List of Sindhi people

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The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the Sindh province.


Business and Industry[]

Economics[]

Educationalists[]

Entertainment Industry[]

  • Aanand L. Rai, Indian movie director and producer
  • Aarti Chabria, Indian actress
  • Abida Parveen, Pakistani Sufi singer
  • Anant Balani, Indian director
  • Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
  • Ajith Kumar, Indian actor and motor car racer (Sindhi mother)
  • Allan Fakir
  • Anita Hassanandani, Indian actress
  • Anjana Sukhani, Indian actress & model
  • Anwar Solangi, Pakistani TV & radio artist
  • Apurva Asrani, film editor & screenwriter
  • Archie Panjabi, English actress
  • Arjun Bijlani, Indian TV actor
  • Asrani, Indian comedian and actor
  • Atiqa Odho, Pakistani actress
  • Atul Khatri, stand-up comedian
  • Ayaz Samoo, Pakistani actor
  • Babita, Indian actress and mother of Kareena and Karisma (Sindhi father)
  • Bhagwanti Navani, Indian folk and playback singer
  • Bhavesh Balchandani, Indian child artist
  • Deepak Perwani, Pakistani fashion designer & actor
  • Dalip Tahil, Indian actor
  • Dinesh Hingoo, Indian actor
  • Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor, producer, host, anchor and model
  • Fatima Effendi Pakistani Actress
  • Fardeen Khan, Indian actor (Sindhi mother)
  • G P Sippy, Indian filmmaker
  • Gopi Gajwani, Indian artist
  • Govinda Ahuja, Indian film actor and politics
  • Govind Nihalani, film director
  • Girish Kumar, Indian actor
  • Gracy Goswami, Indian child artist
  • Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
  • Hari Shivdasani, Indian actor and father of Babita
  • Harshvardhan Kapoor, Indian actor (Sindhi mother)
  • Hiten Tejwani, Indian TV actor
  • Humaira Channa, Pakistani singer
  • Hussain Chandio
  • Hiba Bukhari,
  • Iqbal Theba, Pakistani-American actor
  • Iqra Aziz, famous Pakistani Actress
  • Jackky Bhagnani, Indian actor
  • Jalal Chandio, Pakistani folk singer
  • Jeet Madnani, Indian Bengali actor
  • Jimmi Harkishin, Sindhi Indian British actor
  • Leena Jumani, Indian TV actress
  • Lillete Dubey, Indian actress
  • Karan Johar, Indian movie director and producer (Sindhi mother)
  • Saroj Khan, Indian movie choreographer (name changed from Nirmala Nagpal)
  • Kiara Advani, Indian actress (Sindhi father)
  • Kitu Gidwani, Indian actress & model
  • Kumail Nanjiani, Hollywood actor & comedian
  • Kushal Punjabi, Indian model & actor
  • Mai Allah Wasai, Pakistani folk singer
  • Mai Bhagi, Pakistani folk singer
  • Manzoor Sakhirani
  • Master Chander
  • Manoj Punjabi, Indian-Indonesian film businessman
  • Master Muhammad Ibrahim, musician & classical singer
  • Muhammad Juman, Sindhi musician & classical singer
  • Muhammad Yousuf Ustad, Sindhi folk and playback singer
  • Mustafa Qureshi, Pakistani film & television actor from Sindh, Pakistan
  • Nikhil Advani, Indian director & screenwriter (Sindhi father)
  • Nandita Mahtani, fashion designer
  • Noor Bano, folk singer
  • Palak Sindhwani
  • Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress in Bollywood
  • Poonam Sinha, Poonam Chandiramani
  • Rajkumar Hirani, Indian movie director
  • Ramesh Sippy, Indian director, son of G P Sippy
  • Raam Punjabi, Indian-Indonesian film producer
  • Ramesh Taurani, Indian film producer
  • Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
  • Rhea Kapoor, Indian producer & designer (Sindhi mother)
  • Rishi Bhutani
  • Ritesh Sidhwani, Indian movie producer
  • Rithvik Dhanjani, Indian TV actor
  • Roma Asrani, Indian actress
  • Roshan Atta, Pakistani veteran actress
  • Rubeena Qureshi
  • Sadhana Shivdasani, Indian actress
  • Saif Samejo
  • Sakina Samo, Pakistani actress
  • Sapna Bhavnani, Indian celebrity hairstylist
  • Sanam Baloch, Pakistani actress & television host
  • Sanam Marvi
  • Sanam Saeed, Sindhi; Memon from mother's side
  • Sangeeta Bijlani, Indian actress
  • Sanjjanaa, Indian actress in sandalwood and Telugu films
  • Shafi Muhammad Shah, Pakistani film & television actor
  • Shazia Khushk, Pakistani folk singer
  • Shilpa Saklani, Indian TV actress
  • Shonali Nagrani, Indian television presenter & model
  • Sindhu Tolani, Indian actress & model
  • Satyaprakash Mangtani, world record filmmaker, lyricist & music director
  • Sohai Ali Abro, Pakistani actress, dancer & model
  • Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress (Sindhi mother)
  • Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress (Sindhi mother)
  • Sonya Hussyn, Pakistani actress of Sindhi origin
  • Suhrab Faqir
  • Saba Qamar
  • Sheheryar Munawar
  • Tamanna Bhatia, Indian actress
  • Tarun Mansukhani, Indian movie director
  • Tarun Tahiliani, Indian fashion designer
  • Uroosa Qureshi, Pakistani actress
  • Usha Bachani, Indian actress
  • Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan
  • Vikramaditya Motwane, Indian film director (Sindhi father)
  • Vashu Bhagnani, Indian filmmaker
  • Vishal Dadlani, Indian music director
  • Vivek Vaswani, Indian writer, actor & producer
  • Yasir Nawaz, Pakistani producer & actor
  • Danish Nawaz, Pakistani comedian & actor
  • Zarina Baloch, Pakistani folk music singer and composer
  • Zeb-un-Nissa, Pakistani folk singer

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Law and Judiciary[]

Poets[]

Politicians[]

Science and Technology[]

Scholars[]

Writers[]

Philanthropists and Social activists[]

  • Hussain Haroon
  • Jam Saqi
  • Sadhu Hiranand
  • Arfana Mallah
  • Abdul Sattar Edhi, Founder of Edhi Foundation. He belonged to Memon community.

Metaphysics, spirituality and religion[]

  • Abu Mashar Sindhi (786 AD), teacher of Arab scholars
  • Abu Raja Sindhi (d. 321 A.H.), scholar, poet, teacher
  • Abul Hassan Sindhi (d. 1176 AH), made the first translation of Qur'an from Arabic to Sindhi
  • Allama Ali Khan Abro
  • Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (died 1174 AH), Ahl-us-Sunnah scholar
  • Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher
  • Asadullah Bhutto
  • Dada Vaswani
  • Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
  • Makhdoom Bilawal
  • Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi (d. 1929), freedom fighter from Sukkur, Sindh
  • Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi, Muslim scholar at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar
  • Mir Ali Sir Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
  • Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century
  • Moulana Jan Mohammad Abbasi
  • Raees-Ul-Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo, a leader of the Khilafat Movement
  • Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
  • Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, spiritual leader of the Hurs
  • Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, spiritual leader of Hurs
  • Tahir Muhammad Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim poet and historian during the rule of the Mughal Empire
  • Khalid Mehmood Soomro, religious and political leader
  • Ubaidullah Sindhi, pan-Islamic leader and political activist

Saints and Sufis[]

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