This is a full spectrum list of famous and prominent Punjabi people from the Punjab region

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

 of India, Pakistan and the emigrant Punjabi diaspora

Diaspora

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 worldwide, including in the EU

European Union

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, United States, Canada and other places.

Military leaders

Airforce

• Marshal
  Marshal
  Marshal , is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word is an ancient loan word from Old French, cf...
  
   Arjan Singh
  Arjan Singh
  Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC is the only officer of the Indian Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank, equal to a Field Marshal, to which he was promoted in 2002. He was born in the Punjab town of Lyallpur, British India, into a Aulakh family...
  
  , Former Chief Of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
  ., Only Marshal in the History of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
  
• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Surinder Mehra, Former Chief Of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
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• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Nirmal Chandra Suri
  Nirmal Chandra Suri
  Nirmal Chandra Suri went on to become the Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force on 1 August 1991. He is an alumnus of the famous Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun. He was a part of the First course of the Joint Services Wing, the present-day National Defence Academy, Pune...
  
  , Former Chief Of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
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• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Satish Sareen, Former Chief Of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
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• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Dilbagh Singh, Former Chief Of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
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• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Om Prakash Mehra
  Om Prakash Mehra
  Om Prakash Mehra was Chief of the Air Staff from 1973 to 1976 . He received Param Vishistht Sewa Medal in 1968 . He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1977. He later became governor of Maharashtra from 1980 to 1982 and governor of Rajasthan from 1982 to 1985.Air Chief Marshal OP Mehra was born on...
  
  , Former Chief of Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
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• Harita Kaur Deol, first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force
  Indian Air Force
  The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
  
  , on a solo flight .

Army

• Brigadier
  Brigadier
  Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....
  
  (retired)Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
  Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
  Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri is an Indian Army officer known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala. for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra by the Indian Army.Border, a 1997 Bollywood film directed by J.P.Dutta...
  
  , He is known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala
  Battle of Longewala
  The Battle of Longewala was one of the first major engagements in the Western Sector during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, fought between assaulting Pakistani forces and Indian defenders at the Indian border post of Longewala, in the Thar Desert of the Rajasthan state in India.The Indian infantry...
  
   for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra
  Maha Vir Chakra
  The Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air. It may be awarded posthumously. Literally Maha Veer means extraordinarily brave.-Appearance:The medal is made...
  
   (MVC) by the Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
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• 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....
  
   Deepak Kapoor
  Deepak Kapoor
  General Deepak Kapoor PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC was the 25th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, appointed on 30 September 2007 and Chairman, Chiefs of Staffs Committee appointed on 31 August 2009....
  
  , Indian Army Chief.
• 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....
  
   Pran Nath Thapar
  Pran Nath Thapar
  General Pran Nath Thapar was the fifth Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army.-Personal life:...
  
  , Former Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   Chief.
• 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....
  
   Om Prakash Malhotra
  Om Prakash Malhotra
  General Om Prakash Malhotra PVSM , was the 13th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.Commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in November 1941, he fought against the Japanese in the Second World War in Burma. He commanded artillery regiments across India between November 1950 and July 1961...
  
  , Former Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   Chief.
• 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....
  
   Ved Prakash Malik
  Ved Prakash Malik
  General Ved Prakash Malik or General V.P. Malik served as 19th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 30-September-1997 till 30-September-2000....
  
  , Former Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   Chief.
• 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....
  
   Nirmal Chander Vij
  Nirmal Chander Vij
  General Nirmal Chander Vij was the 21st Indian Chief of Army Staff during 1 Jan 2003 - 31 Jan 2005.-Career:General Vij was born in January 1943 at Jammu. He completed his studies at the SRML Higher Secondary School, Jammu and joined the National Defence Academy in 1959. He was commissioned into...
  
  , Former Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   Chief.
• 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....
  
   Joginder Jaswant Singh
  Joginder Jaswant Singh
  General Joginder Jaswant Singh was the first Sikh chief of army staff of India. He served as chief of army staff from January 31, 2005, to September 30, 2007....
  
  , Former Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
   Chief.
• Lt General Punita Arora
  Punita Arora
  Lieutenant General Punita Arora is the first woman in India to don the second highest rank i.e Lieutant General of Indian Armed Forces. and the first Vice admiral of Indian Navy.-Early life:She was born into a Punjabi family which hails from Lahore...
  
  , first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to don the second highest rank of Lt General and the first lady to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
  The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
  
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• Shabeg Singh
  Shabeg Singh
  Major General Shabeg Singh AVSM and PVSM , was an Indian Army officer noted for his service in training of Mukti Bahini volunteers during the Bangladesh Liberation War, and later for his role in training Sikh militants in their occupation of the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar.- Early days :General...
  
  
• Brigadier
  Brigadier
  Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....
  
   (retired) Jodhbir Singh Sandhu, He is known for his heroic leadership in capturing a Pakistani post in the Siachen glacier
  Siachen Glacier
  The Siachen Glacier is located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains at about , just east of the Line of Control between India-Pakistan. India controls all of the Siachen Glacier itself, including all tributary glaciers. At long, it is the longest glacier in the Karakoram and...
  
   with no casualties ,this attack was first of its kind at 20000 feet in the history of warfare , for conspicuous bravery and leadership under most adverse conditions he was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal
  Vishisht Seva Medal
  Vishisht Seva Medal is a decoration of the Indian Armed forces. It is awarded to recognize "distinguished service of an exceptional order" to all ranks of the Indian armed forces....
  
   by the Indian Army
  Indian Army
  The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
  
  

Navy

• Admiral
  Admiral
  Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
  
   S.N Kohli, Former Chief Of Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
  The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
  
  
• Admiral
  Admiral
  Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
  
   S.M Nanda, Former Chief Of Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
  The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
  
  

Surinder Kumar Khanna,Former Lieutenant Colonol [Indian Army]

Pakistan Armed Forces

• Zia ul Haq former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  Pakistan Army
  The Pakistan Army is the branch of the Pakistani Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The Pakistan Army came into existence after the Partition of India and the resulting independence of Pakistan in 1947. It is currently headed by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The Pakistan...
  
  
• 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....
  
   (R) Tikka Khan
  Tikka Khan
  General Tikka Khan, HJ, HQA, SPk, was a senior four-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as the first Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 3 March 1972 to 1 March 1976. Before his four-star assignment, Khan was a Martial Law Administrator of erstwhile East-Pakistan...
  
   former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
  Pakistan Army
  The Pakistan Army is the branch of the Pakistani Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The Pakistan Army came into existence after the Partition of India and the resulting independence of Pakistan in 1947. It is currently headed by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The Pakistan...
  
  
• 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....
  
   (R) Asif Nawaz
  Asif Nawaz
  General Asif Nawaz Janjua, NI, HI, SBt , afwc, psc , was a senior four-star general and the 10th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from August 16, 1991 till January 8, 1993. His tenure was cut short by his death after suffering a heart attack...
  
   Janjua, former Chief Of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
• 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....
  
   Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
  Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
  General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, NI, HI is a four-star general in the Pakistan Army, and the current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. He replaced General Pervez Musharraf as the Chief of Army Staff and the commandant of the army on November 29, 2007...
  
   Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistan army
  Pakistan Army
  The Pakistan Army is the branch of the Pakistani Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The Pakistan Army came into existence after the Partition of India and the resulting independence of Pakistan in 1947. It is currently headed by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The Pakistan...
  
  
• 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....
  
   (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan
  Yusaf Khan
  General Muhammad Yusaf Khan Qaimkhani , is a retired four-star general of the Pakistan Army who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff from October 8, 2001 until October 7, 2004...
  
   Kaimkhani, former Vice Chief Of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
• 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....
  
   (R) 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...
  
   - The first Muslim to become a General in British Indian Army.
• Lt Gen (R) Raja Saroop Khan
  Raja Saroop Khan
  Lieutenant General Raja Saroop Khan is a career Pakistan Army officer who served as the Governor of Punjab from 1995 to 1996.Raja Saroop Khan of Jabot was commissioned in the 7th PMA Long Course from Pakistan Military Academy in 1953...
  
   former Governor of Punjab
  Governor of Punjab (Pakistan)
  The Governor of Punjab is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the Prime Minister and is normally regarded a ceremonial post...
  
  
• Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan
  Iftikhar Khan
  Major General Muhammed Iftikhar Khan was an officer inherited by the Pakistan Army from British India. He had been nominated to become the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army after General Douglas David Gracey's retirement...
  
   - the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
• Maj Gen (R) Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua
  Shah Nawaz Khan (general)
  Shahnawaz Khan was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army during World War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946....
  
  , Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
  Indian National Army
  The Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
  
  
• Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
  Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
  General Raja Sakhi Daler Khan was born in the village of Sarsawa, Kotli into the Mangral subgroup of the Rajput warrior caste. He led Pakistani troops and irregulars in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947...
  
   Mangral
  Mangral
  The Mangral are a Rajput warrior clan and the historical founders and rulers of Kotli and Poonch. Their ancestor Raja Mangar Pal was the founder of the City of Kotli in modern Azad Kashmir...
  
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• Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali
  Rao Farman Ali
  Major General Rao Farman Ali Khan was Pakistan Army general during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. He took commission in an artillery regiment in 1941 and later commanded the 26 Field Regiment...
  
  , former Adviser to the Government of erstwhile East Pakistan
  East Pakistan
  East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...
  
  
• Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Janjua
  Iftikhar Janjua
  Major General Iftikhar Khan Janjua, HJ & Bar, SPk, SQA, of the Pakistan Army is the most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in action. He is known in Pakistan as the hero of Rann of Kutch, as he was a brigadier in command of 6 Brigade, during the fighting in April 1965 prior to the...
  
  , the most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military conflict between India and Pakistan. Indian, Bangladeshi and international sources consider the beginning of the war to be Operation Chengiz Khan, Pakistan's December 3, 1971 pre-emptive strike on 11 Indian airbases...
  
  
• Brig
  Brig
  A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
  
   (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
  Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
  Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan was an Indian freedom fighter during British colonial rule of India, Rahman was an officer in the Indian National Army who was charged with "waging war against His Majesty the King Emperor". Along with Gen. Shah Nawaz Khan, Col. Prem Kumar Sahgal & Col...
  
    Member Azad Kashmir
  Azad Kashmir
  Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...
  
   Council
• Brig
  Brig
  A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
  
   (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua
  Amir Gulistan Janjua
  Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan....
  
  , former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
  Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
  The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the appointed Head of State of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the Prime Minister and is normally regarded a ceremonial post...
  
  
• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   (R) Kaleem Saadat
  Kaleem Saadat
  Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana, NI, , is a retired four-star general who was the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force from 2003 to 2006...
  
   former Chief of Air Staff
  Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan)
  The Chief of the Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, abbreviated as CAS, is typically the highest ranking 4-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air Force, unless a four-star officer is appointed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. The CAS is a senior and permanent member of the...
  
  
• Air Chief Marshal
  Air Chief Marshal
  Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
  
   Rao Qamar Suleman
  Rao Qamar Suleman
  Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, NI, SBt is the current Pakistan Air Force Chief of Air Staff who replaced Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed on 18 March 2009....
  
  , current Chief of Air Staff
  Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan)
  The Chief of the Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, abbreviated as CAS, is typically the highest ranking 4-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air Force, unless a four-star officer is appointed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. The CAS is a senior and permanent member of the...
  
  
• Muhammad Sarwar
  Muhammad Sarwar
  Raja Muhammad Sarwar Khan Bhati was born in Singhori village, Tehsil Gujar Khan, District of Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Muhammad Sarwar was a captain in the newly formed Pakistani Army. Commissioned: 1944, Punjab Regiment...
  
   Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
   winner
• Sawar Muhammad Hussain
  Sawar Muhammad Hussain
  Sawar Muhammad Hussain Janjua Shaheed was born in Dhok Pir Bakhsh near Jatli in Gujar Khan on June 18, 1949. He joined Pakistan Army as a driver on September 3, 1966 at a very young age of 17 years...
  
   Shaheed Janjua - Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
   winner
• Raja Aziz Bhatti
  Aziz Bhatti
  Major Raja Aziz Bhatti was a Hong Kong-born Pakistan Army's Staff officer who received Pakistan's highest award for valor. He was born in Hong Kong in 1928. He moved to Pakistan before it became independent in 1947, living in the village of Ladian,Tehsil Kharian, Gujrat...
  
   Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
   winner
• Rashid Minhas
  Rashid Minhas
  Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Rashid Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer who received the highest valor for his actions...
  
   Shaheed Minhas
  Minhas
  Minhas or Manhas or Minhas-Dogra is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan from the Punjab region and Jammu & Kashmir in India and Pakistan. It is an off-shoot of Jamwal-Dogra Rajputs, the founders of the city and state of Jammu and its rulers from ancient times to 1948 CE...
  
   - Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
   winner
• Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider
  Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
  
   winner
• Khudadad Khan
  Khudadad Khan
  Khudadad Khan, VC , was the first South Asian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
   Minhas
  Minhas
  Minhas or Manhas or Minhas-Dogra is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan from the Punjab region and Jammu & Kashmir in India and Pakistan. It is an off-shoot of Jamwal-Dogra Rajputs, the founders of the city and state of Jammu and its rulers from ancient times to 1948 CE...
  
   - Victoria Cross
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
   winner

Early Modern era

• Maharaja Ranjit Singh
  Ranjit Singh
  Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.-Early life:...
  
  
• Banda Singh Bahadur
• Baba Deep Singh
  Baba Deep Singh
  Baba Deep Singh is revered among Sikhs as one of the most hallowed martyrs in Sikhism and as a highly religious person. He is remembered for his sacrifice and devotion to the teachings of the Sikh Gurus....
  
  
• Nawab Kapur Singh
  Nawab Kapur Singh
  Nawab Kapur Singh is considered one of the pivotal figures in Sikh history, under whose courageous leadership the Sikh community traversed one of the darkest periods of its history. He was the organizer of the Sikh Confederacy and the Dal Khalsa. Nawab Kapur Singh is regarded by Sikhs as a leader...
  
  
• Hari Singh Dhillon
  Hari Singh Dhillon
  Maharaja Hari Singh Dhillon was one of the most powerful, admired and famous of all the royal Sikh warriors of the 18th century.He was Maharaja of Amritsar, Lahore and large areas of central and western Panjab. He was the nephew of Bhuma Singh Dhillon, a famous Sikh soldier. They were a family of...
  
  
• Bhuma Singh Dhillon
  Bhuma Singh Dhillon
  Bhuma Singh Dhillon was a famous royal Sikh warrior of the 18th century in Punjab. He was a Jatt of the village of Hung, near Badhni in present day Moga district, who won a name for himself in skirmishes with Nadir Shah's troops in 1739. Bhuma Singh's latent genius as an organiser and commander of...
  
  
• Hari Singh Nalwa
  Hari Singh Nalwa
  Hari Singh Nalwa was Commander-in-chief of the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh Empire. He is known for his role in the conquests of Kasur, Sialkot, Multan, Kashmir, Attock, and Peshawar. He led the Sikh Army in freeing Shah Shuja from Kashmir and secured the Koh-i-Nor diamond for Maharaja Ranjit Singh...
  
  
• Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
  Sultan ul Quam Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia was a prominent Sikh leader during the period of the Sikh Confederacy. He was also Misldar of the Ahluwalia Misl. This period was an interlude, lasting roughly from the time of the death of Banda Bahadur in 1716 to the founding of the Sikh Empire in 1801...
  
  
• Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
  Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
  Jassa Singh Ramgarhia was a prominent Sikh leader during the period of the Sikh Confederacy. He was the Commander of the Ramgarhia Sikh Cavalry misl . This period was an interlude, lasting roughly from the time of the death of Banda Bahadur in 1716 to the founding of the Sikh Empire in 1801...
  
  
• Diwan Sawan Mal
  Sawan Mal
  Sawan Mal was the Diwan of Multan. He was originally from Gujranwala, the region where Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Misl, the Sukerchakias held sway.He was son of Hushnak rai who worked under Dal Singh of Akalgarh and had two brothers,Diwan Nanak Chand and Diwan Gurumukh Rai. Along with Hari Singh...
  
  
• Diwan Mulraj
  Dewan Mulraj
  Dewan Mulraj was a 19th century ruler of Multan-History:-Conquest of Multan:In the 19th century, the Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh conquered Multan. The ruler of Multan, Muzaffar Khan Saddozai was defeated and killed...
  
  

Business

• Vinod Dham
  Vinod Dham
  Vinod Dham is an Inventor, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip. for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel...
  
   Father of Pentium Processor
• Sunil Bharti Mittal Chairman and managing director of the Bharti group
• Brijmohan Lal Munjal, Founder, Hero Group
• F C Kohli Regarded as Father of Indian Software Industry, Founder of TCS
• Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
  
   Co founder Sun Micro Systems
• Aroon Purie
  Aroon Purie
  Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of India Today and the Chief Executive of the India Today Group. He is also the Managing Director of Thomson Press Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of TV Today...
  
   India Today group
• Gulshan Kumar
  Gulshan Kumar
  Gulshan Kumar was the founder of the T-Series music label , the best known in India, and an Indian Bollywood movie producer. T series is now run by his son Bhushan Kumar...
  
   T Series
• Kanwal Rekhi
  Kanwal Rekhi
  Kanwal Rekhi is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist.Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi . After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India...
  
   One of the first India Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
• Mohan Singh Oberoi
  Mohan Singh Oberoi
  Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi was a renowned Indian hotelier, widely regarded as the father of 20th century India's hotel business, was the founder Chairman of Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, India's second-largest hotel company, with 35 luxury hotels in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Egypt, Australia and...
  
  , Oberoi Hotels
• Gurbaksh Chahal
  Gurbaksh Chahal
  Gurbaksh Singh Chahal is an Indian-American internet entrepreneur and a best-selling author. By the age of 25, he had founded and sold two advertising companies for a total of US$340 million.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jay Sidhu
  Jay Sidhu
  Jay Sidhu is the Chairman and CEO of Customers Bank, a $1.6 billion asset bank with headquarters in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Customers Bank currently has 11 branches in suburban Philadelphia, Hamilton, NJ and Port Chester, NY...
  
  , Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
• Malvinder Mohan Singh
  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  Malvinder Mohan Singh is the son of Dr. Parvinder Singh, and is the former Chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy Laboratories. He is the grandson of Bhai Mohan Singh, the founder of Ranbaxy. He and his brother Shivinder Singh are among the top twenty richest Indians in the world...
  
  , Ranbaxy/Fortis Group
• Reuben Singh
  Reuben Singh
  Reuben Singh, , is a British entrepreneur, who became well known in the mid-1990s for his Miss Attitude retail chain and then later for his business support services company alldaypa....
  
  , entrepreneur
• Vikram Chatwal
  Vikram Chatwal
  Vikram Chatwal is an American hotelier. In April 1999, at the age of 28, he created Vikram Chatwal Hotels, an independent hotel group of nine luxury hotels in five cities. Set to have 14 Hotels in total by the end of 2009, the flagship hotel in the group is Dream Hotel.-Biography:Chatwal is of...
  
  , Hotelier
• Tom Singh
  Tom Singh
  Tom Singh OBE is the founder of the New Look chain of high street fashion stores in the United Kingdom. He is the eldest brother of author and broadcaster Dr Simon Singh. He is a graduate of the University of Wales....
  
   Founder, New Look fashion chain
• Avtar Lit
  Avtar Lit
  Avtar Lit is the owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group, and was listed by AIM magazine as one of the "20 most powerful Asians in British media" in 2005, and said to have amassed a big personal fortune...
  
   Founder, Sunrise Radio
• Sanjiv Sidhu
  Sanjiv Sidhu
  Sanjiv Sidhu is the founder and chairman of o9 Solutions, a Dallas, Texas based company that offers financially astute business planning and decision making processes and software to multinational corporations. Mr...
  
  , Founder and President of i2 Technologies
  I2 Technologies
  i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• Gaurav Dhillon
  Gaurav Dhillon
  Gaurav Dhillon is the Chairman and CEO of SnapLogic, an enterprise application and data integration software development company that helps organizations connect business applications and Web services. An early investor in SnapLogic, Gaurav joined as CEO in 2009.Gaurav is also the chairman and...
  
  , Punjabi Indian Jat businessman and founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation
• Hemant Lamba
  Hemant Lamba
  Hemant Lamba is the recipient of the ‘Green Oskar’ award for his work on distribution of reliable and cheap solar devices in 12 Indian states. Lamba and his teammates successfully delivered affordable, reliable and renewable energy products , benefiting about 80,000 people. The Ashden Trust of...
  
  
• Bob Singh Dhillon
  Bob Singh Dhillon
  Bob Singh Dhillon is a Punjabi Indian-Canadian Sikh, property Multi-Millionaire businessman. His family comes from Tallewal in the district of Barnala Punjab, India. His grandfather left for Hong Kong for business reasons and set-up the North China Shipping Company to carry back between Japan. He...
  
  , Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
• Sabeer Bhatia
  Sabeer Bhatia
  Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.- Background :...
  
  , co-founder of Hotmail
  Hotmail
  Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...
  
  
• KP Singh,of DLF Universal.
• Naresh Goyal
  Naresh Goyal
  Naresh Goyal is an Indian businessman and founder Chairman of Jet Airways. He started operating Jet Airways in 1993. Following the 2005 IPO of Jet Airways, Forbes magazine declared him the sixteenth richest person in India with a net worth of $1.9 billion....
  
   of Jet Airways
• M S Banga
  M S Banga
  Manvinder Singh Banga is a senior partner at the private equity fund Clayton Dubilier & Rice. He was previously a senior executive at Unilever as the Global President for Foods, Home & Personal Care - running all the categories, and was the lead internal candidate for the CEO position...
  
  , Corporate Executive, Ex-CEO - Hindustan Lever, Director on Board- Maruti Udyog Limited
• Ajay Banga
  Ajay Banga
  Ajay Banga is the current president and chief executive officer of MasterCard.MasterCard announced on April 12, 2010 that Ajay Banga, previously MasterCard’s president and chief operating officer, had been named by the Board of Directors to serve as the company’s president and chief executive...
  
  , Corporate Executive, President & COO- Mastercard, Ex CEO- Citi Group- Asia Pacific
• Jessie Singh Saini
  Jessie Singh Saini
  Jessie Singh Saini, full name Jaswinder Singh Saini, is the founder of BJS Electronics and an American industrialist of Indian descent. Jessie is also a well known political donor in California and both Bill Clinton and Al Gore have paid visits to his house during their incumbencies as President...
  
  , Indo-American industrialist
• Avtar Saini
  Avtar Saini
  Avatar Saini is an internationally renowned microprocessor designer and developer. He holds several patents related to microprocessor design. He is also former director for Intel's South Asia division...
  
  , Former Director, India Operations of Montalvo Systems and Former Vice President of Intel

Artists

• Amrita Sher-Gil
  Amrita Sher-Gil
  Amrita Sher-Gil , was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.-Early...
  
  
• Sobha Singh
  Sobha Singh (painter)
  Sir Sobha Singh is a well known contemporary painter from Indian Punjab.-Early life:He was born on 29 November 1901 in a Ramgarhia Sikh family in Sri Hargobindpur, Gurdaspur district of Punjab. His father, Deva Singh, was in the Indian cavalry....
  
  
• Satish Gujral
  Satish Gujral
  Satish Gujral is an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist, graphic designer and architect. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1999....
  
  
• Manjit Bawa
  Manjit Bawa
  Manjit Bawa , born in Dhuri, Punjab, India, was an Indian painter .-Biography:Manjit bawa born in 1941 dhuri,Punjab.Bawa's older brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh...
  
  

Educators and Scientists

• Satish Dhawan
  Satish Dhawan
  Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist and a pioneer aerospace engineer who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States...
  
  
• Har Gobind Khorana Nobel Prize Winner
• Megh R. Goyal
  Megh R. Goyal
  Megh R. Goyal is an engineer and professor in Puerto Rico. He has been called the father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico.-Education:...
  
   Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico
• Abdus Salam
  Abdus Salam
  Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
  
   Nobel Prize Winner
• Sohail Inayatullah
  Sohail Inayatullah
  Sohail Tahir Inayatullah is a Pakistan-born political scientist and futurist who lives in Australia. He holds a number of academic positions:*Professor, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University...
  
   Australian professor, political scientist
  Political science
  Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
  
   and futurist
• Narinder Singh Kapany
  Narinder Singh Kapany
  Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian born American physicist known for his work in fiber optics. He was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue ....
  
  
• Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of political science
  Political science
  Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
  
  , University of Stockholm, and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
• Indu Banga
  Indu Banga
  Indu Banga is an Indian historian who specializes in the history of Punjab. She works at the Department of History of Panjab University, Chandigarh....
  
  , historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
• Avtar Saini
  Avtar Saini
  Avatar Saini is an internationally renowned microprocessor designer and developer. He holds several patents related to microprocessor design. He is also former director for Intel's South Asia division...
  
  , computer engineer & scientist, designer and developer of Intel Pentium Processor
• Pritam Saini
  Pritam Saini
  Dr. Pritam Saini was a journalist, literary critic and history scholar of Punjab. He served as Research Fellow at Punjabi University, Patiala in Indian Punjab and was also member of academic bodies such as the Punjab History Conference and Indian History Congress.- Literary and historical works...
  
  , English, Hindi Punjab & Urdu writer, historian & literary critic
• Subhash Saini
  Subhash Saini
  Dr.Subhash Saini is a senior computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He received a Ph.D from the University of Southern California and has held positions at University of California at Los Angeles , University of California at Berkeley , and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .He has...
  
  , Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
  NASA Ames Research Center
  The Ames Research Center , is one of the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration 10 major field centers.The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, near the high-tech companies, entrepreneurial ventures, universities, and other...
  
  , USA
• Sanjay Saini
  Sanjay Saini
  Dr. Sanjay Saini is a renowned radiologist at Harvard Medical School. He was in the news in New York Times in 2003 in relation to collaboration with offshore radiologists to provide health care in America....
  
  , Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
  Harvard Medical School
  Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
  
  
• Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini
  Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini
  Dr. Hargurdeep Saini, also known as Deep Saini, is a notable scientist and is a Vice-President of University of Toronto. Additionally, he is currently also the principal of the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus. Prof Saini, was previously the dean of the Faculty of Environment at the...
  
  , Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto
  University of Toronto
  The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
  
   at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Rashid Kausar
  Rashid Kausar
  A R Kausar , is a well known Pakistani Professor of Knowledge Management.-Early life:Dr. Kausar was born in Punjab, Pakistan. He enrolled at Karachi University in 1970, and completed Bachelor of Science with first position and very good grades. Thereafter, Dr. Kausar was awarded assistantship from...
  
  , Professor of Knowledge Management

Astronauts

• Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma
  Rakesh Sharma
  Wing commander Rakesh Sharma, AC, is a former Indian Air Force test pilot, and Cosmonaut aboard Soyuz T-11 as part of an Intercosmos Research Team...
  
  
• Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
  Ravish Malhotra
  Ravish Malhotra is a retired Air Commodore of the Indian Air Force.He became an Air Force test pilot, later stationed at the test center in Bangalore. He was also the Air Officer Commanding of Hindon Air Force Station near Delhi.In 1982, he was chosen to train for spaceflight in the Soviet...
  
  
• Kalpana Chawla
  Kalpana Chawla
  Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.-Early life:...
  
  

Bollywood
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:

Families

"The Kapoors - 1". See Kapoor family for details. Prominent members were / are

• Prithviraj Kapoor
  Prithviraj Kapoor
  Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...
  
  
• Raj Kapoor
  Raj Kapoor
  Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
  
  
• Shammi Kapoor
  Shammi Kapoor
  Shammi Kapoor was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s....
  
  
• Shashi Kapoor
  Shashi Kapoor
  Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...
  
  
• Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...
  
  
• Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...
  
  
• Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...
  
  
• Kareena Kapoor
  Kareena Kapoor
  Kareena Kapoor , often informally referred to as Bebo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. During her career, Kapoor has received six Filmfare Awards, among nine nominations, and has been noted for her performances in a range of film genres; these include her work from contemporary...
  
  
• Ranbir Kapoor
  Ranbir Kapoor
  Ranbir Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies.Making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya, for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, Kapoor went on to earn critical praise for his performance in Wake Up Sid...
  
  

The Kapoors - 2

• Surinder Kapoor
  Surinder Kapoor
  Surinder Kapoor was a Bollywood film producer and was President of the Film & Television Producers Guild of India from 1995 to 2001. His three sons, Boney, Anil and Sanjay, are also involved in the film industry. He was born in Peshawar, British India. His daughter, Reena, is married to Sandeep...
  
  
  
• Boney Kapoor
  Boney Kapoor
  Boney Kapoor is an Indian film producer and recently he became director of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited of Sahara India Pariwar....
  
  
• Anil Kapoor
  Anil Kapoor
  Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....
  
  
• Sanjay Kapoor
  Sanjay Kapoor
  Sanjay Kapoor is a Bollywood actor and producer.Son of film producer, Surinder Kapoor, he is the younger brother of actor Anil Kapoor and producer Boney Kapoor and brother-in-law of actress Sridevi...
  
  
• Sonam Kapoor
  Sonam Kapoor
  Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. Kapoor made her acting debut in the unsuccessful film Saawariya opposite newcomer Ranbir Kapoor, which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned her first commercial success in I Hate Luv...
  
  

The Kapoors - 3

• Jeetendra
  Jeetendra
  Jeetendra born Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and television producer...
  
   (Ravi Kapoor)
• Tusshar Kapoor
  Tusshar Kapoor
  Tusshar Kapoor is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor and brother of Ekta Kapoor. He studied at the University of Michigan and graduated with a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.Tushar made his debut with Mujhe kuch kehna hai alongside...
  
  
• Ekta Kapoor
  Ekta Kapoor
  Ekta Jeetendra Kapoor is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the Creative Director and Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company.-Biography:...
  
  

The Malhotras

• Premnath
  Premnath
  Premnath Malhotra was an actor in Indian films.-Personal life:Born in Peshawar in a hindkowan Punjabi family, his family moved to Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh after partition, he then had moved to Bombay....
  
  
• Bina Rai
  Bina Rai
  Bina Rai , , was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era of Hindi cinema. She is most known for her roles in classics such as Anarkali , Taj Mahal , and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film, Ghunghat .-Early life:Bina Rai born as Krishna Sarin...
  
  
• Rajindernath
  Rajindernath
  Rajendra Nath Malhotra was a comedian actor in Indian Hindi and Punjabi films.-Early life and family:His family was from Peshawar but settled in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He studied in college at Darbar College, Rewa where Arjun Singh and R.P...
  
  
• Prem Krishen
  Prem Krishen
  Prem Krishen is an Indian film actor, turned TV and film producer and the owner of Cinevista banner, known for TV series such as Kathasagar, Gul Gulshan Gulfaam and Junoon and more recently Dill Mill Gayye....
  
  

The Sahnis

• Balraj Sahni
  Balraj Sahni
  Balraj Sahni , born Yudhishthir Sahni , was a famous Hindi film actor. He belonged to a Punjabi Khatri family from Bhera now in Punjab, Pakistan...
  
  
• Bhisham Sahni
  Bhisham Sahni
  Bhisham Sahni भीष्म साहनी was a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas , a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India...
  
  
• Parikshit Sahni

The Anands

• Chetan Anand
• Dev Anand
  Dev Anand
  Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...
  
  
• Vijay Anand

The Chopras

• Baldev Raj Chopra
  Baldev Raj Chopra
  Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials...
  
  
• Yash Chopra
  Yash Chopra
  Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...
  
  
• Ravi Chopra
  Ravi Chopra
  Ravi Chopra is an Indian movie producer and director.Ravi has directed thus far the movies, Zameer , The Burning Train , Mazdoor , Dehleez , Baghban , and Baabul...
  
  
• Aditya Chopra
  Aditya Chopra
  Aditya Chopra is an Indian film producer, screenwriter and director. He is most known for directing his only three films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Mohabbatein , and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi...
  
  
• Uday Chopra
  Uday Chopra
  Uday Chopra is a Bollywood actor, producer, and assistant director.He is the son of Yash Chopra and brother of Aditya Chopra, and worked as assistant director on a number of his father's and brother's movies under the Yash Raj Films banner. In 1994 Chopra produced Yeh Dillagi starring Akshay...
  
  

The Deols

• Dharmendra
  Dharmendra
  Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...
  
  
• Sunny Deol
  Sunny Deol
  Sunny Deol often credited as "Action King of Bollywood" is an Indian film actor, producer and director. Deol was born to Bollywood actor Dharmendra. He has won two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He went to England to study acting...
  
  
• Bobby Deol
  Bobby Deol
  Bobby Deol is a Bollywood actor. Deol is the son of the acclaimed Bollywood actor Dharmendra and the brother of Sunny Deol, also a successful actor in the Mumbai based Indian film industry....
  
  
• Esha Deol
  Esha Deol
  Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is the elder daughter of Bollywood actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Abhay Deol
  Abhay Deol
  Abhay Deol is an Indian actor from Mumbai, India. He is an Indian film actor and producer whose family has a long history in the Hindi film industry. Deol has appeared in films such as Dev.D and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!. He is the nephew of Bollywood actor Dharmendra, and the cousin of Sunny Deol and...
  
  

The Dutts

• Sunil Dutt
  Sunil Dutt
  Sunil Dutt , born Sunil Balraj Dutt, was an Indian Hindi movie actor , producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government...
  
  
• Sanjay Dutt
  Sanjay Dutt
  Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...
  
  

The Tullis

• Rajendra Kumar
  Rajendra Kumar
  Rajendra Kumar was one of the most successful Indian Bollywood actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He also produced several films in the 1980s starring his son Kumar Gaurav....
  
  
• Kumar Gaurav
  Kumar Gaurav
  Kumar Gaurav is an Indian film actor and son of late actor Rajendra Kumar.-Career:He made his film debut with Love Story produced by his father and directed by Rahul Rawail which was a blockbuster. Many youngsters began to emulate him...
  
  

The Puris

• Madan Puri
  Madan Puri
  Madan Puri was an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films.-Early life:Madan Singh Puri was born in Nawanshahr, Punjab to S. Nihal Singh Puri and Ved Kaur...
  
  
• Amrish Puri
  Amrish Puri
  Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
  
  

The Khannas - 1

• Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
  
  
• Twinkle Khanna
  Twinkle Khanna
  Twinkle Khanna is an Indian film actress who has acted in Bollywood and Telugu films. She is the wife of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and the daughter of established actors, Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna...
  
  
• Rinke Khanna
  Rinke Khanna
  Rinke Khanna is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actor Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia and is the sister of Twinkle Khanna and sister-in-law of actor Akshay Kumar. She made her film debut with Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi , changing her screen name from Rinkle to Rinke...
  
  

The Khannas - 2

• Vinod Khanna
  Vinod Khanna
  -Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...
  
  
• Akshaye Khanna
  Akshaye Khanna
  Akshaye Khanna is a critically acclaimed Indian film actor who works in Hindi cinema. Known for his impeccable acting talent and flawless diction, Khanna has worked with the best names in Indian cinema.- Background :...
  
  
• Rahul Khanna
  Rahul Khanna
  - Early life and background :Khanna was born and raised in Mumbai. His father is Bollywood matinee idol & politician, Vinod Khanna, and his younger brother is Bollywood actor, Akshaye Khanna....
  
  

The Roshans

• Roshan
  Roshan (music director)
  Roshanlal Nagrath , better known simply by his first name Roshan, was a Bollywood film music composer. He was the father of the actor and film director Rakesh Roshan and music director Rajesh Roshan and grandfather of Hritik Roshan.-Early life and education:Roshan was born in Gujranwala, Punjab,...
  
  
  
• Rakesh Roshan
  Rakesh Roshan
  Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...
  
  
• Rajesh Roshan
  Rajesh Roshan
  Rajesh Roshan is a Hindi cinema music composer.-Personal life:Rajesh Roshan is the son of Hindi film composer Roshan and younger brother of film director and actor Rakesh Roshan...
  
  
• Hrithik Roshan
  Hrithik Roshan
  Hrithik Roshan is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.After having appeared in films as a child actor in the 1980s, Roshan made his film debut in a leading role in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai for which Roshan earned his Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut...
  
  

The Bedis

• Kabir Bedi
  Kabir Bedi
  Kabir Bedi is an Indian television and film actor. His career has spanned three continents including India, the United States and many European countries in three mediums: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story...
  
  
• Pooja Bedi
  Pooja Bedi
  Pooja Bedi is a former Bollywood actress and currently a television talk show host. She is the daughter of actor Kabir Bedi. She has also participated in Bigg Boss 5 and was voted out on 26th of November.-Biography:...
  
  
• Protima Bedi
  Protima Bedi
  Protima Gauri Bedi was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. In 1990, she established 'Nrityagram', a dance village near Bangalore.-Early life:...
  
  

The Kapurs

• Pankaj Kapur
• Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is also a trained dancer.Starting off his career by working in music videos and advertisements, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . Four years later, he made his acting debut in Ishq...
  
  

The Devgans

• Veeru Devgan
  Veeru Devgan
  Veeru Devgan is a stunt and action choreographer in Bollywood. He is also the father of actor Ajay Devgan and director Anil Devgan. He has choreographed fight and action scenes for over 80 Hindi films...
  
  
• Ajay Devgan
  Ajay Devgan
  Ajay Devgan , born Vishal Veeru Devgan on 2 April 1969, is an Indian film actor, director, and producer.He made his film debut with Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his performance in the film and for which he won a Filmfare Best Debut Award...
  
  
• Anil Devgan
  Anil Devgan
  Anil Devgan is the son of producer Veeru Devgan, brother of actor Ajay Devgan, and brother-in-law of actress Kajol. Anil Devgan has also tried his hand with directing, and has directed his brother in two of his films: Raju Chacha and Blackmail.- Filmography:...
  
  

The Oberois

• Suresh Oberoi
  Suresh Oberoi
  Suresh Oberoi is an Indian actor who is also father of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born in Quetta, now Pakistan and is a recipient of 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor...
  
  
• Vivek Oberoi
  Vivek Oberoi
  Vivek Oberoi is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Suresh Oberoi and Yashodhara Oberoi.- Early life :Vivek attended Mayo college in Ajmer. At an actors' workshop in London he was spotted by the director of New York University who took Vivek off to New York, where he completed his...
  
  

The Paintals

• Paintal
  Paintal (comedian)
  Kanwarjit Paintal, better known as Paintal, born in a Sikh family, started off as an Indian comic actor and moved on to teaching the art of acting. He has extensively worked not only in numerous movies but also television....
  
  
• Gufi Paintal
  Gufi Paintal
  Gufi Paintal is an Indian actor who appeared in some notable Bollywood movies in 1980s, as well as television serials and plays. His brother Kanwarjit Paintal and his nephew Hiten Paintal are also actors. He was born as a Sikh....
  
  
• Hiten Paintal
  Hiten Paintal
  Hiten Paintal is an Indian film and Television actor. He is the son of veteran actor Paintal and made his debut in the musical, ‘Tere Liye.’ He quit Television in early 2008 and since then has been working on a few films...
  
  

The Bachchans

• Teji Suri Bachchan
• Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
  
  
• Abhishek Bachchan
  Abhishek Bachchan
  Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....
  
  
• Shweta Bachchan Nanda

The Aroras

• Malaika Arora Khan
  Malaika Arora Khan
  Malaika Arora Khan , also known as Malaika Arora, is an Indian model, actress, television personality and former MTV VJ. She is one of India's top item girls...
  
  
• Amrita Arora
  Amrita Arora
  -Personal life and education:Arora was born in Chembur Mumbai to a Malayali mother, Joyce Polycarp, and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora. Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan....
  
  

Individual artists

• Amrish Puri
  Amrish Puri
  Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
  
  
• Anand Bakshi
  Anand Bakshi
  Anand Bakshi was a popular Indian poet and lyricist.-Early days:Anand Bakshi was born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, on 21 July 1930. His ancestors were from Kurree, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in Kashmir. His mother, Sumitra, died 1940, when he was 10...
  
  
  
• Achala Sachdev
  Achala Sachdev
  Achala Sachdev is an Indian film actress who started her career as a child. She later became known for mother and grandmother roles in Hindi films...
  
  
• Akshay Kumar
  Akshay Kumar
  Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...
  
  
• Amrita Singh
  Amrita Singh
  Amrita Singh is an Indian film actress.-Early life:Amrita is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana. Mohinder Kaur was the daughter of Sir Sobha Singh, who was a noted civil contractor, and made a substantial fortune during the building of New Delhi in the early decades of the 20th century...
  
  
• Aditya Pancholi
  Aditya Pancholi
  Aditya Pancholi is an Indian film actor working in Hindi Cinema. Aditya has also proved his worth in many villainous roles as well, the recent being Dum Maro Dum. His performance in Yes Boss and the double role in Jung was very well received.-Early life:He's the son of the filmmaker Rajan...
  
  
• Aryan Vaid
  Aryan Vaid
  Aryan Vaid is an Indian male model who won the Graviera Mr. India modelling pageant in the year 2000.-Career:Vaid is a qualified chef and a lifestyle columnist with The Hindustan Times. He has been actively involved with theatre and has done a few street plays at the Prithvi theatre in Mumbai...
  
  
• Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal , born 26 November 1972, is an award-winning Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films, as well as a fashion model.- Film career :...
  
  
• Arjan Bajwa
  Arjan Bajwa
  Arjan Bajwa is an Indian actor who has acted in Telugu and Hindi films.-Background:Born and brought up in Delhi, His father was the Deputy Mayor of Delhi - S. S Bajwa and his mother is a homemaker. Arjan has a Graduation degree in Architecture. He used screen name Deepak for the Telugu movies...
  
  
• Anushka Sharma
  Anushka Sharma
  Anushka Sharma is an Indian actress and former model who appears in Hindi films. In 2008, she was signed by Aditya Chopra for a three-film contract and made her screen debut in Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She later received acclaim for her role as Shruti Kakkar in Band Baaja Baaraat...
  
  
• Bindiya Goswami
  Bindiya Goswami
  Bindiya Goswami is a former Bollywood actress. She acted in Hindi films from the late 1970s to early 1980s.-Film career:...
  
  
• Bhumika Chawla
  Bhumika Chawla
  Bhumika Chawla is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Malayalam...
  
  
• Celina Jaitley
  Celina Jaitley
  Celina Jiya Jaitley is an Indian actress born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She appears in mainly Bollywood films. As a former beauty queen and model, she was crowned Femina Miss India Universe in 2001.-Early life:...
  
  

• Deepak Parashar
  Deepak Parashar
  Deepak Parashar is an India based model and actor.-Career:Parashar appeared in soap opera Kahiin To Hoga, and donned the "royal robes" of a Mughal badshah in the costume drama Chandramukhi....
  
  
• David Dhawan
  David Dhawan
  David Dhawan is an Indian film director. He has studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.-Career:Dhawan started off as an editor and then took the plunge into directing...
  
  
• Deepti Naval
  Deepti Naval
  Deepti Naval is an acclaimed Indian actress. She has acted in over 75 Hindi films, and most often worked in arthouse and independent films, known as parallel cinema in India.-Early life:Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India...
  
  
• Dara Singh
  Dara Singh
  Dara Singh Randhawa is a wrestler and Indian film actor. He was born in a Jat Sikh family of Punjabi background.He was a wrestler before he started acting in Hindi films in 1962....
  
  
• Deepa Sahi
  Deepa Sahi
  -Early life:Deepa Sahi was born in India in Dehradun. Her family later shifted to Canada but she continued to stay in India.-Early career:An alumnus of National School of Drama, Delhi, Sahi started off with a theater career, with strong Leftist leanings and social activism a core value of the...
  
  
• Divya Dutta
  Divya Dutta
  Divya Dutta is an Indian actress from Ludhiana, Punjab, India who appears in Hindi and Punjabi films.- Career :She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana...
  
  
• Gul Panag
  Gul Panag
  Gul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....
  
  
• Govinda
  Govinda
  ' and ' are names of Krishna, referring to his youthful occupation as a cowherd. He is regarded as the Supreme Godhead in the Vaishnava tradition and also by much of the pan-Hindu tradition...
  
  
• Gulshan Grover
  Gulshan Grover
  Gulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....
  
  

• Gracy Singh
  Gracy Singh
  Gracy Singh , is an Indian actress. She is best known for her role as Gauri in Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. She began her career touring with the dance group "The Planets" and her first acting role was in the television soap, Amanat...
  
  
• Gauri Khan
  Gauri Khan
  Gauri Khan is an Indian movie producer and the wife of Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, with whom she co-founded Red Chillies Entertainment, their film production and distribution company in 2002.-Early life:Gauri Khan is a Hindu of Chib Mohyal Brahmin origin, born in New Delhi, India and...
  
  
• I. S. Johar
  I. S. Johar
  Inderjeet s Johar , better known as I. S. Johar, was an Indian actor, writer, producer and director.-Early life:...
  
  
• Juhi Chawla
  Juhi Chawla
  Juhi Chawla is an Indian actress, film producer and television presenter.After being crowned as the winner of the Miss India beauty contest in 1984, Chawla pursued an acting career...
  
  
• Juhi Babbar
  Juhi Babbar
  Juhi Babbar is an Indian film actress and the daughter of actor Raj Babbar. Her brother Arya Babbar is also an actor. She was married to Bejoy Nambiar in 2007 after a two year courtship; the couple divorced in early 2009. She also has a half-brother, Prateik Babbar, who is also an actor.She made...
  
  
• Jimmy Shergill
  Jimmy Shergill
  Jasjit Singh Gill , popularly known as Jimmy Shergill , is an Indian actor.-Early life:Shergill was born in a Jatt Sikh family in Gorakhpur, India and studied there till 5th Grade in St. Paul's School. Then, his family shifted to Patiala...
  
  
• Kunal Kapoor
  Kunal Kapoor
  Kunal Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi cinema.-Career:Kapoor began his career as an assistant director on the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aks. He began his acting career training under theatre legend Barry John. He continued his theatre career with Motley, a theater group run by...
  
  

• Kamini Kaushal
  Kamini Kaushal
  Kamini Kaushal is a Hindi film and television actress, most noted for her roles in films like Neecha Nagar which won the 1946 Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and Biraj Bahu which won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955.-Early life:Kaushal was born to a botanist and professor at...
  
  
• Kanwaljit Singh
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies...
  
  
• Kirron Kher
  Kirron Kher
  Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...
  
  
• Karan Johar
  Karan Johar
  Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Television host. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and the...
  
  
• Lara Dutta
  Lara Dutta
  Lara Dutta Bhupathi is an Indian actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, and former Miss Universe.-Early life:Dutta was born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta and her mother is Jennifer Dutta...
  
  
• Mahek Chahal
  Mahek Chahal
  Mahek Chahal is a Bollywood actress and a Norwegian model of Punjabi Jat Sikh origin. Mahek made her Bollywood debut with the lead role in the movie Nayee Padosan . Mahek also featured in a item number in the movie Chameli . Mehek next performed in a Punjabi movie Dil Apna Punjabi...
  
  
• Mahie Gill
• Manoj Kumar
  Manoj Kumar
  Manoj Kumar is an award-winning Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry. He is known for acting in and directing films with patriotic themes, and has been given the nickname "Mr Bharat"...
  
  
• Mallika Sherawat
  Mallika Sherawat
  Mallika Sherawat is a former Indian model, now working as an actress in mainly Bollywood films. Known for her bold onscreen attitude, Sherawat has been frequently featured in the media as a sex symbol...
  
  
• Mangal Dhillon
  Mangal Dhillon
  Mangal Dhillon in an Indian actor and film producer. He was born in the village Wander Jatana near Kotkapura in the Faridkot district, Punjab.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Minissha Lamba
• Mukesh Khanna
  Mukesh Khanna
  Mukesh Khanna is an Indian television and film actor, best known for portraying strong, dynamic characters. He was born on 22 July 1951, in Mumbai, India. He came into the film industry in 1982 after graduating from Film and Television Institute of India. He rose to fame and is still best known for...
  
  
• Mandira Bedi
  Mandira Bedi
  Mandira Bedi is an Indian actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.She followed up her career in TV...
  
  
• Monica Bedi
  Monica Bedi
  -Early life:Bedi was born to Dr. Prem Kumar Bedi and Shakuntala on January 18, 1975 in a village named Chabbewal in the district Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Her parents migrated to Norway when she was 10 months old where they run a garment store. She has a brother Bobby Bedi. She went to school in Norway...
  
  
• Mona Singh
  Mona Singh
  Mona Singh is an Indian model and television actress, known for playing the leading role in Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin and winning many celebrity reality shows. She also appeared in a key role in 3 Idiots.-Early life:...
  
  
• Neha Dhupia
  Neha Dhupia
  Neha Dhupia is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen and winner of Femina Miss India 2002.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nargis
  Nargis
  Nargis Dutt , born Fatima Rashid but known by her screen name, Nargis, was an Indian film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. She made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna...
  
  
• Neetu Singh
  Neetu Singh
  Neetu Singh is an Indian Bollywood actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia. She played Roopa in the 1966 movie Dus Lakh and a dual role in the film Do Kaliyaan. Her other notable films were Waris and Pavitra Paapi.-Career:Neetu Singh made her debut as an actress in 1972 with...
  
  
• Navin Nischol
  Navin Nischol
  Navin Nischol was an Indian actor. He made his debut with the Hindi film Sawan Bhadon in 1970.-Early life:...
  
  
• Om Puri
  Om Puri
  Om Puri is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian films and art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films. He has received an honorary OBE.-Early life:...
  
  
• Om Prakash
  Om Prakash
  Om Prakash was an Indian character actor. He was born in Jammu as Om Prakash Chibber. He used to play the role of Kamla in the stage play by the famous Dewan Mandir Natak Samaj Koliwada. Starting his career in 1942, he was a popular supporting actor from the 1950s until the 1980s. He was one of...
  
  
• Poonam Dhillon
  Poonam Dhillon
  Poonam Dhillon is an Indian Hindi film, theatre and TV actress. She is best known for her 1979 film, Noorie, for her six films with Rajesh Khanna Red Rose, Dard, Nishaan, Zamana, Awam and Sohni Mahiwal , Samundar Saveray Wali Gaadi and Naam .- Early life :Dhall was born 18 April 1962 in Kanpur,...
  
  
• Prem Chopra
  Prem Chopra
  Prem Chopra is an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 400 films. He is famous for his soft spoken diction despite being a villain in most films.-Personal life and education:...
  
  
• Pran
• Parmeet Sethi
  Parmeet Sethi
  -Personal life and education:Parmeet was educated in Mumbai. He passed out of Sydenham college of commerce. He married Archana Puran Singh, a film and television actress, on 30 June 1992. They have two sons...
  
  
• Pooja Batra
  Pooja Batra
  Pooja Batra in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian actress.-Early life and background:Pooja Batra was born to Ravi Batra, an army colonel who was wounded in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. Her mother, Neelam Batra was a former Miss India participant in 1971...
  
  
• Pooja Bedi
  Pooja Bedi
  Pooja Bedi is a former Bollywood actress and currently a television talk show host. She is the daughter of actor Kabir Bedi. She has also participated in Bigg Boss 5 and was voted out on 26th of November.-Biography:...
  
  
• Priyanka Chopra
  Priyanka Chopra
  Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000. She is often referred to by the nickname "Piggy Chops", which was given to her by co-stars on the set of the film...
  
   
• Priya Gill
  Priya Gill
  Priya Gill is an Indian actress. She has acted in Bollywood, Tollywood, Malayalam and Punjabi film.-Film career:She began her Bollywood career with the ABCL production Tere Mere Sapne along with Arshad Warsi and Chandrachur Singh. She was known more for her Indian appeal and simple...
  
  
• Ruby Bhatia
  Ruby Bhatia
  -Introduction:Ruby Bhatia is a popular Indian television personality from Ajax, ON. She won the Miss India Canada contest in 1993. Ruby was a VJ in for Channel [V] and hosted BPL Oye! and was known for her hilarious pranks she played on unsuspecting commoners...
  
  
• Ranjeet
  Ranjeet
  Gopal Bedi is an actor in Indian films and television, born in Jandiala Guru near Amritsar . He has played mostly character roles, with roles as the villain dominating his over 200 Hindi films...
  
  
• Raj Babbar
  Raj Babbar
  Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...
  
  
• Rati Agnihotri
  Rati Agnihotri
  Rati Agnihotri is a veteran Indian actress. Her portfolio mainly includes films in Hindi-Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She was born to a Sikh family.-Film career:...
  
  
• Raveena Tandon
  Raveena Tandon
  Raveena Tandon is a National Film Award winning Indian actress, producer, and a former model. She has primarily worked in Bollywood films, though she appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films as well....
  
  
• Raageshwari
  Raageshwari
  Raageshwari Loomba is an Indian pop singer, actress, model, television anchor, former MTV and Chanel V VJ and a Yoga expert. She also entered in the fifth season of the reality television show Bigg Boss and was named 'Positive Raaga and the messenger of peace'-Biography:Raageshwari was born in...
  
  
• Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Rang De Basanti , for which he won Best Director awards at the 2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
  
• Rajat Kapoor
  Rajat Kapoor
  Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, writer and director born in 1961.Kapoor was born in Delhi, India. As a teenager he would watch films with his family and decided to become a filmmaker at the age of 14. He mainly focused on acting at first...
  
  
• Rajit Kapur
  Rajit Kapur
  Rajit Kapur is an Indian actor. He is particularly known for his award-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1996 film, The Making of the Mahatma. One of his most popular stints is his portrayal of Byomkesh Bakshi in a television series of the same name based on the character created by...
  
  
• Samir Soni
  Samir Soni
  Samir Soni is an Indian actor and a model who appears in Bollywood films.- Biography :Soni was born on 1970 to a Punjabi Hindu family in London, United Kingdom and attended school at St. Xavier's School, Delhi...
  
  
• Simone Singh
  Simone Singh
  Simone Singh, in Jamshedpur to a Sikh father and Bengali mother, is an Indian actress.She made her acting debut with the television series Sea Hawks followed by a small role in Swabhimaan, in 1995...
  
  
• Geeta Basra
  Geeta Basra
  Geeta Basra is an Indian actress who has appeared in only two Bollywood films. Basra was born to Punjabi Indian parents in Portsmouth on the south coast of England, but now resides in Mumbai. She has studied acting at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting School. She was first seen in the Emraan...
  
  
• Shiny Ahuja
• Suraiya
  Suraiya
  Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh was a singer and actress of the Indian films in the 40s and 50s, and was popularly known by her first name Suraiya..-Early life:...
  
  
• Simi Garewal
  Simi Garewal
  Simi Garewal is an Indian actress. She is known for her work in Mera Naam Joker, Siddhartha and Karz.-Early life:Simi Garewal was born in a Jatt Sikh family in Delhi, her father, J S Garewal served in the army rising to the rank of brigadier...
  
  
• Saeed Jaffrey
  Saeed Jaffrey
  Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab...
  
  
• Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor. He is notably known for playing vulgar comic and villainous roles. He is known for acting alongside comedian Kader Khan as his sidekick along with Asrani in over 100 films.-Early life:...
  
  
• Smriti Irani
• Sonu Walia
  Sonu Walia
  Sonu Walia is a Bollywood actress, winner of Miss India pageant and model.-Early life:She was a daughter of an Indian Army officer, in a Punjabi-speaking family in New Delhi...
  
  
• Sonu Sood
  Sonu Sood
  Sonu Sood is a former model and Indian actor who has acted in Hindi,, Telugu and Tamil films. A participant in the Mr. India contest, he has appeared in commercials for Apollo Tyres, Airtel etc. In Tollywood he is best known for his role as the antagonist, Pasupathi, in the film...
  
  
• Upasana Singh
  Upasana Singh
  Upasana Singh is a Punjabi film star who has worked in many Punjabi, Hindi and Gujarati films and have played special roles in Bollywood films as well...
  
  
• Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
  
  
• Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood.-Early life:Bali was born in a Mohyal family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, a Sikh. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.-Career:Bali became a star in the 1950s...
  
  
• Yogeeta Bali
  Yogeeta Bali
  Yogeeta Bali is a Hindi film actress. Bali was active in films in the early 1970s till 1985.- Early life :...
  
  
• Khursheed Bano
• Shyam
  Shyam (actor)
  Shyam was a Hindi film actor of the 1940s. He originally hailed from Sialkot and his full name was Sunder Shyam Chadha, but he grew up in Rawalpindi....
  
  
• Shyama
  Shyama
  Shyama was born Khurshid Akhtar in Lahore, British India on June 7, 1935 . She was a Bollywood actress. Her best known roles were in Aar Paar, Barsaat Ki Raat and Tarana....
  
  
• Bina Rai
  Bina Rai
  Bina Rai , , was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era of Hindi cinema. She is most known for her roles in classics such as Anarkali , Taj Mahal , and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film, Ghunghat .-Early life:Bina Rai born as Krishna Sarin...
  
  
• Urvashi Sharma
  Urvashi Sharma
  Urvashi Sharma is an Indian Bollywood actress & model, born in Delhi in a Hindu Family. She is of Indian ethnicity. She has appeared in numerous print and television advertisements and featured in music videos like Mika's Something Something and Atif's "Doorie". Her debut movie, Naqaab was...
  
  
• Veena
  Veena
  Veena may refer to one of several Indian plucked instruments:With frets*Rudra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music*Saraswati veena, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic musicFretless...
  
  
• Mumtaz Shanti
  Mumtaz Shanti
  Mumtaz Shanti was a famous movie star of the Bollywood yesteryears, she was very popular in the 40's and early 50's with hit movies like Basant , Kismet , Ghar Ki Izzat with young Dilip Kumar...
  
  
• Suresh
  Suresh
  Suresh is a Sanskrit word which means "Ruler of Gods"; from sur ‘god’ + īša ‘lord’, which is an epithet of the god Indra.It is commonly used as a synonym for the Hindu God Vishnu. It may also refer to Devendra or Shiva depending on which branch of Hinduism.Suresh is a frequently used name for...
  
  

Singers

• Mukesh
• Daler Mehndi
  Daler Mehndi
  Daler Mehndi , born August 18, 1967, is an Indian Bhangra pop singer.Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung as a playback singer for several Hindi movies...
  
  
• Mika Singh
• Labh Janjua
  Labh Janjua
  Labh Janjua is a bhangra / hip hop singer from India, who first became known after his bhangra song, Mundian To Bach Ke, was remixed by Panjabi MC in 2002, subsequently he has sung many Bollywood hits including, Jee Karda from Singh Is King...
  
  
• Mohd. Rafi
• Suraiyya
• Shamshad Begum
  Shamshad Begum
  Shamshad Begum is an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.Begum was born in Amritsar, Punjab. She was a big fan of K.L. Saigal and watched Devdas 14 times...
  
  
• Shailendra Singh
  Shailender Singh
  Shailendra Singh is an Indian playback singer. He sang several Hindi songs during the late seventies and the early eighties.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kundan Lal Saigal
  Kundan Lal Saigal
  Kundan Lal Saigal was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centered in Calcutta during Saigal's time, but is currently centered in Mumbai.-Early life:Saigal was born at Jammu where his father Amar Chand was a tehsildar at the...
  
  
• Mahendra Kapoor
  Mahendra Kapoor
  Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...
  
  
• Wadali brothers
  Wadali brothers
  The Wadali Brothers are Sufi singers and musicians from Guru ki Wadali in the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. Born into the fifth generation of musicians given to singing the messages of Sufi saints, the Wadali brothers dabbled in the most unexpected of professions before they became Sufi...
  
  
• Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur , was an Indian singer and songwriter. She sang mainly Punjabi folk-songs, where she is credited for pioneering and popularising the genre and later was known as the ‘Nightingale of Punjab’; she also sang some Hindi movie songs, between 1948-1952.In an illustrious spanning nearly six...
  
  
• Jaspinder Narula
  Jaspinder Narula
  Jaspinder Narula is a noted Punjabi singer and Bollywood playback singer, who shot to fame after the duet "Pyar to hona hi tha" with Remo Fernandes from the 1998 film Pyar To Hona Hi Tha for which she won the 1999 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Her other notable films are Mission Kashmir,...
  
  
• Sukhvinder Singh
  Sukhvinder Singh
  Sukhwinder Singh is a former Indian footballer and current manager. He is currently the coach of the India U-23 side and Pailan Arrows of the I-League. He formerly managed the Indian senior team and JCT FC...
  
  
• Sonu Nigam
  Sonu Nigam
  Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...
  
  
• Richa Sharma
• Tulsi Kumar
  Tulsi Kumar
  Tulsi Kumar is an Indian playback singer for Bollywood films.-Early life:Tulsi Kumar is the daughter of the late Gulshan Kumar and the sister of Indian film producer Bhushan Kumar.-Music career:...
  
  
• Bhupinder Singh
  Bhupinder Singh (musician)
  Bhupinder Singh is an Indian musician, chiefly a Ghazal singer and Bollywood playback singer.-Early life:Born in Patiala, Punjab to Prof Nattha Singh , a trained vocalist and his early music teacher. He was one of the 7 brothers and sisters...
  
  
• Himani Kapoor
  Himani Kapoor
  Himani Kapoor is an Indian singer and finalist of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005. She also hosted a show with Karan Oberoi on Zee TV called "Antakshari". She also competed in Star Plus's Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar....
  
  
• Neha Bhasin
  Neha Bhasin
  Neha Bhasin is an Indian singer-songwriter, performer, and TV hostess and was a member of the Indian pop girl group Viva!.-Biography:Neha Bhasin was born on November 18, 1982 in Delhi in a Punjabi Khatri family, India to Ashok Bhasin and Rekha Bhasin and has an elder sister and a younger brother...
  
  
• Meena Kapoor
  Meena Kapoor
  Meena Kapoor was a playback singer in Hindi cinema, who sang mainly during the 1940s and 1950s, singing hits such as "Rasiya Re Man Basiya Re" from Pardesi . She was a friend of the singer Geeta Dutt; the two had similar vocal styles....
  
  
• Anushka Manchanda
  Anushka Manchanda
  Anushka Manchanda is an Indian singer, model, an ex-Channel [V] -VJ and was a member of the Indian pop girl group Viva!.-Biography:...
  
  
• Taz (singer)
  Taz (singer)
  Tarsame Singh Saini aka Taz born 23 May 1967, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom), is a British singer, composer and actor of Indian descent. He is the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in 1996...
  
  , lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation
• Soni Pabla
  Soni Pabla
  Soni Pabla was an Indian-born musician who sang Punjabi songs and is considered one of the best Indo-Canadian singers of all time.Soni Pabla was born and raised in Bilaspur a village near Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He belonged to the Saini community of Punjab. Soni Pabla moved to Toronto, Canada...
  
  , Bhangra Singer
• Satinder Sartaaj
  Satinder Sartaaj
  Satinder Sartaaj , also cited as Satinder Sartaj, is an Indian Punjabi singer and poet. Since then his popularity has seen a constant surge among the Punjabi diaspora with his shows being held in many countries across the world,...
  
  , Punjabi Sufi Singer

Directors

• Yash Chopra
  Yash Chopra
  Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...
  
  
• Shekhar Kapoor
• Subhash Ghai
  Subhash Ghai
  Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...
  
  
• David Dhawan
  David Dhawan
  David Dhawan is an Indian film director. He has studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.-Career:Dhawan started off as an editor and then took the plunge into directing...
  
  
• Loveleen Tandan
  Loveleen Tandan
  Loveleen Tandan is an Indian film director and casting director. She is known as the "co-director: India" of the four time Golden Globe, seven time BAFTA Award and eight Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire , for which she shared a New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Director with...
  
  
• Karan Johar
  Karan Johar
  Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Television host. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and the...
  
  
• Harry Baweja
  Harry Baweja
  Harry Baweja is an Indian film director based in Mumbai and hails from Ludhiana,Punjab, India. He is married to Indian film producer, Pammi Baweja. His son, Harman Baweja made his debut in the film Love Story 2050.- Selected filmography :...
  
  
• Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...
  
  
• B. R. Chopra
• Abdur Rashid Kardar
  Abdur Rashid Kardar
  Abdur Rashid Kardar , often abbreviated as A.R. Kardar, was a pre-partition Lahore-born actor and later director. He is credited as establishing the film industry in the Bhati Gate locality of Lahore, British India ....
  
  
• Kunal Kohli
  Kunal Kohli
  Kunal Kohli is an Indian film director, producer and writer- Biography :Born in Mumbai,Kunal Kohli is a true Indian director. He is a "family man" as he claims on a video interview....
  
  
• Gulzar
• Satish Kaushik
  Satish Kaushik
  Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre.As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane...
  
  
• Prakash Mehra
  Prakash Mehra
  -Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...
  
  
• Raj Kanwar
  Raj Kanwar
  Raj Kanwar is a Bollywood film director, writer and film producer based in Mumbai, India.-raj kanwar and abhay kanwar:Director:* Mad * Sadiyaan * Humko Deewana Kar Gaye * Andaaz * Ab Ke Baras * Farz...
  
  
• Rajkumar Kohli
  Rajkumar Kohli
  Rajkumar Kohli is an Indian film director. He was famous for directing several popular Bollywood films in the 1970s and 1980s with ensemble casts such as Nagin , Jaani Dushman , Naukar Biwi Ka and Raaj Tilak...
  
  
• Suneel Darshan
  Suneel Darshan
  Suneel Darshan is an Indian filmmaker, film director, producer and writer who works in the Bollywood industry.-Biography:Darshan began his career in 1987 as a film producer. He produced the film Inteqaam which starred Sunny Deol and Anil Kapoor...
  
  
• Dharmesh Darshan
  Dharmesh Darshan
  Dharmesh Darshan is an Indian filmmaker, film director and writer who works in Bollywood.-Biography:He made his directional debut with Lootere , for which he also wrote the story. The film was produced by his brother Suneel Darshan, and was a hit at the box office.In 1996, he made his second film...
  
  
• J.P.Dutta
• Lekh Tandon
  Lekh Tandon
  Lekh Tandon has directed numerous Bollywood movies and Indian TV Serials. Recently he has acted in few movies such as Swades. He is brother of Urdu playwright Yograj Tandon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ravi Chopra
  Ravi Chopra
  Ravi Chopra is an Indian movie producer and director.Ravi has directed thus far the movies, Zameer , The Burning Train , Mazdoor , Dehleez , Baghban , and Baabul...
  
  
• Umesh Mehra
  Umesh Mehra
  Umesh Mehra is an Indian film director and Producer of Bollywood. He is the son of Bollywood producer F.C. Mehra. He was prominent in the 1980s and 90s with many Mithun Chakraborty starrers. He has also directed Akshay Kumar in a couple of movies...
  
  
• Raj Khosla
  Raj Khosla
  Raj Khosla was one of the top directors, producer and screenwriter in Hindi films from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was known for bringing in ‘neo-noir’ and style in Indian cinema since black & white times, and also as a "women's director" because he showcased actresses at their best. He is often...
  
  
• Rajiv Rai
  Rajiv Rai
  Rajiv Rai is an Indian film writer, editor and director. He is the son of the late producer Gulshan Rai. He has directed all this films under his father's production company Trimurti Films...
  
  
• Abhishek Kapoor
  Abhishek Kapoor
  Abhishek Kapoor is an Indian film actor, writer and director.He started his career as an actor in Uff!Yeh Mohabbat in 1996, opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa, and after two more films, he made his directorial début with Aryan in 2006, which despite getting him critical acclaim for...
  
  
• Vipin Handa
  Vipin Handa
  Vipin Handa is a known filmmaker, screenplay writer and a noted television personality, hosting and appearing on shows on the Indian television for the past 35 years.-Biography:...
  
  
• Arjun Sablok
  Arjun Sablok
  Arjun Sablok is an Indian film director. He is currently one of the film directors working under the Yashraj Films banner.Before his foray into film directing he made brief appearances in two of director Yash Chopra's films Vijay and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge .He made his directorial debut with...
  
  
• Goldie Behl
  Goldie Behl
  Goldie Behl, born Mumbai, India is an Indian film maker.Goldie Behl born 23 February 1975 in a Hindu Punjabi Family.He is the Son of a famous producer-director, Mr. Ramesh Behl, Goldie inherited his father’s penchant for cinema...
  
  
• Ravi Tandon
  Ravi Tandon
  Ravi Tandon is a film director/producer of Indian film industry. He directed a number of hit movies of Bollywood, the most popular among these is Khel Khel Mein...
  
  
• Siddharth Anand
  Siddharth Anand
  Siddharth Anand is an Indian film director. He is the son of film producer Bittu Anand who produced the Amitabh Bachchan hit, Shahenshah. Anand's grandfather was screenwriter Inder Raj Anand who wrote 120 films including Safar, Sangam and Ek Duje Ke Liye...
  
  
• [{Ankur Kapoor}]

Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)

• Mira Nair
  Mira Nair
  Mira Nair is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! , won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination...
  
  
• Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
  
• Gurinder Chadha
  Gurinder Chadha
  Gurinder Chadha , OBE, is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach , Bend It Like Beckham , Bride and Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging...
  
  
• Namrata Singh Gujral
  Namrata Singh Gujral
  Namrata Singh Gujral born 26 February 1976 is an American actress.She is of Sikh faith and Indian as well as Tibetan descent. She was born in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh and is a 1998 graduate from the University of West Florida.-Roles:...
  
  
• Meera Syal
  Meera Syal
  Meera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...
  
  
• Sanjeev Bhaskar
  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE is a British Indian comedian, actor and broadcaster, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No. 42...
  
  
• Parminder Nagra
  Parminder Nagra
  Parminder Kaur Nagra is an English actress of Indian descent. She came to international prominence in 2002 after starring in Bend It Like Beckham. She starred as Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the Emmy Award-winning American medical drama series ER for six years until the series ended on 2 April 2009...
  
  
• Saira Mohan
  Saira Mohan
  Saira Mohan is a Canadian fashion model of Indian, Irish and French heritage. Although successful for many years prior in New York City, she was launched into international fame in 2003 after Newsweek put her on the cover with the headline "The Perfect Face". She is actively involved with product...
  
  
• Purva Bedi
  Purva Bedi
  Purva Bedi is an Indian American actress. Although she was born in Chandigarh, she was brought up in Belgium and the United States....
  
  
• Waris Ahluwalia
  Waris Ahluwalia
  Waris Ahluwalia |Punjab]], India, c. 1975) is an Indian-American jewelry designer and actor. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of five, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is based in New York City but has also lived in Los Angeles and travels frequently to Rome,...
  
  
• Archie Panjabi
• Art Malik
  Art Malik
  Art Malik is a Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant-Ivory television serials and films...
  
  

History

• Charaka
  Charaka
  Charaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India...
  
  
• Pāṇini
• King Porus
• Shahi King Bhima
  Shahi
  The Shahi , Sahi, also called Shahiya dynasties ruled one of the Middle kingdoms of India which included portions of the Kabulistan and the old province of Gandhara , from the decline of the Kushan Empire in the 3rd century to the early 9th century...
  
  
• Dulla Bhatti
  Dulla Bhatti
  Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti Rajput, popularly known as Dulla Bhatti , was a famous legendary Rajput hero of the Punjab, who led a rebellion against the Mughal emperor Akbar...
  
  

Folklore

• Heer Ranjha
  Heer Ranjha
  For 1970 Hindi movie of same name and characters, see Heer Raanjha.Heer Ranjha is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. The other three are Mirza Sahiba, Sassi Punnun and Sohni Mahiwal. There are several poetic narrations of the story, the most famous being 'Heer' by Waris Shah...
  
  
• Mirza Sahiba
  Mirza Sahiba
  Mirza Sahiba is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. Heer Ranjha and Mirza Sahiba, including Sohni Mahiwal and Sassi Punnun are the four tales from Punjab, narrated in Punjabi...
  
  
• Puran Bhagat
  Puran Bhagat
  Puran Bhagat is the kulguru of jandials . Jandials are call there kulguru by name Bawa Sahaj Nath Ji . Jandials are get togather twice a year on Guru Purnima and worship the Kulguru...
  
  
• Sohni Mahiwal
  Sohni Mahiwal
  Sohni Mahiwal and is included in seven popular tragic romances from Sindh and Baluchistan. The other six are Momal Rano, Umar Marvi, LiLa Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Sassi Punnun and Dhaj, Ror Kumar commonly known as Seven Queens of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai...
  
  
• Sayful Muluk
  Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala
  Prince Saiful Mulook and Badi-ul- Jamal is a classic fable from the Hazara region of Pakistan. It tells the story of a Prince's love for a fairy; the name Saiful Malook refers to a lake in northern Pakistan. -Poetry:...
  
  
• Sassi Punnun
  Sassi Punnun
  Sassi Punnun ; is one of the seven popular tragic romances from Sindh and Baluchistan. The other six are Umar Marui, Sohni Mehar, Lila Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Momal Rano and Dhaj, Ror Kumar commonly known as Seven Queens of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai...
  
  

Muslim sufis

• Ali Hujwiri
• Baha-ud-din Zakariya
  Baha-ud-din Zakariya
  Baha-ud-din Zakariya was a Sufi of Suhrawardiyya order . His full name was Al-Sheikh Al-Kabir Sheikh-ul-Islam Baha-ud-Din Abu Muhammad Zakaria Al-Qureshi Al-Asadi Al Hashmi....
  
  
• Fariduddin Ganjshakar
• Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
  Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
  Alauddin Ali Ahmed Kaliyari also known as Sabir Kaliyari was a prominent South Asian Sufi Saint of Chishti Order in 13th century, a successor to Baba Fareed , and the first in the Sabiriya branch of Chishti Order....
  
  
• Rukn-e-Alam
  Rukn-e-Alam
  Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fath commonly known by the title Rukn-e-Alam commonly called Shah Rukne Alam was among the eminent Sufi saints from Multan, Pakistan....
  
  
• Shah Hussain
  Shah Hussain
  Shah Hussain was a Punjabi Sufi poet who is regarded as a Sufi saint. He was the son of Sheikh Usman, a weaver, and belonged to the Dhudha clan of Rajputs. He was born in Lahore...
  
  
• Mian Mir
  Mian Mir
  Baba Sain Mir Mohammed Sahib , popularly known as Mian Mir, was a famous Sufi saint who resided in Lahore, specifically in the town of Dharampura . He belonged to the Qadiri order of Sufism. He is famous for being a spiritual instructor of Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan...
  
  
• Ahmad Sirhindi
  Ahmad Sirhindi
  Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī was an Indian Islamic scholar from Punjab, a Hanafi jurist, and a prominent member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He is described as Mujaddid Alf Thānī, meaning the "reviver of the second millennium", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing...
  
  
• Sultan Bahu
  Sultan Bahu
  Sultan Bahu was a Muslim Sufi and saint, who founded the Sarwari Qadiri Sufi order.Sultan Bahu belonged to the Awan tribe, and was born in Anga, Soon Valley, Sakesar . Like many other Sufi saints of South Asia, Sultan Bahu was a prolific writer, with more than forty books on Sufism attributed to...
  
  
• Bulle Shah
• Waris Shah
  Waris Shah
  Waris Shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet, renowned for his contribution to Punjabi literature. He is best-known for his seminal work Heer Ranjha, based on the traditional folk tale of Heer and her lover Ranjha. Heer is considered one of the quintessential works of classical Punjabi literature...
  
  
• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
  Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
  Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh was a Sufi saint and a Punjabi/Pahari poet; he belonged to the Qadiri tariqah. He is especially renowned as the author of a book of poetry called Saiful Malūk. He was born in a village called Khari Sharif, situated near Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.-Lineage:He belonged to the Gujjar...
  
  
• Khwaja Ghulam Farid
• Shah Waliullah
  Shah Waliullah
  Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi was an Islamic scholar and reformer. He was born during the reign of Aurangzeb. He worked for the revival of Muslim rule and intellectual learning in South Asia, during a time of waning Muslim power...
  
  
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
  Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
  Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari , was an Indian Muslim scholar, religious and senior political leader from the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam's founding members...
  
  

Sikh

• Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji , also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib, was a spiritual leader and entrepreneur who introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the United States...
  
  
• Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
  Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
  Giani Sant Singh Maskeen a famous Sikh theologian and a Spiritual Teacher, was born in 1934 at Lak Marwat in District Bannu in present Pakistan. Giani ji was the only son of his parents and had lived at Alwar in Rajasthan for the last 57 years of his life...
  
  
• Nanua Bairagi
  Nanua Bairagi
  Nanua Bairagi , also known as Nanua Bhagat and Jamala Singh, was a renowned mystic, humanitarian and Sikh warrior of Punjab.. He belonged to Saini community of Punjab.-Nanua as a humanitarian and spiritual mentor of Bhai Kanhaiya:...
  
  , Sikh
  Sikh
  A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...
  
   mystic, martyr and poet
• Sharan Kaur Pabla
  Sharan Kaur Pabla
  Sharan Kaur Pabla was a Sikh martyr who was slain in 1705 by Mughal soldiers while cremating the bodies two older sons of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh Guru, after the battle of Chamkaur. She was from the village Raipur Rani which is 2 KM from the famous town of Chamkaur.Guru Gobind Singh...
  
   martyr who died while performing the last rites of Guru Gobind Singh
  Guru Gobind Singh
  Guru Gobind Singh is the tenth and last Sikh guru in a sacred lineage of ten Sikh gurus. Born in Patna, Bihar in India, he was also a warrior, poet and philosopher. He succeeded his father Guru Tegh Bahadur as the leader of Sikhs at a young age of nine...
  
  's older sons
• Labh Singh Saini
  Labh Singh Saini
  Sardar Labh Singh Saini , Akali politician and notable freedom figher, was born in 1895 and was the son of Sardar Dula Singh. He belonged to a Saini family in village Lasara of Jalandhar district. He spent his early youth at Quetta and passed his Matriculation examination from the high school...
  
   ((1895–1947) Freedom Fighter & President of Shiromani Akali Dal)
• Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura
  Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura
  Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura , was a Sikh missionary who rose to be the Jathedar or high priest of Sri Akal Takhat, Amritsar, was born the son of Bhai Ran Singh and Mai Atam Kaur, on 6 June 1905 at Chakk No...
  
   Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964-1980, highest spiritual & temporal authority of Sikhs

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu

• Bhai Gurdas
  Bhai Gurdas
  Bhai Gurdas was a Punjabi Sikh writer, historian, preacher and religious figure. He was the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib and a companion of four of the Sikh Gurus.-Early life:...
  
  
• Giani Gurdit Singh
  Giani Gurdit singh
  Giani Gurdit Singh was born in Mithewal village in the state of Punjab . He was considered one of the greatest contemporary writers in Punjabi and his book Mera Pind is regarded as a classic. It is now in its 10th edition and celebrates 50 years of publication this year...
  
  
• Bulleh Shah
  Bulleh Shah
  Bulleh Shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher.-Early life:Bulleh Shah is believed to have been born in 1680, in the small village of Uch, Bahawalpur, Punjab, in present day Pakistan. His father, Shah Muhammad Darwaish, was a teacher and preacher in a village mosque...
  
  
• Waris Shah
  Waris Shah
  Waris Shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet, renowned for his contribution to Punjabi literature. He is best-known for his seminal work Heer Ranjha, based on the traditional folk tale of Heer and her lover Ranjha. Heer is considered one of the quintessential works of classical Punjabi literature...
  
  
• Hashim Shah
  Hashim (Poet)
  Hashim Shah , b. 1735 d. 1843, was a Punjabi writer and Sufi poet, best known for his story Sassi Punnun . Hashim's Family came out from Hold Makka. When they came out in Punjab, India, they started living at Jagdev Kalan, the biggest village of tehsil Ajnala, Amritsar district...
  
  
• Mian Muhammad Baksh
• Shah Mohammad
  Shah Mohammad
  Shah Mohammad was a Punjabi poet who lived during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and is best known for Jangnama— a colossal work that gave an eyewitness account of the First Anglo-Sikh War that took place after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.- Controversy over native place :It was...
  
  
• Shardha Ram Phillauri
  Shardha Ram Phillauri
  Shardha Ram Phillauri was a Punjabi missionary, social reformer, astrologer, and writer, best remembered for his contributions to Hindi and Punjabi literature. He has been called the “father of modern Punjabi prose."...
  
  
• Nanak Singh
  Nanak Singh
  Nanak Singh , born Hans Raj, was a poet, songwriter and novelist in the Punjabi language. His writing in support of India's independence movement led the British to arrest him...
  
  
• Dhani Ram Chatrik
  Dhani Ram Chatrik
  Dhani Ram Chatrik is considered the founder of modern Punjabi poetry.He worked all his life to lift the status of the Punjabi language. He was the founding president of Punjabi Sabha...
  
  
• Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
  Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
  Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha was a Sikh lexicographer and encyclopedist. His most influential work, Mahan Kosh, inspired generations of scholars after him...
  
  
• Bhai Vir Singh
  Bhai Vir Singh
  Vir Singh was a poet, scholar and theologian and a figure in the movement for the revival and renewal of Punjabi literary tradition....
  
  
• Rajinder Singh Bedi
  Rajinder Singh Bedi
  Rajinder Singh Bedi was an eminent progressive Urdu writer, playwright and a Hindi film director, screenwriter and noted dialogue writer....
  
  
• Rahul Saini
  Rahul Saini
  Rahul Saini is an Indian author of contemporary fiction. His books have strong comic tones and present up-beat stories that portray the fun loving, free spirited and out going character of today’s Indian youth...
  
  
• Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  Shiv Kumar Batalvi
  Shiv Kumar 'Batalvi was a noted Punjabi language poet, who was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover's agony...
  
  
• Damodar Das Arora
  Damodar Das Arora
  Damodar Das Arora was a famous Punjabi poet, belonging to the Jhang District. He is famous for his poetic narration of the tale of Heer Ranjha, which is titled Heer Damodar. This was the first Punjabi language poem about this famous love-legend...
  
  
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Abid Tamimi
  Abid Tamimi
  -Introduction:Abid Tamimi is a Punjabi poet. He was born on 1st September 1955. His father's name was Noor Hussain Tamimi. His profession was banking. He was living in Chiniot Tehsil of District Chiniot, Punjab . He started poetry in year 1971...
  
  
• Sahir Ludhianvi
  Sahir Ludhianvi
  Sahir Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pseudonym...
  
  
• Shareef Kunjahi
  Shareef Kunjahi
  Shareef Kunjahi ) was a leading writer and poet of Punjabi. He was among the first faculty members of the Department of Punjabi Language at University of Punjab in 1970s and contributed to Punjabi literature as a poet, prose writer, teacher, research scholar, linguist, lexicographer and...
  
  
• Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border, with a career spanning over six decades, she...
  
  
• Gulzar, (Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner for the film Slumdog Millionaire
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...
  
  
• Jaswant Neki
  Jaswant Neki
  Dr. Jaswant Singh Neki Dr. Jaswant Singh Neki Dr. Jaswant Singh Neki (also known as (born 27 August 1925) is a leading Indian Sikh scholar, significant neo-metaphysical Punjabi language poet and former Director of PGI Chandigarh and Head of the Psychiatry Department at All India Institute of...
  
  
• Pash
  Pash
  Pash was the pen name of Avtar Singh Sandhu, an Indian poet...
  
  
• Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
  Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
  Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon is a British Contemporary Punjabi Writer who writes Punjabi short stories, novels and poetry....
  
  
• Harbhajan Singh
  Harbhajan Singh (poet)
  Harbhajan Singh was a Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator. Along with Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan is credited with revolutionizing the Punjabi poetry writing style...
  
  
• Munir Niazi
  Munir Niazi
  Munir Ahmad, better known as Munir Niazi, SI was an Urdu poet from Pakistan who also produced poetry in the Panjabi language.Niazi was born in Khanpur on 19 April 1928, a village near Hoshiarpur, India. He was from the Niazi tribe...
  
  
• Ajmer Rode
  Ajmer Rode
  Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction Vishva Di Nuhar on Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's Republic. Published by the Punjabi University in 1966, the book initiated a series of university publications on...
  
  
• Navtej Bharati
  Navtej Bharati
  Navtej Bharati lives in London, Ontario, and has published books in Punjabi and English. He was the publisher of Third Eye Press, whose books covered many genres....
  
  
• Jaswant Singh Kanwal
  Jaswant Singh Kanwal
  Jaswant Singh Kanwal is a novelist, short story writer and essayist of the Punjabi language. He was born in the village of Dhudike, Moga District, Punjab, India. and has lived there ever since. He was awarded the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award in the year 2007....
  
  
• Hafeez Jullundhri
• Mohammed Iqbal
• Sadat Hasan Manto
• Krishan Chander
  Krishan Chander
  Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer. He wrote mainly in Urdu, but was well-versed in Hindi and English....
  
  
• Ramanand Sagar
  Ramanand Sagar
  Ramanand Sagar was an Indian film director. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan television series, a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita.Sagar was born at Asal Guru-Ke near Lahore...
  
  
• Ustad Daman
  Ustad Daman
  Ustad Daman was a Punjabi poet and mystic. He was the most celebrated Punjabi poet at the time of the Partition of British India in 1947...
  
  

English

• Mulk Raj Anand
  Mulk Raj Anand
  Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K...
  
  
• Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country....
  
  
• Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India.-Work:After graduating from Panjab University, Thapar earned her doctorate under A. L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958...
  
  
• Rahul Saini
  Rahul Saini
  Rahul Saini is an Indian author of contemporary fiction. His books have strong comic tones and present up-beat stories that portray the fun loving, free spirited and out going character of today’s Indian youth...
  
  
• Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....
  
  
• Vikram Seth
  Vikram Seth
  Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
  
  
• Kartar Singh Duggal
• Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam
  Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border, with a career spanning over six decades, she...
  
  
• Ved Mehta
  Ved Mehta
  Ved Parkash Mehta is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis...
  
  
• Partap Sharma
  Partap Sharma
  Partap Sharma was an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary film-maker.- Background :...
  
  
• Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali
  Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...
  
  
• Susham Bedi
  Susham Bedi
  Susham Bedi is a leading South Asian author of novels, short stories and poetry, currently living in the United States. She is a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York...
  
  
• Deepak Chopra
  Deepak Chopra
  Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...
  
  
• Ahmed Rashid
  Ahmed Rashid
  Ahmed Rashid is a former Pakistani revolutionary, a journalist and best-selling author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manil Suri
  Manil Suri
  Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Neville Tuli
  Neville Tuli
  Neville Tuli was educated as an economist & developmental theorist at London School of Economics & St Catherine's College, Oxford. He returned to India in 1993 after 25 years in the West...
  
  
• Jaspreet Singh
  Jaspreet Singh
  Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef , and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He is a former research scientist who holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University...
  
  

India

• Kuldip Nayar
  Kuldip Nayar
  Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist and syndicated columnist, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator.-Early life and education:Nayar was born at Sialkot, Punjab, British India on 14 August 1923....
  
  
• Arun Shourie
  Arun Shourie
  Arun Shourie is an Indian journalist, author, intellectual and politician. He has been an economist with the World Bank , a consultant to the Planning Commission, India, editor of the Indian Express and Times of India and a minister in the government of India . He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay...
  
  
• Aroon Purie
  Aroon Purie
  Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of India Today and the Chief Executive of the India Today Group. He is also the Managing Director of Thomson Press Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of TV Today...
  
  
• Tarun Tejpal
• Prabhu Chawla
  Prabhu Chawla
  Prabhu Chawla is the Editor-in-chief of the Chennai-based The New Indian Express newspaper in India. Before, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today, India's leading weekly newsmagazine India Today Group. Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the...
  
  
• Vinod Mehta
  Vinod Mehta
  Vinod Mehta is the editor-in-chief of Outlook India.Mehta was born in Rawalpindi, in Pakistan. His family fled to India when he was three. He attended La Martinere school in Lucknow and the university there. He has published three books, including a biography of Sanjay Gandhi. He took over as...
  
  
• Nalini Singh
  Nalini Singh
  Nalini Singh is an Indian journalist. For the New Zealand author see Nalini Singh .She has been the anchor for several current affairs programs on Doordarshan, and is most known for her program, 'Aankhon Dekhi', on investigative journalism.-Early life:She is daughter of consumer rights activist,...
  
  
• Tavleen Singh
  Tavleen Singh
  Tavleen Singh is a noted Indian syndicated columnist and political reporter and writer.-Biography:Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and studied at the Welham Girls School. Later she did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969...
  
  
• Yoginder Sikand
  Yoginder Sikand
  Yoginder Sikand is an Indian writer-academic and the author of several books on Islam-related issues in India.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Veeresh Malik
  Veeresh Malik
  Veeresh Malik is an Indian businessman and writer. He is a veteran of the Indian Merchant Navy and a well-known journalist. He became famous through writing a column in The Asian Age newspaper and by anchoring a segment on the show Good Morning India on Star Plus from 1995 onwards. He also writes a...
  
  
• Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.-Education:...
  
  
• Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....
  
  
• Sadhu Singh Hamdard
  Sadhu Singh Hamdard
  Sadhu Singh Hamdard was a well-known freedom fighter and journalist of Punjab, excelling in both Urdu and Punjabi and an innovative poet, who carried in his name the psudonym 'Hamdard', "sharing with all the pangs of their hearts," "friendly towards all."...
  
  
• Pritam Saini
  Pritam Saini
  Dr. Pritam Saini was a journalist, literary critic and history scholar of Punjab. He served as Research Fellow at Punjabi University, Patiala in Indian Punjab and was also member of academic bodies such as the Punjab History Conference and Indian History Congress.- Literary and historical works...
  
  
• Ajit Saini
  Ajit Saini
  Ajit Singh Saini was an eminent and critically acclaimed writer of Punjab . He was associated with the Punjabi daily "Ajit" as its managing editor and columnist. He is remembered in Punjab both as a freedom-figher and an acclaimed writer and columnist. He was an officer in Indian National Army...
  
  
• Barjinder Singh Hamdard
  Barjinder Singh Hamdard
  Barjinder Singh Hamdard is the managing edior the Punjabi newspaper Daily Ajit. He is also ex-parliamentarian of India's upper house, Rajya Sabha. He is the son of famous Punjabi journalist and writer Sadhu Singh Hamdard.- References :...
  
  
• Swati Mia Saini
  Swati Mia Saini
  Swati Maria Saini, popularly known as Mia Saini, is a financial journalist and video host who has also interned for CNBC and also worked as a freelance reporter for TheStreet.com...
  
  
• Angela Saini
  Angela Saini
  Angela Saini is a British science journalist and author. Her first book Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World was published on 3 March 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK, and by Hachette in the Indian sub-continent in April 2011.She has been published in Science, Wired, The...
  
  

Pakistan

• Hameed Nizami
  Hameed Nizami
  Hameed Nizami was an eminent journalist from Pakistan. He was the founder of the Urdu newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt, and played an important role in the Pakistan movement.-Life:...
  
  
• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri
  Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India. He was the chief editor of the weekly Chattan.-References:...
  
  
• Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza
  Janbaz Mirza was a writer, poet, and journalist from the Indian subcontinent and later Pakistan. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He joined the Ahrar Party in 1932. After the partition of India, he started to...
  
  
• Ayaz Amir
  Ayaz Amir
  Ayaz Amir is a renowned Pakistani Journalist, and is a newly elected Member of National Assembly in Pakistan's Parliament.He is most famous for his columns in the newspaper Dawn. He is also known as a politician. His columns are critical of the Pakistan Army's role in politics throughout the...
  
  
• Najam Sethi
  Najam Sethi
  Najam Sethi is an award-winning Pakistani journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore-based political weekly. He was previously the editor of Daily Times and Daily Aajkal newspapers. He also hosts a popular political program in Urdu, called Aapas ki Baat, on GEO News...
  
  
• Khaled Ahmed
  Khaled Ahmed
  Khaled Ahmed , born 21 December 1943, is a best known Pakistani political analyst, his weekly column appears in Pakistan's newspaper The Friday Times. He regularly contributes to The Daily Times, both published in Lahore....
  
  
• Nadira Naipaul
  Nadira Naipaul
  Nadira, Lady Naipaul is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. She was born Nadira Khannum Alvi in Pakistan and was raised in Kenya. She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper, The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul...
  
  
• Hamid Mir
  Hamid Mir
  Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist and editor. He is also a news anchor, terrorism expert, and security analyst who regularly participates in international conferences. He is also known for his columns in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English newspapers and hosts a popular political talk show on Geo...
  
  

India

• Vinod Dua
  Vinod Dua
  Vinod Dua is one of the best known names of the Indian media. He has been the face of Indian television since 1974. He has seen and been associated withIndian television’s transition from a government controlled, black and white,...
  
  
• Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.-Education:...
  
  
• Satinder Bindra
  Satinder Bindra
  Satinder Bindra is a television news reporter, most recently working as a Senior International Correspondent with CNN based in New Delhi. He left the network in May 2007. He is a Canadian citizen of Indian origin...
  
  
• Monita Rajpal
  Monita Rajpal
  Monita Rajpal is a Canadian CNN International news anchor, based at the network's London office, where she anchors World One, along with her co-anchor Zain Verjee.-Career:...
  
  
• Daljit Dhaliwal
  Daljit Dhaliwal
  Daljit Dhaliwal is a British newsreader and television presenter.Dhaliwal is currently one of the news presenters for the Al-Jazeera English news service and broadcasts from Washington DC. Previously, she was the anchor chair of Worldfocus on PBS, which aired its last broadcast on 2 April 2010...
  
  
• Aniruddha Bahal
  Aniruddha Bahal
  Aniruddha Bahal is an Indian journalist, author, founder and editor of the online magazine Cobrapost.com. Born in Allahabad, Bahal worked as a journalist and editor for India Today and Outlook. In 1999, he along with Tarun Tejpal co-founded Tehelka, a news website...
  
  
• Barkha Dutt
  Barkha Dutt
  Barkha Dutt is an Indian TV journalist and columnist. She is currently the Group Editor, English News at New Delhi Television.Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of the Kargil War. She has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian...
  
  
• Amrita Cheema
  Amrita Cheema
  Amrita Cheema is a journalist of Indian Sikh origin. She has been working since 1999 as newspresenter with the German foreign-bound satellite TV broadcaster Deutsche Welle-TV. From 2005 to 2008 she spent some years with the Australian broadcaster SBS Television.- Education :Cheema is a Rhodes...
  
  
• Tavleen Singh
  Tavleen Singh
  Tavleen Singh is a noted Indian syndicated columnist and political reporter and writer.-Biography:Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and studied at the Welham Girls School. Later she did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969...
  
  
• Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra
  Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....
  
  

United States

• Alpana Singh
  Alpana Singh
  Alpana Singh is a sommelier and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois.-Career:Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21. In 2003, she passed the final exam to become the youngest woman ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier...
  
   An Indian-American of Punjabi origin, she is a sommelier
  Sommelier
  A sommelier , or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, commonly working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food matching...
  
   and the hostess of the show "Check, Please!" on the PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   station WTTW
  WTTW
  WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...
  
   in Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
  .

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

• Simran Bagga
  Simran Bagga
  Rishibala Naval , better known by her Industry name Simran, is an Indian actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. She debuted in Bollywood and acted in several Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V.I.P and her first Telugu film Abbai Gari Pelli in 1997...
  
  , Punjabi Hindu
• Sonia Agarwal
  Sonia Agarwal
  Sonia Agarwal is an Indian film actress and model. Having predominantly acted in Tamil films, she is probably best known for her performances as Divya...
  
  , Punjabi Hindu
• Jyothika Saravanan
  Jyothika Saravanan
  Jyothika Sadanah-Saravanan is a former Indian film actress who predominantly appeared in Tamil films. She also acted in a few Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. She gained critical acclaim for her performances in Kushi, Perazhagan, Chandramukhi and Mozhi, winning one Filmfare and three...
  
  , Punjabi Muslim

Models

• Humaima Abbasi
  Humaima Abbasi
  Humaima Malick is a Pakistani television actress and model. She first walked the runway for fashion designer Deepak Perwani. She was only fourteen years old at that time. She has worked in different drama serials and made her film debut in 2011 with Shoaib Mansoor's Bol.She was previously married...
  
  
• Iman Ali
  Iman Ali
  Iman Ali is a Pakistani actress and model.She is the second daughter of television/film actor Abid Ali with his first wife, Humaira Ali. She has two sisters, Maryam and Rahma Ali and both are actresses....
  
  
• Kuljeet Randhawa
  Kuljeet Randhawa
  Kuljeet Randhawa was an Indian actress and model. The former Gladrags model was best known for her role in the Kohinoor-series. Randhawa was born on 1 January 1976 in Ranigangh in West Bengal...
  
  
• Jesse Randhawa
  Jesse Randhawa
  Jesse Randhawa is an Indian model and actress.-Early life:Jasmeet Kaur Randhawa, a.k.a. Jesse Randhawa, was born on August 11, 1975 in jaipur to Mehar and narinder singh randhawa, and li. She belongs to a Jat Sikh family of the Randhawa Gotra...
  
  , a Bollywood model
• Jia Ali
  Jia Ali
  Jia Ali is a Pakistani model and an actress. Born in 1972. Coming from a Punjabi Christian family, Ali began her career at the age of nineteen when she was discovered while working at a Pakistani salon....
  
  
• Manmeet Singh
  Manmeet Singh
  Manmeet Singh is an Indian actor and model.-Early life:He was born in July 1969 in Haldawani, Nainital. He is the son of S. Ajit Singh Sawhney who was an Amritdhari Sikh. He had his Khande di Pahul ceremony when he was in college in 1988. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communcations from...
  
  
• Zara Sheikh
  Zara Sheikh
  Zara Sheikh is a Pakistani model, actress and singer. She began her career through an ad campaign for Mobilink Jazz, working as a full-time model before making her debut on the cinema-screen....
  
  

Classical

• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
• Kamal Heer
  Kamal Heer
  -Compilations:-Music videos:-Videography:-Concerts/Tours:-Other:-Awards and nominations:-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris is an award-winning Indian Punjabi folk/pop singer. Manmohan Waris was born in Halluwal, District Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He is the elder brother of Sangtar & Kamal Heer...
  
  
• Sangtar
  Sangtar
  Sangtar Heer, more commonly known as just Sangtar, is a Punjabi singer, music composer, songwriter and poet. He has written songs and made music for many singers such as Kamal Heer, Manmohan Waris and Debi Makhsoospuri...
  
  
• Allah Rakha
  Allah Rakha
  Allah Rakha may refer to:* Alla Rakha, tabla player from India* Allah Rakha , sarangi player from Pakistan* A. R. Rahman, Indian film music composer...
  
  
• Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Zakir Hussain
  Zakir Hussain (musician)
  Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...
  
  

Music Directors Bollywood

• Roshan
  Roshan
  In Sanskrit Roshan means light particularly the brightness but then its usually referred as light Roshan is also a gotra in the Khatri community in India that is often used as a family name...
  
  
• O. P. Nayyar
  O. P. Nayyar
  Omkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian film music director and composer born in Lahore, India, now in modern day Pakistan. He was particularly acclaimed for his peppy numbers.-Career:...
  
  
• Madan Mohan
  Madan Mohan
  Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...
  
  
• Vinod
  Vinod
  Vinod is a male first name used in India. Vinod means Happy or Joyful in Sanskrit. In Hindi , Tamil and other Indian languages, this word is taken as such with the same meaning....
  
  
• Shyam Sunder
• Ghulam Haider
  Ghulam Haider
  Ghulam Haider was an early film music composer who worked both in India and Pakistan. Ghulam Haider was born in Hyderabad, Sind in 1908.-Erly Life:...
  
  
• Jaidev
  Jaidev
  Jaidev Hindi:जयदेव वर्मा , was a music composer in Bollywood films, most known for his work in films: Hum Dono , Reshma Aur Shera , Prem Parbat and Gharonda ....
  
  
• Khayyam
  Khayyam
  Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer.Omar Khayyam or Khayyam or may also refer to:* Khayyam, Iran* Mohammed Zahur Khayyam , commonly credited as 'Khayaam', Indian music composer...
  
  
• Uttam Singh
  Uttam Singh
  Uttam Singh is an Indian musician. He has worked as a violinist, music arranger and music director for many Bollywood films.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Anand Raj Anand
  Anand Raj Anand
  Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...
  
  

Classical

• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
• Kamal Heer
  Kamal Heer
  -Compilations:-Music videos:-Videography:-Concerts/Tours:-Other:-Awards and nominations:-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris is an award-winning Indian Punjabi folk/pop singer. Manmohan Waris was born in Halluwal, District Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He is the elder brother of Sangtar & Kamal Heer...
  
  
• Sangtar
  Sangtar
  Sangtar Heer, more commonly known as just Sangtar, is a Punjabi singer, music composer, songwriter and poet. He has written songs and made music for many singers such as Kamal Heer, Manmohan Waris and Debi Makhsoospuri...
  
  
• Allah Rakha
  Allah Rakha
  Allah Rakha may refer to:* Alla Rakha, tabla player from India* Allah Rakha , sarangi player from Pakistan* A. R. Rahman, Indian film music composer...
  
  
• Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Zakir Hussain
  Zakir Hussain (musician)
  Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...
  
  

Bollywood

• Uttam Singh
  Uttam Singh
  Uttam Singh is an Indian musician. He has worked as a violinist, music arranger and music director for many Bollywood films.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Suraiya
  Suraiya
  Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh was a singer and actress of the Indian films in the 40s and 50s, and was popularly known by her first name Suraiya..-Early life:...
  
  
• K.L. Saigal
• Shamshad Begum
  Shamshad Begum
  Shamshad Begum is an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.Begum was born in Amritsar, Punjab. She was a big fan of K.L. Saigal and watched Devdas 14 times...
  
  
• Mohammed Rafi
  Mohammed Rafi
  Mohammad Rafi , was an Indian playback singer whose career spanned four decades. He was awarded National Award and 6 Filmfare Awards. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri awarded by the Government of India....
  
  
• Mahendra Kapoor
  Mahendra Kapoor
  Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...
  
  
• Madan Mohan
  Madan Mohan
  Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...
  
  
• Sukhwinder Singh
  Sukhwinder Singh
  Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...
  
  
• Anu Malik
  Anu Malik
  Anu Malik , born Anwar Sardaar Malik, is a famous music director in the Hindi film industry. Son of veteran music director Sardar Malek, Anu Malik made his debut as a music composer in the year 1977. After a considerable period of struggle, the 90's welcomed Anu with hits like 'Phir Teri Kahani...
  
  
• Shailender Singh
  Shailender Singh
  Shailendra Singh is an Indian playback singer. He sang several Hindi songs during the late seventies and the early eighties.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anand Raj Anand
  Anand Raj Anand
  Anand Raj Anand is an Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.-Early life:Anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers...
  
  
• Noor Jehan
  Noor Jehan
  Noorjehan or Noorjehan was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai who was a legendary singer and actress in British India and Pakistan. Her career spanned seven decades...
  
  

Ghazals

• Anup Jalota
  Anup Jalota
  Anup Jalota is an Indian singer/musician, best known for his performances in the Indian musical form, the bhajan and the Urdu form of poetry: ghazal.He is popularly known as the Bhajan Samraat .-Early life:...
  
  
• Ghulam Ali
  Ghulam Ali
  USTAAD Ghulam Ali is a Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala gharana. He is not to be confused with the Indian singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan or Chhote Ghulam Ali, who is another Pakistani singer in the Qual Bachon Gharana....
  
  
• Jagjit Singh

India

• Honey Singh
  Honey Singh
  Honey Singh evolved as a highly successful Rapper and Music Producer. He started as a Session and Recording Musician and was able to earn a quick reputation as one of the Music Finest Talents. His magnetic attitude and positive personality provided him energy to work with some of the industry's...
  
  
• Jagmeet Bal
  Jagmeet Bal
  Jagmeet Bal born December 13, 1972 is a popular music video director in India who is known for his traditional and religious Punjabi music videos.-Biography:...
  
  
• Asa Singh Mastana
  Asa Singh Mastana
  Asa Singh Mastana was a Punjabi musician and singer, best known for lending his voice to the hit Bollywood film Heer...
  
  
• Surinder Shinda
  Surinder Shinda
  Surinder Shinda is an Indian singer of bhangra music with traditional Punjabi roots, who is considered a "grandfather of modern Punjabi music", and has been described as "legendary". He has had numerous hit songs including Putt Jattan De, Truck Billiya, Balbiro Bhabhi, Kaher Singh Di Mout and...
  
  
• Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur , was an Indian singer and songwriter. She sang mainly Punjabi folk-songs, where she is credited for pioneering and popularising the genre and later was known as the ‘Nightingale of Punjab’; she also sang some Hindi movie songs, between 1948-1952.In an illustrious spanning nearly six...
  
  
• Kuldeep Manak
• Amar Singh Chamkila
  Amar Singh Chamkila
  Amar Singh Chamkila was a controversial Punjabi singer, songwriter, and musician. His detractors lamented the vulgarity in his songs while his fans relished their sensual appeal. He was also among the major Punjabi live stage performers or Akhara singers...
  
  
• Gurdas Mann
• Malkit Singh
  Malkit Singh
  Malkit Singh MBE born in 1962 in village Hussainpur, Jalandhar, and raised in Nakodar, Jalandhar, Punjab. He is a famous foreign based Punjabi bhangra singer. Malkit Singh has become the first Punjabi singer to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London with the award of...
  
  
• Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris
  Manmohan Waris is an award-winning Indian Punjabi folk/pop singer. Manmohan Waris was born in Halluwal, District Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He is the elder brother of Sangtar & Kamal Heer...
  
  
• Kamal Heer
  Kamal Heer
  -Compilations:-Music videos:-Videography:-Concerts/Tours:-Other:-Awards and nominations:-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Daler Mehndi
  Daler Mehndi
  Daler Mehndi , born August 18, 1967, is an Indian Bhangra pop singer.Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung as a playback singer for several Hindi movies...
  
  
• Surjit Bindrakhia
  Surjit Bindrakhia
  Surjit Bindrakhia 15 April 1962 – 17 November 2003 was a Punjabi Bhangra singer. He was known for his hekh, in which he sings a note continuously in one breath. His hits include Dupatta Tera Satrang Da, Bas Kar Bas Kar, Tera Yaar Bolda, and Jatt Di Pasand. Surjit is considered to have one...
  
  
• Mel Mahal
• Babbu Mann
• Balkar Sidhu
• Lehmber Hussainpuri
  Lehmber Hussainpuri
  Lehmber Hussainpuri in a Jatt Sikh family. He is a popular bhangra singer in India, UK, US, and Canada.-Career:Hussainpuri first appeared onto the mainstream bhangra scene in 2001 through Mukthar Sahota on a track titled Sanu Sohni Lagdi. His next song was the all-time classic Das Ja on the album...
  
  
• Hans Raj Hans
  Hans Raj Hans
  Hans Raj Hans is an Indian Punjabi language singer.Early lifeHans was born in Shafipur, a village near Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He is the second son of Late Sardar Arjan Singh Ji and Mata Ajit Kaur Ji . Hans had no musical history in his family, yet he began singing at a young age. Hans...
  
  
• Sukhwinder Singh
  Sukhwinder Singh
  Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...
  
  
• Jaspinder Narula
  Jaspinder Narula
  Jaspinder Narula is a noted Punjabi singer and Bollywood playback singer, who shot to fame after the duet "Pyar to hona hi tha" with Remo Fernandes from the 1998 film Pyar To Hona Hi Tha for which she won the 1999 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Her other notable films are Mission Kashmir,...
  
  
• Kulwinder Dhillon
  Kulwinder Dhillon
  Kulwinder Dhillon was an award-winning, internationally famous popular Punjabi Indian singer. He belonged to the village of Pandori Ladha Singh near Mahilpur in Hoshiarpur district. He died at the age of 32 in a car accident on 19 March 2006, on the Phagwara-Banga road, near Behram village, Punjab...
  
  
• Bombay Rockers
  Bombay Rockers
  Bombay Rockers is a Danish/Indian band, popular in India. Their debut album Introducing has gone five times platinum with sales of over 100,000 albums.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ashok Masti
• Diljit Dosanjh
  Diljit Dosanjh
  Diljit Dosanjh is a Punjabi singer. Born in the village of Dosanjh Kalan in Punjab, India.- Career :Diljit debuted with his album Ishq Da Uda Ada. It was released by T-Series...
  
  
• Amrinder Gill
  Amrinder Gill
  -Career:Born and raised in village Boorchand Amritsar, Punjab, Amrinder Gill has become a firm favorite with the new generation of Punjabi music fans with his laid back style, up-market video and catchy Punjabi pop tracks, while having a hold over Desi lovers with his range of emotional songs...
  
  
• Ravinder Grewal
  Ravinder Grewal
  -Ravinder Grewal:Ravinder Grewal is a male Punjabi singer. He comes from the Gujjarwal village in Ludhiana district of Punjab, India, and Grewal is the surname of the Jatt Sikh cummunity in Punjab....
  
  
• Shingara Singh
  Shingara Singh
  Shingara Singh is a Punjabi singer and freelance radio/television presenter living in Leicester.He began his career by singing in the group called Shingar. He is most famous for the song "Accident Ho Gayi", 1990. He then went to work on Sabras Radio followed by local appearances on Vaisakhi Radio...
  
  
• Harshdeep Kaur
  Harshdeep Kaur
  Harshdeep Kaur is an Indian playback singer known for her Sufi songs.-Biography:Harshdeep Kaur was born on 16 December 1986 in a Sikh family in Delhi and inherited music from her father, Savinder Singh, who owns a factory of musical instruments. Apart from studying, she started learning music at...
  
  
• Sukhbir
• Labh Janjua
  Labh Janjua
  Labh Janjua is a bhangra / hip hop singer from India, who first became known after his bhangra song, Mundian To Bach Ke, was remixed by Panjabi MC in 2002, subsequently he has sung many Bollywood hits including, Jee Karda from Singh Is King...
  
  
• Sukhshinder Shinda
  Sukhshinder Shinda
  Sukshinder Shinda is a bhangra record producer and singer–songwriter. Since releasing his first professional recording in 1993, Dhol Beat Ek, Shinda has produced or collaborated on more than 200 albums, including all of Jazzy B's releases and the majority of Amrinder Gill's...
  
  
• Bally Sagoo
  Bally Sagoo
  Bally Sagoo is a British Asian musician and DJ who was born in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi, India, but grew up in Birmingham, England, in a predominantly black neighbourhood, influenced by disco, rap and Motown music. In an interview "Re-mixing Identities: "Off" The Turn-Table," Bally said:"Indian music...
  
  
• Apache Indian
• Channi Singh
  Channi Singh
  Channi Singh is the godfather of bhangra music in the Western World. Channi is the founder, lead singer, producer, director of Alaap. He came from Malerkotla, Punjab to the UK in 1975 and gradually started the popularity of Punjabi music among the Punjabi youth in the UK, forming the Alaap group in...
  
  
• Panjabi MC
  Panjabi MC
  Rajinder Singh Rai , better known by his stage name Panjabi MC is a British Indian musician.-Career:...
  
  
• Jay Sean
• Hard Kaur
  Hard Kaur
  Hard Kaur , also known as Hardkaur, is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer, as well as playback singer in Hindi films; she is the first female Indian rapper -Early life:...
  
  
• Rishi Rich
  Rishi Rich
  Rishpal Singh Rekhi better known by his stage name Rishi Rich is a British Indian music producer born in Croydon, England and based in London...
  
  
• Juggy D
  Juggy D
  Jagwinder Singh Dhaliwal, better known by his stage name, Juggy D, is a British Indian singer from Southall, London, England.-Music:...
  
  
• Taz
  Taz (singer)
  Tarsame Singh Saini aka Taz born 23 May 1967, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom), is a British singer, composer and actor of Indian descent. He is the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in 1996...
  
  
• B21
• Dr. Zeus
• Harbhajan Mann
  Harbhajan Mann
  Harbhajan Mann is a Punjabi singer and actor. Although not known much for his singing he soon became a Punjabi all rounder star in the entertainment industry. He got spotlight in Punjabi music industry with his astonishing performance and miraculous voice in "Husn Jawani"...
  
  
• Jazzy B
  Jazzy B
  Jaswinder Singh Bains, more popularly known as Jazzy B, is a Punjabi language bhangra singer-songwriter. He was born on April 1, 1975 in Durgapur, Nawanshahr, Punjab, India. When he was 5 years old, his family moved to Vancouver, Canada. He has released 12 studio albums, including two religious ones...
  
  
• Miss Pooja
• H-Dhami
  H-Dhami
  Hartinder Dhami better known as H-Dhami is a successful British-Indian bhangra act signed in 2007 to Rishi Rich Productions , a joint partnership between Rishi Rich and entertainment entrepreneur Waleed Jahangir...
  
  

Pakistan

• Inayat Hussain Bhatti
  Inayat Hussain Bhatti
  Inayat Hussain Bhatti was a Pakistani singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature.- History :...
  
  
• Abrar-ul-Haq
  Abrar-ul-Haq
  Abrar-ul-Haq is a Pakistani pop, bhangra and folk singer. On his first album "Billo De Ghar" his name appears as simply "Abrar". Before becoming a singer, he was a geography teacher at the Aitchison College in Lahore.- Life :Abrar has kept the year of his birth a secret, so as to not reveal his age...
  
  
• Alam Lohar
  Alam Lohar
  Muhammad Alam Lohar was a prominent Punjabi folk music singer of Pakistan.He died in 1979 in an accident. He is also credited with popularizing the term and song Jugni.-Early life:...
  
  
• Arif Lohar
  Arif Lohar
  Arif Lohar is a Pakistani folk singer. He usually sings with native musical instrument resembling tongs . His folk music is representative of traditional folk heritage of the Punjab...
  
  
• malkoo
  Malkoo
  Malkoo born as Mohammad Ashraf Malik in Sargodha, Pakistan is a pop, bhangra and folk singer. He is best known for the song "Kala Jora Pa", which was a hit in Pakistan.-Life:...
  
  
• Naseebo Lal
  Naseebo Lal
  Naseebo Lal is a Pakistani Punjabi singer who is known for her songs in Pakistan and India.Lal has sung for many Lollywood movies and is known for her brilliant voice.Unlike Reshman, Naseebo’s voice had the dexterity to be a mainstream film voice...
  
  
• Imran Khan (singer)
  Imran Khan (singer)
  Imran Khan is a Dutch-born Punjabi singer of Pakistani origin who gained success after the release of his first single "Ni Nachleh" in 2007. His debut album Unforgettable was released on 27 July 2009.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kashif
  Kashif
  Kashif is an Arabic word, commonly used as a male given name in the Muslim world. Its meaning is close to the English words 'revealer', 'discoverer', 'uncoverer' or 'pioneer'....
  
  
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
• Shazia Manzoor
• Talib Hussain Dard
  Talib Hussain Dard
  Talib Hussain Dard is a Pakistani folk singer of Punjabi and Saraiki languages in Jhang, Punjab. Talib Dard had released many albums of His singing songs...
  
  

India

• Amrinder Gill
  Amrinder Gill
  -Career:Born and raised in village Boorchand Amritsar, Punjab, Amrinder Gill has become a firm favorite with the new generation of Punjabi music fans with his laid back style, up-market video and catchy Punjabi pop tracks, while having a hold over Desi lovers with his range of emotional songs...
  
  
• Baba Sehgal
  Baba Sehgal
  Baba Sehgal, a Khatri Sikh, is an Indian rapper and actor. Brought up in Lucknow, he was famous in the mid 1990s. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon, and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India...
  
  
• Rabbi Shergill
  Rabbi Shergill
  Rabbi Shergill in Jatt Sikh family is an Indian musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jaana"...
  
  
• Mika Singh
• Vikas Bhalla
  Vikas Bhalla
  Vikas Bhalla is an Indian actor and singer, who is best known for his role in the TV serial, Shanno Ki Shaadi, which aired on STAR Plus and Tum Bin Jaaon Kahan.-Early life and education:...
  
  

Pakistan

• Ali Azmat
  Ali Azmat
  Ali Azmat is a Ali Azmat is a...
  
  
• Ali Haider
  Ali Haider
  Ali Haider is a former Pakistani singer and actor. He has had numerous hits in the early 90s such as Poorani Jeans. He also had a big hit later in the 1990s with Chand Sa Mukhra. Besides singing, he has acted in numerous TV serials on PTV. Among the successful dramas was Chand Sa Mukhra, which...
  
  
• Sajjad Ali
  Sajjad Ali
  Sajjad Ali is a Pakistani semi-classical, pop singer, film actor, director and producer. He is trained in classical singing.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Ali Zafar
  Ali Zafar
  Ali Zafar is a Pakistani musician, composer, song writer, singer, actor, painter and model, popular in Pakistan for his music, including his hit songs like "Channo", "Rangeen", "Chal Dil Merey", "Dekha", "Masty" and "Sajania"...
  
  
• Atif Aslam
  Atif Aslam
  Atif Aslam is a Pakistani pop singer. He is widely recognized in South Asia and has given several hit songs such as Aadat, Woh Lamhe, Tere Bin, Bakhuda Tumhi Ho, Pehli Nazar Mein, Tera Hone Laga Hoon, Tu Jaane Na, Tere Liye. He is one of the most popular South Asian celebrity on Facebook with...
  
  
• Fakhir
• Jawad Ahmed
• Haroon
• Humera Arshad
  Humera Arshad
  Humera Arshad is a Pakistani pop singer. She is a renowned Pakistani folk, pop, culture and ghazal singer who has been classically trained. Her albums are Chori Kach Di and Gal Sun Dholna. Humera says she used to accompany her mother to majalis for sooz khwani from an early age, where her vocal...
  
  
• Hadiqa Kiyani
  Hadiqa Kiyani
  Hadiqa Kiani is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, and philanthropist.Kiani rose to fame in 1995 with her debut album Raaz. Kiani received instant fame and was nominated and won numerous awards in Pakistan as well as International awards. Since her debut, she has released five albums, all receiving...
  
  
• Waris Baig
  Waris Baig
  Waris Baig, is a Pakistani singer. He was born in Lahore, Punjab.Waris Baig started his career as a playback singer from Syed Noor's film Sangam released in 1997...
  
  

Revolutionaries

• Lala Lajpat Rai
  Lala Lajpat Rai
  Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian author, freedom fighter and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari or Sher-e-Punjab meaning the samem and was part of the Lal Bal Pal trio...
  
  
• Bhai Parmanand
  Bhai Parmanand
  Bhai Parmanand was an Indian nationalist.-Biography:Parmanand was born into a prominent family of the Punjab, descended from the family of the famous Sikh martyr, Bhai Mati Das...
  
  
• Harnam Singh
• Udham Singh
  Udham Singh
  Udham Singh was an Indian independence activist, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre....
  
  
• Kartar Singh Sarabha
• Bhagat Singh
• Sukhdev
  Sukhdev
  Sukhdev Thapar was born in Ludhiana, Punjab. He was an Indian freedom fighter who lived from 15 May 1907 to March 23, 1931) who was involved with Shaheed Bhagat Singh andShivaram Rajguru in the killing of a British police officer J.P...
  
  
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  Sardul Singh Caveeshar was an Indian newspaper editor, and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. He was born in Amritsar.-Education:...
  
  
• Chandrashekhar Azad
• Jatin Das
• Bhai Mati Das
  Bhai Mati Das
  Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ, is one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history. He along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das and Bhai Dyal Das, all disciples of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, were executed along with him at the Kotwali(police-station)...
  
  
• Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti Rajput
  Dulla Bhatti
  Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti Rajput, popularly known as Dulla Bhatti , was a famous legendary Rajput hero of the Punjab, who led a rebellion against the Mughal emperor Akbar...
  
  , popularly known as "Dulla Bhatti".

India

• Amarinder Singh
  Amarinder Singh
  Captain Amarinder Singh . He served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 and presently serves as the President of Punjab PCC. He currently resides in New Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Arun Jaitley
  Arun Jaitley
  Arun Jaitley is a prominent Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the largest Opposition party in India...
  
  
• Baldev Singh
  Baldev Singh
  Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, he was an Indian independence movement leader and the first Defence Minister of India. Moreover, he represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that resulted in the independence of India, as well as the Partition of India...
  
  
• Bibi Jagir Kaur
• Buta Singh
• Darbara Singh
  Darbara Singh
  -Bio:Sardar Darbara Singh , born into the prosperous Jat zamindar family of Sardar Dalip Singh Johal in Jandiala, in the Jullundur district of Punjab...
  
  
• Giani Zail Singh
• Gulzari Lal Nanda
• Gurcharan Singh Tohra
  Gurcharan Singh Tohra
  Panth Rattan Shiri Gurcharan Singh Tohra , former president of SGPC , a Sikh body in charge of controlling Gurdwara . He died of a heart attack in New Delhi on April 1, 2004 at the age of 79...
  
  
• Gurdial Singh Dhillon
  Gurdial Singh Dhillon
  Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon was a Punjabi politician in the Indian National Congress party. He was President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Indian High Commissioner to Canada .-Early life:...
  
  
• Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  Harkishan Singh Surjeet
  Harkishan Singh Surjeet was a communist politician from Punjab, India. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the party's Political Bureau from 1964 to 2008.-Pre-1947 career:Born to a Basi Jat family in Bundala, Jalandhar district,...
  
  
• Inder Kumar Gujral
  Inder Kumar Gujral
  Inder Kumar Gujral served as the 12th Prime Minister of India. Gujral was the first PM to govern exclusively from the Rajya Sabha; , only he and Manmohan Singh have done so.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jagjit Singh Taunque
  Jagjit Singh Taunque
  Dr Jagjit Singh Taunque MBE, DL is the Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands. He has represented the Birmingham Inter Faiths Council on the University Court since 1995, becoming an Honorary Life Member of the Court in 1998...
  
  
• Krishan Kant
  Krishan Kant
  Krishan Kant was the tenth Vice President of India from 1997 until his death.Kant's first brush with politics came when he plunged into the Quit India movement, while he was still a student in Lahore. He took part in the Indian Independence Movement as a youth and continued to be involved in...
  
  
• Madanlal Khurana
• Malik Umar Hayat Khan
  Malik Umar Hayat Khan
  Major General Sir Malik Mohammed Umar Hayat Khan GBE KCIE MVO , was a soldier of the Indian Empire, one of the largest landholders in the Punjab, and an elected member of the Council of State of India...
  
  
• Manmohan Singh
  Manmohan Singh
  Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...
  
  
• Master Tara Singh
  Master Tara Singh
  Master Tara Singh Malhotra was a prominent Sikh political and religious leader in the first half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Parkash Singh Badal
• Pratap Singh Kairon
  Pratap Singh Kairon
  Pratap Singh Kairon was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province , and is widely acknowledged to be the architect of post-Independence Punjab Province. Moreover, he was an Indian independence movement leader...
  
  
• Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini
• Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
  Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
  Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is an Indian Congress politician. Born in Lahore, the daughter of Sardar Hira Singh Bhattal, she was the first female Chief Minister of the Indian state of Punjab.- Political career :...
  
  
• Sant Fateh Singh
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  Sardul Singh Caveeshar
  Sardul Singh Caveeshar was an Indian newspaper editor, and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. He was born in Amritsar.-Education:...
  
  
• Simranjit Singh Mann
  Simranjit Singh Mann
  Simranjit Singh Mann is a politician from Punjab. He is president of a Sikh political party, Shiromani Akali Dal , that used to advocate Sikhs sedition from India and form a separate sikh nation, Khalistan...
  
  
• Surjit Singh Barnala
  Surjit Singh Barnala
  Surjit Singh Barnala is an Indian politician from Punjab. During his career in Indian politics, he has been Governor of four states, Chief Minister of Punjab, a minister in the union cabinet twice and a vice-presidential candidate once.-Early life:Barnala was born in Ateli village, which was then...
  
  
• Swaran Singh
• Laxmi Kanta Chawla
  Laxmi Kanta Chawla
  Laxmi Kanta Chawla is current cabinet minister in Akali Dal- Bharatiya Janata Party government in Punjab in India and a member of National executive of the BJP. She was a college lecturer before becoming the minister. She handles health portfolio. She was elected to state legislative assembly from...
  
  

Pakistan

• Liaqat Ali Khan
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
  Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
  Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari , was an Indian Muslim scholar, religious and senior political leader from the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam's founding members...
  
  
• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  Chaudhry Afzal Haq
  Chaudhry Afzal Haq was a leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam and a political figure in the history of Sub-Continent India. He was also a founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. He founded Ahrar with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. He was elected for three times in Punjab Assembly. He was also a Member of...
  
  
• Sardar Fraz Wahlah
  Sardar Fraz Wahlah
  Sardar Fraz Wahlah is a lawyer/CEO based out of Lahore and New York and the central leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party . He is the Provincial President of Pakistan Peoples Party Youth Punjab.-Background and Profession:...
  
  
• Mian Iftikharuddin
• Malik Anwer Ali Noon
  Malik Anwer Ali Noon
  Malik Anwar Ali Noon of Ali Pur Noon, son of Malik Sultan Ali Khan Noon is a popular, prominent politician and a famous landlord of Sargodha in the Noon family. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. His own village is Ali Pur Noon, situated...
  
  
• Choudhary Rahmat Ali
  Choudhary Rahmat Ali
  Choudhry Rahmat Ali was a Pakistani Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia and is generally known as the founder of the movement for its...
  
  
• Allama Muhammad Iqbal
• Ghulam Muhammad
  Ghulam Muhammad
  Malik Ghulam Muhammad served as the third Governor-General of Pakistan from 1951 until 1955, shortly before his death in 1956.-Early life:...
  
  
• Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
  Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
  Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (Punjabi, ; (July 15, 1905 - December 2, 1980) was a Pakistani statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956.-Early life:...
  
  
• Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
  Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
  Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari was a figure in the history of Indian subcontinent and a leader of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam. After the partition of India he left politics and struggle for Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, chief of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan. In 1953...
  
  
• Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
  Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
  Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (Punjabi, ; (January 1, 1904 - June 2, 1982) was the fifth President of Pakistan from August 14, 1973 until his resignation on September 16, 1978.-Early life:...
  
  
• Feroz Khan Noon
  Feroz Khan Noon
  Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon, KCSI, KCIE, Kt was a politician from Pakistan.-Early life:Born on 18th of June 1893 at village Hamoka,tehsil Khushab, Punjab. He was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore....
  
  
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
  Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
  General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , was the 4th Chief Martial Law Administrator and the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988...
  
  
• Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
  Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
  Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din was a figure in the history of Indian subcontinent and a leader of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam. After the partition of India he left politics and struggle for Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, chief of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan. In 1953 he...
  
  
• Hanif Ramay
  Hanif Ramay
  Muhammad Hanif Ramay was an internationally renowned intellectual, journalist and former Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab, and he was among the founding fathers of the Pakistan Peoples Party .He was also speaker of Punjab Assembly from October 1993 to November 1996.-Early life and...
  
  
• Wasim Sajjad
  Wasim Sajjad
  Wasim Sajjad was interim President of Pakistan on two occasions, serving as interim President prior to elections. Currently, being a member of PML-Q, he is the Leader of the Opposition in Senate of Pakistan.- Early life :...
  
  
• Mazhar Ali Azhar
• Syed Abu Zar Bukhari
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
  Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
  Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan was a senior political figure in Pakistan. He was an ethnic Pathan. His ancestors migrated from Afghanistan to the present day Punjab...
  
  
• Imran Khan
  Imran Khan
  Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
  
  
• Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
  Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
  Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema is Secretary General of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Central convener of Muttahida Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Rabitta Committee. He is also the head of Darul Uloom Khatm-e-Nubuwwat in Chichawatni...
  
  
• Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
  Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
  Judge Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was the ninth President of Pakistan from January 1, 1998 until June 20, 2001 and before that Supreme Court of Pakistan judge and Chief Justice of Lahore High Court....
  
  
• Nawaz Sharif
  Nawaz Sharif
  Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani conservative politician and steel magnate who served as 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to July 1993, and from February 1997 to October 12, 1999...
  
  
• Malik Meraj Khalid
  Malik Meraj Khalid
  Malik Meraj Khalid was a Pakistani lawyer and politician and the acting Prime Minister of Pakistan from November 5, 1996 till February 17, 1997.-Early life and career beginnings:...
  
  
• Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
• Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
  Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
  Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is a politician from Pakistan who was the Prime Minister of that country from June 30, 2004 until August 28 2004...
  
  
• Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
  Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
  Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi , is a Pakistani politician. He was the Chief Minister of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, from 2002 to 2007. He is a senior leader and Provincial President of Pakistan Muslim League, Punjab....
  
  
• Mian Umar Hayat
  Mian Umar Hayat
  Mian Umar Hayat He was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan[1]. He was a businessman and entered into politics in 1988. He was twice elected as Member National Assembly of Pakistan, serving two consecutive terms, the first from November, 1988–1990 and 1990–1992.- Early life :His family was a...
  
  
• Mushahid Hussain Syed
• Chaudhry Amir Hussain
  Chaudhry Amir Hussain
  Chaudhry Amir Hussain is a Pakistani politician. He was the 17th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan, serving from 2002 to 2008.Hussain was born in Sialkot, Punjab in a Gujjar family of subcast khatana and was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly on November 19, 2002, succeeding Elahi...
  
  
• Malik Amjad Ali Noon
  Malik Amjad Ali Noon
  Malik Amjad Ali Noon, born on 17 June 1954 in Lahore province Punjab, is a Pakistani politician.-Family:His father Malik Anwer Ali Noon mostly lived in their hometown village Ali Pur Noon. The Noon family has 27 villages in Bhalwal Tehsil: Nurpur Noon, Sultan Pur Noon and Sardar Pur Noon, among...
  
  
• Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
  Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
  Ch.Muhammad Sarwar Khan was a renowned and longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan. He served in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and National Assembly of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999. The first direct elections held in Pakistan after independence were for the Provincial...
  
  
• Shahbaz Sharif
  Shahbaz Sharif
  Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is a well-known conservative Pakistani politician and currently President of Pakistan Muslim League . He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province Punjab since 2008...
  
  
• Sheikh Waqas Akram
  Sheikh Waqas Akram
  Sheikh Waqas Akram Sheikh Waqas Akram Sheikh Waqas Akram (Sheikh Waqas Akram (Sheikh Waqas Akram (born 26 August 1974) is a Pakistani politician and a Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from Jhang, Pakistan. He stood in election two times in constituency no. NA-89 Jhang-IV and succeeded both...
  
  
• Ghulam Bibi
• Saqlain Anwar Sipra
• Hamza Shahbaz
• Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
  Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
  Chaudhry Liaqat Abbas Bhatti is a Pakistani politician from Pindi Bhattian Tehsil, Hafizabad District in Punjab.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Hamza Shahbaz
• Shahid Hussain Bhatti
  Shahid Hussain Bhatti
  Mian Shahid Hussain Bhatti is a Pakistani politician from Jalalpur Bhattian, Pindi Bhattian Tehsil.- Early life and education :He was born in 1956 in Jalalpur Bhattian a city of Pindi Bhattian Tehsil. His father name was Mian Asghar Ali Khan Bhatti. He is graduated in B.A from Islamia University,...
  
  
• Jagjit Singh Taunque
  Jagjit Singh Taunque
  Dr Jagjit Singh Taunque MBE, DL is the Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands. He has represented the Birmingham Inter Faiths Council on the University Court since 1995, becoming an Honorary Life Member of the Court in 1998...
  
  , Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands
• Syeda Sughra Imam
  Syeda Sughra Imam
  Syeda Sughra Imam is currently a Senator elected from the Province of Punjab, since March, 2009. She contested the General Elections 2008 for a National Assembly seat and lost by a small margin...
  
  

United States

• Bobby Jindal
  Bobby Jindal
  Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party....
  
  , Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
  
• Nikki Haley
  Nikki Haley
  Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Haley represented Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010....
  
  , Governor of South Carolina
  Governor of South Carolina
  The Governor of the State of South Carolina is the head of state for the State of South Carolina. Under the South Carolina Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the South Carolina executive branch. The Governor is the ex officio...
  
  , former member of the United States House of Representatives
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
  
• Sunny Dhoorh
  Sunny Dhoorh
  Sunny Dhoorh is a Humanitarian, self made businessman, Community Organizer and Politician based in Michigan. He currently holds position as the vice president of the Indian National Overseas Congress USA and as President of INOC - State of Michigan. He is the Vice Chairman of The Democrat Party...
  
  

India

• Yadavendra Singh
• Lala Amarnath
  Lala Amarnath
  Nanik Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian Test cricketer. He was the first cricketer to score a Test century for the Indian cricket team, which he achieved on debut...
  
  
• Mohinder Amarnath
  Mohinder Amarnath
  Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian cricketer and current cricket analyst. He is commonly known as "Jimmy". He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India. His brother Surinder Amarnath was a Test player...
  
  
• Surinder Amarnath
  Surinder Amarnath
  Surinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian Test and One Day International cricketer.Amarnath was an aggressive left-handed batsman who performed extremely well at Indian domestic level but was largely unable to cement a regular place in the Indian national team...
  
  
• Kapil Dev
  Kapil Dev
  Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup...
  
  
• Bishan Singh Bedi
  Bishan Singh Bedi
  Bishan Singh Bedi is a former Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet. He also captained the national side in 22 Test matches...
  
  
• Balwinder Sandhu
  Balwinder Sandhu
  Balwinder Singh Sandhu is a former Indian Test cricketer. He represented India in eight Test matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball and was a useful batsman....
  
  
• Bhupinder Singh snr
  Bhupinder Singh snr
  Bhupinder Singh is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Punjab and played two One Day Internationals for India in 1994...
  
  
• Gursharan Singh
  Gursharan Singh
  Gursharan Singh is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test and one ODI in 1990....
  
  
• Yograj Singh
  Yograj Singh
  Yograjsingh Bhagsingh Bhandal, popularly known as Yograj Singh or simply Yograj was an Indian cricketer who played one Test and six ODIs for India as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. After his career was ended by injury, he entered Punjwood, Punjabi film industry...
  
  
• Amarjit Kaypee
  Amarjit Kaypee
  Amarjit Kaypee is an Indian former cricketer. He was primarily a right-handed batsman, and he held the record for the most runs scored in the Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic first-class cricket competition for a number of years before Amol Muzumdar took the record in 2009...
  
  
• Maninder Singh
  Maninder Singh
  Maninder Singh is a former international cricket player who represented India in 35 Test matches and 59 One Day Internationals. With his slow left-arm orthodox spin, Maninder was considered as an heir to Bishan Singh Bedi, who then held the record as India's leading spinner in terms of wickets....
  
  
• Rajinder Ghai
  Rajinder Ghai
  Rajinder Singh Ghai in a punjabi khukhrain family is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Punjab and played six One Day Internationals for India from 1984 to 1986....
  
  
• Surinder Khanna
  Surinder Khanna
  Surinder Khanna is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Delhi and played ten One Day Internationals for India between 1979 and 1984. He was a wicketkeeper.-Domestic career:...
  
  
• Navjot Singh Sidhu
  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  Navjot Singh Sidhu is former Indian cricket star . After retirement from cricket Navjot Singh Sidhu took up television commentary, and politics. He was later forced to resign from his political position because he was convicted of homicide.-Biography:...
  
  
• Manoj Prabhakar
  Manoj Prabhakar
  Manoj Prabhakar is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a lower-order batsman who also opened the innings sometimes for the Indian cricket team until his retirement in 1995–96. He was banned by the BCCI for his involvement in match fixing scandals...
  
  
• Chetan Sharma
  Chetan Sharma
  Chetan Sharma was a medium pace bowler who represented India at cricket.Sharma was coached by Desh Prem Azad, a Dronacharya Award winner, who was also the mentor of Kapil Dev...
  
  
• Madan Lal
  Madan Lal
  Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma is a former Indian cricketer and Indian national cricket coach. He currently coaches Delhi Giants in the Indian Cricket League...
  
  
• Ashok Malhotra
  Ashok Malhotra
  Ashok Omprakash Malhotra is a former Indian cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 20 ODIs from 1982 to 1986. In the early 1990s, he was an overseas professional at Dunfermline Cricket Club in Fife, Scotland.He has opened a cricket coaching centre namely Ashok malhotra cricket acedemy which has...
  
  
• Vijay Mehra
  Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)
  Vijay Laxman Mehra was an Indian cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1955 to 1964.-References:*...
  
  
• Aashish Kapoor
  Aashish Kapoor
  Aashish Rakesh Kapoor is a former Indian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 17 ODIs from 1994 to 2000. He was member of the 1996 World Cup Squad but was dropped and was never able to make it back to ODI after 2000....
  
  
• Virender Sehwag
  Virender Sehwag
  Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
  
  
• Raman Lamba
  Raman Lamba
  Raman Lamba was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman died in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh after three days of vain efforts by a team of doctors, ever since he was seriously hit on the forehead by a full blooded pull...
  
  
• Atul Wassan
  Atul Wassan
  Atul Satish Wassan is a former Indian cricketer. After retirement, he has become a cricket commentator.-External links:**...
  
  
• Akash Chopra
  Akash Chopra
  Aakash Chopra is an Indian cricketer, who played for the Indian cricket team from late 2003 until late 2004 as a defensive opening batsman and close catcher in Test matches who evoked comparisons with Eknath Solkar...
  
  
• Nikhil Chopra
  Nikhil Chopra
  Nikhil Chopra is a retired Indian cricketer and a cricket analyst. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. A One Day International specialist, he was part of the Indian team at the 1999 Cricket World Cup...
  
  
• Dinesh Mongia
  Dinesh Mongia
  Dinesh Mongia is an Indian cricketer who has appeared in ODIs for India. Mongia is a heavy run-scorer in domestic cricket with just under 6850 runs at an average of just under 50 and his highest score being an unbeaten 308...
  
  
• Harvinder Singh
  Harvinder Singh
  Harvinder Singh is a former Indian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 16 ODIs from 1997 to 2001....
  
  
• Harbhajan Singh
  Harbhajan Singh
  Harbhajan Singh Plaha , commonly known as Harbhajan Singh, is an Indian cricketer. A specialist bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan....
  
  
• Yuvraj Singh
  Yuvraj Singh
  Yuvraj Singh Bhandal is an Indian cricketer, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008...
  
  
• V. R. V. Singh
• Reetinder Sodhi
  Reetinder Sodhi
  Reetinder Singh Sodhi is an Indian cricketer. He was selected in 2000 for the first intake of the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore....
  
  
• Gourav Dhiman
  Gourav Dhiman
  Gaurav Dhiman is one of the most experienced players in the India U19 World Cup squad, having played 18 matches and making his debut in February 2004. He is the premier allrounder in the India squad, bowling right-arm medium-pace and batting right-handed. He had played for India Under-15s and now...
  
  
• Piyush Chawla
  Piyush Chawla
  Piyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. His Hometown is Moradabad,. He is seen as a leg-spinning allrounder in domestic cricket, but has not fired as a batsman in the One Day International format...
  
  
• Gautam Gambhir
  Gautam Gambhir
  Gautam Gambhir is an Indian cricketer, a batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 and 2004...
  
  
• Virat Kohli
  Virat Kohli
  Virat Kohli ,born 5 November 1988 in Delhi) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a middle order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace. Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia...
  
  
• Sunny Sohal
  Sunny Sohal
  Sunny Sohal is a professional cricketer from Mohali, Punjab, India. A right-handed batsman and occasional leg spin bowler, Sohal made his first class debut for Punjab against Hyderabad at Mohali in December 2005. In 14 first class matches up to June 2009 he has scored 931 runs at 42.31 with three...
  
  

Pakistan

• Inzamam-ul-Haq
  Inzamam-ul-Haq
  Inzamam-ul-Haq , also known as Inzamam, nicknamed Inzy, is a former Pakistan international cricketer who was national captain between 2003 and 2007. He is a right-handed batsman who has been regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of his era...
  
  
• Wasim Akram
  Wasim Akram
  Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani left arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman in cricketer and model. who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches....
  
  
• Saleem Malik
  Saleem Malik
  Saleem Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective...
  
  
• Waqar Younis
  Waqar Younis
  Waqar Younis Maitla is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket and widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time...
  
  
• Zaheer Abbas
  Zaheer Abbas
  Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani , popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest batsman produced by that country. He is widely known as the "Asian Bradman", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman...
  
  
• Mudassar Nazar
  Mudassar Nazar
  Mudassar Nazar is a former Pakistani cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England...
  
  
• Moin Khan
  Moin Khan
  Mohammad Moin Khan , popularly known as Moin Khan , is a former Pakistani cricketer, primarily a wicketkeeper-batsman, who remained a member of the Pakistani national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He has also captained the Pakistani side. He made his international debut against the West Indies at...
  
  
• Abdul Qadir
  Abdul Qadir (cricketer)
  Abdul Qadir Khan is a former Pakistani international cricketer, later commentator and was recently the Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket Board. He resigned from the post because of his differences with the top brass of Pakistan cricket board...
  
  
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Majid Khan
  Majid Khan (cricket player)
  Majid Jahangir Khan is a former cricketer, specialist batsman and former captain of the Pakistan cricket team and perhaps the most fearless opening Batsman produced by Pakistan. Khan's first-class career spanned from 1961 to 1985...
  
  
• Ijaz Ahmed
• Rameez Raja
  Rameez Raja
  Rameez Hasan Raja is a former Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket, who represented the Pakistan cricket team during the 1980s and 1990s. He also worked as captain of the national team...
  
  
• Wasim Raja
  Wasim Raja
  Wasim Hasan Raja , was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 57 Tests and 54 ODIs for the Pakistani national cricket team from 1973 to 1985. His younger brother, Rameez Raja, also represented Pakistan in Tests and ODIs, becoming captain of the national side...
  
  
• Sarfraz Nawaz
  Sarfraz Nawaz
  Sarfraz Nawaz Malik is a former Pakistani Test cricketer and politician who discovered reverse swing and was instrumental in Pakistan's first Test series victories over India and England. Between 1969 and 1984 he played 55 Tests and 45 One Day Internationals and was Imran Khan's regular new ball...
  
  
• Mushtaq Ahmed
  Mushtaq Ahmed
  Mushtaq Ahmed is a retired Pakistani cricketer who specialised as a leg spin bowler. He was known for his hard-to-pick googly. He memorably trapped Graeme Hick in front with one during the 1992 World Cup final. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997...
  
  
• Saqlain Mushtaq
  Saqlain Mushtaq
  Saqlain Mushtaq is a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest off spin bowlers of all time.He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", which he employed to great effect during his career...
  
  
• Aamer Sohail
  Aamer Sohail
  Aamer Sohail is a former professional Pakistani cricketer and PCB Chief Selector. With Saeed Anwar, he formed one of the best opening combinations Pakistan has ever had....
  
  
• Intikhab Alam
  Intikhab Alam
  Intikhab Alam Khan is a retired Pakistani cricketer who played in 47 Tests and 4 ODIs from 1959 to 1977. He also played in English county cricket for Surrey between 1969 and 1981....
  
  
• Shoaib Akhtar
  Shoaib Akhtar
  Shoaib Akhtar is a former Pakistani right arm fast bowler in cricket, who is regarded as the fastest bowler in the history of cricket. He set an official world record by achieving the fastest delivery, when he clocked in at 161.3 km/h in his bowling speed, twice at a cricket match against...
  
  
• Imtiaz Ahmed
• Saeed Ahmed
  Saeed Ahmed (cricketer)
  Saeed Ahmed is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 41 Tests from 1958 to 1972. He was a right-handed middle order batsman with a powerful drive and also a handy right arm offbreak bowler. He is the half brother of Younis Ahmed.He made his Test début on the 17th of January 1958 against the...
  
  
• Abdul Razzaq
• Fazal Mahmood
  Fazal Mahmood
  Fazal Mahmood was a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as the finest pace bowler of his country's early years. He played in 34 Test matches and took 139 wickets at a bowling average of 24.70...
  
  
• Mahmood Hussain
• Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar
  Taufeeq Umar is a Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test opening batsman for three seasons, before being dropped ahead of the 2004–05 season. Unusually for a Pakistani player, Umar has played more Tests than ODIs, as he was not given a prolonged run in the ODI side until 2003, when he played...
  
  
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar
• Aaqib Javed
  Aaqib Javed
  Aaqib Javed is a Pakistani cricketer and coach. He was a right-handed medium-fast pace bowler with the ability to swing the ball both ways. He played 22 Tests and 163 One Day Internationals for Pakistan between 1988 and 1998.He was educated at Islamia College Lahore.Aaqib's best performances in...
  
  
• Azhar Mahmood
  Azhar Mahmood
  Azhar Mahmood Sagar is a Pakistani cricketer, . Originally his father objected to his interest in cricket, but later started to appreciate it seeing his accomplishments. As a teenager, Azhar was mentored by Irfan Bhatti who played a One Day International for Pakistan in the early 90’s...
  
  
• Kamran Akmal
  Kamran Akmal
  Kamran Akmal is a Pakistani cricketer who has played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for Pakistan as a wicket-keeper.- International career :He is a quick-scoring batsman and a wicket-keeper, who has achieved 6 centuries in Test innings...
  
  
• Saleem Altaf
  Saleem Altaf
  Saleem Altaf Bokhari is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Tests and 6 ODIs from 1967 to 1978. After retirement, Altaf worked as Director, Cricket Operations for the Pakistan Cricket Board from 2004 to 2006 and later as Director, Special Projects from 2006 to 2008.He was terminated...
  
  
• Waqar Hasan
  Waqar Hasan
  Waqar Hasan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Tests from 1952 to 1959.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pervez Sajjad
  Pervez Sajjad
  Pervez Sajjad Hasan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in nineteen Tests from 1964 to 1973....
  
  
• Shujauddin
• Azeem Hafeez
  Azeem Hafeez
  Raja Azeem Hafeez was a Pakistani cricketer. A fast bowler, Hafeez was perhaps better known for his birth defect: he has two fingers missing on his right hand. Hafeez never established himself in the Pakistani team, predominantly because of the strength of its fast bowling at that time, anchored...
  
  
• Mohammad Wasim
  Mohammad Wasim
  Mohammad Wasim is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 18 Tests and 25 ODIs from 1996 to 2000.-Career:...
  
  
• Asif Masood
  Asif Masood
  Syed Asif Masood Shah is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 16 Tests and 7 ODIs from 1969 to 1977...
  
  
• Imran Farhat
  Imran Farhat
  Imran Farhat is a Pakistani cricketer who has played over 30 Tests and One Day Internationals for Pakistan, opening the batting in most of his international innings.-Career:...
  
  
• Maqsood Ahmed
  Maqsood Ahmed
  Maqsood Ahmed was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 16 Tests from 1952 to 1955.-External links:He was educateds at Islamia College, Lahore....
  
  
• Tahir Naqqash
  Tahir Naqqash
  ----Tahir Naqqash is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 15 Tests and 40 ODIs from 1980 to 1985....
  
  
• Aamer Malik
  Aamer Malik
  Aamer Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 14 Tests and 24 ODIs from 1987 to 1994. In 1987 he took over from Ray Berry as the professional at Hyde CC, playing in the Central Lancashire League....
  
  
• Mohammad Nazir
  Mohammad Nazir
  Mohammad Nazir is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 14 Tests and 4 One Day International matches from 1969 to 1984 and became a cricket umpire after he retired from professional cricket....
  
  
• Shoaib Malik
  Shoaib Malik
  Shoaib Malik is a Pakistani cricket player and former captain. He made his One-Day International debut in 1999 against the West Indies and his Test debut in 2001 against Bangladesh. He has taken over 100 ODI wickets, and has a batting average in the mid 30s in both Test and ODI cricket...
  
  
• Ata-ur-Rehman
  Ata-ur-Rehman
  Not to be confused with Prof. Atta ur RahmanAta-ur-Rehman is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 13 Tests and 30 ODIs from 1992 to 1996. He is tall and well built, bowling right-arm fast medium with a good control of line and length and the ability to move the old ball...
  
  
• Khan Mohammad
  Khan Mohammad
  Khan Mohammad was a member of Pakistan's first Test team that played against India in 1952. Born in Lahore, Punjab, he was educated at the city's Islamia College. He played in 13 Tests as an opening bowler who shared the new ball with Fazal Mahmood...
  
  
• Saleem Elahi
  Saleem Elahi
  Saleem Elahi is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 13 Tests and 48 ODIs from 1995 to 2004...
  
  
• Salman Butt
  Salman Butt
  Salman Butt is a former Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test and ODI left-handed opening batsman. He made his Test debut on 3 September 2003 in the third Test against Bangladesh, and a year later made his ODI debut against West Indies on 22 September 2004. He was appointed captain of the...
  
  
• Mohammad Ilyas
  Mohammad Ilyas
  Mohammad Ilyas Mahmood is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1964 to 1969. He is the father-in-law of Imran Farhat....
  
  
• Shabbir Ahmed
  Shabbir Ahmed
  Shabbir Ahmed is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a line-and-length pace bowler who took eight wickets for 109 runs on his Test debut against Bangladesh in the first of their 2003-04 three-Test series...
  
  
• Talat Ali
  Talat Ali
  Talat Ali Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1972 to 1979. He was the manager of the Pakistan Cricket Team from October 2006 until his resignation October 17, 2008 following the Quadrangular four-nation Twenty20 series in Canada, in which Pakistan lost to Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Sohail Tanvir
  Sohail Tanvir
  Sohail Tanvir is a Pakistani cricketer, who has gained repute for his unorthodox left arm bowling action and particularly for the success it has gained him in the Twenty20 format of the game.- International career :An allrounder, he is a hard-hitting left-handed batsman and an unorthodox left-arm...
  
  
• Imran Nazir
  Imran Nazir
  Imran Nazir is a Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.-Career:...
  
  
• Mohammad Hafeez
  Mohammad Hafeez
  Mohammad Hafeez is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm Slow bowler...
  
  
• Mohammed Asif

England

• Ajaz Akhtar
  Ajaz Akhtar
  Ajaz Akhtar is a Pakistani born English cricketer. Akhtar is a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Bahawalpur, Pakistan...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Monty Panesar
  Monty Panesar
  Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar , is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex. A left-arm spinner, Panesar played Test and one-day cricket for England until 2009. In English county cricket he played for Northamptonshire until 2009...
  
  
• Ravi Bopara
• Sajid Mahmood
  Sajid Mahmood
  Sajid "Saj" Iqbal Mahmood is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent...
  
  

Canada

• Ashish Bagai
  Ashish Bagai
  Ashish Bagai is the captain of the Canadian cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman who specializes as a wicketkeeper. He studied at St. Columba's School during his brief stay in Delhi, India...
  
  
• Harvir Baidwan
  Harvir Baidwan
  Harvir Singh Baidwan is a cricketer who has played One Day Internationals, Twenty20 Internationals and first-class cricket for Canada.- External links :**...
  
  
• Haninder Dhillon
  Haninder Dhillon
  Haninder Dhillon is a Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Canada on 28 May 2004 in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against the USA in Florida. He has played five games in that tournament in total...
  
  
• Muneeb Diwan
  Muneeb Diwan
  Muneeb Diwan is a Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman.He played first-class cricket for Essex in 1994 and played second XI cricket for them up until 1996...
  
  
• Ishwar Maraj
  Ishwar Maraj
  Ishwar Maraj is a Canadian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.Before his move to Canada he played club cricket in Trinidad and Tobago. He holds the world record for the slowest ever fifty in a World Cup match, in an innings against South Africa, in the 2003...
  
  
• Karun Jethi
  Karun Jethi
  Karun Jethi is an Indian-born cricketer who has played three One Day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals for Canada....
  
  
• Sandeep Jyoti
  Sandeep Jyoti
  Sandeep Jyoti in Shimla, India is a cricketer who migrated to Canada when he was fourteen years old. Upon arrival to Canada, Sandeep joined the in Mississauga, Ontario. Here he learned his cricket and is still currently playing for the club where he coaches as well...
  
  

Boxing

• 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 Asian world famous boxer.
• Vijender Singh

Field hockey

• Ajitpal Singh
• Balbir Singh Sr.
  Balbir Singh Sr.
  Balbir Singh Sr. is a retired field hockey player from India, who was a member of three Olympic gold medal winning teams, in London , Helsinki and Melbourne ....
  
  
• Balwant (Bal) Singh Saini
  Balwant (Bal) Singh Saini
  Balwant Singh Saini is a former British hockey international of Indian descent. He made his debut for England on 12 March 1977 when he played against West Germany at Lords, London. He scored a spectacular goal on his debut at Lords which is still remembered...
  
  
• Prithipal Singh
  Prithipal Singh
  Prithipal Singh was an Indian field hockey nicknamed the “King of short corner” by hockey commentators. He participated in the Olympic field hockey three times and each time he scored the highest number of goals as a single player...
  
  
• Baljeet Singh Saini
• Gagan Ajit Singh
  Gagan Ajit Singh
  Gagan Ajit Singh is a field hockey striker from India, whose father Ajit Singh played for the national team at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. He is a nephew of Harmik Singh...
  
  
• Kulbir Bhaura
  Kulbir Bhaura
  Kulbir Singh Bhaura is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the gold medal winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...
  
  
• Prabhjot Singh
• Ramandeep Singh
  Ramandeep Singh
  Ramandeep Singh Grewal is a former field hockey midfielder from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1995. Singh represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, where India finished in eighth place...
  
  
• Saini Sisters
  Saini Sisters
  Saini Sisters is a popular epithet used for three sisters from Punjab who were international field hockey players, Rupa Saini, Krishna Saini and Prema Saini. At one time Saini sisters dominated woman's hockey in India and in the test series against Japan in 1970 all three sisters played together...
  
  
• Baljit Singh Dhillon
  Baljit Singh Dhillon
  Baljit Singh Dhillon is a field hockey midfielder from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1993 during the test serie against South Africa...
  
  
• Inder Singh
  Inder Singh
  In the death of hockey Olympian Inder Singh, who breathed his last in Italy on August 19, 2001 at the age of 56, India lost a versatile sportsman who not only inspired youngsters back home with his dazzling stickwork but also motivated youngsters to take up hockey overseas...
  
  
• Dhyan Chand
  Dhyan Chand
  Dhyan Chand ; born August 29, 1905 in Allahabad, United Provinces, British India. – Died:December 3, 1979), was an Indian field hockey player, regarded as one of the greatest field hockey players of all time...
  
  , hockey player, after whom a tournament was named in 1951.
• Baldev Singh, hockey coach and dronacharya award winner.

Golf

• Ashbeer Saini
  Ashbeer Saini
  Ashbeer Saini is India's number one junior golfer. He is the nephew of Baljit Singh Saini, who is an Olympian and Asian Games gold medalist for India in field hockey. Ashbeer Saini's father, Balwinder Singh Saini, who is also the elder brother of Baljeet Singh Saini has also represented India...
  
  
• Jeev Milkha Singh
  Jeev Milkha Singh
  Jeev Milkha Singh is the first Indian professional golfer to become a member of the European Tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jyoti Randhawa
  Jyoti Randhawa
  Jyoti Singh Randhawa is an Indian professional golfer who was ranked in the top 100 of the world and is the third-highest Indian in the world rankings.-Career:...
  
  
• Arjun Atwal
  Arjun Atwal
  Arjun Singh Atwal is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to become a member of, and later win on the U.S.-based PGA Tour.-Early life:...
  
  
• P. G. Sethi
  P. G. Sethi
  Prem Gopal "Biloo" Sethi , was the only amateur who won Indian Open Golf Championship in 1965 at Delhi....
  
  
• Gaurav Ghei
  Gaurav Ghei
  Gaurav Ghei is an Indian professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour. He turned professional in 1991. His wins include three Asian Tour titles: the 1995 Gadgil Western Masters, the 2006 Taiwan Masters, and the 2007 Beijing Open...
  
  
• Shiv Kapur
  Shiv Kapur
  Shiv Kapur is an Indian professional golfer.Kapur went to Purdue University and played the amateur circuit in the United States...
  
  
• Gaganjeet Bhullar
  Gaganjeet Bhullar
  Gaganjeet Bhullar is an Indian professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:Bhullar was born in Kapurthala, India. He was India's number one amateur in 2004 and 2006 and was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games. He finished in a tie for...
  
  

Wrestling

• The Great Gama
  The Great Gama
  The "Great" Gama also known as "Gama Pahelvan", and "Lion of the Punjab", born Ghulam Muhammad , in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, was a renowned wrestler, warrior and a practitioner of Pehlwani wrestling. He was awarded the South Asian version of the World Heavyweight Championship on October...
  
  
• The Great Khali
• Dara Singh
  Dara Singh
  Dara Singh Randhawa is a wrestler and Indian film actor. He was born in a Jat Sikh family of Punjabi background.He was a wrestler before he started acting in Hindi films in 1962....
  
  
• Premchand Dogra
  Premchand Dogra
  Premchand Degra is an IFBB professional bodybuilder from India. Also mentioned as Premchand Degra/Dhingra. He won the Mr. Universe title in the short-height 80 kg category in 1988. He was also awarded the "Achievement Medal" by the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness in...
  
  
• Tiger Jeet Singh
  Tiger Jeet Singh
  Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...
  
  
• Gurjit Singh
  Gurjit Singh
  Gurjit Singh Hans is an Indo-Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Tiger Ali Singh. He is the son of legendary wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh.-Career:...
  
  
• Sonjay Dutt
  Sonjay Dutt
  Retesh Bhalla is an American professional wrestler of Indian Punjabi descent, better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt. He is best known working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and is also known for his stints with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent...
  
   (real name Ritesh Bhalla), TNA wrestler
• Younus Khan (Former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz
• Jinder Mahal

Fighters

• Akshay Kumar
  Akshay Kumar
  Akshay Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer and martial artist who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he primarily starred in action films and was particularly known for his appearances in feature films commonly called the "Khiladi series",...
  
   (real name Rajeev Bhatia), black belt in karate and film actor
• Veeru Devgan
  Veeru Devgan
  Veeru Devgan is a stunt and action choreographer in Bollywood. He is also the father of actor Ajay Devgan and director Anil Devgan. He has choreographed fight and action scenes for over 80 Hindi films...
  
  , action and stunt designer.

Shooting

• Abhinav Bindra
  Abhinav Bindra
  Abhinav Singh Bindra is an Indian shooter from Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and is the current World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event...
  
  , 1st individual Olympic Gold Medalist
• Gagan Narang
  Gagan Narang
  Gagan Narang is an ace Indian shooter, especially in Air rifle shooting, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He is the first Indian to qualify for the London Olympics.-Career:...
  
  , the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
• Avneet Sidhu
  Avneet Sidhu
  Avneet Kaur Sidhu is an Indian shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Rifle with Tejaswini Sawant at the 2006 Commonwealth Games...
  
  , Commenwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee