List of Punjabi people
This is a list of notable Punjabis.
Nobel laureates
Military leaders
Indian Armed Forces
Airforce
- Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, former Chief of Indian Air Force[1]
- Marshal Arjan Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force;[2] only marshal in the history of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, former Chief of Indian Air Force
Army
General Bikram Singh, former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
- Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora (Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਰੋਰਾ; 1916–2005), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; led the ground forces campaign in the eastern front of the war
- Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to reach the second highest rank of Lt General;[3] first woman to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy[4]
- Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army for his leadership in the Battle of Longewala
- General Deepak Kapoor, former Indian Army Chief
- General Om Prakash Malhotra, former Indian Army Chief
- General Ved Prakash Malik, former Indian Army Chief
- General Bikram Singh, former Indian Army Chief
- General Joginder Jaswant Singh, former Indian Army Chief[5]
- Major General Shabeg Singh
- General Pran Nath Thapar, former Indian Army Chief
- General Nirmal Chander Vij, former Indian Army Chief
Navy
- Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, former Chief of Indian Navy
- Admiral S.M. Nanda, former Chief of Indian Navy
Other notables
- Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer
- Uday Singh Taunque, awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star; first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the US Army
Pakistan Armed Forces
Army
General Kayani, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali, adviser to the Government of Pakistan
- Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, HI(M), T Bt, Punjab, DG Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Rawalpindi
- General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Raja Aziz Bhatti, Shaheed, Nishan-e-Haider winner
- General (R) Zia ul Haq, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Sawar Muhammad Hussain, Shaheed Janjua, Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
- Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Janjua, most senior Pakistani officer killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the front line
- General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistan army
- Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
- Khudadad Khan, Victoria Cross winner
- General (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan, first Muslim to become a General in the British Indian Army
- General (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan Kaimkhani, former Vice Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan, member of the Azad Kashmir Council
- Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan, Mangral
- Lt Gen (R) Raja Saroop Khan, former Governor of Punjab
- Maj Gen (R) Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua, Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
- Major General Shahida Malik, first woman general in South Asia
- General (R) Tikka Khan, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar, HI(M)
- General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Muhammad Sarwar, Shaheed, Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed, Nishan-e-Haider winner
- General (R) Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Major Shabbir Sharif, Shaheed, Nishan-e-Haider winner
Navy
- Admiral Muhammad Asif Sandila, (HI(M), L'honneur, NI(M))
- Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir, (NI(M))
Airforce
- Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
- Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry
- Air Chief Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
- Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
- Air Marshal Nur Khan
- Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
- Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Shaheed Minhas, Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana
- Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
PreModern era Punjab
- Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
- Mian Family Baghbanpura
- Banda Singh Bahadur
- Adina Beg
- Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti
- Bhuma Singh Dhillon
- Hari Singh Dhillon
- Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan
- Fakir Khana
- Diwan Sawan Mal
- Diwan Mulraj
- Hari Singh Nalwa
- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
- Baba Deep Singh
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Nawab Kapur Singh
Business
- Ajay Banga, corporate executive; president and COO of MasterCard; ex-CEO of Citi Group Asia Pacific
- M. S. Banga, corporate executive; ex-CEO of Hindustan Lever; director on the board of Maruti Udyog Limited
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Gurbaksh Chahal
- Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
- Michael Chowdry, founder of Atlas Air
- Dewan Mushtaq Group, Pakistani business group and industrialists
- Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium processor
- Bob Singh Dhillon, Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
- Narinder Singh Kapany, named as one of the seven "Unsung Heroes" by Fortune magazine
- Rana Kapoor, founder and managing director of Yes Bank
- Shahid Khan, Pakistani Punjabi Jatt-born American multi-billionaire businessman; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Premier League team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois
- Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- F C Kohli, regarded as the "father" of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
- Gulshan Kumar, T Series
- Avtar Lit, founder of Sunrise Radio
- Mian Muhammad Mansha, prominent Pakistani industrialist
- Sunil Mittal, owner of Bharti Airtel
- Brijmohan Lal Munjal, founder of Hero Group[6]
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels[7]
- Aroon Purie, India Today group
- Saigol Group, Pakistani business group and industrialists
- Avtar Saini, former director of India operations of Montalvo Systems; former vice president of Intel
- Jessie Singh Saini, Indo-American industrialist
- Jay Sidhu, former chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and president of i2 Technologies
- Kushal Pal Singh, Chairman and CEO of DLF
- Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
- Malvinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Group
Artists
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941)
- Neeru Bajwa
- Manjit Bawa
- Abdul Rehman Chughtai
- Satish Gujral
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Dakssh Ajit Singh
- Sobha Singh
Cartoonists
- Shekhar Gurera, editorial cartoonist
- Pran Kumar Sharma, cartoonist of Chacha Chaudhary fame
Educators and scientists
- Asad Abidi, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Ishfaq Ahmad, theoretical physicist
- Masud Ahmad, Pakistani theoretical physicist and ICTP laureate
- Haroon Ahmed, prominent scientist in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering
- Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of political science, University of Stockholm, and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- Nazir Ahmed, Pakistani experimental physicist
- M. M. S. Ahuja, Indian physician and endocrinologist
- Tariq Ali, academic, historian and novelist
- Khizar Humayun Ansari, academic; awarded an OBE in 2002 for his work in the field of race and ethnic relations
- Chaudry Mohammad Aslam, Pakistani mathematician and cartographer
- Farzana Aslam, Pakistani physicist and astronomer
- Muhammad Huzair Awan, Pakistani information technology prodigy and public speaker
- Farooq Azam, Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; researcher in the field of marine microbiology
- Om P. Bahl, Indian molecular biologist
- Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Indian physician and diabetologist; conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award
- Hoon Balakram, Indian mathematician
- Indu Banga, historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
- Lekh Raj Batra, distinguished mycologist and linguist
- Sabeer Bhatia, founder of the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Shahid H. Bokhari, highly cited Pakistani researcher in the field of parallel and distributed computing
- Praveen Chaudhari, Indian American physicist
- Kasturi Lal Chopra, Indian material physicist
- Ram Nath Chopra, Indian medical officer; widely considered the "father of Indian pharmacology"
- Virender Lal Chopra, Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist, former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
- Ashraf Choudhary, Pakistani-New Zealand scientist in agricultural engineering
- Kirpal Singh Chugh, Indian nephrologist
- Manoj Datta, Indian engineer
- Sukh Dev, Indian organic chemist
- Vinod Dham, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist; popularly known as "Pentium Engineer"
- Meena Dhanda, philosopher and academic at University of Wolverhampton
- Satish Dhawan
- Baldev Singh Dhillon
- Vijay K. Dhir, Indo-American scientist
- Guru Prakash Dutta, Indian cell biologist and immunologist
- Aneez Esmail, Associate Vice-President at the University of Manchester; currently based at the Institute of Population Health belonging to the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences; holds a visiting professorship at Harvard University in the United States
- Fayyazuddin, Pakistani theoretical physicist
- Khem Singh Gill, Indian academic, geneticist
- Piara Singh Gill, Indian nuclear physicist
- Khem Singh Grewal, Indian pharmacologist
- Ravi Grover, Indian nuclear scientist
- Hansraj Gupta, Indian mathematician
- Sardul Singh Guraya, Indian biologist
- Ashraf Habibullah
- Mahbub ul Haq, inventor of Human Development Index with Amartya Sen
- Tasawar Hayat, Pakistani mathematician who has made pioneering research contributions to the area of mathematical fluid mechanics
- Tasneem Zehra Husain, Pakistani theoretical physicist
- Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz
- Ayesha Jalal, MacArthur Fellow and Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University
- Ranjit Lal Jetley, soldier and scientist
- Gurcharan Singh Kalkat, Indian agricultural scientist
- Ved Prakash Kamboj
- Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian astrophysicist
- Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-born American Sikh physicist
- Rashid Kausar, Professor of Knowledge Management
- Satinder Vir Kessar, Indian synthetic organic chemist
- Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear physicist
- Shahbaz Khan, Pakistani Australian climatologist and hydrologist
- Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize winner
- Pradeep Khosla, academic computer scientist
- Vinod Khosla Indian American engineer and businessman
- Rakesh Khurana, Indian-American educator
- Neelam Kler, Indian neonatologist
- Nayanjot Lahiri, Indian historian and archaeologist at Ashoka University
- Purshotam Lal, Indian cardiologist
- Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, nuclear scientist
- Hafeez Malik, Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania
- Kauser Abdulla Malik
- Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement
- Salim Mehmud, Pakistani rocket scientist
- Narinder Kumar Mehra, Indian immunologist
- Zia Mian, Pakistani-American physicist, nuclear expert, nuclear policy maker and research scientist at Princeton University
- Farina Mir, historian and professor at University of Michigan
- Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Brimstone
- Noor Muhammad, Pakistani mathematician
- Mridula Mukherjee, Indian historian specialized in modern India Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Manohar Lal Munjal, Indian acoustical engineer
- Ghulam Murtaza, Pakistani plasma physicist and mathematician
- Qaiser Mushtaq
- Saeed Ahmad Nagra, Pakistani biochemist
- Adil Najam, Professor of Earth, Environment and International Relations
- Anwar Nasim, Pakistani molecular biologist and geneticist
- Ayub Ommaya, Pakistani-American neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
- Yash Pal, Indian scientist, educator and educationist
- Amjad Parvez, Pakistani engineer
- Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor at Virginia Tech
- Khalil Qureshi, Pakistani physical chemist
- Atta-ur-Rahman, chemist
- Arfa Karim Randhawa, youngest Pakistani Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
- Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Punjabi civil servant, botanist, historian, art and culture promoter, prominent writer
- Narinder Singh Randhawa, Indian agricultural scientist
- Muneer Ahmad Rashid
- Suresh Rattan
- Riazuddin, Pakistani theoretical physicist, specialising in high-energy physics and nuclear physics
- Agha Saeed, founder and Chairman of American Muslim Alliance and lecturer in Asian Studies at California State University, East Bay
- Birbal Sahni, Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent
- Daya Ram Sahni, Indian archaeologist
- Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
- Umar Saif, computer scientist
- Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini, Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Sartaj Sahni, American-Indian computer scientist
- Harvinder Sahota, Indian American cardiologist
- Pritam Saini, English, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu writer; historian; literary critic[8]
- Sanjay Saini, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School[9][10]
- Subhash Saini, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA[11]
- Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize winner
- Ziauddin Sardar, scholar, writer and cultural critic
- P. K. Sethi
- Muhammad Sharif, cosmologist
- Dheeraj Sharma, professor at IIM-Ahmedabad; writer
- Khushdeva Singh, Indian physician and social worker
- Manjit Singh, armament scientist
- Upinder Singh, Indian historian specialized in ancient India at University of Delhi
- Sahib Singh Sokhey, Indian biochemist
- Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Pakistani social policy analyst and development practitioner
- Sara Suleri, author and professor emeritus of English at Yale University
- Janak Raj Talwar, Indian cardiothoracic scientist
- B. K. Thapar, Indian archaeologist; Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1978–1981
- Kartar Singh Thind
- Surinder Vasal, Indian geneticist scientist
- Purshottam Lal Wahi
- Khushwant Lal Wig, Indian physician
Astronauts
- Kalpana Chawla
- Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space
Bollywood
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:
Indian actor Shahid Kapoor
Individual artists
- Achala Sachdev
- Akshay Kumar
- Amrish Puri[13]
- Aanchal Kumar
- Akanksha Juneja
- Ali Zafar
- Annu Kapoor
- Amrinder Gill
- Ammy Virk
- Anupama Verma
- Arjan Bajwa
- Anil Dhawan
- Armaan Kohli
- Avtar Gill
- Aryan Vaid
- Ayushman Khurana
- Babbal Rai
- Bhumika Chawla
- Bina Rai
- Celina Jaitley
- Dilip Kumar[14]
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Deepak Parashar
- Geeta Bali
- Geeta Basra
- Shoma Anand
- Gippy Grewal
- Gracy Singh
- Govinda
- Gul Panag
- Gulshan Grover
- Gurshabad Singh
- Harman Baweja
- Harry Ahluwalia
- Jassi Gill
- Jaspal Bhatti
- Jimmy Shergill
- Juhi Chawla
- Jyothika
- Kabir Bedi
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Karan Johar
- Kapil Sharma
- Khursheed Bano
- Kiran Juneja
- Kirron Kher
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kunal Kapoor
- Mahek Chahal
- Mahie Gill
- Mallika Sherawat
- Mandira Bedi
- Mangal Dhillon
- Mehar Mittal
- Minissha Lamba
- Mink Brar
- Mona Singh
- Monica Bedi
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mukesh Rishi
- Navin Nischol
- Neeru Bajwa
- Neetu Singh
- Neha Dhupia
- Neil Nitin Mukesh
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pavan Malhotra
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bedi
- Poonam Dhillon
- Pran
- Praveen Kumar
- Prem Chopra
- Priya Gill
- Pulkit Samrat
- Puneet Issar
- Raageshwari
- Raj Babbar
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rajit Kapur
- Rakesh Bedi
- Ranjeet
- Rana Ranbir
- Ram Kapoor
- Raveena Tandon
- Rati Agnihotri
- Ruby Bhatia
- Samir Soni
- Sargun Mehta
- Sudesh Berry
- Shakti Kapoor
- Sheeba Chaddha
- Shiny Ahuja
- Sidharth Malhotra
- Simi Garewal
- Simone Singh
- Smriti Irani
- Sonu Sood
- Suraiya
- Urvashi Sharma
- Varun Dhawan
- Veena Malik
- Vikas Bhalla
- Vijay Arora
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Shauq
- Yami Gautam
- Yash Johar
- Yukta Mookhey
Kareena Kapoor Khan Indian film actress
Celina Miss India Universe 2001, actress
Akshay Kumar Indian film actor
Singers
- Akriti Kakkar
- Abrar-ul-Haq
- Amrinder Gill
- Anushka Manchanda
- Arijit Singh
- Atif Aslam
- Arif Lohar
- Babbu Mann
- Bhupinder Singh
- Bohemia
- Daler Mehndi
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Gippy Grewal
- Gurdas Maan
- Hans Raj Hans
- Hard Kaur
- Himani Kapoor
- Honey Singh
- Jassi Gill
- Jagjit Singh
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jazzy B
- Kanika Kapoor
- Kavita Seth
- Kundan Lal Saigal
- Labh Janjua
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Meena Kapoor
- Mika Singh
- Mohammed Rafi
- Mukesh
- Narinder Biba
- Narendra Chanchal
- Neeraj Shridhar
- Neha Bhasin
- Nitin Mukesh
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Parkash Kaur
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- Rekha Bhardwaj
- Richa Sharma
- Satinder Sartaaj, Punjabi Sufi singer
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Shailendra Singh
- Shamshad Begum
- Shibani Kashyap
- Shaukat Ali
- Soni Pabla, Bhangra singer
- Sonu Nigam
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Suraiyya
- Surinder Kaur
- Taz, lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation
- Tulsi Kumar
- Wadali brothers
- Ali Zafar
- Noor Jehan
Directors
- Abdur Rashid Kardar
- Abhishek Kapoor
- Aditya Chopra
- Anil Sharma
- Anurag Singh
- B. R. Chopra
- Brij Sadanah
- Chetan Anand
- David Dhawan
- Deepa Mehta
- Deepak Balraj Vij
- Deepak Sareen
- Dharmesh Darshan
- Goldie Behl
- Gulzar
- Harry Baweja
- Inder Raj Anand
- J.P.Dutta
- Kamal Sadanah
- Karan Johar
- Karan Malhotra
- Kunal Kohli
- Lekh Tandon
- Loveleen Tandan
- Mira Nair
- Mohan Kumar
- Mukul Anand
- Pankaj Parashar
- Prakash Mehra
- Punit Malhotra
- Raj Kanwar
- Raj Khosla
- Rajiv Rai
- Rajkumar Kohli
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Ramanand Sagar
- Ravi Chopra
- Ravi Tandon
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Siddharth Anand
- Subhash Ghai
- Suneel Darshan
- Tinnu Anand
- Umesh Mehra
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Vijay Anand
- Vipin Handa
- Yash Chopra
Documentary filmmakers
Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
History
Porus and Alexender
- Wazir Khan
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh
- Dulla Bhatti
- Abdul Hamid Lahori, historian and traveller
- Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh
- Charaka
- Chanakya
- Porus
- Raja Sálbán
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, historian
Folklore
Religious and spiritual figures
Muslim Sufis
- Data Ganj Bakhsh
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
- Baha-ud-din Zakariya
- Bulleh Shah
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar, the first major work done in Punjabi language)
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid
- Mian Mir
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
- Rukn-e-Alam
- Shah Hussain
- Sultan Bahu
- Waris Shah
Hindu gurus and saints
Ahmadiyya community
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889–1908)
- Malauna Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1908–1914)
- Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982–2003)
- Mirza Masroor Ahmad (2003–present)
The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
Sikh
- Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
- Nanua Bairagi, Sikh mystic, martyr and poet
- Sharan Kaur Pabla, martyr who died while performing the last rites of Guru Gobind Singh's older sons
- Labh Singh Saini (1895–1947), freedom fighter and President of Shiromani Akali Dal
- Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura, Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964–1980, highest spiritual and temporal authority of Sikhs
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Amrita Pritam
- Bhai Gurdas
- Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Bulleh Shah
- Damodar Das Arora
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Giani Gurdit Singh
- Gulzar (Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner for the film Slumdog Millionaire
- Hafeez Jullundhri
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Harbhajan Singh
- Hashim Shah
- Inderjit Hasanpuri
- Jaswant Neki
- Jaswant Singh Rahi
- Kulwant Singh Virk
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Munir Niazi
- Nanak Singh
- Navtej Bharati
- Pash
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Rahul Saini
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Shah Mohammad
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Shareef Kunjahi
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Ustad Daman
- Waris Shah
English
Khushwant Singh (1915-2014) was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.
- Ahmed Rashid
- Amrita Pritam
- Deepak Chopra
- Jaspreet Singh
- Chetan Bhagat
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Khushwant Singh[15]
- Manil Suri
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Nadeem Aslam
- Neville Tuli
- Partap Sharma
- Rahul Saini
- Romila Thapar
- Susham Bedi
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Tariq Ali
- Omer Tarin
- Ved Mehta
- Vikram Seth
- Yuyutsu Sharma
- Zulfikar Ghose
Journalists
India
England
Pakistan
Electronic/broadcast
India
Pakistan
Canada
Lollywood
Tamil cinema
- Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
- Jyothika, Punjabi Hindu
- Kajal Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
- Sonia Aggarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Models
Musicians
- Gurdas Mann, Punjabi musician, singer, lyricist
- Diljit Dosanjh, Punjabi singer, actor
- Babbu Mann, Punjabi musician, singer
- Honey Singh, Punjabi rapper
- Bohemia, Pakistani-American Punjabi rapper
- Sukshinder Shinda, Punjabi musician
- Nav, Punjabi-Canadian rapper
Classical
- Allah Rakha
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Kamal Heer
- Manmohan Waris
- Sangtar
- Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Shanno Khurana (b. 1927), Hindustani classical singer, Padma Bhushan[18]
- Zakir Hussain
Music directors in Bollywood
Lyricists
- Bohemia (Punjabi rapper)
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Qamar Jalalabadi
- Anand Bakshi
- Gulshan Bawra
- Irshad Kamil
- Gulzar
Pakistan
Qawwalis
Ghazals
Bhangra and other Punjabi people
India
- Amar Singh Chamkila
- Apache Indian
- Asa Singh Mastana
- B21
- Babbu Maan
- Bally Sagoo
- Bombay Rockers
- Channi Singh
- Daler Mehndi
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Dr. Zeus
- Gurdas Maan
- Gippy Grewal
- Hans Raj Hans
- Harbhajan Mann
- Hard Kaur
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Honey Singh
- Jagmeet Bal
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jay Sean
- Jazzy B
- Juggy D
- Kamal Heer
- Kuldeep Manak
- Kulwinder Dhillon
- Labh Janjua
- Lehmber Hussainpuri
- Malkit Singh
- Manmohan Waris
- Miss Pooja
- Panjabi MC
- Ravinder Grewal
- Rishi Rich
- Sukhbir
- Sukhshinder Shinda
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Surinder Kaur
- Surinder Shinda
- Surjit Bindrakhia
- Taz
Pakistan
Pop and rock
India
Pakistan
Atif Aslam, Pakistani pop singer
United States
- Himanshu Suri, of the Brooklyn-based rap outfit Das Racist[19]
Revolutionaries
Politicians
India
- Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab
- Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India
- Ashwani Kumar
- Bhagwant Mann
- Baldev Singh
- Bibi Jagir Kaur
- Buta Singh
- Darbara Singh
- Giani Zail Singh, former President of India
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India
- Jagjit Singh Taunque
- Krishan Kant
- Kanshi Ram
- Madanlal Khurana
- Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan
- Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
- Master Tara Singh
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Pratap Singh Kairon
- Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Sant Fateh Singh
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Sheila Dikshit
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Swaran Singh
- Laxmi Kanta Chawla
- Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
- Parminder Singh Dhindsa
- Sarup Chand Singla
Pakistan
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq
- Chaudhry Amir Hussain
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
- Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
- Feroz Khan Noon
- Ghulam Bibi
- Hamza Shahbaz
- Hanif Ramay
- Imran Khan
- Jagjit Singh Taunque, Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands
- Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
- Liaqat Ali Khan
- Malik Amjad Ali Noon
- Malik Anwer Ali Noon
- Ghulam Muhammad
- Malik Meraj Khalid
- Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
- Mazhar Ali Azhar
- Mian Iftikharuddin
- Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
- Mian Umar Hayat
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Mushahid Hussain Syed
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
- Nawaz Sharif
- Nisar Ali Khan
- Rana Sanaullah Khan
- Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
- Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan
- Saqlain Anwar Sipra
- Sardar Ayaz Sadiq
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Shahid Hussain Bhatti
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
- Sheikh Waqas Akram
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
- Syeda Sughra Imam
- Wasim Sajjad
United States
- Preet Bharara, former member of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives
Indian Punjabi Cinema
Directors
Actors
Babbu Maan, star of Hashar and Ekam – Son of Soil
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The Punjabi film industry has produced a number of successful actors, actresses, writers, directors and filmmakers, many of whom have been known internationally.
Actors
- B.N. Sharma
- Gippy Grewal
- Gurdas Maan
- Gugu Gill
- Harbhajan Mann
- Jassi Gill
- Jaspal Bhatti
- Jaswinder Bhalla
- Karamjit Anmol
- Mustafa Qureshi
- Shavinder Mahal
- Vivek Shauq
Actresses
Sportspersons
Baseball
Tennis
Cricket
India
Harbhajan, pictured here bowling in the nets
- Aashish Kapoor
- Ajay Ratra
- Akash Chopra
- Amarjit Kaypee
- Ashok Malhotra
- Atul Wassan
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Chetan Sharma
- Gautam Gambhir
- Gourav Dhiman
- Gursharan Singh
- Harbhajan Singh
- Harvinder Singh
- Jahangir Khan
- Kapil Dev[20]
- Lala Amarnath
- Maninder Singh
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Nikhil Chopra
- Piyush Chawla
- Rajinder Ghai
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Sunny Sohal
- Surinder Amarnath
- Surinder Khanna
- V. R. V. Singh
- Vijay Mehra
- Virat Kohli
- Yuvraj Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Yadavendra Singh
Pakistan
- Aamer Malik
- Aamer Sohail
- Aaqib Javed
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar
- Abdul Qadir
- Abdul Razzaq
- Aizaz Cheema
- Asif Masood
- Ata-ur-Rehman
- Azeem Hafeez
- Azhar Mahmood
- Fazal Mahmood
- Ijaz Ahmed
- Imran Khan
- Imran Farhat
- Imran Nazir
- Imtiaz Ahmed
- Intikhab Alam
- Inzamam-ul-Haq
- Kamran Akmal
- Khan Mohammad
- Mahmood Hussain
- Majid Khan
- Maqsood Ahmed
- Mohammad Hafeez
- Mohammad Ilyas
- Mohammad Nazir
- Mohammad Wasim
- Mohammad Yousuf
- Mohammed Asif
- Moin Khan
- Mudassar Nazar
- Mushtaq Ahmed
- Pervez Sajjad
- Rameez Raja
- Saeed Ahmed
- Saleem Altaf
- Saleem Elahi
- Saleem Malik
- Salman Butt
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- Sarfraz Nawaz
- Shabbir Ahmed
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Shoaib Malik
- Shujauddin
- Sohail Tanvir
- Tahir Naqqash
- Talat Ali
- Taufeeq Umar
- Waqar Hasan
- Waqar Younis
- Wasim Akram
- Wasim Raja
- Zaheer Abbas
England
Canada
New Zealand
Basketball
Hockey
Field hockey
- Abdul Rashid
- Ajitpal Singh
- Asif Bajwa
- Balbir Singh Sr.
- Baljeet Singh Saini
- Baljit Singh Dhillon
- Balwant (Bal) Singh Saini
- Gagan Ajit Singh
- Hanif Khan
- Hasan Sardar
- Inder Singh
- Kalimullah
- Kamran Ashraf
- Kulbir Bhaura
- Manzoor Hussain
- Muhammad Shahbaz
- Prabhjot Singh
- Prithipal Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Ravi Kahlon
- Saini Sisters
- Shahbaz Ahmed
- Shahnaz Sheikh
- Sohail Abbas
- Wasim Feroz
Ice hockey
Athletics
Golf
Wrestling
- Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama), remained undefeated
- The Great Khali, World Heavyweight Champion
- Dara Singh
- Bholu Pahalwan
- Premchand Dogra
- Aslam Pehlwan Rustam-e-Punjab
- Tiger Jeet Singh
- The Singh Brothers, WWE wrestlers
- Younus Khan (former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz
- Jinder Mahal (real name Yuvraj Singh Dhesi), WWE Champion
Shooting
- Abhinav Bindra, first individual Olympic gold medalist
- Gagan Narang, the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
- Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee
Cycling
- Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics
Soccer
- Michael Chopra, English footballer
- Harpal Singh
- Harmeet Singh
- Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, second Indian goalkeeper and first to professionally play as GK for 1st division European club
- Sandesh Jhingan, India u-23 and national team player, was adjudged the best footballer of the inaugural ISL
- Jarnail Singh
Boxing
Volleyball
Mixed martial arts
- Kultar Gill, Indian-Canadian mixed martial artist
- Singh Jaideep, Indian-Japanese mixed martial artist
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