List of Urdu-language writers

This is a list of notable Urdu language writers.

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A

• Jamiluddin Aali
• Ghulam Abbas
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
• Paigham Afaqui
• Wazir Agha
• Anwaar Ahmad
• Ahfaz ur Rahman
• Ashfaq Ahmed
• Faruqi Nisar Ahmed
• Muniruddin Ahmed
• Nadim Ahmed
• Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
• Amjad Islam Amjad
• Majeed Amjad
• Rasheed Amjad
• Mir Amman
• Rais Amrohvi
• Sahar Ansari
• Hasan Askari
• Abul Kalam Azad
• Jagan Nath Azad
• Muhammad Husain Azad
• Jehanzeb Aziz
• Abdul Qavi Desnavi

B

• Obaidullah Baig
• Fatima Surayya Bajia
• Ahmad Bashir
• Rajinder Singh Bedi
• Patras Bokhari

C

• Mohinder Pratap Chand
• Krishan Chander
• Harcharan Chawla
• Ismat Chughtai

D

• Ihsan Danish
• Prem Nath Dar
• Khwaja Mir Dard
• Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
• Attash Durrani

E

• Ehsan Sehgal
• Jon Elia

F

• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Ahmed Faraz
• Bushra Farrukh
• Aslam Farrukhi
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
• Farman Fatehpuri
• G. M. Felix
• Kanwal Feroze
• Bhupendra Nath Kaushik "Fikr"

G

• Altaf Gauhar
• Mirza Ghalib
• Noshi Gillani
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Majnoon Gorakhpuri

H

• Altaf Hussain Hali
• Abdul Hameed
• Maulvi Abdul Haq
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
• Zahida Hina
• Panchakshari Hiremath
• Najmul Hoda
• Ashfaq Hussain
• Intizar Hussain
• Rafiq Hussain
• Qurratulain Hyder
• Haider Qureshi

I

• Muhammad Ilyas
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Zafar Iqbal

J

• Ali Sardar Jafri
• Habib Jalib
• Jameel Jalibi
• Tariq Jamil
• Orya Maqbool Jan

K

• Mohsin Kakorvi
• Abul Khair Kashfi
• Nasir Kazmi
• Khalique Ibrahim Khalique
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Muhammad Khan
• Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
• Syed Ahmed Khan
• Zafar Ali Khan
• Dushyant Kumar
• Khan Shein Kunwar
• Kalim Hazique
• Kashif Butt

M

• Syed Asim Mahmood
• Syed Qasim Mahmood
• Josh Malihabadi
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Anwar Maqsood
• Mukhtar Masood
• Abul Ala Maududi
• Mohsin Mighiana
• Mir Taqi Mir
• Momin Khan Momin
• Mumtaz Mufti
• Mohsinul Mulk
• Sheraz Ali Muskrahat
• Makhdoom Mohiuddin

N

• Najmul Hoda
• Gopi Chand Narang
• Mir Gul Khan Nasir
• Shibli Nomani
• Asif Noorani

P

• Tanwir Phool
• Munshi Premchand

Q

• Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Attaul Haq Qasmi
• Bano Qudsia

R

• Ahfaz ur Rahman
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
• Shakeelur Rahman
• Samina Raja
• Malik Ram
• Noon Meem Rashid
• Fahmida Riaz
• Abbas Rizvi
• Khurshid Rizvi
• Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
• Raees Warsi

S

• Agha Sadiq
• Ibne Safi
• Tariq Ismail Sagar
• Khakan Sajid
• Ghazi Salahuddin
• Mirza Sauda
• Qudratullah Shahab
• Shakeelur Rahman
• Abdul Halim Sharar
• Qateel Shifai
• Abul Lais Siddiqui
• Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi
• Shaukat Siddiqui
• Aamir Sohail

T

• Tanwir Phool
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Talib Khundmiri

U

• Umera Ahmad

W

• Wazir Agha
• Muzaffar Warsi
• Raees Warsi
• Wasif Ali Wasif

Y

• Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

Z

• Sajjad Zaheer
• Anwer Zahidi
• Ali Jawad Zaidi
• Mustafa Zaidi
• Ibrahim Zauq

See also

• Urdu literature
• List of Urdu language poets
• List of Pakistani writers
• List of Pakistani poets
• List of Hindi writers

References

Urdu topics History · Alphabet · Grammar · Phonology · Informatics · Vocabulary · Nastaliq · Roman Urdu · Fiji Urdu · Uddin and Begum Romanisation · Literature (Writers · Poetry · Poets) · Hindi-Urdu controversy · Urdu movement · Deccani · Khari boli · Hindustani · Urdu in Aurangabad · Progressive Writers' Movement