List of Urdu poets
The following is a list of Urdu-language poets.
17th century
18th century
- Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda
- Siraj Aurangabadi, Siraj
- Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, Soz
- Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard
- Qayem Chandpuri, Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali Qayem
- Mir Taqi Mir, Mir
- Fidvi Lahori, Fidvi
- Nazeer Akbarabadi, Nazeer
- Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat, Jurat
- Mashafi Shaikh Ghulam Hamdani, Mas'hafi
- Insha Allah Khan 'Insha', Insha
- Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin, Rangin
- Bahadur Shah, Zafar
- Imam Baksh Nasikh, Nasikh
- Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish, Atish
- Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Zauq
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ghalib
- Chhannu Lal Dilgeer, ''Ghulam Hussain''
19th century
- Momin Khan Momin, Momin
- Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer, Dabeer
- Mir [Babar Ali Anis], Anis
- Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim
- Amir Meenai, Amir
- Dagh Dehlvi, Daagh
- Altaf Hussain Hali, Hali
- Akbar Allahabadi, Akbar
- Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Raza
- Hassan Raza Khan Barelvi, Hassan
- Bekhud Badayuni, Bekhud
- Shibli Nomani. Shibli
- Muztar Khairabadi
- Alam
- Zaigham
- Saqib Lakhnavi
- Tashna
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Arzoo Lakhnavi
- Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang
- Hasrat Mohani, Hasrat
- Dil Shahjahanpuri, Dil
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Iqbal
- Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Jauhar
- Fani Badayuni, Fani
- Seemab Akbarabadi
- Brij Narayan Chakbast
- Bekhud Dehlvi
- Niaz Fatehpuri
- Yagana Changezi Yaas
- Josh Malsiyani Josh
- Asghar Gondvi, Asghar
- Tilok Chand Mehroom
- Qamar Jalalvi
- Amjad Hyderabadi, Amjad
- Jigar Moradabadi, Jigar
- Raaz Chandpuri
- Zamin Ali, Zamin
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Josh Malihabadi, Josh
- Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar, Jauhar
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, Firaq
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Abr Ahasani Gunnauri Abr
- Munavvar Lakhnavi Bisheshwar Prasad Munavvar
- Ahmaq Phaphoondvi
- Abdur Rauf Urooj
1900
- Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
- Hafeez Jalandhari, Hafeez
- Talib Chakwali Manohar Lal Kapur ‘Talib’
- Pandit Harichand Akhtar
- Alam Muzaffarnagari
- Bismil Saeedi
- Khushtar Girami
- Anand Narain Mulla
- Zaheen Shah Taji
- Syed Sajjad Zaheer
- Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari
- Akhtar Sheerani
- Saghar Nizami
- Abid Ali Abid
- Gopal Mittal
- Ratan Pandoravi, Ratan
- Makhdum Muhiuddin
- Arsh Malsiani
- Majaz, Majaz
- Abdul Hamid Adam
- Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, Lisan ul Mulk
- Kunwar [Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar], ''Sahar''
1910
- Noon Meem Rashid
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Faiz
- Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah
- Aijaz Siddiqi
- Ravish Siddiqi
- Nushoor Wahidi
- Meeraji
- Shifa Gwaliori
- Shamim Karhani
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Dr. Rafiq Hussain
- Sahir Hoshiarpuri
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Raza Naqvi Wahi
- Mir Gul Khan Nasir
- Rais Amrohvi
- Ehsan Danish
- Jan Nisar Akhtar
- Majeed Amjad
- Sikandar Ali Wajd
- Akhtar ul Iman
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Nadeem
- Zamir Jafri, Zamir
- Shakeel Badayuni
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri Shorish
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
- Rishi Patialvi Rishi
- Jagan Nath Azad
- Kaifi Azmi
- Fikr Taunsvi
- Naeem Hashmi
- Majrooh Sultanpuri
- Khumar Barabankvi, Khumar
- Qateel Shifai, Qateel
- Masud Husain Khan
1920
- Salaam Machhalishahari, Salaam
- Sahir Ludhianvi, Sahir
- Krishan Mohan, Krishan Lal Krishan Mohan
- Wazir Agha
- Sulaiman Areeb
- Nazish Pratapgarhi, Nazish
- Ada Jafri
- Nasir Kazmi, Nasir
- Bekas Akbarabadi, M.G Gupta wrote Urdu anthology, Rahat-i-Ruh,
- Rahi Masoom Raza
- Himayat Ali Shair, Shair
- Kanwal Ziai Hardayal Singh Datta
- Naresh Kumar Shad
- Khadija Mastoor
- Ibn-e-Insha, Insha
- Bekal Utsahi
- Sagar Siddiqui
- Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
- Habib Jalib
- Dilawar Figar
- Munir Niazi
- Shabnam Romani, Shabnam
- Mazhar Imam
- Wasif Ali Wasif
- Dilawar Figar
1930
- Mustafa Zaidi
- Harbans Bhalla
- Ahmad Faraz
- Jaun Elia
- Rajendar Nath Rehbar
- Satyapal Anand
- Syed Amin Ashraf
- Ahmar Lari,
- Shakeb Jalali
- Rajinder Manchanda Bani Bani
- Mohsin Bhopali
- Sardar Panchhi
- Muzaffar Warsi
- Syed Waheed Ashraf
- Waheed Akhtar
- Sudarshan Faakir
- Murtaza Birlas
- Mohsin Zaidi
- Anwar Masood
- Bashar Nawaz
- Aftab Iqbal Shamim
- Adil Mansuri
- Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
- Gulzar
- Shahzad A. Rizvi
- Unwan Chishti Iftikharul Hasan Unwan
- Nida Fazli
- Makhmoor Saeedi
- Syed Mahmood Khundmiri
- Obaidullah Aleem
- Allama Talib Jauhari
1940
- Mahmood Shaam
- Kishwar Naheed
- Jazib Qureshi
- Muzaffar Ahmad Lari
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
- Ahfaz ur Rahman
- Khalid Ahmad
- Iftikhar Arif
- Shamim Farooqui
- Amjad Islam Amjad
- Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Qasir
- Bashir Badr
- Javed Akhtar
- Anwer Zahidi
- Afzal Ahmed Syed
- Shamim Hashimi
- Saleem Kausar
- Mohsin Naqvi
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi, Sha'oor
- Muhammad Izhar ul Haq
- Fehmida Riaz
- Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer
- Zameer Akhtar Naqvi
1950
- Rahat Indori
- Zahid Abrol
- Jamal Ehsani
- Ashfaq Hussain
- Haider Qureshi
- Munawwar Rana
- Parveen Shakir
- Abdul Hamid
- Sara Shagufta
- Kazim Jarwali
- Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi
- Noon Meem Danish
- Salma Shaheen
1960
- Fareed Parbati
- Samina Raja
- Anjum Rehbar
- Zahida Hina
- Muhammad Fazal Azim Taha
- Raees Warsi
- Zulfiqar Naqvi
- Harris Khalique
- Idris Azad
- Riaz Tasneem
1970
Non-Muslim Urdu poets
- Maharaja Chandu Lal Sadan
- Mah Laqa Bai
- Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim
- Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad, Shad
- Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi
- Brij Narayan Chakbast
- Tilok Chand Mehroom
- Firaq Gorakhpuri Firaq
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Pandit Harichand Akhtar
- Anand Narain Mulla
- Khushtar Girami
- Gopal Mittal
- Ratan Pandoravi Ratan
- Arsh Malsiani
- Sahir Hoshiarpuri
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Rishi Patialvi Rishi
- Jagan Nath Azad
- Bhupendra Nath Kaushik
- Krishna Kumar Sharma
- Kanwal Ziai Hardayal Singh Datta
- Naresh Kumar Shad
- Harbans Bhalla
- Satyapal Anand
- Raj Pathria
- Dushyant Kumar
- Rajendar Nath Rehbar
- Sudarshan Faakir
- Mohinder Pratap Chand
- Jayant Parmer
- Fahmi Badayuni
20th century
Contemporary poets
Poets with unknown dates of birth
- Saleem Kausar,
- Shahin Badar,
- Siraj Aurangabadi,
- Ziauddin Ahmad,
- Sadhu Singh Hamdard
- Qamar Jalalabadi
- Kanwal Ziai