List of Punjabi people

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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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Nobel laureates[edit]

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

Pakistan[edit]

India[edit]

Military leaders[edit]

Medieval Punjab[edit]

Muslim[edit]

Sikh[edit]

Hindu[edit]

Sikh Empire[edit]

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire

Sikh[edit]

Hindu[edit]

Muslim[edit]

Pakistan Armed Forces[edit]

General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, is the most respected and popular general in the country's history.[6]

Air Force[edit]

Army[edit]

Navy[edit]

Indian Armed Forces[edit]

Airforce[edit]

Army[edit]

General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army

Navy[edit]

Other notables[edit]

Singapore Armed Forces[edit]

Army[edit]

Business[edit]

India[edit]

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Pakistan[edit]

Music[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

Alam Lohar, considered one of the most important singers of Punjabi folk.[11]

Punjabi Folk[edit]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, considered as one of the greatest performers of qawwali.[12]

Sufi Qawwali[edit]

Classical Hindustani Gharanas[edit]

Panjabi Gharana[edit]
Patiala Gharana[edit]
Sham Chaurasia Gharana[edit]
Atif Aslam, widely acclaimed playback singer

Modern Playback[edit]

India[edit]

Mohammed Rafi was a singer famous for singing multiple genres and styles
Punjabi folk singers and sisters Parkash Kaur and Surinder Kaur in 1967

Punjabi folk[edit]

Sufi Qawwali[edit]

Jagjit Singh, popular ghazal singer

Classical Hindustani Music[edit]

Patiala Gharana[edit]
Sham Chaurasia Gharana[edit]
Sukhwinder Singh, singer of Academy and Grammy award-winning song "Jai Ho"

Modern playback[edit]

Cartoonists[edit]

Doctors[edit]

India[edit]

Educators and scientists[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

India[edit]

Astronauts[edit]

India[edit]

Film & TV[edit]

Bollywood (India)[edit]

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, Hrithik Roshan
The Singhs Dara Singh, Vindu Dara Singh
The Rajs Jagdish Raj, Anita Raj
The Puris Madan Puri, Amrish Puri,
The Khannas - 1 Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna
The Khannas - 2 Vinod Khanna,[17] Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna
The Bedis Kabir Bedi, Pooja Bedi, Protima Bedi
The Kapurs Pankaj Kapur, Shahid Kapoor
The Kapoors - 1 Prithviraj 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 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

Individual Actors[edit]

Directors[edit]

Documentary filmmakers[edit]

Lollywood (Pakistan)[edit]

Directors[edit]

Punjabi cinema (India)[edit]

Further information: Punjabi cinema

Directors[edit]

Actors[edit]

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]

International Film and TV personalities[edit]

Ancient figures[edit]

Porus and Alexander

Folklore[edit]

Religious and spiritual figures[edit]

Muslim Sufis and saints[edit]

File:BullehShah.jpg
Bulleh Shah was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet

Hindu Gurus and saints[edit]

Radha Soami Satsang Beas[edit]

Ahmadiyya community[edit]

Main article: Khalifatul Masih

Sikh Gurus[edit]

Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism

Religious Sikhs[edit]

Writers[edit]

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu[edit]

India[edit]

File:Giani Gurdit Singh.jpg
Giani Gurdit Singh

Pakistan[edit]

Muhammad Iqbal, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of Urdu in the 20th century.[18]

English[edit]

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

Journalists[edit]

Print[edit]

India[edit]

England[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

Electronic/broadcast[edit]

India[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

Models[edit]

Revolutionaries[edit]

Politicians[edit]

India[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

United States[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Canada[edit]

Sportspersons[edit]

Baseball[edit]

Chess[edit]

Table Tennis[edit]

Tennis[edit]

Cricket[edit]

India[edit]

Harbhajan, pictured here bowling in the nets

Pakistan[edit]

Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar is one of the fastest bowlers in the world.

England[edit]

Canada[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Basketball[edit]

Hockey[edit]

Field hockey[edit]

Ice hockey[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Golf[edit]

Wrestling[edit]

Shooting[edit]

Cycling[edit]

Soccer[edit]

Boxing[edit]

Volleyball[edit]

Sports executives and administrators[edit]

Shammi Rana

Mixed martial arts[edit]

Artists[edit]

Amrita Sher-Gil

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad. Government Central Press. 1879. p. 249.
  2. ↑ Wink, André (1990). Indo-Islamic society: 14th - 15th centuries. BRILL. p. 143. ISBN 978-90-04-13561-1. Zafar Khan (entitled Muzaffar Shah) himself was a convert to Islam from a sub-caste of the Khatris from southern Punjab
  3. ↑ Rose, H.A. (1997). A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: L.-Z, Volume 3. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 9788185297705. Langah are described by Tod as a clan of the Chaluk or Solanki tribe of Agnikula Rajputs, who inhabited Multan and Jaisalmer...
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  5. ↑ Siddiqui, Shabbir A. (1986). "Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 47: 273–276. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44141552.
  6. ↑ Hussain, Zahid (2016-11-23). "The general's legacy". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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  13. ↑ Punjabi author Pritam Saini dead, Tribune News Service, Monday, November 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India, / http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031110/punjab1.htm
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  16. ↑ "Subhash Saini". Zyvex.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
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  18. ↑ "All writings of Allama Iqbal". Rekhta. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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