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List of Punjabi Muslims

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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

Allah Bakhsh (1895 – 1978)
Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894–1975)
Ahmed Parvez (1926 – 1979)
Bashir Mirza (1941 – 2000)
Zubeida Agha (1922–1997)
Rashid Rana (born 1968)
Quddus Mirza (born 1961)

Authors

Punjabi

Classical

Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1266)
Shah Hussain (1539–1599)
Naushah Ganj Bakhsh (1552–1654)
Abdullah Lahori, (c. 1616–c. 1666)
Sultan Bahu (1630–1691)
Shah Sharaf (1640–1724)
Afarin Lahori (c. 1660 – d. 1741)
Bulleh Shah (1680–1757)
Ali Haider (1690–1785)
Lutf Ali (1716–1794)
Waris Shah (1722–1798)
Farad Faqir (1704/1720–1790)
Hashim (1735/1752–1843)
Ahmad Yar (1768–1845)
Shah Mohammad (1780–1862)
Qadir Yar (1802–1892)
Fazal Shah Sayyad (1827–1890)
Mian Muhammad Baksh (1830–1907)
Khawaja Ghulam Fareed (1845–1901)

Modern

Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (1849 – 1892)
Meher Ali Shah (1859 – 1937)
Imam Din Gujrati (1870–1954)
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938)
Hakim Ahmad Shuja (1893 – 1969)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984)
Ustad Daman (1911–1984)
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955)
Shareef Kunjahi (1914 – 2007)
Ahmad Rahi (1923 – 2002)
Munir Niazi (1923–2006)
Sharif Sabir (1928 – 2015)
Habib Jalib (1928–1993)
Shafi Aqeel (1930 – 2013)
Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (1932 – 2012)
Shahbaz Malik (1937–2024)
Najam Hussain Syad (born 1935)
Anwar Masood (born 1935)
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (1937 – 2017)
Aizaz Ahmad Azar (1942 – 2015)
Nasreen Anjum Bhatti (1943–2016)
Fakhar Zaman (born 1943)
Mazhar Tirmazi (born 1950)
Ali Arshad Mir (1951–2008)
Mir Tanha Yousafi (1955–2019)
Shaista Nuzhat (born 1960)
Khaqan Haider Ghazi (born 1965)

Urdu

Mirza Hasan Qatil (1758–1818)
Ibrahim Zaoq (1790–1854)
Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Lahori (1837 – 1890)
Zafar Ali Khan (1873 – 1956)
Hafeez Jalandhari (1900–1982)
Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984)
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955)
Majeed Amjad (1914 – 1974)
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1916–2006)
Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980)
Ashfaq Ahmed (1925 – 2004)
Bano Qudsia (1928–2017)
Habib Jalib (1928–1993)
Zafar Iqbal (born 1930)
Anwar Masood (born 1935)
Amjad Islam Amjad (1944 – 2023)

Persian

Shaikh Jamali Kamboh (1470 – 1536)
Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (died 1574)^[1]
Muhammad Saleh Kamboh (died 1675)
Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh (1608–1671)
Abu al-Barakat Munir Lahori (1610–1644)
Abdul Hamid Lahori (died 1654)
Shah Inayat Qadiri (1643 – 1728)

English

Syad Muhammad Latif (1851–1902)
Zulfikar Ghose (1935–2022)
Tariq Ali (born 1943)
Ahmed Rashid (born 1948)
Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951)
Mohammed Hanif (born 1964)
Nadeem Aslam (born 1966)

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
Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway

Islamic scholars and other religious figures

Sakhi Sarwar (1120 – 1181)
Bahauddin Zakariya^[2](1170-1267)
Jahaniyan Jahangasht^[3](1308-1384)
Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)
Abdul Hakim Sialkoti (1580–1656)
Bari Imam (1617–1705)
Maula Shah (1836–1944)
Fazal Ali Qureshi (1853–1935)
Meher Ali Shah (1859–1937)
Sanaullah Amritsari (1868-1948)
Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti (1874-1956)
Ziauddin Madani (1877-1981)
Ghulam Mohiyuddin Gilani (1891–1974)
Karam Shah al-Azhari (1918–1998)
Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi (1922–2002)
Israr Ahmed^[4]^[5] (1932-2010)
Sajid Mir (born 1938)
Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (1945-1987)
Hafiz Saeed (born 1950)
Tariq Jamil (born 1953)
Khadim Hussain Rizvi (1966–2020)
Saad Hussain Rizvi

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
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Nishan-e-Haider

Army

General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa, former 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 COAS of the Pakistan Army and Victor of the Rann of Kutch
General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Asim Munir, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa
Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
Lt Gen (R) Mahmud Ahmed
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) Ashraf Rashid
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

Recipients of the Victoria Cross

Khudadad Khan, operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the Western Front
Shahamad Khan, covered a 150 yard gap at the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
Abdul Hafiz, charged at enemy lines in Burma
Sher Shah Awan, commanded a platoon ambushed by the Japanese, his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
Fazal Din, ran through the chest in Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it

Music

Punjabi Folk

Sufi Qawwali

Classical Hindustani Gharanas

Modern Playback

Nobility

Mughal Empire

Shahbaz Khan Kamboh (1529–1599), governor of Bengal^[6]
Wazir Khan (1560–1642), governor of Punjab
Daulat Khan Mayi (c. 1590–c. 1650), governor of Thatta and Qandahar
Saadullah Khan (1591–1656), Grand Vizier^[7]
Hifzullah Khan (1645–1701), governor of Thatta and Kashmir
Mutawassil Khan (died 1744), governor of Bijapur
Muzaffar Jang Hidayat (died 1751), Nizam of Hyderabad
Khair Andesh Kamboh (died 1710), first Nawab of Meerut^[8]
Adina Beg Arain (1710–1758), governor of Punjab.^[9]

Sikh Empire

Shaikh Imam-ud-Din (1819–1859), governor of Kashmir
Mian Ghousa (died 1814), artillery officer
Fakir Azizuddin (1780–1845), diplomat and physician
Fateh Khan Tiwana (died 1848), Tiwana chief
Ilahi Bakhsh (died 1849), artillery officer
Sultan Mahmud Khan (died 1859), artillery officer

Chieftains

Shaikha Khokhar (died 1398)
Jasrat Khokhar (c. 1375– 1442)
Rai Bhoe Bhatti (c. 1380 – 1454)
Rai Bular Bhatti (c. 1425 – 1518)
Sarang Khan Gakhar (died 1546)
Kamal Khan Gakhar (died 1566)
Īsā Khan Munj (died 1718)
Walidad Khan Sial (died 1747)
Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal (died 1857)

Politicians

United Kingdom

People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin

Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:

Ayn-Al Mulk Multani (d. 1325), general of Delhi Sultanate^[10]
Muzaffar Shah I (1342–1411), founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat^[11]
Khizr Khan (1351–1421), founder of the Sayyid dynasty.^[12]
Ustad Ahmad Lahori (c. 1580–1649), the chief architect of Taj Mahal^[13]
Hussein Langah (d. 1502), Langah Sultan^[14]
Hyder Ali (1720–1782), the Sultan of Mysore^[15]

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
Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi - one of the founders of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi - founder of Khaksar movement
Nizam Lohar, Blacksmith rebel against the British Indian Empire
Malangi, Robinhood of Kasur in Colonial Punjab
Mohammed Zaman Kiani, Patriot serviceman of the Azad Hind Fauj who organised battle against the British Empire and raids against the Dogra Ruler in the Kashmir Jihad
Shah Nawaz Khan, A Commander of the Indian National Army tried for waging war against the King Emperor by the British Occupiers of India
Habib Jalib, Pakistani left-wing revolutionary poet and anti-martial law activist

Scientists and academics

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)
Ziauddin Ahmad
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 Stockholm University

Farooq Azam, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
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

Association Football

Masood Fakhri

Cricket

Freestyle Wrestling

Weightlifting

Nooh Dastgir

Field hockey

Javelin throw

See also

References

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