List of people from Punjab, Pakistan

This is a list of notable people from Punjab, Pakistan.

Religious and spiritual figures

Zia-ul-Haq, former Army Chief of Staff and former President of Pakistan (1977–1988)
General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Qamar Javed Bajwa, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
Lt Gen Abdul Ali Malik
Maj Gen Iftikhar Janjua
Maj Gen Akhtar Hussain Malik
Major Tufail Muhammad, recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider (NH)
Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, recipient of NH
Major Muhammad Akram, recipient of NH
Major Shabbir Sharif, recipient of NH
Captain Muhammad Sarwar, recipient of NH
Naik Saif Ali Janjua, recipient of NH
Lace Naik Muhammad Mahfuz, recipient of NH
Sowar Muhammad Hussain, recipient of NH

Amir Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Kalabagh, Governor of East Pakistan
Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Politician
Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, longest serving parliamentarian of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, former President of Pakistan (PPP)
Hamza Shahbaz, former CM of Punjab (2022)
Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018–2022)
Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament
Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab (2024)
Mian Aslam Iqbal, Provincial Minister of Industries & Commerce (2018–2022)
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, politician
Pervaiz Elahi, first Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, former Chief Minister of Punjab (2002–2007)
Qamar Zaman Kaira, former Minister (Pakistan Peoples Party)
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, politician PTI
Shujaat Hussain, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, current president of PML(Q)
Usman Buzdar, Chief Minister of Punjab (2018–2022)
Yasmin Rashid, Provincial Minister of Health (2018–2022)
Yousaf Raza Gillani, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (Pakistan Peoples Party)
Zulfi Bukhari, Politician
Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister

Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his contributions to the Electroweak force
Riazuddin, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
Masud Ahmad, theoretical physicist and one of the key developers of the theoretical designs of Pakistan's nuclear weapons
Ayyub Ommaya, neurosurgeon and inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
Mahbub ul Haq, economist and inventor of the Human Development Index (HDI)