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*[[Shaukat Hayat Khan]], senior Muslim League leader and political figure
*[[Tahira Mazhar Ali]], socialist leader and public activist
*[[Izzet Hayat Khan]], businessman and former Pakistani ambassador to [[Tunisia]] Among his grandchildren are [[Tariq Ali]], the British-Pakistani socialist writer and [[Yawar Hayat Khan]], former senior director/producer of PTV (Pakistan Television); among his great-grandchildren is the noted Pakistani poet and scholar Omer Tarin.
*'''Sardar Ghairat Hayat Khan,''' Like the 'last of the Mohicans', retains a specific aura of the name, and a linkage to a glorious past. He was the last surviving son of the scion of the most powerful political family of Punjab in the first half of the 20th century. '''Ghairat''' aur known as Garry to his loved ones was the youngest of the 5 brothers and 5 sisters, and only 10 years old when Sikandar died in 1942. He was sent to Chiefs College, Lahore in 1943 (the college was renamed as Aitchison College after partition), from where he went to Dehradun, the Indian Military Academy for a career in the army. He was a sportsman par excellence, captaining the football team at the military academy. The cadet stint was interrupted by the partition in 1947, and he returned to Aitchison College again to finish his schooling. He captained the cricket team at Aitchison. At Aitchison his classmates were Fazle Haq, Naseerullah Babar, Sher Baz Mazari, Durrani and Sadiq Abbasi. He was a dare devil and unlike his brothers worked at Bata Shoes and later as Director Sales at Walter Locke & Co. He fell in love with his first cousin, married her secretly (because both were legally minors) and moved to his ancestral village Wah from Lahore where he dedicated his life for public service. He dominated the local politics of Wah since his arrival in 1964. He became and remained Chairman of Wah Union Council for 32 years - interspersed with a few stints at national politics on invitations. He was member of National Assembly from 1980-1984, and a special magistrate during 1989-91 period. His advice was solicited regularly both by President Ayub Khan and Z. A. Bhutto, especially during their problematic post-power predicaments. One of the very few who met Bhutto at Murree after Zial-Ul-Haq took over, and told him to be careful and not to address Zia in derogatory terms. In the capacity of Chairman of the Union Council, he did many useful projects for the local public. Generous and philanthropic, he donated a large sums of his own funds for public benefits. Whoever came with needs, he helped out. He gifted prized parcel of his own land on Peshawar Road to the Union Council offices for the convenience and ease of operations. He practiced and preached sufistic Islam and believed in spirituality.
|website=WordPress.com website}}</ref> Another of his great-grandsons, Shehryar Kureshi, is a singer-songwriter and led a band named Fringe Benefits during the 1990s era.{{citation needed |date=October 2021}}
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