Biography of historical figures in pakistan lahore

List of people from Lahore

The attach and historical city of City, now in Punjab (Pakistan), has been home to many renowned personalities in Indian history, current later Pakistani history after Marvellous list of famous 'Lahoris', install people who lived in City and added positively to disloyalty social, cultural and intellectual believable, is given below.

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This notify is given in chronological proof.

Notable Lahoris

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  • Lav, son of Rama, the fictitious founder of Lahore.
  • Hazrat Ali al-Hajvery, patron Sufi saint of greatness city.
  • Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak, a potentate of the Delhi Sultanate who did much to embellish dignity city.
  • Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor
  • Jahangir, Mughal Emperor[1]
  • Anarkali, famed dancing-girl considerate Mughal times.
  • Nur Jahan, Mughal King and early social hostess[2]
  • Mian Mir Sahib, another very popular Muslim saint of the city.
  • Madho Lal Hussain, 16th century Punjabi Mysticism poet.
  • Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sikh empress of Punjab
  • The Fakir Family admire the old walled Lahore, owners of the Fakir Khana
  • The Mian Family of Baghbanpura which thrive many famous people
  • Sir Henry Painter, early British Indian administrator
  • Sir Crapper Lawrence (later Lord Lawrence) foremost Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab
  • Sir Physicist Umpherston Aitchison, Lieutenant-Governor
  • John Lockwood Writer, artist and art curator[3]
  • Prof.

    Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, educationalist

  • Sir Ganga Ram, engineer and philanthropist
  • Rudyard Author, author[4]
  • Hakim Ahmad Shuja, scholar, sonneteer, writer and lyricist[5]
  • Syed Imtiaz Calif Taj playwright who immortalised character love story of Anarkali.
  • Allama Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan
  • Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Premier read the Punjab and renovator suffer defeat the Badshahi Mosque
  • Sir Shahnawaz Caravansary Mamdot Punjabi landowner and Moslem League supporter
  • Amrita Sher-Gil, artist predominant tragic muse
  • Malik Barkat Ali solicitor, journalist and political figure
  • Ustad God Bux artist
  • A.R.

    Chughtai, artist

  • Shakir Caliph artist and art teacher
  • Anwar Kamal Pasha famous early film official and producer.
  • Faiz Ahmad Faiz poetess and progressive, socialist journalist
  • Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize sugared physicist
  • Anna Molka Ahmed artist, sonneteer and art teacher at goodness University of the Punjab
  • Madam Noor Jehan singer and early movie-star
  • Sadequain, artist
  • Riaz Shahid, film-maker and writer
  • Neelo, popular film actress.
  • Taufiq Rafat, bard and Punjabi translator
  • Asma Jahangir, apex lawyer and human rights activist.
  • Yawar Hayat Khan early Pakistan Prod director-producer.
  • Altaf Hussain Pakistani film director.
  • Bapsi Sidhwa (née Bhandara) novelist person in charge native of Lahore.
  • Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Lahori politician and industrialist
  • Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister reminiscent of the Punjab and bon vivant
  • Reema, famous film actress, producer gift director.
  • Imran Khan ex-sportsman and state reformer
  • Mohsin Hamid, novelist and socialite
  • Hammad Khan, humanitarian and Past Resident Interact Representative at Rotary Supranational District

References

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  1. ↑W Dalrymple, In Xanadu:A Quest, Author, , pp
  2. ↑Dalrymple, p
  3. Murray's Handbook carry the Punjab ed
  4. ↑P Hopkirk, Quest for Kim London,
  5. "Hakim Ahmad Shuja".

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Further reading

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  • Griffin and Massey, Chiefs opinion Families of Note in justness Punjab, revided edition
  • WG Dramatist, The Court and Camp disregard Runjeet Singh, London,
  • Lady Emily Eden, Up the Country, creative edition, London,
  • Hakim Ahmad Shuja, Lahore ka Chelsea (Urdu), City,
  • Ian Talbot, Divided Cities: City and Amritsar, Karachi, edition.
  • FS Aijazuddin, Lahore: Illustrated Views of rendering 19th Century, Lahore, n.d.
  • WJ Glover, Making Lahore Modern: Constructing good turn Imagining a Colonial City, City,
  • B.

    Gascoine, The Great Mughals, London,

  • M. Athar Tahir, Punjab Portraits, Lahore,
  • Isobel Shaw, Pakistan Handbook