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çà) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Artists
Authors
Punjabi
Classical
Modern
Urdu
Persian
English
Historians
Business
- Anwar Pervez, founder of Bestway
- Ashar Aziz, founder of FireEye in Silicon Valley
- Bashir Tahir, former CEO of Dhabi Group
- Fred Hassan, director at Warburg Pincus
- James Caan, founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
- 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 Chowdrey, founder of Atlas Air
- Muhammad Zahoor, owner of ISTIL Group
- Shahid Khan, owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
- Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway
Islamic scholars and other religious figures
Military
Air Force
Army
- General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Zia ul Haq, former Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan
- General (R) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
- General (R) Tikka Khan, former COAS of the Pakistan Army and Victor of the Rann of Kutch
- General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Asim Munir, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
- Lt Gen (R) Mahmud Ahmed
- 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, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
- Maj Gen (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan
- Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
- Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
- Maj Gen (R) Ashraf Rashid
- Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
- Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
- Major Tufail Muhammad, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Muhammad Akram, Nishan-e-Haider
- Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
- Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
- Naik Saif Ali Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
- Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, Nishan-e-Haider
- Sowar Muhammad Hussain, Nishan-e-Haider
Navy
Recipients of the Victoria Cross
Music
Punjabi Folk
Sufi Qawwali
Classical Hindustani Gharanas
Modern Playback
Nobility
Mughal Empire
- Shahbaz Khan (1529âÂÂ1599), governor
- Wazir Khan (1560âÂÂ1642), Grand Vizier
- Daulat Khan (âÂÂ), governor
- Saadullah Khan (1591âÂÂ1656), Grand Vizier
- Hifzullah Khan (1645âÂÂ1701), governor
- Mutawassil Khan (died 1744), governor
- Muzaffar Jang Hidayat (died 1751), Nizam of Hyderabad
- Khair Andesh Kamboh (died 1710), first Nawab of Meerut
- Adina Beg Arain (1710âÂÂ1758), governor (and later Nawab) of Punjab.
- Mahmud Khan Gujjar (died 1772), Nawab of Dera Ghazi Khan
Sikh Empire
Chieftains
Politicians
United Kingdom
People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin
Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
Scientists and academics
- Farooq Azam, professor of oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
- Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
- Nayyar Ali Dada, architect in modernist architecture
- Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist
- Tasawar Hayat, mathematician
- 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, theoretical physicist
- Qaiser Mushtaq, mathematician
- Adil Najam, dean of global studies at Boston University
- Khalil Qureshi, physical chemist
- Muneer Ahmad Rashid, mathematical physicist
Sportspersons
Association Football
Chess
Cricket
Freestyle Wrestling
Weightlifting
Field hockey
<big>Javelin throw</big>
Arshad Nadeem
See also
References