List of Sindhi people

The following is a list of notable ethnic Sindhi people.

Historical personalities

Hemu Kalani, Freedom Fighter
Hazrat Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari Sharif
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki
Shah Inayat Shaheed
Lal Shahbaz Qalander
Sachal Sarmast
Dodo Bin Khafef Soomro III
Jam Nizamuddin II
Jam Feroz
Jam Unar
Jam Tamachi
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi
Mir Ali Sir Thattvi
Mirza Ghazi Beg
Muhammad Salih Tahtawi
Mian Adam Shah Kalhoro, Amir
Main Noor Mohammad Kalhoro, Ruler of Sindh
Muhammad Muradyab Khan (Nawab Sarbuland Khan), Ruler of Sindh
Mian Ghuam Shah Kalhoro (Shah Wardi Khan), Ruler of Sindh
Mir Nasir Khan Talpur
Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur
Gernal Hosh Mohammad Sheedi
Mir Ali Murad Talpur
Mir Allahyar Talpur
Hoshu Sheedi
Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi
Ubaidullah Sindhi
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Sardar Darya Khan
Raja Dahir
Sinbad the Sailor, a mythical figure who may have originated in Sindh
Hakeem Muhammad Amin Soomro Royal Hakeem of Princely State of Khairpur, Sindh, Muslim politician and freedom fighter & student of Hakeem Ajmal Khan.
Raees Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri
Wadero Ghulam Kadir Dayo

Politics

Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II
Rasool Bux Palijo
G.M Syed
Lal Krishna Advani, leader of BJP and former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto
Ayaz Latif Palijo
Bashir Qureshi
Mohammad Khan Junejo
Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto
Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
Asif Zardari
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
Mir Bandeh Ali Khan Talpur, (former Chief Minister of Sindh)
Haider Bux Jatoi, founder of 'Jeay Sindh' slogan
Elahi Bux Soomro, former Parliamentary Speaker
Yusuf Haroon
Murtaza Bhutto
Haji Amir Bux Junejo
Muhammad Mian Soomro
Fatima Bhutto, author
Sucheta Kriplani, first Sindhi Indian Woman Chief Minister
Lal Krishna Advani
K. R. Malkani
Mir Ghalib Hussain Domki
Allah Bux Soomro, first Prime Minister of Sindh
Syed Zafar Ali Shah, former Deputy Speaker Of Pakistan.

Journalists

Print

Electronic

Artists and painters

Poets

Talib-ul-Mola
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
Sachal Sarmast
Anwar Pirzada, Sindhi poet, journalist
Shaikh Ayaz, Sindhi/Urdu poet, scholar
Qadir Bux Bedil
Imdad Hussaini
Elsa Kazi
Pir Sadardin
Tajal Bewas
Minyoon Shah Inat
Shah Abdul Karim Bulri
Shah Inayatullah
Minyoon Shah Inat
Sami
Rohal Faqir
Bedil
Muhammad Mohsin Bekas
Darya Khan Rind
Sikandar Khan Khoso
Sawan Fakir
Adal Soomro
Allah Baksh Sarshar Uqaili
Anwar Peerzada
Ameer Bukhari
Shah Inayat Rizvi
Elsa Kazi
Ghulam Ali Allana
Syed Ahmed Bukhari, known by his pen name "Ustad Bukhari"
Naseer Soomro

Short story writers

Science and technology

Sind ibn Ali, Sindhi Muslim astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
Ahmed Mohiuddin
Gul Agha, computer scientist
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Raziuddin Siddiqui
Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, founder of computing in Sindhi
Rajeev Motwani, co-author of PageRank

Educationalists

Hassan Ali Effendi
Allama I. I. Kazi
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Hassanally A. Rahman
Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
Haji Mehar Ali Khoja
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi, first DPI Sindh 1936-39
Abul Khair Kashfi
Abul Lais Siddiqui
Aslam Farrukhi
Farman Fatehpuri
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Jameel Jalibi
Khalida Ghous
Moonis Ahmar
Naseem Amrohvi
Talat A. Wizarat
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
Ali Ahmed S Kazi
Mushtak Ali Kazi
Mutawakkil Kazi, Judge of the High Court of Sindh
Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi, 8th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi
Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi
Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi

Entertainment industry

Abida Parveen, Pakistani singer
G P Sippy, filmmaker from India
Ramesh Sippy, Indian director, son of G P Sippy
Ramsay Brothers, horror filmmakers from India
Govind Nihalani, director of serious and art films
Sangeeta Bijlani, Indian Actress
Babita, Indian actress and mother of Kareena and Karisma
Hari Shivdasani, Indian actor and father of Babita
Sadhna, Indian Actress and cousin of Babita
Asrani, famous Indian comedian and cctor
Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
Hiten Tejwani, television actor
Vashu Bhagnani, Indian filmmaker
Rajkumar Hirani, Indian movie director
Dalip Tahil, Indian actor
Vishal Dadlani, Indian music director
Ritesh Sidhwani, Indian movie producer
Tarun Mansukhani, Indian movie director
Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
Nikhil Advani, Indian director and screenwriter
Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor, producer, host, anchor and model
Sanam Baloch, Pakistani actress and a television host
Mustafa Qureshi, film and television actor from Sindh, Pakistan
Shafi Muhammad Shah, Pakistani film and television actor
Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
Muhammad Juman, Sindhi musician and classical singer
Zarina Baloch, Pakistani folk music singer and composer
Sanam Saeed, Pakistani actress and model

Law experts

Scholars

Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, scholar of Islam and the Quran, linguist, professor of Urdu
Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi
Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
Mirza Qalich Baig
Allama I. I. Kazi
Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
Elsa Kazi
Ali Muhammad Rashidi
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Ghulam Ali Allana
Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi
M. H. Panhwar

Researchers

Ghulam Mustafa Khan, researcher, linguist, poet, author, scholar
Muhammad Yar Khuhawar
Fahmida Hussain
Anwar Peerzada

Writers

Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi
Mirza Kalich Beg
Ghulam Nabi "Gul" Wajahat Publication Larkana
Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
Shaikh Ayaz
Sobho Gianchandani, writer
Jamal Abro, Sindhi novelist
Fehmida Riaz, writer, poet, activist
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar
Muzaffar Warsi, poet
Zamir Ali Badayuni, critic
Altaf Shaikh
Naseem Kharal
Mir Muhammad Soomro, religious scholar, historian, biographer, poet
Faqeer Muhammad Soomro, writer, researcher and columnist, writer of "Soomran Jo Shujro"
Altaf Malkani
Aziz Kingrani

Business and industry

Sabir Bhatia, Indian entrepreneur and founder of Hotmail
Yusuf Haroon
Mahmoud Haroon
Agha Hasan Abedi, banker
Micky Jagtiani
Eros International
Tips Industries Limited
Hari Harilela
Rajan Raheja

Philanthropists and social activists

Economics

Dr. Shamshad Akhtar
Hameed Haroon
Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Finance Minister of Pakistan
Naveed Qamar, Finance Minister of Pakistan
Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project

Law and judiciary

Ram Jethmalani, former Law Minister of India
Mahesh Jethmalani
Jan Muhammad Junejo
Rana Bhagwandas
Sajjad Ali Shah
Rasul Bux Palejo
Abdul Hafiz Pirzada
A K Brohi
Tufail Ali Abdul Rehman
Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
Hassanally A. Rahman

Metaphysics, spirituality and religion

Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Head of Naqashbandi Sufi Order, scholar, writer, poet
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 Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (died 1174 AH), Ahl-us-Sunnah scholar
Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi (d. 1929), freedom fighter from Sukkur, Sindh
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar and author of the Akbarnama
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
Tahir Muhammad Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim poet and historian during the rule of the Mughal Empire
Abu'l-Qásim Faizi, a Persian poet of late medieval India
Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher
Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, a scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
Ubaidullah Sindhi, a pan-Islamic leader and a political activist
Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, a prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century
Raees-Ul-Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo a leader of the Khilafat Movement
Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi
Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Tahir
Allama Ali Khan Abro
Maulana deen Muhammad Wafai
Moulana Jan Mohammad Abbasi
Makhdoom Bilawal
Asadullah Bhutto
Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, spiritual leader of the Hurs
Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, spiritual leader of Hurs
Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
Dada Vaswani

Saints and sufis

Sports

Syed Hussain Shah, boxer who won the bronze medal for boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Pankaj Advani, world champion in Snooker and Billiards from India
Abdul Rashid Qambrani, boxer
Narendra Hirwani, cricketer from India
Isha Lakhani, former Indian tennis player. She has been a member of the India Fed Cup team.
Annie Rupani, entrepreneur and beauty pageant
Zehra Sheerazi, beauty pageant
Sarfraz Ahmed Memon, Pakistani cricketer

Medicine

Mir Masoom Bakhree
Abdul Hai Arifi, Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine
Ghulam Nabi Kazi, National Officer for Program Development at the World Health Organization

Others

Tarun Tahiliani, Indian fashion designer
Dabboo Ratnani

References

Sindh topics

History	Indus Valley Civilization (Mohenjo-daro) Sindhu Kingdom Ror dynasty Rai dynasty Brahman dynasty Muslim caliphate Soomra dynasty Samma dynasty Kalhora dynasty Talpur British period Cultural heritage sites

Government and politics	Provincial Assembly Chief Minister Governor Sindh Archives Commissioners of Sind Bhutto family Sindh Police Sindh High Court Sindh Information Department Sindh Coastal Development Authority Economy

Culture	Ajrak Sindhi cap Sindh Culture Day Sindhis (List) Sindhi music Sindhi cuisine Sindhi diaspora Sindhi language Sindhi literature Sindhi poetry (Sindhi poets) Sindhi folklore Sindhi folk tales Sindhi nationalism Sindhi Adabi Board Sindhi cinema List of Sindhi-language films Sindhi media Sindhi tribes Sindhology List of Sindhi festivals Cheti Chand Sindhi bhagat Sassui Punnhun

Geography	List of cities Districts List of talukas Climate (Karachi Hyderabad Nawabshah) Fauna Historical places Indus River Makran

Education	Education in Karachi Institute of Sindhology Sindh Madressatul Islam University Sindh Museum University of Sindh

Sports	Sindh cricket team Malakhra

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