Business and Finance

• Ahsan Ellahi - Head of European Finance at Eurohypo
  EuroHypo
  Eurohypo is a European real estate bank and based in Eschborn, Frankfurt. Eurohypo is 100% owned by Commerzbank. It is the eleventh-largest bank in Germany with a balance sheet of € 214.2 billion in 2007....
  
   AG. He previously worked as the Head of Real Estate Finance for HSBC
  HSBC
  HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
  
  's Corporate & Institutional Banking Division.
• Afzal Khan - A Bradford based entrepreneur, who owns a specialist car design company. In 2008 he broke records after paying £440,000 for a distinctive 'F1' number plate. He has previously shown an interest in purchasing Newcastle football club
  Newcastle F.C.
  Newcastle F.C. is a Northern Irish football club playing in Division 1B of the Northern Amateur Football League . It is based in Newcastle, County Down...
  
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• Aneel Mussarat
  Aneel Mussarat
  Aneel Mussarat was born in Manchester in 1970 to Pakistani parents settled in Manchester from Faisalabad city. Aneel was ranked the 466th richest person in the United Kingdom and 21st richest Asian in the UK in 2007 by the Sunday Times...
  
   - A property millionaire. His company, MCR Property Group, specialises in renting apartments to university students in Manchester and Liverpool.
• Ausaf Abbas - Head of Sales & Marketing in Private Wealth Management at Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...
  
  . He is the former director of Merril Lynch Global Wealth and Chief Operating Officer of the Asia-Pacific Region. Abbas lives in Surrey
  Surrey
  Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
  
   with his wife and five children.
• Imran Hakim - Inventor of the 'iteddy', his concept earned him World Toy Innovation 2008. He is also the youngest entrant into the NorthWest Power 100 list for 2009. His other work includes representing Finnair
  Finnair
  Finnair Plc is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland, with its headquarters on the grounds of Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland, and its main hub at Helsinki Airport. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both the domestic and international air travel markets in Finland. The largest...
  
   as the voice of entrepreneurship for their “Global Enterprise Heroes” campaign.
• James Caan
  James Caan (entrepreneur)
  James Caan is a British-Pakistani entrepreneur and television personality. Caan has been building and selling businesses since 1985, including Alexander Mann Group, Humana International, and the private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw.Caan initially achieved success in the recruitment industry,...
  
   - Businessman and entrepreneur who was formally a part of Dragons' Den
  Dragons' Den (UK)
  Dragons' Den is a British television series, hosted by Evan Davis. The format of the show is owned by Sony Pictures and is based on the original Japanese series, which has been sold around the world...
  
   alongside with other investors.
• Javed Ahmed - The Chief Executive of Tate & Lyle
  Tate & Lyle
  Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index as of 20 June 2011...
  
   plc - a FTSE 250 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands. Lyle's sugar and Golden Syrup is a familiar sight in British family kitchens.
• Mohammed Amin - An accountant who was born in Pakistan but moved to Manchester with his parents aged one years old. He is now retired but was formally a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
  PricewaterhouseCoopers
  PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms....
  
   for 19 years. He is currently the vice-chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum and treasurer of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Greater Manchester.
• Mohammed Saleem - A Kashmiri born millionaire now living in Bradford, he is the owner of Kashmir Crown Bakeries
  Kashmir Crown Bakeries
  Kashmir Crown Bakeries is a food making business based in Bradford. The company is a major local employer and claims to be the largest Asian Food Manufacturer in Europe....
  
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• Nighat Awan O.B.E - Manchester born Awan is the owner of the Shere Khan Group which is a regional and national brand in the restaurant and food manufacturing industry. She lives on one of most exclusive roads in Hale
  Hale, Greater Manchester
  Hale is a village and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is contiguous with the southeast of Altrincham, approximately southwest of the city of Manchester....
  
  , Greater Manchester and is considered to be part of the 'Cheshire set'.
• Sir Anwar Pervez - A Pakistan-born businessman and ranks as the 6th richest Asian in Great Britain. Founder of the Bestway Group
  Bestway
  -Background:Bestway Group is UK’s second largest Cash & Carry operator, and is the second largest cement producer in Pakistan; and joint owners of Pakistan’s third largest bank; they are the largest overseas Pakistani investor with investments in excess of US$1.0 billion.-History:In 1976 Sir Anwar...
  
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• Shaf Rasul - One of the richest men in Scotland. He made his money through IT and property, he also takes part in online editions of Dragon's Den.
• Shami Ahmed
  Shami Ahmed
  Eaitisham "Shami" Ahmed is a Pakistani born British founder of the Joe Bloggs clothing brand.Born in Pakistan, his parents emigrated to England in 1964, when he was aged 2. His father Nizam started a profitable retail clothing business Ahmed Hosiery, in Burnley...
  
   - A Burnley born former fashion tycoon, he is the founder of Joe Bloggs. The former market trader was, at the peak of his business life, one of Britain's richest young entrepreneurs. Ahmed began gambling in order to continue his wealthy lifestyle, however his significant losses led to Ahmed's eventual bankruptcy in late 2009.

Entertainment

• Ali Khalid - Pakistani born British actor and producer, appearing in both Pakistani and British TV Serials such as "Sard Aag" and Coronation Street
• Anwar Kharral
  Anwar Kharral
  Anwar Kharral is a fictional character in the television series Skins portrayed by Dev Patel.-Characterization:Anwar is portrayed as a young pick and choose Muslim, Pakistani boy, meaning he chooses which parts of his religion he will practice when convenient and which parts he will not when it is...
  
   - A fictional British Pakistani character in the teenage television series Skins. Kharral is portrayed by Dev Patel
  Dev Patel
  Dev Patel is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...
  
   who is of Gujarati
  Gujarati people
  Gujarati people , or Gujaratis are an ethnic group that is traditionally Gujarati-speaking and can trace their ancestry to the state of Gujarat in western India...
  
   descent.
• Hajaz Akram
  Hajaz Akram
  Hajaz Akram is a British actor of Pakistani origin, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.He has appeared in numerous television dramas including Doctor Who, Murder in Mind and Casualty, and is also the voice of DJ Panjit Gavaskar in Grand Theft Auto.He has had film roles in Lara Croft...
  
   - British Pakistani actor
• Humza Arshad - Actor and comedian, he is the producer of the YouTube sensation Diary of a Badman.
• Mina Anwar
  Mina Anwar
  Mina Anwar is a British actress.-Early life:Anwar was educated at Accrington Moorhead Sports College, and gained an A level in Theatre in Performance at the Accrington and Rossendale College in 1988 before training at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.-Acting career:She played Police...
  
   - British actress who is best known for playing Police Constable Maggie Habib in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line
  The Thin Blue Line (TV series)
  The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996...
  
  
• Nigel Le Vaillant
  Nigel Le Vaillant
  Nigel Le Vaillant is a British actor, best known for his roles in Casualty and Dangerfield.-Early years:Le Vaillant came to the UK aged 16. He studied acting at school in Dorset. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn asked if he would work as an assistant stage manager in a Scarborough Theatre production...
  
   - British actor, born in Karachi
• Shazia Mirza
  Shazia Mirza
  Shazia Mirza is a British comedian and columnist from Birmingham, England.-Background:Shazia was born as the eldest daughter in Birmigham to Pakistani parents, Mohammed and Sarwat Mirza...
  
   - Comedian from Birmingham, England, whose act revolves around her Muslim faith
• Suleman Mirza - Lead dancer of Signature
  Signature (dance group)
  Signature are an English dance group which consists of British Pakistani Suleman Mirza and British Indian Madhu Singh. Their notable style of dance is British Bhangra and they frequently base their performances around Michael Jackson songs, such as "Billie Jean" and "Thriller"...
  
  ; runner-up on Britain's Got Talent
  Britain's Got Talent
  Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
  
  2008
• Zayn Malik - Member of the boyband One Direction
  One Direction
  One Direction are a British-Irish boy band, consisting of members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They finished third on the seventh series of The X Factor. Following The X Factor, the group signed a record contract with Syco Music.One Direction's debut single...
  
   and is from Bradford
  Bradford
  Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
  
  

Journalism and Media

• Aziz Rashid - Bradford born Rashid studied Engineering at Oxford University before starting work as a Merchant Banker. He joined the BBC World Service
  BBC World Service
  The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
  
   in 1989 and now works as the Head of Regional and Local Programmes for the BBC in the North West of England.
• Aaqil Ahmed - Commissioning editor for Religion and Multicultural programming at Channel 4
  Channel 4
  Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
  
  
• Adil Ray
  Adil Ray
  Adil Ray is a British radio and television presenter, and actor born 26 April 1974 in Birmingham, England.- Background :Adil Ray is of Pakistani and Kenyan origin. He began his career as a radio host on a pirate radio station in Huddersfield while studying at the University of Huddersfield and...
  
   - British radio and television presenter, for BBC Asian Network
  BBC Asian Network
  BBC Asian Network is a British radio station serving those originating from and around the Indian subcontinent. The music and news comes out of the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. The station has production centres in Birmingham, Leicester and London...
  
  
• Adnan Nawaz
  Adnan Nawaz
  Adnan Nawaz is a News and Sports presenter, currently working for the BBC. He can increasingly be seen presenting the news on BBC World News and has presented the sport on BBC News, the Corporation's rolling news channel in the UK, and on BBC World News since 2001...
  
   - A News and Sports presenter working for the BBC World Service
• Ali Abbasi
  Ali Abbasi
  Ali Abbasi was a Pakistani-born Scottish television presenter, born in Karachi. He moved from Pakistan to Glasgow, in 1963, with his parents as a child and joined BBC Scotland as a travel presenter in the 1980s...
  
   - Former Scottish TV Presenter
• Anila Baig
  Anila Baig
  Anila Baig is a British Pakistani Muslim Feature Writer at The Sun.Anila Baig, originally a Pakistani, was born and raised in the city of Bradford. Anila Baig had her first column published in the local newspaper at the age of 16. She then went on to study English at the university and trained as...
  
   - A columnist at The Sun (United Kingdom)
• Martin Bashir
  Martin Bashir
  Martin Bashir is a British journalist and media personality, currently with NBC News as a contributor for its Dateline program, and an afternoon anchor for MSNBC, hosting Martin Bashir...
  
   - British journalist of Pakistani descent, currently with ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  's 20/20
  20/20
  20/20 is an American "television newsmagazine", , broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects...
  
  
• Mazher Mahmood
  Mazher Mahmood
  Mazher Mahmood is an undercover reporter with The Sunday Times newspaper. He previously spent 20 years working for the defunct British tabloid newspaper News of the World. He has been dubbed as "Britain’s most notorious undercover reporter."...
  
   (also known as The Fake sheikh) - He was often dubbed as "Britain’s most notorious undercover reporter" and in a GQ survey was voted as the 45th most powerful man in Britain, ahead of Prince William.The News of the World
  News of the World
  The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
  
  paid his six figure salary, plus an editorial and technical support budget which included a dedicated technical support crew, his two bodyguards and essential props, including: luxury hotel suites; limousines and private jets.
• Mehdi Hasan
  Mehdi Hasan
  Mehdi Hasan is a British journalist who has worked in television current affairs and the national press. He was appointed senior editor at the New Statesman In the late spring of 2009.-Television career:...
  
   - Senior politics editor at the New Statesman and a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4
• Mishal Husain
  Mishal Husain
  Mishal Husain is a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One...
  
   - Currently an anchor for BBC World
  BBC World
  BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...
  
  
• Riz Lateef
  Riz Lateef
  Rizwana Lateef is a newsreader and main presenter of the BBC's regional television news service for London, BBC London.-Early life:After secondary school, Riz undertook a journalism course at the Polytechnic of Central London and then attended the Cranfield School of Management, in Bedfordshire,...
  
   - A news reader and the BBC Deputy News Manager
• Saira Khan
  Saira Khan
  Saira Khan is a British television personality and was the runner-up on the first UK series of reality TV show The Apprentice in 2005.-Television career:...
  
   - Was the runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice, and now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA
• Sarfraz Manzoor
  Sarfraz Manzoor
  Sarfraz Manzoor is a journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster. He is a regularly contributor to The Guardian, presenter of documentaries on BBC Radio 4, and a cultural commentator who appears on programmes such as Newsnight Review and Saturday Review. His first book, Greetings from Bury Park...
  
   - A British writer, journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster. He writes regularly for The Guardian, presents documentaries on BBC Radio 4.
• Shaf Rasul - A British Pakistani millionaire who is also a business column writer for The Scottish Sun newspaper
• Shereen Nanjiani
  Shereen Nanjiani
  Shereen Nanjiani is a radio presenter with BBC Radio Scotland.Before launching her radio career in 2006, Nanjiani was the chief news anchor at STV Central, having presented the news programme, Scotland Today since 1987...
  
   - A radio journalist with BBC Radio Scotland
• Tazeen Ahmad
  Tazeen Ahmad
  Tazeen Ahmad is a British television and radio presenter and reporter. She used to present the Channel 4 late-night discussion programme on Islamic issues called Shariah TV and has been an investigative reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches....
  
   - A British television and radio presenter and reporter
• Waheed Khan
  Waheed Khan
  Waheed Khan is a documentary television director working in British television.Of Pakistani parentage he originally worked as an actor but switched careers while waiting for acting roles and becoming a camera operator worked on documentaries for BBC Current Affairs eventually directing and...
  
   - Documentary television director working in British television

Law and Justice

• Aamer Anwar
  Aamer Anwar
  Aamer Anwar is a Scottish lawyer of Pakistani background. He is noted for his left-wing political views and his support for Stop the War Coalition and the campaigns against the 31st G8 summit and Dungavel Detention Centre for failed Asylum seekers....
  
   - A Glaswegian Solicitor who has previously won awards as Criminal Lawyer of the Year by The Law Awards of Scotland in 2005 and 2006.
• Javed Khan (Chief Executive) - Chief Executive of the British charity Victim Support
  Victim Support
  Victim Support is a charity in England and Wales which aims to help victims and witnesses of crime by raising awareness of their needs and by delivering dedicated services to them. It was established in 1974. It is a national charity with branches in every community and each criminal court in...
  
  . Khan, who is of Kashmiri origin, is also a Member of the Whitehall
  Whitehall
  Whitehall is a road in Westminster, in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards Charing Cross at the southern end of Trafalgar Square...
  
   Social Policy Forum and an adviser to the Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
   Global Leaders Programme.
• Judge Mushtaq Khokhar - A Circuit Judge at Manchester Crown Court. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn
  Lincoln's Inn
  The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. Although Lincoln's Inn is able to trace its official records beyond...
  
   in 1982.
• Mukhtar Hussain Q.C - He was called by Middle Temple
  Middle Temple
  The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...
  
   in 1971 and was the first Recorder and Queens Counsel from an ethnic minority background outside of London.
• Nazir Afzal - The Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England
• Sadiq Khan
  Sadiq Khan
  Sadiq Aman Khan is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Tooting since 2005, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat...
  
   - A senior member of the Labour Party
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   and former Chair of the Fabian Society
  Fabian Society
  The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...
  
   think tank. He is currently serving as the Shadow Lord Chancellor
  Shadow Lord Chancellor
  In British politics the Shadow Lord Chancellor is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who shadows the Lord Chancellor, an office which has existed since the Norman Conquest. From 2003 until 2007, the office-holder was also the Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs...
  
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• Judge Shamim Qureshi - A District Judge based at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court. He is of Kashmiri origin and came to Britain aged five initially unable to speak any English.
• Tahir Khan - A Bradford born Barrister who become the first Muslim on the North Eastern legal circuit to be appointed a Queen’s Counsel.

Literature and Art

• Hanif Kureishi
  Hanif Kureishi
  Hanif Kureishi CBE is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality...
  
   - Playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer
• Imtiaz Dharker
  Imtiaz Dharker
  Imtiaz Dharker is a Scottish Muslim, poet, artist and documentary film-maker.- Family and background:She was born in Lahore to Pakistani parents. She was brought up in Glasgow where her family moved when she was less than a year old...
  
   - Pakistani-British poet and documentary filmmaker
• Moniza Alvi
  Moniza Alvi
  -Life and education:Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She was born to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire in England when she was a few months old. She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of her first book of poems - The...
  
   - British Pakistani poet and writer
• Nadeem Aslam
  Nadeem Aslam
  Nadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...
  
   - British Pakistani novelist
• Razia Iqbal
  Razia Iqbal
  Razia Iqbal is a journalist employed by BBC News. She is a special correspondent, reporting for outlets across the BBC, presents relief shifts on the BBC News Channel and presents Talking Books on the channel...
  
   - An arts correspondent for BBC television news, BBC World Service and Radio 4. Iqbal was born in East Africa and is of Muslim Punjabi origin.
• Qaisra Shahraz
  Qaisra Shahraz
  Qaisra Shahraz is a Pakistani-English writer, school inspector, education consultant and freelance journalist.-Life:Qaisra Shahraz was born in Pakistan and raised in England. She has been living in Manchester since she was nine years old. She has two Masters degrees in European literature and...
  
    - Manchester based Novelist, Journalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  Royal Society of Arts
  The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...
  
   and a director of Gatehouse Books
• Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...
  
   - British Pakistani historian and novelist
• Ziauddin Sardar
  Ziauddin Sardar
  Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, writer and cultural-critic who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations...
  
   - Scholar, writer and cultural-critic

Military & Police

• Superintendent Makhdum Ali Chishty QPM - A high ranking police officer in Warwickshire Police. He was recently honoured with the Queen's Police Medal
  Queen's Police Medal
  The Queen's Police Medal is awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service. Recipients may use the post-nominal letters "QPM", although the right to use these was only granted officially on 20 July 1969...
  
   by The Queen
• Muhammed Akbar Khan
  Muhammed Akbar Khan
  General Muhammed Akbar Khan , OBE served as a British Indian recruit in the First World War and an officer in Second World War. Muhammed Akbar Khan was the first Muslim from the South Asia to become a General in British Army. At the time of independence of Pakistan, he was the most senior Muslim...
  
   - Served as a British recruit in the First World War and an officer in Second World War. Khan was the first Muslim
  Muslim
  A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
  
   to become a General
  General
  A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
  
   in British Army
  British Army
  The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
  
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• Tarique Ghaffur
  Tarique Ghaffur
  Tarique Ghaffur, CBE QPM is a former high-ranking British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service. His last post was that of Assistant Commissioner–Central Operations.-Biography:...
  
   - A high-ranking British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is currently Assistant Commissioner–Central Operations

Politics

• Bashir Ahmad
  Bashir Ahmad (politician)
  Bashir Ahmad was a Scottish National Party politician. He was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the Glasgow region at the 2007 election, and was the first MSP to be elected from an Asian-Scots or Muslim background. Ahmed was a prominent and well respected figure in Parliament and in...
  
   - a former member of the Scottish National Party
• Bashir Maan - is a Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman and writer
• Imran Ahmad Khan - is the President of the Transnational Crisis Project and an internationally recognised expert on transnational security
• Khalid Mahmood
  Khalid Mahmood
  Khalid Mahmood is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Perry Barr since 2001.-Political career:...
  
   - is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
• Mehboob Khan - The Leader of Kirklees Council, Chair of the Local Government Association, Safer Communities Board, Chair of the Association of West Yorkshire Authorities, Vice-chair of West Yorkshire Fire Authority and a non-executive director of the NHS
• Mohammad Asghar
  Mohammad Asghar
  Mohammad Asghar , known as Oscar, is an Asian politician, who has been a member of the Conservative party, the Labour party, and Plaid Cymru. He came to prominence after being elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2007 as a member of Plaid Cymru on the list for South Wales East...
  
   - is a Welsh politician, representing Plaid Cymru
• Mohammad Sarwar
  Mohammad Sarwar
  Mohammad Sarwar is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament in Glasgow from 1997 to 2010, first for Glasgow Govan and then from 2005 for Glasgow Central. He was the first ever British Muslim MP....
  
   - is a politician in the United Kingdom, the Labour member of Parliament for Glasgow Central
• Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed
  Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed
  Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998. Many of his political activities relate to the Islamic community both in the UK and abroad, and he has often attracted controversy...
  
   - is a Labour peer in the House of Lords
• Salma Yaqoob
  Salma Yaqoob
  Salma Yaqoob is the leader, and former vice-chair, of the Respect Party and a former Birmingham City Councillor. She is also the head of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and a spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque....
  
   - is the vice-chair of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor.
• Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi - is a Lawyer and British politician for the Conservative Party. Baroness Warsi is currently a member of the Cabinet.
• Shahid Malik
  Shahid Malik
  Shahid Rafique Malik is a British Labour Party politician who became the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury in 2005 after defeating Conservative Sayeeda Warsi, now Conservative Chair Baroness Warsi and remained so till 2010 when Conservative candidate Simon Reevell won Dewsbury...
  
   - is a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Dewsbury. He served as a Minister for International Development in Gordon Brown's government

Science and Medicine

• Dr. Naveed Zaidi
  Naveed Zaidi
  Dr. Naveed Zaidi is a British Pakistani organic chemist and a scientist who developed the world's first workable plastic magnet at room temperature.-Biography:...
  
   - Developed the world's first workable plastic magnet at room temperature
• Dr. Nessar Ahmed - A Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science
  Institute of Biomedical Science
  The Institute of Biomedical Science is the professional body for biomedical scientists in the United Kingdom. The IBMS was founded in 1912 and represents approximately 16,000 members employed mainly in National Health Service and private laboratories, veterinary laboratories, the National Blood...
  
   (FIBMS). Ahmed, who is of Pashtun
  Pashtun people
  Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
  
   origin, was awarded the Young Investigators Award in 2003 by the World Association for Societies in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
• Dr. Sohail Ansari - Consultant Physician at Southend Hospital, Chairman of Essex Tuberculosis Network, Chairman of South East Essex Respiratory Strategic Group, Governor of American College of Chest Physicians, President of Pakistan Essex Doctors Society.
• Dr. Tariq Idris - A Celebrity dentist with practises in Cheshire
  Cheshire
  Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
  
   and on London's Harley Street
  Harley Street
  Harley Street is a street in the City of Westminster in London, England which has been noted since the 19th century for its large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery.- Overview :...
  
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Sport

• Adam Docker
  Adam Docker
  Adam Luke Docker is an English-Pakistani footballer. In 2007 he was called up for Pakistan, where he used the name of Adam Karim....
  
   - A British Pakistani footballer, playing for Porthmadog F.C.
  Porthmadog F.C.
  Porthmadog Football Club is a football team, playing in the Cymru Alliance.The club was founded in 1884 and plays at Y Traeth, Porthmadog, which accommodates 2,000 spectators .- History :...
  
  
• Adam Khan - Racing driver from Bridlington, Yorkshire, who represents Pakistan in the A1 Grand Prix series. He is currently the demonstration driver for the Renault F1 racing team
• Adil Anwar - British light-welterweight boxer
• Adil Rashid
  Adil Rashid
  Adil Usman Rashid is an English cricketer of Pakistani origins, who plays for Yorkshire. Previously a player with England Under-19s, in December 2008, he was called into the full England Test squad, for the Test matches to be played in India...
  
   - An English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire
  Yorkshire County Cricket Club
  Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
  
   and England Under-19s
• Adnan Ahmed
  Adnan Ahmed
  Adnan Farooq Ahmed is a professional footballer who plays for Bradford Park Avenue in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Ahmed is a British Asian of Pakistani descent...
  
   - A British Pakistani footballer who is currently playing for Tranmere Rovers
• Ajmal Shahzad
  Ajmal Shahzad
  Ajmal Shahzad is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his international debut in a Twenty20 International for England in February 2010...
  
   - A cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club
  Yorkshire County Cricket Club
  Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
  
   and represents in England in all three formats of the game.
• Amjad Iqbal
  Amjad Iqbal
  Amjad Iqbal is a professional footballer who plays for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Bradford Park Avenue...
  
   - A British Pakistani footballer, playing for Farsley Celtic F.C.
• Amir Khan
  Amir Khan (boxer)
  Amir Iqbal Khan , is a British Pakistani professional boxer who is currently the unified WBA & IBF light welterweight champion....
  
  - British Lightweight Boxer, 2004 Olympics Silver Medalist
• Amjad Khan
  Amjad Khan
  Amjad Khan was an acclaimed Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in his film career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films the most famous being the unforgettable Gabbar Singh in 1975 classic Sholay...
  
   - Cricketer for England International and the youngest to play for the Danish national team
• Atif Bashir
  Atif Bashir
  Atif Bashir Qureshi is a German Turkish-Pakistani footballer, who plays for Barry Town in the Welsh Football League First Division and at international level for the Pakistan national team.-Early career:...
  
   - Footballer with a (British Pakistani father and a Turkish German mother)
• Bilal Shafayat
  Bilal Shafayat
  Bilal Mustapha Shafayat is an English cricketer. He is a middle-order batsman, fast bowler and wicket-keeper. Shafayat was a former captain of the England under-19 side....
  
   - A cricketer
• Haroon Khan - British Pakistani fighter winner of national boxing
• Ikram Butt
  Ikram Butt
  Ikram Butt is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s who at representative level has played for England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos, Huddersfield Giants, and London Broncos, playing at , i.e. 2 or 5....
  
  - Former rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
   player. First south Asian to play either code of international rugby for England in 1995. Founder of the British Asian Rugby Association and the British Pakistani rugby league team.
• Imran Majid
  Imran Majid
  Imran Majid is an English professional pool player. Majid is of Pakistani descent as his parents are from Lahore, Punjab....
  
   - A professional British pool player
• Kabir Ali
  Kabir Ali
  Kabir Ali is an English cricketer who currently plays for Hampshire in the English County Championship. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, outside cricket he works as a model...
  
   - is an English cricketer, who formerly played for Worcestershire
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
  
  
• Kadeer Ali
  Kadeer Ali
  Abdul-Kadeer Ali is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent. Kadeer is currently at minor counties side Staffordshire. He has played for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, as well as appearing for England A. He was capped by Gloucestershire in 2005...
  
   - A cricketer playing for Worcestershire
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
  
   and is related to Kabir Ali
• Moeen Ali
  Moeen Ali
  Moeen Munir Ali is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and off-spin bowler who played county cricket for Warwickshire before moving to Worcestershire after the 2006 season...
  
   - A cricketer playing for Warwickshire
  Warwickshire County Cricket Club
  Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...
  
  
• Nadeem Siddique British welterweight boxer
• Owais Shah
  Owais Shah
  Owais Alam Shah is an English cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he played for Middlesex between 1996-2010, before joining Essex CCC in the winter of 2010. He has represented England in all forms of the games.Between 2001 and 2009, he played 71 ODIs and 17 Twenty20 Internationals...
  
   - A cricketer who plays for Middlesex
  Middlesex County Cricket Club
  Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...
  
   and has appeared for England in a number of One Day Internationals and two Test matches
• Sajid Mahmood
  Sajid Mahmood
  Sajid "Saj" Iqbal Mahmood is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent...
  
   - A Punjabi
  Punjabi people
  The Punjabi people , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ), also Panjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan group from South Asia. They are the second largest of the many ethnic groups in South Asia. They originate in the Punjab region, which has been been the location of some of the oldest civilizations in the world including, the...
  
   origin cricketer who plays international cricket for England and county cricket for Lancashire
  Lancashire County Cricket Club
  Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
  
  
• Usman Afzaal
  Usman Afzaal
  Usman Afzaal is a Pakistani-born cricketer who has played three Test matches for England, all against Australia in 2001. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and occasional left arm slow bowler....
  
   - is a cricketer who has played three Test matches for England
• Zeeshan Rehman - A British Pakistani football defender for Queens Park Rangers F.C.
  Queens Park Rangers F.C.
  Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
  
  . Was the first Pakistani and British Asian to play in the Premiership with Fulham F.C.
  Fulham F.C.
  Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...
  
  

Other

• Ghayasuddin Siddiqui
  Ghayasuddin Siddiqui
  Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is an academic and political activist. He was born in Delhi, India, migrated to Pakistan in late 1947 and moved to the UK in 1964....
  
   - An academic and political activist
• Jawed Siddiqi
  Jawed Siddiqi
  Jawed Siddiqi FBCS is a Pakistani British computer scientist and software engineer. He is the Professor of Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England.- Education and academic career :...
  
   - A British Muslim academic and political activist
• Michael Nazir-Ali
  Michael Nazir-Ali
  Michael James Nazir-Ali was the 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England: he retired in September 2009, taking up a position as director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue...
  
   - The 106th and current Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England. He holds dual Pakistani and British citizenship
• Mohammed Khaliel - A community activist who served as, Associate director of Mental Health trust, Director Housing Association, school Governor, a Parliamentary Candidate in 2005 election and currently liasing in policing, as chair of national group. He founded Islamix.co.uk to dispel myths about Islam and promote community cohesion.
• Mohammad Naseem
  Mohammad Naseem
  Mohammad Naseem, born in 1924, is a former GP and the chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust , one of the largest and most prominent Islamic places of worship in the United Kingdom....
  
   - A former GP and the chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust
• Mona Siddiqui
  Mona Siddiqui
  Mona Siddiqui OBE is a British Muslim academic. She is Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, as well as the Director of its Centre for the Study of Islam, and is a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution.She is also a regular contributor to...
  
   - A British Muslim academic, currently is a University of Glasgow's Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding, as well a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, The Times, Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald
• Nosheen Idrees
  Nosheen Idrees
  Nosheen Idrees is the 22 year old in 2008 from Jhelum, Pakistan who represented Pakistan in the Miss Earth pageant. Nosheen was crowned the third runner up for the Miss Pakistan World pageant on the 23rd of May 2008....
  
   Represented Pakistan in the Miss Earth pageant. Nosheen was crowned the third runner up for the Miss Pakistan World Pageant in 2008.
• Robina Qureshi
  Robina Qureshi
  Robina Qureshi is a Scottish human rights campaigner. She is a notable critic of the UK's asylum policies and has campaigned to close detention centres for asylum seekers.- Background :...
  
   - A Scottish human rights campaigner
• Sahil Saeed - A young boy kidnapped in Pakistan on March 3, 2010 but was later released unharmed after the payment of a ransom
• Vilayat Inayat Khan
  Vilayat Inayat Khan
  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. Pir Zia Inayat Khan is Pir Vilayat's son and successor as Pir of the Sufi Order International...
  
   - was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International
• Zohaib Ahmed - The youngest pupil ever to get grade A in an A-Level maths exam. He attended Knightwood Primary School in Hampshire
  Hampshire
  Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
  
   and his ambition is to work as an actuary
  Actuary
  An actuary is a business professional who deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. Actuaries provide expert assessments of financial security systems, with a focus on their complexity, their mathematics, and their mechanisms ....
  
   in London's financial district.
• Ishtiaq Hussain
  Ishtiaq Hussain
  Ishtiaq Hussain is a British Pakistani. He holds a B.A. and has studied MA in Social Sciences. In his teenage years he was an activist for the radical group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, later over ideological and moral differences...
  
  - A civil servant, author and expert in counter-extremism.