List of University of the Punjab people

This is a list of notable alumni, faculty and admins of the University of the Punjab, located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Notable alumni

A

• Allama Iqbal
• Fauzia Abbas
• Ghulam Ahmad
• Ishfaq Ahmad
• Masud Ahmad
• Mirza Tahir Ahmad
• Mushtaq Ahmad
• Muhammad Ahsan
• Choudhary Rahmat Ali
• Arif Alvi
• Akhtar Aly Kureshy
• Chaudry Mohammad Aslam?
• Jagannath Azad
• Ali Baqar Najafi
• Farooq Azam
• Sartaj Aziz

B

• Muneer Ahmed Badini - novelist and writer
• Noor Muhammad Butt - nuclear physicist

D

• Nighat Dad
• Colin David
• Joseph R. D'Cruz
• Satish Dhawan
• DJ Fluke

G

• Yousaf Raza Gillani

H

• Alamgir Hashmi - poet
• Javed Hashmi - politician
• Mehr Abdul Haq - philologist
• Javid Husain - diplomat, former Ambassador of Pakistan
• Rafiuddin Hashmi - writer

I

• Ibn-e-Insha
• Muzaffar Iqbal
• Inder Kumar Gujral

J

• Asma Jahangir

K

• Mujahid Kamran
• Siddiq Khan Kanju
• Abdul Matin Khan
• Hamid Nawaz Khan
• Saif-ur-Rehman Khan
• Wasiullah Khan
• Shaista Khilji
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Safdar Kiyani

M

• Mian Muhammad Mansha
• Musadik Malik-Senator PML-N Politician
• Allama Mashriqi
• Khalid Masud
• Salim Mehmud
• Amir Mir - investigative journalist
• Hamid Mir
• Muhammad Munawwar Mirza
• Mohammed Rafique Mughal
• Noor Muhammad
• Ghulam Murtaza

N

• Niaz Ahmad Akhtar
• Ihsan H. Nadiem
• Anwar Nasim
• Zafar Moeen Nasir
• Hassan Nisar
• Farzana Naz (Renowned Poet)

P

• Anwar Kamal Pasha
• Fatima Begum (politician)

Q

• Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi
• Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi

R

• Farzana Raja
• Mohan Rakesh
• Mumtaz Hamid Rao
• Muneer Ahmad Rashid
• Mohsin Razi

S

• Abdus Salam - Nobel Laureate, helped develop the Standard Model, laying the foundation for the "God particle"
• Dalip Singh Saund
• Syed Zakir Hussain Shah
• Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif
• Muhammad Sharif
• Ralph Randles Stewart
• Rahman Syed
• Sanaullah Amritsari

T

• Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

W

• Syed Waqar Jaffry

Y

• Yash Pal
• Yusril Ihza Mahendra

Z

• Anwer Zahidi
• Zubair Ali Zai

Noted PU faculty

(Some of the alumni listed above also served in the U of the Punjab faculty, so their names are not repeated here)

• Anwaar Ahmad
• Anna Molka Ahmed
• GF Bruce
• Mian Shah Din
• Oliver Elton
• Kanwal Ameen
• E.M. Forster
• Omar Asghar Khan
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
• Sir Ganga Ram
• Alfred Cooper Woolner

See also

• List of people from Lahore
• Higher education in Pakistan
• Higher Education Commission of Pakistan