- Muhammad Iqbal – Poet, philosopher, politician, lawyer, architect of the idea of Pakistan
- Mirza Athar Baig – Novelist, playwright and philosopher[2]
- Muhammad Ajmal – Founder of psychology in Pakistan,[3] former Principal of Government College[4] and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Punjab[5]
- Javed Ashraf – Economist, academician and Vice Chancellor of Quaid-e-Azam University
- Tariq Jameel – Islamic scholar and preacher
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi – Islamic modernist scholar
- Malik Ram – Urdu, Arabic, and Persian scholar and writer
- Ismat Beg – Mathematician and academician. Known for his work in fixed point theory and multicriteria decision-making problems.
- Arfa Sayeda Zehra – Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert
- Asghar Zaidi – Former Vice Chancellor of Government College University (GCU)
- Khalid Manzoor Butt – Pakistani Political Science Scholar.
- Sarvadaman Chowla – Indian-American mathematician[6]
- Abdul Hafeez Mirza - Pakistani writer, educationist, tourism worker and cultural activist.
- Mohan Singh Diwana - Historian of Punjabi literature and poet
- Farkhanda Manzoor - Former Vice-Chancellor of Lahore College for Women University
- Vasay Chaudhry – Film, drama writer, actor
- Mustansar Hussain Tarar – Writer, poet, storyteller, and intellectual.
- Ashfaq Ahmed – Urdu writer, playwright, broadcaster and intellectual[7]
- Mirza Athar Baig – novelist, playwright, philosopher, and short story writer
- Patras Bokhari – Urdu writer; first Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations (1951–54); former Under-Secretary General of United
- Bano Qudsia – novelist
- Qudrat Ullah Shahab – Urdu writer and civil servant
- Wasif Ali Wasif – Poet and intellectual
- Khushwant Singh – Indian novelist and barrister
- Malik Zahoor Ahmad – diplomat, Middle East/South Asia expert, political analyst
- Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad – former Secretary of Commerce and Finance; Deputy Director Planning Commission of Pakistan; former Finance Minister Pakistan
- Musa Javed Chohan – diplomat, former ambassador to France, Malaysia
- Javid Husain - diplomat, former ambassador of Pakistan to Iran, South Korea, and the Netherlands
- Abdus Salim Khan - senior Pakistani diplomat and former ambassador of Pakistan to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Japan and Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
- Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala - diplomat, former Indian Ambassador to Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador
- S M Zafar – Lawyer, Senator, and former Law Minister
- Chetan Anand – producer and director from India; elder brother of Dev and Vijay Anand
"Poets". Encyclopedia of Pakistan. Overseas Pakistanis Foundation. December 2006. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
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