Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnic group belonging to the Punjab region. It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.
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Artists
- Allah Bakhsh
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Anish Kapoor, sculptor
- Abdur Rahman Chughtai, painter
- Ahmed Parvez, painter
- Bashir Mirza, painter
- Manjit Bawa, painter
- Zubeida Agha, painter
- Rashid Rana, sculptor
- Quddus Mirza, art critic
- Sobha Singh, painter
Authors
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
Pakistan
- Baba Farid
- Shah Hussain
- Sultan Bahu
- Bulleh Shah
- Ali Haider Multani
- Lutf Ali
- Waris Shah
- Hashim
- Qadir Yar
- Mian Muhammad Baksh
- Khawaja Ghulam Fareed
- Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Muhammad Iqbal
- 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
India
- Bhai Gurdas
- Amrita Pritam
- Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Damodar Das Arora
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Ram Sarup Ankhi
- Hira Singh Dard
- Nand Lal Noorpuri
- Chaman Lal Chaman
- Giani Gurdit Singh
- Sampuran Singh Gulzar
- Harbhajan Singh
- Inderjit Hasanpuri
- Jaswant Neki
- J. S. Grewal
- Devendra Satyarthi
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal
- Jaswant Singh Rahi
- Kulwant Singh Virk
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Nanak Singh
- Navtej Bharati
- Pandit Lekh Ram
- Pash
- Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Surjit Hans
English
- Ahmed Rashid
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Amrita Pritam
- Chetan Bhagat
- Deepak Chopra
- Jaspreet Singh
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Khushwant Singh[1]
- Manil Suri
- Mohammed Hanif
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Nadeem Aslam
- Neville Tuli
- Partap Sharma
- Rajiv Malhotra
- Romila Thapar
- Susham Bedi
- Tarek Fatah
- Tariq Ali
- Ved Mehta
- Vikram Seth
- Yuyutsu Sharma
- Zulfikar Ghose
Aviators
- Kalpana Chawla
- Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space
Architects
Business
India
- Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard; ex-CEO of Citi Group Asia Pacific
- Aroon Purie, India Today group
- Avtar Lit, founder of Sunrise Radio
- Avtar Saini, microprocessor designer and former vice president of Intel
- Binny Bansal, entrepreneur and co-founder of Flipkart
- Bob Singh Dhillon, Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
- Brijmohan Lall Munjal, was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Hero Group
- Dharampal Gulati, founder of MDH
- F. C. Kohli, regarded as the "father" of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
- Gulshan Kumar, T Series music label
- Gurbaksh Chahal, entrepreneur who founded several internet advertising companies
- J. C. Mahindra, Mahindra & Mahindra Group
- Jagdish Khattar, managing director of Maruti Udyog ltd 1999 – 2007, civil servant
- Jessie Singh Saini, Indo-American industrialist
- Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
- Kushal Pal Singh, Chairman and CEO of DLF
- M. S. Banga, ex-CEO of Hindustan Lever; director on the board of Maruti Udyog Limited
- Malvinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Group
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels[2]
- Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-American physicist known for his work on fiber optics
- Raj Kundra, British–Indian businessman
- Rana Kapoor, founder and managing director of Yes Bank
- Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur and co-founder of Snapdeal
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and president of i2 Technologies
- Shivon Zilis, venture capitalist
- Sunil Mittal, owner of Bharti Airtel
- Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
- Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium processor
- Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Vipin Khanna, businessman and financier
Pakistan
- 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
- Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway
Cartoonists
- Shekhar Gurera, editorial cartoonist
- Pran Kumar Sharma, cartoonist of Chacha Chaudhary fame
- Farooq Qaiser
Doctors
India
- Satya Paul Agarwal
- M. M. S. Ahuja
- Jasbir Singh Bajaj
- Dr Mukesh Batra
- Harpinder Singh Chawla
- Ram Nath Chopra
- Kirpal Singh Chugh
- Harbans Lall Gulati
- Gagandeep Kang
- Ved Prakash Kamboj
- Tarlochan Singh Kler
- Purshotam Lal
- Prithipal Singh Maini
- Ravinder N. Maini
- Jaswant Singh Neki
- Harvinder Sahota
- Baldev Singh
- Daljit Singh
- Khushdeva Singh
- Sahib Singh Sokhey
- Janak Raj Talwar
- K. K. Talwar
- Purshottam Lal Wahi
- Mahinder Watsa
- Khushwant Lal Wig
Educators and scientists
Nobel laureates
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory
- Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American Medicine Nobel prize laureate
Pakistan
- 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)
- Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist and engineer
- Samar Mubarakmand, Pakistani nuclear scientist and the head of the team that conducted the Chagai-I nuclear tests in 1998.
- 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
- Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)
- 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
- Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
- Khalil Qureshi, physical chemist
- Muneer Ahmad Rashid, mathematical physicist
- Riazuddin, 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
India
- M. M. S. Ahuja, Indian physician and endocrinologist
- Om P. Bahl, Indian molecular biologist
- Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Indian physician and diabetologist; conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award
- Hoon Balakram, Indian mathematician
- Indu Banga, historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
- Lekh Raj Batra, distinguished mycologist and linguist
- Sabeer Bhatia, founder of the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Praveen Chaudhari, Indian American physicist
- Kasturi Lal Chopra, Indian material physicist
- Ram Nath Chopra, Indian medical officer; widely considered the "father of Indian pharmacology"
- Virender Lal Chopra, Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist, former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
- Kirpal Singh Chugh, Indian nephrologist
- Manoj Datta, Indian engineer
- Sukh Dev, Indian organic chemist
- Vinod Dham, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist; popularly known as "Pentium Engineer"
- Meena Dhanda, philosopher and academic at University of Wolverhampton
- Satish Dhawan
- Baldev Singh Dhillon
- Vijay K. Dhir, Indo-American scientist
- Guru Prakash Dutta, Indian cell biologist and immunologist
- Khem Singh Gill, Indian academic, geneticist
- Piara Singh Gill, Indian nuclear physicist
- Sucha Singh Gill, Indian academic, economist
- Khem Singh Grewal, Indian pharmacologist
- Ravi Grover, Indian nuclear scientist
- Hansraj Gupta, Indian mathematician
- Sardul Singh Guraya, Indian biologist
- Ranjit Lal Jetley, soldier and scientist
- Gurcharan Singh Kalkat, Indian agricultural scientist
- Ved Prakash Kamboj
- Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian astrophysicist
- Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-born American Sikh physicist
- Satinder Vir Kessar, Indian synthetic organic chemist
- Pradeep Khosla, academic computer scientist
- Vinod Khosla Indian American engineer and businessman
- Rakesh Khurana, Indian-American educator
- Neelam Kler, Indian neonatologist
- Nayanjot Lahiri, Indian historian and archaeologist at Ashoka University
- Purshotam Lal, Indian cardiologist
- Narinder Kumar Mehra, Indian immunologist
- Mridula Mukherjee, Indian historian specialized in modern India Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Manohar Lal Munjal, Indian acoustical engineer
- Yash Pal, Indian scientist, educator and educationist
- Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter, prominent writer
- Narinder Singh Randhawa, Indian agricultural scientist
- Suresh Rattan
- Birbal Sahni, Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent
- Daya Ram Sahni, Indian archaeologist
- Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
- Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini, Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Sartaj Sahni, American-Indian computer scientist
- Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
- Pritam Saini, English, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu writer; historian; literary critic[3]
- Sanjay Saini, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School[4][5]
- Subhash Saini, senior computer scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA[6]
- P. K. Sethi
- Dheeraj Sharma, professor at IIM-Ahmedabad; writer
- Khushdeva Singh, Indian physician and social worker
- Manjit Singh, armament scientist
- Upinder Singh, Indian historian specialized in ancient India at University of Delhi
- Sahib Singh Sokhey, Indian biochemist
- Janak Raj Talwar, Indian cardiothoracic scientist
- B. K. Thapar, Indian archaeologist; Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1978–1981
- Kartar Singh Thind
- Surinder Vasal, Indian geneticist scientist
- Purshottam Lal Wahi
- Khushwant Lal Wig, Indian physician
- Bagicha Singh Minhas, Indian economist
Folklore
Film industry
Bollywood (India)
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:
Individual Actors
- Achala Sachdev
- Aditya Roy Kapur
- Akshay Kumar
- Akshay Dogra
- Akanksha Juneja
- Annu Kapoor
- Amrinder Gill
- Ammy Virk
- Arjan Bajwa
- Arjun Rampal
- Armaan Kohli
- Avtar Gill
- Aryan Vaid
- Ayushman Khurana
- Babbal Rai
- Bhumika Chawla
- Bina Rai
- Binnu Dhillon
- Celina Jaitley
- Chandan Prabhakar
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Dilip Kumar
- Deepak Parashar
- Geeta Bali
- Geeta Basra
- Gippy Grewal
- Gracy Singh
- Gul Panag
- Gulshan Grover
- Gurdas Maan
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
- Gurshabad Singh
- Hard Kaur
- Harman Baweja
- Harry Ahluwalia
- Jassi Gill
- Jaspal Bhatti
- Jimmy Shergill
- Juhi Chawla
- Jyothika
- Kapil Sharma
- Kajal Aggarwal
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Kapil Sharma
- Karan Johar
- Karan Singh Grover
- Kidar Nath Sharma
- Kiran Juneja
- Kirron Kher
- Kriti Sanon
- Kulraj Randhawa
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kunal Kapoor
- Lakha Lakhwinder Singh
- Mahek Chahal
- Mahie Gill
- Mandira Bedi
- Mangal Dhillon
- Manjot Singh
- Manoj Pahwa
- Mehar Mittal
- Minissha Lamba
- Mink Brar
- Mona Singh
- Monica Bedi
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mukesh Rishi
- Mukul Dev
- Navin Nischol
- Neeru Bajwa
- Neetu Singh
- Neha Dhupia
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pavan Malhotra
- Pooja Batra
- Poonam Dhillon
- Pran
- Praveen Kumar
- Prem Chopra
- Priya Gill
- Preity Zinta
- Pulkit Samrat
- Puneet Issar
- Raj Babbar
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rajit Kapur
- Rakesh Bedi
- Rahul Dev
- Rakul Preet Singh
- Ranjeet
- Ranvir Shorey
- Rana Ranbir
- Ram Kapoor
- Raveena Tandon
- Rati Agnihotri
- Ridhi Dogra
- Ruby Bhatia
- Sahil Anand
- Samir Soni
- Sargun Mehta
- Saumya Tandon
- Saurabh Sachdeva
- Sudesh Berry
- Shakti Kapoor
- Sheeba Chaddha
- Shiny Ahuja
- Shoma Anand
- Sidharth Malhotra
- Simi Garewal
- Simone Singh
- Simran Bagga
- Simrat Kaur
- Smriti Irani
- Sonu Sood
- Sunil Grover
- Sunny Leone
- Suraiya
- Surbhi Jyoti
- Taapsee Pannu
- Tinnu Anand
- Urvashi Sharma
- Vaani Kapoor
- Varun Sharma
- Vicky Kaushal
- Vidyut Jamwal
- Vikas Bhalla
- Vijay Arora
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Shauq
- Yami Gautam
- Yash Johar
Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian film actress
Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000, Indian and American film actress
Akshay Kumar, Indian film actor
Ranbir Kapoor, Indian film actor
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Directors
- Abdur Rashid Kardar
- Abhishek Kapoor
- Aditya Chopra
- Anil Sharma
- Anurag Singh
- B. R. Chopra
- Brij Sadanah
- Chetan Anand
- David Dhawan
- Deepa Mehta
- Deepak Balraj Vij
- Deepak Sareen
- Dharmesh Darshan
- Goldie Behl
- Guddu Dhanoa
- Gulzar
- Harry Baweja
- Inder Raj Anand
- J.P.Dutta
- Kamal Sadanah
- Karan Johar
- Karan Malhotra
- Kunal Kohli
- Lekh Tandon
- Loveleen Tandan
- Mira Nair
- Mohan Kumar
- Mukul Anand
- Pankaj Parashar
- Prakash Mehra
- Punit Malhotra
- Raj Kanwar
- Raj Khosla
- Rajiv Rai
- Rajkumar Kohli
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Ramanand Sagar
- Ravi Chopra
- Ravi Tandon
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Siddharth Anand
- Subhash Ghai
- Suneel Darshan
- Tinnu Anand
- Umesh Mehra
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Vijay Anand
- Vipin Handa
- Yash Chopra
Documentary filmmakers
Lollywood (Pakistan)
- Aamina Sheikh
- Aasia Begum
- Adeel Chaudhry
- Adnan Shah
- Ahmed Ali Akbar
- Ahsan Khan
- Akmal
- Albela
- Ali Ejaz
- Ali Kazmi
- Ali Zafar
- Armeena Khan
- Asad Malik
- Aslam Pervaiz
- Babar Ali
- Babra Sharif
- Bahar Begum
- Bilal Ashraf
- Bushra Ansari
- Firdous Begum
- Ghulam Mohiuddin
- Gohar Rasheed
- Habib-ur-Rehman
- Hamid Rana
- Hamza Ali Abbasi
- Humayun Saeed
- Iftikhar Thakur
- Inayat Hussain Bhatti
- Irfan Khoosat
- Javed Sheikh
- Jia Ali
- Kifayat Hussain Bhatti
- Masood Akhtar
- Meera
- Mikaal Zulfiqar
- Moammar Rana
- Mohsin Abbas Haider
- Munawar Zarif
- Naghma
- Najma Mehboob
- Nargis
- Nayyar Ejaz
- Neelo
- Nirma
- Rafi Khawar
- Rani
- Resham
- Sabiha Khanum
- Sahiba Afzal
- Sajjad Kishwar
- Saleem Sheikh
- Salma Mumtaz
- Salman Shahid
- Shaan Shahid
- Shafqat Cheema
- Shahid Hameed
- Shahida Mini
- Sultan Rahi
- Swaran Lata
- Tariq Aziz
- Usman Peerzada
- Waheed Murad
- Yasir Hussain
- Yousuf Khan
- Zara Sheikh
- Zeba
Directors
Punjabi cinema (India)
Directors
Actors
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The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.
Actors
Actresses
Tamil cinema (India)
- Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
- Jyothika, Punjabi Hindu
- Kajal Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
- Sonia Aggarwal, Punjabi Hindu
International Film and TV personalities
Historical
Medieval
Mughal Empire
Muslim
- Sarang Khan Ghakkar
- Shaikh Gadai Kamboh, Chief Justice of Mughal Empire[17]
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh, Governor of Bengal
- Wazir Khan,[18] Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire
- Saadullah Khan,[19] Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire
- Hifzullah Khan, Governor of Sindh and Kashmir[20]
- Adina Beg Arain, Governor of Lahore and Multan
- Fath Muhammad
- Hyder Ali[21][22][23][24]
Sikh Empire
Sikh
- Hari Singh Nalwa
- Hari Singh Dhillon
- Chattar Singh Attariwalla
- Sham Singh Atariwala
- Jodh Singh Ramgarhia
- Jawahar Singh Aulakh
- Tej Singh
- Sher Singh Attariwalla
- Ranjodh Singh Majithia
- Mangal Singh Ramgarhia
Hindu
Monarchs
Sikh Empire
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of Sikh Empire
- Maharaja Kharak Singh, second ruler of the Sikh Empire
- Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh, third emperor of the Sikh Empire.
- Maharaja Sher Singh, was the fourth maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
- Maharaja Duleep Singh was the last Emperor of the Sikh Empire
Misl Rulers
- Banda Singh Bahadur, Commander-in-chief of Khalsa army
- Ala Singh, First maharaja of Patiala and founder of Phulkian Misl.
- Jassa Singh Ahluwalia founder of Ahluwalia Misl and leader of Dal Khalsa
- Nawab Kapur Singh Organizer of Sikh Confederacy
- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia founder of Ramgarhia Misl
- Jai Singh Kanhaiya one of the most powerful sikh rulers during Sikh Confederacies period founder of Kanhaiya Misl
- Charat Singh founder of Sukerchakia Misl father of Maha Singh and grandfather of Ranjit Singh
- Hari Singh Dhillon one of the most powerful and admired Sikh Worrier leaders of Bhangi Misl
- Maha Singh son of Charat Singh and father of Ranjit Singh second chief of Sukerchakia Misl
- Jhanda Singh Dhillon son of Hari Singh Dhillon under his leadership Bhangi Misl become the most powerful among all the Misls
- Baba Deep Singh founder of Shaheedan Misl
Journalists
India
England
Pakistan
Electronic/broadcast
India
Pakistan
Military
Pakistan Armed Forces
Air Force
- Air Marshal Nur Khan
- Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
- Air Commodore Sajad Haider
- Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan
- Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
- Air Vice Marshal Farooq Umar
- Air Vice Marshal Abdul Razzaq Anjum
- Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat
- Air Commodore Rizwan Ullah Khan
- Flight Lieutenant Yunus Hussain
- Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
- Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
- Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
- Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas
- Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
Army
- Maj Gen Iftikhar Khan, most senior to succeed General Douglas Gracey as the first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, but was killed in a C-53 crash with 22 others, including his wife and infant daughter before he could take office leading to General Ayub Khan being appointed instead
- General Asim Munir, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan 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 Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Lt Gen Sarfraz Ali
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa
- 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, designated as the first native 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 Siddique Salik
- Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
- Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
- Major Tufail Mohammad, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Muhammad Akram, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
- Lieutenant Colonel Haroon Islam
- Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
- Naik Saif Ali Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
- Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, Nishan-e-Haider
- Sowar Muhammad Hussain Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
Navy
- Admiral (R) Muhammad Asif Sandila
- Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir
Indian Armed Forces
Airforce
- Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, former Chief of Indian Air Force,[29] Awarded highest military peace award.
- Marshal Arjan Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force;[30] only marshal in the history of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, former Chief of Indian Air Force
- Rakesh Sharma, Indian Air Force, first Indian in space
Army
- General Deepak Kapoor, former Indian Army Chief
- General Om Prakash Malhotra, former Indian Army Chief
- Captain Saurabh Kalia, martyr of Kargil war
- General Ved Prakash Malik, former Indian Army Chief
- General Bikram Singh, former Indian Army Chief
- Captain Arun Singh Jasrotia,[31]
- General Pran Nath Thapar, former Indian Army Chief
- General Nirmal Chander Vij, former Indian Army Chief
- Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916–2005), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; led the ground forces campaign in the eastern front of the war
- Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to reach the second highest rank of Lt General;[32] first woman to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy[33]
- Major General Shabeg Singh
- Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army for his leadership in the Battle of Longewala
- Captain Vikram Batra, former officer of Indian army, martyred in 1999 Kargil war and was awarded Param Vir Chakra posthumously
Navy
- Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, former Chief of Indian Navy
- Admiral S.M. Nanda, former Chief of Indian Navy
Other notables
- Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer
- Uday Singh Taunque, awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star; first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the US Army
Singapore Armed Forces
- Colonel Gurcharan Singh Sekhon
Music
Pakistan
Punjabi Folk
Sufi Qawwali
Classical Hindustani Gharanas
Panjabi Gharana
Patiala Gharana
Sham Chaurasia Gharana
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
India
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Punjabi folk
Sufi Qawwali
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Classical Hindustani Music
Patiala Gharana
Sham Chaurasia Gharana
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Modern playback
- AP Dhillon
- Afsana Khan
- Alla Rakha
- Amrinder Gill
- Anushka Manchanda
- Akhil Sachdeva
- Arijit Singh
- Armaan Malik
- Asees Kaur
- Babbu Mann
- Bhupinder Singh
- Roshan Prince
- Daler Mehndi
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Garry Sandhu
- Gippy Grewal
- Gurinder Gill
- Gurnam Bhullar
- Guru Randhawa
- Hard Kaur
- Hardy Sandhu
- Himani Kapoor
- Honey Singh
- Jass Manak
- Jassi Gill
- Jasmine Sandlas
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jazzy B
- Karan Aujla
- Kanika Kapoor
- Kanth Kaler
- Kavita Seth
- Kundan Lal Saigal
- Labh Janjua
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Meena Kapoor
- Mika Singh
- Mohammed Rafi
- Mohit Chauhan
- Narinder Biba
- Narendra Chanchal
- Neeraj Shridhar
- Neha Bhasin
- Neha Kakkar
- Nimrat Khaira
- Ninja
- Nitin Mukesh
- Miss Pooja
- Rekha Bhardwaj
- Richa Sharma
- Satinder Sartaaj
- Shailendra Singh
- Shibani Kashyap
- Shehnaz Gill
- Sidhu Moose Wala
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Suraiyya
- Taz
- Tony Kakkar
- Tulsi Kumar
- Zakir Hussain
Models
- Amarjot Kaur[36]
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Harnaaz Sandhu, Punjabi beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Universe 2021
- Hasleen Kaur
- Jesse Randhawa, Bollywood model
- Kuljeet Randhawa
- Mahek Chahal
- Mandira Bedi
- Navneet Kaur Dhillon
- Neha Kapur
- Neelam Gill, Burberry
- Gurleen Chopra, model[37]
- Simran Kaur Mundi
- Sonampreet Bajwa
Politicians
India
- Amarinder Singh
- Arun Jaitley, former Finance Minister of India
- Arvind Khanna
- Ashwani Kumar
- Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister of Punjab (India)
- Baldev Singh
- Bibi Jagir Kaur
- Buta Singh
- Charanjit Singh Channi, former Chief Minister of Punjab (India)
- Darbara Singh
- Giani Zail Singh, former President of India
- Girdhari Lal Dogra
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India
- Jagjit Singh Taunque
- Krishan Kant
- Kanshi Ram
- Madanlal Khurana
- Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan
- Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
- Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana
- Master Tara Singh
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Pratap Singh Kairon
- Priya Dutt
- Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Raghav Chadha
- Sant Fateh Singh
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Sheila Dikshit
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Sushma Swaraj
- Swaran Singh
- Laxmi Kanta Chawla
- Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
- Parminder Singh Dhindsa
- Sarup Chand Singla
Pakistan
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
- Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq
- Chaudhry Amir Hussain
- Feroz Khan Noon
- Ghulam Bibi
- Khizar Hayat Tiwana
- 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 States
- Preet Bharara, former member of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Jenifer Rajkumar, Member of New York State Assembly from Queens
- Ro Khanna, Member of United States House of Representatives from California's 17th congressional district
United Kingdom
Canada
Revolutionaries
- Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal
- Bhagat Singh
- Bhai Mati Das
- Bhai Parmanand
- Choudhry Rahmat Ali
- Ganda Singh Phangureh
- Harnam Singh
- Jahanara Shahnawaz
- Kartar Singh Sarabha
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Madan Lal Dhingra
- Muhammad Arif Khan Rajbana Sial
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Sukhdev
- Udham Singh
Religious figures
Sikh Gurus
- Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism
- Guru Angad
- Guru Amar Das
- Guru Ram Das
- Guru Arjan Dev, was the first two Gurus Martyred Sikh faith
- Guru Hargobind
- Guru Har Rai
- Guru Har Krishan
- Guru Tegh Bahadur
- Guru Gobind Singh, Last Sikh Guru in human form founder of Khalsa panth
Other Sikh figures
- Bhai Kanhaiya, he was known for pouring water for all the wounded members of the battlefield no matter whether they were Sikhs or enemies
- Baba Buddha, one of earliest Sikh figures
- Bhai Mardana, was the first Sikh
- Bhai Daya Singh, first in Panj Pyare
Muslim Sufis and saints
Hindu Gurus and saints
Buddhist figures
Radha Soami Satsang Beas
Ahmadiyya
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889–1908)
- Malauna Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1908–1914)
- Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982–2003)
- Mirza Masroor Ahmad (2003–present)
Sportspersons
Baseball
Chess
Table Tennis
Tennis
Cricket
India
- Aashish Kapoor
- Ajay Ratra
- Akash Chopra
- Amarjit Kaypee
- Ashok Malhotra
- Atul Wassan
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Barinder Sran
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Chetan Sharma
- Gautam Gambhir
- Gourav Dhiman
- Gurkeerat Singh
- Gursharan Singh
- Harbhajan Singh
- Harvinder Singh
- Jahangir Khan
- Kapil Dev[50]
- Lala Amarnath
- Madan Lal
- Maninder Singh
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Nikhil Chopra
- Paras Dogra
- Piyush Chawla
- Rajinder Ghai
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Sarandeep Singh
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Sunny Sohal
- Surinder Amarnath
- Surinder Khanna
- V. R. V. Singh
- Vijay Mehra
- Vikram Rathour
- Virat Kohli
- Yuvraj Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Yadavendra Singh
Pakistan
- Aamer Malik
- Aamer Sohail
- Aaqib Javed
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar
- Abdul Qadir
- Abdul Razzaq
- Aizaz Cheema
- Asif Masood
- Ata-ur-Rehman
- Azeem Hafeez
- Azhar Mahmood
- Babar Azam
- Fazal Mahmood
- Ijaz Ahmed
- Imran Farhat
- Imran Nazir
- Imtiaz Ahmed
- Intikhab Alam
- Inzamam-ul-Haq
- Kamran Akmal
- Khan Mohammad
- Mahmood Hussain
- Majid Khan
- Maqsood Ahmed
- Mohammad Amir
- 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
- Shadab Khan
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Shoaib Malik
- Shujauddin
- Sohail Tanvir
- Tahir Naqqash
- Talat Ali
- Taufeeq Umar
- Waqar Hasan
- Waqar Younis
- Wasim Akram
- Wasim Raja
- Zaheer Abbas
England
Canada
New Zealand
Basketball
Hockey
Field hockey
- Abdul Rashid
- Ajitpal Singh
- Asif Bajwa
- Balbir Singh Sr.
- Baljeet Singh Saini
- Baljit Singh Dhillon
- Balwant (Bal) Singh Saini
- Gagan Ajit Singh
- Hanif Khan
- Hasan Sardar
- Inder Singh
- Kalimullah
- Kamran Ashraf
- Kulbir Bhaura
- Manzoor Hussain
- Muhammad Shahbaz
- Prabhjot Singh
- Prithipal Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Ravi Kahlon
- Saini Sisters
- Shahbaz Ahmed
- Shahnaz Sheikh
- Sardara Singh
- Sohail Abbas
- Wasim Feroz
Ice hockey
Athletics
Golf
Wrestling
Shooting
- Abhinav Bindra, first individual Olympic gold medalist
- Gagan Narang, the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
- Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee
Cycling
- Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics
Soccer
- Michael Chopra, English footballer
- Shaan Hundal, Canadian soccer player
- Harpal Singh
- Harmeet Singh
- Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, second Indian goalkeeper and first to professionally play as GK for 1st division European club
- Sandesh Jhingan, India u-23 and national team player, was adjudged the best footballer of the inaugural ISL
- Inder Singh, former footballer
- Jarnail Singh
- Sarpreet Singh, New Zealand footballer
- Triman Ranvir, Belgian-Indian footballer[51][52]
Boxing
Volleyball
Weightlifting
Freestyle Wrestling
Mixed martial arts
- Singh Jaideep, Indian-Japanese mixed martial artist
- Arjun Bhullar, Punjabi-Canadian mixed martial artist
See also
References
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