List of Punjabi people
This is a full spectrum list of notable Punjabi people from Pakistan, India and the emigrant Punjabi worldwide, including in the EU, United States, Canada and other places.
Military leaders
Indian Armed Forces
Airforce
- Marshal Arjan Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.,[1] Only Marshal in the History of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Surinder Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
- Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
- Air Chief Marshal Satish Sareen, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
- Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.[2]
Army
- Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), He is known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army.
- General Deepak Kapoor, Former Indian Army Chief.
- General Pran Nath Thapar, Former Indian Army Chief.
- General Om Prakash Malhotra, Former Indian Army Chief.
- General Ved Prakash Malik, Former Indian Army Chief.
- General Nirmal Chander Vij, Former Indian Army Chief.
- General Joginder Jaswant Singh, Former Indian Army Chief.[3]
- Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to don the second highest rank of Lt General[4] and the first lady to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy.[5]
- Shabeg Singh
- Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora (Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਰੋਰਾ; February 13, 1916– May 3, 2005) was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He led the ground forces campaign in the Eastern front of the war.
- General Bikram Singh, former Indian Army Chief.
Navy
- Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, Former Chief of Indian Navy
- Admiral S.M Nanda, Former Chief of Indian Navy
Other notables
- Kiran Bedi - First women IPS officer
- Uday Singh Taunque – awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star, first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the US Army
Pakistan Armed Forces
Army
- Major General Shahida Malik ( First woman general in the South Asia )
- General Raheel Sharif Current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Zia ul Haq former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Tikka Khan former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistan army
- General (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan Kaimkhani, former Vice Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- General (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan - The first Muslim to become a General in British Indian Army.
- Lt Gen (R) Raja Saroop Khan former Governor of Punjab
- Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan - the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
- Maj Gen (R) Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua, Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
- Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
- Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan Mangral
- Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali, Adviser to the Government of Pakistan
- Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
- Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Janjua, the most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the frontline
- Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, HI(M), T Bt, Punjab — DG Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Rawalpindi
- Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar, HI(M)
- Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan Member Azad Kashmir Council
- Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
- Muhammad Sarwar Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed Janjua - Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed Nishan-e-Haider winner
- Khudadad Khan Minhas - Victoria Cross winner
Navy
- Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir, (NI(M))
- Admiral Muhammad Asif Sandila, (HI(M), L'honneur, NI(M))
Airforce
- Air Marshal Nur Khan
- Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
- Air Chief Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
- Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
- Air Chief-Marshal Jamal Ahmad Khan
- Air Chief Marshal M Anwar Shamim
- Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana
- Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
- Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
- Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed Minhas - Nishan-e-Haider winner
PreModern era Punjab
- Fakir Khana
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti
- Banda Singh Bahadur
- Baba Deep Singh
- Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan
- Nawab Kapur Singh
- Hari Singh Dhillon
- Bhuma Singh Dhillon
- Hari Singh Nalwa
- Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
- Diwan Sawan Mal
- Diwan Mulraj
- Adina Beg
- Mian Family Baghbanpura
Business
- Shahid Khan Pakistani-born American multi billionaire businessmen owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Premier League team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois.
- Kushal Pal Singh - Chairman & CEO DLF
- Ajay Banga, corporate executive, president and COO- MasterCard, ex-CEO Citi Group Asia Pacific
- Aroon Purie, India Today group
- Avtar Lit founder, Sunrise Radio
- Avtar Saini, former director, India operations of Montalvo Systems and former vice president of Intel
- Bob Singh Dhillon, Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
- Brijmohan Lal Munjal, founder of Hero Group[6]
- F C Kohli, regarded as the father of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
- Gaurav Dhillon, Jat businessman and founder and former CEO of Informatica
- Gulshan Kumar, T Series
- Gurbaksh Chahal
- Jay Sidhu, former chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
- Jessie Singh Saini, Indo-American industrialist
- Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
- M. S. Banga, corporate executive, ex-CEO - Hindustan Lever, director on board- Maruti Udyog Limited
- Malvinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Group
- Mian Muhammad Mansha, prominent Pakistani industrialist
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels[7]
- Narinder Singh Kapany, was named as one of the seven "Unsung Heroes" by Fortune magazine
- Rana Kapoor, founder and managing director of Yes Bank
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and president of i2 Technologies
- Sunil Mittal, owner of Bharti Airtel
- Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
- Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium processor
- Vinod Khosla co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Saigol Group Pakistani business group and industrialists
- Divan Group Pakistani business group and industrialists
Artists
- Abdul Rehman Chughtai
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Pran Kumar Sharma (cartoonist of Chacha Chaudhary fame)
- Sobha Singh
- Satish Gujral
- Manjit Bawa
- Neeru Bajwa
- Dakssh Ajit Singh
Educators and Scientists
- Abdus Salam,Nobel prize winner
- Ishfaq Ahmad, theoretical physicist
- Umar Saif, Computer Scientist
- Munir Ahmad Khan Nuclear Physicist
- Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini, Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel prize winner
- Indu Banga, historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
- Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of political science, University of Stockholm, and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
- Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor at Virginia Tech
- Pritam Saini, English, Punjabi, Hindi & Urdu writer, historian & literary critic[8]
- Rashid Kausar, Professor of Knowledge Management
- Sanjay Saini, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School[9][10]
- Satish Dhawan
- Subhash Saini, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA[11]
- Arfa Karim Randhawa youngest Pakistani Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
- Sabeer Bhatia founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr
- Dheeraj Sharma,Professor and Writer, IIM-Ahmedabad
- Aakash B. Arora, Nobel Prize Quantum Physics, NIT Jaipur
- Farina Mir, historian and professor at University of Michigan
Astronauts
- Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
- Kalpana Chawla
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
Bollywood
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:
Individual artists
- Achala Sachdev
- Akshay Kumar
- Amrish Puri[13]
- Aanchal Kumar
- Ali Zafar
- Annu Kapoor
- Amrinder Gill
- Ammy Virk
- Anupama Verma
- Arjan Bajwa
- Anil Dhawan
- Armaan Kohli
- Avtar Gill
- Aryan Vaid
- Ayushman Khurana
- Babbal Rai
- Bhumika Chawla
- Bina Rai
- Celina Jaitley
- Deepak Parashar
- Geeta Bali
- Garry Sandhu
- Geeta Basra
- Shoma Anand
- Gippy Grewal
- Gracy Singh
- Govinda
- Gul Panag
- Gulshan Grover
- Harman Baweja
- Harry Ahluwalia
- Jassi Gill
- Jaspal Bhatti
- Jimmy Shergill
- Juhi Chawla
- Jyothika
- Kabir Bedi
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Karan Johar
- Kapil Sharma
- Khursheed Bano
- Kiran Juneja
- Kirron Kher
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kunal Kapoor
- Mahek Chahal
- Mahie Gill
- Mallika Sherawat
- Mandira Bedi
- Mangal Dhillon
- Mehar Mittal
- Minissha Lamba
- Mink Brar
- Mona Singh
- Monica Bedi
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mukesh Rishi
- Navin Nischol
- Neeru Bajwa
- Neetu Singh
- Neha Dhupia
- Neil Nitin Mukesh
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pavan Malhotra
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bedi
- Poonam Dhillon
- Pran
- Praveen Kumar
- Prem Chopra
- Priya Gill
- Pulkit Samrat
- Puneet Issar
- Raageshwari
- Raj Babbar
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rajit Kapur
- Rakesh Bedi
- Ranjeet
- Rana Ranbir
- Ram Kapoor
- Raveena Tandon
- Rati Agnihotri
- Ruby Bhatia
- Samir Soni
- Sargun Mehta
- Sudesh Berry
- Shakti Kapoor
- Sheeba Chaddha
- Shiny Ahuja
- Siddharth Malhotra
- Simi Garewal
- Simone Singh
- Smriti Irani
- Sonu Sood
- Sunny Leone
- Suraiya
- Urvashi Sharma
- Varun Dhawan
- Veena Malik
- Vikas Bhalla
- Vijay Arora
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Shauq
- Yami Gautam
- Yash Johar
- Yukta Mookhey
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Kareena Kapoor Khan Indian film actress
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Celina Miss India Universe 2001, Actress
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Akshay Kumar Indian film actor
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US Pornstar and Bollywood actress Sunny Leone
Singers
- Akriti Kakkar
- Abrar-ul-Haq
- Amrinder Gill
- Anushka Manchanda
- Arijit Singh
- Atif Aslam
- Arif Lohar
- Babbu Mann
- Bhupinder Singh
- Bohemia
- Daler Mehndi
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Gippy Grewal
- Gurdas Maan
- Hans Raj Hans
- Hard Kaur
- Himani Kapoor
- Honey Singh
- Jassi Gill
- Jagjit Singh
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jazzy B
- Kanika Kapoor
- Kavita Seth
- Kundan Lal Saigal
- Labh Janjua
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Meena Kapoor
- Mika Singh
- Mohammed Rafi
- Mukesh
- Narinder Biba
- Narendra Chanchal
- Neeraj Shridhar
- Neha Bhasin
- Nitin Mukesh
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Parkash Kaur
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- Rekha Bhardwaj
- Richa Sharma
- Satinder Sartaaj, Punjabi Sufi Singer
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Shailendra Singh
- Shamshad Begum
- Shibani Kashyap
- Shaukat Ali
- Soni Pabla, Bhangra Singer
- Sonu Nigam
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Suraiyya
- Suraj Jagan
- Surinder Kaur
- Taz (singer), lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation
- Tulsi Kumar
- Wadali brothers
- Ali Zafar
- Noor Jehan
Directors
- Abdur Rashid Kardar
- Abhishek Kapoor
- Aditya Chopra
- Anil Sharma
- Arjun Sablok
- B. R. Chopra
- Brij Sadanah
- Chetan Anand
- David Dhawan
- Deepa Mehta
- Deepak Balraj Vij
- Deepak Sareen
- Dharmesh Darshan
- Goldie Behl
- Gulzar
- Harry Baweja
- Inder Raj Anand
- J.P.Dutta
- Kamal Sadanah
- Karan Johar
- Karan Malhotra
- Kunal Kohli
- Lekh Tandon
- Loveleen Tandan
- Mira Nair
- Mohan Kumar
- Mukul Anand
- Pankaj Parashar
- Prakash Mehra
- Punit Malhotra
- Raj Kanwar
- Raj Khosla
- Rajiv Rai
- Rajkumar Kohli
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Ramanand Sagar
- Ravi Chopra
- Ravi Tandon
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Siddharth Anand
- Subhash Ghai
- Suneel Darshan
- Tinnu Anand
- Umesh Mehra
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Vijay Anand
- Vipin Handa
- Yash Chopra
Documentary Filmmakers
Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
History
Folklore
Religious and spiritual figures
Muslim Sufis
- Data Ganj Bakhsh
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
- Baha-ud-din Zakariya
- Bulleh Shah
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar (The first major work done in the Punjabi language)
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid
- Mian Mir
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
- Rukn-e-Alam
- Shah Hussain
- Sultan Bahu
- Waris Shah
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Main article: Khalifatul Masih
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889–1908)
- Malauna Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1908–1914)
- Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982–2003)
- Mirza Masroor Ahmad (2003–present)
The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
Main article: The Sikh Gurus
Sikh
- Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
- Nanua Bairagi, Sikh mystic, martyr and poet
- Sharan Kaur Pabla martyr who died while performing the last rites of Guru Gobind Singh's older sons
- Labh Singh Saini ((1895–1947) Freedom Fighter & President of Shiromani Akali Dal)
- Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964–1980, highest spiritual & temporal authority of Sikhs
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Amrita Pritam
- Bhai Gurdas
- Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Bulleh Shah
- Damodar Das Arora
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Giani Gurdit Singh
- Gulzar, (Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner for the film Slumdog Millionaire
- Hafeez Jullundhri
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Harbhajan Singh
- Hashim Shah
- Inderjit Hasanpuri
- Jaswant Neki
- Jaswant Singh Rahi
- Kulwant Singh Virk
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Mian Muhammad Baksh
- Munir Niazi
- Nanak Singh
- Navtej Bharati
- Pash
- Rahul Saini
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Shah Mohammad
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Shareef Kunjahi
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Ustad Daman
- Waris Shah
- Waseem Tarar
English
Journalists
India
England
Pakistan
Electronic/Broadcast
India
Pakistan
Canada
Lollywood
- Anwar Kamal Pasha
- Noor Jehan
- Waheed Murad
- Fawad Khan
- Javed Sheikh
- Babar Ali
- Sultan Rahi
- Munawar Zarif
Tamil cinema
- Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
- Nagma, Punjabi Hindu
- Jyothika, Punjabi Muslim
- Tamannaah Bhatia, Punjabi Hindu
- Kajal Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
- Sonia Aggarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Models
- Amarjot Kaur[15]
- Hasleen Kaur
- Jesse Randhawa, a Bollywood model
- Kuljeet Randhawa
- Mahek Chahal
- Mandira Bedi
- Manmeet Singh
- Navneet Kaur Dhillon
- Neha Kapur
- Neelam Gill, Burberry model[16]
- Simran Kaur Mundi
- Sonampreet Bajwa
Musicians
- Gurdas Mann (Punjabi Musician,Singer,Lyricist)
- Babbu Mann (Punjabi Musician,Singer)
- Honey Singh (Punjabi rapper)
- Bohemia (Pakistani American Punjabi rapper)
- Sukshinder Shinda (Punjabi Musician)
Classical
- Allah Rakha
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Kamal Heer
- Manmohan Waris
- Sangtar
- Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Shanno Khurana (b. 1927), Hindustani classical singer, Padma Bhushan[17]
- Zakir Hussain
Music Directors Bollywood
Lyricists
- Bohemia (Punjabi rapper)
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Qamar Jalalabadi
- Anand Bakshi
- Gulshan Bawra
- Irshad Kamil
- Gulzar
Pakistan
Qawwalis
Ghazals
Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk
India
- Amar Singh Chamkila
- Apache Indian
- Asa Singh Mastana
- B21
- Babbu Maan
- Bally Sagoo
- Bombay Rockers
- Channi Singh
- Daler Mehndi
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Dr. Zeus
- Gurdas Maan
- Gippy Grewal
- Hans Raj Hans
- Harbhajan Mann
- Hard Kaur
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Honey Singh
- Jagmeet Bal
- Jaspinder Narula
- Jay Sean
- Jazzy B
- Juggy D
- Kamal Heer
- Kuldeep Manak
- Kulwinder Dhillon
- Labh Janjua
- Lehmber Hussainpuri
- Malkit Singh
- Manmohan Waris
- Miss Pooja
- Panjabi MC
- Ravinder Grewal
- Rishi Rich
- Sukhbir
- Sukhshinder Shinda
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Surinder Kaur
- Surinder Shinda
- Surjit Bindrakhia
- Taz
Pakistan
Pop and Rock
India
Pakistan
United States
- Himanshu Suri, of the Brooklyn-based rap outfit Das Racist[18]
Revolutionaries
Politicians
India
- Amarinder Singh
- Arun Jaitley
- Ashwani Kumar
- Bhagwant Mann
- Baldev Singh
- Bibi Jagir Kaur
- Buta Singh
- Darbara Singh
- Giani Zail Singh
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Inder Kumar Gujral
- Jagjit Singh Taunque
- Krishan Kant
- Kanshi Ram
- Madanlal Khurana
- Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan
- Manmohan Singh
- Master Tara Singh
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Pratap Singh Kairon
- Rai Bahadur Chaudhari Dewan Chand Saini
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Sant Fateh Singh
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Sheila Dikshit
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Swaran Singh
- Laxmi Kanta Chawla
- Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
- Parminder Singh Dhindsa
- Sarup Chand Singla
Pakistan
- Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq
- Chaudhry Amir Hussain
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
- Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
- Feroz Khan Noon
- Ghulam Bibi
- Hamza Shahbaz
- Hanif Ramay
- Imran Khan
- Jagjit Singh Taunque, Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands
- Liaqat Abbas Bhatti
- Liaqat Ali Khan
- Malik Amjad Ali Noon
- Malik Anwer Ali Noon
- Ghulam Muhammad
- Malik Meraj Khalid
- Master Taj-uj-Din Ansari
- Mazhar Ali Azhar
- Mian Iftikharuddin
- Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
- Mian Umar Hayat
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Mushahid Hussain Syed
- Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan
- Nawaz Sharif
- Saqlain Anwar Sipra
- Sardar Fraz Wahlah
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Shahid Hussain Bhatti
- Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din
- Sheikh Waqas Akram
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
- Syeda Sughra Imam
- Wasim Sajjad
United States
- Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Sunny Dhoorh
- Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Sportspersons
Baseball
Tennis
Cricket
India
- Aashish Kapoor
- Ajay Ratra
- Akash Chopra
- Amarjit Kaypee
- Ashok Malhotra
- Ashish Nehra
- Atul Wassan
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Chetan Sharma
- Gautam Gambhir
- Gourav Dhiman
- Gursharan Singh
- Harbhajan Singh
- Harvinder Singh
- Jahangir Khan (cricketer)
- Kapil Dev[19]
- Lala Amarnath
- Maninder Singh
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Nikhil Chopra
- Piyush Chawla
- Rajinder Ghai
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Sunny Sohal
- Surinder Amarnath
- Surinder Khanna
- V. R. V. Singh
- Vijay Dahiya
- Vijay Mehra
- Virat Kohli
- Yuvraj Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Yadavendra Singh
Pakistan
- Aamer Malik
- Aamer Sohail
- Aaqib Javed
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar
- Abdul Qadir
- Abdul Razzaq
- Aizaz Cheema
- Asif Masood
- Ata-ur-Rehman
- Azeem Hafeez
- Azhar Mahmood
- Fazal Mahmood
- Ijaz Ahmed
- Imran Farhat
- Imran Nazir
- Imtiaz Ahmed
- Intikhab Alam
- Inzamam-ul-Haq
- Kamran Akmal
- Khan Mohammad
- Mahmood Hussain
- Majid Khan
- Maqsood Ahmed
- Mohammad Hafeez
- Mohammad Ilyas
- Mohammad Nazir
- Mohammad Wasim
- Mohammad Yousuf
- Mohammed Asif
- Moin Khan
- Mudassar Nazar
- Mushtaq Ahmed
- Pervez Sajjad
- Rameez Raja
- Saeed Ahmed
- Saleem Altaf
- Saleem Elahi
- Saleem Malik
- Salman Butt
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- Sarfraz Nawaz
- Shabbir Ahmed
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Shoaib Malik
- Shujauddin
- Sohail Tanvir
- Tahir Naqqash
- Talat Ali
- Taufeeq Umar
- Waqar Hasan
- Waqar Younis
- Wasim Akram
- Wasim Raja
- Zaheer Abbas
England
Canada
New Zealand
Basketball
Hockey
- Sohail Abbas
- Shahnaz Sheikh
- Kalimullah
- Manzoor Hussain
- Hasan Sardar
- Hanif Khan
- Wasim Feroz
- Shahbaz Ahmed
- Muhammad Shahbaz
- Kamran Ashraf
- Abdul Rashid
- Asif Bajwa
Field hockey
ICE hockey
Ajay Baines Prab Rai Jujhar Khaira Robin Bawa
Athletics
Golf
Wrestling
- Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama) Remained undefeated
- Dara Singh
- Bholu Pahalwan
- The Great Khali
- Premchand Dogra
- Aslam Pehlwan Rustam-e-Punjab
- Tiger Jeet Singh
- Gurjit Singh
- Sonjay Dutt (real name Ritesh Bhalla), TNA wrestler
- Younus Khan (Former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Shooting
- Abhinav Bindra, 1st individual Olympic Gold Medalist
- Gagan Narang, the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
- Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee
Cycling
- Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics
Soccer
Foreign
- Michael Chopra, English footballer
- Harpal Singh
- Harmeet Singh
India
- Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, 2nd Indian goalkeeper and 1st to professionally play as GK for 1st division European club
- Sandesh Jhingan, India u-23 and national team player, was adjudged the best footballer of the inaugural ISL
- Jarnail Singh
Boxing
Volleyball
Mixed Martial Arts
- Kultar Gill, Indian-Canadian Mixed Martial Artist
- Singh Jaideep, Indian-Japanese Mixed Martial Artist
References
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