List of Sindhi people
The following is a list of notable Sindhi, Seraiki and Urdu-speaking Sindhi people.
Historical personalities
Politics
Bureaucrats
Diplomats
- Abdul Hameed Akhund-former Ambassador
- Najamuddin Shaikh-former Foreign Secretary
- Khalid Hussain Khan Gudaro-currently Charge d' Affaires (a.i)/First Secretary, Embassy of Pakistan, Tripoli, Libya
Journalists
Columnists
Artists and Painters
- A.K Sheikh,
- Ali Akbar Soomro,
- Fatah Halepoto,[1]
- Zafar Kazmi,
- Imran Channa,
- Mohammad Ali Talpur,[2]
Poets
Classics
New Age
- .Modern Age Imdad solangi
Short story writers
Science and technology
- Sind ibn Ali, Sindhi Muslim astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
- Ahmed Mohiuddin
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Raziuddin Siddiqui
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, scientist, founder and former Chairman Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, founder Hussain Ibraheem Jamal Post Graduate Institute of Chemistry; Gold Medals from Soviet Science Academy and Kuwayt Foundation; Fellow of Royal Academy of Sciences, Britain, Vatican Academy of Sciences; Presidential awards: Sitara-e-Imtiaz; Hilal-e-imtiaz
- Ata ur Rahman
- Sayyed Waddal Shah
Educationists
Scholars
- Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
- Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, scholar of Islam and the Quran, linguist, professor of Urdu and Persian, author, poet, critic
- Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi
- Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
- Mirza Qalich Baig
- Allama I. I. Kazi
- Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
- Elsa Kazi
- Ali Muhammad Rashidi
- Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
- Ghulam Ali Allana
- Prof. (Retd.) Mir Muhammad Soomro, Religious Scholar, Poet, Researcher, Historian, author of many books in Sindhi, Urdu & Persian languages) wrote a Tafseer "Riyaz-ul-Quran" in Sindhi
Researchers
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, researcher, linguist, poet, author, scholar
- Jamal Abro
- Fahmida Hussain
- Anwar Peerzada
- Dr.N.A.Baloch, wel known reasercher, liguist, folk lore, latifiyat, historian
- Faqeer Muhammad Soomro
- Ghulam Rabbani Agro
Writers
- Jamal Abro, Sindhi novelist
- Fehmida Riaz, writer, poet, activist
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar
- Muzaffar Warsi, poet
- Zamir Ali Badayuni, critic
Business and industry
Philanthropists and social activists
Economics
Law and judiciary
Metaphysics, spirituality and religion
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, head of Naqashbandi Sufi Order, scholar, writer, poet
- Abu Mashar Sindhi (786 AD), teacher of Arab scholars
- Abu Raja Sindhi (d. 321 A.H.), scholar, poet, teacher
- Abul Hassan Al-Sindi (d. 1176 AH), made the first translation of Qur'an from Arabic to Sindhi
- Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (died 1174 AH), Ahl-us-Sunnah scholar
- Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi (d. 1929), freedom fighter from Sukkur, Sind
- Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar and author of the Akbarnama
- Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi, Muslim scholar at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar
- Mir Ali Sir Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
- Tahir Muhammad Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim poet and historian during the rule of the Mughal Empire
- Abu'l-Qásim Faizi, a Persian poet of late medieval India
- Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher of Sindh, Pakistan
- Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, title 'Hafiz-ul-milat' (حافظ الملت), a scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
- Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi (1916 - 2003 AD), a freedom fighter, Sindhi language translator, and a scholar of Shah Waliullahi philosophy
- Ubaidullah Sindhi, a pan-Islamic leader and a political activist in the Indian independence movement
- Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, a prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century; a teacher of the founder of the Wahhabi movement
- Raees-Ul-Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo (title: Raees-Ul-Muhajireen: رۂيس المھاجرين), a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement who took active part in their struggle against the British Raj
- Badee-ud-Deen Shah as-Sindhee
- Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Tahir
- Hazrat Khwaja Allah Bakhsh
- Allama Ali Khan Abro
- Maulana deen Muhammad Wafai
- Moulana Jan Mohammad Abbasi
- Khwaja Abdul Ghaffar Naqshbandi
- Makhdoom Bilawal
- Molana Asadullah Bhutto
Saints and Sufis
Performing arts and media
Sports
Medicine
References
- ^ http://www.sindhtelegraph.com/sindh/46-sindh/1454-fatah-halepoto-a-prolific-artist-and-a-beautiful-human-being
- ^ http://www.greencardamom.net/artists/artists_page.php?id=21