Pakistan is the fifth most populous nation in the world. Below is a list of some notable people who relate to the country. See Pakistani people for a list of pages about notable Pakistanis by category.
Heads of state or government Civil / democratically elected administrators Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; first Governor General of Pakistan, and the main founder of Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan Khawaja Nazimuddin Ghulam Muhammad Iskander Mirza Chaudhury Mohammad Ali Chaudhry Fazal Ellahi Muhammad Rafiq Tarar Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy Muhammad Ali Bogra Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar Feroz Khan Noon Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Muhammad Khan Junejo Ghulam Ishaq Khan Benazir Bhutto Farooq Leghari Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi Balakh Sher Mazari Moeen Qureshi Malik Meraj Khalid Zafarullah Khan Jamali Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Shaukat Aziz Wasim Sajjad Mohammad Mian Soomro Yousaf Raza Gillani Raja Pervez Ashraf Nawaz Sharif Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Asif Ali Zardari Imran Khan Shehbaz Sharif
Military / non-democratically elected administrators Field Marshal Ayub Khan General Agha Muhammed Yahya Khan General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq General Pervez Musharraf
Foreign ministers Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (27 December 1947—24 October 1954) Aziz Ahmed (30 March 1977—5 July 1977) Agha Shahi (14 January 1978—9 March 1982) Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (21 March 1982—1 November 1987) Abdul Sattar (23 July 1993—19 October 1993) Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali (16 November 1993—4 November 1996) Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Caretaker: 11 November 1996—24 February 1997) Gohar Ayub (25 February 1997—7 August 1998) Sartaj Aziz Abdul Sattar (23 July 1999—14 June 2002) Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (23 November 2002—15 November 2007) Inam-ul-Haq (Caretaker: 15 November 2007—24 March 2008) Shah Mehmood Qureshi (31 March 2008—February 2011) Hina Rabbani Khar (18 July 2011—11 May 2013) Shah Mehmood Qureshi (20 August 2018) Khawaja Muhammad Asif Nawaz Sharif Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bureaucrats Roedad Khan Sartaj Aziz Nargis Sethi Tariq Bajwa Fazalur Rehman Mohammed Ikramullah Rizwan Ahmed Tasneem Noorani Usman Ali Isani Qudrat Ullah Shahab Syed Abu Ahmad Akif Jawad Rafique Malik Sikandar Sultan Raja Nasir Mahmood Khosa Rabiya Javeri Agha Fawad Hassan Fawad Kamran Lashari
Diplomats A. S. Bokhari Agha Shahi Jamsheed Marker Jauhar Saleem Javid Husain Maliha Lodhi Prince Ali Khan Khalid Amir Khan, Ambassador to Hungary, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Riaz Khokhar Najmuddin Sheikh Tehmina Janjua Tariq Azim Khan, High Commissioner to Canada (from 2015 to 2018) Abdus Salim Khan Shahryar Khan
United Nations officials A. S. Bokhari Nafis Sadik Iqbal Riza Patras Bokhari
Attorney General of Pakistan Yahya Bakhtiar Aziz A Munshi Makhdoom Ali Khan Malik Mohammad Qayyum Latif Khosa Ashtar Ausaf Ali Salman Aslam Butt Khalid Jawed Khan Iqbal Haider Mansoor Usman Awan Shehzad Ata Elahi
Law officers of Advocate General Punjab Ahmad Awais Shahid Karim Muhammad Amjad Pervaiz
Other major political figures A – F Abdul Ghani, provincial assembly member Abdul Majeed, provincial assembly member Abul A'la Maududi, writer of Tafhim-ul-Quran, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Abdul Rehman Rana, provincial assembly member Abdul Qadir Patel, Advisor to President of Pakistan and National Assembly Member Adnan Wazir, provincial assembly member Agha Shorish Kashmiri Akhtar Khan, provincial assembly member Ali Madad Jattak, provincial assembly member Ali Shah, provincial assembly member Allama Mashriqi Altaf Hussain, founding member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London Anwar Kamal Khan, senior leader of political party PMLN Asif Khan, provincial assembly member Aurangzeb Khan, provincial assembly member Bahadur Yar Jung Bakht Muhammad, provincial assembly member Chaudhry Afzal Haq Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, coined the word "Pakistan" Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Faisal Khan, provincial assembly member Faisal Khan Jamali, provincial assembly member Farhat Abbas, provincial senator Fatima Jinnah, sister of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, provincial assembly member
G – L Allama Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Tahreek-e- Pakistan activist, associate of the Quaid-e-Azam and a scholar on the Quran Ghulam Faruque Khan Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri Iftikhar Ahmad Khan Jadoon, provincial assembly member Ihtisham Ali, provincial assembly member Imran Khan, ex-cricket player, former prime minister in Pakistan Ishfaq Ahmed, provincial assembly member Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Liaqat Ali, provincial assembly member
M – R Mahmud Ali, leader in the Pakistan Movement, statesman and journalist Makhdoom Zada Muhammad Aftab Haider, provincial assembly member Maulana Mohammad Ali Mian Muhammad Umar, provincial assembly member Mir Saeed Ahmed Langove, provincial assembly member Mir Shoaib Nosherwani, provincial assembly member Mufti Mahmud, founding member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Azam Khan, provincial assembly member Muhammad Iqbal Khan, provincial assembly member Muhammad Riaz, provincial assembly member Mohammad Usman, provincial assembly member Mohammad Usman, former National assembly member Muhammad Waqas Khan, Pakistani politician Muhammad Yamin, provincial assembly member Mukhtar Ahmed Malik, provincial assembly member-elect Munir Hussain, provincial assembly member Murtaza Khan, provincial assembly member Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani Naseer Khan Khoso, provincial assembly member Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, Ahrari leader Nek Muhammad Khan, provincial assembly member Qazi Hussain Ahmed, ex-Chairman of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
S – Z Sahib of Manki Sharif Saleem Ullah Khan Niazi Paikhel, agriculturist and politician, former member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab Samad Khan, provincial assembly member Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, founder of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam. Shafi Ullah Jan, provincial assembly member Shah Abu Tarab Khan Bangash, provincial assembly member Shahzada Mohiuddin Sanath Singh Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din Sikandar Hayat Khan, Premier of the Province of Punjab and senior statesman Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Syed Kazim Hussain Shah, Sindh parliament member Syed Zafar Ali Agha, provincial assembly member Tariq Mehmood Aryani, provincial assembly member Ubaid Ullah, provincial assembly member Wali Muhammad, provincial assembly member Zahir Khan, provincial assembly member Zar Alam Khan, provincial assembly member
Judges Justice Shafi-ur-Rahman Justice A. R. Cornelius Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar Justice Sir Abdur Rashid Justice S. Anwarul Haq Justice Dorab Patel Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim Justice Hamoodur Rahman Justice Ajmal Mian Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Justice Mohammad Haleem Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah Justice Muhammad Munir Justice Muhammad Rustum Kiani Justice Muhammad Shahabuddin Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah Justice Qadeeruddin Ahmed Justice Rana Bhagwandas Justice Sajjad Ali Shah Justice Mukhtiar Ahmad Junejo Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed Justice Haziqul Khairi Justice Zafar Hussain Mirza Justice Saqib Nisar Justice Asif Saeed Khosa Justice Allama Khalid Mahmood Justice Gulzar Ahmed Justice Athar Minallah Justice Ali Baqar Najafi Justice Zahid Hussain Justice Jawad Hassan
Lawyers
Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan S M Zafar Hamid Khan Asma Jahangir, Senior ASC Aitzaz Ahsan Ashtar Ausaf Ali Khalid Ranjha Abdul Hafeez Pirzada Mahmud Ali Kasuri Ahmad Awais Wasim Sajjad Ghulam Farooq Awan Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada Sahibzada Ahmed Raza Khan Kasuri Akram Sheikh Syed Ali Zafar Naseer Ahmed Bhutta Babar Awan Makhdoom Ali Khan Khalid Anwer Mohammed Jibran Nasir Abid Hassan Minto Shakeel ur Rahman Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri Farooq Naek Salman Aslam Butt Suman Kumari, first Hindu woman judge in Pakistan Iqbal Haider Hina Jilani Azam Nazeer Tarar
Human rights activists and philanthropists Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of Edhi Foundation Ruth Pfau, founder of Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre Ramzan Chhipa, founder of Chhipa Welfare Association Hakim Muhammad Saeed, founder of Hamdard Pakistan Ansar Burney, founder of Ansar Burney Trust International Dr. Amjad Saqib, founder of Akhuwat Foundation Naimatullah Khan, advocate, former chairman of Al-Khidmat Foundation Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, founder of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation of Pakistan Mushtaq Chhapra, founder of The Citizens Foundation Sheema Kermani, founder of Tehrik-e-Niswan Asma Jahangir Hina Jilani Abid Qaiyum Suleri Shoaib Sultan Khan Masood Ul Mulk Fatima Lodhi Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, first woman minister in Pakistan and prominent social worker Veeru Kohli Dadi Leela (1916–2017), educationist, music teacher, philanthropist Gulalai Ismail Syeda Ghulam Fatima Fouzia Saeed Tabassum Adnan
Academia Scientists, researchers and scholars Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate in physics 1979, science advisor to the Government of Pakistan (1960–1974), founding director of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), received the Sitara-e-Pakistan for contribution to science in Pakistan (1959) and founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste Akbar Sitara Brooj is a cancer researcher at NHS England & Oxford University, she made multiple world records & is a child prodigy & motivation speaker. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Distinguished National Professor and Professor Emeritus, Quaid-e-Azam University; historian and archaeologist Jamal Malik, Professor and Chair of Islamic studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany Tariq Rahman, linguistic historian, HEC Distinguished National Professor and Emeritus Professor, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, scholar, critic, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan Pirzada Qasim, scholar, Vice Chancellor, University of Karachi, Karachi Attash Durrani, scholar, linguist, Director, Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics, Islamabad, Pakistan Atta ur Rahman Alamgir Hashmi, literary scholar, historian, critic, translator Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, chief executive officer (CEO) of Roots Millennium Schools, executive director of Roots School System, recipient of ‘Tamgha-e-Imtiaz’"‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ awarded to Faisal Mushtaq", The News International, Islamabad, 26 March 2013. Retrieved on 13 July 2014. Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer, former chairman KRL, 1976-2001 Khalid Saeed Khan, principal of College of Physiotherapy Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear engineer, former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), 1972–1991, chairman, IAEA Board of Governors, 1986–87 Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear physicist and former chairman of the PAEC Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist and AS-ICTP laureate Samar Mubarakmand, nuclear physicist, chairman of the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) Anwar Ali, former chairman of the PAEC Shahid Hussain Bokhari, computer and aerospace engineer Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, PhD in organic chemistry Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist Javaid Laghari, aerospace engineer, former Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan Datuk Rahman Anwar Syed, entomologist responsible for discovering the biological method of oil palm pollination Anwar Naseem, Advisor Science COMSTECH, Chairman National Commission on Biotechnology Pakistan, founding president of FABA Atta ur Rahman, PhD in organic chemistry, awarded a Doctorate of Science by the University of Cambridge in 1987Biography at the British Council website. Retrieved on 26 May 2008 Ikram Chughtai, researcher, translator, historian, and biographer. Ismat Beg, mathematician, PhD University of Bucharest, 1982 Umar Saif, computer engineer, PhD University of Cambridge, 2001 Syed Waqar Jaffry, Computer Scientist, Academician, PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam.