List of people from Karachi
This is a list of notable people from the city of Karachi in Pakistan, also known as Karachiites:
Armed forces
- Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan - governor
- Muhammad Mahmood Alam
- Mirza Aslam Beg - four-star general
- Moinuddin Haider - lieutenant general, governor
- Pervez Musharraf - former President and Army Chief of Pakistan
- Ft. Lt. Rashid Minhas Shaheed - only PAF recipient of Nishan-e-Haider
- Marium Mukhtiar Pakistan's first female martyred fighter pilot in the line of duty.
Art and literature
- Minocher K. Spencer Parsi author and spiritual healer from Karachi (born October 4, 1888 Pune, India)
- Jamiluddin Aali - poet, columnist, critic (born 1926 in Delhi)
- Mohammad Abdul Ahed - architect, educator, painter (1919-2001)
- Manzoor Ahmad - philosopher (born 1934)
- Obaidullah Aleem - journalist, poet (1939-1998)
- Ahmed Ali - novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar (1910 in New Delhi - 1994 in Karachi)
- Nasim Amrohvi - Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer (1908-1987)
- Qaem Amrohvi - poet, philosopher (1919 Amroha, India - 1990 Karachi)
- Rais Amrohvi - journalist, poet, psychoanalyst (1914-1988)
- Iftikhar Arif - poet, critic, author (born 1943)
- Hasan Askari - philosopher, author, critic (1919-1978)
- Zamir Ali Badayuni - critic (1941-2003)
- Fatima Surayya Bajia - drama writer (born 1930)
- Tabish Dehlvi - poet (1911-2004)
- Jon Elia - Arsalan Kachaliya's favorite poet, philosopher (1931-2002)
- Aslam Farrukhi - writer, critic, linguist (born 1923)
- Farman Fatehpuri - researcher, poet, critic, linguist (1926-2013)
- Dilawar Figar - humorous poet, scholar (1929 Badaun, UP - 1998 Karachi)
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah - first female columnist of Pakistan (1921-2000)
- Maulvi Abdul Haq - father of modern Urdu (1872-1961)
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee - Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer
- Hameed Haroon - journalist, activist
- Sibte Hassan - author, columnist, activist (1916-1986)
- Zahida Hina - columnist, author, poet (born 1946)
- Ashfaq Hussain - Urdu poet and television personality in Canada for Asian Television Network (born 1951)
- Intizar Hussain - linguist, novelist, critic (born 1923)
- Ibn-e-Insha - poet, writer and humorist (1927 Phillaur, Punjab, British India - 1978 London, England)
- Ibn-e-Safi - novelist, story writer (1928 Nara, district of Allahabad, UP, British India - 1980 Karachi)
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah - writer, activist (1915-2000)
- Farhat Ishtiaq - writer, author and screenwriter (born June 23, 1980)
- Siddiq Ismail - religious Hamd and Naat reciter (born 1954)
- Qamar Jalalvi - poet (1887 Jalali, Aligarh, India - 1968 Karachi)
- Jameel Jalibi - scholar, critic, linguist, former VC KU (born 1929)
- Abul Khair Kashfi - critic, linguist, author, scholar (1932 Kanpur, British India - 2008 Karachi)
- Khalique Ibrahim Khalique - journalist, poet, critic (1926-2006)
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan - writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar, educationist (1912-2005)
- Josh Malihabadi - poet, linguist, scholar (1894-1982)
- Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor (born 1935 Hyderabad State)
- Haseena Moin - playwright, drama writer
- Zehra Nigah - poet
- Pirzada Qasim - poet, author, educationist (born 1943)
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - author, historian, educationist (1903-1981)
- Fahmida Riaz - writer, poet, activist (born 1946 Meerut, UP, British India)
- Sadequain - painter, calligraphist (1930 Amroha, British India - 1987 Karachi)
- Hakeem Muhammad Said - pioneer of Eastern medicine, philanthropist (1993-1994)
- Abul Lais Siddiqui - critic, linguist, author, scholar
- Shaukat Siddiqui - novelist, fiction writer (1923-2006)
- Raees Warsi - journalist, author, poet, founder of Urdu Markaz New York (born 1963)
- Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi - author, humorist (born 1923)
- Mustafa Zaidi - poet (1930-1970)
- Kashan Admani - musician
Bankers
- Agha Hasan Abedi - banker and founder of the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International
- Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan and incumbent Dean of Institute of Business Administration
Businessmen
- Agha Hasan Abedi - banker, founder of BCCI
- Safi Qureshi - co-founder and CEO of AST Research; born and educated in Karachi; now based in the US
- Sikandar Sultan - Managing Director of Shan Food Industries
Debaters and orators
- Hussain Haqqani - leading Urdu debater, National College, Karachi; Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.A.
- Javed Jabbar - orator, politician, Senator
- Raza Rabbani - English debater, politician, Senator
Economists
- Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan
- Akhtar Hameed Khan - pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project
- Nawab Haider Naqvi - former Director PIDE
- Muhammad Shoaib - Finance Minister; Executive Director World Bank; father of Nafisa Sadik
- Hammad Siddiqi - economist, banker
Education
- Moonis Ahmar
- Anita Ghulam Ali - educationist
- Nasim Amrohvi
- Moinuddin Aqeel - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Bernadette Louise Dean - former Principal of Kinnaird College, Lahore
- Mary Emily - recipient of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for services to education
- Aslam Farrukhi - author, poet, critic, linguist, scholar
- Farman Fatehpuri - real name Syed Dildar Ali; author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Khalida Ghous - human rights activist, scholar
- Jameel Jalibi - linguist, scholar
- Abul Khair Kashfi - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan - author, critic, linguist, scholar, Sufi
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - VC Karachi University, author, historian, scholar
- Ata ur Rahman - Chairman HEC, scientist
- Hakim Saeed - VC Hamdard University
- Abul Lais Siddiqui - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui - Chancellor, Karachi University
- Raziuddin Siddiqui - physicist, mathematician, scholar
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi - former Federal Secretary and Vice Chancellor, Ziauddin University
Journalists
- Mujahid Barelvi
- Ardeshir Cowasjee
- Kamran Khan
- Daniele Mastrogiacomo - Italian journalist born in Karachi
Law and judiciary
- Justice Syed Sajjad Ali Shah - CJS, Chief Justice of Sindh High Court from Karachi.
- Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed - Chief Justice Sind High Court and Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius
- Mohammad Haleem - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Makhdoom Ali Khan - former Attorney General of Pakistan
- Naimatullah Khan - advocate
- Justice Ajmal Mian - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Dorab Patel
- Nazim Hussain Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Haziqul Khairi - former Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan
- Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Rana Bhagwandas - former acting Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid - former Chief Justice Sindh High Court and Justice Pakistan Supreme Court of Pakistan
Performing arts
Actors and comedians
- Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor
- Ather Shah Khan Jaidi Writer comedian
- Adnan Jaffar - television, film actor
- Adeel Hussain - model, actress
- Aiza Khan - actress, model
- Angela Thorne - English actress
- Ayaz Samoo - comedian, actor
- Humayun Saeed - actor, model and producer
- Hina Dilpazeer - actress, TV host, model
- Iqbal Theba - Pakistani-American television actor
- Izhar Qazi - film and TV actor
- Jamshed Ansari - comedian
- Kumail Nanjiani - comedian
- Moin Akhter - TV, film and stage actor, comedian and host
- Mehwish Hayat - actress, model
- Margaret Lockwood - film and stage actress (1916-1990)
- Nadeem - film actor
- Nirala (real name Muzaffar Hussain) - comedian
- Rauf Lala - comedian, actor
- Syed Kamal - film actor
- Saud
- Sami Shah - comedian, writer
- Salim Nasir - comedian, actor
- Talat Hussain - television actor, director
- Umer Sharif - comic actor
- Urwa Hocane - actress
- Zainab Qayyum - model, actress, TV host
- Zhalay Sarhadi - model, actress
Singers, musicians and music & directors
- Ramesh Sippy Indian film director and producer from Karachi.
- Salma Agha - singer
- Alamgir - pop singer
- Sajjad Ali - singer
- Waqar Ali - singer and musician
- Faraz Anwar - guitarist
- Iqbal Bano - ghazal singer
- Nisar Bazmi - composer
- Munni Begum - singer
- Ali Haider - singer
- Mehdi Hassan - ghazal singer
- Nazia Hassan - first female pop singer of Pakistan
- Zohaib Hassan - singer
- Ahmed Jahanzeb - singer
- Junaid Jamshed - former singer
- Faisal Kapadia - singer
- Bilal Maqsood - composer
- Maaz Moeed - singer
- Habib Wali Mohammad - singer
- Sohail Rana - composer
- Shehzad Roy - singer
- Ahmed Rushdi - singer
- Lenny Zakatek - English pop and rock star
Dancers
- Sheema Kermani social activist, theater director and exponent of Bharatnatyam dance.
Philanthropists and social workers
- Ansar Burney - human rights activist and founder of the Ansar Burney Trust
- Abdul Sattar Edhi - philanthropist and founder of the Edhi Foundation
- Bilquis Edhi - philanthropist, founder of the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi
- Ruth Lewis - runs Darul Sukun, a home for the disabled
- Fatima Lodhi - social worker, founder of Dark is Divine, first anti-colorism campaign from Pakistan
- Fahmida Riaz
- Hakim Said - scholar, philanthropist, former Governor of Sindh
- Nafis Sadik - United Nations
Politicians and bureaucrats
- Lal Krishna Advani - Former Deputy Prime Minister of India and co-founder of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India
- Abdul Sattar Afghani - ex-Mayor Karachi Metropolitan City
- Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Benazir Bhutto - former Prime Minister
- Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim - Governor, Law Minister, Attorney General
- Imran Farooq - co-founder of MQM
- Syed Munawar Hasan - former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami
- Altaf Hussain - founder and Chairman of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
- Fatima Jinnah - sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Madar-i-Millet
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan
- Syed Mustafa Kamal - former Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi
- Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan - incumbent Governor of Sindh (2002 to present)
- Naimatullah Khan - former Mayor of Karachi city
- Shahryar Khan - former Foreign Secretary and former Chairman of the Cricket Board in Pakistan
- Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta - Mayor of Karachi
- Pervez Musharraf - General (Retd.), former Army Chief, military dictator and President of Pakistan
- Farooq Sattar - parliamentary leader of the MQM
- Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi - leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan; founder of the World Islamic Mission
- Azeem Ahmed Tariq - former chairman of MQM
- Harchandrai Vishandas - former mayor of Karachi (during 1900s)[1]
- Ali Zaidi - Pakistan Tahreek e insaaf
- Asif Ali Zardari - former president of Pakistan
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Chairman of Pakistan People's Party
- Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar sixth Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Pakistani ambassador to Turkey
- Hussain Haroon Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Religious leaders
- Talib Jauhari - religious scholar
- Aga Khan III - Imam Sultan Mohammed Shah - 48th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, President League of Nations, President All India Muslim League and GCSI, GCMG
- Muhammad Ilyas Qadri - founder of Dawat-e-Islami
- Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
- Taqi Usmani - religious scholar
- Godrej Sidhwa A Parsi Zoroastrian priest
saints
- Abdullah Shah Ghazi was an eighth-century (c. 720) mystic Sufi, whose shrine is located in the Clifton, Karachi.
Scientists
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - chemist
- Abdul Qadeer Khan - metallurgist and founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme
- Atta ur Rahman - chemist
- Raziuddin Siddiqui - astrophysicist and mathematician
- Ziauddin Ahmed
- Muhammad Ali Shah - orthopaedic surgeon
- M. Shahid Qureshi - astrophysicist and mathematician
- Pervez Hoodbhoy - nuclear physicist
- Ahmed Mohiuddin - zoologist
- Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda
Sports
Cricketers
- Nain Abidi
- Shahid Afridi - world record holder for the fastest ODI century
- Afzaal Ahmed
- Sarfraz Ahmed
- Tauseef Ahmed
- Fawad Alam
- Anwar Ali
- Basit Ali
- Saeed Anwar
- Atiq-uz-Zaman
- Sikandar Bakht
- Wasim Bari
- Philip Bonham-Carter
- Anil Dalpat - first Hindu to play for the country
- Rusi Dinshaw
- Antao D'Souza
- Shahzaib Hasan
- Afaq Hussain
- Asif Iqbal
- Faisal Iqbal
- Kafeel Jahangir (1971-) - Hertfordshire and Minor Counties cricketer
- Jalal-ud-Din - in 1982, took the first hat-trick in an ODI
- Abdul Kadir
- Asim Kamal
- Danish Kaneria - second Hindu to play for the country
- Javeria Khan
- Mohsin Khan
- Moin Khan
- Rashid Khan
- Khalid Latif
- Rashid Latif
- Shahid Mahmood
- Khurram Manzoor
- Wallis Mathias
- Anwar Miandad
- Javed Miandad
- Hanif Mohammad - first Pakistani batsman to score a triple century
- Mushtaq Mohammad
- Shoaib Mohammad
- Asif Mujtaba
- Nasim-ul-Ghani
- Iqbal Qasim
- Rumman Raees
- Haroon Rasheed
- Hasan Raza
- Mohammad Sami
- Asad Shafiq
- Owais Shah (born 1978) - English cricketer
- Saleem Yousuf
Hockey
Sprinting
Swimming
- Mumtaz Ahmed - olympian
Historical personalities
- Mai Kolachi incumbent name of Karachi is derived from this fisher woman.
Miscellaneous
- Bashir Ahmad
- Tazeen Ahmad
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Lady Abdullah Haroon
- Agha Hilaly
- Aamir Liaquat Hussain
- Siddiq Ismail
- Farahnaz Ispahani
- Shadab Kabir
- Asim Kamal
- Jahangir Khan
- Yousuf Ludhianvi
- Iskander Mirza
- Asif Mujtaba
- Abdur Rab Nishtar
- Arman Sabir
- Behroze Sabzwari
- Kamal Warsi
- Irfan Yusuf
References
- ^ Nadeem F. Paracha. "Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth". dawn.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.