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Punjabi Muslims (
Punjabi : پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of
Islam who are
linguistically ,
culturally , or
genealogically
Punjabis . Primarily geographically native to the
Punjab province of
Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Artists
Authors
Punjabi
Classical
Modern
Urdu
Persian
Business
Anwar Pervez , founder of
Bestway
Ashar Aziz , founder of
FireEye in Silicon Valley
Bashir Tahir , former CEO of Dhabi Group
Fred Hassan , director at
Warburg Pincus
James Caan , founder of Hamilton Bradshaw
Malik Riaz , founder of Bahria Town,
Mansoor Ijaz , founder of Crescent Investment Management Ltd
Mian Muhammad Latif , founder of Chenab Group
Mian Muhammad Mansha , founder of Nishat Group
Michael Chowdrey , founder of
Atlas Air
Muhammad Zahoor , owner of ISTIL Group
Shahid Khan , owner of Flex-N-Gate, Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C
Sohaib Abbasi , former CEO of
Informatica
Zameer Choudrey , CEO of Bestway
Folklore
Legendary
Military
Air Force
Army
General (R)
Raheel Sharif , former
Chief of Army Staff of the
Pakistan Army
General (R)
Qamar Javed Bajwa , former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General
Zia ul Haq , former Chief of Army Staff and
President of Pakistan
General (R)
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani , former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army
General (R)
Tikka Khan , former
COAS of the
Pakistan Army and Victor of the
Rann of Kutch
General (R)
Asif Nawaz
Janjua , former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General
Asim Munir , current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
Lt Gen (R)
Asim Saleem Bajwa
Lt Gen (R)
Abdul Ali Malik
Lt Gen (R)
Nasser Khan Janjua
Lt Gen (R)
Mahmud Ahmed
Maj Gen (R)
Rao Farman Ali
Maj Gen (R)
Muhammed Akbar Khan
Maj Gen
Iftikhar Janjua , most senior Pakistani officer killed in battle during
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the front line
Maj Gen (R)
Iftikhar Khan , first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
Maj Gen (R)
Muhammad Yusaf Khan
Maj Gen (R)
Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
Maj Gen (R)
Akhtar Hussain Malik
Maj Gen (R)
Ashraf Rashid
Maj Gen (R)
Noel Israel Khokhar
Brig (R)
Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
Brig (R)
Amir Gulistan Janjua
Major
Tufail Muhammad ,
Nishan-e-Haider
Major
Raja Aziz Bhatti , Nishan-e-Haider
Major
Muhammad Akram , Nishan-e-Haider
Major
Shabbir Sharif , Nishan-e-Haider
Captain
Muhammad Sarwar , Nishan-e-Haider
Naik
Saif Ali Janjua , Nishan-e-Haider
Lance Naik
Muhammad Mahfuz , Nishan-e-Haider
Sowar
Muhammad Hussain , Nishan-e-Haider
Navy
Recipients of the Victoria Cross
Khudadad Khan , operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the
Western Front
Shahamad Khan , covered a 150 yard gap at the
Tigris Front in
Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
Abdul Hafiz , charged at enemy lines in
Burma
Sher Shah Awan , commanded a platoon ambushed by the
Japanese , his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
Fazal Din , ran through the chest in
Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it
Music
Punjabi Folk
Sufi Qawwali
Classical Hindustani Gharanas
Modern Playback
Politicians
United Kingdom
Royalty
Mughal nobility
Adina Beg (1710–1758), last Muslim governor of Punjab
People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin
Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
Scientists and academics
Abdus Salam , theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Mahbub ul Haq , widely regarded as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century.
[14]
Farooq Azam , professor of oceanography at the
University of California, San Diego
Tariq Ali , political activist, historian, writer, journalist and public intellectual
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry , nuclear physicist and pioneer of Pakistan's nuclear weapons research program
Nayyar Ali Dada , architect in modernist architecture
Fayyazuddin , theoretical physicist
Tasawar Hayat , mathematician
Shahbaz Khan , hydrologist and director of the UNESCO cluster office in Jakarta
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood , nuclear engineer
Salim Mehmud , rocket scientist
Atif Mian , professor of economics, public policy and finance at
Princeton University
Zia Mian , physicist and co-director of the program on science and global security at
Princeton University
Ghulam Murtaza , theoretical physicist
Qaiser Mushtaq , mathematician
Adil Najam , dean of global studies at
Boston University
Khalil Qureshi , physical chemist
Muneer Ahmad Rashid , mathematical physicist
Sportspersons
Cricket
Freestyle Wrestling
Weightlifting
Field hockey
See also
References
^ Fisher, Michael Herbert (2019).
A Short History of the Mughal Empire . I.B. Tauris.
ISBN
978-0-7556-0491-3 . Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam)
^
"Shahbaz Khan - Banglapedia" . en.banglapedia.org . Retrieved 2022-09-28 .
^ Siddiqui, Shabbir A. (1986).
"Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan" . Proceedings of the Indian History Congress . 47 : 273–276.
ISSN
2249-1937 .
JSTOR
44141552 .
^ Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India Henry Riven (2015-01-01).
District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1904 . Facsimile Publisher. p. 87.
^ Gujral, Maninder S. (2000-12-19).
"ADINA BEG KHAN" . The Sikh Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2022-09-28 .
^ Mubārak, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn (1891).
The Ain I Akbari . Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 321.
^ Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (2024-03-19).
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 . University of Texas Press.
ISBN
978-1-4773-2879-8 . The latter sultanate was founded by a former Tughluq governor, perhaps from a family of Punjabi Khatri converts, who took the title Muzaffar Shah in the early fifteenth century but reigned for only a short time.
^ Eaton, Richard M. (2019-07-25).
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 . Penguin UK. p. 105.
ISBN
978-0-14-196655-7 . The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan, illustrates the transition to an increasingly polycentric north India.
^ Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996).
Historical Dictionary of the British Empire . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 773.
ISBN
978-0-313-27917-1 . Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore.
^ Dalrymple, William (2019-09-10).
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire . Bloomsbury USA. p. 264.
ISBN
978-1-63557-395-4 . The second power was a new force, which in the 1770s was just emerging and beginning to flex its military muscles: the Mysore Sultanate of Haidar Ali and his formidable warrior son, Tipu Sultan. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army, where he introduced many of the innovations he had learned from observing French troops at work in the Carnatic Wars.
^
Gott, Richard (2022).
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt . Verso Books. p. 47.
ISBN
978-1-83976-422-6 .
Archived from the original on 26 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023 . Haidar Ali was an illiterate Punjabi who rose from the ranks of the Mysore army to become its commander.
^
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition: Supplement . Brill Archive. 1980-01-01.
ISBN
978-90-04-06167-5 . Contemporary writers mention him by his honorific title, Ayn-Al Mulk, with the nisba Multani, because he hailed from Multan
^ Iqtidar Alam Khan (2008).
Historical Dictionary of Medieval India . Scarecrow. p. 107.
ISBN
9780810864016 .
^
"Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE | Human Development Reports" . hdr.undp.org . January 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-23 .
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