Notable People
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community:
- Abdus Salam – first Pakistani and first Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Akhtar Hussain Malik – lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army
- M M Ahmad – prominent civil servant of Pakistan and former executive director and vice president of the World Bank
- Iftikhar Janjua – major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war
- Abdul Ali Malik – war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war
- Sahibzada Abdul Latif – martyr of Ahmadiyya Islam; Afghan king Abdur Rahman Khan's advisor and representative of the Afghan government in the formation of the Durand Line
- Qalandar Momand – Pakhtun scholar, poet, writer, journalist, researcher, critic, academician, lexicographer. Recipient of Pakistan's Pride of Performance civil award, the National Award for Democracy and Sitara-e-Imtiaz
- Tariq Ahmad – Member of the House of Lords and vice chairman of the Conservative Party for cities
- Hadayatullah Hübsch – prominent German writer and journalist
- Yusef Lateef – jazz musician and Grammy Award winner
- Ahmad Jamal – jazz musician
- Obaidullah Aleem – famous Urdu poet
- Saira Wasim – internationally acclaimed miniature artist
- Art Blakey – jazz musician
- Adnan Virk – ESPN anchor
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali – American actor
- Sahib Shihab – jazz musician
- McCoy Tyner – jazz pianist
- Charlie Parker – jazz saxophonist
- Farimang Mamadi Singateh (1912 – 19 May 1977) – the second and last Governor General of The Gambia.
- Dakota Staton – jazz vocalist
- Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – first Foreign Minister of Pakistan (1947–54), President of the UN General Assembly (1962–64), President of the International Court of Justice (1970–73)
- Sitara Burooj Akbar – 10 year old Ahmadi Muslim girl from Rabwah, Pakistan who broke world record for youngest person to pass GCSE ('O'Level) Biology.
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam:
- Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din – lawyer; founder of the Woking Muslim Mission in UK; founder of The Islamic Review; companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad; leader of Lahori group
- Naseer Ahmad Faruqui – chief election commissioner Pakistan, (d. 6 December 1991)
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