List of people from Karachi
This is a list of notable people from the city of Karachi in Pakistan, also known as Karachiites:
Armed forces
- Muhammad Mahmood Alam
- Pervez Musharraf - former President and Army Chief of Pakistan
- Ft. Lt. Rashid Minhas Shaheed - only PAF recipient of Nishan-e-Haider
- Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan (Governor)
- Mirza Aslam Beg Four Star General
- Moinuddin Haider Let. General (Governor)
Art and literature
- Ahmed Ali - novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi)
- Abul Khair Kashfi - critic, linguist, author, scholar(19 February 1932 Kanpur, British India -15 May 2008 Karachi )
- Abul Lais Siddiqui - critic, linguist, author, scholar
- Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor (1935 Hyderabad State, (now in India)- present)
- Ashfaq Hussain - Urdu poet and television personality in Canada for Asian Television Network (born 1 January 1951- present)
- Aslam Farrukhi - writer, critic, linguist (born October 23, 1923- present)
- Dilawar Figar - humorous poet, scholar (July 8, 1929 Badaun(Badayun), UP India January 25, 1998 Karachi)
- Farhat Ishtiaq - writer, author and screenwriter (born June 23, 1980 - present)
- Farman Fatehpuri - researcher, poet, critic, linguist (26 January 1926 – 3 August 2013)
- Fatima Surayya Bajia - drama writer (Born on 1 September 1930 - present)
- Fahmida Riaz - writer, poet, activist (28 July 1946 Meerut, UP, British India - present)
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan - writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar, educationist(September 23, 1912 – September 25, 2005)
- Hakeem Muhammad Said - pioneer of Eastern medicine, philanthropist (19 July 1993 – 23 January 1994)
- Hameed Haroon - journalist, activist
- Hasan Askari - philosopher, author, critic (1919 - 1978)
- Haseena Moin - playwright, drama writer
- Ibn-e-Insha - poet, writer and humorist (5 June 1927 Phillaur, Punjab, British India -11 January 1978 London, England)
- Ibn-e-Safi - novelist, story writer (26 July 1928 Nara, district of Allahabad, U.P, British India -26 July 1980 Karachi)
- Iftikhar Arif - poet, critic, author (21 March 1943 - present)
- Intizar Hussain - linguist, novelist, critic ( December 7, 1923 - present)
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - author, historian, educationist (3 November 1903- 22 January 1981)
- Jameel Jalibi - scholar, critic, linguist, former VC KU (June 12, 1929 - present)
- Jamiluddin Aali - poet, columnist, critic (20 January 1926 in Delhi - present)
- Jon Elia - Arsalan Kachaliya's Favorite poet, philosopher (14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002)
- Josh Malihabadi - poet, linguist, scholar (December 1894 – 22 February 1982)
- Khalique Ibrahim Khalique - journalist, poet, critic (1926 - 2006)
- Manzoor Ahmad - philosopher (11 March 1934 - Present)
- Maulvi Abdul Haq - father of modern Urdu (16 November 1872 – 16 August 1961)
- Mohammad Abdul Ahed - architect, educator, painter (1919–2001)
- Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi - author, humorist (September 4, 1923 - present)
- Mustafa Zaidi - poet (1930–1970)
- Nasim Amrohvi - Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer (1908–1987)
- Obaidullah Aleem - journalist, poet (June 12, 1939 – May 18, 1998)
- Pirzada Qasim - poet, author, educationist (born 8 February 1943- present)
- Qaem Amrohvi - poet, philosopher ( 1919 in Amroha, India - 1990 Karachi )
- Qamar Jalalvi - poet (1887 Jalali, Aligarh, India - 4 October 1968 Karachi)
- Rais Amrohvi - journalist, poet, psychoanalyst (1914-1988)
- Raees Warsi - journalist, author, poet, founder of Urdu Markaz New York ( March 1, 1963 - present)
- Sadequain - painter, calligraphist (1930 Amroha, British India -10 February 1987 Karachi)
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah - writer, woman activist (July 22, 1915 – December 11, 2000)
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee - Notable Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer)
- Shaukat Siddiqui - novelist, fiction writer (20 March 1923 – 18 December 2006)
- Sibte Hassan - author, columnist, activist (July 31, 1916 – April 20,1986) * Siddiq Ismail - Religious Hamd and Naat Recitor (Feb.10,1954- Present)
- Syed Qasim Mahmood - author, researcher, editor, encyclopedist (17 November 1928 – 31 March 2010)
- Tabish Dehlvi - poet (November 11, 1911 - September 23, 2004)
- Tanwir Phool - poet and author (1948 in Muzaffarpur, India - present)
- Zahida Hina - columnist, author, poet (5 Oct 1946- present)
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah - first female columnist of Pakistan(December 1921 – 10 September 2000)
- Zehra Nigah - poet
- Zamir Ali Badayuni - critic (20 June 1941- October 20, 2003)
Bankers
- Agha Hasan Abedi - banker and founder of the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International
- Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan and incumbent Dean of Institute of Business Administration
- Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Businessmen
- Agha Hasan Abedi - banker, founder of BCCI
- Nasir Schon - Schon Group
- Safi Qureshi - co-founder and CEO of AST Research; born and educated in Karachi; now based in the US
- Siddiq Memon - Chairman Traders Action Committee Pakistan
- Sikandar Sultan, Managing Director of Shan Food Industries
Debaters and orators
- Javed Jabbar - orator, politician, Senator
- Hussain Haqqani - leading Urdu debater, National College, Karachi; Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.A.
- Raza Rabbani - English debater, politician, Senator
Economists
- Akhtar Hameed Khan - pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project
- Hammad Siddiqi - economist, banker
- Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan
- Muhammad Shoaib, Finance Minister, Executive Director World Bank, Father of Nafisa Sadik,
- Nawab Haider Naqvi - former Director PIDE
Education
- Abul Khair Kashfi - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Abul Lais Siddiqui - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Aslam Farrukhi - author, poet, critic, linguist, scholar
- Ata ur Rahman - Chairman HEC, scientist
- Audrey Juma, Director of the Notre Dame Institute of Education, Karachi
- Bernadette Louise Dean, former Principal of Kinnaird College, Lahore
- Farman Fatehpuri - real name: Syed Dildar Ali; author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan - author, critic, linguist, scholar, Sufi
- Hakim Saeed - VC Hamdard University
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - VC Karachi University, author, historian, scholar
- Jameel Jalibi - linguist, scholar
- Khalida Ghous - human rights activist, scholar
- Mary Emily, recipient of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for services to education
- Moinuddin Aqeel - author, critic, linguist, scholar
- Moonis Ahmar
- Nasim Amrohvi
- Oswin Mascarenhas - principal St. Patrick's College 1971–1975 and principal St Patrick's High School 1993–2000
- Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui - Chancellor Karachi University
- Raziuddin Siddiqui - physicist, mathematician, scholar
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi - former Federal Secretary and Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
- Talat A. Wizarat
Journalists
- Ardeshir Cowasjee
- Daniele Mastrogiacomo - Italian journalist born in Karachi
- Kamran Khan
- Mujahid Barelvi
- Nadeem F. Paracha, left-liberal journalist, cultural critic, satirist and short story writer
Law and judiciary
- Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius
- Justice Dorab Patel
- Justice Ajmal Mian - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Makhdoom Ali Khan - former Attorney General of Pakistan
- Mohammad Haleem - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Naimatullah Khan - advocate
- Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid - former Chief Justice Sindh High Court & Justice Pakistan Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Nazim Hussain Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed - Chief Justice Sind High Court and Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
Medicine
- Colin Saldanha, Canadian Family Physician of Pakistani origin
Performing arts
Actors and actresses
- Talat Hussain (actor) - television actor, director
- Adnan Jaffar - television, film actor
- Aiza Khan - actress, model
- Angela Thorne - English actress
- Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor
- Ayaz Samoo - comedian, actor
- Hina Dilpazeer - actress, TV host, model
- Humayun Saeed - actor, model and producer
- Iqbal Theba - Pakistani-American television actor
- Izhar Qazi - film and TV actor
- Jamshed Ansari - comedian
- Kumail Nanjiani - comedian
- Margaret Lockwood - film and stage actress (1916–1990)
- Mehwish Hayat - actress, model
- Moin Akhter - TV, film and stage actor, comedian and host
- Nadeem - film actor
- Nirala - real name: Muzaffar Husain; comedian
- Rauf Lala - comedian/actor
- Saud (actor)
- Salim Nasir - comedian/actor
- Syed Kamal - film actor
- Umer Sharif - humorous actor
- Urwa Hocane - actress
- Zainab Qayyum - model, actress, TV host
- Zhalay Sarhadi - model, actress
- Adeel Hussain - model, actress(actor)
Singers, Musicians & Music Directors
- Mehdi Hassan - Ghazal singer
- Ahmed Rushdi - Singer
- Habib Wali Mohammad - Singer
- Iqbal Bano- Ghazal Singer
- Alamgir (pop singer)
- Nisar Bazmi - Composer
- Sohail Rana - composer
- Munni Begum - Singer
- Salma Agha - Singer
- Nazia Hassan - first female pop singer of Pakistan
- Zohaib Hassan - Singer
- Sajjad Ali - Singer
- Junaid Jamshed - former Singer
- Ali Haider - Singer
- Shehzad Roy - singer
- Waqar Ali - singer and musician
- Ahmed Jahanzeb - Singer
- Faisal Kapadia - singer
- Maaz Moeed - Singer
- Bilal Maqsood - composer
- Faraz Anwar - Guitarist
- Lenny Zakatek - English pop and rock star
Philanthropists and social workers
- Abdul Sattar Edhi - philanthropist and founder of the Edhi Foundation
- Ansar Burney - noted human rights activist and founder of the Ansar Burney Trust
- Bilquis Edhi - philanthropist, founder of the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi
- Fahmida Riaz
- Fatima Lodhi - social worker, founder of Dark is Divine, first anti-colorism campaign from Pakistan
- Hakim Said - scholar, philanthropist, former Governor of Sindh
- Nafis Sadik - United Nations
Politicians and Bureaucrats
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan
- Altaf Hussain - founder and Chairman of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
- Abdul Sattar Afghani - ex-Mayor Karachi Metropolitan City
- Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi - leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, founder of the World Islamic Mission
- Arsalan Taj Ghumman - Central General Secretary Insaf Students Federation, Youth leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
- Azeem Ahmed Tariq - former chairman of MQM
- Ali Zaidi - Pakistan Tahreek e insaaf
- Benazir Bhutto - former Prime Minister
- Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim - Governor, Law Minister, Attorney General
- Farooq Sattar - parliamentary leader of the MQM
- Fatima Jinnah - sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Madar-i-Millet
- Harchandrai Vishandas - former mayor of Karachi (during 1900s)[1]
- Imran Farooq - co-founder of MQM
- Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan - incumbent Governor of Sindh (2002 to present)
- Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta, Mayor of Karachi
- Lal Krishna Advani - leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India
- Naimatullah Khan - former Mayor of Karachi city
- Pervez Musharraf - General (Retd.) former Army Chief, military dictator and President of Pakistan
- Shahryar Khan - former Foreign Secretary and former Chairman Cricket Board in Pakistan
- Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Syed Munawar Hasan - former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami
- Syed Mustafa Kamal - former Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi
Religious leaders
- Aga Khan III - Imam Sultan Mohammed Shah - 48th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, President League of Nations, President All India Muslim League and GCSI, GCMG
- Taqi Usmani Religious Scholor
- Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
- Muhammad Ilyas Qadri - founder of Dawat-e-Islami
- Talib Jauhari - Religious scholar
Scientists
- Abdul Qadeer Khan - metallurgist and founder of) Pakistan's nuclear programme
- Ahmed Mohiuddin - zoologist
- Atta ur Rahman - chemist
- Muhammad Ali Shah - orthopaedic surgeon
- Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda
- Pervez Hoodbhoy - nuclear physicist
- Raziuddin Siddiqui - astrophysicist and mathematician
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - chemist
- M. Shahid Qureshi - astrophysicist and mathematician
- Ziauddin Ahmed
Sports
Cricketers
- Abdul Kadir
- Afaq Hussain
- Afzaal Ahmed
- Anil Dalpat - first Hindu to play for the country
- Antao D'Souza
- Anwar Ali
- Anwar Miandad
- Asad Shafiq
- Asif Iqbal
- Asim Kamal
- Atiq-uz-Zaman
- Basit Ali
- Danish Kaneria - second Hindu to play for the country
- Faisal Iqbal
- Fawad Alam
- Hanif Mohammad - first Pakistani batsman to score a triple century
- Haroon Rasheed
- Hasan Raza
- Iqbal Qasim
- Jalal-ud-Din - in 1982 he took the first hat-trick in an ODI
- Javed Miandad
- Javeria Khan
- Kafeel Jahangir (1971-) - Hertfordshire and Minor Counties cricketer
- Khalid Latif
- Khurram Manzoor
- Mohsin Khan
- Mohammad Sami - right arm fast bowler
- Moin Khan
- Mushtaq Mohammad
- Nasim-ul-Ghani
- Owais Shah (born 1978), English cricketer
- Rashid Khan
- Rashid Latif
- Rusi Dinshaw
- Saeed Anwar
- Saleem Yousuf
- Sarfraz Ahmed
- Shahid Afridi - world record holder for the fastest ODI century
- Shahid Israr
- Shahid Mahmood
- Shahzaib Hasan
- Shoaib Mohammad
- Sikandar Bakht
- Tauseef Ahmed
- Wallis Mathias
- Wasim Bari
Hockey
Sprinter
Miscellaneous
- Aamir Liaquat Hussain
- Abdur Rab Nishtar
- Agha Hilaly
- Arman Sabir
- Asif Mujtaba
- Asim Kamal
- Bashir Ahmad
- Behroze Sabzwari
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Farahnaz Ispahani
- Irfan Yusuf
- Iskander Mirza
- Jahangir Khan
- Kamal Warsi
- Lady Abdullah Haroon
- Siddiq Ismail
- Shadab Kabir
- Tazeen Ahmad
- Yousuf Ludhianvi
- Mumtaz Ahmed - Swimming
References
- ↑ Nadeem F. Paracha. "Visual Karachi: From Paris of Asia, to City of Lights, to Hell on Earth". dawn.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
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