This is a list of people who were born in Lahore or are otherwise known for their association with the city.
Actors and filmmakers
Artists
- Abdur Rahman Chughtai
- Ajaz Anwar
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Anna Molka Ahmed
- 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
Economists
Journalists
Medical professionals
Music and dance
Lawyers
Politicians and government officers
- Fakir Syed Azizuddin, minister during Sikh rule
- Mumtaz Daultana, Punjabi politician
- Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot, Muslim League leader and politician
- Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi, early politician from Punjab
- Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz, Muslim League lady activist
- Syed Amjad Ali, senior politician and former Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Qamar Zaman Kaira
- Moonis Elahi
- Chaudhry Tahir Mahmood Chahal Jatt
- Aitizaz Ahsan
- Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
- Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, former cricketer
- Khawaja Saad Rafique
- Maleeha Lodhi
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad, governor-general of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
- Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate of the 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 (Secretary 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
- Abdul Sattar Ranjoor, politician who lived briefly in Lahore
- Syed Mohammad Inaamullah, diplomat
Saints
Scholars
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Orientalist scholar and early educationalist of British Punjab
- 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 The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed
- Muhammad Sharif, Pakistani cosmologist
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, founder Minhaj-ul-Quran, religious Scholar, Islamic hadith compiler, Author
- Nergis Mavalvala, Pakistani-American astrophysicist, dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Science
- Ikram Chughtai, Pakistani researcher and writer
- Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
- Sara Suleri, author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, astrophysicist
- Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, founder of Jamia Naeemia Lahore
- Syed Afzal Haider legal expert and scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
- Syed Waqar Jaffry Pakistani academic and researcher in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence
- Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, Talu-e-Islam
- Asghar Zaidi, vice chancellor of Government College University Lahore
- Abdul Hafeez Mirza, Pakistani writer, tourism worker, educationist and cultural activist
- Jitendra Pal Singh Uberoi, sociologist and philosophical anthropologist
Sportspersons
Cricketers
Royalty and nobility
This section includes figures born in or related to the Subah of Lahore or the Lahore Durbar;
- Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor buried in Tomb of Jahangir
- Anarkali, quasi-legendary Mughal concubine and aesthetic muse, after whom the Anarkali Bazaar is named
- Shah Jahan, 5th Mughal Emperor born in Lahore
- Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress buried in Tomb of Nur Jahan
- Ustad Ahmad Lahori, chief architect of Taj Mahal
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh, leading general of Mughal emperor Akbar
- Wazir Khan, Subahdar of Lahore and Grand Wazir of Mughal Empire
- Sangam Rai, founder of Burdwan Raj zamindari estate in West Bengal
- Ranjit Singh , 1st Maharaja of Sikh Empire
- Kharak Singh, 2nd Maharaja of Sikh Empire
- Nau Nihal Singh, 3rd Maharaja of Sikh Empire
- Duleep Singh, 5th and last Maharaja of Sikh Empire
- Bamba Sutherland, last Sikh princess of the Punjab
Writers and poets
- Patras Bokhari
- Abdul Hamid Lahori
- Abu al-Barakat Munir Lahori
- Masud Sa'd Salman
- Abu-al-Faraj Runi
- 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, Sufi figure
- Amjad Islam Amjad writer, poet and teacher
- 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
- Enver Sajjad
- Muzaffar Warsi, Urdu poet
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
- Habib Jalib
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Jawayd Anwar
- Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar
- Krishan Chander
- Masud Sa'd Salman, Persian poet from the Ghaznavid period
- Moeen Nizami, Urdu and Persian writer, poet, and scholar
- Moniza Alvi
- Mohsin Hamid
- Muneer Niazi
- Qasim Mahmood
- 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
- Vijay Kumar Chopra, writer
- Tariq Ali, British-Pakistani writer and communist
- Tahir Aslam Gora, Canadian-Pakistani writer, poet, novelist, broadcaster
- Syed Salman Gilani
Aviators
Outlaws
Others
References