List of people from Karachi

This is a list of notable people from the city of Karachi in Pakistan, also known as Karachiites:

Armed forces

• Muhammad Mahmood Alam
• Pervez Musharraf - former President and

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• Ft. Lt. Rashid Minhas Shaheed - only PAF recipient of Nishan-e-Haider
• Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan (Governor)
• Mirza Aslam Beg Four Star General
• Moinuddin Haider Let. General (Governor)

Art and literature

• Ahmed Ali - novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi)
• Abul Khair Kashfi - critic, linguist, author, scholar(19 February 1932 Kanpur, British India -15 May 2008 Karachi )
• Abul Lais Siddiqui - critic, linguist, author, scholar
• Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor (1935 Hyderabad State, (now in India)- present)
• Ashfaq Hussain - Urdu poet and television personality in Canada for Asian Television Network (born 1 January 1951- present)
• Aslam Farrukhi - writer, critic, linguist (born October 23, 1923- present)
• Dilawar Figar - humorous poet, scholar (July 8, 1929 Badaun(Badayun), UP India January 25, 1998 Karachi)
• Farhat Ishtiaq - writer, author and screenwriter (born June 23, 1980 - present)
• Farman Fatehpuri - researcher, poet, critic, linguist (26 January 1926 – 3 August 2013)
• Fatima Surayya Bajia - drama writer (Born on 1 September 1930 - present)
• Fahmida Riaz - writer, poet, activist (28 July 1946 Meerut, UP, British India - present)
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan - writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar, educationist(September 23, 1912 – September 25, 2005)
• Hakeem Muhammad Said - pioneer of Eastern medicine, philanthropist (19 July 1993 – 23 January 1994)
• Hameed Haroon - journalist, activist
• Hasan Askari - philosopher, author, critic (1919 - 1978)
• Haseena Moin - playwright, drama writer
• Ibn-e-Insha - poet, writer and humorist (5 June 1927 Phillaur, Punjab, British India -11 January 1978 London, England)
• Ibn-e-Safi - novelist, story writer (26 July 1928 Nara, district of Allahabad, U.P, British India -26 July 1980 Karachi)
• Iftikhar Arif - poet, critic, author (21 March 1943 - present)
• Intizar Hussain - linguist, novelist, critic ( December 7, 1923 - present)
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - author, historian, educationist (3 November 1903- 22 January 1981)
• Jameel Jalibi - scholar, critic, linguist, former VC KU (June 12, 1929 - present)
• Jamiluddin Aali - poet, columnist, critic (20 January 1926 in Delhi - present)
• Jon Elia - Arsalan Kachaliya's Favorite poet, philosopher (14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002)
• Josh Malihabadi - poet, linguist, scholar (December 1894 – 22 February 1982)
• Khalique Ibrahim Khalique - journalist, poet, critic (1926 - 2006)
• Manzoor Ahmad - philosopher (11 March 1934 - Present)
• Maulvi Abdul Haq - father of modern Urdu (16 November 1872 – 16 August 1961)
• Mohammad Abdul Ahed - architect, educator, painter (1919–2001)
• Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi - author, humorist (September 4, 1923 - present)
• Mustafa Zaidi - poet (1930–1970)
• Nasim Amrohvi - Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer (1908–1987)
• Obaidullah Aleem - journalist, poet (June 12, 1939 – May 18, 1998)
• Pirzada Qasim - poet, author, educationist (born 8 February 1943- present)
• Qaem Amrohvi - poet, philosopher ( 1919 in Amroha, India - 1990 Karachi )
• Qamar Jalalvi - poet (1887 Jalali, Aligarh, India - 4 October 1968 Karachi)
• Rais Amrohvi - journalist, poet, psychoanalyst (1914-1988)
• Raees Warsi - journalist, author, poet, founder of Urdu Markaz New York ( March 1, 1963 - present)
• Sadequain - painter, calligraphist (1930 Amroha, British India -10 February 1987 Karachi)
• Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah - writer, woman activist (July 22, 1915 – December 11, 2000)
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee - Notable Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer)
• Shaukat Siddiqui - novelist, fiction writer (20 March 1923 – 18 December 2006)
• Sibte Hassan - author, columnist, activist (July 31, 1916 – April 20,1986) * Siddiq Ismail - Religious Hamd and Naat Recitor (Feb.10,1954- Present)
• Syed Qasim Mahmood - author, researcher, editor, encyclopedist (17 November 1928 – 31 March 2010)
• Tabish Dehlvi - poet (November 11, 1911 - September 23, 2004)
• Tanwir Phool - poet and author (1948 in Muzaffarpur, India - present)
• Zahida Hina - columnist, author, poet (5 Oct 1946- present)
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah - first female columnist of Pakistan(December 1921 – 10 September 2000)
• Zehra Nigah - poet
• Zamir Ali Badayuni - critic (20 June 1941- October 20, 2003)

Bankers

• Agha Hasan Abedi - banker and founder of the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International
• Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan and incumbent Dean of Institute of Business Administration
• Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Businessmen

• Agha Hasan Abedi - banker, founder of BCCI
• Nasir Schon - Schon Group
• Safi Qureshi - co-founder and CEO of AST Research; born and educated in Karachi; now based in the US
• Siddiq Memon - Chairman Traders Action Committee Pakistan
• Sikandar Sultan, Managing Director of Shan Food Industries

Debaters and orators

• Javed Jabbar - orator, politician, Senator
• Hussain Haqqani - leading Urdu debater, National College, Karachi; Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.A.
• Raza Rabbani - English debater, politician, Senator
• Orooj Ahmed Ali -leading English Debater, PECHS Educational Foundation Science College, 1971-75, Pakistan's Saltwater Angling Champion
• Shah Jamshed Jami - NED Engineering College

Economists

• Akhtar Hameed Khan - pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project
• Hammad Siddiqi - economist, banker
• Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan
• Muhammad Shoaib, Finance Minister, Executive Director World Bank, Father of Nafisa Sadik,
• Nawab Haider Naqvi - former Director PIDE

Education

• Abul Khair Kashfi - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Abul Lais Siddiqui - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Aslam Farrukhi - author, poet, critic, linguist, scholar
• Ata ur Rahman - Chairman HEC, scientist
• Audrey Juma, Director of the Notre Dame Institute of Education, Karachi
• Bernadette Louise Dean, former Principal of Kinnaird College, Lahore
• Farman Fatehpuri - real name: Syed Dildar Ali; author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan - author, critic, linguist, scholar, Sufi
• Hakim Saeed - VC Hamdard University
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - VC Karachi University, author, historian, scholar
• Jameel Jalibi - linguist, scholar
• Khalida Ghous - human rights activist, scholar
• Mary Emily, recipient of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for services to education
• Moinuddin Aqeel - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Moonis Ahmar
• Nasim Amrohvi
• Oswin Mascarenhas - principal St. Patrick's College 1971–1975 and principal St Patrick's High School 1993–2000
• Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui - Chancellor Karachi University
• Raziuddin Siddiqui - physicist, mathematician, scholar
• Shahid Aziz Siddiqi - former Federal Secretary and Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
• Talat A. Wizarat
• Syed Shahid Raza - Industrial Engineer - Dawood University of Engineering and Technology

Journalists

• Ardeshir Cowasjee
• Daniele Mastrogiacomo - Italian journalist born in Karachi
• Kamran Khan
• Mujahid Barelvi
• Nadeem F. Paracha, left-liberal journalist, cultural critic, satirist and short story writer

Law and judiciary

• Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius
• Justice Dorab Patel
• Justice Ajmal Mian - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Makhdoom Ali Khan - former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Mohammad Haleem - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Naimatullah Khan - advocate
• Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid - former Chief Justice Sindh High Court & Justice Pakistan Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Nazim Hussain Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed - Chief Justice Sind High Court and Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan

Medicine

• Colin Saldanha, Canadian Family Physician of Pakistani origin

Performing arts

Actors and actresses

• Talat Hussain (actor) - television actor, director
• Adnan Jaffar - television, film actor
• Aiza Khan - actress, model
• Angela Thorne - English actress
• Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor
• Ayaz Samoo - comedian, actor
• Hina Dilpazeer - actress, TV host, model
• Humayun Saeed - actor, model and producer
• Iqbal Theba - Pakistani-American television actor
• Izhar Qazi - film and TV actor
• Jamshed Ansari - comedian
• Kumail Nanjiani - comedian
• Margaret Lockwood - film and stage actress (1916–1990)
• Mehwish Hayat - actress, model
• Moin Akhter - TV, film and stage actor, comedian and host
• Nadeem - film actor
• Nirala - real name: Muzaffar Husain; comedian
• Rauf Lala - comedian/actor
• Saud (actor)
• Salim Nasir - comedian/actor
• Syed Kamal - film actor
• Umer Sharif - humorous actor
• Urwa Hocane - actress
• Zainab Qayyum - model, actress, TV host
• Zhalay Sarhadi - model, actress
• Adeel Hussain - model, actress(actor)

Singers, Musicians & Music Directors

• Mehdi Hassan - Ghazal singer
• Ahmed Rushdi - Singer
• Habib Wali Mohammad - Singer
• Iqbal Bano- Ghazal Singer
• Alamgir (pop singer)
• Nisar Bazmi - Composer
• Sohail Rana - composer
• Munni Begum - Singer
• Salma Agha - Singer
• Nazia Hassan - first female pop singer of Pakistan
• Zohaib Hassan - Singer
• Sajjad Ali - Singer
• Ali Haider - Singer
• Shehzad Roy - singer
• Waqar Ali - singer and musician

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• Ahmed Jahanzeb - Singer
• Faisal Kapadia - singer
• Maaz Moeed - Singer
• Bilal Maqsood - composer
• Faraz Anwar - Guitarist
• Lenny Zakatek - English pop and rock star

Philanthropists and social workers

• Abdul Sattar Edhi - philanthropist and founder of the Edhi Foundation
• Ansar Burney - noted human rights activist and founder of the Ansar Burney Trust
• Bilquis Edhi - philanthropist, founder of the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi
• Fahmida Riaz
• Fatima Lodhi - social worker, founder of Dark is Divine, first anti-colorism campaign from Pakistan
• Hakim Said - scholar, philanthropist, former Governor of Sindh
• Nafis Sadik - United Nations

Politicians and Bureaucrats

• Muhammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan
• Altaf Hussain - founder and Chairman of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
• Abdul Sattar Afghani - ex-Mayor Karachi Metropolitan City
• Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi - leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, founder of the World Islamic Mission
• Arsalan Taj Ghumman - Central General Secretary Insaf Students Federation, Youth leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
• Azeem Ahmed Tariq - former chairman of MQM
• Ali Zaidi - Pakistan Tahreek e insaaf
• Benazir Bhutto - former Prime Minister
• Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim - Governor, Law Minister, Attorney General
• Farooq Sattar - parliamentary leader of the MQM
• Fatima Jinnah - sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Madar-i-Millet
• Imran Farooq - co-founder of MQM
• Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan - incumbent Governor of Sindh (2002 to present)
• Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta, Mayor of Karachi
• Lal Krishna Advani - leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India
• Naimatullah Khan - former Mayor of Karachi city
• Pervez Musharraf - General (Retd.) former Army Chief, military dictator and President of Pakistan
• Shahryar Khan - former Foreign Secretary and former Chairman Cricket Board in Pakistan
• Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Syed Munawar Hasan - current Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami
• Syed Mustafa Kamal - former Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi

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Religious leaders

• Aga Khan III - Imam Sultan Mohammed Shah - 48th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, President League of Nations, President All India Muslim League and GCSI, GCMG
• Taqi Usmani Religious Scholor
• Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
• Muhammad Ilyas Qadri - founder of Dawat-e-Islami
• Talib Jauhari - Religious scholar

Scientists

• Abdul Qadeer Khan - metallurgist and founder of) Pakistan's nuclear programme
• Ahmed Mohiuddin - zoologist
• Atta ur Rahman - chemist
• Muhammad Ali Shah - orthopaedic surgeon
• Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda
• Pervez Hoodbhoy - nuclear physicist
• Raziuddin Siddiqui - astrophysicist and mathematician
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - chemist
• M. Shahid Qureshi - astrophysicist and mathematician
• Ziauddin Ahmed

Sports

Cricketers

• Abdul Kadir
• Afaq Hussain
• Afzaal Ahmed
• Anil Dalpat - first Hindu to play for the country
• Antao D'Souza
• Anwar Ali
• Anwar Miandad
• Asad Shafiq
• Asif Iqbal
• Asim Kamal
• Atiq-uz-Zaman
• Basit Ali
• Danish Kaneria - second Hindu to play for the country
• Faisal Iqbal
• Fawad Alam
• Hanif Mohammad - first Pakistani batsman to score a triple century
• Haroon Rasheed
• Hasan Raza
• Iqbal Qasim
• Jalal-ud-Din - in 1982 he took the first hat-trick in an ODI
• Javed Miandad
• Javeria Khan
• Kafeel Jahangir (1971-) - Hertfordshire and Minor Counties cricketer
• Khalid Latif
• Khurram Manzoor
• Mohsin Khan
• Mohammad Sami - right arm fast bowler
• Moin Khan
• Mushtaq Mohammad
• Nasim-ul-Ghani
• Owais Shah (born 1978), English cricketer
• Rashid Khan
• Rashid Latif
• Rusi Dinshaw
• Saeed Anwar
• Saleem Yousuf
• Sarfraz Ahmed
• Shahid Afridi - world record holder for the fastest ODI century
• Shahid Israr
• Shahid Mahmood
• Shahzaib Hasan
• Shoaib Mohammad
• Sikandar Bakht
• Tauseef Ahmed
• Wallis Mathias
• Wasim Bari

Hockey

• Hassan Sardar
• Islahuddin Siddique
• Hanif Khan
• Shahid Ali Khan
• Sohail Abbas

Sprinter

• Naseem Hameed

Miscellaneous

• Aamir Liaquat Hussain
• Abdur Rab Nishtar
• Agha Hilaly
• Arman Sabir
• Asif Mujtaba
• Asim Kamal
• Bashir Ahmad
• Behroze Sabzwari
• Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
• Farahnaz Ispahani
• Irfan Yusuf
• Iskander Mirza
• Jahangir Khan
• Kamal Warsi
• Lady Abdullah Haroon
• Muhammad Owais Raza Qadri
• Siddiq Ismail
• Shadab Kabir
• Tazeen Ahmad
• Yousuf Ludhianvi
• Mumtaz Ahmed - Swimming

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