Gujranwala - Notable People

Notable People

Some of the notable people from Gujranwala are:

• Ahmad Bashir (Urdu: احمد بشیر) (March 24, 1923 – December 25, 2004) was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artiste Bushra Ansari.
• Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839). Ruler of Sikh religion, before the British rule.
• Jind Kaur,was the youngest wife of the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, Ranjit Singh, and the mother of the last Maharaja, Duleep Singh.
• Hari Singh Nalwa,was Commander-in-chief of the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh Empire.
• Mahan Singh Mirpuri,was a famous General in the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
• Parvez Butt,is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and the former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2001 to 2006.
• Mitty Masud,was a senior and high-raking PAF military strategist and the chief of staff of East-Pakistan Air Force— a command of the PAF.
• Dildar Pervaiz Bhatti was a Pakistani television and radio host and announcer.
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President, Islamic republic of Pakistan.
• Maulana Zafar Ali Khan,Baba E sahafat(Father of Journalism),Journalist,Natia Poet,Leader of Pakistan Movement
• Mir Khalil ur Rehman, was the founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers.
• Akram Zaki, renowned bureaucrat, ex. foreign secretary and politician
• Hamid Nasir Chattha, former Speaker of National Assembly, Islamic republic of Pakistan
• Munawar Zarif, actor
• Dildar Pervaiz Bhatti,Comedian,TV artist,performer.
• Sohail Ahmed, Pakistani comedian, stage and TV actor.
• Babu Baral, Pakistani stage actor and comedian.
• Atif Aslam, Pakistani pop singer.
• Roshan (music director), was a Bollywood film music composer. He was the grandfather of Hritik Roshan.
• Saba Qamar, is a Pakistani model and actress.
• Imran Nazir, is a Pakistani International cricketer.
• Imtiaz Ahmed (brigadier), former director-general of Intelligence Bureau (I.B)and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
• Meeraji, was an eminent Urdu poet.
• Amrita Pritam, was a first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. Emigrated to India during the 1947 riots.
• Qadaryar, was a Punjabi poet.
• Suraiya, was a singer and actress of the Indian films.
• Nadeem Aslam, is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.
• Imran Khan (singer), is a Dutch-born Punjabi singer of Pakistani origin.
• Murtaza Hassan, was a Pakistani comedian.
• Harmik Singh, a former captain of the Indian field hockey team.
• Noon Meem Rashid, an influential Pakistani poet of modern
• Dr. Shaista Nuzhat Ph.D, famous Urdu, Punjabi poetess and a bureaucrat
• Muhammad Inam, won the country's second gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Muhammad Younis Butt, famous Pakistani screenwriter and humorist notable for his shows, also a column writer and executive producer.
• Goga Pahalwan,was a world class Pakistani professional wrestler.
• Hari Singh Nalwa, was Commander-in-chief of the army, of the Sikh Empire.
• Jagdish Tytler, A prominent Leader of INC, India.
• Nida Dar, international cricketer from Pakistan.
• Mohammad Ayub (cricketer, born 1965), was an Indian cricketer.
• Khalid Hamid,is a Pakistani field hockey player.
• Aamer Gulzar,was a Pakistani cricketer.
• Double Shah,was a teacher who started a financial scam, a Ponzi scheme (fraudulent investment), in Pakistan.
• Mohammad Akhtar,is a Pakistani born English cricketer.
• Aamer Khan (cricketer, born 1972),was a Pakistani cricketer.
• Altaf Gauhar,was a civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer from Pakistan.
• Krishan Chander,was an Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar.
• Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar,was a strategist in the process to achieve political democracy of independent India.
• Ijaz Shah,former Director-General of Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan.
• Basheer Hussain Najafi,is one of the six Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq.
• Ahmed Ali Lahori,was a renowned Sufi Muslim scholar of the South Asia, in the 1950s.
• Govinda (actor), is an Indian actor and politician.
• Qaiser Mushtaq,is a prominent Pakistani mathematician and a renowned academic.
• Yashpaul,Hindustani Vocalist, Composer, and Teacher.
• Ahmed Shehzad,is a Pakistani cricketer.
• Rama Tirtha,was an Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
• Haider Ali (athlete), is an all-around Pakistani para-athlete.
• Abid Khan,was a Pakistani comedian, and stage and TV actor.
• Makhan Singh (Kenyan trade unionist),was a labour union leader.
• Ahsan Malik,was the Pakistani commander who defended Kamalpur in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
• Haji Ghulam Nabi Mujahid Founder of Alrai hospital.