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Following is a list of famous and notable [[Punjabi people]], an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the [[Punjab region]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]]. 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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==Nobel laureates==
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[[File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|thumb|160x160px|[[Abdus Salam]], first Pakistani Nobel prize winner in Physics]]
[[File:Har Gobind Khorana.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Har Gobind Khorana]], first Punjabi Nobel prize winner.]]


=== Pakistan ===
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.
*[[Abdus Salam]], Physics [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel prize]] laureate


=== India ===
==Artists==
*[[Har Gobind Khorana]], Medicine [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel prize]] laureate
*[[Allah Bakhsh (painter)|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)|Sobha Singh]], painter


==Military leaders==
==Authors==
===Medieval Punjab===
{{Main|List of Punjabi authors|List of Punjabi-language poets}}


==== Muslim ====
=== Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu ===


* [[Shaikha Khokhar]]
==== Pakistan ====
* [[Jasrath Khokhar]]
* [[Muzaffar Shah I|Sultan Zafar Khan]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354|year=1879|publisher=Government Central Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354/page/n254 249]}}</ref><ref name="Wink">{{Cite book|last=Wink|first=André|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyYslywJUE8C&q=gujarat+sultanate+tank+khatri&pg=PA143|title=Indo-Islamic society: 14th - 15th centuries|date=1990|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-13561-1|pages=143|language=en|quote=Zafar Khan (entitled Muzaffar Shah) himself was a convert to Islam from a sub-caste of the Khatris from southern Punjab}}</ref>
* [[Husseyn Langah I|Sultan Husseyn Langah I]]<ref name="glossary2">{{cite book|last=Rose|first=H.A.|title=A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: L.-Z, Volume 3|year=1997|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=9788185297705|quote=Langah are described by Tod as a clan of the Chaluk or Solanki tribe of Agnikula Rajputs, who inhabited Multan and Jaisalmer...}}</ref>
* [[Sultan Sarang Khan]]
* [[Dulla Bhatti]]
* [[Shahbaz Khan Kamboh]], Governor of [[Bengal]]
* [[Wazir Khan (Lahore)|Wazir Khan]],<ref name="Koch">{{Cite book|last=Koch|first=Ebba|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69022179|title=The complete Taj Mahal : and the riverfront gardens of Agra|date=2006|publisher=Thames & Hudson|others=Richard André. Barraud|isbn=978-0-500-34209-1|location=London|pages=45|oclc=69022179}}</ref> Governor of [[Ajmer]]
* [[Saadullah Khan (Mughal Empire)|Saadullah Khan]],<ref name="Siddiqui">{{Cite journal|last=Siddiqui|first=Shabbir A.|title=Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan|date=1986|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141552|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=47|pages=273–276|jstor=44141552|issn=2249-1937}}</ref> [[List of Mughal grand viziers|Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire]]
* [[Muhammad Saleh Kamboh]]
* [[Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh]]
* [[Adina Beg|Adina Beg Arain]], Governor of [[Lahore]] and [[Multan]]
* [[Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal|Ahmad Khan Kharal]][[File:Adina Beg Khan.jpg|thumb|235x235px|[[Adina Beg]], last Muslim governor of the Punjab]]


==== Sikh ====
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* [[Ali Haider Multani]]
* [[Banda Singh Bahadur]]
* [[Baba Farid]]
* [[Baba Deep Singh|Baba Deep Singh Sandhu]]
* [[Madho Lal Hussain|Shah Hussain]]
* [[Nawab Kapur Singh|Kapur Singh Virk]]
* [[Sultan Bahu]]
* [[Hari Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Bulleh Shah]]
* [[Ala Singh|Ala Singh Sidhu]]
* [[Lutf Ali]]
* [[Jhanda Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Waris Shah]]
* [[Jassa Singh Ahluwalia]]
* [[Hashim (poet)|Hashim]]
* [[Jai Singh Kanhaiya]]
* [[Qadir Yar]]
* [[Sardar Gulab Singh Rathore|Gulab Singh Rathore]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Bakhsh|Mian Muhammad Baksh]]
* [[Sardar Tara Singh Ghaiba|Tara Singh Ghaiba]]
* [[Khawaja Ghulam Farid]]
* [[Jassa Singh Ramgarhia]]
* [[Ghulam Rasool Alampuri]]
* [[Baghel Singh|Baghel Singh Dhaliwal]]
* [[Jawayd Anwar]]
* [[Charat Singh]]  
* [[Mohammad Hameed Shahid]]
* [[Maha Singh]]  
* [[Zafar Ali Khan]]
* [[Ran Singh Nakai|Ran Singh Sandhu]]
* [[Muhammad Iqbal]]
* [[Heera Singh Sandhu]]
* [[Hakim Ahmad Shuja]]
* [[Gujjar Singh Banghi|Gujjar Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Hafeez Jalandhari]]
* [[Lehna Singh Majithia]]
* [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]]
* [[Suba Singh]]
* [[Ustad Daman]]
 
* [[Saadat Hasan Manto]]
==== Hindu ====
* [[Shareef Kunjahi]]
* [[Ahmad Rahi]]
* [[Habib Jalib]]
* [[Anwar Masood]]
* [[Aizaz Ahmad Azar]]
* [[Mazhar Tirmazi]]
* [[Ali Arshad Mir]]
* [[Mir Tanha Yousafi]]
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* [[Todar Mal|Raja Todar Mal]], Finance minister
==== India ====
 
[[File:Giani Gurdit Singh.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Giani Gurdit Singh]]]]
=== Sikh Empire ===
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[[File:MaharajaRanjitSIngh - L Massard.gif|thumb|221x221px|[[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]], founder of the Sikh Empire]]
* [[Bhai Gurdas]]
 
* [[Amrita Pritam]]
==== Sikh ====
* [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]]
* [[Ranjit Singh]]
* [[Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha]]
* [[Kharak Singh]]  
* [[Bhai Vir Singh]]
* [[Sher Singh]]  
* [[Damodar Das Arora]]
* [[Nau Nihal Singh]]  
* [[Dhani Ram Chatrik]]
* [[Duleep Singh]]
* [[Ram Sarup Ankhi]]
* [[Rattan Singh]]
* [[Hira Singh Dard]]
* [[Pashaura Singh]]  
* [[Nand Lal Noorpuri]]
* [[Hari Singh Nalwa]]
* [[Chaman Lal Chaman]]
* [[Chattar Singh Attariwalla]]
* [[Giani Gurdit Singh]]
* [[Sham Singh Atariwala]]
* [[Gulzar|Sampuran Singh Gulzar]]
* [[Jodh Singh Ramgarhia]]
* [[Harbhajan Singh (poet)|Harbhajan Singh]]
* [[Akali Phula Singh]]
* [[Inderjit Hasanpuri]]
* [[Veer Singh Dillon]]
* [[Jaswant Neki]]
* [[Amar Singh Majithia]]
* [[J. S. Grewal]]
* [[Jawahar Singh (wazir)|Jawahar Singh Aulakh]]
* [[Devendra Satyarthi]]
* [[Tej Singh]]
* [[Jaswant Singh Kanwal]]
* [[Sher Singh Attariwalla]]
* [[Jaswant Singh Rahi]]
* [[Ranjodh Singh Majithia]]
* [[Kulwant Singh Virk]]
* [[Mangal Singh Ramgarhia]]
* [[Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi]]
* [[Akali Hanuman Singh]]
* [[Nanak Singh]]
* [[Sada Kaur]]
* [[Navtej Bharati]]
* [[Karmo Kaur]]
* [[Pandit Lekh Ram]]
* [[Datar Kaur]]
* [[Pash]]
* [[Jind Kaur]]
* [[Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi]]
* [[Chand Kaur]]
* [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]]
* [[Nanaki Kaur Atariwala]]
* [[Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Bibi Khem Kaur Dhillon]]
* [[Sahir Ludhianvi]]
* [[Mehtab Kaur]]
* [[Shardha Ram Phillauri]]
* [[Raj Kaur]]
* [[Shiv Kumar Batalvi]]
* [[Desan Kaur]]
* [[Surjit Hans]]
 
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==== Hindu ====


* [[Dewan Mokham Chand]]
===English===
* [[Misr Diwan Chand|Misr Dewan Chand]]
[[File:Khushwantsingh.jpg|thumb|right|[[Khushwant Singh]] (1915-2014) was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.|upright]]
* [[Mahan Singh Mirpuri|Mahan Singh Mirpuri Bali]]
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* [[Gulab Singh Dogra]]
* [[Ahmed Rashid]]
* [[Dhian Singh Dogra]]
* [[Alamgir Hashmi]]
* [[Ranbir Singh|Ranbir Singh (Maharaj)]]
* [[Amrita Pritam]]
* [[Diwan Sawan Mal Chopra|Dewan Sawan Mal Chopra]]
* [[Chetan Bhagat]]
* [[Zorawar Singh Kahluria|Raja Zorawar Singh Kahluria]]
* [[Deepak Chopra]]
* [[Diwan Mulraj Chopra|Dewan Mulraj Chopra]]
* [[Jaspreet Singh]]
 
* [[Kartar Singh Duggal]]
==== Muslim ====
* [[Khushwant Singh]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/khushwant-singh.html |title=Khushwant Singh - Khushwant Singh Biography, Life History of Khuswant Singh |publisher=Iloveindia.com |date=1915-02-02 |access-date=2012-06-06 |archive-date=2012-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521183022/http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/khushwant-singh.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
* [[Manil Suri]]
* [[Jarnail Ghaus Khan|Mian Ghaus Khan]]
* [[Mohammed Hanif]]
* [[Sultan Mahmud Khan]]
* [[Mulk Raj Anand]]
* [[Ilahi Bakhsh]]
* [[Nadeem Aslam]]
* [[Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana]]
* [[Neville Tuli]]
* [[Fakir Azizuddin]]
* [[Partap Sharma]]
* [[Rajiv Malhotra]]
* [[Romila Thapar]]
* [[Susham Bedi]]
* [[Tariq Ali]]
* [[Ved Mehta]]
* [[Vikram Seth]]
* [[Yuyutsu Sharma]]
* [[Zulfikar Ghose]]


===Pakistan Armed Forces===
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[[File:Raheel Sharif.jpg|thumb|upright|[[General]] [[Raheel Sharif]], former [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of Army Staff]] of the [[Pakistan Army]], is the most respected and popular general in the country's history.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|date=2016-11-23|title=The general's legacy|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1298018|access-date=2021-02-08|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref>]]
 
== Aviators ==
*[[Kalpana Chawla]]
*Air Commodore [[Ravish Malhotra]]
*[[Rakesh Sharma]], first Indian in space


==== Air Force ====
==Architects==
*Air Chief Marshal [[Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed]]
*[[Ustad Ahmad Lahori|Ahmad Lahori]]
* Air Chief Marshal [[Zafar Chaudhry]]
*[[Ataullah Rashidi]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Kaleem Saadat|Kaleem Saadat Rana]]
*[[Bhai Ram Singh]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Rao Qamar Suleman]]
*[[Ganga Ram|Sir Ganga Ram]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Zulfiqar Ali Khan]]
*Air Marshal [[Abdul Rahim Khan]]
*Air Marshal [[Nur Khan]]
*Group Captain [[Cecil Chaudhry]]
* Pilot Officer [[Rashid Minhas]], Nishan-e-Haider


==== Army ====
==Business==
* [[General]] (R) [[Raheel Sharif]], former [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of Army Staff]] of the [[Pakistan Army]]
<!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their OWN article on the English Bharatpedia ♦♦♦--->
*General [[Qamar Javed Bajwa]], current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
=== India ===
* General [[Zia ul Haq]], former Chief of Army Staff and [[President of Pakistan]]
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*General (R) [[Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
* [[Ajay Banga]], president and CEO of MasterCard; ex-CEO of Citi Group Asia Pacific
*General (R) [[Tikka Khan]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[Dharampal Gulati]], founder of MDH
*General (R) [[Asif Nawaz]] [[Janjua]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[M. S. Banga]], ex-CEO of Hindustan Lever; director on the board of Maruti Udyog Limited
*[[Lt Gen]] [[Asim Saleem Bajwa]]
* [[Binny Bansal]], entrepreneur and co-founder of [[Flipkart]]
*Lt Gen (R) [[Abdul Ali Malik]]
* [[Rohit Bansal]], entrepreneur and co-founder of [[Snapdeal]]
*Lt Gen (R) [[Nasser Khan Janjua]]
* [[Sabeer Bhatia]], co-founder of [[Hotmail]]
* [[Maj-Gen|Maj Gen]] (R) [[Rao Farman Ali]]
* [[Gurbaksh Chahal]], entrepreneur who founded several internet advertising companies
* Maj Gen (R) [[Muhammed Akbar Khan]]
* [[Vikram Chatwal]], hotelier
*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
* [[Vinod Dham]], father of the [[Pentium processor]]
* Maj Gen (R) [[Iftikhar Khan]], first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
* [[Bob Singh Dhillon]], Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
* Maj Gen (R) [[Yusaf Khan (general)|Muhammad Yusaf Khan]]
* [[Narinder Singh Kapany]], Indian-American physicist known for his work on fiber optics
* Maj Gen (R) [[Raja Sakhi Daler Khan]]
* [[Rana Kapoor]], founder and managing director of Yes Bank
* Maj Gen (R) [[Akhtar Hussain Malik]]
* [[Raj Kundra]], British–Indian businessman
* Maj Gen (R) [[Noel Israel Khokhar]]
* [[Vinod Khosla]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]]
*[[Brigadier general|Brig]] (R) [[Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan]]
* [[Vipin Khanna]], businessman and financier
*Brig (R) [[Amir Gulistan Janjua]]
* [[F. C. Kohli]], regarded as the "father" of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
*[[Major]] [[Tufail Muhammad Shaheed|Tufail Muhammad]], [[Nishan-e-Haider]]
* [[Gulshan Kumar]], T Series music label
*Major [[Aziz Bhatti|Raja Aziz Bhatti]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Avtar Lit]], founder of Sunrise Radio
*Major [[Muhammad Akram]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Sunil Mittal]], owner of Bharti Airtel
*Major [[Shabbir Sharif]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Mohan Singh Oberoi]], Oberoi Hotels<ref name=br>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/860981/Mohan-Singh-Oberoi Mohan Singh Oberoi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202024558/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/860981/Mohan-Singh-Oberoi |date=2008-12-02 }}, [[Britannica.com]]</ref>
*[[Captain]] [[Muhammad Sarwar (military commander)|Muhammad Sarwar]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Aroon Purie]], India Today group
*[[Naik (military rank)|Naik]] [[Saif Ali Janjua]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Kanwal Rekhi]], one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
*[[Lance naik|Lance Naik]] [[Muhammad Mahfuz Awan|Muhammad Mahfuz]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Avtar Saini]], microprocessor designer and former vice president of Intel
*[[Sowar]] [[Sawar Muhammad Hussain|Muhammad Hussain]], Nishan-e-Haider
* [[Jessie Singh Saini]], Indo-American industrialist
 
* [[Jagdish Khattar]], managing director of Maruti Udyog ltd 1999 – 2007, civil servant
====Navy====
* [[Sanjiv Sidhu]], founder and president of [[i2 Technologies]]
* [[Admiral]] (R) [[Muhammad Asif Sandila]]
* [[Shivon Zilis]], venture capitalist
* Admiral (R) [[Muhammad Afzal Tahir]]
* [[Kushal Pal Singh]], Chairman and CEO of [[DLF Limited|DLF]]
* [[Malvinder Mohan Singh]], Fortis Group
* [[J. C. Mahindra]], Mahindra & Mahindra Group
* [[Brijmohan Lall Munjal]], was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Hero Group
}} {{div col end}}


=== Indian Armed Forces ===
=== Pakistan ===
 
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====Airforce====
* [[Anwar Pervez]], founder of [[Bestway]]
*[[Air Chief Marshal]] [[Om Prakash Mehra]], former Chief of [[Indian Air Force]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Air-Chiefs/Chiefs-Air-8.html|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231193329/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Air-Chiefs/Chiefs-Air-8.html|archive-date=December 31, 2008|access-date=2009-04-28}}</ref> Awarded highest military peace award.
* [[Ashar Aziz]], founder of [[FireEye]] in Silicon Valley
*[[Marshal]] [[Arjan Singh]], former Chief of Indian Air Force;<ref>{{cite web|title=Marshal Arjan Singh|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/defence/marshal-arjan-singh.html|access-date=2012-06-06|publisher=Mapsofindia.com}}</ref> only marshal in the history of Indian Air Force
* [[Bashir A. Tahir|Bashir Tahir]], former CEO of Dhabi Group
*Air Chief Marshal [[Dilbagh Singh]], former Chief of Indian Air Force
* [[Fred Hassan]], director at [[Warburg Pincus]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Nirmal Chandra Suri]], former Chief of Indian Air Force
* [[James Caan (entrepreneur)|James Caan]], founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
*[[Rakesh Sharma]], Indian Air Force, first Indian in space
* [[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 Chowdry|Michael Chowdrey]], founder of [[Atlas Air]]
* [[Shahid Khan]], owner of the [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] and [[Fulham F.C.]], co-owner of [[All Elite Wrestling]]
* [[Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey|Zameer Choudrey]], CEO of Bestway
{{div col end}}


====Army====
==Cartoonists==
[[File:General Bikram Singh taking over as the new Chief of the Army Staff, in New Delhi on May 31, 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Bikram Singh (general)|General Bikram Singh]], former [[Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army]]]]
*[[Shekhar Gurera]], editorial cartoonist
*[[General]] [[Deepak Kapoor]], former Indian Army Chief
*[[Pran Kumar Sharma]], cartoonist of ''Chacha Chaudhary'' fame
*[[General]] [[Om Prakash Malhotra]], former Indian Army Chief
*[[Farooq Qaiser]]
*[[General]] [[Ved Prakash Malik]], former Indian Army Chief
*[[General]] [[Bikram Singh (general)|Bikram Singh]], former Indian Army Chief
*[[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;<ref>{{cite web|title=Land Forces Site - Featured Articles|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ARMY/Articles/Article36.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906170749/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ARMY/Articles/Article36.html|archive-date=2012-09-06|access-date=2012-06-06|publisher=Bharat Rakshak}}</ref> first woman to become the Vice-Admiral of [[Indian Navy]]<ref>{{cite news|title=AFMC chief becomes first lady Vice-Admiral|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/72768/|access-date=2005-05-17}}</ref>
* 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]]
*[[Vikram Batra|Captain Vikram Batra]], former officer of Indian army, martyred in 1999 [[Kargil war]] and was awarded [[Param Vir Chakra]] posthumously


====Navy====
== Doctors ==
*Admiral [[Robin K. Dhowan]], former Chief of Indian Navy
<!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Bharatpedia ♦♦♦--->
*Admiral [[Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda|S.M. Nanda]], former Chief of Indian Navy
<!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦--->
 
====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 ===
 
====Army====
 
* Colonel [[Gurcharan Singh Sekhon]]
 
==Business==


=== India ===
=== India ===
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* [[Ajay Banga]], president and CEO of MasterCard; ex-CEO of Citi Group Asia Pacific
* [[Satya Paul Agarwal]]
* [[Dharampal Gulati]], founder of MDH
* [[M. M. S. Ahuja]]
* [[M. S. Banga]], ex-CEO of Hindustan Lever; director on the board of Maruti Udyog Limited
* [[Jasbir Singh Bajaj]]
* [[Binny Bansal]], businessman and co-founder of [[Flipkart]]
* [[Mukesh Batra|Dr Mukesh Batra]]
* [[Rohit Bansal]], businessman and co-founder of [[Snapdeal]]
* [[Harpinder Singh Chawla]]
* [[Sabeer Bhatia]], co-founder of [[Hotmail]]
* [[Ram Nath Chopra]]
* [[Gurbaksh Chahal]], entrepreneur who founded several internet advertising companies
* [[Kirpal Singh Chugh]]
* [[Vikram Chatwal]], hotelier
* [[Harbans Lall Gulati]]
* [[Vinod Dham]], father of the [[Pentium processor]]
* [[Gagandeep Kang]]
* [[Bob Singh Dhillon]], Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
* [[Ved Prakash Kamboj]]
* [[Narinder Singh Kapany]], Indian-American physicist known for his work on fiber optics
* [[Tarlochan Singh Kler]]
* [[Rana Kapoor]], founder and managing director of Yes Bank
* [[Purshotam Lal]]
* [[Raj Kundra]], British–Indian businessman
* [[Prithipal Singh Maini]]
* [[Vinod Khosla]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]]
* [[Ravinder N. Maini]]
* [[F. C. Kohli]], regarded as the "father" of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
* [[Jaswant Singh Neki]]
* [[Gulshan Kumar]], T Series music label
* [[Harvinder Sahota]]
* [[Avtar Lit]], founder of Sunrise Radio
* [[Baldev Singh (neurologist)|Baldev Singh]]
* [[Sunil Mittal]], owner of Bharti Airtel
* [[Daljit Singh (ophthalmologist)|Daljit Singh]]
* [[Mohan Singh Oberoi]], Oberoi Hotels<ref name=br>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/860981/Mohan-Singh-Oberoi Mohan Singh Oberoi], [[Britannica.com]]</ref>
* [[Khushdeva Singh]]
* [[Aroon Purie]], India Today group
* [[Sahib Singh Sokhey]]
* [[Kanwal Rekhi]], one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
* [[Janak Raj Talwar]]
* [[Avtar Saini]], microprocessor designer and former vice president of Intel
* [[K. K. Talwar]]
* [[Jessie Singh Saini]], Indo-American industrialist
* [[Purshottam Lal Wahi]]
* [[Jagdish Khattar]], managing director of Maruti Udyog ltd 1999 – 2007, civil servant
* [[Mahinder Watsa]]
* [[Sanjiv Sidhu]], founder and president of [[i2 Technologies]]
* [[Khushwant Lal Wig]]
* [[Kushal Pal Singh]], Chairman and CEO of [[DLF Limited|DLF]]
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* [[Malvinder Mohan Singh]], Fortis Group }} {{div col end}}
 
== Educators and scientists ==
 
===Nobel laureates===
[[File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|thumb|160x160px|[[Abdus Salam]], first Pakistani Nobel prize winner in Physics]]
[[File:Har Gobind Khorana.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Har Gobind Khorana]], first Punjabi Nobel prize winner.]]
 
*[[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his contributions to the [[Electroweak Unification theory|electroweak unification theory]]
*[[Har Gobind Khorana]], Indian-American Medicine [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel prize]] laureate


=== Pakistan ===
=== Pakistan ===
* [[Asad Abidi]], professor of electrical engineering at the [[University of California, Los Angeles|University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)]]
* [[Masud 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 (political scientist)|Ishtiaq Ahmed]], professor of political science at the [[Stockholm University]]
* [[Nazir Ahmed (physicist)|Nazir Ahmed]], experimental physicist and first chairman of the [[Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission|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|Human Development Index (HDI)]]
* [[Tasawar Hayat]], mathematician
* [[Shahbaz Khan (hydrologist)|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 (physicist)|Ghulam Murtaza]], theoretical physicist
* [[Qaiser Mushtaq]], mathematician
* [[Adil Najam]], dean of global studies at [[Boston University]]
* [[Ayub Ommaya|Ayyub Ommaya]], neurosurgeon and inventor of the [[Ommaya reservoir]]
* [[Khalil Qureshi]], physical chemist
* [[Muneer Ahmad Rashid]], mathematical physicist
* [[Riazuddin (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 ===
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* [[Anwar Pervez]], founder of [[Bestway]]
*[[M. M. S. Ahuja]], Indian physician and endocrinologist
* [[Ashar Aziz]], founder of [[FireEye]] in Silicon Valley
*[[Om P. Bahl]], Indian molecular biologist
* [[Bashir A. Tahir|Bashir Tahir]], former CEO of Dhabi Group
*[[Jasbir Singh Bajaj]], Indian physician and diabetologist; conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award
* [[Fred Hassan]], director at [[Warburg Pincus]]
*[[Hoon Balakram]], Indian mathematician
* [[James Caan (entrepreneur)|James Caan]], founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
*[[Indu Banga]], historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
* [[Malik Riaz]], founder of Bahria Town,
*[[Lekh Raj Batra]], distinguished mycologist and linguist
* [[Mansoor Ijaz]], founder of Crescent Investment Management Ltd
*[[Sabeer Bhatia]], founder of the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
* [[Mian Muhammad Latif]], founder of Chenab Group
*[[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar]], first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
* [[Mian Muhammad Mansha]], founder of Nishat Group
*[[Praveen Chaudhari]], Indian American physicist
* [[Michael Chowdry|Michael Chowdrey]], founder of [[Atlas Air]]
*[[Kasturi Lal Chopra]], Indian material physicist
* [[Mohammad Zahoor|Muhammad Zahoor]], owner of ISTIL Group
*[[Ram Nath Chopra]], Indian medical officer; widely considered the "father of Indian pharmacology"
* [[Shahid Khan]], owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
*[[Virender Lal Chopra]], Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist, former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
* [[Sohaib Abbasi]], former CEO of [[Informatica]]
*[[Kirpal Singh Chugh]], Indian nephrologist
* [[Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey|Zameer Choudrey]], CEO of Bestway
*[[Manoj Datta]], Indian engineer
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*[[Sukh Dev]], Indian organic chemist
 
*[[Vinod Dham]], engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist; popularly known as "Pentium Engineer"
==Music==
*[[Meena Dhanda]], philosopher and academic at [[University of Wolverhampton]]
=== Pakistan ===
*[[Satish Dhawan]]
[[File:Alam Lohar.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Alam Lohar]], considered one of the most important singers of Punjabi folk.<ref>{{Citation|last=Dillagi|first=Lohar, Alam. Pachhtaya Khan, Atta Ullah. Nathli Khan, Atta Ullah. Chimta K̲h̲ān, Badar Miyān̲ Dād. Sajan K̲h̲ān, Badar Miyān̲ Dād. Dil Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali.|title=Super legends|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/872096062|publisher=Star|oclc=872096062|access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref>]]
*[[Baldev Singh Dhillon]]
 
*[[Vijay K. Dhir]], Indo-American scientist
==== Punjabi Folk ====
*[[Guru Prakash Dutta]], Indian cell biologist and immunologist
[[File:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], considered as one of the greatest performers of ''qawwali.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan {{!}} Biography, Songs, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>]]
*[[Khem Singh Gill]], Indian academic, geneticist
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*[[Piara Singh Gill]], Indian nuclear physicist
* [[Alam Lohar]]
* [[Sucha Singh Gill]], Indian academic, economist
* [[Arif Lohar]]
*[[Khem Singh Grewal]], Indian pharmacologist
* [[Inayat Hussain Bhatti]]
*[[Ravi Grover]], Indian nuclear scientist
* [[Iqbal Bahu]]
*[[Hansraj Gupta]], Indian mathematician
* [[Khawaja Pervez]]
*[[Sardul Singh Guraya]], Indian biologist
* [[Musarrat Nazir]]
*[[Ranjit Lal Jetley]], soldier and scientist
* [[Pathanay Khan]]
*[[Gurcharan Singh Kalkat]], Indian agricultural scientist
* [[Saieen Zahoor]]
*[[Ved Prakash Kamboj]]
* [[Samina Syed]]
*[[Vijay Kumar Kapahi]], Indian astrophysicist
* [[Shaukat Ali]]
*[[Narinder Singh Kapany]], Indian-born American Sikh physicist
* [[Shazia Manzoor]]
*[[Satinder Vir Kessar]], Indian synthetic organic chemist
* [[Tahira Syed]]
*[[Pradeep Khosla]], academic computer scientist
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*[[Vinod Khosla]] Indian American engineer and businessman
 
*[[Rakesh Khurana]], Indian-American educator
==== Sufi Qawwali ====
*[[Neelam Kler]], Indian neonatologist
 
*[[Nayanjot Lahiri]], Indian historian and archaeologist at [[Ashoka University]]  
* [[Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer)|Fateh Ali Khan]]
*[[Purshotam Lal]], Indian cardiologist
* [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]
*[[Narinder Kumar Mehra]], Indian immunologist
* [[Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan]]
*[[Mridula Mukherjee]], Indian historian specialized in modern India [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]
* [[Rahat Fateh Ali Khan]]
*[[Manohar Lal Munjal]], Indian acoustical engineer
* [[Badar Miandad]]
*[[Yash Pal]], Indian scientist, educator and educationist
* [[Ghulam Farid Sabri]]
*[[Janak Palta McGilligan]], Indian Padma Shri recipient, social worker, and a writer of Indian educational curriculum books
* [[Maqbool Ahmed Sabri|Maqbool Ahmad Sabri]]
*[[Mohinder Singh Randhawa]], Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter, prominent writer
* [[Amjad Sabri]]
*[[Narinder Singh Randhawa]], Indian agricultural scientist
 
*[[Suresh Rattan]]
==== Classical Hindustani Gharanas ====
*[[Birbal Sahni]], Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent
 
*[[Daya Ram Sahni]], Indian archaeologist
===== Panjabi Gharana =====
*[[Harvinder Sahota]], Indian American cardiologist
* [[Shaukat Hussain]]
*[[Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini]], Vice President and Principal of the [[University of Toronto]] at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
* [[Ustad Tafu|Ustad Tafu Khan]]
*[[Sartaj Sahni]], American-Indian computer scientist
* [[Tari Khan]]
*[[Harvinder Sahota]], Indian American cardiologist
 
*[[Pritam Saini]], English, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu writer; historian; literary critic<ref>Punjabi author Pritam Saini dead, Tribune News Service, Monday, November 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India, / http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031110/punjab1.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605222814/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031110/punjab1.htm |date=2011-06-05 }}</ref>
===== Patiala Gharana =====
*[[Sanjay Saini]], professor of radiology, [[Harvard Medical School]]<ref>Clinical Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Abdomen, pp 111,  Endoscopy and gastrointestinal radiology By Gregory G. Ginsberg, Michael L. Kochman, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2004</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.massgeneral.org/radiology/index.asp?page=staff&subpage=saini |title=Sanjay Saini, MD, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School |access-date=2011-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212143520/http://www2.massgeneral.org/radiology/index.asp?page=staff |archive-date=2009-12-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Barkat Ali Khan]]
*[[Subhash Saini]], senior computer scientist, [[NASA Ames Research Center]], USA<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4/saini.html |title=Subhash Saini |publisher=Zyvex.com |access-date=2009-09-20 |archive-date=2008-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327135213/http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4/saini.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Amanat Ali Khan]]
*[[P. K. Sethi]]
* [[Bade Fateh Ali Khan]]
*[[Dheeraj Sharma (professor)|Dheeraj Sharma]], professor at IIM-Ahmedabad; writer
* [[Ghulam Ali (singer)|Ghulam Ali]]
*[[Khushdeva Singh]], Indian physician and social worker
* [[Hamid Ali Khan]]
*[[Manjit Singh (armament scientist)|Manjit Singh]], armament scientist
* [[Asad Amanat Ali Khan]]
*[[Upinder Singh]], Indian historian specialized in ancient India at [[University of Delhi]]
* [[Farida Khanum]]
*[[Sahib Singh Sokhey]], Indian biochemist
 
*[[Janak Raj Talwar]], Indian cardiothoracic scientist
===== Sham Chaurasia Gharana =====
*[[B. K. Thapar]], Indian archaeologist; Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1978–1981
 
*[[Kartar Singh Thind]]
* [[Salamat Ali Khan]]
*[[Surinder Vasal]], Indian geneticist scientist
* [[Sharafat Ali Khan]]
*[[Purshottam Lal Wahi]]
* [[Shafqat Ali Khan]]
*[[Khushwant Lal Wig]], Indian physician
 
*[[Bagicha Singh Minhas]], Indian economist
[[File:Atif Aslam in black coat.jpg|thumb|[[Atif Aslam]], widely acclaimed playback singer|upright]]
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==== Modern Playback ====
==Folklore==
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*[[Abdullah Qureshi (singer)|Abdullah Qureshi]]  
* [[Heer Ranjha]]
*[[Abrar-ul-Haq]]
* [[Mirza Sahiba]]
*[[Aima Baig]]  
* [[Puran Bhagat]]
*[[Ali Aftab Saeed]]  
* [[Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala|Sayful Muluk]]
*[[Ali Azmat]]
* [[Sohni Mahiwal]]
*[[Ali Sethi]]
* [[Boysie Singh]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/14/pirates_of_the/ |title=Pirate of the Caribbean &#124; Sepia Mutiny |date=14 January 2006 |access-date=2023-03-27 |archive-date=2023-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327024710/http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/14/pirates_of_the/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,29353.html|title=Boysie Singh 20th Century Pirate of the Caribbean|date=7 August 2005|access-date=27 March 2023|archive-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828104827/http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,29353.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trinicenter.com/Cudjoe/2004/0706.htm |title=Selwyn R. Cudjoe - de true true story |access-date=2023-03-27 |archive-date=2021-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925092814/https://www.trinicenter.com/Cudjoe/2004/0706.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Ali Zafar]]
*[[Annie Khalid]]  
*[[Asrar (musician)|Asrar Shah]]  
*[[Atif Aslam]]
*[[Bilal Saeed]]
*[[Bohemia (rapper)|Bohemia]]
*[[Faakhir Mehmood]]
*[[Fakhar-e-Alam]]
*[[Farhad Humayun]]  
*[[Farhan Saeed]]
*[[Goher Mumtaz]]  
*[[Hadiqa Kiani]]
*[[Haroon (singer)|Haroon]]
*[[Humaira Arshad]]
*[[Humaira Channa]]
*[[Imran Khan (singer)|Imran Khan]]
*[[Javed Bashir]]  
*[[Jawad Ahmad]]
*[[Khursheed Bano]]
*[[Mahvash Waqar]]
*[[Masood Rana]]  
*[[Meesha Shafi]]
*[[Mustafa Zahid]]
*[[Nabeel Shaukat Ali]]
*[[Naheed Akhtar]]
*[[Naseebo Lal]]
*[[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]]
*[[Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan]]
 
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=== India ===
==Film industry==
[[File:Mohammed Rafi 2003 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mohammed Rafi]] was a singer famous for singing multiple genres and styles]]
===Bollywood (India)===
[[File:Prakash Kaur (left) Deedar Singh Pardesi & Surinder Kaur-Nairobi-1967.jpg|thumb|Punjabi folk singers and sisters [[Parkash Kaur]] and [[Surinder Kaur]] in 1967|upright]]
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:


====Punjabi folk====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
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|-
* [[Asa Singh Mastana]]
! Family
* [[Amar Singh Chamkila]]
! Artistes
* [[Didar Sandhu]]
|-
* [[Dolly Guleria]]
|The Sahnis|| [[Balraj Sahni]], [[Bhisham Sahni]], [[Parikshit Sahni]]
* [[Gurdas Maan]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Hans Raj Hans]]
|The Anands|| [[Chetan Anand (producer and director)|Chetan Anand]], [[Dev Anand]], [[Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)|Vijay Anand]]
* [[Harbhajan Mann]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Harshdeep Kaur]]
|The Chopras - 1|| [[Baldev Raj Chopra]], [[Yash Chopra]], [[Ravi Chopra]], [[Aditya Chopra]], [[Uday Chopra]]
* [[Jagmohan Kaur]]
|-
* [[Jaswinder Brar]]
|The Chopras - 2|| [[Priyanka Chopra]], [[Parineeti Chopra]]  
* [[Kuldeep Manak]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Muhammad Sadiq (singer)|Mohammad Sadiq]]
|The Deols|| [[Dharmendra]], [[Sunny Deol]], [[Bobby Deol]], [[Esha Deol]], [[Abhay Deol]]
* [[Pammi Bai]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Parkash Kaur]]
|[[Bachchan family|The Bachchans]]||[[Teji Bachchan]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Abhishek Bachchan]], [[Shweta Bachchan Nanda]]
* [[Ranjit Kaur]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Sardool Sikander]]
|The Malhotras|| [[Prem Nath]], [[Rajendra Nath]], [[Bina Rai]], [[Prem Kishen]]
* [[Satwinder Bitti]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Surinder Kaur]]
|The Roshans|| [[Rakesh Roshan]], [[Rajesh Roshan]], [[Hrithik Roshan]]
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|-
 
|The Randhawas|| [[Dara Singh]], [[Vindu Dara Singh]], [[Randhawa (wrestler)|Randhawa]], [[Shaad Randhawa]]
====Sufi Qawwali====
|-
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|The Rajs|| [[Jagdish Raj]], [[Anita Raj]]
* [[Rabbi Shergill]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Master Saleem]]
|The Puris|| [[Chaman Puri]], [[Madan Puri]], [[Amrish Puri]], [[Vardhan Puri]]
* [[Puranchand Wadali]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Pyarelal Wadali]]
|The Khannas - 1|| [[Rajesh Khanna]], [[Twinkle Khanna]], [[Rinke Khanna]]
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|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|The Khannas - 2|| [[Vinod Khanna]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211120409/http://164.100.24.209/newls/Biography.aspx?mpsno=197 Parliamentary Biography]</ref> [[Akshaye Khanna]], [[Rahul Khanna]]
[[File:Jagjit Singh (Ghazal Maestro).jpg|thumb|[[Jagjit Singh]], popular [[ghazal]] singer|upright]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|The Bedis - 1|| [[Kabir Bedi]], [[Pooja Bedi]]
====Classical Hindustani Music====
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
|The Bedis - 2|| [[Narendra Bedi]], [[Rajat Bedi]], [[Manik Bedi]]
* [[Jagjit Singh]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
{{div col end}}
|The Kapurs|| [[Pankaj Kapur]], [[Shahid Kapoor]]
 
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
=====Patiala Gharana=====
|[[Kapoor family|The Kapoors]] - 1|| [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], [[Trilok Kapoor]], [[Raj Kapoor]], [[Kareena Kapoor]], [[Ranbir Kapoor]], [[Rishi Kapoor]],<br>[[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Shammi Kapoor]], [[Randhir Kapoor]], [[Karishma Kapoor]], [[Rajiv Kapoor]], [[Karan Kapoor]]
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|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Barkat Sidhu]]
|The Kapoors - 2|| [[Anil Kapoor]], [[Boney Kapoor]],<br>[[Sanjay Kapoor]], [[Arjun Kapoor]], [[Sonam Kapoor]]
* [[Som Dutt Battu]]
|-
* [[Shiv Dayal Batish]]
|The Kapoors - 3|| [[Jeetendra]], [[Tusshar Kapoor]], [[Ekta Kapoor]]
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|-
|The Ahujas|| [[Arun Kumar Ahuja]], [[Nirmala Devi]], [[Govinda Ahuja]], [[Sunita Ahuja]], [[Tina Ahuja]], [[Krushna Abhishek]], [[Ragini Khanna]], [[Vinay Anand]], [[Arti Singh|Arti Sharma]], [[Saumya Seth]]
|-
|The Dhawans|| [[David Dhawan]], [[Varun Dhawan]], [[Rohit Dhawan]], [[Anil Dhawan]]
|-
|The Devgans|| [[Veeru Devgan]], [[Ajay Devgan]], [[Anil Devgan]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
|The Oberois|| [[Suresh Oberoi]], [[Vivek Oberoi]]
|-
|The Aroras|| [[Malaika Arora Khan]], [[Amrita Arora]]
|-
|The Tulis||  [[Rajendra Kumar]], [[Kumar Gaurav]]
|-
|The Dutts||  [[Nargis Dutt]], [[Sunil Dutt]], [[Sanjay Dutt]]
|-
|The Mehras||  [[Vinod Mehra]], [[Soniya Mehra]], [[Rohan Mehra (born 1991)|Rohan Mehra]]
|-
|The Babbars||  [[Raj Babbar]], [[Arya Babbar]], [[Prateik Babbar]], [[Juhi Babbar]]
|-
|The Goswamis||  [[Manoj Kumar]], [[Kunal Goswami]]
|-
|}


=====Sham Chaurasia Gharana=====
====Individual Actors====
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* [[Nooran Sisters|Jyoti Nooran]]
* [[Achala Sachdev]]
* [[Nooran Sisters|Sultana Nooran]]
* [[Aditya Roy Kapur]]
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* [[Aditya Seal]]
 
* [[Akshay Dogra]]
[[File:Sukhwinder Singh (singer).jpg|thumb|[[Sukhwinder Singh]], singer of [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Academy]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Grammy]] award-winning song "[[Jai Ho (song)|Jai Ho]]"|upright]]
* [[Akshay Kumar]]
 
* [[Akanksha Juneja]]
====Modern playback====
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* [[AP Dhillon]]
* [[Afsana Khan]]
* [[Alla Rakha]]
* [[Amrinder Gill]]
* [[Amrinder Gill]]
* [[Anushka Manchanda]]
* [[Amrita Singh]]
* [[Akhil Sachdeva]]
* [[Ammy Virk]]
* [[Arijit Singh]]
* [[Aneet Padda]]
* [[Asees Kaur]]
* [[Annu Kapoor]]
* [[Babbu Mann]]
* [[Arjan Bajwa]]
* [[Bhupinder Singh (musician)|Bhupinder Singh]]
* [[Arjun Rampal]]
* [[Roshan Prince]]
* [[Armaan Kohli]]
* [[Daler Mehndi]]
* [[Arshad Warsi]]
* [[Arun Bakshi]]
* [[Arya Babbar]]
* [[Avtar Gill]]
* [[Aryan Vaid]]
* [[Ayushman Khurana]]
* [[Babbal Rai]]
* [[Bhumika Chawla]]
* [[Bina Rai]]
* [[Binnu Dhillon]]
* [[Celina Jaitley]]
* [[Chandan Prabhakar]]
* [[Diljit Dosanjh]]
* [[Diljit Dosanjh]]
* [[Garry Sandhu]]
* [[Dilip Kumar]]
* [[Geeta Zaildar]]
* [[Deepak Parashar]]
* [[Geeta Bali]]
* [[Geeta Basra]]
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
* [[Gurinder Gill]]
* [[Gracy Singh]]
* [[Guru Randhawa]]
* [[Gul Panag]]
* [[Gulshan Grover]]
* [[Gurdas Maan]]
* [[Gurpreet Ghuggi]]
* [[Gurshabad Singh]]
* [[Hard Kaur]]
* [[Hard Kaur]]
* [[Hardy Sandhu]]
* [[Harman Baweja]]
* [[Himani Kapoor]]
* [[Harry Ahluwalia]]
* [[Honey Singh]]
* [[Hasleen Kaur]]
* [[Jass Manak]]
* [[Iftekhar]]
* [[Jassi Gill]]
* [[Jassi Gill]]
* [[Jasmine Sandlas]]
* [[Jaspal Bhatti]]
* [[Jaspinder Narula]]
* [[Jimmy Shergill]]
* [[Jazzy B]]
* [[Juhi Chawla]]
* [[Karan Aujla]]
* [[Jyothika]]
* [[Kanika Kapoor]]
* [[Kajal Aggarwal]]
* [[Kanth Kaler]]
* [[Kanwaljit Singh (actor)|Kanwaljit Singh]]
* [[Kavita Seth]]
* [[Kapil Sharma]]
* [[Kundan Lal Saigal]]
* [[Karan Johar]]
* [[Labh Janjua]]
* [[Karan Singh Grover]]
* [[Mahendra Kapoor]]
* [[Karan Wahi]]
* [[Meena Kapoor]]
* [[Kidar Nath Sharma]]
* [[Mika Singh]]
* [[Kiran Juneja]]
* [[Mohammed Rafi]]
* [[Kirron Kher]]
* [[Mohit Chauhan]]
* [[Kriti Kharbanda]]
* [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]]
* [[Kriti Sanon]]
* [[Narinder Biba]]
* [[Kulraj Randhawa]]
* [[Narendra Chanchal]]
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]]
* [[Neeraj Shridhar]]
* [[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1977)|Kunal Kapoor]]
* [[Neha Bhasin]]
* [[Lakha Lakhwinder Singh]]
* [[Neha Kakkar]]
* [[Mahek Chahal]]
* [[Nimrat Khaira]]
* [[Mahie Gill]]
* [[Ninja]]
* [[Mandira Bedi]]
* [[Nitin Mukesh]]
* [[Mangal Dhillon]]
* [[Miss Pooja]]
* [[Maniesh Paul]]
* [[Rekha Bhardwaj]]
* [[Manjot Singh]]
* [[Richa Sharma (singer)|Richa Sharma]]
* [[Manoj Pahwa]]
* [[Satinder Sartaaj]]
* [[Mehar Mittal]]
* [[Shailender Singh|Shailendra Singh]]
* [[Minissha Lamba]]
* [[Shibani Kashyap]]
* [[Mink Brar]]
* [[Shehnaz Gill]]
* [[Mona Singh]]
* [[Sidhu Moose Wala]]
* [[Monica Bedi]]
* [[Sonu Nigam]]
* [[Mukesh Khanna]]
* [[Sukhwinder Singh]]
* [[Mukesh Rishi]]
* [[Suraiyya]]
* [[Mukul Dev]]
* [[Taz (singer)|Taz]]
* [[Navin Nischol]]
* [[Tony Kakkar]]
* [[Neeru Bajwa]]
* [[Tulsi Kumar]]
* [[Neetu Singh]]
* [[Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain]]
* [[Neha Dhupia]]
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* [[Nikitin Dheer]]
 
* [[Nimrat Kaur]]
==Cartoonists==
* [[Om Prakash]]
*[[Shekhar Gurera]], editorial cartoonist
* [[Om Puri]]
*[[Pran Kumar Sharma]], cartoonist of ''Chacha Chaudhary'' fame
* [[Pankaj Dheer]]
 
* [[Parmeet Sethi]]
== Doctors ==
* [[Pavan Malhotra]]
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* [[Pinchoo Kapoor]]
<!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦--->
* [[Poonam Dhillon]]
 
* [[Pramod Moutho]]
=== India ===
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]]
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* [[Prateik Babbar]]
* [[Satya Paul Agarwal]]
* [[Praveen Kumar (actor)|Praveen Kumar]]
* [[M. M. S. Ahuja]]
* [[Prem Chopra]]
* [[Jasbir Singh Bajaj]]
* [[Priya Gill]]
* [[Mukesh Batra|Dr Mukesh Batra]]
* [[Preity Zinta]]
* [[Harpinder Singh Chawla]]
* [[Pulkit Samrat]]
* [[Ram Nath Chopra]]
* [[Puneet Issar]]
* [[Kirpal Singh Chugh]]
* [[Rahul Dev]]
* [[Harbans Lall Gulati]]
* [[Raj Babbar]]
* [[Gagandeep Kang]]
* [[Rajat Kapoor]]
* [[Kapil Sharma]]
* [[Rajit Kapur]]
* [[Rakesh Bedi]]
* [[Rakul Preet Singh]]
* [[Randhir (actor)|Randhir]]
* [[Ranjeet]]
* [[Ranvir Shorey]]
* [[Rana Ranbir]]
* [[Ram Kapoor]]
* [[Raveena Tandon]]
* [[Rati Agnihotri]]
* [[Ridhi Dogra]]
* [[Ruby Bhatia]]
* [[Saeed Jaffrey]]
* [[Sahil Anand]]
* [[Sanya Malhotra]]
*
* [[Sargun Mehta]]
* [[Saumya Tandon]]
* [[Saurabh Sachdeva]]
* [[Shakti Kapoor]]
* [[Sheeba Chaddha]]
* [[Shiny Ahuja]]
* [[Shoma Anand]]
* [[Sidharth Malhotra]]
* [[Simi Garewal]]
* [[Simone Singh]]
* [[Simran Bagga]]
* [[Simrat Kaur]]
* [[Smriti Irani]]
* [[Sonu Sood]]
* [[Sudesh Berry]]
* [[Sunil Grover]]
* [[Sunil Grover]]
* [[Ved Prakash Kamboj]]
* [[Sunny Leone]]
* [[Tarlochan Singh Kler]]
* [[Sunny Singh (actor)]]
* [[Purshotam Lal]]
* [[Suraiya]]
* [[Prithipal Singh Maini]]
* [[Surbhi Jyoti]]
* [[Ravinder N. Maini]]
* [[Taapsee Pannu]]
* [[Jaswant Singh Neki]]
* [[Tinnu Anand]]
* [[Harvinder Sahota]]
* [[Urvashi Sharma]]
* [[Baldev Singh (neurologist)|Baldev Singh]]
* [[Vaani Kapoor]]
* [[Daljit Singh (ophthalmologist)|Daljit Singh]]
* [[Varun Sharma]]
* [[Khushdeva Singh]]
* [[Vicky Kaushal]]
* [[Sahib Singh Sokhey]]
* [[Vidyut Jamwal]]
* [[Janak Raj Talwar]]
* [[Vikas Bhalla]]
* [[K. K. Talwar]]
* [[Vijay Arora]]
* [[Purshottam Lal Wahi]]
* [[Vinod Mehra]]
* [[Mahinder Watsa]]
* [[Vishal Malhotra]]
* [[Khushwant Lal Wig]]
* [[Vivek Shauq]]
* [[Yami Gautam]]
* [[Yash Johar]]
{{div col end}}
{{div col end}}


== Educators and scientists ==
<gallery>
File:Kareena2.jpg|[[Kareena Kapoor Khan]], [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] actress
File:Priyanka Chopra at 2019 Cannes (cropped).jpg|[[Priyanka Chopra]], Miss World 2000, Indian and American film actress
File:Akshay Kumar in Sydney for Heyy Babyy.jpg|[[Akshay Kumar]], [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] actor
File:Ranbir Kapoor at the launch of 'Barfi!' promo 10.jpg|[[Ranbir Kapoor]], Indian film actor
</gallery>


=== Pakistan ===
====Directors====
 
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* [[Asad Abidi]], professor of electrical engineering at the [[University of California, Los Angeles|University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)]]
* [[Abdur Rashid Kardar]]
* [[Masud 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
* [[Abhishek Kapoor]]
* [[Ishtiaq Ahmed (political scientist)|Ishtiaq Ahmed]], professor of political science at the [[University of Stockholm]]
* [[Aditya Chopra]]
* [[Nazir Ahmed (physicist)|Nazir Ahmed]], experimental physicist and first chairman of the [[Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission|Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)]]
* [[Anil Sharma (director)|Anil Sharma]]                            
* [[Farooq Azam]], professor of oceanography at the [[University of California, San Diego]]
* [[Anurag Singh (director)|Anurag Singh]]
* [[Tariq Ali]], political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual
* [[Ashim Ahluwalia]]
*[[Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry]], nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
* [[B. R. Chopra]]
*[[Nayyar Ali Dada]], architect in modernist architecture
* [[Brij Sadanah]]
* [[Fayyazuddin]], theoretical physicist
* [[Chetan Anand (director)|Chetan Anand]]
* [[Mahbub ul Haq]], economist and inventor of the [[Human Development Index|Human Development Index (HDI)]]
* [[David Dhawan]]
* [[Tasawar Hayat]], mathematician
* [[Deepa Mehta]]
* [[Shahbaz Khan (hydrologist)|Shahbaz Khan]], hydrologist and director of the UNESCO cluster office in Jakarta
* [[Deepak Balraj Vij]]
* [[Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood]], nuclear engineer
* [[Deepak Sareen]]
* [[Salim Mehmud]], rocket scientist
* [[Dharmesh Darshan]]
* [[Atif Mian]], professor of economics, public policy and finance at [[Princeton University]]
* [[Goldie Behl]]
* [[Zia Mian]], physicist and co-director of the program on science and global security at [[Princeton University]]
* [[Guddu Dhanoa]]  
* [[Ghulam Murtaza (physicist)|Ghulam Murtaza]], theoretical physicist
* [[Gulzar]]                                                                                                
* [[Qaiser Mushtaq]], mathematician
* [[Harry Baweja]]
* [[Adil Najam]], dean of global studies at [[Boston University]]
* [[Inder Raj Anand]]
* [[Ayub Ommaya|Ayyub Ommaya]], neurosurgeon and inventor of the [[Ommaya reservoir]]
* [[J.P.Dutta]]
* [[Khalil Qureshi]], physical chemist
* [[Kamal Sadanah]]
* [[Muneer Ahmad Rashid]], mathematical physicist
* [[Karan Johar]]
*[[Abdus Salam]], theoretical physicist who won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his contributions to the [[Electroweak Unification theory|electroweak unification theory]]
* [[Karan Malhotra]]
* [[Riazuddin (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
* [[Kunal Kohli]]
 
* [[Lekh Tandon]]
=== India ===
* [[Loveleen Tandan]]
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* [[Mira Nair]]
*[[M. M. S. Ahuja]], Indian physician and endocrinologist
* [[Mohan Kumar (director)|Mohan Kumar]]
*[[Om P. Bahl]], Indian molecular biologist
* [[Mohit Suri]]
*[[Jasbir Singh Bajaj]], Indian physician and diabetologist; conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award
* [[Mukul Anand]]
*[[Hoon Balakram]], Indian mathematician
* [[Pankaj Parashar]]
*[[Indu Banga]], historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
* [[Prakash Mehra]]
*[[Lekh Raj Batra]], distinguished mycologist and linguist
* [[Punit Malhotra]]
*[[Sabeer Bhatia]], founder of the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
* [[Raj Kanwar]]
*[[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar]], first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
* [[Raj Khosla]]
*[[Praveen Chaudhari]], Indian American physicist
* [[Rajiv Rai]]
*[[Kasturi Lal Chopra]], Indian material physicist
* [[Rajkumar Kohli]]
*[[Ram Nath Chopra]], Indian medical officer; widely considered the "father of Indian pharmacology"
* [[Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra]]
*[[Virender Lal Chopra]], Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist, former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
* [[Ramanand Sagar]]
*[[Kirpal Singh Chugh]], Indian nephrologist
* [[Ravi Chopra]]
*[[Manoj Datta]], Indian engineer
* [[Ravi Tandon]]
*[[Sukh Dev]], Indian organic chemist
* [[Ritesh Batra]]
*[[Vinod Dham]], engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist; popularly known as "Pentium Engineer"
* [[Shakun Batra]]
*[[Meena Dhanda]], philosopher and academic at [[University of Wolverhampton]]
* [[Shekhar Kapur]]
*[[Satish Dhawan]]
* [[Siddharth Anand]]
*[[Baldev Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Subhash Ghai]]
*[[Vijay K. Dhir]], Indo-American scientist
* [[Suneel Darshan]]
*[[Guru Prakash Dutta]], Indian cell biologist and immunologist
* [[Tinnu Anand]]
*[[Khem Singh Gill]], Indian academic, geneticist
* [[Umesh Mehra]]
*[[Piara Singh Gill]], Indian nuclear physicist
* [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
* [[Sucha Singh Gill]], Indian academic, economist
* [[Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)|Vijay Anand]]
*[[Khem Singh Grewal]], Indian pharmacologist
* [[Vikas Bahl]]
*[[Ravi Grover]], Indian nuclear scientist
* [[Vipin Handa]]
*[[Hansraj Gupta]], Indian mathematician
* [[Yash Chopra]]
*[[Sardul Singh Guraya]], Indian biologist
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*[[Ranjit Lal Jetley]], soldier and scientist
 
*[[Gurcharan Singh Kalkat]], Indian agricultural scientist
====Documentary filmmakers====
*[[Ved Prakash Kamboj]]
* [[Mukesh Gautam]]
*[[Vijay Kumar Kapahi]], Indian astrophysicist
 
*[[Narinder Singh Kapany]], Indian-born American Sikh physicist
===Lollywood (Pakistan)===
*[[Satinder Vir Kessar]], Indian synthetic organic chemist
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*[[Har Gobind Khorana]], Nobel Prize winner
* [[Aamina Sheikh]]
*[[Pradeep Khosla]], academic computer scientist
* [[Aasia|Aasia Begum]]
*[[Vinod Khosla]] Indian American engineer and businessman
* [[Adeel Chaudhry]]
*[[Rakesh Khurana]], Indian-American educator
* [[Adnan Shah Tipu|Adnan Shah]]
*[[Neelam Kler]], Indian neonatologist
* [[Ahmed Ali Akbar]]
*[[Nayanjot Lahiri]], Indian historian and archaeologist at [[Ashoka University]]  
* [[Ahsan Khan]]
*[[Purshotam Lal]], Indian cardiologist
* [[Akmal Khan|Akmal]]
*[[Narinder Kumar Mehra]], Indian immunologist
* [[Albela (actor)|Albela]]
*[[Mridula Mukherjee]], Indian historian specialized in modern India [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]
* [[Ali Ejaz]]
*[[Manohar Lal Munjal]], Indian acoustical engineer
* [[Ali Kazmi]]
*[[Yash Pal]], Indian scientist, educator and educationist
* [[Ali Zafar]]
*[[Mohinder Singh Randhawa]], Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter, prominent writer
* [[Armeena Khan]]
*[[Narinder Singh Randhawa]], Indian agricultural scientist
* [[Asad Malik]]
*[[Suresh Rattan]]
* [[Aslam Pervaiz]]
*[[Birbal Sahni]], Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent
* [[Babar Ali]]
*[[Daya Ram Sahni]], Indian archaeologist
* [[Babra Sharif]]
*[[Harvinder Sahota]], Indian American cardiologist
* [[Bahar Begum]]
*[[Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini]], Vice President and Principal of the [[University of Toronto]] at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
* [[Bilal Ashraf]]
*[[Sartaj Sahni]], American-Indian computer scientist
* [[Bushra Ansari]]
*[[Harvinder Sahota]], Indian American cardiologist
* [[Firdous Begum]]
*[[Pritam Saini]], English, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu writer; historian; literary critic<ref>Punjabi author Pritam Saini dead, Tribune News Service, Monday, November 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India, / http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031110/punjab1.htm</ref>
* [[Gohar Rasheed]]
*[[Sanjay Saini]], professor of radiology, [[Harvard Medical School]]<ref>Clinical Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Abdomen, pp 111,  Endoscopy and gastrointestinal radiology By Gregory G. Ginsberg, Michael L. Kochman, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2004</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.massgeneral.org/radiology/index.asp?page=staff&subpage=saini |title=Sanjay Saini, MD, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School |access-date=2011-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212143520/http://www2.massgeneral.org/radiology/index.asp?page=staff |archive-date=2009-12-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Hania Aamir]]
*[[Subhash Saini]], senior computer scientist, [[NASA Ames Research Center]], USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4/saini.html |title=Subhash Saini |publisher=Zyvex.com |access-date=2009-09-20}}</ref>
* [[Habib-ur-Rehman (actor)|Habib-ur-Rehman]]
*[[P. K. Sethi]]
* [[Hamid Rana]]
*[[Dheeraj Sharma (professor)|Dheeraj Sharma]], professor at IIM-Ahmedabad; writer
* [[Hamza Ali Abbasi]]
*[[Khushdeva Singh]], Indian physician and social worker
* [[Humayun Saeed]]
*[[Manjit Singh (armament scientist)|Manjit Singh]], armament scientist
* [[Iftikhar Thakur]]
*[[Upinder Singh]], Indian historian specialized in ancient India at [[University of Delhi]]
* [[Inayat Hussain Bhatti]]
*[[Sahib Singh Sokhey]], Indian biochemist
* [[Irfan Khoosat]]
*[[Janak Raj Talwar]], Indian cardiothoracic scientist
* [[Javed Sheikh]]
*[[B. K. Thapar]], Indian archaeologist; Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1978–1981
* [[Jia Ali]]
*[[Kartar Singh Thind]]
* [[Kifayat Hussain Bhatti]]
*[[Surinder Vasal]], Indian geneticist scientist
* [[Masood Akhtar (actor)|Masood Akhtar]]
*[[Purshottam Lal Wahi]]
* [[Meera (Pakistani actress)|Meera]]
*[[Khushwant Lal Wig]], Indian physician
* [[Mikaal Zulfiqar]]
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* [[Moammar Rana]]
 
* [[Mohsin Abbas Haider]]
== Astronauts ==
* [[Munawar Zarif]]
 
* [[Naghma (Pakistani actress)|Naghma]]
=== India ===
* [[Najma Mehboob]]
*[[Kalpana Chawla]]
* [[Nargis (Pakistani actress)|Nargis]]
*Air Commodore [[Ravish Malhotra]]
* [[Nayyar Ejaz]]
*[[Rakesh Sharma]], first Indian in space
* [[Neelo]]
* [[Nirma (actress)|Nirma]]
* [[Rafi Khawar]]
* [[Rani (Pakistani actress)|Rani]]
* [[Resham]]
* [[Sabiha Khanum]]
* [[Sahiba Afzal]]
* [[Sajjad Kishwar]]
* [[Saleem Sheikh]]
* [[Salma Mumtaz]]
* [[Salman Shahid]]
* [[Shaan Shahid]]
* [[Shafqat Cheema]]
* [[Shahid (actor)|Shahid Hameed]]
* [[Shahida Mini]]
* [[Sultan Rahi]]
* [[Swaran Lata (actress)|Swaran Lata]]
* [[Tariq Aziz (TV personality)|Tariq Aziz]]
* [[Usman Peerzada]]
* [[Waheed Murad]]
* [[Yasir Hussain]]
* [[Yousuf Khan (actor)|Yousuf Khan]]
* [[Zara Sheikh]]
* [[Zeba]]
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==Film & TV==
====Directors====
===Bollywood (India)===
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:


{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
* [[Anwar Kamal Pasha]]  
|-
* [[Hassan Tariq]]
! Family
* [[Javed Raza]]
! Artistes
* [[M. Akram]]
|-
* [[Masood Parvez]]
|The Sahnis|| [[Balraj Sahni]], [[Bhisham Sahni]], [[Parikshit Sahni]]
* [[Pervaiz Kaleem]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Riaz Shahid]]
|The Anands|| [[Chetan Anand (producer and director)|Chetan Anand]], [[Dev Anand]], [[Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)|Vijay Anand]]
* [[Sarmad Khoosat]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Syed Noor]]
|The Chopras - 1|| [[Baldev Raj Chopra]], [[Yash Chopra]], [[Ravi Chopra]], [[Aditya Chopra]], [[Uday Chopra]]
 
|-
===Punjabi cinema (India)===
|The Chopras - 2|| [[Priyanka Chopra]], [[Parineeti Chopra]]
{{Further|Punjabi cinema}}
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|The Deols|| [[Dharmendra]], [[Sunny Deol]], [[Bobby Deol]], [[Esha Deol]], [[Abhay Deol]]
====Directors====
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|[[Bachchan family|The Bachchans]]||[[Teji Bachchan]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Abhishek Bachchan]], [[Shweta Bachchan Nanda]]
* [[Amberdeep Singh]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Amitoj Maan]]
|The Malhotras|| [[Prem Nath]], [[Rajendra Nath]], [[Bina Rai]], [[Prem Kishen]]
* [[Anurag Singh (director)|Anurag Singh]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Baljit Singh Deo]]
|The Roshans|| [[Rakesh Roshan]], [[Hrithik Roshan]]
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
|-
* [[Harry Baweja]]
|The Singhs|| [[Dara Singh]], [[Vindu Dara Singh]]
* [[Jagdeep Sidhu]]
|-
* [[Manmord Sidhu]]
|The Rajs|| [[Jagdish Raj]], [[Anita Raj]]
* [[Mukesh Gautam]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Pankaj Batra]]
|The Puris|| [[Madan Puri]], [[Amrish Puri]],
* [[Rohit Jugraj Chauhan]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
* [[Simerjit Singh]]
|The Khannas - 1|| [[Rajesh Khanna]], [[Twinkle Khanna]], [[Rinke Khanna]]
* [[Smeep Kang]]
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|The Khannas - 2|| [[Vinod Khanna]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211120409/http://164.100.24.209/newls/Biography.aspx?mpsno=197 Parliamentary Biography]</ref> [[Akshaye Khanna]], [[Rahul Khanna]]
====Actors====
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
<gallery>
|The Bedis|| [[Kabir Bedi]], [[Pooja Bedi]], [[Protima Bedi]]
File:Diljit-Dosanjh-and-others-grace-Rising-Star-2-Uthao-Soch-Ki-Deewar-3.jpg(2).edit1.jpg|[[Diljit Dosanjh]], star of ''[[Jatt & Juliet]]'' and ''[[Punjab 1984]]''
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
File:Jassi Gill.JPG|[[Jassi Gill]], star of ''[[Mr & Mrs 420]]'' and ''[[Sargi]]''
|The Kapurs|| [[Pankaj Kapur]], [[Shahid Kapoor]]
File:Neeru Bajwa at Kochi International Fashion Week 2011 02.jpg|[[Neeru Bajwa]], star of ''[[Jatt & Juliet 2]]'' and ''[[Jihne Mera Dil Luteya]]''
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
File:Sargun Mehta at a pre-Diwali party.jpg|[[Sargun Mehta]], star of ''[[Angrej]]'' and ''[[Lahoriye]]''
|[[Kapoor family|The Kapoors]] - 1|| [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], [[Raj Kapoor]], [[Kareena Kapoor]], [[Ranbir Kapoor]], [[Rishi Kapoor]],<br>[[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Shammi Kapoor]], [[Randhir Kapoor]], [[Karishma Kapoor]], [[Rajiv Kapoor]], [[Karan Kapoor]]
</gallery>
|- style="background:#edf3fe;"
 
|The Kapoors - 2|| [[Anil Kapoor]], [[Boney Kapoor]],<br>[[Sanjay Kapoor]], [[Arjun Kapoor]], [[Sonam Kapoor]]
The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.
|-
|The Kapoors - 3|| [[Jeetendra]], [[Tusshar Kapoor]], [[Ekta Kapoor]]
|-
|The Dhawans|| [[David Dhawan]], [[Varun Dhawan]], [[Rohit Dhawan]], [[Anil Dhawan]]
|-
|The Devgans|| [[Veeru Devgan]], [[Ajay Devgan]], [[Anil Devgan]]
|-style="background:#edf3fe;"
|The Oberois|| [[Suresh Oberoi]], [[Vivek Oberoi]]
|-
|The Aroras|| [[Malaika Arora Khan]], [[Amrita Arora]]
|-
|The Tulis||  [[Rajendra Kumar]], [[Kumar Gaurav]]
|-
|The Dutts||  [[Nargis Dutt]], [[Sunil Dutt]], [[Sanjay Dutt]]
|}


====Individual Actors====
'''Actors'''
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{{Main|List of Punjabi cinema actors}}
* [[Achala Sachdev]]
 
* [[Aditya Roy Kapur]]
'''Actresses'''
* [[Akshay Kumar]]
{{Main|List of Punjabi cinema actresses}}
*[[Akshay Dogra]]
 
* [[Akanksha Juneja]]
===Tamil cinema (India)===
* [[Annu Kapoor]]
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* [[Amrinder Gill]]
* [[Simran Bagga]], Punjabi Hindu
* [[Ammy Virk]]
* [[Jyothika]], Punjabi Hindu
* [[Arjan Bajwa]]
* [[Kajal Agarwal]], Punjabi Hindu
* [[Armaan Kohli]]
* [[Sonia Aggarwal]], Punjabi Hindu
* [[Avtar Gill]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Aryan Vaid]]
 
* [[Ayushman Khurana]]
===International Film and TV personalities===
* [[Babbal Rai]]
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* [[Bhumika Chawla]]
* [[Lilly Singh]]
* [[Bina Rai]]
* [[Purva Bedi]]
* [[Binnu Dhillon]]
* [[Waris Ahluwalia]]
* [[Celina Jaitley]]
* [[Tarsem Singh]]
* [[Diljit Dosanjh]]
* [[Monica Dogra]]
* [[Dilip Kumar]]
* [[Param Gill]]
* [[Deepak Parashar]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Geeta Bali]]
 
* [[Geeta Basra]]
==Historical==
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
 
* [[Gracy Singh]]
[[File:Sultan of Gujarat Codice Casanatense.png|thumb|Sultan of Gujarat, a descendant of [[Muzaffar Shah I]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dhir |first=Krishna S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jVx6EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA498 |title=The Wonder That Is Urdu |date=2022-01-01 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-4301-1 |pages=498 |language=en |quote=Zafar Khan was a Punjabi}}</ref>]]
* [[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]]
 
* [[Gul Panag]]
=== Ancient ===
* [[Gulshan Grover]]
 
* [[Gurdas Maan]]
* [[Porus]]
* [[Gurpreet Ghuggi]]
* [[Sudas]]
* [[Gurshabad Singh]]
* [[Vasishtha]]
* [[Harman Baweja]]
* [[Vishvamitra]]
* [[Harry Ahluwalia]]
* [[Pushkarasarin]]
* [[Jassi Gill]]
* [[Chanakya]]
* [[Jaspal Bhatti]]
* [[Pāṇini|Panini]]
* [[Jimmy Shergill]]
* [[Taxiles]]
* [[Juhi Chawla]]
* [[Khema]]
* [[Jyothika]]
 
* [[Kajal Aggarwal]]
=== Medieval ===
* [[Kanwaljit Singh (actor)|Kanwaljit Singh]]
* [[Jayapala]]
* [[Kapil Sharma]]
* [[Ayn al-Mulk Multani]]
* [[Karan Johar]]
* [[Khizr Khan]]
* [[Karan Singh Grover]]
* [[Muzaffar Shah I|Zafar Khan]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad |publisher=Government Central Press |year=1879 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354/page/n254 249]}}</ref><ref name="Wink">{{Cite book |last=Wink |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyYslywJUE8C&q=gujarat+sultanate+tank+khatri&pg=PA143 |title=Indo-Islamic society: 14th - 15th centuries |date=1990 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-13561-1 |pages=143 |language=en |quote=Zafar Khan (entitled Muzaffar Shah) himself was a convert to Islam from a sub-caste of the Khatris from southern Punjab |access-date=2021-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413141202/https://books.google.com/books?id=nyYslywJUE8C&q=gujarat+sultanate+tank+khatri&pg=PA143 |archive-date=2023-04-13 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Misra |first=Satish Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1UdAAAAMAAJ&q=Zafar+Khan |title=The Rise of Muslim Power in Gujarat: A History of Gujarat from 1298 to 1442 |date=1963 |publisher=Asia Publishing House |pages=137 |language=en |quote=He was a convert to Islam from a sect of the Khatris known as the Tank |access-date=2023-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413151136/https://books.google.com/books?id=h1UdAAAAMAAJ&q=Zafar+Khan |archive-date=2023-04-13 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Kidar Nath Sharma]]
* [[Shaikha Khokhar]]
* [[Kiran Juneja]]
* [[Jasrath Khokhar]]
* [[Kirron Kher]]
* [[Rai Sahra Langah]]
* [[Kulraj Randhawa]]
* [[Husseyn Langah I|Sultan Husseyn Langah I]]<ref name="glossary2">{{cite book |last=Rose |first=H.A. |title=A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: L.-Z, Volume 3 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |year=1997 |isbn=9788185297705 |quote=Langah are described by Tod as a clan of the Chaluk or Solanki tribe of Agnikula Rajputs, who inhabited Multan and Jaisalmer...}}</ref>
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]]
 
* [[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1977)|Kunal Kapoor]]
'''<big>Post Medieval Era</big>'''
* [[Lakha Lakhwinder Singh]]
 
* [[Mahek Chahal]]
'''<big>Muslims</big>'''
* [[Mahie Gill]]
[[File:Adina Beg Khan.jpg|thumb|235x235px|[[Adina Beg]], last Muslim governor of Punjab]]
* [[Mandira Bedi]]
* [[Sultan Sarang Khan Ghakkar|Sarang Khan Ghakkar]]  
* [[Mangal Dhillon]]
* [[Shaikh Gadai Kamboh]], Chief Justice of Mughal Empire<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fisher |first=Michael Herbert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wJJzQEACAAJ&q=a+short+history+of+the+mughal+empire |title=A Short History of the Mughal Empire |date=2019 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-0-7556-0491-3 |language=en |quote=Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam) |access-date=2023-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311142007/https://books.google.com/books?id=0wJJzQEACAAJ&q=a+short+history+of+the+mughal+empire |archive-date=2023-03-11 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Manjot Singh]]
* [[Shahbaz Khan Kamboh]], Governor of [[Bengal]]
* [[Manoj Pahwa]]
* [[Wazir Khan (Lahore)|Wazir Khan]],<ref name="Koch">{{Cite book |last=Koch |first=Ebba |title=The complete Taj Mahal : and the riverfront gardens of Agra |date=2006 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |others=Richard André. Barraud |isbn=978-0-500-34209-1 |location=London |pages=45 |oclc=69022179 }}</ref> [[List of Mughal grand viziers|Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire]]
* [[Mehar Mittal]]
* [[Saadullah Khan (Mughal Empire)|Saadullah Khan]],<ref name="Siddiqui">{{Cite journal |last=Siddiqui |first=Shabbir A. |date=1986 |title=Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141552 |url-status=live |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=47 |pages=273–276 |issn=2249-1937 |jstor=44141552 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422052225/https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141552 |archive-date=2022-04-22 |access-date=2021-12-23}}</ref> [[List of Mughal grand viziers|Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire]]
* [[Minissha Lamba]]
* [[Hifzullah Khan]], Governor of Sindh and Kashmir<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khān |first=Muḥammad Sāqī Mustaʻidd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynbHwgEACAAJ&q=maasir+e+alamgiri |title=Maāsir-i-ʻĀlamgiri: A History of the Emperor Aurangzib-ʻĀlamgir (reign 1658-1707 A.D.) of Saqi Mustʻad Khan |date=2019 |publisher=B.R. Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-93-87587-94-6 |language=en |quote=Hifzullah Khan, son of S'adullah Khan, Subahdar of Thattha and Faujdar of Siwistan |access-date=2023-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311142007/https://books.google.com/books?id=ynbHwgEACAAJ&q=maasir+e+alamgiri |archive-date=2023-03-11 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Mink Brar]]
* [[Adina Beg|Adina Beg Arain]], Governor of [[Lahore]] and [[Multan]]
* [[Mona Singh]]
* [[Muzaffar Jang Hidayat]], 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad
* [[Monica Bedi]]
* [[Nur Muhammad Chattha]]  
* [[Mukesh Khanna]]
* [[Pir Muhammad Chattha]]  
* [[Mukesh Rishi]]
* [[Ghulam Muhammad Chattha]]
* [[Mukesh Tiwari]]
* [[Fath Muhammad]]
* [[Navin Nischol]]
* [[Hyder Ali]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Olson |first1=James Stuart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f0VnzMelzm8C&dq=hyder+ali+punjabi&pg=PA773 |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Empire |last2=Shadle |first2=Robert |date=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-27917-1 |page=273 |language=en |quote=Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore. |access-date=2023-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409100723/https://books.google.com/books?id=f0VnzMelzm8C&dq=hyder+ali+punjabi&pg=PA773 |archive-date=2023-04-09 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moon |first=Penderel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GwDin-jzIUC&q=haidar,+who+was+of+punjabi+origin |title=The British Conquest and Dominion of India |date=1989 |publisher=Duckworth |isbn=978-0-253-33836-5 |language=en |quote=Haidar Ali, a Punjabi by origin |access-date=2023-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311142010/https://books.google.com/books?id=2GwDin-jzIUC&q=haidar,+who+was+of+punjabi+origin |archive-date=2023-03-11 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalrymple |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5IyEAAAQBAJ&q=the+anarchy |title=The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire |date=2019-09-10 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=978-1-63557-395-4 |language=en |quote=Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army |access-date=2023-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311142010/https://books.google.com/books?id=N5IyEAAAQBAJ&q=the+anarchy |archive-date=2023-03-11 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Bowring |first=Lewin B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID3gwwEACAAJ&q=Hyder%27s+great-grandfather+Muhammad+Bhailol+was+a+Muslim+devotee%2C+who+left+the+Punjab+to+seek+his+fortune+in+southern+India... |title=Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan |date=2019-03-07 |publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC |isbn=978-0-530-43288-5 |page=12 |language=en |quote="...Hyder's great-grandfather Muhammad Bhailol was a Musalman devotee, who left the Punjab to seek his fortune in southern India..." |access-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313123130/https://books.google.com/books?id=ID3gwwEACAAJ&q=Hyder%27s+great-grandfather+Muhammad+Bhailol+was+a+Muslim+devotee%2C+who+left+the+Punjab+to+seek+his+fortune+in+southern+India... |archive-date=2023-03-13 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Neeru Bajwa]]
* [[Tipu Sultan]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalrymple |first=William |title=The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company |date=2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-63557-433-3 |location=London (GB)}}</ref>
* [[Neetu Singh]]
 
* [[Neha Dhupia]]
=== Sikh Empire ===
* [[Om Prakash]]
'''Sikh'''
* [[Om Puri]]
* [[Hari Singh Nalwa]]
* [[Parmeet Sethi]]
* [[Hari Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Pavan Malhotra]]
* [[Chattar Singh Attariwalla]]
* [[Pooja Batra]]
* [[Sham Singh Atariwala]]
* [[Poonam Dhillon]]
* [[Jodh Singh Ramgarhia]]
* [[Pran (actor)|Pran]]
*[[Jawahar Singh (wazir)|Jawahar Singh Aulakh]]
* [[Praveen Kumar (actor)|Praveen Kumar]]
* [[Tej Singh]]
* [[Prem Chopra]]
* [[Sher Singh Attariwalla]]
* [[Priya Gill]]
* [[Ranjodh Singh Majithia]]
* [[Preity Zinta]]
* [[Mangal Singh Ramgarhia]]
* [[Pulkit Samrat]]
* [[Sangat Singh Saini]]
* [[Puneet Issar]]
* [[Nanu Singh Saini]]
* [[Raj Babbar]]
 
* [[Rajat Kapoor]]
==== Hindu ====
* [[Rajit Kapur]]
* [[Dewan Mokham Chand]]
* [[Rakesh Bedi]]
* [[Misr Diwan Chand]]
* [[Rahul Dev]]
* [[Gulab Singh]]
* [[Rakul Preet Singh]]
* [[Mahan Singh Mirpuri]]
* [[Ranjeet]]
* [[Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir|Ranbir Singh]]
* [[Ranvir Shorey]]
* [[Dhian Singh]]
* [[Rana Ranbir]]
* [[Diwan Sawan Mal Chopra|Dewan Sawan Mal Chopra]]
* [[Ram Kapoor]]
* [[Zorawar Singh (Dogra general)|Zorawar Singh Kahluria]]
* [[Raveena Tandon]]
* [[Diwan Mulraj Chopra]]
* [[Rati Agnihotri]]
* [[Sukh Jiwan Mal]]
*[[Ridhi Dogra]]
 
* [[Ruby Bhatia]]
==== Muslim ====
* [[Sahil Anand]]
 
* [[Samir Soni]]
* [[Shaikh Ghulam Muhy-ud-Din]] (died 1846), governor of Kashmir
* [[Sargun Mehta]]
* [[Shaikh Imam-ud-Din]] (1819–1859), governor of Kashmir
* [[Sudesh Berry]]
* [[Mian Ghaus Khan|Mian Ghousa]] (died 1814), artillery officer
* [[Shakti Kapoor]]
* [[Fakir Azizuddin]] (1780–1845), diplomat and physician
* [[Sheeba Chaddha]]
* [[Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana|Fateh Khan Tiwana]] (died 1848), [[Tiwana family of Shahpur|Tiwana chief]]
* [[Shiny Ahuja]]
* [[Ilahi Bakhsh]] (died 1849), artillery officer
* [[Shoma Anand]]
* [[Sultan Mahmud Khan]] (died 1859), artillery officer
* [[Sidharth Malhotra]]
 
* [[Simi Garewal]]
==Monarchs==
* [[Simone Singh]]
 
* [[Simran Bagga]]
=== Sayyid Sultans of Delhi ===
* [[Smriti Irani]]
 
* [[Sonu Sood]]
* [[Khizr Khan]], founder of the [[Sayyid dynasty]]
* [[Sunny Leone]]
*[[Mubarak Shah II]]
* [[Suraiya]]
*[[Muhammad Shah IV]]
* [[Surbhi Jyoti]]
*[[Alam Shah]]
* [[Taapsee Pannu]]
 
* [[Tinnu Anand]]
=== Raja of Sialkot ===
* [[Urvashi Sharma]]
 
* [[Vaani Kapoor]]
* [[Jasrat|Jasrat Khokhar]]
* [[Varun Sharma]]
 
* [[Vicky Kaushal]]
=== Gakhar Sultans of Potohar ===
*[[Vidyut Jamwal]]
 
* [[Vikas Bhalla]]
* Jhanda Khan Ghakkar
* [[Vijay Arora]]
* Tatar Khan Ghakkar
* [[Vinod Mehra]]
* Hathi Khan Gakkar
* [[Vivek Shauq]]
* [[Sarang Khan Gakhar]]
* [[Yami Gautam]]
* Adam Khan Gakhar
* [[Yash Johar]]
* [[Kamal Khan Gakhar]]
* Said Khan
* Nazar Khan
* Allah Quli Khan
* [[Muqarrab Khan Gakhar|Sultan Muqarrab Khan]]
 
=== Langah Sultans of Multan ===
 
* [[Rai Sahra Langah]], founder of the [[Langah Sultanate]]<ref name="Qanungo-1965">{{Cite book |last1=Qanungo |first1=Kalika Ranjan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ue9tAAAAMAAJ&q=langah+sultanate |title=Sher Shah and His Times |last2=Kānūnago |first2=Kālikā Rañjana |date=1965 |publisher=Orient Longmans |page=286 |language=en |quote=Under the shadow of Rajput Langah dynasty of Multan...}}</ref>
*[[Husseyn Langah|Husseyn Shah Langah]]
*Feroz Khan Langah
*Buddha Khan Langah
*Hussain Langah II
*Lashkar Khan Langah
 
===Sikh Empire===
[[File:MaharajaRanjitSIngh - L Massard.gif|thumb|221x221px|[[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]], founder of the Sikh Empire]]
* [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]], founder of [[Sikh Empire]]
* [[Kharak Singh|Maharaja Kharak Singh]], second ruler of the Sikh Empire
* [[Nau Nihal Singh|Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh]], third emperor of the Sikh Empire.
* [[Sher Singh|Maharaja Sher Singh]], was the fourth maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
* [[Maharaja Dalip Singh|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 (Sikh army)|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]]
 
=== Sardars of Jhang ===
 
* Walidad Khan Sial, founder of the [[Sial dynasty]]
* [[Inayatullah Khan Sial]]
* Sultan Kabir Khan Sial
* Ahmad Khan Sial
 
=== Nawab of Punjab ===
 
* [[Adina Beg Khan|Adina Beg Arain]]
 
=== Nizam of Hyderabad ===
 
* [[Muzaffar Jang Hidayat]]
 
=== Raja of Kashmir ===
 
* [[Sukh Jiwan Mal]]
 
=== Sultans of Mysore ===
 
* [[Hyder Ali]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":13" />
* [[Tipu Sultan]]
 
==Journalists==
 
===Print===
 
====India====
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* [[Ajit Saini]]
* [[Angela Saini]]
* [[Aroon Purie]]
* [[Barjinder Singh Hamdard]]
* [[Barkha Dutt]]
* [[Karan Thapar]]
* [[Kuldip Nayar]]
* [[Pritam Saini]]
* [[Sadhu Singh Hamdard]]
* [[Swati Mia Saini]]
* [[Tarun Tejpal]]
* [[Tavleen Singh]]
* [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)|Vikram Chandra]]
* [[Vinod Mehta]]
* [[Yuyutsu Sharma]]
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====England====
*[[Simon Singh]]
*[[Riz Khan]]
 
====Pakistan====
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* [[Agha Shorish Kashmiri]]
* [[Ayaz Amir]]
* [[Hameed Nizami]]
* [[Janbaz Mirza]]
* [[Najam Sethi]]
* [[Mazhar Ali Khan (journalist)|Mazhar Ali Khan]]
* [[Mubashir Lucman]]
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{{div col end}}


<gallery>
===Electronic/broadcast===
File:Kareena2.jpg|[[Kareena Kapoor Khan]], [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] actress
File:Priyanka Chopra at 2019 Cannes (cropped).jpg|[[Priyanka Chopra]], Miss World 2000, Indian and American film actress
File:Akshay Kumar in Sydney for Heyy Babyy.jpg|[[Akshay Kumar]], [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] actor
File:Ranbir Kapoor at the launch of 'Barfi!' promo 10.jpg|[[Ranbir Kapoor]], Indian film actor
</gallery>


====Directors====
====India====
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{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Abdur Rashid Kardar]]
* [[Amrita Cheema]]
* [[Abhishek Kapoor]]
* [[Aniruddha Bahal]]
* [[Aditya Chopra]]
* [[Barkha Dutt]]
* [[Anil Sharma (director)|Anil Sharma]].                           
* [[Daljit Dhaliwal]]
* [[Anurag Singh (director)|Anurag Singh]]
* [[Karan Thapar]]
* [[B. R. Chopra]]
* [[Monita Rajpal]]
* [[Brij Sadanah]]
* [[Satinder Bindra]]
* [[Chetan Anand (director)|Chetan Anand]]
* [[Tavleen Singh]]
* [[David Dhawan]]
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* [[Deepa Mehta]]
 
* [[Deepak Balraj Vij]]
====Pakistan====
* [[Deepak Sareen]]
* [[Yawar Hayat Khan]]
* [[Dharmesh Darshan]]
* [[Mishal Husain]]
* [[Goldie Behl]]
* [[Hassan Nisar]]
* [[Guddu Dhanoa]]  
* [[Suhail Warraich]]
* [[Gulzar]]                                                                                                
 
* [[Harry Baweja]]
==Military==
* [[Inder Raj Anand]]
===Pakistan Armed Forces===
* [[J.P.Dutta]]
====Air Force====
* [[Kamal Sadanah]]   
[[File:Noor khan.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nur Khan]] served as the 3rd [[Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force]]. A notable figure involved in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|1965 War]], politician, and [[Politician|statesman]], Khan was known for his outstanding management skills that benefited the country, especially in the case of [[Cricket in Pakistan|Pakistani cricket]] and the [[Pakistan International Airlines|PIA]] which under his leadership became one of the world's frontline carriers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/307432/obituary-national-icon-air-marshal-m-nur-khan-flies-no-more/|date=16 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.piac.com.pk/corporate/about-us/history|title=Pakistan International Airlines History}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/519732-conflict-of-interest|title=Conflict of interest|date=4 July 2020}}</ref>]]
* [[Karan Johar]]
*Air Marshal [[Nur Khan]]
* [[Karan Malhotra]]
*Air Marshal [[Abdul Rahim Khan]]
* [[Kunal Kohli]]
*Air Commodore [[Sajad Haider]]
* [[Lekh Tandon]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Mujahid Anwar Khan]]
* [[Loveleen Tandan]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed]]
* [[Mira Nair]]
*Air Vice Marshal [[Farooq Umar]]
* [[Mohan Kumar]]
*Air Vice Marshal [[Abdul Razzaq Anjum]]
* [[Mukul Anand]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Kaleem Saadat]]
* [[Pankaj Parashar]]
*Air Commodore [[Rizwan Ullah Khan]]
* [[Prakash Mehra]]
*Flight Lieutenant [[Yunus Hussain]]
* [[Punit Malhotra]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Rao Qamar Suleman]]
* [[Raj Kanwar]]
*Air Chief Marshal [[Zulfiqar Ali Khan]]
* [[Raj Khosla]]
*Air Marshal [[Zafar Chaudhry]]
* [[Rajiv Rai]]
*Pilot Officer [[Rashid Minhas]]
* [[Rajkumar Kohli]]
*Group Captain [[Cecil Chaudhry]]
* [[Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra]]
 
* [[Ramanand Sagar]]
==== Army ====
* [[Ravi Chopra]]
[[File:Raheel Sharif.jpg|thumb|upright|[[General]] [[Raheel Sharif]], former [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of Army Staff]] of the [[Pakistan Army]] is a notable commander in the country's recent history.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hussain|first=Zahid|date=2016-11-23|title=The general's legacy|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1298018|access-date=2021-02-08|website=DAWN.COM|language=en|archive-date=2020-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112043636/https://www.dawn.com/news/1298018|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
* [[Ravi Tandon]]
*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
* [[Shekhar Kapoor]]
*[[General]] [[Asim Munir]], current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[Siddharth Anand]]
*[[General]] (R) [[Raheel Sharif]], former [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of Army Staff]] of the [[Pakistan Army]]
* [[Subhash Ghai]]
*General (R) [[Qamar Javed Bajwa]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[Suneel Darshan]]
*General [[Zia ul Haq]], former Chief of Army Staff and [[President of Pakistan]]
* [[Tinnu Anand]]
*General (R) [[Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
* [[Umesh Mehra]]
*General (R) [[Tikka Khan]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
*General [[Asif Nawaz Janjua]], former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
* [[Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)|Vijay Anand]]
*Lt Gen [[Sarfraz Ali (general)|Sarfraz Ali]]
* [[Vipin Handa]]
*Lt Gen (R) [[Abdul Ali Malik]]
* [[Yash Chopra]]
*Lt Gen (R) [[Asim Saleem Bajwa]]
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*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) [[Yusaf Khan (general)|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 (rank)|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 (military rank)|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 ===


====Documentary filmmakers====
====Airforce====
* [[Mukesh Gautam]]
*[[Air Chief Marshal]] [[Om Prakash Mehra]], former Chief of [[Indian Air Force]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM &#91;Air Chiefs Since 1947&#93;|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Air-Chiefs/Chiefs-Air-8.html|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231193329/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Air-Chiefs/Chiefs-Air-8.html|archive-date=December 31, 2008|access-date=2009-04-28}}</ref> Awarded highest military peace award.
*[[Marshal]] [[Arjan Singh]], former Chief of Indian Air Force;<ref>{{cite web|title=Marshal Arjan Singh|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/defence/marshal-arjan-singh.html|access-date=2012-06-06|publisher=Mapsofindia.com|archive-date=2012-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324090545/http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/defence/marshal-arjan-singh.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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


===Lollywood (Pakistan)===
====Army====
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[[File:General Bikram Singh taking over as the new Chief of the Army Staff, in New Delhi on May 31, 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Bikram Singh (general, born 1952)|General Bikram Singh]], former [[Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army]]]]
* [[Aamina Sheikh]]
*[[General]] [[Deepak Kapoor]], former Indian Army Chief
* [[Aasia|Aasia Begum]]
*[[General]] [[Om Prakash Malhotra]], former Indian Army Chief
* [[Adeel Chaudhry]]
*[[Captain]] [[Saurabh Kalia]], martyr of [[Kargil war]]
* [[Adnan Shah Tipu|Adnan Shah]]
*[[General]] [[Bikram Singh (general, born 1952)|Bikram Singh]], former Indian Army Chief
* [[Ahmed Ali Akbar]]
*[[Captain]] [[Arun Singh Jasrotia]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saxena |first=sangeeta |date=2020-09-15 |title=Capt. Arun Singh Jasrotia 9 Para (SF) goes down in legend |url=https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/capt-arun-singh-jasrotia-9-para-sf-goes-down-in-legend-as-the-lion-of-lolab/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=ADU |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927135318/https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/capt-arun-singh-jasrotia-9-para-sf-goes-down-in-legend-as-the-lion-of-lolab/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Ahsan Khan]]
*[[General]] [[Pran Nath Thapar]], former Indian Army Chief
* [[Albela (actor)|Albela]]
*[[General]] [[Nirmal Chander Vij]], former Indian Army Chief
* [[Ali Ejaz]]
*[[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
* [[Ali Kazmi]]
*[[Lt General]] [[Punita Arora]], first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to reach the second highest rank of Lt General;<ref>{{cite web|title=Land Forces Site - Featured Articles|url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ARMY/Articles/Article36.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906170749/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ARMY/Articles/Article36.html|archive-date=2012-09-06|access-date=2012-06-06|publisher=Bharat Rakshak}}</ref> first woman to become the Vice-Admiral of [[Indian Navy]]<ref>{{cite news|title=AFMC chief becomes first lady Vice-Admiral|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/72768/|access-date=2005-05-17|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413141150/https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/afmc-chief-becomes-first-lady-vice-admiral/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ali Zafar]]
* Major General [[Shabeg Singh]]
* [[Anjuman Shehzadi]]
*[[Brigadier]] [[Kuldip Singh Chandpuri]] (retired), awarded [[Maha Vir Chakra]] (MVC) by the [[Indian Army]] for his leadership in the [[Battle of Longewala]]
* [[Anwar Kamal Pasha]]  
*[[Vikram Batra|Captain Vikram Batra]], former officer of Indian army, martyred in 1999 [[Kargil war]] and was awarded [[Param Vir Chakra]] posthumously
* [[Armeena Khan]]
*[[Lieutenant general]] [[Satinder Kumar Saini]], former [[Vice Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Vice Chief of the Army Staff]]
* [[Asad Malik]]
 
* [[Aslam Pervaiz]]
====Navy====
* [[Babar Ali]]
*Admiral [[Robin K. Dhowan]], former Chief of Indian Navy
* [[Babra Sharif]]
*Admiral [[Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda|S.M. Nanda]], former Chief of Indian Navy
* [[Bahar Begum]]
 
* [[Bilal Ashraf]]
====Other notables====
* [[Bushra Ansari]]
*[[Kiran Bedi]], first woman IPS officer
* [[Firdous Begum]]
* [[Uday Singh Taunque]], awarded the [[Purple Heart]] and [[Bronze Star]]; first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the [[US Army]]
* [[Ghulam Mohiuddin (actor)|Ghulam Mohiuddin]]
* [[Ishar Singh (havildar)|Ishar Singh]], leader of the [[36th Sikhs]] regiment during the [[Battle of Saragarhi]]
* [[Gohar Rasheed]]
 
* [[Habib-ur-Rehman (actor)|Habib-ur-Rehman]]
=== Singapore Armed Forces ===
* [[Hamid Rana]]
* Colonel [[Gurcharan Singh Sekhon]]
* [[Hamza Ali Abbasi]]
 
* [[Humayun Saeed]]
=== United States Armed Forces ===
* [[Iftikhar Thakur]]
* [[Humayun Khan (soldier)|Humayun Khan]], army officer who was killed during the [[Iraq War]]
* [[Inayat Hussain Bhatti]]
 
* [[Irfan Khoosat]]
==Music==
* [[Javed Sheikh]]
{{Main|List of Punjabi singers}}
* [[Jia Ali]]
 
* [[Kifayat Hussain Bhatti]]
=== Pakistan ===
* [[Meera (actress)|Meera]]
[[File:Alam Lohar.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Alam Lohar]], considered one of the most important singers of Punjabi folk.<ref>{{Citation|last=Dillagi|first=Lohar, Alam. Pachhtaya Khan, Atta Ullah. Nathli Khan, Atta Ullah. Chimta K̲h̲ān, Badar Miyān̲ Dād. Sajan K̲h̲ān, Badar Miyān̲ Dād. Dil Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali.|title=Super legends|publisher=Star|oclc=872096062}}</ref>]]
* [[Mikaal Zulfiqar]]
 
* [[Moammar Rana]]
==== Punjabi Folk ====
* [[Mohsin Abbas Haider]]
[[File:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], considered as one of the greatest performers of ''qawwali.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan {{!}} Biography, Songs, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=2019-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512211556/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
* [[Munawar Zarif]]
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* [[Nargis (actress)|Nargis]]
* [[Alam Lohar]]
* [[Nayyar Ejaz]]
* [[Arif Lohar]]
* [[Neelo]]
* [[Inayat Hussain Bhatti]]
* [[Nirma (actress)|Nirma]]
* [[Iqbal Bahu]]
* [[Rafi Khawar]]
* [[Khawaja Pervez]]
* [[Rani (Pakistani actress)|Rani]]
* [[Munawar Sultana (singer)]]
* [[Resham]]
* [[Musarrat Nazir]]
* [[Sabiha Khanum]]
* [[Pathanay Khan]]
* [[Sahiba Afzal]]
* [[Saieen Zahoor]]
* [[Saleem Sheikh]]
* [[Samina Syed]]
* [[Salma Mumtaz]]
* [[Shaukat Ali (singer)|Shaukat Ali]]
* [[Salman Shahid]]
* [[Shazia Manzoor]]
* [[Shaan Shahid]]
* [[Tahira Syed]]{{div col end}}
* [[Shafqat Cheema]]
 
* [[Shahid (actor)|Shahid Hameed]]
==== Sufi Qawwali ====
* [[Shahida Mini]]
* [[Sultan Rahi]]
* [[Tariq Aziz (TV personality)|Tariq Aziz]]
* [[Usman Peerzada]]
* [[Waheed Murad]]
* [[Yasir Hussain]]
* [[Zara Sheikh]]
* [[Zeba]]
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====Directors====
* [[Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer)|Fateh Ali Khan]]
* [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]
* [[Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan]]
* [[Rahat Fateh Ali Khan]]
* [[Badar Miandad]]
* [[Ghulam Farid Sabri]]
* [[Maqbool Ahmed Sabri|Maqbool Ahmad Sabri]]
* [[Amjad Sabri]]


* [[Hassan Rana]]
==== Classical Hindustani Gharanas ====
* [[Hassan Tariq]]
* [[Iqbal Kashmiri]]
* [[Javed Raza]]
* [[Kashif Nisar]]
* [[Masood Parvez]]
* [[Nusrat Thakur]]
* [[Pervaiz Kaleem]]
* [[Riaz Shahid]]
* [[Sarmad Khoosat]]
* [[Syed Noor]]


===Punjabi cinema (India)===
===== Panjabi Gharana =====
{{Further|Punjabi cinema}}
* [[Shaukat Hussain]]
* [[Ustad Tafu|Ustad Tafu Khan]]
* [[Tari Khan]]
* [[Ustad Zakir Hussain]]
* [[Alla Rakha]]


====Directors====
===== Patiala Gharana =====
* [[Barkat Ali Khan]]
* [[Amanat Ali Khan]]
* [[Bade Fateh Ali Khan]]
* [[Ghulam Ali (singer)|Ghulam Ali]]
* [[Hamid Ali Khan]]
* [[Asad Amanat Ali Khan]]
* [[Farida Khanum]]


* [[Amberdeep Singh]]
===== Sham Chaurasia Gharana =====
* [[Amitoj Maan]]
* [[Anurag Singh (director)|Anurag Singh]]
* [[Baljit Singh Deo]]
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
* [[Harry Baweja]]
* [[Jagdeep Sidhu]]
* [[Manmord Sidhu]]
* [[Pankaj Batra]]
* [[Rohit Jugraj Chauhan]]
* [[Simerjit Singh]]
* [[Smeep Kang]]


====Actors====
* [[Salamat Ali Khan]]
<gallery>
* [[Sharafat Ali Khan]]
File:Diljit-Dosanjh-and-others-grace-Rising-Star-2-Uthao-Soch-Ki-Deewar-3.jpg(2).edit1.jpg|[[Diljit Dosanjh]], star of ''[[Jatt & Juliet]]'' and ''[[Punjab 1984]]''
* [[Shafqat Ali Khan]]
File:Jassi Gill.JPG|[[Jassi Gill]], star of ''[[Mr & Mrs 420]]'' and ''[[Sargi]]''
File:Neeru Bajwa at Kochi International Fashion Week 2011 02.jpg|[[Neeru Bajwa]], star of ''[[Jatt & Juliet 2]]'' and ''[[Jihne Mera Dil Luteya]]''
File:Sargun Mehta at a pre-Diwali party.jpg|[[Sargun Mehta]], star of ''[[Angrej]]'' and ''[[Lahoriye]]''
</gallery>


The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.
[[File:Atif Aslam in black coat.jpg|thumb|[[Atif Aslam]], widely acclaimed playback singer|upright]]


'''Actors'''
==== Modern Playback ====
{{Main|List of Punjabi cinema actors}}
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*[[Abdullah Qureshi (singer)|Abdullah Qureshi]]
'''Actresses'''
*[[Abrar-ul-Haq]]
{{Main|List of Punjabi cinema actresses}}
*[[Aima Baig]]  
 
*[[Ali Aftab Saeed]]  
===Tamil cinema (India)===
*[[Ali Azmat]]
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*[[Ali Sethi]]
* [[Simran Bagga]], Punjabi Hindu
*[[Ali Zafar]]
* [[Jyothika]], Punjabi Hindu
*[[Annie Khalid]]
* [[Kajal Agarwal]], Punjabi Hindu
*[[Asrar (musician)|Asrar Shah]]
* [[Sonia Aggarwal]], Punjabi Hindu
*[[Atif Aslam]]
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*[[Bilal Saeed]]
 
*[[Bohemia (rapper)|Bohemia]]
===International Film and TV personalities===
*[[Faakhir Mehmood]]
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*[[Fakhar-e-Alam]]
* [[Lilly Singh]]
*[[Farhad Humayun]]  
* [[Purva Bedi]]
*[[Farhan Saeed]]
* [[Waris Ahluwalia]]
*[[Goher Mumtaz]]  
* [[Tarsem Singh]]
*[[Hadiqa Kiani]]
* [[Monica Dogra]]
*[[Haroon (singer)|Haroon]]
* [[Param Gill]]
*[[Humaira Arshad]]
* [[Kunal Nayyar]]
*[[Humaira Channa]]
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*[[Imran Khan (singer)|Imran Khan]]
 
*[[Javed Bashir]]
==Ancient figures==
*[[Jawad Ahmad]]
[[File:Surrender of Porus to the Emperor Alexander.jpg|thumb|right|Porus and Alexander|upright=0.6]]
*[[Khursheed Bano]]
* [[Porus]]
*[[Mahvash Waqar]]
* [[Taxiles]]
*[[Masood Rana]]
* [[Chandragupta Maurya]]
*[[Meesha Shafi]]
* [[Chanakya]]
*[[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]]
 
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==Folklore==
=== India ===
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[[File:Mohammed Rafi 2003 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mohammed Rafi]] was a singer famous for singing multiple genres and styles]]
* [[Heer Ranjha]]
[[File:Prakash Kaur (left) Deedar Singh Pardesi & Surinder Kaur-Nairobi-1967.jpg|thumb|Punjabi folk singers and sisters [[Parkash Kaur]] and [[Surinder Kaur]] in 1967|upright]]
* [[Mirza Sahiba]]
* [[Puran Bhagat]]
* [[Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala|Sayful Muluk]]
* [[Sohni Mahiwal]]
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==Religious and spiritual figures==
====Punjabi folk====
 
=== Muslim Sufis and saints ===
[[File:BullehShah.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bulleh Shah]] was a [[Punjabi Muslims|Punjabi Muslim]] Sufi poet|upright=0.6]]
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* [[Fariduddin Ganjshakar]] (first major poet of Punjabi)
* [[Asa Singh Mastana]]
* [[Rukn-e-Alam]]
* [[Amar Singh Chamkila]]
* [[Madho Lal Hussain|Shah Hussain]]
* [[Didar Sandhu]]
* [[Mian Mir]]
* [[Diljit Dosanjh]]
* [[Ahmad Sirhindi|Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi]]
* [[Dolly Guleria]]
* [[Sultan Bahu]]
* [[Gurdas Maan]]
* [[Shah Inayat Qadiri|Shah Inayat]]
* [[Hans Raj Hans]]
* [[Bulleh Shah]]
* [[Harbhajan Mann]]
* [[Waris Shah]]
* [[Harshdeep Kaur]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Bakhsh|Mian Muhammad Baksh]]
* [[Jagmohan Kaur]]
* [[Meher Ali Shah]]
* [[Jaswinder Brar]]
* [[Khwaja Ghulam Farid|Khawaja Ghulam Farid]]
* [[Kuldeep Manak]]
* [[Muhammad Sadiq (singer)|Mohammad Sadiq]]
* [[Pammi Bai]]
* [[Parkash Kaur]]
* [[Ranjit Kaur]]
* [[Sardool Sikander]]
* [[Satwinder Bitti]]
* [[Surinder Kaur]]
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====Sufi Qawwali====
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* [[Rabbi Shergill]]
* [[Master Saleem]]
* [[Puranchand Wadali]]
* [[Pyarelal Wadali]]
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===Hindu Gurus and saints===
==== Hindu devotional ====
* [[Sri Chand]]
* [[Ramdev]]
* [[Rampal]]
* [[Mastana Balochistani]]
* [[Shah Satnam Singh]]
* [[Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod|Kanwar Saheb]]


===Radha Soami Satsang Beas===
* [[Narendra Chanchal]]
* [[Jaimal Singh|Baba Jaimal Singh]]
* [[Gulshan Kumar]]
* [[Sawan Singh|Baba Sawan Singh]]
* [[Hari Om Sharan]]
* [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh]]
* [[Anup Jalota]]
* [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Maharaj Charan Singh]]
* [[Gurinder Singh|Baba Gurinder Singh]]


===Ahmadiyya community===
[[File:Jagjit Singh (Ghazal Maestro).jpg|thumb|[[Jagjit Singh]], popular [[ghazal]] singer|upright]]
{{Main article|Khalifatul Masih}}
* [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]] (1889–1908)
* [[Hakeem Noor-ud-Din|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)


===Sikh Gurus===
====Classical Hindustani music====
[[File:GuruNanakFresco-Goindwal.jpg|thumb|189x189px|[[Guru Nanak]], founder of [[Sikhism]]]]
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* [[Jagjit Singh]]
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* [[Guru Nanak]]
=====Patiala Gharana=====
* [[Guru Angad]]
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* [[Guru Amar Das]]
* [[Sardool Sikander]]
* [[Guru Ram Das]]
* [[Barkat Sidhu]]
* [[Guru Arjan|Guru Arjan Dev]]
* [[Som Dutt Battu]]
* [[Guru Hargobind]]
* [[Shiv Dayal Batish]]
* [[Guru Har Rai]]
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* [[Guru Har Krishan]]
* [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]]
* [[Guru Gobind Singh]]


===Religious Sikhs===
=====Sham Chaurasia Gharana=====
* [[Giani Sant Singh Maskeen]]
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* [[Nanua Bairagi]], [[Sikh]] mystic, martyr and poet
* [[Nooran Sisters|Jyoti Nooran]]
* [[Sharan Kaur Pabla]], martyr who died while performing the last rites of [[Guru Gobind Singh|Guru Gobind Singh's]] older sons
* [[Nooran Sisters|Sultana Nooran]]
* [[Labh Singh Saini]] (1895–1947), freedom fighter and President of Shiromani Akali Dal
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* [[Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura]], Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964–1980, highest spiritual and temporal authority of Sikhs


==Writers==
[[File:Sukhwinder Singh (singer).jpg|thumb|[[Sukhwinder Singh]], singer of [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Academy]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Grammy]] award-winning song "[[Jai Ho (song)|Jai Ho]]"|upright]]


=== Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu ===
====Modern playback====
 
==== India ====
[[File:Giani Gurdit Singh.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Giani Gurdit Singh]]]]
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* [[Bhai Gurdas]]
* [[AP Dhillon]]
* [[Amrita Pritam]]
* [[Afsana Khan]]
* [[Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha]]
* [[Alla Rakha]]
* [[Bhai Vir Singh]]
* [[Ammy Virk]]
* [[Damodar Das Arora]]
* [[Amrinder Gill]]
* [[Dhani Ram Chatrik]]
* [[Anushka Manchanda]]
* [[Giani Gurdit Singh]]
* [[Akhil Pasreja]]
* [[Gulzar]] (Sampooran Singh Gulzar), [[Academy Award|Oscar]] winner for the film ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]''
* [[Akhil Sachdeva]]
* [[Harbhajan Singh (poet)|Harbhajan Singh]]
* [[Arijit Singh]]
* [[Inderjit Hasanpuri]]
* [[Arjan Dhillon]]
* [[Jaswant Neki]]
* [[Armaan Malik]]
* [[Jaswant Singh Kanwal]]
* [[Asees Kaur]]
* [[Jaswant Singh Rahi]]
* [[B Praak]]
* [[Kulwant Singh Virk]]
* [[Babbu Mann]]
* [[Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi]]
* [[Bhupinder Singh (musician)|Bhupinder Singh]]
* [[Nanak Singh]]
* [[Roshan Prince]]
* [[Navtej Bharati]]
* [[Daler Mehndi]]
* [[Pandit Lekh Ram]]
* [[Diljit Dosanjh]]
* [[Pash]]
* [[Garry Sandhu]]
* [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]]
* [[Gippy Grewal]]
* [[Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Gurinder Gill]]
* [[Sahir Ludhianvi]]
* [[Gurnam Bhullar]]
* [[Shardha Ram Phillauri]]
* [[Guru Randhawa]]
* [[Shiv Kumar Batalvi]]
* [[Hansraj Hans]]
* [[Surjit Hans]]
* [[Hard Kaur]]
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* [[Hardy Sandhu]]
 
* [[Harshdeep Kaur]]
==== Pakistan ====
* [[Himani Kapoor]]
[[File:Allama Iqbal.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Muhammad Iqbal]], widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of [[Urdu]] in the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=All writings of Allama Iqbal|url=https://www.rekhta.org/poets/allama-iqbal/all|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Rekhta}}</ref>]]
* [[Honey Singh]]
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* [[Jasleen Royal]]
* [[Fariduddin Ganjshakar|Baba Farid]]
* [[Jassi Gill]]
* [[Madho Lal Hussain|Shah Hussain]]
* [[Jasmine Sandlas]]
* [[Sultan Bahu]]
* [[Jaspinder Narula]]
* [[Bulleh Shah]]
* [[Jass Manak]]
* [[Ali Haider Multani]]
* [[Jazzy B]]
* [[Lutf Ali]]
* [[Jonita Gandhi]]
* [[Waris Shah]]
* [[Karan Aujla]]
* [[Hashim (poet)|Hashim]]
* [[Kanika Kapoor]]
* [[Qadir Yar]]
* [[Kanth Kaler]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Bakhsh|Mian Muhammad Baksh]]
* [[Kavita Seth]]
* [[Khawaja Ghulam Fareed]]
* [[Kundan Lal Saigal]]
* [[Ghulam Rasool Alampuri]]
* [[Labh Janjua]]
* [[Zafar Ali Khan]]
* [[Mahendra Kapoor]]
* [[Muhammad Iqbal]]
* [[Meena Kapoor]]
* [[Hakim Ahmad Shuja]]
* [[Mika Singh]]
* [[Hafeez Jalandhari]]
* [[Mohammed Rafi]]
* [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]]
* [[Mohit Chauhan]]
* [[Ustad Daman]]
* [[Narinder Biba]]
* [[Saadat Hasan Manto]]
* [[Neeraj Shridhar]]
* [[Shareef Kunjahi]]
* [[Neha Bhasin]]
* [[Ahmad Rahi]]
* [[Neha Kakkar]]
* [[Habib Jalib]]
* [[Nimrat Khaira]]
* [[Anwar Masood]]
* [[Ninja]]
* [[Aizaz Ahmad Azar]]
* [[Nitin Mukesh]]
* [[Mazhar Tirmazi]]
* [[Miss Pooja]]
* [[Ali Arshad Mir]]
* [[Parmish Verma]]
* [[Mir Tanha Yousafi]]
* [[Rekha Bhardwaj]]
* [[Richa Sharma (singer)|Richa Sharma]]
* [[Rupinder Handa]]
* [[Satinder Sartaaj]]
* [[Shailender Singh|Shailendra Singh]]
* [[Shehnaz Gill]]
* [[Shibani Kashyap]]
* [[Shipra Goyal]]
* [[Sidhu Moose Wala]]
* [[Sukhwinder Singh]]
* [[Sunanda Sharma]]
* [[Suraiyya]]
* [[Taz (singer)|Taz]]
* [[Tony Kakkar]]
* [[Tulsi Kumar]]
* [[Zakir Hussain (musician)|Zakir Hussain]]
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===English===
==Models==
[[File:Khushwantsingh.jpg|thumb|right|[[Khushwant Singh]] (1915-2014) was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.|upright]]
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* Amarjot Kaur<ref name="Indiatimes.com 2015">{{cite web | title=Amarjot Kaur - Femina Miss India Chandigarh Contestants | website=Indiatimes.com | date=20 August 2015 | url=http://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/photoshow/17568937.cms?curpg=3 | access-date=20 August 2015 | archive-date=24 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124112446/http://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/photoshow/17568937.cms?curpg=3 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Alamgir Hashmi]]
* [[Amrita Sher-Gil]]
* [[Ahmed Rashid]]
* [[Harnaaz Sandhu]], Punjabi beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned [[Miss Universe 2021]]
* [[Amrita Pritam]]
* [[Hasleen Kaur]]
* [[Deepak Chopra]]
* [[Jesse Randhawa]], Bollywood model
* [[Jaspreet Singh]]
* [[Kuljeet Randhawa]]
* [[Chetan Bhagat]]
* [[Mahek Chahal]]
* [[Kartar Singh Duggal]]
* [[Mandira Bedi]]
* [[Khushwant Singh]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/khushwant-singh.html |title=Khushwant Singh - Khushwant Singh Biography, Life History of Khuswant Singh |publisher=Iloveindia.com |date=1915-02-02 |access-date=2012-06-06}}</ref>
* [[Navneet Kaur Dhillon]]
* [[Manil Suri]]
* [[Neha Kapur]]
* [[Mohammed Hanif]]
* [[Neelam Gill]], [[Burberry]]  
* [[Mulk Raj Anand]]
* [[Gurleen Chopra]], model<ref name="The Independent 2014">{{cite news | title=Burberry enlists first Indian model Neelam Gill as its new beauty muse | website=The Independent | date=22 August 2014 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/burberry-enlists-first-indian-model-as-its-new-beauty-muse-9685846.html | access-date=20 August 2015 | archive-date=18 June 2022 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/burberry-enlists-first-indian-model-as-its-new-beauty-muse-9685846.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Nadeem Aslam]]
* [[Simran Kaur Mundi]]
* [[Neville Tuli]]
* [[Sonam Bajwa|Sonampreet Bajwa]]
* [[Partap Sharma]]
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* [[Romila Thapar]]
 
* [[Susham Bedi]]
==Politicians==
* [[Tariq Ali]]
 
* [[Ved Mehta]]
===India===
* [[Vikram Seth]]
* [[Yuyutsu Sharma]]
* [[Zulfikar Ghose]]
 
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==Journalists==
 
===Print===
 
====India====
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* [[Ajit Saini]]
* [[Amarinder Singh]]
* [[Angela Saini]]
* [[Arun Jaitley]], former [[Finance Minister of India]]
* [[Aroon Purie]]
* [[Arvind Khanna]]
* [[Barjinder Singh Hamdard]]
* [[Ashwani Kumar (politician)|Ashwani Kumar]]
* [[Barkha Dutt]]
* [[Bhagwant Mann]], [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)]]
* [[Karan Thapar]]
* [[Baldev Singh]]
* [[Kuldip Nayar]]
* [[Bibi Jagir Kaur]]
* [[Pritam Saini]]
* [[Buta Singh]]
* [[Sadhu Singh Hamdard]]
* [[Charanjit Singh Channi]], former [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)]]
* [[Swati Mia Saini]]
* [[Darbara Singh]]
* [[Tarun Tejpal]]
* [[Giani Zail Singh]], former [[President of India]]
* [[Tavleen Singh]]
* [[Girdhari Lal Dogra]]
* [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)|Vikram Chandra]]
* [[Gulzari Lal Nanda]]
* [[Vinod Mehta]]
* [[Gurdial Singh Dhillon]]
* [[Yuyutsu Sharma]]
* [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Inder Kumar Gujral]], former [[Prime Minister of India]]
 
* [[Jagjit Singh Taunque]]
====England====
* [[Krishan Kant]]
*[[Simon Singh]]
* [[Kanshi Ram]]
*[[Riz Khan]]
* [[Madanlal Khurana]]
 
* [[Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan]]  
====Pakistan====
* [[Malik Umar Hayat Khan]]
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* [[Manmohan Singh]], former [[Prime Minister of India]]
* [[Agha Shorish Kashmiri]]
* [[Manohar Lal Khattar]], [[Chief Minister of Haryana]]
* [[Ayaz Amir]]
* [[Master Tara Singh]]
* [[Hameed Nizami]]
* [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]]
* [[Janbaz Mirza]]
* [[Parkash Singh Badal]]
* [[Najam Sethi]]
* [[Pratap Singh Kairon]]
* [[Mazhar Ali Khan (journalist)|Mazhar Ali Khan]]
* [[Priya Dutt]]
* [[Mubashir Lucman]]
* [[Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini]]
{{div col end}}
* [[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]]
* [[Angad Singh (INC politician)|Angad Singh Saini]]
{{div col end}}


===Electronic/broadcast===
===Pakistan===
 
====India====
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{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Amrita Cheema]]
* [[Allama Muhammad Iqbal]]
* [[Aniruddha Bahal]]
* [[Choudhary Rahmat Ali]]
* [[Barkha Dutt]]
* [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]]
* [[Daljit Dhaliwal]]
* [[Chaudhry Muhammad Ali]]
* [[Karan Thapar]]
* [[Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan]]
* [[Monita Rajpal]]
* [[Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi]]
* [[Satinder Bindra]]
* [[Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain]]
* [[Tavleen Singh]]
* [[Chaudhry Afzal Haq]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Chaudhry Amir Hussain]]
 
* [[Feroz Khan Noon]]
====Pakistan====
* [[Ghulam Bibi]]
* [[Yawar Hayat Khan]]
* [[Khizar Hayat Tiwana]]
* [[Mishal Husain]]
* [[Hamza Shahbaz]]
* [[Hassan Nisar]]
* [[Hanif Ramay]]
 
* [[Liaqat Abbas Bhatti]]
==Models==
* [[Liaqat Ali Khan]]
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* [[Malik Amjad Ali Noon]]
* [[Amarjot Kaur]]<ref name="Indiatimes.com 2015">{{cite web | title=Amarjot Kaur - Femina Miss India Chandigarh Contestants | website=Indiatimes.com | date=20 August 2015 | url=http://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/photoshow/17568937.cms?curpg=3 | access-date=20 August 2015}}</ref>
* [[Malik Anwer Ali Noon]]
* [[Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu]], Punjabi beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned [[Miss Universe 2021]]
* [[Malik Ghulam Muhammad|Ghulam Muhammad]]
* [[Hasleen Kaur]]
* [[Malik Meraj Khalid]]
* [[Jesse Randhawa]], Bollywood model
* [[Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari]]
* [[Kuljeet Randhawa]]
* [[Mazhar Ali Azhar]]
* [[Mahek Chahal]]
* [[Mian Iftikharuddin]]
* [[Mandira Bedi]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif]]
* [[Navneet Kaur Dhillon]]
* [[Mian Umar Hayat]]
* [[Neha Kapur]]
* [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]]
* [[Neelam Gill]], [[Burberry]]  
* [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]]
* [[Gurleen Chopra]], model<ref name="The Independent 2014">{{cite news | title=Burberry enlists first Indian model Neelam Gill as its new beauty muse | website=The Independent | date=22 August 2014 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/burberry-enlists-first-indian-model-as-its-new-beauty-muse-9685846.html | access-date=20 August 2015}}</ref>
* [[Mushahid Hussain Syed]]
* [[Simran Kaur Mundi]]
* [[Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan]]
* [[Sonam Bajwa|Sonampreet Bajwa]]
* [[Nawaz Sharif]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Nisar Ali Khan]]
 
* [[Omer Sarfraz Cheema]]
==Revolutionaries==
* [[Rana Sanaullah Khan]]
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* [[Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan]]
* [[Bhagat Singh]]
* [[Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan (politician)|Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan]]
* [[Bhai Mati Das]]
* [[Saqlain Anwar|Saqlain Anwar Sipra]]
* [[Bhai Parmanand]]
* [[Sardar Ayaz Sadiq]]
* [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]]
* [[Shahbaz Sharif]]
* [[Ganda Singh|Ganda Singh Phangureh]]
* [[Shahid Hussain Bhatti]]
* [[Harnam Singh]]
* [[Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din]]
* [[Jahanara Shahnawaz]]
* [[Sheikh Waqas Akram]]
* [[Kartar Singh Sarabha]]
* [[Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari]]
* [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]
* [[Syeda Sughra Imam]]
* [[Madan Lal Dhingra]]
* [[Wasim Sajjad]]
* [[Muhammad Arif Khan Rajbana Sial]]
{{div col end}}
* [[Muhammad Iqbal]]
* [[Rahmat Ali]]
* [[Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan]]
* [[Sardul Singh Caveeshar]]
* [[Sukhdev]]
* [[Udham Singh]]


{{div col end}}
===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
* [[Zohran Mamdani]], Mayor of New York City
* [[Kiran Ahuja]]
* [[Vivek Kundra]]
* [[Harry Arora]]
* [[Sam Arora]]
* [[Gurmit Singh Aulakh]]
* [[Balvir Singh]]
* [[Ravinder Bhalla]]
* [[Ram Nath Puri]]
* [[Ranjeev Puri]]
* [[Aftab Pureval]]
* [[Raj Panjabi]]
* [[Aneesh Chopra]]
* [[Rohit Chopra]]
* [[Harmeet Dhillon]]
* [[Shammas Malik]]
* [[Manka Dhingra]]
* [[Gurbir Grewal]]
* [[Gopal Khanna]]
* [[Puneet Talwar]]
* [[Monika Kalra Varma]]
* [[Richard R. Verma|Richard Verma]]
* [[Swaranjit Singh Khalsa]]
* [[Sabrina Singh]]
* [[Faisal Gill]]
* [[Daleep Singh]]
* [[Jas Jeet Singh]]
* [[Saggy Tahir]]
* [[Mussab Ali]]


==Politicians==
=== United Kingdom ===
*[[Rishi Sunak]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
*[[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi|Baroness Sayeeda Hussain Warsi]]
*[[Seema Malhotra]]
*[[Sajid Javid]]
*[[Sajjad Karim]]
*[[Humza Yousaf]], [[Prime Minister of Scotland]]
*[[Gagan Mohindra]]
*[[Onkar Sahota]]
*[[Paul Uppal]]
*[[Preet Kaur Gill]]
*[[Anas Sarwar]]
*[[Pam Gosal]]
*[[Sonia Kumar]]
*[[Parmjit Dhanda]]
*[[Atma Singh (politician)|Atma Singh]]
*[[Jas Athwal]]
*[[Sadiq Khan]]
*[[Tan Dhesi]]
*[[Imran Hussain (British politician)|Imran Hussain]]
*[[Shahid Malik]]
*[[Neena Gill]]
*[[Shabana Mahmood]]
*[[Virendra Sharma]]
*[[Saqib Bhatti]]
*[[Naz Shah]]
*[[Piara Khabra]]
*[[Afzal Khan (British politician)|Afzal Khan]]
*[[Satvir Kaur]]
*[[Anas Sarwar]]
*[[Chaudhry Sarwar]]
*[[Yasmin Qureshi]]
*[[Faisal Rashid]]
*[[Hardyal Dhindsa]]


===India===
===Canada===
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*[[Harjit Sajjan]]
*[[Jasmin Kaur Dhaliwal]]
*[[Jagmeet Singh]]
* [[Amarinder Singh]]
*[[Jag Bhaduria]]
* [[Arun Jaitley]], former [[Finance Minister of India]]
*[[Sonia Sidhu]]
* [[Ashwani Kumar (politician)|Ashwani Kumar]]
*[[Navdeep Bains]]
* [[Bhagwant Mann]], [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)]]
*[[Gurratan Singh]]
* [[Baldev Singh]]
*[[Iqra Khalid]]
* [[Bibi Jagir Kaur]]
*[[Gagan Sikand]]
* [[Buta Singh]]
*[[Deepak Obhrai]]
* [[Charanjit Singh Channi]], former [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)]]
*[[Ruby Dhalla]]
* [[Darbara Singh]]
*[[Tim Uppal]]
* [[Giani Zail Singh]], former [[President of India]]
*[[Raj Saini]]
* [[Girdhari Lal Dogra]]
*[[Herb Dhaliwal]]
* [[Gulzari Lal Nanda]]
*[[Anita Anand]]
* [[Gurdial Singh Dhillon]]
*[[Gurbux Saini]]
* [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]]
*[[Ujjal Dosanjh]]
* [[Inder Kumar Gujral]], former [[Prime Minister of India]]
*[[Nina Grewal]]
* [[Jagjit Singh Taunque]]
*[[Wajid Khan (Canadian politician)|Wajid Khan]]
* [[Krishan Kant]]
*[[Amarjeet Sohi]]
* [[Kanshi Ram]]
*[[Jyoti Gondek]]
* [[Madanlal Khurana]]
*[[George Chahal]]  
* [[Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan]]  
*[[Arpan Khanna]]
* [[Malik Umar Hayat Khan]]
*[[Amandeep Sodhi]]
* [[Manmohan Singh]], former [[Prime Minister of India]]
*[[Vim Kochhar]]
* [[Manohar Lal Khattar]], [[Chief Minister of Haryana]]
*[[Ratna Omidvar]]
* [[Master Tara Singh]]
*[[Harry Sohal]]
* [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]]
*[[Raj Pannu]]
* [[Parkash Singh Badal]]
*[[Bharat Agnihotri]]
* [[Pratap Singh Kairon]]
*[[Rajan Sawhney]]
* [[Priya Dutt]]
*[[Moe Sihota]]
* [[Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini]]
*[[Harry Lali]]
* [[Rajinder Kaur Bhattal]]
*[[Sindi Hawkins]]
* [[Raghav Chadha]]
*[[Karn Manhas]]
* [[Sant Fateh Singh]]
*[[Raj Chouhan]]
*[[Kash Heed]]
*[[Niki Sharma]]
*[[Rohini Arora]]
*[[Sunita Dhir]]
*[[Steve Kooner]]
*[[Gulzar Singh Cheema]]
*[[Diljeet Brar]]
*[[Obby Khan]]
*[[Jasdeep Devgan]]
*[[Tania Sodhi]]
*[[Deepak Anand]]
*[[Gurratan Singh]]
*[[Amarjot Sandhu]]
*[[Kuldip Kular]]
*[[Nina Tangri]]
*[[Gary Grewal]]
*[[Ausma Malik]]
 
==Revolutionaries==
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* [[Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal]]
* [[Bhagat Singh]]
* [[Bhai Mati Das]]
* [[Bhai Parmanand]]
* [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]]
* [[Ganda Singh|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]]
* [[Sardul Singh Caveeshar]]
* [[Sheila Dikshit]]
* [[Sukhdev]]
* [[Simranjit Singh Mann]]
* [[Udham Singh]]
* [[Surjit Singh Barnala]]
* [[Harnam Singh Saini]]
* [[Sushma Swaraj]]
 
* [[Swaran Singh]]
* [[Laxmi Kanta Chawla]]
* [[Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa]]
* [[Parminder Singh Dhindsa]]
* [[Sarup Chand Singla]]
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{{div col end}}


===Pakistan===
==Religious figures==
===Sikh Gurus===
[[File:GuruNanakFresco-Goindwal.jpg|thumb|189x189px|[[Guru Nanak]], founder of [[Sikhism]]]]
* [[Guru Nanak Dev]], founder of [[Sikhism]]
* [[Guru Angad]]
* [[Guru Amar Das]]
* [[Guru Ram Das]]
* [[Guru Arjan|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]]
* [[Nanua Bairagi|Bhai Jamala Singh Saini]], renowned mystic, humanitarian and Sikh warrior of Punjab.


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=== Muslim Sufis and saints ===
* [[Allama Muhammad Iqbal]]
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* [[Chaudhry Afzal Haq]]
* [[Fariduddin Ganjshakar]]
* [[Chaudhry Amir Hussain]]
* [[Rukn-e-Alam]]
* [[Chaudhry Muhammad Ali]]
* [[Madho Lal Hussain|Shah Hussain]]  
* [[Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan]]
* [[Sultan Bahu]]  
* [[Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi]]
* [[Mian Mir]]
* [[Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain]]
* [[Ahmad Sirhindi|Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi]]
* [[Choudhary Rahmat Ali]]
* [[Shah Inayat Qadiri|Shah Inayat]]
* [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]]
* [[Bulleh Shah]]
* [[Feroz Khan Noon]]
* [[Waris Shah]]  
* [[Ghulam Bibi]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Bakhsh|Mian Muhammad Baksh]]
* [[Hamza Shahbaz]]
* [[Khwaja Ghulam Farid|Khawaja Ghulam Farid]]
* [[Hanif Ramay]]
* [[Meher Ali Shah]]
* [[Liaqat Abbas Bhatti]]
* [[Abdul Hakim Sialkoti]]{{div col end}}
* [[Liaqat Ali Khan]]
 
* [[Malik Amjad Ali Noon]]
===Hindu Gurus and saints===
* [[Malik Anwer Ali Noon]]
* [[Sri Chand|Baba Shri Chand]]
* [[Malik Ghulam Muhammad|Ghulam Muhammad]]
* [[Rama Tirtha|Swami Rama Tirtha]]
* [[Malik Meraj Khalid]]
* [[Swami Shraddhanand]]
* [[Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari]]
* [[Puran Bhagat|Sri Chauranginatha]]
* [[Mazhar Ali Azhar]]
* [[Bawa Lal Dayal]]
* [[Mian Iftikharuddin]]
* [[Mastana Balochistani]]
* [[Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif]]
* [[Virajanand Dandeesha]]
* [[Mian Umar Hayat]]
 
* [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]]
=== Buddhist figures ===
* [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]]
 
* [[Mushahid Hussain Syed]]
* [[Khema]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Thakur |first=Amarnath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3PLpwruJJQC&q=Sialkot&pg=PA81 |title=Buddha and Buddhist Synods in India and Abroad |date=1996 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=978-81-7017-317-5 |pages=81 |language=en |quote=She was from Sagala, modern Sialkot in Punjab... |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090440/https://books.google.com/books?id=K3PLpwruJJQC&q=Sialkot&pg=PA81 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last1=Buswell |first1=Robert E. Jr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGmYDwAAQBAJ&q=khema+born+sagala |title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |last2=Lopez |first2=Donald S. Jr. |date=2013-11-24 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15786-3 |pages=447 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090438/https://books.google.com/books?id=EGmYDwAAQBAJ&q=khema+born+sagala |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan]]
* [[Bhadda Kapilani]],<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Ahir |first=D. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pt37HHrNYTEC&q=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala |title=Gautama Buddha |date=1994 |publisher=Books For All |isbn=978-81-7386-112-3 |pages=49 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090448/https://books.google.com/books?id=pt37HHrNYTEC&q=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Murthy |first=K. Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SxnfNSalih4C&dq=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala&pg=PA146 |title=Glimpses of Art, Architecture, and Buddhist Literature in Ancient India |date=1987 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=978-81-7017-226-0 |pages=146 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090451/https://books.google.com/books?id=SxnfNSalih4C&dq=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala&pg=PA146 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQhuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala |title=Purābhāratī: Studies in Early Historical Archaeology and Buddhism : Commemoration Volume in Respect of Prof. B.P. Sinha |date=2006 |publisher=Sharada Publishing House |isbn=978-81-88934-39-3 |pages=455 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090439/https://books.google.com/books?id=MQhuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bhadda+Kapilani+sagala |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Nawaz Sharif]]
* [[Queen Anoja|Anoja]]<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Malalasekera |first=Gunapala Piyasena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Au_lIP1ZnQC&dq=anoja+sagala&pg=PA473 |title=Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names |date=2007 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-208-3022-6 |pages=473 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090439/https://books.google.com/books?id=8Au_lIP1ZnQC&dq=anoja+sagala&pg=PA473 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite book |last1=Buswell |first1=Robert E. Jr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGmYDwAAQBAJ&dq=anoja+sagala&pg=PA496 |title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |last2=Lopez |first2=Donald S. Jr. |date=2013-11-24 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15786-3 |pages=496 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090442/https://books.google.com/books?id=EGmYDwAAQBAJ&dq=anoja+sagala&pg=PA496 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Nisar Ali Khan]]
* [[Kumāralāta|Kumaralata]].<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |last=Puri |first=Baij Nath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sluKZfTrr3oC&q=Kum%C4%81ral%C4%81ta+&pg=PA105 |title=Buddhism in Central Asia |date=1987 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-0372-5 |pages=105 |language=en |quote=The venerable Kumāralāta (labdha) was a native of Takṣaśilā. |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090443/https://books.google.com/books?id=sluKZfTrr3oC&q=Kum%C4%81ral%C4%81ta+&pg=PA105 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite book |last=Winternitz |first=Moriz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lgz1eMhu0JsC&dq=Kum%C4%81ral%C4%81ta+taxila&pg=PA258 |title=A History of Indian Literature |date=1996 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-208-0265-0 |pages=258 |language=en |quote=Kumāralāta was the founder of the Sautrántika school, and came from Taxila. |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115090528/https://books.google.com/books?id=Lgz1eMhu0JsC&dq=Kum%C4%81ral%C4%81ta+taxila&pg=PA258 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC&dq=kumaralata+taxila&pg=PA323 |title=Indian History |date=1988 |publisher=Allied Publishers |isbn=978-81-8424-568-4 |pages=323 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-13 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115091007/https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC&dq=kumaralata+taxila&pg=PA323 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Pulin (editors) |first1=Basu Kaushik Ray Ranjan And Nayak |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZvpAAAAMAAJ&q=kumaralata+taxila |title=India's Interaction with China, Central and West Asia |last2=Culture |first2=Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-565789-0 |pages=96 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Watters |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxnUDwAAQBAJ&q=Kum%C4%81ralabdha&pg=PA245 |title=On Yuan Chwang's travels in India, 629-645 A.D |date=1904-01-01 |publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company |language=en |access-date=2022-08-04 |archive-date=2023-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115091032/https://books.google.com/books?id=XxnUDwAAQBAJ&q=Kum%C4%81ralabdha&pg=PA245 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Rana Sanaullah Khan]]
 
* [[Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan]]
===Radha Soami Satsang Beas===
* [[Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan (politician)|Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan]]
* [[Jaimal Singh|Baba Jaimal Singh]]
* [[Saqlain Anwar|Saqlain Anwar Sipra]]
* [[Sawan Singh|Baba Sawan Singh]]
* [[Sardar Ayaz Sadiq]]
* [[Jagat Singh (Sant)|Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh]]
* [[Shahbaz Sharif]]
* [[Charan Singh (Sant)|Maharaj Charan Singh]]
* [[Shahid Hussain Bhatti]]
* [[Gurinder Singh|Baba Gurinder Singh]]
* [[Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din]]
 
* [[Sheikh Waqas Akram]]
===Ahmadiyya===
* [[Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari]]
{{Main|Khalifatul Masih}}
* [[Syeda Sughra Imam]]
 
* [[Wasim Sajjad]]
* [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]] (1889–1908)
* [[Hakeem Noor-ud-Din|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===
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* [[Jasvir Rakkar]]
* [[Muhammad Hussain (baseball)|Muhammad Hussain]]
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===United States===
===Chess===
* [[Preet Bharara]], former member of the [[U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York]]
* [[Tania Sachdev]]
* [[Nikki Haley]], [[Governor of South Carolina]], former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
* [[Sultan Khan (chess player)|Sultan Khan]]
* [[Piyush "Bobby" Jindal]], [[Governor of Louisiana]], former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
* [[Vaibhav Suri]]
* [[Jenifer Rajkumar]], Member of [[New York State Assembly]] from [[Queens]]
* [[Sahaj Grover]]
* [[Ro Khanna]], Member of [[United States House of Representatives]] from California's 17th congressional district
* [[Aryan Chopra]]
* [[Vishal Sareen]]
 
=== Badminton ===


=== United Kingdom ===
* [[Dinesh Khanna]]
*[[Rishi Sunak]], [[Conservative]] [[Member of parliament|MP]] and [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]
* [[Tarun Dhillon]]
*[[Sajid Javid]]
* [[Palak Kohli]]
*[[Sajjad Karim]]
* [[Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti]]
* [[Zarina Jamal]]
* [[Mandeep Kaur (para badminton)|Mandeep Kaur]]


===Canada===
===Table Tennis===
*[[Harjit Sajjan]]
*[[Jagmeet Singh]]
*[[Raj Saini]]
*[[Sonia Sidhu]]
*[[Navdeep Bains]]
*[[Gurratan Singh]]
*[[Gagan Sikand]]
*[[Tim Uppal]]
 
==Sportspersons==
 
===Baseball===
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* [[Jasvir Rakkar]]
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===Chess===
* [[Tania Sachdev]]
 
===Table Tennis===
* [[Manika Batra]]
* [[Manika Batra]]
* [[Indu Puri]]


===Tennis===
===Tennis===
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* [[Shikha Uberoi]]
* [[Shikha Uberoi]]
* [[Yuki Bhambri]]
* [[Neha Uberoi]]
* [[Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi]]
* [[Man-Mohan Bhandari]]
* [[Kiran Bedi]]
* [[Naresh Kumar (tennis)]]
* [[Jasjeet Singh (tennis)]]
* [[Sanam Singh]]
* [[Haroon Rahim]]
* [[Shruti Dhawan]]
* [[Anu Peshawaria]]
* [[Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya]]
* [[Chandril Sood]]
* [[Lakshit Sood]]
* [[Manisha Malhotra]]
* [[Vishal Uppal]]
* [[Riya Bhatia]]
* [[Karman Thandi]]
 
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* [[Aashish Kapoor]]
* [[Aashish Kapoor]]
* [[Ajay Ratra]]
* [[Akash Chopra]]
* [[Akash Chopra]]
* [[Amanjot Kaur]]
* [[Amarjit Kaypee]]
* [[Amarjit Kaypee]]
* [[Arshdeep Singh]]
* [[Ashok Malhotra]]
* [[Ashok Malhotra]]
* [[Atul Wassan]]
* [[Atul Wassan]]
* [[Balwinder Sandhu]]
* [[Balwinder Sandhu]]
* [[Barinder Sran]]
* [[Bhupinder Singh snr]]
* [[Bhupinder Singh snr]]
* [[Bishan Singh Bedi]]
* [[Bishan Singh Bedi]]
* [[Chetan Sharma]]
* [[Chetan Sharma]]
* [[Gautam Gambhir]]
* [[Gautam Gambhir]]
* [[Gourav Dhiman]]
* [[Gurkeerat Singh]]
* [[Gurkeerat Singh]]
* [[Gursharan Singh]]
* [[Gursharan Singh]]
* [[Harbhajan Singh]]
* [[Harbhajan Singh]]
* [[Harvinder Singh]]
* [[Harleen Deol]]
* [[Harmanpreet Kaur]]
* [[Harvinder Singh (cricketer)|Harvinder Singh]]
* [[Jahangir Khan (cricketer)|Jahangir Khan]]
* [[Jahangir Khan (cricketer)|Jahangir Khan]]
* [[Kapil Dev]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/30028.html | title=Kapil Dev - Player Webpage | publisher=[[Cricinfo]] | access-date=2007-03-17}}</ref>
* [[Kapil Dev]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/30028.html | title=Kapil Dev - Player Webpage | publisher=[[Cricinfo]] | access-date=2007-03-17 | archive-date=2009-02-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207001319/http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/30028.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Lala Amarnath]]
* [[Lala Amarnath]]
* [[Madan Lal]]
* [[Madan Lal]]
* [[Maninder Singh (cricketer)|Maninder Singh]]
* [[Maninder Singh (cricketer)|Maninder Singh]]
* [[Manoj Prabhakar]]
* [[Mohinder Amarnath]]
* [[Mohinder Amarnath]]
* [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]]
* [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]]
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* [[V. R. V. Singh]]
* [[V. R. V. Singh]]
* [[Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)|Vijay Mehra]]
* [[Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)|Vijay Mehra]]
* [[Vikram Rathour]]
* [[Virat Kohli]]
* [[Virat Kohli]]
* [[Yuvraj Singh]]
* [[Yuvraj Singh]]
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* [[Azeem Hafeez]]
* [[Azeem Hafeez]]
* [[Azhar Mahmood]]
* [[Azhar Mahmood]]
* [[Babar Azam]]
* [[Fazal Mahmood]]
* [[Fazal Mahmood]]
* [[Ijaz Ahmed (cricketer)|Ijaz Ahmed]]
* [[Ijaz Ahmed (cricketer, born 1968)|Ijaz Ahmed]]
* [[Imran Khan]]
* [[Imran Farhat]]
* [[Imran Farhat]]
* [[Imran Nazir (cricketer)|Imran Nazir]]
* [[Imran Nazir (cricketer)|Imran Nazir]]
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* [[Majid Khan (cricket player)|Majid Khan]]
* [[Majid Khan (cricket player)|Majid Khan]]
* [[Maqsood Ahmed]]
* [[Maqsood Ahmed]]
* [[Mohammad Amir]]
* [[Mohammad Hafeez]]
* [[Mohammad Hafeez]]
* [[Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1946)|Mohammad Ilyas]]
* [[Mohammad Ilyas (cricketer, born 1946)|Mohammad Ilyas]]
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* [[Pervez Sajjad]]
* [[Pervez Sajjad]]
* [[Rameez Raja]]
* [[Rameez Raja]]
* [[Rocky Khan]]
* [[Saeed Ahmed (cricketer, born 1937)|Saeed Ahmed]]
* [[Saeed Ahmed (cricketer, born 1937)|Saeed Ahmed]]
* [[Saleem Altaf]]
* [[Saleem Altaf]]
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* [[Sarfraz Nawaz]]
* [[Sarfraz Nawaz]]
* [[Shabbir Ahmed (cricketer)|Shabbir Ahmed]]
* [[Shabbir Ahmed (cricketer)|Shabbir Ahmed]]
* [[Shadab Khan]]
* [[Shoaib Akhtar]]
* [[Shoaib Akhtar]]
* [[Shoaib Malik]]
* [[Shoaib Malik]]
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* [[Wasim Raja]]
* [[Wasim Raja]]
* [[Zaheer Abbas]]
* [[Zaheer Abbas]]
*[[Nashra Sandhu]]
*[[Sidra Nawaz]]
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* [[Jimmy Hansra]]
* [[Jimmy Hansra]]
* [[Harjit Singh Sajjan]]
* [[Harjit Singh Sajjan]]
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====Bangladesh====
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* [[Junaid Siddique]]
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====Field hockey====
====Field hockey====
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* [[Abdul Rashid (field hockey)|Abdul Rashid]]
* [[Lala Abdul Rashid|Abdul Rashid]]
* [[Ajitpal Singh]]
* [[Ajitpal Singh]]
* [[Asif Bajwa]]
* [[Asif Bajwa]]
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* [[Manzoor Hussain (field hockey)|Manzoor Hussain]]
* [[Manzoor Hussain (field hockey)|Manzoor Hussain]]
* [[Muhammad Shahbaz]]
* [[Muhammad Shahbaz]]
* [[Prabhjot Singh]]
* [[Prabhjot Singh (field hockey)|Prabhjot Singh]]
* [[Prithipal Singh]]
* [[Prithipal Singh]]
* [[Ramandeep Singh (field hockey, born 1971)|Ramandeep Singh]]
* [[Ramandeep Singh (field hockey, born 1971)|Ramandeep Singh]]
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* [[Sohail Abbas]]
* [[Sohail Abbas]]
* [[Wasim Feroz]]
* [[Wasim Feroz]]
* [[Imtiaz Sheikh]]
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====Ice hockey====
====Ice hockey====
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* [[Arshdeep Bains]]
* [[Jujhar Khaira]]
* [[Jujhar Khaira]]
* [[Manny Malhotra]]
* [[Manny Malhotra]]
* [[Kevin Bahl]]
* [[Robin Bawa]]
   
   
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===Athletics===
=== Figure skating ===
 
* [[Emanuel Sandhu]]
* [[Nishchay Luthra]]
*
 
=== American football ===
 
* [[Mike Mohamed]]
 
=== Canadian Football ===
 
* [[Sukh Chungh]]
 
===Athletics===
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* [[Neeraj Chopra]], first Indian athlete to win a gold medal
* [[Arshad Nadeem]]
* [[Abdul Khaliq (athlete)|Abdul Khaliq]]
* [[Milkha Singh]]
* [[Milkha Singh]]
* [[Kamaljeet Sandhu]]
* [[Kamaljeet Sandhu]]
* [[Haider Ali (athlete)|Haider Ali]]
* [[Tajinderpal Singh Toor]]
* [[Makhan Singh (sprinter)|Makhan Singh]]
* [[Makhan Singh (sprinter)|Makhan Singh]]
* [[Ajmer Singh (athlete)|Ajmer Singh]]
* [[Ajmer Singh (athlete)|Ajmer Singh]]
* [[Muhammad Ramzan Ali]]
* [[Harwant Kaur]]
* [[Kamalpreet Kaur]]
* [[Abdul Malik (athlete)]]
* [[Sadaf Siddiqui]]
* [[Ghulam Raziq]]
* [[Muhammad Nawaz]]
* [[Abdul Khaliq (athlete)]]
* [[Rabia Ashiq]]
* [[Manjit Walia]]
* [[Ghulam Abbas (hurdler)]]
* [[Navjeet Kaur Dhillon]]
* [[Liaqat Ali]]
* [[Arpinder Singh]]
* [[Mohinder Singh Gill]]{{div col end}}
===Golf===
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* [[Ashbeer Saini]]
* [[Jeev Milkha Singh]]
* [[Jyoti Randhawa]]
* [[Arjun Atwal]]
* [[P. G. Sethi]]
* [[Gaurav Ghei]]
* [[Shiv Kapur]]
* [[Gaganjeet Bhullar]]
* [[Vani Kapoor]]
* [[Tvesa Malik]]
* [[Amit Luthra]]
* [[Himmat Rai]]
* [[Aadil Bedi]]
* [[Arvind Khanna]]
* [[Rahul Bajaj]]
* [[Akshay Bhatia]]
* [[Kiran Matharu]]
* [[Aaron Rai]]{{div col end}}
===Wrestling===
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* [[The Great Gama|Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama)]]
* [[The Great Khali]], [[World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013)|World Heavyweight Champion]]
* [[Dara Singh]]
* [[Bholu Pahalwan]]
* [[Premchand Dogra]]
* [[Aslam Pehlwan]]
* [[Tiger Jeet Singh]]
* [[The Singh Brothers]]
* [[Jinder Mahal]], [[WWE Championship|WWE Champion]]
* [[Akam (wrestler)]]
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===Shooting===
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* [[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 Award]]ee
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===Cycling===
* [[Alexi Grewal]], American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics
* [[Imtiaz Bhatti]]
* [[Muhammad Shah Rukh]]
* [[Harshveer Sekhon]]
* [[Suchha Singh]]
* [[Muhammad Hafeez (cyclist)]]
* [[Amar Singh Billing]]
* [[Muhammad Ashiq]]
===Soccer===
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* [[Michael Chopra]], English footballer
* [[Shaan Hundal]], Canadian soccer player
* [[Harpal Singh]]
* [[Yan Dhanda]]
* [[Brandon Khela]]
* [[Ashvir Singh Johal]]
* [[Sunny Singh Gill]]
* [[Rikki Bains]]
* [[Dilan Markanday]]
* [[Mal Benning]]
* [[Roger Verdi]]
* [[Karanveer Singh Grewal]]
* [[Raspreet Sandhu]]
* [[Harpal Singh]]
* [[Danny Batth]]
* [[Aman Dosanj]]
* [[Rohan Luthra]]
* [[Permi Jhooti]]
* [[Jazz Juttla]]
* [[Delwinder Singh]]
* [[Adeel Younas]]
* [[Tanveer Ahmed (footballer)|Tanveer Ahmed]]
* [[Harmeet Singh (footballer)|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
* [[Sharafat Ali]]
* [[Haroon Yousaf]]
* [[Samar Ishaq]]
* [[Gurmeet Singh Chahal]]
* [[Amrinder Singh]]
* [[Aman Verma (footballer)]]
* [[Adnan Ahmed]]
* [[Jimmy Khan]]
* [[Simranjit Thandi]]
* [[Mateen Akhtar]]
* [[Inder Singh (footballer)|Inder Singh]], former footballer
* [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail Singh]]
* [[Inderjeet Aujla]]
* [[Gurjinder Singh (field hockey)|Gurjinder Singh]]
* [[Kabir Kohli]]
* [[Rashid Sarwar]]
* [[Shebby Singh]]
* [[Santokh Singh]]
* [[Jagvir Singh]]
* [[Manprit Sarkaria]]
* [[Arjan Raikhy]]
* [[Jeevan Badwal]]
* [[Muhammad Umar Hayat]]
* [[Etzaz Hussain]]
* [[Ali Uzair]]
* [[Sarpreet Singh]], New Zealand footballer
* [[Masood Fakhri]]
* [[Arif Mehmood]]
* [[Ghulam Sarwar (footballer)|Ghulam Sarwar]]
* [[Mehtab Singh (footballer)|Mehtab Singh]]
* [[Deepak Tangri]]
* [[Anwar Ali (footballer, born 1984)|Anwar Ali]]
* [[Sarfraz Rasool]]
* [[Triman Ranvir]], Belgian-Indian footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebridge.in/football/triman-ranvir-belgian-footballer-play-for-india-40443|title=Belgian footballer Triman Ranvir turns back on Europe to play for India|website=thebridge.in|publisher=The Bridge|date=13 March 2023|access-date=12 April 2023|first=Dipankar|last=Lahiri|archive-date=10 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410205645/https://thebridge.in/football/triman-ranvir-belgian-footballer-play-for-india-40443}}</ref><ref name="CYS">{{cite web|url=https://www.chaseyoursport.com/Indian-Football/Triman-Ranvir-18-year-old-footballer-from-Belgium-dreaming-to-play-for-India/6025|title=Triman Ranvir:18-year-old footballer from Belgium dreaming to play for India|date=26 February 2023|access-date=12 April 2023|website=chaseyoursport.com|publisher=Chase Your Sport|first=Moinak|last=Banerjee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320025049/https://www.chaseyoursport.com/Indian-Football/Triman-Ranvir-18-year-old-footballer-from-Belgium-dreaming-to-play-for-India/6025|archive-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>
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===Golf===
===Boxing===
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* [[Ashbeer Saini]]
* [[Amir Khan (British boxer)|Amir Iqbal Khan]]
* [[Jeev Milkha Singh]]
* [[Andrew Kooner]]
* [[Jyoti Randhawa]]
* [[Gurcharan Singh (boxer)]]
* [[Arjun Atwal]]
* [[Sukhdeep Singh Chakria]]
* [[P. G. Sethi]]
* [[Simranjit Kaur]]
* [[Gaurav Ghei]]
* [[Kaur Singh]]
* [[Shiv Kapur]]
* [[Pardeep Singh Nagra]]
* [[Gaganjeet Bhullar]]
* [[Harpreet Singh (boxer)]]{{div col end}}
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===Volleyball===
===Wrestling===
* [[Nirmal Saini]]
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* [[The Great Gama|Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama)]], remained undefeated
* [[The Great Khali]], [[World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)|World Heavyweight Champion]]
* [[Dara Singh]]
* [[Bholu Pahalwan]]
* [[Premchand Dogra]]
* [[Aslam Pehlwan]] Rustam-e-Punjab
* [[Tiger Jeet Singh]]
* [[The Singh Brothers]], WWE wrestlers
* [[Younus Khan]] (former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz
* [[Jinder Mahal]] (real name Yuvraj Singh Dhesi), [[WWE Championship|WWE Champion]]
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===Shooting===
=== Water Polo ===
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* [[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 Award]]ee
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===Cycling===
* [[Alexi Grewal]], American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics


===Soccer===
* [[Sushil Kohli]]  
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* [[Gurpreet Sohi]]
* [[Michael Chopra]], English footballer
* [[Harpal Singh]]
* [[Harmeet Singh (footballer)|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
* [[Jarnail Singh (footballer)|Jarnail Singh]]
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===Boxing===
=== Weightlifting ===
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* [[Amir Khan (British boxer)|Amir Iqbal Khan]]
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===Volleyball===
* [[Parvesh Chander Sharma]]
* [[Nirmal Saini]]
* [[Nooh Dastgir Butt]]
* [[Harjinder Kaur]]
* [[Meena Kumari (weightlifter)|Meena Kumari]]
* [[Tara Singh (weightlifter)|Tara Singh]]
* [[Lovepreet Singh (weightlifter)|Lovepreet Singh]]
* [[Gurdeep Singh (weightlifter)|Gurdeep Singh]]
* [[Pardeep Singh]]
* [[Rajinder Singh Rahelu]]
* [[Talha Talib]]


=== Sports executives and administrators ===
=== Freestyle Wrestling ===


[[File:Shammi Rana.jpg|thumb|upright|Shammi Rana]]
* [[Muhammad Inam|Muhammad Inam Butt]]
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* [[Muhammad Bashir]]
* [[Shammi Rana]]
* [[Amar Dhesi]]
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* [[Zaman Anwar]]
* [[Kartar Singh]]
* [[Mandhir Kooner]]
* [[Sunil Dutt (wrestler)]]
* [[Nishan Randhawa]]
* [[Madho Singh (wrestler)|Madho Singh]]


=== Mixed martial arts ===
=== Mixed martial arts ===
* [[Kultar Gill]], Indian-Canadian mixed martial artist
* [[Jaideep Singh]], Indian-Japanese mixed martial artist
* [[Singh Jaideep]], Indian-Japanese mixed martial artist
*[[Arjan Bhullar|Arjun Bhullar]], Punjabi-Canadian mixed martial artist
*[[Arjan Bhullar|Arjun Bhullar]], Indian-Canadian mixed martial artist
*[[Narender Grewal]]
 
*[[Bashir Ahmad (mixed martial artist)|Bashir Ahmad]]
==Artists==
[[File:Amrita Sher-Gil 2.jpg|thumb|upright|Amrita Sher-Gil]]
*[[Allah Bakhsh (painter)|Allah Bakhsh]], painter
*[[Amrita Sher-Gil]], painter
*[[Anish Kapoor]], sculptor
*[[Abdur Rahman Chughtai]], painter
*[[Ahmed Parvez]], painter
*[[Bashir Mirza]], painter
*[[Zubeida Agha]], painter
*[[Rashid Rana]], sculptor
*[[Quddus Mirza]], art critic


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[List of Punjabi Muslims]]
* [[Punjabis]]
* [[Punjabis]]
* [[List of British Punjabis]]
* [[List of British Punjabis]]
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[[Category:Punjabi people| List]]
[[Category:Lists of Pakistani people|Punjabi]]
[[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity|Punjabi]]
[[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity|Punjabi]]

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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.

Artists[edit | edit source]

Authors[edit | edit source]

Main articles: List of Punjabi authors and List of Punjabi-language poets

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu[edit | edit source]

Pakistan[edit | edit source]

India[edit | edit source]

Giani Gurdit Singh

English[edit | edit source]

Khushwant Singh (1915-2014) was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.

Aviators[edit | edit source]

Architects[edit | edit source]

Business[edit | edit source]

India[edit | edit source]

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Pakistan[edit | edit source]

Cartoonists[edit | edit source]

Doctors[edit | edit source]

India[edit | edit source]

Educators and scientists[edit | edit source]

Nobel laureates[edit | edit source]

Abdus Salam, first Pakistani Nobel prize winner in Physics
Har Gobind Khorana, first Punjabi Nobel prize winner.

Pakistan[edit | edit source]

India[edit | edit source]

Folklore[edit | edit source]

Film industry[edit | edit source]

Bollywood (India)[edit | edit source]

The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:

Family Artistes
The Sahnis Balraj Sahni, Bhisham Sahni, Parikshit Sahni
The Anands Chetan Anand, Dev Anand, Vijay Anand
The Chopras - 1 Baldev Raj Chopra, Yash Chopra, Ravi Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra
The Chopras - 2 Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra
The Deols Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Esha Deol, Abhay Deol
The Bachchans Teji Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shweta Bachchan Nanda
The Malhotras Prem Nath, Rajendra Nath, Bina Rai, Prem Kishen
The Roshans Rakesh Roshan, Rajesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan
The Randhawas Dara Singh, Vindu Dara Singh, Randhawa, Shaad Randhawa
The Rajs Jagdish Raj, Anita Raj
The Puris Chaman Puri, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri, Vardhan Puri
The Khannas - 1 Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna
The Khannas - 2 Vinod Khanna,[9] Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna
The Bedis - 1 Kabir Bedi, Pooja Bedi
The Bedis - 2 Narendra Bedi, Rajat Bedi, Manik Bedi
The Kapurs Pankaj Kapur, Shahid Kapoor
The Kapoors - 1 Prithviraj Kapoor, Trilok Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor,
Shashi Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Karan Kapoor
The Kapoors - 2 Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor,
Sanjay Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor
The Kapoors - 3 Jeetendra, Tusshar Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
The Ahujas Arun Kumar Ahuja, Nirmala Devi, Govinda Ahuja, Sunita Ahuja, Tina Ahuja, Krushna Abhishek, Ragini Khanna, Vinay Anand, Arti Sharma, Saumya Seth
The Dhawans David Dhawan, Varun Dhawan, Rohit Dhawan, Anil Dhawan
The Devgans Veeru Devgan, Ajay Devgan, Anil Devgan
The Oberois Suresh Oberoi, Vivek Oberoi
The Aroras Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora
The Tulis Rajendra Kumar, Kumar Gaurav
The Dutts Nargis Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt
The Mehras Vinod Mehra, Soniya Mehra, Rohan Mehra
The Babbars Raj Babbar, Arya Babbar, Prateik Babbar, Juhi Babbar
The Goswamis Manoj Kumar, Kunal Goswami

Individual Actors[edit | edit source]

Directors[edit | edit source]

Documentary filmmakers[edit | edit source]

Lollywood (Pakistan)[edit | edit source]

Directors[edit | edit source]

Punjabi cinema (India)[edit | edit source]

Further information: Punjabi cinema

Directors[edit | edit source]

Actors[edit | edit source]

The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.

Actors

Main article: List of Punjabi cinema actors

Actresses

Main article: List of Punjabi cinema actresses

Tamil cinema (India)[edit | edit source]

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Alam Lohar, considered one of the most important singers of Punjabi folk.[34]

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