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The following is a list of notable Pakistani Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Pakistani American or must have references showing they are Pakistani American and are notable.

Academia, science and technology

Professor Asad Abidi receiving the IEEE Pederson Award at ISSCC 2008
Professor Adil Najam during a talk at Deutsche Welle Building in Bonn, Germany on January 21, 2010

Business and finance

Shahid Khan at a 2015 Jacksonville Jaguars vs Washington Redskins match
  • Farooq Kathwari – chairman, president and chief executive officer of Ethan Allen [36]
  • Fred Hassan – chairman of the board and chief executive officer of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough from 2003 to 2009, when the company completed its merger with Merck & Co [37]
  • Ghulam Bombaywala – owner and operator of multiple restaurants
  • Javed Ahmed – currently lives in London, where his headquarters are; former chief executive officer of Tate & Lyle, [38] a FTSE 250 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands [39]
  • Mansoor Ijaz – businessman; founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC, a New York investment partnership; commentator on Fox News [40]
  • Michael Chowdry – businessman; founder of air cargo company Atlas Air, which in 2001 was worth over $1.39 billion [41]
  • Nabeel Gareeb – appointed president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of MEMC in 2002; [42] according to CNN he was the 24th highest paid CEO in 2006; [43] according to Forbes he was the 6th highest earning CEO in 2008 in the US [44]
  • Qasim Khan – international automotive business management executive who has served with General Motors Company since 1999 at various International operations in Middle East, Russia/ CIS, South Korea and Middle East operations while his US assignments were based at company's offices in New York (Cadillac Global HQ), Miami (Latin American HQ) and Michigan.
  • Ramesh Balwani – businessman; former president and COO of Theranos
  • Safi Qureshey – former CEO and co-founder of AST Research, a Fortune 500 company with revenues over US$2.5 billion [45]
  • Shahid Khan – president of Flex-N-Gate Corp., with $2 billion in annual revenue; [46] in mid-December 2011 bought a majority stake of NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars for $760 million [47]
  • Sohaib Abbasi – former chairman and CEO of Informatica
  • Tariq Farid – entrepreneur; owner and CEO of Edible Arrangements [48]
  • Zia Chishti – founder, CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Afiniti.
  • Osman Rashid – co-founder of Chegg

Media, art and entertainment

There are Urdu radio stations in areas with high Pakistani populations. Several cable and satellite providers offer Pakistani channels, including GEO TV, [49] ARY Digital, [50] and PTV. [51] Others have offered Pakistani content for subscription, such as when Pakistan played Australia for the Cricket World Cup in 1999. In July 2005, MTV premiered a spin-off network called MTV Desi which targets South Asian Americans in the US, including Pakistanis. [52] MTV Desi closed operations as part of the shutdown of MTV World in April 2007. [53]

Munni Begum, ghazal singer
Kamran Rashid Khan, also known as Lazarus, is a graduate of Wayne State University.

Military

Pageant winners

Politics, government and law

Sada Cumber served as Special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on February 27, 2008.

Sports

  • Gibran Hamdan – professional footballer in the NFL; first person of Pakistani descent to play in the NFL
  • Hasan Habib – professional poker player [100]
  • Mustafa Ali – professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, first wrestler in WWE of Pakistani descent
  • Nasir Javed – professional cricketer [101]
  • Nur B. Ali – racecar driver who drives in the ARCA Series for Cunningham Motorsports; the first Pakistani to become a racing driver; former two-time Southwest Formula Mazda Series Champion (2001 and 2002) [102]
  • Rashid Zia – professional cricketer; represented the United States in the ICC trophy in 2001 [103]

Writers

Bapsi Sidhwa at the 2008 Texas Book Festival

Other

See also

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