List of people from Lahore
Below is a list of people who are known for their association with Lahore. It does not necessarily mean that they were born in the city or were even nationals of the country.
Actors and filmmakers
- Dev Anand, Bollywood actor, director, film producer
- Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, filmmaker, writer, director, composer
- Muamar Rana
- Juggan Kazim
- Mustafa Qureshi
- Ayesha Sana
- Nadeem
- Resham
- Vaneeza Ahmed
- Saba Hameed, Pakistani television actress
- Saeed Khan Rangeela, Lollywood actor, singer and director
- Ali Zafar
- Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor who was prominent in Punjabi films during the 1970s and 1980s
- Faisal Qureshi
- Saba Qamar
- Iman Ali
- Aaminah Haq
Artists
Cricketers
Journalists
Music
Politicians
- Aitizaz Ahsan
- Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, amir of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah
- Imran Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
- Khawaja Saad Rafique
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955
- Mian Shah Din
- Naeem Bokhari, Pakistani TV personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court
- Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din (leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar)
- Mazhar Ali Azhar (Founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam), Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (Secretory General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam , 1945)
- Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan (resident), Crown Princess of Jordan for over 30 years, wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
- Raza Rabbani
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Shah Jahan, emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628 until 1658
- Shahbaz Sharif, President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)
- Tariq Ali, British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, commentator; regular contributor to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books
- Teji Bachchan, social activist who became a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; wife of Hindi literary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan; mother of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
Scholars
- Alfred Cooper Woolner, Sanskrit scholar
- Allama Mashriqi, mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar, founder of the Khaksar movement
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri,Founder Minhaj-ul-Quran,Religious Scholar, Islamic hadith compiler,Author
- Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Pakistani Muslim theologian, Koran scholar, educationist
- Sara Suleri, author, professor of English at Yale University since 1983
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, astrophysicist
- Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Founder Jamia Naemia
Writers and poets
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq (writer, politician, historian, Novelist)
- Abdul Hameed, Urdu fiction writer
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri (writer, historian)
- Janbaz Mirza (writer, historian)
- Amrita Pritam, first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
- Ashfaq Ahmed, writer, playwright, broadcaster
- Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist in English, author of Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and Water
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, poet in Urdu, Lenin Peace Prize recipient
- Habib Jalib
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Mohsin Hamid
- Moniza Alvi
- Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, politician, poet
- Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, novelist (resided in Lahore)
- Saadat Hasan Manto, short story writer in Urdu