- Imran Khan
Imran Khan (Urdu/Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی born November 25 1952, in Mianwali is a Pakistani former cricketer turned politician. Imran played Test cricket for Pakistan between 1971 and 1992, and was captain of the national team when they won their maiden World Cup in 1992. Currently, Imran is a member of Parliament and leader of the political party that he founded, the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice).
- Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali was one of the greatest actors of Pakistan. Mohammad Ali was given the title of "Shahenshah-e-Jazbaat" (Urdu: شہنشاہ جذبات), i.e. "The Emperor of Emotions". Mohammad Ali started his career at Radio Pakistan Karachi in the early 1960s. In 1968, he married the renowned actress Zeba. He was known in the film circle for his command as a passionate actor and his ease in dramatic situations as well.
- Fateh Ali Khan
Fateh Ali Khan was born in 1901 at Lyallpur, Punjab. Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was the father of legendary Qawwali musician and singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Their family (originally from Afghanistan) has an unbroken tradition of Qawwali for over 600 years. Ustad Fateh Ali Khan was trained in classical music and Qawwali as a young boy, by his father, Maula Baksh, and he soon distinguished himself as a skilled musicologist, vocalist and instrumentalist.
- Abrar-Ul-Haq
Abrar-ul-Haq (Urdu/Punjabi: ابرار الحق is a Pakistani pop, bhangra and folk singer. On his first album "Billo De Ghar" his name appears as simply "Abrar". His best-known work is the song "Billo De Ghar". Before becoming a singer, he was a Geography teacher at Lahore's Aitchison College.
- Salman Khan
Salman Khan, born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 is a popular Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies. He is considered to be one of the biggest superstars in the industry.
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed "Faiz" is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. He was born in Sialkot, in the Punjab of pre-independence India (now Pakistan). After the partition of 1947, he decided to live in Pakistan, and died in Lahore. Faiz was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Progressive Writers' Movement), and an avowed Marxist. In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.
- Ahmed Faraz
Ahmed Faraz (Urdu: احمد فراز is considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century and greatest living Urdu poet of present times. Faraz is his 'takhallus', whereas his real name is Syed Ahmed Shah. Faraz, who has been compared with Mohammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, holds a unique position as one of the best poets of current times, with a fine but simplistic style of writing, …
- Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر was a Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.
- Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, pen-name Ghalib and Asad (27 December 1796 — 15 February 1869), was a renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet of the subcontinent. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. He is considered to be the most dominating poet of the Urdu language.
- Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great (Greek:, "Megas Alexandros"; July 20 356 BC - June 10 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon (336-323 BC). He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By his death, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, …
- Mehdi Hassan
Mehdi Hassan, "Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Hilal-e-Imtiaz" (Urdu: مہدی حسن) affectionately called "Khan Sahib" and titled as "Shahenshah-e-Ghazal" (English: King of Ghazals)is a well-known Pakistani Ghazal singer and a former playback singer for Lollywood and Bollywood.
- Waris Shah
Syed Waris Shah (Urdu/Punjabi: وارث شاہ was a Punjabi poet, best-known for his seminal work "Heer Ranjha", based on the traditional folk tale of Heer and her lover Ranjha. "Heer" is considered one of the quintessential works of classical Punjabi literature. The story of Heer was also put to paper by several other writers, including Damodar Daas, Mukbal, and Ahmed Gujjar, but Waris Shah's version is by far the most popular today.
- Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan (born Hrithik Roshanlal Nagrath on January 10, 1974), is a prominent Bollywood actor and five time Filmfare Award winner.
- Bulleh Shah
Bulleh Shah, whose real name was Abdullah Shah, was a Punjabi Sufi poet and humanist. He is believed to have been born in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur in modern day Pakistan. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan, in 1680. At the age of six months, his parents relocated to Malakwal. There his father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a preacher in the village mosque and a teacher. His father later got a job in Pandoke, …
- Jagjit Singh
Jagjit Singh(Hindi: जगजीत सिंह, Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Urdu: جگجیت سنگھ) (February 8, 1941 -) is an Indian ghazal singer. He sings in Hindi-Urdu and Punjabi languages.
- Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is National Film Award winning Indian actor who stars in Bollywood films. He is the son of the Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and the actress Sharmila Tagore. His sister is actress Soha Ali Khan. Khan starred in many films since his debut in 1992 but many failed at the box office. However he gained acclaim and rose into prominence with his performance in "Dil Chahta Hai" (2001).
- Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib (Urdu: حبیب جالب was one of the renowned Pakistani Urdu poets of 20th Century.
- Mir Taqi Mir
Mohammed Taqi (Urdu: محمد تقی, better known by his nom de plume of Mir Taqi Mir (Urdu: میر تقی میر) (sometimes also spelled as Meer Taqi Meer), was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of Delhi school of Urdu ghazal and remains arguably the foremost name in Urdu poetry.
- Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta (Hindi: प्रीति ज़िंटा, Urdu: پریتی زینتا. Pronunciation: born 31 January 1975) is an award-winning popular Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies. She is among the most successful actresses in the industry, and is regarded as one of the biggest names in India. Balancing commercial successes with critically acclaimed performances she has established herself as one of the most prominent leading actresses of Hindi cinema.
- Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar (Urdu: جاوید اختر is an Urdu poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed.
- Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Malik (Urdu: شعیب ملک is captain of the Pakistani cricket team. He made his Test debut in 2001 against Bangladesh and One Day International (ODI) debut in 1999 against the West Indies. Malik was appointed Captain on 19 April 2007 by the Pakistan Cricket Board, replacing Inzamam-ul-Haq. Former skipper Imran Khan, who led the team to World Cup glory in 1992, backed Malik for the role earlier in the week he was appointed captain.
- Qateel Shifai
Qateel Shifai (December 24, 1919 in Haripur, Hazara, - July 11, 2001 in Lahore) was a Pakistani poet. His real name was Aurangzeb Khan. He adopted Qateel Shifai as his pen name in 1938 under which he was known in the world of Urdu poetry. "Qateel" was his "takhallus" and "Shifai" was in honour of his ustaad Hakim Mohammed 'Shifa' whom he considered his mentor. Due to his father's early death, Qateel was forced to quit his education. He started his own sporting goods shop.
- Noor Jehan
Noor Jahaan (Urdu: نور جہاں was a famous South Asian singer and actress. She is revered in Pakistan by her title Malikah-e-Tarannum (Queen of Melody) (Urdu: ملکہ ترنم) and is considered to be one of the greatest singers to have come from the Indian Subcontinent. Noor Jahaan has appropriately sung around 10,000 songs in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi films in both India and Pakistan.
- Aziz Mian
Aziz Mian Qawwal (Urdu: عزیز میاں قوال was one of Pakistan's most famous Qawwals. Aziz Mian is responsible for the longest commercially released qawwali, "Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga", which runs slightly over 115 minutes, and was originally released on two cassettes.
- Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh (Urdu-Shahmukhi:) (September 28, 1907-March 23, 1931) was an Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most famous revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (the word "shaheed" means "martyr"). He is also believed by many to be one of the earliest Marxists in India.
- Mohammad Asif
Mohammad Asif (Urdu: محمد آصف is a Pakistani cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Asif has played for Khan Research Labs, the National Bank Quetta, Sheikhupura, Sialkot and Leicestershire. He made his Test match debut against Australia in January 2005. In 2006 there was controversy over Asif after he originally tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, Nandralone, before having a ban imposed on him overturned on appeal.
- Abdul Karim
Hafiz Abdul Karim CIE (1863?-1909), better known as "the Munshi" (variously translated as "teacher" or "clerk" in Hindi), was an Indian servant of Queen Victoria who gained her affection in the final fifteen years of her reign. The Munshi was one of two Indian servants brought over to mark Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. The Munshi was initially a dining room waiter. The Queen took a great liking to him, and, …
- Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor was a legendary Indian actor, producer and director of Bollywood movies. He is part of the famous Kapoor family and is the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, and Rama Kapoor, grandson of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor, great-grandson of Dewan Keshavmal Kapoor.
- Akbar Allahabadi
Akbar Allahabadi (Urdu: اکبر الہ آبادی was a famous Urdu poet, who was born as Syed Akbar Hussain at Allahabad on 16th November, 1846. Though initially educated only in madrasas (religious school), he later studied law and finally retired as a session judge in Allahabad High Court. He lived through tumultuous times, which is evident in his poetry, witessing the first war of independence in 1857, …
- Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah (Urdu: فاطمہ جناح was the sister of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and an active political figure in movement for independence from the British Raj. She is commonly known in "Pakistan" as Khatoon-e-Pakistan (Urdu: — "Lady of Pakistan") and Madar-e-Millat ("Mother of the Nation.") She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, then a part of British India.
- Dev Anand
Dharam Dev Ānand (born September 26, 1923), better known simply as Dev Anand, is a famous Indian Bollywood actor and film producer. In his heyday as a star, he was considered the epitome of the suave, urban gentleman. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Bollywood. His elder brother Chetan Anand was a film director, as was his younger brother, Vijay Anand.
- Dilip Kumar
Yusuf Khan (born December 11, 1922), also commonly known as Dilip Kumar (Hindi: दिलीप कुमार ; Urdu: دِلِیپ کُمار) is an Indian Bollywood film actor and a former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). Dilip Kumar is regarded as one of the greatest actors ever to grace the Indian film industry. His performances have been regarded as the epitome of emoting in Indian Cinema.
- Javed Iqbal
Javed Iqbal Mughal (1956?-2001) was a serial killer from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He claimed he killed 100 boys during an 18 month period. He had been arrested in June 1998 for sexually abusing 2 boys for money. He went off on bail, and began murdering boys shortly afterwards. Iqbal found boys on the street, charmed them into his confidence, and then drugged, raped, and strangled them. He then cut the body into pieces and put them in a vat filled with hydrochloric acid.
- Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (born 12 December 1948) was appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on 7 May, 2005. He began serving as Chief Justice on 30 June, 2005. His status is currently uncertain, as he does not enjoy the privileges neither does he serve the duties of a Chief Justice.
- Shahid Afridi
Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: , popularly known as Shahid Afridi"' or by his nickname "Boom Boom Afridi, is a Pakistani cricketer currently playing for the Pakistani national team. He made his ODI debut on October 2, 1996 against Kenya in Nairobi and his Test debut on October 22, 1998 against Australia at Karachi. He is known for his aggressive batting style, …
- Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (Urdu: عدنان سمیع خان is a popular British-born Hindustani singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer. Born to an Indian mother and a Pakistani father, his style merges Indian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from classical to jazz to modern pop-rock. He was awarded MTV's 2001 "Breakthrough Artist of the Year".
- Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pen name and it is a common practice for Urdu poets to attach the name of their birthplace in their pen-names.
- Wasim Akram
Wasim Akram (born June 3, 1966 in Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer. He was a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman, who represented the Pakistani cricket team in Tests and One-Day Internationals. He is widely regarded as one of the finest fast bowlers ever and holds world records for the most wickets taken in both ODIs (502) and List A cricket (881).
- Younis Khan
Mohammad Younus Khan (Urdu/Pashto: محمد یونس خان is a Pakistani cricketer and member of the Pakistan national cricket team since February 2000. Younus is popularly known as Younis Khan, however on the subject he himself said, "My name is Younus Khan. I tell people that everywhere, but they don’t listen." At present Younus is playing county cricket for Yorkshire.
- Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی is a British-Pakistani writer and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the "New Left Review", and regularly contributes to "The Guardian", "Counterpunch" and the "London Review of Books". He is the author of "Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope" (2006), "Conversations with Edward Said" (2005), "Bush in Babylon" (2003), …