List of Punjabi Muslims

Punjabi Muslims 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.

Artists

Authors

Punjabi

Classical

Modern

Urdu

Persian

English

Historians

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

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 Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General 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 Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
General Tikka Khan, former COAS of the Pakistan Army and Victor of the Rann of Kutch
General 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 Asim Saleem Bajwa
Lt Gen Abdul Ali Malik
Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua
Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed
Maj Gen Rao Farman Ali
Maj Gen 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 Iftikhar Khan, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
Maj Gen Muhammad Yusaf Khan
Maj Gen Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
Maj Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik
Maj Gen Ashraf Rashid
Brig Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
Brig 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

Recipients of the Victoria Cross

Music

Punjabi Folk

Sufi Qawwali

Classical Hindustani Gharanas

Modern Playback

Nobility

Mughal Empire

Shahbaz Khan, governor
Wazir Khan, Grand Vizier
Daulat Khan, governor
Saadullah Khan, Grand Vizier
Hifzullah Khan, governor
Mutawassil Khan, governor
Muzaffar Jang Hidayat, Nizam of Hyderabad
Khair Andesh Kamboh, first Nawab of Meerut
Adina Beg Arain, governor of Punjab.
Mahmud Khan Gujjar, Nawab of Dera Ghazi Khan

Sikh Empire

Shaikh Ghulam Muhy-ud-Din, governor of Kashmir
Shaikh Imam-ud-Din, governor of Kashmir
Mian Ghousa, artillery officer
Fakir Azizuddin, diplomat and physician
Fateh Khan Tiwana, Tiwana chief
Ilahi Bakhsh, artillery officer
Sultan Mahmud Khan, artillery officer

Chieftains

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, general of Delhi Sultanate
Muzaffar Shah I, founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat
Ustad Ahmad Lahori, the chief architect of Taj Mahal
Hussein Langah, Langah Sultan
Hyder Ali, the Sultan of Mysore

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

Ahmed Khan Kharal - a rebel leader in West Punjab in the 1857 Rebellion
Murad Fatyana - Freedom fighter
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
Ghulam Muhammad Thikriya- opponent to the British in the 19th century.
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