Literature and Art
- Hanif Kureishi - Playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer
- Imtiaz Dharker - Poet and documentary filmmaker
- Moniza Alvi - Poet and writer
- Nadeem Aslam - Novelist
- Razia Iqbal - Arts correspondent for the BBC; born in East Africa and is of Muslim Punjabi origin.
- Qaisra Shahraz - Novelist, journalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a director of Gatehouse Books
- Suhayl Saadi - Literary and erotic novelist and radio/stage playwright.
- Tariq Ali - Historian and novelist
- Ziauddin Sardar - Scholar, writer and cultural critic
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