List of Sindhi people

The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the Sindh province.

Historical personalities

Politicians

Journalists

Poets

Science and technology

  • Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, founder of computing in Sindhi
  • Gul Agha, computer scientist
  • Sind ibn Ali, Sindhi Muslim astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
  • Mukhtiar Ali Unar, Professor and Researcher, Mehran UET Jamshoro
  • Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist, professor at Stanford University
  • S.M. Qureshi, civil engineer and founding Vice Chancellor of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology

Business and industry

Educationalists

Entertainment industry

Law experts

Scholars

Researchers

Writers

Philanthropists and social activists

  • Hussain Haroon
  • Jam Saqi
  • Irfana Mallah
  • Sindhu Nawaz Ghanghro

Economics

Law and judiciary

Metaphysics, spirituality and religion

  • Abu Mashar Sindhi (786 AD), teacher of Arab scholars
  • Abu Raja Sindhi (d. 321 A.H.), scholar, poet, teacher
  • Abul Hassan Sindhi (d. 1176 AH), made the first translation of Qur'an from Arabic to Sindhi
  • Allama Ali Khan Abro
  • Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (died 1174 AH), Ahl-us-Sunnah scholar
  • Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher
  • Asadullah Bhutto
  • Dada Vaswani
  • Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
  • Makhdoom Bilawal
  • Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi (d. 1929), freedom fighter from Sukkur, Sindh
  • Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi, Muslim scholar at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar
  • Mir Ali Sir Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
  • Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century
  • Moulana Jan Mohammad Abbasi
  • Raees-Ul-Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo, a leader of the Khilafat Movement
  • Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
  • Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, spiritual leader of the Hurs
  • Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, spiritual leader of Hurs
  • Tahir Muhammad Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim poet and historian during the rule of the Mughal Empire
  • Ubaidullah Sindhi, pan-Islamic leader and political activist

Saints and sufis

Sports


See Also

References

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