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

• Vice Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan - governor
• Muhammad Mahmood Alam
• Mirza Aslam Beg - four-star general
• Moinuddin Haider - lieutenant general, governor
• Pervez Musharraf - former President and Army Chief of Pakistan
• Ft. Lt. Rashid Minhas Shaheed - only PAF recipient of Nishan-e-Haider
• Marium Mukhtiar Pakistan's first female martyred fighter pilot in the line of duty.

Art and literature

• Minocher K. Spencer Parsi author and spiritual healer from Karachi (born October 4, 1888 Pune, India)
• Jamiluddin Aali - poet, columnist, critic (born 1926 in Delhi)
• Mohammad Abdul Ahed - architect, educator, painter (1919-2001)
• Manzoor Ahmad - philosopher (born 1934)
• Obaidullah Aleem - journalist, poet (1939-1998)
• Ahmed Ali - novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar (1910 in New Delhi - 1994 in Karachi)
• Nasim Amrohvi - Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer (1908-1987)
• Rais Amrohvi - journalist, poet, psychoanalyst (1914-1988)
• Iftikhar Arif - poet, critic, author (born 1943)
• Hasan Askari - philosopher, author, critic (1919-1978)
• Zamir Ali Badayuni - critic (1941-2003)
• Fatima Surayya Bajia - drama writer (born 1930)
• Tabish Dehlvi - poet (1911-2004)
• Jon Elia - Arsalan Kachaliya's favorite poet, philosopher (1931-2002)
• Aslam Farrukhi - writer, critic, linguist (born 1923)
• Farman Fatehpuri - researcher, poet, critic, linguist (1926-2013)
• Dilawar Figar - humorous poet, scholar (1929 Badaun, UP - 1998 Karachi)
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah - first female columnist of Pakistan (1921-2000)
• Maulvi Abdul Haq - father of modern Urdu (1872-1961)
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee - Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer
• Hameed Haroon - journalist, activist
• Sibte Hassan - author, columnist, activist (1916-1986)
• Zahida Hina - columnist, author, poet (born 1946)
• Ashfaq Hussain - Urdu poet and television personality in Canada for Asian Television Network (born 1951)
• Intizar Hussain - linguist, novelist, critic (born 1923)
• Ibn-e-Insha - poet, writer and humorist (1927 Phillaur, Punjab, British India - 1978 London, England)
• Ibn-e-Safi - novelist, story writer (1928 Nara, district of Allahabad, UP, British India - 1980 Karachi)
• Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah - writer, activist (1915-2000)
• Farhat Ishtiaq - writer, author and screenwriter (born June 23, 1980)
• Siddiq Ismail - religious Hamd and Naat reciter (born 1954)
• Qamar Jalalvi - poet (1887 Jalali, Aligarh, India - 1968 Karachi)
• Jameel Jalibi - scholar, critic, linguist, former VC KU (born 1929)
• Abul Khair Kashfi - critic, linguist, author, scholar (1932 Kanpur, British India - 2008 Karachi)
• Khalique Ibrahim Khalique - journalist, poet, critic (1926-2006)
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan - writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar, educationist (1912-2005)
• Josh Malihabadi - poet, linguist, scholar (1894-1982)
• Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor (born 1935 Hyderabad State)
• Haseena Moin - playwright, drama writer
• Zehra Nigah - poet
• Pirzada Qasim - poet, author, educationist (born 1943)
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - author, historian, educationist (1903-1981)
• Fahmida Riaz - writer, poet, activist (born 1946 Meerut, UP, British India)
• Sadequain - painter, calligraphist (1930 Amroha, British India - 1987 Karachi)
• Hakeem Muhammad Said - pioneer of Eastern medicine, philanthropist (1993-1994)
• Abul Lais Siddiqui - critic, linguist, author, scholar
• Shaukat Siddiqui - novelist, fiction writer (1923-2006)
• Raees Warsi - journalist, author, poet, founder of Urdu Markaz New York (born 1963)
• Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi - author, humorist (born 1923)
• Mustafa Zaidi - poet (1930-1970)
• Kashan Admani - musician

Bankers

• Agha Hasan Abedi - banker and founder of the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International
• Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan and incumbent Dean of Institute of Business Administration

Businessmen

• Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Chairman of the ARY Group
• Ahmed Dawood, industrialist, philanthropist and founder of Dawood Group
• Agha Hasan Abedi - banker, founder of BCCI
• Bashir Ali Mohammad, Gul Ahmed Group
• Hussain Haqqani - leading Urdu debater, National College, Karachi; Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.A.
• Jahangir Siddiqui, owner of JS Group
• Javed Jabbar - orator, politician, Senator
• Malik Riaz - Pakistani business tycoon who is the founder of Bahria Town.
• Monis Rahman - Founder & CEO of Naseeb Networks
• Rafiq M. Habib - Group chairman of the renowned ‘House of Habib’, chairman of Habib Insurance Company Ltd.
• Raza Rabbani - English debater, politician, Senator
• Sadruddin Hashwani - Founder and chairman of Hashoo Group.
• Safi Qureshi - co-founder and CEO of AST Research; born and educated in Karachi; now based in the US
• Sikandar Sultan - Managing Director of Shan Food Industries

Debaters and orators

• Hussain Haqqani - leading Urdu debater, National College, Karachi; Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.A.
• Javed Jabbar - orator, politician, Senator
• Raza Rabbani - English debater, politician, Senator

Economists

• Ishrat Hussain - former Governor State Bank of Pakistan
• Akhtar Hameed Khan - pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project
• Nawab Haider Naqvi - former Director PIDE
• Anwar Shaikh - Marxist economist, and professor
• Muhammad Shoaib - Finance Minister; Executive Director World Bank; father of Nafisa Sadik

Education

• Anita Ghulam Ali - educationist
• Nasim Amrohvi
• Moinuddin Aqeel - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Bernadette Louise Dean - former Principal of Kinnaird College, Lahore
• Mary Emily - recipient of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz for services to education
• Aslam Farrukhi - author, poet, critic, linguist, scholar
• Farman Fatehpuri - real name Syed Dildar Ali; author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Khalida Ghous - human rights activist, scholar
• Yolande Henderson - high school teacher
• Jameel Jalibi - linguist, scholar
• Abul Khair Kashfi - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Matin Ahmed Khan - academic, marketing expert and management educator, Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan - author, critic, linguist, scholar, Sufi
• Anthony Theodore Lobo - founder of many schools
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi - VC Karachi University, author, historian, scholar
• Ata ur Rahman - Chairman HEC, scientist
• Hakim Saeed - VC Hamdard University
• Abul Lais Siddiqui - author, critic, linguist, scholar
• Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui - Chancellor, Karachi University
• Raziuddin Siddiqui - physicist, mathematician, scholar
• Shahid Aziz Siddiqi - former Federal Secretary and Vice Chancellor, Ziauddin University
• Norma Fernandes - former Headmistress (Kindergarten/Junior Section) of the Karachi Grammar School

Journalists

• Cyril Almeida
• Mujahid Barelvi
• Ardeshir Cowasjee
• Ian Fyfe, sports journalist
• Kamran Khan
• Daniele Mastrogiacomo - Italian journalist born in Karachi
• Arshad Sharif
• Waseem Badami
• Maria Memon
• Shahid Masood

Law and judiciary

• Justice Syed Sajjad Ali Shah - CJS, Chief Justice of Sindh High Court from Karachi.
• Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed - Chief Justice Sind High Court and Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius
• Mohammad Haleem - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Makhdoom Ali Khan - former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Naimatullah Khan - advocate
• Justice Ajmal Mian - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Dorab Patel
• Nazim Hussain Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Haziqul Khairi - former Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan
• Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui - former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Rana Bhagwandas - former acting Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid - former Chief Justice Sindh High Court and Justice Pakistan Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Khalid Jawed Khan Attorney General for Pakistan

Performing arts

Actors and comedians

• Aamina Sheikh - model, actress
• Adeel Hussain - model, actress
• Adnan Jaffar - television, film actor
• Ahad Raza Mir - actor
• Aijaz Aslam - actor
• Aiman Khan - actress
• Aiza Khan - actress, model
• Alizeh Shah - model, actress
• Angela Thorne - English actress
• Anwar Maqsood - drama writer, anchor, actor
• Ather Shah Khan Jaidi Writer comedian
• Ayaz Samoo - comedian, actor
• Azfar Rehman - actor
• Babar Ali - actor
• Behroze Sabzwari - film actor
• Bilal Abbas Khan - actor
• Bushra Ansari - actress, comedian
• Danish Nawaz - actor
• Danish Taimoor - actor
• Fahad Mustafa - actor
• Fawad Khan - actor
• Fatima Effendi - model, actress
• Hina Altaf - actress
• Hina Dilpazeer - actress, TV host, model
• Humayun Saeed - actor, model and producer
• Iman Vellani - Pakistani-Canadian television actor
• Iqbal Theba - Pakistani-American television actor
• Iqra Aziz - model, actress
• Izhar Qazi - film and TV actor
• Jamshed Ansari - comedian
• Kaveeta - actress
• Kumail Nanjiani - comedian
• Mashal Khan - actress
• Madiha Imam - model, actress
• Mahira Khan - television, film actor
• Margaret Lockwood - film and stage actress (1916-1990)
• Mawra Hocane - model, actress
• Mehwish Hayat - actress, model
• Minal Khan - actress
• Mohib Mirza - actor
• Moin Akhter - TV, film and stage actor, comedian and host
• Momal Sheikh - actress
• Muneeb Butt - actor
• Nadeem - film actor
• Nadia Hussain - model, actress
• Nirala (real name Muzaffar Hussain) - comedian
• Ramsha Khan - model, actress
• Rauf Lala - comedian, actor
• Sajid Hasan - actor
• Salim Nasir - comedian, actor
• Sami Shah - comedian, writer
• Sana Javed - model, actress
• Sangeeta - actress, filmmaker, director
• Saud Qasmi - actor
• Shehroz Sabzwari - actor
• Somy Ali, actress and activist
• Syed Kamal - film actor
• Syra Yousuf - model, actress
• Talat Hussain - television actor, director
• Umer Sharif - comic actor
• Urwa Hocane - actress
• Yasir Nawaz - actor
• Yumna Zaidi - actress
• Zafar Karachiwala, Indian actor, ancestors from Karachi
• Zainab Qayyum - model, actress, TV host
• Zhalay Sarhadi - model, actress

Singers, musicians and music & directors

• Salma Agha - singer
• Alamgir - pop singer
• Sajjad Ali - singer
• Waqar Ali - singer and musician
• Faraz Anwar - guitarist
• Iqbal Bano - ghazal singer
• Nisar Bazmi - composer
• Munni Begum - singer
• Ali Haider - singer
• Mehdi Hassan - ghazal singer
• Nazia Hassan - first female pop singer of Pakistan
• Zohaib Hassan - singer
• Mehreen Jabbar - Pakistani film director
• Ahmed Jahanzeb - singer
• S. B. John - singer
• Faisal Kapadia - singer
• Bilal Maqsood - composer
• Habib Wali Mohammad - singer
• Sohail Rana - composer
• Shehzad Roy - singer
• Ahmed Rushdi - singer
• Ramesh Sippy Indian film director and producer from Karachi.
• Syed Ali Raza Usama - Pakistani film and drama director
• Lenny Zakatek - English pop and rock star

Dancers

• Sheema Kermani social activist, theater director and exponent of Bharatnatyam dance.

Philanthropists and social workers

• Somy Ali - activist, filmmaker, and former actress and model
• Ansar Burney - human rights activist and founder of the Ansar Burney Trust
• Abdul Sattar Edhi - philanthropist and founder of the Edhi Foundation
• Bilquis Edhi - philanthropist, founder of the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi
• Ruth Lewis - awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz for managing Darul Sukun, a home for the disabled
• Fatima Lodhi - social worker, founder of Dark is Divine, first anti-colorism campaign from Pakistan
• Fahmida Riaz
• Hakim Said - scholar, philanthropist, former Governor of Sindh
• Nafis Sadik - United Nations
• Ramzan Chhipa - philanthropist and founder of the Chhipa Welfare Association

Politicians and bureaucrats

• Lal Krishna Advani - Former Deputy Prime Minister of India and co-founder of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India
• Abdul Sattar Afghani - ex-Mayor Karachi Metropolitan City
• Shaukat Aziz - former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Benazir Bhutto - former Prime Minister
• Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim - Governor, Law Minister, Attorney General
• Imran Farooq - co-founder of MQM
• Syed Munawar Hasan - former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami
• Altaf Hussain - founder and chairman of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
• Fatima Jinnah - sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Madar-i-Millet
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan
• Syed Mustafa Kamal - former Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi
• Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan - former Governor of Sindh
• Naimatullah Khan - former Mayor of Karachi city
• Shahryar Khan - former Foreign Secretary and former Chairman of the Cricket Board in Pakistan
• Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta - Mayor of Karachi
• Pervez Musharraf - General (Retd.), former Army Chief, military dictator and President of Pakistan
• Farooq Sattar - parliamentary leader of the MQM
• Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi - leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan; founder of the World Islamic Mission
• Azeem Ahmed Tariq - former chairman of MQM
• Harchandrai Vishandas - former mayor of Karachi (during 1900s)
• Ali Zaidi - Pakistan Tahreek e insaaf
• Asif Ali Zardari - former president of Pakistan
• Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Chairman of Pakistan People's Party
• Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar sixth Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Pakistani ambassador to Turkey
• Hussain Haroon Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
• Ghulam Akbar Lasi - Pakistani politician
• Faisal Vawda - Pakistani politician
• Muhammad Zubair Umar - former Governor of Sindh
• Imran Ismail - former Governor of Sindh
• Murad Ali Shah - Chief Minister of Sindh
• Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman - Pakistani politician
• Saeed Ghani - Pakistani politician
• Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui - Pakistani politician
• Khurrum Sher Zaman - Pakistani politician
• Firdous Shamim Naqvi - Pakistani politician
• Khawaja Izharul Hassan - Pakistani politician
• Faisal Subzwari - Pakistani politician
• Syed Aminul Haque - Pakistani politician

Religious leaders and scholars

• Talib Jauhari - religious scholar
• 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
• Muhammad Ilyas Qadri - founder of Dawat-e-Islami
• Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
• Godrej Sidhwa A Parsi Zoroastrian priest
• Taqi Usmani - religious scholar
• Rafi Usmani - religious scholar
• Mufti Muhammad Naeem - religious scholar
• Abdullah Shah Ghazi was an eighth-century (c. 720) mystic Sufi, whose shrine is located in the Clifton, Karachi.

Scientists

• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - chemist
• Abdul Qadeer Khan - metallurgist and founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme
• Atta ur Rahman - chemist
• Raziuddin Siddiqui - astrophysicist and mathematician
• Ziauddin Ahmed
• Muhammad Ali Shah - orthopaedic surgeon
• M. Shahid Qureshi - astrophysicist and mathematician
• Pervez Hoodbhoy - nuclear physicist
• Ahmed Mohiuddin - zoologist
• Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda

Sportspersons

Badminton players

• Palwasha Bashir
• Mahoor Shahzad

Cricketers

Footballer

• Saddam Hussain
• Hajra Khan - captain of the Pakistan women's national football team

Hockey players

• Sohail Abbas
• Mansoor Ahmed
• Jack Britto (Olympian)
• Hanif Khan
• Shahid Ali Khan
• Hassan Sardar
• Islahuddin Siddique

Sprinters

• John Permal, He was the fastest man in Pakistan
• Naseem Hameed

Swimmer

• Mumtaz Ahmed - olympian

Historical personalities

• Mai Kolachi incumbent name of Karachi is derived from this fisher woman.

Miscellaneous

• Bashir Ahmad
• Tazeen Ahmad
• Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
• Jacqueline Maria Dias, professor of nursing
• Jacob Harris, first-class cricketer and sports coach
• Lady Abdullah Haroon
• Agha Hilaly
• Aamir Liaquat Hussain
• Junaid Jamshed
• Siddiq Ismail
• Farahnaz Ispahani
• Shadab Kabir
• Jahangir Khan
• Yousuf Ludhianvi
• Iskander Mirza
• Abdur Rab Nishtar
• Arman Sabir
• Benny Mario Travas
• Kamal Warsi
• Irfan Yusuf

See also

• List of Muhajir people
• List of Pakistanis

References

1. Muhajir (Pakistan)
2. Karachi (disambiguation)
3. Karachi
4. Demographics of Karachi
5. List of deaths due to COVID-19
6. List of people from Goa
7. List of people from Gujarat
8. University of Karachi
9. List of people from Haryana
10. List of Pakistanis by net worth
11. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303
12. Port of Karachi
13. National Stadium, Karachi
14. Climate of Karachi
15. Karachi Zoo
16. List of radio channels in Pakistan
17. Karachi Safari Park
18. List of people who died in traffic collisions
19. K-Electric
20. List of fatalities from aviation accidents