List of Famous people born in Punjab, Pakistan

Lal Khan

First Name Lal
Last Name Khan
Born on May 31, 1956
Died on February 21, 2020 (aged 63)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Lal Khan was a political activist and Marxist political theorist.

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Haroon Rahim

First Name Haroon
Born on November 12, 1949 (age 76)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Haroon Rahim is a Pakistani former tennis player. The former Pakistan and Asian No. 1, Rahim was the youngest tennis player ever to play for Pakistan in the Davis Cup at 15 years of age. He was also the highest ranking Pakistani tennis player. He led the UCLA team to victory with Jeff Borowiak and Jimmy Connors in 1970–71 and was 1971 NCAA doubles champion with Jeff Borowiak.

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Khusrau Mirza

First Name Khusrau
Born on August 16, 1587
Died on January 26, 1622 (aged 34)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Khusrau Mirza was the eldest son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

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Francis Younghusband

First Name Francis
Last Name Younghusband
Born on May 31, 1863
Died on July 31, 1942 (aged 79)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, led by himself, and for his writings on Asia and foreign policy. Younghusband held positions including British commissioner to Tibet and President of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Zakir Hussain

First Name Zakir
Last Name Hussain
Born on January 1, 1934
Died on August 19, 2019 (aged 85)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Zakir Hussain was a Pakistani field hockey player. He was born in Lahore. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He died on 19 August 2019.

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Keshav Dutt

First Name Keshav
Born on December 29, 1925
Died on July 7, 2021 (aged 95)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Keshav Chandra Dutt, also spelt as Keshav Datt, was an Indian field hockey player and played as a halfback. He was a part of the team that won gold medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He made 22 international appearances for India and scored two goals in his career. Keshav was the last surviving member of the Indian hockey team which participated at the 1948 London Olympic Games. He was regarded as one of the finest Indian hockey centre half-backs.

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Antony Legard

First Name Antony
Last Name Legard
Born on January 17, 1912
Died on August 22, 2004 (aged 92)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Major Antony Ronald Legard, nicknamed Loopy, was an Indian-born English first-class cricketer who played 36 matches, mostly for Oxford University, in the 1930s. He also played twice for Free Foresters and had one match each for Worcestershire, the Europeans in India and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

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Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi

First Name Moeenuddin
Died on November 22, 2016 (aged 46)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi was a Pakistani American economist and civil servant who served as Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan in an acting capacity from July to October 1993. Qureshi also served as the senior vice president of World Bank.

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Arun Kumar Ahuja

First Name Arun
Last Name Ahuja
Born on January 17, 1917
Died on July 3, 1998 (aged 81)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Arun Kumar Ahuja, popularly known as Aroon, was an Indian film actor and producer who was active in Hindi language film industry in the 1940s and early 1950s appearing in over 30 films. He was best known for acting in Mehboob Khan's 1940 film Aurat which was the predecessor of the Oscar nominated 1957 remake Mother India.

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Chetan Anand

First Name Chetan
Born on January 3, 1921
Died on July 6, 1997 (aged 76)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Chetan Anand was a Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later he co-founded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949.

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