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Surname in India and Pakistan
Cheema (
Punjabi : ਚੀਮਾ (
Gurmukhi ) , چیمہ (
Shahmukhi ) ) is a
Punjabi
Jat clan of India and Pakistan.
[1]
[2]
Pakistan
Aizaz Cheema (born 1979), Pakistani international cricketer
Akmal Cheema , Pakistani nazim (mayor) of Sialkot District, Punjab, Pakistan
Amir Abdur Rehman Cheema (c.1978 – 2006), Pakistani who assaulted an editor over Muhammad's cartoons
Anwar Ali Cheema , Member, National Assembly of Pakistan from 1985 to 2013, from Sargodha District
[3]
Azam Cheema , Lashkar-e-Taiba operative
Chaudhry Aamir Sultan Cheema , Pakistani politician
Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema , judge and politician
Mohammad Afzal Cheema (1913–2008), judge and politician, Acting President of Pakistan
Nisar Ahmed Cheema , politician and member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-79 and former Director General, Health Services, Punjab
Omer Sarfraz Cheema , Pakistani politician who serves as 38th Governor of Punjab, Pakistan
Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema (born 1940), Pakistani scholar of international relations and strategic studies
Rizwan Cheema , Canadian cricketer
Saif Ullah Cheema , Pakistani military officer and politician
Shafqat Cheema , Pakistani film actor and director
Dr.
Sultan Ahmed Cheema (1908–1990) (Sitara-i-Khidmat ), ophthalmologist who established the Cheema Hospital in Daska, Punjab, Pakistan
Tahir Bashir Cheema , Pakistan Peoples Party member from Bahawalpur District
Umar Cheema , TV and print journalist in Pakistan
India
Canada
United Kingdom
Bobbie Cheema-Grubb , first British Indian and Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom
See also
References
^ Journal of Regional History . Vol. 2. Department of History, Guru Nanak Dev University. 1981. p. 29.
^ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B".
Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles . People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357.
ISBN
0-19-563357-1 .
OCLC
35662663 .
^ Amjad Mahmood (21 December 2020).
"Sargodha's citrus claim to fame" . Dawn (newspaper) . Retrieved 25 February 2023 . With a population of around 4.9m in the district, Jatt is the major tribe whose sub-clans like Noons, Ranjhas, Pirachas, Cheemas, Gondals, Midhianas, Chatthas, Tiwanas and Luks are mostly engaged with farming.