List of Punjabi people

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Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.

Nobel laureates[]

Abdus Salam, first Pakistani Nobel prize winner in Physics
Har Gobind Khorana, first Punjabi Nobel prize winner.

Pakistan[]

  • Abdus Salam, Physics Nobel prize laureate

India[]

  • Har Gobind Khorana, Medicine Nobel prize laureate

Military leaders[]

Medieval Punjab[]

Muslim[]

Sikh[]

Sikh Empire[]

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire

Sikh[]

Hindu[]

Muslim[]

Pakistan Armed Forces[]

General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, is the most respected and popular general in the country's history.[6]

Air Force[]

  • Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
  • Air Chief Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
  • Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana
  • Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
  • Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
  • Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
  • Air Marshal Nur Khan
  • Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
  • Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Nishan-e-Haider

Army[]

  • General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  • General Qamar Javed Bajwa, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  • General Zia ul Haq, former Chief of Army Staff and President of Pakistan
  • General (R) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
  • General (R) Tikka Khan, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  • General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  • Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
  • Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
  • Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua
  • Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali
  • Maj Gen (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan
  • Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua, most senior Pakistani officer killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the front line
  • Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
  • Maj Gen (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan
  • Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
  • Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
  • Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar
  • Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
  • Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
  • Major Tufail Muhammad, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Major Muhammad Akram, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Naik Saif Ali Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, Nishan-e-Haider
  • Sowar Muhammad Hussain, Nishan-e-Haider

Navy[]

  • Admiral (R) Muhammad Asif Sandila
  • Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir

Indian Armed Forces[]

Airforce[]

  • Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, former Chief of Indian Air Force,[7] Awarded highest military peace award.
  • Marshal Arjan Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force;[8] only marshal in the history of Indian Air Force
  • Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force
  • Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, former Chief of Indian Air Force
  • Rakesh Sharma, Indian Air Force, first Indian in space

Army[]

General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
  • General Deepak Kapoor, former Indian Army Chief
  • General Om Prakash Malhotra, former Indian Army Chief
  • General Ved Prakash Malik, former Indian Army Chief
  • General Bikram Singh, former Indian Army Chief
  • General Pran Nath Thapar, former Indian Army Chief
  • General Nirmal Chander Vij, former Indian Army Chief
  • Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916–2005), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; led the ground forces campaign in the eastern front of the war
  • Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to reach the second highest rank of Lt General;[9] first woman to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy[10]
  • Major General Shabeg Singh
  • Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army for his leadership in the Battle of Longewala
  • Captain Vikram Batra, former officer of Indian army, martyred in 1999 Kargil war and was awarded Param Vir Chakra posthumously

Navy[]

  • Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, former Chief of Indian Navy
  • Admiral S.M. Nanda, former Chief of Indian Navy

Other notables[]

  • Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer
  • Uday Singh Taunque, awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star; first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the US Army

Singapore Armed Forces[]

Army[]

  • Colonel Gurcharan Singh Sekhon

Business[]

India[]

  • Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard; ex-CEO of Citi Group Asia Pacific
  • Aroon Purie, India Today group
  • Avtar Lit, founder of Sunrise Radio
  • Avtar Saini, microprocessor designer and former vice president of Intel
  • Binny Bansal, businessman and co-founder of Flipkart
  • Bob Singh Dhillon, Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
  • Dharampal Gulati, founder of MDH
  • F. C. Kohli, regarded as the "father" of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
  • Gulshan Kumar, T Series music label
  • Gurbaksh Chahal, entrepreneur who founded several internet advertising companies
  • Jagdish Khattar, managing director of Maruti Udyog ltd 1999 – 2007, civil servant
  • Jessie Singh Saini, Indo-American industrialist
  • Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
  • Kushal Pal Singh, Chairman and CEO of DLF
  • M. S. Banga, ex-CEO of Hindustan Lever; director on the board of Maruti Udyog Limited
  • Malvinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Group
  • Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels[11]
  • Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-American physicist known for his work on fiber optics
  • Rana Kapoor, founder and managing director of Yes Bank
  • Rohit Bansal, businessman and co-founder of Snapdeal
  • Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
  • Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and president of i2 Technologies
  • Sunil Mittal, owner of Bharti Airtel
  • Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
  • Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium processor
  • Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems

Pakistan[]

  • Anwar Pervez, founder of Bestway
  • Ashar Aziz, founder of FireEye in Silicon Valley
  • Bashir Tahir, former CEO of Dhabi Group
  • Fred Hassan, director at Warburg Pincus
  • James Caan, founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
  • Malik Riaz, founder of Bahria Town,
  • Mansoor Ijaz, founder of Crescent Investment Management Ltd
  • Mian Muhammad Latif, founder of Chenab Group
  • Mian Muhammad Mansha, founder of Nishat Group
  • Michael Chowdrey, founder of Atlas Air
  • Muhammad Zahoor, owner of ISTIL Group
  • Shahid Khan, owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
  • Sohaib Abbasi, former CEO of Informatica
  • Zameer Choudrey, CEO of Bestway

Music[]

Pakistan[]

Alam Lohar, considered one of the most important singers of Punjabi folk.[12]

Punjabi Folk[]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, considered as one of the greatest performers of qawwali.[13]
  • Alam Lohar
  • Arif Lohar
  • Inayat Hussain Bhatti
  • Iqbal Bahu
  • Khawaja Pervez
  • Musarrat Nazir
  • Pathanay Khan
  • Saieen Zahoor
  • Samina Syed
  • Shaukat Ali
  • Shazia Manzoor
  • Tahira Syed

Sufi Qawwali[]

  • Fateh Ali Khan
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
  • Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Badar Miandad
  • Ghulam Farid Sabri
  • Maqbool Ahmad Sabri
  • Amjad Sabri

Classical Hindustani Gharanas[]

Panjabi Gharana[]
Patiala Gharana[]
  • Barkat Ali Khan
  • Amanat Ali Khan
  • Bade Fateh Ali Khan
  • Ghulam Ali
  • Hamid Ali Khan
  • Asad Amanat Ali Khan
  • Farida Khanum
Sham Chaurasia Gharana[]
  • Salamat Ali Khan
  • Sharafat Ali Khan
  • Shafqat Ali Khan
Atif Aslam, widely acclaimed playback singer

Modern Playback[]

  • Abdullah Qureshi
  • Abrar-ul-Haq
  • Aima Baig
  • Ali Aftab Saeed
  • Ali Azmat
  • Ali Sethi
  • Ali Zafar
  • Annie Khalid
  • Asrar Shah
  • Atif Aslam
  • Bilal Saeed
  • Bohemia
  • Faakhir Mehmood
  • Fakhar-e-Alam
  • Farhad Humayun
  • Farhan Saeed
  • Goher Mumtaz
  • Hadiqa Kiani
  • Haroon
  • Humaira Arshad
  • Humaira Channa
  • Imran Khan
  • Javed Bashir
  • Jawad Ahmad
  • Khursheed Bano
  • Mahvash Waqar
  • Meesha Shafi
  • Mustafa Zahid
  • Nabeel Shaukat Ali
  • Naheed Akhtar
  • Naseebo Lal
  • Noor Jehan
  • Nouman Javaid
  • Sahir Ali Bagga
  • Salman Ahmad
  • Sanam Saeed
  • Sara Raza Khan
  • Shamoon Ismail
  • Shiraz Uppal
  • Shuja Haider
  • Tassawar Khanum
  • Umair Jaswal
  • Uzair Jaswal
  • Waris Baig
  • Zil-e-Huma
  • Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan


India[]

Mohammed Rafi was a singer famous for singing multiple genres and styles
Punjabi folk singers and sisters Parkash Kaur and Surinder Kaur in 1967

Punjabi folk[]

  • Asa Singh Mastana
  • Amar Singh Chamkila
  • Didar Sandhu
  • Dolly Guleria
  • Gurdas Maan
  • Hans Raj Hans
  • Harbhajan Mann
  • Harshdeep Kaur
  • Jagmohan Kaur
  • Jaswinder Brar
  • Kuldeep Manak
  • Mohammad Sadiq
  • Pammi Bai
  • Parkash Kaur
  • Ranjit Kaur
  • Sardool Sikander
  • Satwinder Bitti
  • Surinder Kaur

Sufi Qawwali[]

  • Rabbi Shergill
  • Master Saleem
  • Puranchand Wadali
  • Pyarelal Wadali
Jagjit Singh, popular ghazal singer

Classical Hindustani Music[]

  • Jagjit Singh
Patiala Gharana[]
  • Barkat Sidhu
  • Som Dutt Battu
  • Shiv Dayal Batish
Sham Chaurasia Gharana[]
  • Jyoti Nooran
  • Sultana Nooran
Sukhwinder Singh, singer of Academy and Grammy award winning song "Jai Ho"

Modern playback[]

  • AP Dhillon
  • Afsana Khan
  • Alla Rakha
  • Amrinder Gill
  • Anushka Manchanda
  • Akhil Sachdeva
  • Arijit Singh
  • Asees Kaur
  • Babbu Mann
  • Bhupinder Singh
  • Roshan Prince
  • Daler Mehndi
  • Diljit Dosanjh
  • Garry Sandhu
  • Geeta Zaildar
  • Gippy Grewal
  • Gurinder Gill
  • Guru Randhawa
  • Hard Kaur
  • Hardy Sandhu
  • Himani Kapoor
  • Honey Singh
  • Jass Manak
  • Jassi Gill
  • Jasmine Sandlas
  • Jaspinder Narula
  • Jazzy B
  • Kanika Kapoor
  • Kanth Kaler
  • Kavita Seth
  • Kundan Lal Saigal
  • Labh Janjua
  • Mahendra Kapoor
  • Meena Kapoor
  • Mika Singh
  • Mohammed Rafi
  • Mohit Chauhan
  • Mukesh
  • Narinder Biba
  • Narendra Chanchal
  • Neeraj Shridhar
  • Neha Bhasin
  • Neha Kakkar
  • Nimrat Khaira
  • Ninja
  • Nitin Mukesh
  • Miss Pooja
  • Rekha Bhardwaj
  • Richa Sharma
  • Satinder Sartaaj
  • Shailendra Singh
  • Shibani Kashyap
  • Shehnaz Gill
  • Sidhu Moose Wala
  • Sonu Nigam
  • Sukhwinder Singh
  • Suraiyya
  • Taz
  • Tony Kakkar
  • Tulsi Kumar
  • Zakir Hussain

Cartoonists[]

  • Shekhar Gurera, editorial cartoonist
  • Pran Kumar Sharma, cartoonist of Chacha Chaudhary fame

Doctors[]

India[]

  • Satya Paul Agarwal
  • M. M. S. Ahuja
  • Jasbir Singh Bajaj
  • Dr Mukesh Batra
  • Harpinder Singh Chawla
  • Ram Nath Chopra
  • Kirpal Singh Chugh
  • Harbans Lall Gulati
  • Gagandeep Kang
  • Kapil Sharma
  • Sunil Grover
  • Ved Prakash Kamboj
  • Tarlochan Singh Kler
  • Purshotam Lal
  • Prithipal Singh Maini
  • Ravinder N. Maini
  • Jaswant Singh Neki
  • Harvinder Sahota
  • Baldev Singh
  • Daljit Singh
  • Khushdeva Singh
  • Sahib Singh Sokhey
  • Janak Raj Talwar
  • K. K. Talwar
  • Purshottam Lal Wahi
  • Mahinder Watsa
  • Khushwant Lal Wig

Educators and scientists[]

Pakistan[]

  • Asad Abidi, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Masud Ahmed, theoretical physicist and one of the leading figures of the Theoretical Physics Group - the group that developed the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
  • Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor of Political Science at the University of Stockholm
  • Nazir Ahmed, experimental physicist and first chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
  • Farooq Azam, Professor of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
  • Tariq Ali, political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual
  • Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
  • Nayyar Ali Dada, architect in modernist architecture
  • Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist
  • Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)
  • Tasawar Hayat, mathematician
  • Shahbaz Khan, hydrologist and Director of the UNESCO Cluster office in Jakarta
  • Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, nuclear engineer
  • Salim Mehmud, rocket scientist
  • Atif Mian, Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University
  • Zia Mian, physicist and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University
  • Ghulam Murtaza, theoretical physicist
  • Qaiser Mushtaq, mathematician
  • Adil Najam, Dean of Global Studies at Boston University
  • Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
  • Khalil Qureshi, physical chemist
  • Muneer Ahmad Rashid, mathematical physicist
  • Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory
  • Riazuddin, theoretical physicist and one of the leading figures of the Theoretical Physics Group - the group that developed the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons

India[]

  • M. M. S. Ahuja, Indian physician and endocrinologist
  • Om P. Bahl, Indian molecular biologist
  • Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Indian physician and diabetologist; conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award
  • Hoon Balakram, Indian mathematician
  • Indu Banga, historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
  • Lekh Raj Batra, distinguished mycologist and linguist
  • Sabeer Bhatia, founder of the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
  • Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
  • Praveen Chaudhari, Indian American physicist
  • Kasturi Lal Chopra, Indian material physicist
  • Ram Nath Chopra, Indian medical officer; widely considered the "father of Indian pharmacology"
  • Virender Lal Chopra, Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist, former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
  • Kirpal Singh Chugh, Indian nephrologist
  • Manoj Datta, Indian engineer
  • Sukh Dev, Indian organic chemist
  • Vinod Dham, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist; popularly known as "Pentium Engineer"
  • Meena Dhanda, philosopher and academic at University of Wolverhampton
  • Satish Dhawan
  • Baldev Singh Dhillon
  • Vijay K. Dhir, Indo-American scientist
  • Guru Prakash Dutta, Indian cell biologist and immunologist
  • Khem Singh Gill, Indian academic, geneticist
  • Piara Singh Gill, Indian nuclear physicist
  • Sucha Singh Gill, Indian academic, economist
  • Khem Singh Grewal, Indian pharmacologist
  • Ravi Grover, Indian nuclear scientist
  • Hansraj Gupta, Indian mathematician
  • Sardul Singh Guraya, Indian biologist
  • Ranjit Lal Jetley, soldier and scientist
  • Gurcharan Singh Kalkat, Indian agricultural scientist
  • Ved Prakash Kamboj
  • Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian astrophysicist
  • Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-born American Sikh physicist
  • Satinder Vir Kessar, Indian synthetic organic chemist
  • Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize winner
  • Pradeep Khosla, academic computer scientist
  • Vinod Khosla Indian American engineer and businessman
  • Rakesh Khurana, Indian-American educator
  • Neelam Kler, Indian neonatologist
  • Nayanjot Lahiri, Indian historian and archaeologist at Ashoka University
  • Purshotam Lal, Indian cardiologist
  • Narinder Kumar Mehra, Indian immunologist
  • Mridula Mukherjee, Indian historian specialized in modern India Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Manohar Lal Munjal, Indian acoustical engineer
  • Yash Pal, Indian scientist, educator and educationist
  • Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter, prominent writer
  • Narinder Singh Randhawa, Indian agricultural scientist
  • Suresh Rattan
  • Birbal Sahni, Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent
  • Daya Ram Sahni, Indian archaeologist
  • Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
  • Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini, Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
  • Sartaj Sahni, American-Indian computer scientist
  • Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
  • Pritam Saini, English, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu writer; historian; literary critic[14]
  • Sanjay Saini, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School[15][16]
  • Subhash Saini, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA[17]
  • P. K. Sethi
  • Dheeraj Sharma, professor at IIM-Ahmedabad; writer
  • Khushdeva Singh, Indian physician and social worker
  • Manjit Singh, armament scientist
  • Upinder Singh, Indian historian specialized in ancient India at University of Delhi
  • Sahib Singh Sokhey, Indian biochemist
  • Janak Raj Talwar, Indian cardiothoracic scientist
  • B. K. Thapar, Indian archaeologist; Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1978–1981
  • Kartar Singh Thind
  • Surinder Vasal, Indian geneticist scientist
  • Purshottam Lal Wahi
  • Khushwant Lal Wig, Indian physician

Astronauts[]

India[]

  • Kalpana Chawla
  • Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
  • Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space

Film & TV[]

Bollywood (India)[]

The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:

Family Artistes
The Sahnis Balraj Sahni, Bhisham Sahni, Parikshit Sahni
The Anands Chetan Anand, Dev Anand, Vijay Anand
The Chopras - 1 Baldev Raj Chopra, Yash Chopra, Ravi Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra
The Chopras - 2 Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra
The Deols Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Esha Deol, Abhay Deol
The Bachchans Teji Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shweta Bachchan Nanda
The Malhotras Prem Nath, Rajendra Nath, Bina Rai, Prem Kishen
The Roshans Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan
The Singhs Dara Singh, Vindu Dara Singh
The Rajs Jagdish Raj, Anita Raj
The Puris Madan Puri, Amrish Puri, Om Puri
The Khannas - 1 Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna
The Khannas - 2 Vinod Khanna,[18] Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna
The Bedis Kabir Bedi, Pooja Bedi, Protima Bedi
The Kapurs Pankaj Kapur, Shahid Kapoor
The Kapoors - 1 Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor,
Shashi Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Karan Kapoor
The Kapoors - 2 Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor,
Sanjay Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor
The Kapoors - 3 Jeetendra, Tusshar Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
The Dhawans David Dhawan, Varun Dhawan, Rohit Dhawan, Anil Dhawan
The Devgans Veeru Devgan, Ajay Devgan, Anil Devgan
The Oberois Suresh Oberoi, Vivek Oberoi
The Aroras Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora
The Tulis Rajendra Kumar, Kumar Gaurav
The Dutts Nargis Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt

Individual Actors[]

  • Achala Sachdev
  • Aditya Roy Kapur
  • Akshay Kumar
  • Akshay Dogra
  • Amrish Puri[19]
  • Aanchal Kumar
  • Akanksha Juneja
  • Annu Kapoor
  • Amrinder Gill
  • Ammy Virk
  • Arjan Bajwa
  • Anil Dhawan
  • Armaan Kohli
  • Avtar Gill
  • Aryan Vaid
  • Ayushman Khurana
  • Babbal Rai
  • Bhumika Chawla
  • Bina Rai
  • Binnu Dhillon
  • Celina Jaitley
  • Dilip Kumar[20]
  • Diljit Dosanjh
  • Deepak Parashar
  • Geeta Bali
  • Geeta Basra
  • Shoma Anand
  • Gippy Grewal
  • Gracy Singh
  • Govinda
  • Gul Panag
  • Gulshan Grover
  • Gurshabad Singh
  • Harman Baweja
  • Harry Ahluwalia
  • Jassi Gill
  • Jaspal Bhatti
  • Jimmy Shergill
  • Juhi Chawla
  • Jyothika
  • Kabir Bedi
  • Kajal Aggarwal
  • Kanwaljit Singh
  • Karan Johar
  • Kapil Sharma
  • Kidar Nath Sharma
  • Kiran Juneja
  • Kirron Kher
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  • Kunal Kapoor
  • Lakha Lakhwinder Singh
  • Mahek Chahal
  • Mahie Gill
  • Mandira Bedi
  • Mangal Dhillon
  • Mehar Mittal
  • Minissha Lamba
  • Mink Brar
  • Mona Singh
  • Monica Bedi
  • Mukesh Khanna
  • Mukesh Rishi
  • Navin Nischol
  • Neeru Bajwa
  • Neetu Singh
  • Neha Dhupia
  • Om Prakash
  • Om Puri
  • Parmeet Sethi
  • Pavan Malhotra
  • Pooja Batra
  • Pooja Bedi
  • Poonam Dhillon
  • Pran
  • Praveen Kumar
  • Prem Chopra
  • Preity Zinta
  • Priya Gill
  • Pulkit Samrat
  • Puneet Issar
  • Raj Babbar
  • Rajat Kapoor
  • Rajit Kapur
  • Rakesh Bedi
  • Rakul Preet Singh
  • Ranjeet
  • Rana Ranbir
  • Ram Kapoor
  • Raveena Tandon
  • Rati Agnihotri
  • Ridhi Dogra
  • Ruby Bhatia
  • Samir Soni
  • Sargun Mehta
  • Sudesh Berry
  • Shakti Kapoor
  • Shraddha Kapoor
  • Sheeba Chaddha
  • Shiny Ahuja
  • Sidharth Malhotra
  • Simi Garewal
  • Simone Singh
  • Simran Bagga
  • Smriti Irani
  • Sonu Sood
  • Sunny Leone
  • Suraiya
  • Taapsee Pannu
  • Urvashi Sharma
  • Varun Dhawan
  • Vicky Kaushal
  • Vidyut Jamwal
  • Vikas Bhalla
  • Vijay Arora
  • Vinod Mehra
  • Vivek Shauq
  • Yami Gautam
  • Yash Johar
  • Yukta Mookhey

  • Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian film actress

  • Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000, Indian and American film actress

  • Akshay Kumar, Indian film actor

  • Ranbir Kapoor, Indian film actor

Directors[]

  • Abdur Rashid Kardar
  • Abhishek Kapoor
  • Aditya Chopra
  • Anil Sharma.
  • Anurag Singh
  • B. R. Chopra
  • Brij Sadanah
  • Chetan Anand
  • David Dhawan
  • Deepa Mehta
  • Deepak Balraj Vij
  • Deepak Sareen
  • Dharmesh Darshan
  • Goldie Behl
  • Guddu Dhanoa
  • Gulzar
  • Harry Baweja
  • Inder Raj Anand
  • J.P.Dutta
  • Kamal Sadanah
  • Karan Johar
  • Karan Malhotra
  • Kunal Kohli
  • Lekh Tandon
  • Loveleen Tandan
  • Mira Nair
  • Mohan Kumar
  • Mukul Anand
  • Pankaj Parashar
  • Prakash Mehra
  • Punit Malhotra
  • Raj Kanwar
  • Raj Khosla
  • Rajiv Rai
  • Rajkumar Kohli
  • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
  • Ramanand Sagar
  • Ravi Chopra
  • Ravi Tandon
  • Shekhar Kapoor
  • Siddharth Anand
  • Subhash Ghai
  • Suneel Darshan
  • Tinnu Anand
  • Umesh Mehra
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  • Vijay Anand
  • Vipin Handa
  • Yash Chopra

Documentary filmmakers[]

  • Mukesh Gautam

Lollywood (Pakistan)[]

Punjabi cinema (India)[]

Further information: Punjabi cinema

Directors[]

Actors[]

The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.

Actors

Main article: List of Punjabi cinema actors

Actresses

Main article: List of Punjabi cinema actresses

Tamil cinema (India)[]

  • Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
  • Jyothika, Punjabi Hindu
  • Kajal Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
  • Sonia Aggarwal, Punjabi Hindu

International Film and TV personalities[]

  • Lilly Singh
  • Purva Bedi
  • Waris Ahluwalia
  • Tarsem Singh
  • Monica Dogra
  • Param Gill
  • Kunal Nayyar

Historical figures[]

Porus and Alexander
  • Chanakya
  • Porus
  • Ranjit Singh

Folklore[]

Religious and spiritual figures[]

Muslim Sufis and saints[]

Bulleh Shah was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet
  • Fariduddin Ganjshakar (first major poet of Punjabi)
  • Rukn-e-Alam
  • Shah Hussain
  • Mian Mir
  • Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
  • Sultan Bahu
  • Shah Inayat
  • Bulleh Shah
  • Waris Shah
  • Mian Muhammad Baksh
  • Meher Ali Shah
  • Khawaja Ghulam Farid

Hindu Gurus and saints[]

  • Sri Chand
  • Ramdev
  • Rampal
  • Mastana Balochistani Ji Maharaj
  • Shah Satnam Singh
  • Kanwar Saheb

Ahmadiyya community[]

Main article: Khalifatul Masih
  • Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889–1908)
  • Malauna Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1908–1914)
  • Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
  • Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982–2003)
  • Mirza Masroor Ahmad (2003–present)

Sikh Gurus[]

Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism
  • Guru Nanak
  • Guru Angad
  • Guru Amar Das
  • Guru Ram Das
  • Guru Arjan Dev
  • Guru Hargobind
  • Guru Har Rai
  • Guru Har Krishan
  • Guru Tegh Bahadur
  • Guru Gobind Singh

Religious Sikhs[]

  • Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
  • Nanua Bairagi, Sikh mystic, martyr and poet
  • Sharan Kaur Pabla, martyr who died while performing the last rites of Guru Gobind Singh's older sons
  • Labh Singh Saini (1895–1947), freedom fighter and President of Shiromani Akali Dal
  • Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura, Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964–1980, highest spiritual and temporal authority of Sikhs

Writers[]

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu[]

India[]

Giani Gurdit Singh
  • Bhai Gurdas
  • Amrita Pritam
  • Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
  • Bhai Vir Singh
  • Damodar Das Arora
  • Dhani Ram Chatrik
  • Giani Gurdit Singh
  • Gulzar (Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner for the film Slumdog Millionaire
  • Harbhajan Singh
  • Inderjit Hasanpuri
  • Jaswant Neki
  • Jaswant Singh Kanwal
  • Jaswant Singh Rahi
  • Kulwant Singh Virk
  • Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
  • Nanak Singh
  • Navtej Bharati
  • Pandit Lekh Ram
  • Pash
  • Rajinder Singh Bedi
  • Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Shardha Ram Phillauri
  • Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  • Surjit Hans

Pakistan[]

Muhammad Iqbal, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of Urdu in the 20th century.[21]

English[]

Khushwant Singh (1915-2014) was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.
  • Ahmed Rashid
  • Amrita Pritam
  • Deepak Chopra
  • Jaspreet Singh
  • Chetan Bhagat
  • Kartar Singh Duggal
  • Khushwant Singh[22]
  • Manil Suri
  • Mulk Raj Anand
  • Nadeem Aslam
  • Neville Tuli
  • Partap Sharma
  • Romila Thapar
  • Susham Bedi
  • Alamgir Hashmi
  • Tariq Ali
  • Ved Mehta
  • Vikram Seth
  • Yuyutsu Sharma
  • Zulfikar Ghose
  • Mohammed Hanif

Journalists[]

Print[]

India[]

  • Ajit Saini
  • Angela Saini
  • Aroon Purie
  • Barjinder Singh Hamdard
  • Karan Thapar
  • Kuldip Nayar
  • Pritam Saini
  • Sadhu Singh Hamdard
  • Swati Mia Saini
  • Tarun Tejpal
  • Tavleen Singh
  • Vikram Chandra
  • Vinod Mehta
  • Barkha Dutt
  • Yuyutsu Sharma

England[]

  • Simon Singh
  • Riz Khan

Pakistan[]

  • Hameed Nizami
  • Mubashir Lucman
  • Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  • Janbaz Mirza
  • Najam Sethi
  • Ayaz Amir
  • Mazhar Ali Khan

Electronic/broadcast[]

India[]

  • Amrita Cheema
  • Aniruddha Bahal
  • Barkha Dutt
  • Daljit Dhaliwal
  • Karan Thapar
  • Monita Rajpal
  • Satinder Bindra
  • Tavleen Singh

Pakistan[]

  • Yawar Hayat Khan
  • Nusrat Thakur
  • Mishal Husain
  • Hassan Nisar
  • Kashif Nisar

Models[]

  • Amarjot Kaur[23]
  • Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu, Punjabi beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Universe 2021
  • Hasleen Kaur
  • Jesse Randhawa, Bollywood model
  • Kuljeet Randhawa
  • Mahek Chahal
  • Mandira Bedi
  • Navneet Kaur Dhillon
  • Neha Kapur
  • Neelam Gill, Burberry
  • Gurleen Chopra, model[24]
  • Simran Kaur Mundi
  • Sonampreet Bajwa

Revolutionaries[]

  • Bhagat Singh
  • Muhammad Iqbal
  • Rahmat Ali
  • Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan
  • Bhai Mati Das
  • Bhai Parmanand
  • Ganda Singh Phangureh
  • Harnam Singh
  • Kartar Singh Sarabha
  • Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  • Sukhdev
  • Udham Singh
  • Madan Lal Dhingra
  • Muhammad Arif Khan Rajbana Sial
  • Jahanara Shahnawaz

Politicians[]

India[]

  • Amarinder Singh
  • Arun Jaitley, former Finance Minister of India
  • Ashwani Kumar
  • Bhagwant Mann
  • Baldev Singh
  • Bibi Jagir Kaur
  • Buta Singh
  • Charanjit Singh Channi, Chief Minister of Punjab (India)
  • Darbara Singh
  • Giani Zail Singh, former President of India
  • Girdhari Lal Dogra
  • Gulzari Lal Nanda
  • Gurdial Singh Dhillon
  • Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  • Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India
  • Jagjit Singh Taunque
  • Krishan Kant
  • Kanshi Ram
  • Madanlal Khurana
  • Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
  • Malik Umar Hayat Khan
  • Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
  • Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana
  • Master Tara Singh
  • Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Parkash Singh Badal
  • Pratap Singh Kairon
  • Priya Dutt
  • Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini
  • Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
  • Raghav chadha
  • Sant Fateh Singh
  • Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  • Sheila Dikshit
  • Simranjit Singh Mann
  • Surjit Singh Barnala
  • Sushma Swaraj
  • Swaran Singh
  • Laxmi Kanta Chawla
  • Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
  • Parminder Singh Dhindsa
  • Sarup Chand Singla

Pakistan[]

  • Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  • Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  • Chaudhry Amir Hussain
  • Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
  • Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
  • Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
  • Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
  • Choudhary Rahmat Ali
  • Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
  • Feroz Khan Noon
  • Ghulam Bibi
  • Hamza Shahbaz
  • Hanif Ramay
  • Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
  • Liaqat Ali Khan
  • Malik Amjad Ali Noon
  • Malik Anwer Ali Noon
  • Ghulam Muhammad
  • Malik Meraj Khalid
  • Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
  • Mazhar Ali Azhar
  • Mian Iftikharuddin
  • Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
  • Mian Umar Hayat
  • Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
  • Mushahid Hussain Syed
  • Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
  • Nawaz Sharif
  • Nisar Ali Khan
  • Rana Sanaullah Khan
  • Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
  • Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan
  • Saqlain Anwar Sipra
  • Sardar Ayaz Sadiq
  • Shahbaz Sharif
  • Shahid Hussain Bhatti
  • Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
  • Sheikh Waqas Akram
  • Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
  • Syeda Sughra Imam
  • Wasim Sajjad

United States[]

  • Preet Bharara, former member of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
  • Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, former member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Jenifer Rajkumar, Member of New York State Assembly from Queens
  • Ro Khanna, Member of United States House of Representatives from California's 17th congressional district

United Kingdom[]

  • Rishi Sunak, Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Sajid Javid
  • Sajjad Karim

Canada[]

  • Harjit Sajjan
  • Jagmeet Singh
  • Raj Saini
  • Sonia Sidhu
  • Navdeep Bains
  • Gurratan Singh
  • Gagan Sikand
  • Tim Uppal

Sportspersons[]

Baseball[]

Chess[]

  • Tania Sachdev

Table Tennis[]

  • Manika Batra

Tennis[]

Cricket[]

India[]

Harbhajan, pictured here bowling in the nets
  • Aashish Kapoor
  • Ajay Ratra
  • Akash Chopra
  • Amarjit Kaypee
  • Ashok Malhotra
  • Atul Wassan
  • Balwinder Sandhu
  • Barinder Sran
  • Bhupinder Singh snr
  • Bishan Singh Bedi
  • Chetan Sharma
  • Gautam Gambhir
  • Gourav Dhiman
  • Gurkeerat Singh
  • Gursharan Singh
  • Harbhajan Singh
  • Harvinder Singh
  • Jahangir Khan
  • Kapil Dev[25]
  • Lala Amarnath
  • Madan Lal
  • Maninder Singh
  • Manoj Prabhakar
  • Mohinder Amarnath
  • Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Nikhil Chopra
  • Piyush Chawla
  • Rajinder Ghai
  • Reetinder Sodhi
  • Sarandeep Singh
  • Shikhar Dhawan
  • Sunny Sohal
  • Surinder Amarnath
  • Surinder Khanna
  • V. R. V. Singh
  • Vijay Mehra
  • Vikram Rathour
  • Virat Kohli
  • Yuvraj Singh
  • Yograj Singh
  • Yadavendra Singh

Pakistan[]

Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar is one of the fastest bowlers in the world.

England[]

Canada[]

Bangladesh[]

  • Junaid Siddique

New Zealand[]

  • Ish Sodhi

Basketball[]

Hockey[]

Field hockey[]

Ice hockey[]

  • Jujhar Khaira
  • Manny Malhotra

Athletics[]

  • Neeraj Chopra, first Indian athlete to win a gold medal
  • Milkha Singh
  • Kamaljeet Sandhu
  • Makhan Singh
  • Ajmer Singh

Golf[]

Wrestling[]

  • Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama), remained undefeated
  • The Great Khali, World Heavyweight Champion
  • Dara Singh
  • Bholu Pahalwan
  • Premchand Dogra
  • Aslam Pehlwan Rustam-e-Punjab
  • Tiger Jeet Singh
  • The Singh Brothers, WWE wrestlers
  • Younus Khan (former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz
  • Jinder Mahal (real name Yuvraj Singh Dhesi), WWE Champion

Shooting[]

  • Abhinav Bindra, first individual Olympic gold medalist
  • Gagan Narang, the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
  • Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee

Cycling[]

  • Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics

Soccer[]

  • Michael Chopra, English footballer
  • Harpal Singh
  • Harmeet Singh
  • Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, second Indian goalkeeper and first to professionally play as GK for 1st division European club
  • Sandesh Jhingan, India u-23 and national team player, was adjudged the best footballer of the inaugural ISL
  • Jarnail Singh

Boxing[]

  • Amir Iqbal Khan

Volleyball[]

Mixed martial arts[]

  • Kultar Gill, Indian-Canadian mixed martial artist
  • Singh Jaideep, Indian-Japanese mixed martial artist
  • Arjun Bhullar, Indian-Canadian mixed martial artist

Artists[]

Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Allah Bakhsh, painter
  • Amrita Sher-Gil, painter
  • Anish Kapoor, sculptor
  • Abdur Rahman Chughtai, painter
  • Ahmed Parvez, painter
  • Bashir Mirza, painter
  • Zubeida Agha, painter
  • Rashid Rana, sculptor
  • Quddus Mirza, art critic

See also[]

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