List of Ravians

Alumni of the Government College University, Lahore, including alumni of its predecessor Government College, Lahore, are called Ravians. Following is the list of notable Ravians.

Nobel Laureates

Muhammad Iqbal – Poet, philosopher, politician, lawyer, architect of the idea of Pakistan
Mirza Athar Baig – Novelist, playwright and philosopher
Muhammad Ajmal – Founder of psychology in Pakistan, former Principal of Government College and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Punjab
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
Khalid Manzoor Butt – Pakistani Political Science Scholar.
Sarvadaman Chowla – Indian-American mathematician
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
Mirza Athar Baig – novelist, playwright, philosopher, and short story writer
Patras Bokhari – Urdu writer; first Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations ; 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

Aitzaz Ahsan – Barrister, former federal minister, former president of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
Mian Abdul Bari – 2nd Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and former president of the Punjab Awami League and Punjab Muslim League.
Aseff Ahmad Daula – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Deputy Chairman Planning Commission
Yusuf Raza Gilani – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan and speaker
Dr. Ghulam Hussain – former Federal Minister for Railways and Secretary-General of Pakistan People's Party
Zafarullah Khan Jamali – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Muhammad Zafarullah Khan – first Foreign Minister of Pakistan; former President of United Nations General Assembly; former President of International Court of Justice
Naseer Ahmad Malhi - A close aide of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and one of Pakistan's founding fathers. Former Minister of Education, Law & Parliamentary Affairs
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi – Former interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
Hanif Ramay – intellectual, journalist; former Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab
Syed Abid Hussain Shah – landlord, former central and provincial minister of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif – Former three-time Prime Minister of Pakistan
Shehbaz Sharif - Prime Minister, current president of Pakistan Muslim league
Swaran Singh – the longest-serving Indian federal minister

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, 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

Lieutenant General Hamid Gul – retired, Pakistani Army
General Shamim Alam Khan, NI, SJ, SBt
General Raheel Sharif - former Chief of Army Staff
Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir - Former Chief of Air Staff
Major Shabbir Sharif, NH, SJ - Recipient of sword of honour and only person to receive both Sitara-e-Jurrat & Nishan-e-Haider

Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad - nuclear physicist; chairman of PAEC, 1991-2001
Dr. Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz - researcher in theoretical physics with PAEC.
Munir Ahmad Khan - Chairman of PAEC, 1972–1991; IAEA staff member, 1958–72; Chairman of IAEA Board of Governors, 1986–87
Dr. Samar Mubarakmand - experimental nuclear physicist and missile engineer

Dr.Muhammad Iqbal – Pakistan's national poet
Noon Meem Rashid - poet
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - one of Pakistan's leading Marxist's who won the Lenin Peace Prize

Muhammad Javed Buttar - former Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Javid Iqbal – scholar; former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court; Judge of Supreme Court; son of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal
M. R. Kayani – former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court
Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
Makhdoom Ali Khan - Barrister, former Attorney General of Pakistan
Nasim Hasan Shah - former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Mian Saqib Nisar - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Asif Saeed Khan Khosa - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Chetan Anand – producer and director from India; elder brother of Dev and Vijay Anand