List of people from Lahore
Below is a list of people who are known for their association with Lahore. It does not necessarily mean that they were born in the city or were even nationals of the country.
Actors and filmmakers
- Anwar Kamal Pasha, film director and producer
- Chetan Anand (director), film maker
- Dev Anand, Bollywood actor, director, film producer
- Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, filmmaker, writer, director, composer
- Rasheed Attre, music director (grandfather of Jimmy Attre)
- Muamar Rana
- Fawad Afzal
- Mustafa Qureshi
- Ayesha Sana
- Shaan, actor
- Reema Khan, actress
- Resham
- Jana Malik
- Sajal Ali
- Janita Asma
- Badar Khalil
- Anoushay Abbasi
- Bahar Begum
- Rabia Butt
- Beenish Chohan
- Gabrielle Drake
- Nirma (actress)
- Meera
- Prem Chopra a Bollywood and Punjabi film actor
- Vaneeza Ahmed
- Saba Hameed, Pakistani television actress
- Saeed Khan Rangeela, Lollywood actor, singer and director
- Khalid Abbas Dar
- Ali Zafar
- Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor who was prominent in Punjabi films during the 1970s and 1980s
- Faisal Qureshi
- Iman Ali
- Babra Sharif
- Meesha Shafi
- Kamini Kaushal
- Yawar Hayat Khan, TV director/producer
- Yash Chopra Bollywood director, producer
- O. P. Nayyar, Bollywood Music Composer
- Kuldip Kaur
- Amina Haq
Artists
- Abdur Rahman Chughtai
- Ajaz Anwar
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Anna Molka Ahmed
- A. R. Hye
- Bhai Ram Singh, architect
- Nayyar Ali Dada, architect
- Rashid Rana, artist
- Salima Hashmi
- Shakir Ali, artist, art teacher, former head of the National College of Arts in Lahore
- Shahzia Sikander, artist
- Sir Ganga Ram, philanthropist, architect, civil engineer, and agriculturist
- Zahoor ul Akhlaq
Businessmen
- Mian Muhammad Mansha
- Shahid Khan, richest person of Pakistani birth
Economist
- Salman Shah, Economist
Sportspersons
Cricketers
- Aamer Khan, cricketer
- Aamer Sohail
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistan's first official cricket captain
- Abdul Qadir
- Abdul Razzaq
- Adnan Akmal
- Ahmed Shehzad
- Asif Masood
- Azhar Ali
- Babar Azam
- Bismah Maroof
- Fazal Mahmood
- Gul Mohammad
- Humayun Farhat
- Ijaz Ahmed
- Imam-ul-Haq
- Imran Farhat
- Imran Khan
- Imtiaz Ahmed
- Kamran Akmal
- Khan Mohammad
- Mahmood Hussain
- Mohammad Yousuf
- Mudassar Nazar
- Nasir Jamshed
- Saleem Malik
- Salman Butt
- Sami Aslam
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- Sarfraz Nawaz
- Shafiq Ahmed
- Taufeeq Umar
- Umer Akmal
- Wahab Riaz
- Waqar Hasan
- Wasim Akram
- Zulqarnain Haider
Tennis player
Hockey player
Baseball player
Journalists
- Ahmed Rashid
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri
- Janbaz Mirza
- Khushwant Singh, novelist and journalist
- Muhammad Farooq
- Hamid Mir
- Hassan Nisar Columnist and anchor person
- Naeem Baig Novelist and Short story writer.
- Olive Christian Malvery, investigative journalist.
Medical professionals
- Sadaqat Ali, Psychiatrist
- Amna Buttar, Medical Doctor
Music
- Abrar ul Haq
- Ali Azmat
- Ali Zafar
- Amanat Ali Khan
- Annie Khalid
- Meesha Shafi
- Asad Amanat Ali Khan
- Atif Aslam
- Bilal Khan, singer
- Farida Khanum
- Humera Arshad
- Iqbal Bahu
- Iqbal Bano
- Irene Perveen
- Jawad Ahmad
- Malika Pukhraj
- Musarrat Nazir
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- O. P. Nayyar, film music director and composer
- Shafqat Amanat Ali
- Shamshad Begum
- Tahira Syed
- Waris Baig
Politicians
- Qamar Zaman Kaira
- Moonis Elahi
- Chaudhry Tahir Mahmood Chahal Jatt
- Aitizaz Ahsan
- Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
- Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf - former cricketer
- Khawaja Saad Rafique
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
- Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court
- Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Mazhar Ali Azhar (Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam), Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (Secretory General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, 1945)
- Nawaz Sharif, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan (resident), Crown Princess of Jordan for over 30 years, wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
- Raza Rabbani
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Shah Jahan, emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628 until 1658
- Tariq Ali, British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, commentator; regular contributor to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books
- Teji Bachchan, social activist who became a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; wife of Hindi literary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan; mother of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
- Abdul Sattar Ranjoor, politician who lived briefly in Lahore
Scholars
- Alfred Cooper Woolner, Sanskrit scholar
- John Lockwood Kipling curator, artist and ethnologist, also father of Rudyard Kipling
- Allama Mashriqi, mathematician, political theorist, Islamic scholar, founder of the Khaksar movement
- Alamgir Hashmi, English and Comparative Literature scholar, author, literary editor and scholarly editor (social sciences and humanities)
- Ayesha Jalal, South Asian Historian
- Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, author of prize winning book, The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed, 2012, 2014
- Muhammad Sharif (cosmologist), A Pakistani scientist
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Founder Minhaj-ul-Quran, religious Scholar, Islamic hadith compiler, Author
- Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
- Romila Thapar Eminent Ancient Indian Historian
- Sara Suleri, author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, astrophysicist
- Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Founder Jamia Naemia
- Syed Afzal Haider legal expert and scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
- Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, Talu-e-Islam
Writers and poets
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja, poet, dramatist, writer and scholar
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
- Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri (writer, historian)
- Muhammad Asim Butt (Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist)
- Janbaz Mirza (writer, historian)
- Wasif Ali Wasif (conversationalist, writer, Sufism)
- Amrita Pritam, woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
- Ashfaq Ahmed, writer, playwright, broadcaster
- Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist in English, author of Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
- Bano Qudsia, novelist, playwright and spiritualist
- Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Muzaffar Warsi, Urdu poet
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
- Habib Jalib
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Krishan Chander
- Masud Sa'd Salman Persian poet from the Ghaznavid period.
- Moeen Nizami Urdu and Persian writer, poet & scholar
- Moniza Alvi
- Mohsin Hamid
- Muneer Niazi
- Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, politician, poet
- Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
- Alamgir Hashmi, English poet, essayist, fiction writer (born in Lahore)
- Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer in Urdu
- Qayyum Nazar, Urdu Language poet
- Khadija Mastoor, Urdu feminist writer
- Hajra Masroor, Urdu feminist writer
- Ali Arshad Mir, Punjabi poet and writer
- Sahir Ludhianvi, Poet and writer
- Vijay Kumar Chopra Writer
Others
- Jai Singh Kanheya, founder of the Kanheya Misl
- Michael Chowdry, businessman
- Shan Virk, model