List of famous people from Pakistan, including photos when available. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Some of the people below are celebrities born in Pakistan, while others are simply notable locals. If you're from Pakistan you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. This list includes people who were born and raised in Pakistan, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age.
List people include Prem Nath, Riaz Ahsan and more.
If you want to answer the questions, "Which famous people are from Pakistan?" or "Which celebrities were born in Pakistan?" then this list is a great resource for you.
Vallabhbhai PatelDied at 75 (1875-1950) - Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India. He was a social ...more
Iqbal MasihDied at 12 (1983-1995) - Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani child who became a symbol of abusive child labor in the developing world.
Yash ChopraDied at 80 (1932-2012) - Yash Raj Chopra was an Indian film director, script writer and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. Yash Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I. S. Johar and ...more
Imran Abbas Naqviage 35 - Imran Abbas Naqvi is a Pakistani actor and former model. He is best known for his performance as Hammad/Maddy in Khuda Aur Muhabbat. After working for several years in TV dramas, Imran Abbas ...more
Milkha Singhage 83 - Milkha Singh, also known as The Flying Sikh, is a former Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He was the only Indian male athlete to ...more
Prem Chopraage 82 - Prem Chopra is an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in 320 films over a span of over 50 years. He has a soft spoken diction despite being a villain in most films.
Zara Durrani Zara Durrani is a Pakistani-Canadian actress and model, who currently hosts and produces CHCH television series Life & Style with Zara. She was born and grew up in Pakistan, and later moved ...more
Tariq Aliage 74 - Tariq Ali is an English Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, ...more
Jawad Ahmadage 47 - Jawad Ahmad is a music composer.
Googie WithersDied at 94 (1917-2011) - Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television. She was a longtime resident of Australia with her ...more
Aafia Siddiquiage 46 - Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani who studied neuroscience in the United States. She immigrated to the US in 1990 and obtained a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2001. In early 2003, during the ...more
Amar Guptaage 65 - Amar Gupta is a computer scientist, originally from India and now based in the USA.
Abdus SalamDied at 70 (1926-1996) - Mohammad Abdus Salam NI, SPk, KBE, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who, when he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to electroweak unification, became the first ...more
Bilawal Bhutto Zardariage 29 - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is a Pakistani politician who serves as the Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and presides over the party's executive committee. Born in the political Bhutto dynasty, ...more
L. K. Advaniage 90 - Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Advani served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government ...more
Mohan Kumarage 83 - Mohan Kumar is a film producer, director and screenwriter.
SudhirDied at 75 (1922-1997) - Sudhir is an actor.
Ali AbbasiDied at 43 (1961-2004) - Ali Abbasi was a Pakistani-born Scottish television presenter, born in Karachi. He moved from Pakistan to Glasgow, in 1963, with his parents as a child and joined BBC Scotland as a travel ...more
Chris Andersonage 61 - Chris Anderson is the curator of TED, which hosts conferences in North America and Europe each year and an open-access website where TED talks can be viewed by the public. Previously he founded ...more
Sunil DuttDied at 76 (1929-2005) - Sunil Dutt, born Balraj Dutt, was an Indian movie actor, producer, director and politician. He was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government. His son, Sanjay ...more
Saqib Aliage 39 - Saqib Ali is a United Arab Emirates cricket player.
Yasir Arafatage 36 - Yasir Arafat Satti is a Pakistani cricketer. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast.
Campbell ChristieDied at 70 (1893-1963) - Campbell Christie was an Indian-born British playwright and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with his wife Dorothy Christie on plays such as Carrington V.C. and Someone at the Door.
Kulbhushan Kharbandaage 73 - Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is better known for his role as antagonist Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James ...more
Amjad KhanDied at 46 (1946-1992) - Amjad Zakaria Khan was an Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films, the most ...more
Somy Aliage 42 - Somy Ali is a former Pakistani actress of the early 1990s. She has her own clothing line, So-Me Designs apart from running a non-profit organisation, No More Tears.
Abdul Mannanage 37 - Abdul Mannan is a Pakistani male model, manager, photographer, film actor, chess master and a Telenor employee. Mannan will make his screen debut as cricket hero Imran Khan Niazi in the 2012 ...more
Guru Nanak DevDied at 70 (1469-1539) - Guru Nanak is the founder of Sikhism and the first of the Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide on Kartik Puranmashi, the full-moon day which falls on different dates each year in the ...more
Achala SachdevDied at 92 (1920-2012) - Achala Sachdev was an Indian film actress from Peshawar who started her career as a child actor. She later became known for mother and grandmother roles in Hindi films. Her most memorable roles ...more
Faiz Ahmed FaizDied at 73 (1911-1984) - Faiz Ahmad Faiz, MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most regarded poets of the Urdu language, being considered four times ...more
Ravindra DaveDied at 73 (1919-1992) - Ravindra Dave was a film director and producer.
Prem NathDied at 66 (1926-1992) - Premnath Malhotra was an Indian actor.
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli Dr. Prof. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is a Pakistani-American political scientist and an Ambassador. In 2008, she was the senior advisor for women's empowerment to the United States Secretary of State ...more
Amir Jaffer Amir Jaffer is a film director, cinematographer, editor, producer and screenwriter.
Ahmed Rashidage 70 - Ahmed Rashid is a former Pakistani militant, a journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Raaj KumarDied at 70 (1926-1996) - Raaj Kumar, born Kulbhushan Pandit, was a Hindi film actor. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector i.a.s. of Mumbai Police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film ...more
Anand BakshiDied at 72 (1930-2002) - Anand Bakshi was a popular Indian poet and lyricist.
Khawaja Khurshid AnwarDied at 72 (1912-1984) - Khwaja Khurshid Anwar was a filmmaker, writer, director and music composer who gained extreme popularity both in India and Pakistan. He is widely credited as being one of the most original and ...more
Faisal Qureshiage 55 - Faisal Qureshi is a Pakistani entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and founder and chairperson of the non-profit organization Loose Ends Pakistan. He is also the anchorperson of several TV talk ...more
Nadeem F. Parachaage 51 - Nadeem Farooq Paracha, is a left-liberal, Pakistani journalist, cultural critic, satirist, and short story writer.
Mani Shankar Aiyarage 76 - Mani Shankar Aiyar is a former Indian diplomat turned politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party and was a part of first Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh He has ...more
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshiage 87 - Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, usually referred to as Moeen Qureshi, is a Pakistani economist and political figure. A former Vice President of the World Bank, he was the Interim Prime Minister of ...more
Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanDied at 49 (1948-1997) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis. Considered as the greatest voice ever recorded, he possessed an extraordinary ...more
Imran Anwarage 55 - Imran Anwar is a Pakistani American technologist, electrical engineer, business entrepreneur, journalist, television personality, photographer and speaker. Imran Anwar founded the .pk internet ...more
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoyage 39 - Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, is a Pakistani journalist and documentary filmmaker. She won an Academy Award for her documentary, Saving Face in 2012 and became first Pakistani to win an Oscar. She won ...more
Art Malikage 65 - Art Malik is a Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant-Ivory television serials and ...more
Shekhar Kapurage 72 - Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director, actor and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. Kapur became known in Bollywood with his recurring role in the TV series Khandan in the ...more
Agha Shorish KashmiriDied at 58 (1917-1975) - Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India, as well as the chief editor of ...more
Michael Nazir-Aliage 68 - Michael James Nazir-Ali is a Pakistani-born British Anglican bishop. He was the 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England from 1994 until his resignation in September 2009, taking a new ...more
Anwar Aliage 73 - Anwar Ali, born: 1945 in Lahore, British Punjab State, British Indian Empire, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 2006 till ...more
