamid
• Mohammed Hanif
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Noon Meem Danish
• Noon Meem Rashid
• Obaidullah Aleem
• Mirza Ather Baig
• Parveen Shakir
• Qateel Shafai
• Raees Warsi
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
• Vazir Agha
• Wasif Ali Wasif
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
• Zamir Jafri
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Amjad Islam Amjad
• Anwar Masood
• Moeen Nizami
• Fatima Bhutto

  Actors and actresses

• Adeeb, actor
• Adil Murad, actor
• Afzal Khan, actor
• Ajab Gul, actor
• Anjuman, actress
• Ayesha Sana, actress
• Aamina Sheikh, actress
• Babar Ali, actor
• Babra Sharif, actress
• Badar Munir, actor
• Darpan, actor
• Deeba, actor
• Faysal Qureshi, actor
• Fawad Khan, actor
• Hamza Ali Abbasi, actor
• Humayun Saeed actor
• Husna, actress
• Imran Abbas, actor
• Inayat Hussain Bhatti, actor
• Ismat Zaidi, actress
• Javed Sheikh, actor
• Kamal Irani, actor
• Mahira Khan, actress
• Marina Khan, actress
• Maya Ali
• Mohib Mirza, actor
• Meera, actress
• Mohammad Ali, actor
• Moin Akhter, actor
• Mustafa Qureshi, actor
• Nadeem Baig, actor
• Nadia Khan, actress
• Naeem Hashmi, actor
• Kamal Irani, actor
• Nasira Zuberi, actress
• Neelo, actress
• Rahat Kazmi, actor
• Sabiha Khanum, actress
• Saeed Khan Rangeela, actor
• Saima, actress
• Sami Khan, actor
• Samina Pirzada, actress
• Sana Nawaz, actress
• Sangeeta, actor
• Shaan Shahid, actor
• Shafi Muhammad Shah, actor
• Shahid, actor
• Shamim Ara, actress
• Sohail Ahmad, actor
• Somy Ali, actress
• Sultan Rahi, actor
• Talat Husain, actor
• Talish, actor
• Tariq Aziz, actor
• Waheed Murad, actor
• Yousaf Khan, actor
• Zahid Ahmed
• Zeba, actress
• Amanullah Khan

  Artists and painters

• Abdur Rahman Chughtai
• Ahmed Saeed Nagi
• Ajaz Anwar
• Anna Molka Ahmed
• A. R. Nagori
• Asim Butt
• Bashir Mirza
• Huma Mulji
• Ijaz ul Hassan
• Eqbal Mehdi
• Ismail Gulgee
• Jamil Naqsh
• Laraib Atta
• Lubna Agha
• Moeen Faruqi
• Rashid Rana
• Sadequain
• Saira Wasim
• Sara Shakeel
• Shahid Mahmood
• Shakir Ali
• Saeed Akhtar
• Hanif Ramay
• Shazia Sikander
• Suhail Ahmad
• Zahoor ul Akhlaq
• Zubeida Agha
• Iqbal Hussain

  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

• Muqeem Khan

  Fashion designers

• Abdul Samad
• Amir Adnan
• Deepak Perwani
• Hassan Sheheryar Yasin
• Junaid Jamshed
• Kamiar Rokni
• Omar Mansoor

  Models

• Aminah Haq
• Humaima Malick
• Iffat Rahim
• Iman Ali
• Imran Abbas
• Mehreen Raheel
• Reema Khan
• Tooba Siddiqui
• Vaneeza Ahmad
• Zara Sheikh
• Ayaan Ali

  Journalists

• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Janbaz Mirza
• Ansar Abbasi
• Ahmad Faruqui
• Ahmed Rashid
• Ardeshir Cowasjee, columnist and businessman
• Arman Sabir, journalist working for BBC; earlier he was associated with DAWN for several years
• Asghar Ali Engineer
• Hassan Nisar,
• Hameed Nizami
• Imran Aslam
• Irfan Husain, columnist
• Javed Malik, journalist, working for ARY
• Kamal Siddiqi
• Kamran Khan, Geo TV
• Khalid Hasan
• Maliha Lodhi
• Mazhar Ali Khan, journalist, editor and publisher
• Mehmood Sham, columnist
• Mishal Hussain
• Muhammad Farooq
• Murtaza Razvi
• Nadeem Malik
• PJ Mir, journalist working for ARY
• Shahid Javed Burki
• Shahid Mahmood, journalist working for ARY
• Dr.Shahid Masood, journalist, ex-Chairman of Pakistan Television Corporation
• Sherry Rahman
• Sohail Warraich, anchor on Geo TV
• Surendar Valasai
• Syed Saleem Shahzad
• Tahir Mirza
• Talat Hussain, journalist working for AAJ TV
• Zamir Niazi
• Ian Fyfe, DAWN sports reporter
• Khurram Zaki, journalist and TV host

  Musicians

• Abida Parveen
• Amjad Sabri, Qawwal and Naat Khawan
• Aaroh
• Abrar-ul-Haq
• Atif Aslam
• Ali Azmat
• Alam Lohar and Arif Lohar
• Ahmed Rushdi, film song singer
• Ali Zafar
• Amanat Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Amjad Bobby, film music composer
• Atif Aslam
• Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi
• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Bohemia, rapper and music producer
• Hadiqa Kiyani
• Hamid Ali Khan, ghazal singer
• Imran Khan, Punjabi singer
• Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, film music composer
• Mehdi Hassan, film singer
• Masood Rana, film singer
• Mustafa Zahid
• Nadia Ali
• Naser Mestarihi, hard rock musician
• Naseebo Lal, film singer
• Nashad, film music composer
• Nisar Bazmi, film music composer
• Noor Jehan
• Noori
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Robin Ghosh, film music composer
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
• Rahim Shah
• Rohail Hyatt
• Sabri Brothers, qawwali musicians
• Sajjad Ali
• Shehzad Roy
• Salman Ahmad
• Sohail Rana, film music composer
• Sheraz Uppal
• Waqar Ali
• Zeb and Haniya
• Rajab Ali
• Alamgir, pop music singer
• Ali Haider
• Fakhir
• Farida Khanum
• Hadiqa Kiani
• Jawad Ahmed
• Junaid Jamshed
• Jassi Lailpuria
• Malika Pukhraj
• Najam Sheraz
• Nazia Hasan, pop singer
• Zohaib Hasan
• Maaz Moeed
• Tina Sani
• S. B. John
• Jassi Lailpuria
• Ahmad Raza Khan
• Siddiq Ismail
• Khursheed Ahmad

  Video jockeys

• Anoushey Ashraf
• Ayesha Omar
• Mahira Khan

  Sports

Squash

• Jansher Khan, 8 time world open champion, 4 time super series champion, 6 time British champion
• Aamir Atlas Khan
• Farhan Mehboob
• Hashim Khan, 8 time British champion
• Jahangir Khan, 6 time world champion, 10 time British champion
• Carla Khan
• Mansoor Zaman
• Qamar Zaman, British champion

  Athletics

• John Permal, sprinter

  Boxing

• Muhammad Waseem, WBC Silver Flyweight Champion

  Cricket

• Imran Khan
• Anil Dalpat
• Imam-ul-Haq
• Salman Butt
• Asif Ali
• Asif Ali
• Shaheen Afridi
• Nasir Jamshed
• Javed Miandad
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar
• Mohammad Hafeez
• Abdul Qadir
• Abdul Razzaq
• Aamer Sohail
• Danish Kaneria
• Fazal Mahmood
• Faisal Iqbal
• Fawad Alam
• Hanif Mohammad
• Iftikhar-ul-Haq
• Imran Abbas
• Imran Nazir
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Javed Burki
• Junaid Khan
• Kamran Akmal
• Khan Mohammad
• Majid Khan
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Mohammad Amir
• Mohammad Asif
• Mohammad Umar Taj
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Moin Khan
• Mushtaq Ahmed
• Rashid Latif
• Saeed Ajmal
• Saeed Anwar
• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Sarfraz Ahmed
• Sarfraz Nawaz
• Sajjida Shah
• Shahid Afridi
• Sohail Tanvir
• Shahid Khan Afridi
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Shoaib Malik
• Umar Akmal
• Umar Gul
• Waqar Younis
• Wasim Akram
• Yasir Hameed
• Yasir Shah
• Younis Khan
• Zaheer Abbas
• Zahid Ahmed
• Zahid Fazal
• Babar Azam
• Fakhar Zaman

  E-sports

• Syed Sumail Hassan

  Field hockey

• Hassan Sardar
• Samiullah
• Shahbaz Ahmad
• Shahid Ali Khan
• Sohail Abbas
• Tahir Zaman
• Samiullah Khan
• Basit Ali
• Mohammad Zahid
• Shahnaz Sheikh
• Islahuddin
• Jack Britto
• Imran Mayo

  Golf

• Taimur Hussain

  Sailing

• Munir Sadiq

  Snooker

• Khurram Hussain Agha
• Mohammed Yousuf
• Naveen Perwani
• Saleh Mohammed
• Muhammad Asif

  Tennis

• Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
• Haroon Rahim

  Football

• Lt Col. 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

• Ashraf Aman
• Nazir Sabir
• Hassan Sadpara
• Samina Baig
• Amir Mehdi

  Skiing

• Amina Wali

  Mixed martial arts

• Bashir Ahmad

  Police officers

• Chaudhry Aslam Khan
• Malik Saad
• Allah Dino Khawaja
• Nasir Durrani
• Moazzam Jah Ansari

  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