- Pananmal Punjabi
Pananmal Hotchand Punjabi (born September 20, 1921, Karachi) is a former Indian cricketer who played in five Tests in 1955. A right-handed opening batsman, Punjabi had a long but somewhat intermittent first-class cricket career, starting with two matches for Sind before partition and resuming more regularly from 1951 for Gujarat. In the 1953-54 season, he scored three centuries in three matches and was then picked for the tour to Pakistan the following season, 1954-55.
- Raam Punjabi
Raam Punjabi is an Indian Indonesian media magnate and president of Multivision Plus.
- Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh, is a director of Punjabi films. He also works as a cinematographer in Bollywood films. He has worked in the making of movies like Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai and Mohabbatein. He directed his first film in 1994, named Pehla Pehla Pyar. His first movie was in Hindi, but he is well known for his Punjabi family movies.
- Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor nicknamed "Bebo" is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian popular actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Since her debut in the 2000 film, "Refugee", she has acted in nearly 30 films, majority of them bringing her critical success rather than commercial success. Despite this fact, she has emerged today as one of the top and most versatile actresses from the industry.
- Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh (Born in Patna, Bihar, India, on 22 December, 1666 as "Gobind Rai" - 7 October, 1708, Nanded, Maharashtra, India) was the tenth and last of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on November 11, 1675 following in the footsteps of his father, the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Teg Bahadur. He was Guru between 1675 and 1708. Guru Gobind Singh (also sometimes transliterated as 'Govind'), played a monumental part in the development of the Sikh faith.
- Priyanka Chopra
Free Picture Gallery of Priyanka Chopra including pictures, wallpapers, photos, images and movie stills. Priyanka Chopra Biography Priyanka Chopra was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India on 18th July 1982 to Cap. Dr. Ashok Chopra & Dr. Madhu Chopra . Priyanka Chopra was brought up at Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. Since her father was in the army, her family frequently traveled. She studied at La Martiniere Girls Hostel in Lucknow, as a young girl.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Great Khali
Dalip Singh Rana (born August 27 1972) is an Indian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name The Great Khali. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its SmackDown! brand, where he is the current World Heavyweight Champion. Before embarking on his professional sports career, he was an officer in the Punjab state police.
- Neha Dhupia
Neha Dhupia (born on August 27, 1980 in Kochi) is an Indian model and actress. She was crowned Miss India in 2002. Dhupia was raised in New Delhi and born to Sikh-Punjabi parents. She went to Army Public School and completed her undergraduate studies in Jesus and Mary College.
- Amrita Arora
Amrita Arora, born 31 January 1978 is an Indian actress.
- Celina Jaitley
Celina Jaitley was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on 9th June 1981.. She was crowned Miss India in 2001. She has appeared in several movies and music videos (including the Bombay Vikings' "Zara Nazron Se Kehdo" video). She was born to an Afghan mother and a Kashmiri father in Kabul, Afghanistan. However she grew up in different cities and mostly spent her time in Kolkata, India. Her father is an army officer and her mother, Meeta Jaitley, is a former beauty queen.
- Parkash Singh
Major Parkash Singh (31 March 1913- 23 March 1991) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Esha Deol
Esha Deol (Hindi:ईशा धियोल)(born November 2, 1982) is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films.
- Bobby Deol
Vijay Singh Deol (Punjabi: ਵਿਜੈ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਿੳਲ, Hindi:विजय सिंह देओल, Urdu: وِجے سِںہ دِیول), born 27 January 1967, commonly known as Bobby Deol, is an Indian actor. He was born in Mumbai, India
- Juhi Chawla
Juhi Chawla (born 13 November, 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India) is an award-winning Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. Initially starting with mainstream films, Chawla is now appearing in parallel cinema.
- Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 950 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar. Asha Bhosle is considered as one of the most versatile of South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, …
- 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.
- Joginder Singh
Subedar Joginder Singh (26 September 1921 - 23 October 1962) born in Faridkot, Punjab was a Subedar in the Indian Army. On 28 September 1936, he was enrolled in the 1 Sikh Regiment.
- 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.
- Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh was a Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator. Along with Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan is credited with revolutionizing the Punjabi poetry writing style. He has written 17 collections of poems, including "Registan Vich Lakarhara", 19 works of literary history and translated 14 pieces of literature of others including those of Aristotle, Sophocles, Rabindranath Tagore and selections from the Rig Veda.
- 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, …
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
"Maharaja" Ranjit Singh, also called "Sher-e-Punjab" ("The Lion of the Punjab") (1780-1839) was a Sikh emperor of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan.
- Malkit Singh
Malkit Singh is a Punjabi singer. Most famous for the songs "Gur Nalo Ishq Mita", "Tootak Tootak Tootiyan", "Kurri Garam Jayee", as well as recently, "Chal Hun". Whilst "Jind Mahi" features in the blockbuster "Bend It Like Beckham" soundtrack. He cites Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as one of his mentors. He has recently released "21st chapter" featuring the hugely popular, and classic "Jago Aaya". Singh and his backup band Golden Star have toured in twenty-seven countries.
- Gurdas Maan
Gurdas Maan (') is a Punjabi singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actor. He was born on 4 January, 1957 in Giddarbaha, Muktsar District, Punjab, India. Gurdas Maan gained national attention in India in 1980 with the song "Dil Da Mamala Hai". Since then he has gone on to record over 27 albums and has written over 200 songs.
- Sunny Deol
Sunny Deol, born as Ajay Singh Deol (Punjabi: ਅਜੈ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਿਓਲ, Hindi: अजय सिंह देओल, Urdu: اَجے سِںہ دِیول) on October 19, 1956 in New Delhi, India) is a National Film Awards winning film (Bollywood) actor of Punjabi descent.
- Harbhajan Mann
Harbhajan Mann is a Punjabi singer and actor. He was born on 30 December, 1970 in Bathinda, Punjab, India. Harbhajan started his singing career in 1977. He performed in local shows for the Asian audience in Canada after school. Harbhajan studied punjabi music from his first teacher, Karnail Singh. In 1992, Harbhajan's big break came when he release his second album Chithiye Nee Chithiye in Canada. The album was a success to a large punjabi audience.
- Panjabi Mc
Panjabi MC (real name Rajinder Singh Rai) is a British punjabi musician. He was born in 1971 in Coventry, England.
- Alam Lohar
Muhammad Alam Lohar is a prominent Punjabi folk music singer of Pakistan. Alam Lohar's son Arif Lohar is also a famous singer.
- 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.
- Dr Zeus
Dr Zeus aka Baljit Singh is a Punjabi Music Director. He gained stardom in India in late 2004 with his hit song "Kangna". Dr. Zeus launched his first album in India, also titled "Kangna", in late 2004 with HOM Records. "Gwandian Da Dhol" is another hit credited to Dr.Zeus. In UK he have three smashing albums to his credit High Life, Unda The Influence and Original Edit.
- Ghulam Ali
Ghulam Ali (born 1940) is a famous Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala Gharana. He is not to be confused with the eminent classical vocalist Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (of whom he was a disciple) or Chhote Ghulam Ali, who is another Pakistani singer, but in the "qawwali" style.
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Shiv Kumar (born July 23, 1936 in Bara Pind Lohtian (Shakargarh tehsil), Punjab [now Pakistan], died May 7, 1973 in Kir Mangyal (Pathankot), Punjab in India) was a Punjabi poet.
- Babbu Mann
Babbu Mann is a well-established Indian Punjabi pop singer, actor, lyricist, composer and playback singer. Mann is an alumnus of Punjab University, Chandigarh. His first album was "Tu Meri Miss India" in 1999 which was a moderate hit. His second album "Saun Di Jhadi" released in 2001 was his first highly successful album. It sold over ten million copies in India alone and many more overseas.
- Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh (born 12 December 1981 in Chandigarh, India) is a cricketer from India, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 (ODIs) and played his first Test match in 2003.
- Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh, born on 2 February ,1915 in Hadali, British India, now a part of Punjab, Pakistan, is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country. An important post-colonial novelist writing in English, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry.
- Kartar Singh
Kartar Singh (1896 - November 16, 1915) was an Indian revolutionary who fought for the cause of economic, political and social freedom. He was born in Sarabha, in the Punjab province of Ludhiana. He was the editor of a revolutionary paper called Ghadr. He fought against British Imperialism, raising above caste or religious lines, and was executed on November 16 1915. He soon became the symbol of martyrdom and many were influenced from his bravery and sacrifice.
- Baldev Singh
Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and first Defence Minister of India. Moreover, he represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that resulted in the independence of India, as well as the Partition of India in 1947. After independence, Baldev Singh was chosen to become the first Minister of Defence, …
- Udham Singh
Udham Singh, born Sher Singh was a Sikh Punjabi Marxist and nationalist best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avengement of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre. Singh was also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism.
- Kuldeep Manak
Kuldeep Manak is a Punjabi singer. He is especially renowned for singing a genre of songs called kalis.