Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib

male, deceased (1869)
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 su...

Sharif Ghalib

male
Sharif Ghalib is the first Afghan diplomat to have represented Afghanistan in Canada. Mr. Ghalib was appointed by the Interim Administration headed...

Ghalib

male
Haji Ghalib is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. Ghalib's...
Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

male, deceased (1984)
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...

Farman Fatehpuri

male, 83 years old
Prof. Dr. Farman Fatehpuri "Sitara-e-Imtiaz" (b. 1926) is the eminent Urdu linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar of Pakistan. He is...
Amir Meenai

Amir Meenai

male
Amir Minai, an Urdu poet of eminence was born in 1826 at Lucknow and died in 1900 at Hyderabad. A popular poet both with the people and the...
Daud Kamal

Daud Kamal

male
Daud Kamal (Urdu: داؤد کمال was a professor of English literature at University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He was educated at Cambridge Universi...
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

Los Angeles-based writer Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla was born in Mombasa, Kenya. At 13 years old, the aspiring young novelist published his first article...

Ludmila Vassilyeva

female
Ludmila Vassilyeva is a Russian scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow and teaches Urdu literature at Moscow University. She is an...