List of Urdu authors

This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers.

A

• Allama Rashid ul Khairi
• Akbar Allahabadi
• Ali Akbar Natiq
• Maikash Akbarabadi
• Akhtar Sheerani
• Ada Jafri
• Aizaz Ahmad Azar
• Jamiluddin Aali
• Ghulam Abbas
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
• Mirza Adeeb
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Wazir Agha
• Anwaar Ahmad
• Aziz Ahmad
• Ashfaq Ahmed
• Faruqi Nisar Ahmed
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
• Waheed Akhtar
• Amjad Islam Amjad
• Majeed Amjad
• Rasheed Amjad
• Mir Amman
• Rais Amrohvi
• Satyapal Anand
• Sahar Ansari
• Syed Amin Ashraf
• Syed Waheed Ashraf
• Hasan Askari
• Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
• Abul Kalam Azad
• Idris Azad
• Jagan Nath Azad
• Muhammad Husain Azad
• Abdul Hameed
• Ayub Sabir
• Amjad Parvez

B

• Bekal Utsahi
• Obaidullah Baig
• Fatima Surayya Bajia
• Ahmad Bashir
• Rajinder Singh Bedi
• Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
• Abdaal Bela
• Patras Bokhari
• Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan

C

• Mohinder Pratap Chand
• Krishan Chander
• Harcharan Chawla
• Ismat Chughtai
• Kausar Chandpuri

D

• Ehsan Danish
• Khwaja Mir Dard
• Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
• Abdul Qavi Desnavi
• Attash Durrani

E

• Jaun Elia

F

• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Farhat Ishtiaq
• Fouzia Bhatti
• Ahmed Faraz
• Bushra Farrukh
• Aslam Farrukhi
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
• Farman Fatehpuri
• Niaz Fatehpuri
• Kanwal Feroze
• Bhupendra Nath Kaushik "Fikr"
• Maulana Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri “Ambar”

G

• Altaf Gauhar
• Mirza Ghalib
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Majnoon Gorakhpuri
• Tahir Aslam Gora

H

• Altaf Hussain Hali
• Muhammad Hamidullah
• Maulvi Abdul Haq
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
• Zahida Hina
• Panchakshari Hiremath
• Ashfaq Hussain
• Intizar Hussain
• Rafiq Hussain
• Qurratulain Hyder
• Hashim Nadeem
• Hasrat Mohani

I

• Muhammad Ilyas
• Ibn-e-Insha
• Ibrahim Jalees
• Muhammad Iqbal
• Ibn-e-Safi]

J

• Jigar Moradabadi
• Jaun Elia
• Ali Sardar Jafri
• Habib Jalib
• Jameel Jalibi
• Khalid Jawed

K

• Mazhar Kaleem
• Abul Khair Kashfi
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Nasir Kazmi
• Khalique Ibrahim Khalique
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Muhammad Khan
• Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
• Syed Ahmed Khan
• Zafar Ali Khan
• Dushyant Kumar
• Khan Shein Kunwar
• Kanhaiya Lal Kapoor

M

• Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
• Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr
• Mohammad Ali Jauhar
• Mubarak Ali
• Josh Malihabadi
• Arsh Malsiani
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Anwar Maqsood
• Hajra Masroor
• Khadija Mastoor
• Abul Ala Maududi
• Mohsin Mighiana
• Mir Taqi Mir
• Janbaz Mirza
• Momin Khan Momin
• Mumtaz Mufti
• Mohsinul Mulk
• Makhdoom Mohiuddin
• Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
• Majaz

N

• Naseem Hijazi
• Tahir Naqvi
• Gopi Chand Narang
• Mir Gul Khan Nasir
• Zehra Nigah
• Shibli Nomani
• Asif Noorani
• Naeem Baig
• Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi
• Moeen Nizami
• Mohiuddin Nawab
• Nimra Ahmed Khan

P

• Munshi Premchand

Q

• Ghulam Muhammad Qasir
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Attaul Haq Qasmi
• Bano Qudsia
• Haider Qureshi
• Qudratullah Shahab

R

• Ahfaz ur Rahman
• Razia Butt
• Rasheed Akhtar Nadvi
• Bushra Rahman
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
• Shakeelur Rahman
• Shafiq ur Rahman
• Samina Raja
• Malik Ram
• Noon Meem Rashid
• Fahmida Riaz
• Abbas Rizvi
• Khurshid Rizvi
• Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
• Rauf Parekh
• Qamar Siddiqui
• Rashid-un-Nisa

S

• Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
• Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
• Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser
• Shaukat Thanvi
• Sulaiman Nadvi
• Agha Sadiq
• Ibne Safi
• Ghazi Salahuddin
• Akhtar Raza Saleemi
• Mirza Sauda
• Qasim Mahmood
• Mahmood Shaam
• Qudratullah Shahab
• Saif Ahmad
• Abdul Halim Sharar
• Qateel Shifai
• Abul Lais Siddiqui
• Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi
• Shaukat Siddiqui
• Parveen Shakir
• Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri

T

• Umrao Tariq

U

• Umera Ahmad

W

• Wahab Ashrafi
• Muzaffar Warsi
• Raees Warsi
• Raza Naqvi Wahi
• Wasif Ali Wasif

Y

• Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

Z

• Zafar Ali Khan
• Razia Sajjad Zaheer
• Sajjad Zaheer
• Anwer Zahidi
• Ali Jawad Zaidi
• Mustafa Zaidi
• Ibrahim Zauq
• Kanwal Ziai

See also

• Urdu-language literature
• List of Urdu-language poets
• List of Pakistani writers
• List of Pakistani poets
• List of Hindi-language authors
• List of Urdu language novelists

References

1. Hindustani language
2. Urdu
3. List of Hindi authors
4. Urdu-speaking people
5. Urdu ghazal
6. Urdu literature
7. List of prime ministers of Pakistan
8. Dhakaiya Urdu
9. Urdu poetry
10. List of Urdu short story writers
11. Urdu-language in Aurangabad
12. Lists of writers
13. List of Muhajir people
14. Urdu in the United Kingdom
15. List of Pakistani writers
16. List of non-fiction writers
17. International Urdu Conference
18. 2024 Pakistan Super League
19. Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab
20. Deccani language