This is a list of notable people from Punjab, Pakistan.
Religious and spiritual figures
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Bahauddin Zakariya
Rukn-e-Alam
Shah Hussain
Mian Mir
Sultan Bahu
Shah Inayat Qadri
Bulleh Shah
Waris Shah
Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri
Mian Muhammad Baksh
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Meher Ali Shah
National figures
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Rahmat Ali
Liaquat Ali Khan
Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
Jahanara Shahnawaz
Naseer Ahmed Malhi
Shaukat Hayat Khan
Ghazanfar Ali Khan
Zafar Ali Khan
Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi
Pakistan Armed Forces
General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Qamar Javed Bajwa, current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
Lt Gen Abdul Ali Malik
Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua
Maj Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik
Major Tufail Muhammad, recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider (NH) Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, recipient of NH Major Muhammad Akram, recipient of NH Major Shabbir Sharif, recipient of NH Captain Muhammad Sarwar, recipient of NH Naik Saif Ali Janjua, recipient of NH Lace Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, recipient of NH Sowar Muhammad Hussain, recipient of NH
Politicians
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former Army Chief of Staff and former President of Pakistan (1977–1988) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, politician Yousaf Raza Gillani, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (Pakistan Peoples Party) Qamar Zaman Kaira, former Minister (Pakistan Peoples Party) Shah Mehmood Qureshi, politician PTI Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving parliamentarian of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999 Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament Amir Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Kalabagh, Governor of East Pakistan Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan (PPP) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, current president of PML(Q) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Chief Minister of Punjab (2002–2007)
Lawyers
S M Zafar
Ashtar Ausaf Ali
Syed Ali Zafar
Akhtar Aly Kureshy
Azam Nazeer Tarar
Hamid Khan
Writers and Poets
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Shah Hussain
Sultan Bahu
Bulleh Shah
Ali Haider Multani
Lutf Ali
Waris Shah
Qadir Yar
Mian Muhammad Baksh
Khawaja Ghulam Fareed
Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
Zafar Ali Khan
Muhammad Iqbal
Hakim Ahmad Shuja
Hafeez Jalandhari
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Ustad Daman
Hasan Manto
Shareef Kunjahi
Ahmad Rahi
Habib Jalib
Anwar Masood
Aizaz Azar
Mazhar Tirmazi
Ali Arshad Mir
Mir Tanha Yousafi
Sportspersons
Masood Fakhri, footballer
Ajaz Akhtar, cricketer
Amir Iqbal Khan, boxer
Abdul Khaliq, sprinter
Shoaib Akhtar, cricketer
Abdul Razzaq, cricketer
Wasim Akram, cricketer
Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer
Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer
Waqar Younis, cricketer and sports presenter
Shahnaz Sheikh, hockey player
Shoaib Malik, cricketer
Misbah-ul-Haq, cricketer
Saeed Anwar, cricketer
Muhammad Amir, cricketer
Scientists
Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his contributions to the Electroweak force Riazuddin, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons Masud Ahmad, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)