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This is a list of prominent people from the Punjab region of Northern India and Pakistan.
Mythology
History
Folklore
Religious and spiritual figures
Sufis
- Data Ganj Baksh
- Sultan Bahu
- Baba Farid
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid
- Shah Hussain
- Mian Mir
- Waris Shah
- Bulle Shan
The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
Military leaders
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- Bulleh Shah
- Waris Shah
- Hashim Shah
- Bhai Gurdas
- Shah Mohammad
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Mian Muhammad Baksh
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Krishan Chander
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Abid Tamimi
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Gulzar
- Surjit Patar
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Pash
- Sarabjit Bedi
English
Journalists
Pakistan
India
- Kuldip Nayyar/Kuldip Nayar
- Arun Shourie
- Aroon Purie
- Vinod Mehta
- Tavleen Singh
- Yoginder Sikand
- Veeresh Malik
Electronic/Broadcast
Pakistan
India
Artists
Nobel Laureates
- Har Gobind Khorana (India)
- Abdus Salam (Pakistan)
Musicians
Classical
Bollywood
Qawwalis
Ghazals
Bhajans
Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk
India
- Asa Singh Mastana
- Prakash Kaur
- Surinder Shinda
- Didar Sandhu
- Surinder Kaur
- Jagmohan Kaur
- Kuldip Manak
- Amar Singh Chamkila
- Gurdas Mann
- Malkit Singh
- Sardul Sikandar
- Dilshad Akhtar
- Manmohan Waris
- Daler Mehndi
- Surjit Bindrakhia
- Balkar Sidhu
- Lehmber Hussainpuri
- Sarabjit Cheema
- Hansraj Hans
- Jaspinder Narula
- Dr. Zeus
- Bombay Rockers
- Harshdeep Kaur
Pakistan
United Kingdom
- Sukhshinder Shinda
- Jazzy B
- Bally Sagoo
- Apache Indian
- Channi Singh
- Panjabi MC
- Jay Sean
- Hard Kaur
- Rishi Rich
- Juggy D
- Taz
- B21
United States
Canada
Pop and Rock
India
Pakistan
Film personalities
Punjabi Music Industry
Video Directors
Lollywood
Bollywood
The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:
Families
The Kapoors - 1
- Prithviraj Kapoor
- Raj Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Geeta Bali
- Shashi Kapoor
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rishi Kapoor
- Neetu Singh
- Rajiv Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Kareena Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor
The Kapoors - 2
The Malhotras
The Sahnis
The Anands
The Chopras
The Dutts
The Deols
The Tullis
The Puris
The Khannas - 1
- Rajesh Khanna
- Akshay Kumar(aka Rajiv Bhatia, husband of Twinkle Khanna)
- Twinkle Khanna
- Rinke Khanna
The Khannas - 2
The Roshans
The Bedis
The Kapurs - 1
- Jeetendra(Ravi Kapur)
- Tusshar Kapoor
The Kapurs - 2
The Devgans
The Oberois
Individual Artistes
- Kamini Kaushal
- Pran
- Prem Chopra
- Dara Singh
- Anand Bakshi
- Achala Sachdev
- Manoj Kumar
- Om Prakash
- Vimmi
- Hardeep Singh
- Gulzar
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Navin Nischol
- Varun Sharma
- Vinod Mehra
- Ranjeet
- Om Puri
- Subhash Ghai
- Raj Babbar
- Rati Agnihotri
- Deepti Naval
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Shakti Kapoor
- Gulshan Grover
- Rajneesh Verma
- Amrita Singh
- Juhi Chawla
- Sonu Walia
- Raveena Tandon
- David Dhawan
- Karan Johar
- Pooja Batra
- Divya Dutta
- Gaurav Chawla
- Jimmy Shergill
- Gracy Singh
- Celina Jaitley
- Lara Dutta
- Priyanka Chopra
Crossover directors and actors
Models
Revolutionaries
Politicians
India
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Baldev Singh
- Master Tara Singh
- Sant Fateh Singh
- Gurcharan Singh Tohra
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Krishan Kant
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Swaran Singh
- Darbara Singh
- Pratap Singh Kairon
- Giani Zail Singh
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Inder Kumar Gujral
- Manmohan Singh
- Buta Singh
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Amarinder Singh
- Arun Jaitley
- Madanlal Khurana
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Bibi Jagir Kaur
Pakistan
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- Ghulam Muhammad
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
- Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
- Feroz Khan Noon
- Ayub Khan
- Yahya Khan
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Wasim Sajjad
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
- Nawaz Sharif
- Miraj Khalid
- Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
- Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
- Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
- Mushahid Hussain
- Chaudhry Amir Hussain Speaker of National Assembly Pakistan
Sportspersons
Soccer
Cricket
India
- Yadavendra Singh
- Lala Amarnath
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Surinder Amarnath
- Kapil Dev
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Gursharan Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Maninder Singh
- Rajinder Ghai
- Surinder Khanna
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Chetan Sharma
- Madan Lal
- Ashok Malhotra
- Vijay Mehra
- Aashish Kapoor
- Raman Lamba
- Atul Wassan
- Akash Chopra
- Nikhil Chopra
- Dinesh Mongia
- Harvinder Singh
- Harbhajan Singh
- Yuvraj Singh
- Vikram Singh
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Gourav Dhiman
Pakistan
- Abdul Kardar
- Fazal Mahmood
- Hanif Mohammad
- Wasim Akram
- Waqar Younis
- Saeed Anwar
- Imran Khan
- Aamer Sohail
- Rameez Raja
- Sarfraz Nawaz
- Inzamam-ul-Haq
- Mohammad Yousuf
- Salim Malik
- Shoaib Malik
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Aqib Javid
- Abdul Razak
- Saqlain Mushtaq
- Rashid Latif
Hockey
- Ajitpal Singh
- Ajit Singh
- Balbir Singh Kular
- Prithipal Singh
- Col Gurbir Singh Kular
- Tarsem Singh Kular
- Baljeet Singh Saini
- Pargat Singh
- Gagan Ajeet Singh
- Parbhjot Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Jugraj Singh
- Kawalpreet Singh
- Baljit Singh Dhillon
- Tejvir Singh
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