Pakistan is the 6th most populous nation in the world. Below is a list of such people who belong or relate in some way to this nation. See for an alphabetical list of Pakistanis mentioned in Wikipedia.

Politicians

Heads of state or government

• Muhammed Ali Jinnah THE FOUNDER
• Ch. Sir Zaffarullah Khan
• Sir Feroz Khan Noon
• Chaudhury Mohammad Ali
• Benazir Bhutto
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Pervez Musharraf
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali
• Ayub Khan
• Liaqat Ali Khan
• Yahya Khan
• Iskander Mirza
• Nawaz Sharif
• Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• Shaukat Aziz

Other major (historical) political figures

Please note that some of these figures are pre-Independence and therefore were technically never "Pakistani". They are however "owned" by Pakistanis are their own. These figures are marked below.

• Choudhary Rahmat Ali (Pre-Independence)
• Allama Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal (Pre-Independence)
• Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (Pre-Independence)
• Fatimah Jinnah

Other political/religious figures

• Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
• Mufti Mahmood
• Maulana Shah Ahmed Norani
• Qazi HUssain Ahmed
• Fazlur Rehman
• Khurshid Ahmed Kasuri
• Maulana Samiul Haq
• Allama Talib Jauhri
• [[Allama Rasheed Turabi

Prominent Businessmen/Industrialists

Groups of Companies

• Mian Mohammad Mansha Banking, Cement, Textiles Nishat Group
• Tariq Saeed Saigol Textiles, Cement Kohinoor Group
• Nasim Saigol Manufacturing, Banking
• Ghulam Muhammad A. Fecto Tractors, Sugar, Cement Fecto Group Of Industries
• Bashir Ali Mohammad Textiles, Energy, Banking Gul Ahmed Group
• Syed Babar Ali Consumer Goods Packages Group
• Ghulam Faruque Cement, Sugar, Engineering, Shipping Ghulam Faruque Group
• Yusuf Shirazi Automobiles, Finance Atlas Group
• Sadruddin Hashwani Hotels Hashoo Group
• Ahmad Dawood Textile, Engineering, Chemicals Dawood Group
• Amin Lakhani Tobacco, Consumer Goods Lakson Group
• Mohammad Ali Habib Banking, Automobiles House of Habib
• Javed Saifullah Khan Telecom, Textile Saif Group
• Abbas Sarfaraz Sugar, Chemicals Premier Group
• Dewan Yousuf Farooqui Automobiles, Sugar, Textile, Cement Dewan Group
• Jehangir Monnoo Textile, Sugar, Agriculture Monnoo Group
• Mian Muhammad Latif Textile Chenab Group
• Mian Mazhar Karim Diversified Conglomerate Crescent Group
• Tariq Shafi Crescent group
• Mian Anjum Saleem Crescent group
• Habibullah Khattak Automobile, Textile Gandhara Nissan Motors and General Tyres
• Mir Shakil ur Rehman Media Jang Group
• Hameed Haroon, Media, Dawn Group
• Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Textile, Sugar Chaudhry Group
• Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Stock Exchange,Banking,Education KASB.
• Usman Ashraf Carpet export and manufacturing, Real estate Usman Carpet House

Scientists

• Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam
• Prof. Dr. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
• Prof. Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani
• Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Arts, Literature & Mass Media persons

Writers & poets

A useful place to see a list that overlaps with this one is List of Urdu poets.

• Sake Dean Mahomet
• Ahmed Ali
• A. S. Bokhari
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
• Dr Wazir Agha
• Anis Nagi
• Tariq Ali
• Altaf Fatima
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Mohammad Iqbal
• Muhammad Akram Khan
• Muneeza Shamsie
• Kamila Shamsie
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Fazlur Rahman
• Noon Meem Rashid
• Shaukat Siddiqi
• Imtiaz Ali Taj
• Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Hasan Askari Sahar Abidi
• Muhammad Iqbal Naz
• Zamir Jafri
• G Allana
• Adrian A. Husain
• Asif Farrukhi
• Daud Kamal
• M. Athar Tahir
• Shaikh Ayaz
• Taufiq Rafat
• Ilona Yusuf
• Ejaz Rahim
• Fatima Bhutto
• Mona Hassan
• Farida Faizullah
• Gulzar Bano
• Masood Amjad Ali
• Habib R. Sulemani
• Moeen Faruqi
• Soofia Ishaque
• Shahbano Bilgrami
• Sheryar Singha
• Raja Tridev Roy

Artists & Painters

• Anna Molka Ahmed
• Zubeida Agha
• Shakir Ali
• Ismail Gulgee
• Amin Gulgee

Journalists

• Eqbal Ahmad
• Mishal Hussain
• Rizwan Khan - Well Known as Riz Khan
• Rahim Ullah Yousuf Zai
• Ashar Qureshi Linked with CNN
• Mazhar Ali Khan
• Lady Nadira
• Zamir Niazi
• Hameed Nizami
• Ahmed Rashid
• Najam Sethi
• Imran Aslam
• Iqbal Jafri
• Hasan Jafri
• Kamal Siddiqi
• Idrees Bakhtiar
• Sherry Rahman
• Maliha Lodhi
• Rehana Hakim
• Khaled Ahmed
• Kaleem Omar
• Tahir Mirza
• M Ziaudin
• Farman Ali
• Mehmood Sham
• Raja Hussain Khan Maqpoon
• Khalid Hasan
• Habib R. Sulemani
• Nawaz Raza
• C. R. Shamsi
• Pervaz Shaokat
• Hanif Khalid
• Bedar Bakht Butt
• D. Shaw Khan

Vocal Artists

• Abrar-ul-Haq
• Ali Haider
• Atif Aslam
• Danish Rahi
• Fakhir
• Gohar
• Hadiqa Kiani
• Jawad Ahmed
• Khadija Haider
• Haroon Rashid
• Junaid Jamshed
• Najam Sheraz
• Nazia Hasan and Zohaib Hasan
• Noor Jehan
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Shallum Xavier
• Shahzaman
• Shehzad Roy
• Tina Sani

Musicians, Bands and Groups

Main article: List of Pakistani musicians

• Karawan
• Jupiters
• Vital Signs
• Awaz
• Razam
• Rushk
• Visaal
• Overload
• Corduroy
• Fuzon
• Aaroh
• Mizmar
• Mizraab
• The Call
• JaL
• Entity Paradigm
• Junoon
• Strings
• Noori

VJs

• Anoushey Ashraf
• Mani (born Salman Saquib)
• Faizan Haq
• Dino

Sportspersons

• Javed Miandad
• Abdul Razzaq
• Danish Kaneria
• Jahangir Khan
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Wasim Akram
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar
• Imran Khan
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Waqar Younis
• Shahbaz Ahmad
• Jansher Khan
• Zaheer Abbas (The Asian BRADMAN)
• Zeshan Rehman (Possibly - see article)

Diplomats

• Mohammad Asad , born Leopold Weiss
• A. S. Bokhari
• Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
• Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
• Muhammad Sadiq
• Khurshid Kasuri
• Maliha Lodhi

Military personalities

See also Category:Chiefs of Army Staff, Pakistan

• General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), think tank head
• Aziz Bhatti (Shaheed), war hero
• General Jehangir Karamat former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Ambassador to the US
• Muhammad Mahfooz (Shaheed), war hero
• Rashid Minhas (Shaheed), war hero
• Sawar Muhammad Hussain (Shaheed), war hero
• General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), President
• Shabbir Sharif (Shaheed), war hero
• Major Tufail (Shaheed), war hero
• General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and President
• Lalak Jan (Shaheed) War Hero

See also

• Category:Women of Pakistan