List of people from Peshawar

This is a list of notable people from Peshawar, Pakistan.

• Shahid Afridi, Pakistani Cricket Team's captain
• Zeek Afridi, Pashto singer
• Suhail Galadari, Director, Khaleej Times; Owner, Galadari Cement - Pakistan^[1]
• Rahman Baba, Pashto poet
• Farhatullah Babar, Pakistan Peoples Party president and spokesman
• Bashir Ahmad Bilour, Member of Provincial Assembly, senior minister, head of a business empire and a well respected leader; died in a suicide blast in 2012
• Patras Bokhari, Urdu humourist
• Safwat Ghayur, Commandant Frontier Constabulary
• Umar Gul, cricketer
• Ismail Gulgee, artist
• Yasir Hameed, cricketer
• Raj Kapoor, Bollywood actor
• Aamir Atlas Khan, Pakistan squash player
• Amjad Khan, Bollywood actor
• Hashim Khan, former British Open squash champion
• Jahangir Khan, former World No. 1 squash player
• Jansher Khan, former squash world champion
• Kabir Khan, cricketer
• Marina Khan, actress
• General Yahya Khan, President and Commander in Chief and Pakistan Army
• Younis Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• Dilip Kumar, Bollywood actor
• Madhubala, Bollywood actress
• Abdur Rab Nishtar, leader in Pakistan Movement; first Governor of Punjab, Pakistan
• Sania Nishtar, cardiologist and health policy expert
• Abdur Rehman Peshawri, member of the Young Turks, Turkish Ambassador to Afghanistan
• Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Urdu poet
• Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, founder of Islamia College and Legislative Council member
• Dr. Muhammad Rehman, cardiovascular surgeon and founder of Rehman Medical institute and Rehman Medical College
• Malik Saad, late CCPO of Peshawar
• Ismail Shahid, Pashto comedian and actor
• Omer Tarin, poet and scholar born here in 1967
• Mohammed Yahya, educationist, Minister of Education N.W.F.P., 1946-1947
• Rahimullah Yusufzai, journalist
• Qamar Zaman, squash player

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