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This is a full spectrum list of notable Punjabi people from Pakistan, India and the emigrant Punjabi worldwide, including in the EU, United States, Canada and other places.

Military leaders

Indian Armed Forces

Airforce

Marshal Arjan Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.,^[1] Only Marshal in the History of Indian Air Force
Air Chief Marshal Surinder Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Satish Sareen, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.^[2]

Army

Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), He is known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army.
General Deepak Kapoor, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Pran Nath Thapar, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Om Prakash Malhotra, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Ved Prakash Malik, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Nirmal Chander Vij, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Joginder Jaswant Singh, Former Indian Army Chief.^[3]
Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to don the second highest rank of Lt General^[4] and the first lady to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy.^[5]
Shabeg Singh
Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora (Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਰੋਰਾ; February 13, 1916– May 3, 2005) was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He led the ground forces campaign in the Eastern front of the war.
General Bikram Singh, former Indian Army Chief.

Navy

Admiral S.N Kohli, Former Chief of Indian Navy
Admiral S.M Nanda, Former Chief of Indian Navy

Other notables

Kiran Bedi - First women IPS officer
Uday Singh Taunque – awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star, first Indian to die in Iraq War as part of the US Army

Pakistan Armed Forces

Army

Major General Shahida Malik ( First woman general in the South Asia )
General Raheel Sharif Current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General (R) Zia ul Haq former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General (R) Tikka Khan former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General (R) Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistan army
General (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan Kaimkhani, former Vice Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
General (R) Muhammed Akbar Khan - The first Muslim to become a General in British Indian Army.
Lt Gen (R) Raja Saroop Khan former Governor of Punjab
Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Khan - the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
Maj Gen (R) Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua, Indian freedom fighter with the Indian National Army
Maj Gen (R) Akhtar Hussain Malik
Maj Gen (R) Raja Sakhi Daler Khan Mangral
Maj Gen (R) Rao Farman Ali, Adviser to the Government of Pakistan
Lt Gen (R) Abdul Ali Malik
Maj Gen (R) Iftikhar Janjua, the most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 while fighting with his troops on the frontline
Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, HI(M), T Bt, Punjab — DG Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Rawalpindi
Maj Gen (R) Noel Israel Khokhar, HI(M)
Brig (R) Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan Member Azad Kashmir Council
Brig (R) Amir Gulistan Janjua, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
Muhammad Sarwar Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed Janjua - Nishan-e-Haider winner
Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed - Nishan-e-Haider winner
Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed Nishan-e-Haider winner
Khudadad Khan Minhas - Victoria Cross winner

Navy

Admiral (R) Muhammad Afzal Tahir, (NI(M))
Admiral Muhammad Asif Sandila, (HI(M), L'honneur, NI(M))

Airforce

Air Marshal Nur Khan
Air Marshal Abdul Rahim Khan
Air Chief Marshal Zafar Chaudhry
Air Chief Marshal Zulfiqar Ali Khan
Air Chief-Marshal Jamal Ahmad Khan
Air Chief Marshal M Anwar Shamim
Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat Rana
Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed Minhas - Nishan-e-Haider winner

PreModern era Punjab

Maharaja Ranjit Singh - the founder of the Sikh Empire

Business

Shahid Khan Pakistani-born American multi billionaire businessmen owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Premier League team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois.
Kushal Pal Singh - Chairman & CEO DLF
Ajay Banga, corporate executive, president and COO- MasterCard, ex-CEO Citi Group Asia Pacific
Aroon Purie, India Today group
Avtar Lit founder, Sunrise Radio
Avtar Saini, former director, India operations of Montalvo Systems and former vice president of Intel
Bob Singh Dhillon, Sikh Punjabi Indian-Canadian property businessman
Brijmohan Lal Munjal, founder of Hero Group^[6]
F C Kohli, regarded as the father of the Indian software industry, founder of TCS
Gaurav Dhillon, Jat businessman and founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation
Gulshan Kumar, T Series
Gurbaksh Chahal
Jay Sidhu, former chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Jessie Singh Saini, Indo-American industrialist
Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
M S Banga, corporate executive, ex-CEO - Hindustan Lever, director on board- Maruti Udyog Limited
Malvinder Mohan Singh, Ranbaxy/Fortis Group
Mian Muhammad Mansha, prominent Pakistani industrialist
Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels^[7]
Narinder Singh Kapany, was named as one of the seven "Unsung Heroes" by Fortune magazine
Rana Kapoor, founder and managing director of Yes Bank
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and president of i2 Technologies
Sunil Mittal, owner of Bharti Airtel
Vikram Chatwal, hotelier
Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium processor
Vinod Khosla co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Saigol Group Pakistani business group and industrialists
Divan Group Pakistani business group and industrialists

Artists

Educators and Scientists

Abdus Salam,Nobel prize winner
Ishfaq Ahmad, theoretical physicist
Umar Saif, Computer Scientist
Munir Ahmad Khan Nuclear Physicist
Hargurdeep (Deep) Saini, Vice President and Principal of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel prize winner
Indu Banga, historian at Punjab University, Chandigarh
Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of political science, University of Stockholm, and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor at Virginia Tech
Pritam Saini, English, Punjabi, Hindi & Urdu writer, historian & literary critic^[8]
Rashid Kausar, Professor of Knowledge Management
Sanjay Saini, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School^[9]^[10]
Satish Dhawan
Subhash Saini, Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA^[11]

Arfa Karim Randhawa youngest Pakistani Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Sabeer Bhatia founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr

Astronauts

Bollywood

The following is a list of famous Punjabi families and individual artistes who have worked in Bollywood:

Family	Artistes
The Sahnis	Balraj Sahni, Bhisham Sahni, Parikshit Sahni
The Anands	Chetan Anand, Dev Anand, Vijay Anand
The Chopras - 1	Baldev Raj Chopra, Yash Chopra, Ravi Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra, Rani Mukerji Chopra
The Chopras - 2	Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra
The Deols	Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Esha Deol, Abhay Deol
The Malhotras	Prem Nath, Rajendra Nath, Bina Rai, Prem Kishen
The Roshans	Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan
The Singhs	Dara Singh, Vindu Dara Singh
The Rajs	Jagdish Raj, Anita Raj
The Puris	Madan Puri, Amrish Puri
The Khannas - 1	Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna
The Khannas - 2	Vinod Khanna,^[12] Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna
The Bedis	Kabir Bedi, Pooja Bedi, Protima Bedi
The Kapurs	Pankaj Kapur, Shahid Kapoor
The Kapoors	Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Karan Kapoor
The Devgans	Veeru Devgan, Ajay Devgan, Anil Devgan
The Kapoors	Jeetendra, Tusshar Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor
The Oberois	Suresh Oberoi, Vivek Oberoi
The Aroras	Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora
The Tulis	Rajendra Kumar, Kumar Gaurav
The Dutts	Nargis Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt

Individual artists

Kareena Kapoor Khan Indian film actress
Celina Miss India Universe 2001, Actress
Akshay Kumar Indian film actor
US Pornstar and Bollywood actress Sunny Leone

Singers

Akriti Kakkar
Abrar-ul-Haq
Anushka Manchanda
Atif Aslam
Arif Lohar
Babbu Mann
Bhupinder Singh
Bohemia
Daler Mehndi
Diljit Dosanjh
Gippy Grewal
Gurdas Maan
Hans Raj Hans
Hard Kaur
Himani Kapoor
Honey Singh
Jagjit Singh
Jaspinder Narula
Jazzy B
Kanika Kapoor
Kavita Seth
Kundan Lal Saigal
Labh Janjua
Mahendra Kapoor
Meena Kapoor
Mika Singh
Mohammed Rafi
Mukesh
Narinder Biba
Narendra Chanchal
Neeraj Shridhar
Neha Bhasin
Nitin Mukesh
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Parkash Kaur
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Rekha Bhardwaj
Richa Sharma
Satinder Sartaaj, Punjabi Sufi Singer
Harshdeep Kaur
Shailendra Singh
Shamshad Begum
Shibani Kashyap
Shaukat Ali
Soni Pabla, Bhangra Singer
Sonu Nigam
Sukhwinder Singh
Suraiyya
Suraj Jagan
Surinder Kaur
Taz (singer), lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation
Tulsi Kumar
Wadali brothers
Ali Zafar
Noor Jehan

Directors

Documentary Filmmakers

Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)

History

Folklore

Religious and spiritual figures

Muslim Sufis

File:BullehShah.jpg

Bulleh Shah was a Punjabi Sufi poet, a humanist and philosopher.

Data Ganj Bakhsh
Ahmad Sirhindi
Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
Baha-ud-din Zakariya
Bulleh Shah
Fariduddin Ganjshakar (The first major work done in the Punjabi language)
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Mian Mir
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Rukn-e-Alam
Shah Hussain
Shah Waliullah
Sultan Bahu
Waris Shah

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1889–1908)
Malauna Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (1908–1914)
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1914–1965)
Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982–2003)
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (2003–present)

The Ten Gurus of Sikhism

Sikh

Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
Nanua Bairagi, Sikh mystic, martyr and poet
Sharan Kaur Pabla martyr who died while performing the last rites of Guru Gobind Singh's older sons
Labh Singh Saini ((1895–1947) Freedom Fighter & President of Shiromani Akali Dal)
Jathedar Sadhu Singh Bhaura Jathedar of Akal Takth 1964–1980, highest spiritual & temporal authority of Sikhs

Writers

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu

Englisch

Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.

Journalists

Print

Indien

England

Pakistan

Electronic/Broadcast

Indien

Pakistan

Lollywood

Tamil cinema

Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
Nagma, Punjabi Hindu
Jyothika, Punjabi Muslim
Tamannaah Bhatia, Punjabi Hindu
Kajal Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Sonia Aggarwal, Punjabi Hindu

Models

Musiker

Babbu Mann (Punjabi Musician,Singer)
Honey Singh (Punjabi rapper)
Bohemia (Pakistani American Punjabi rapper)
Sukshinder Shinda (Punjabi Musician)

Classical

Allah Rakha
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Kamal Heer
Manmohan Waris
Sangtar
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Shanno Khurana (b. 1927), Hindustani classical singer, Padma Bhushan^[19]
Zakir Hussain

Music Directors Bollywood

Lyricists

Pakistan

Qari Muhammad Farooq

Qawwalis

Ghazals

Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk

Indien

Pakistan

Pop and Rock

Indien

Pakistan

File:Atif live.jpg

Atif Aslam, Pakistani pop singer

Vereinigte Staaten

Himanshu Suri, of the Brooklyn-based rap outfit Das Racist^[20]

Revolutionaries

Politicians

Indien

Manmohan Singh is the 14th Prime Minister of India.

Pakistan

Vereinigte Staaten

Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, former member of the United States House of Representatives
Sunny Dhoorh
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former member of the United States House of Representatives

Sportspersons

Tennis

Cricket

Indien

Pakistan

England

Kanada

Basketball

Sim Bhullar
Satnam Singh Bhamrah

Hockey

Field hockey

ICE hockey

Manny Malhotra

Athletics

Nazar Singh Johal

Golf

Wrestling

Ghulam Muhammad (The Great Gama) Remained undefeated
Dara Singh
Bholu Pahalwan
The Great Khali
Premchand Dogra
Aslam Pehlwan Rustam-e-Punjab
Tiger Jeet Singh
Gurjit Singh
Sonjay Dutt (real name Ritesh Bhalla), TNA wrestler
Jagdish Bhola
Younus Khan (Former Rustam-e-Pakistan), Sitara-e-Imtiaz

Shooting

Abhinav Bindra, 1st individual Olympic Gold Medalist
Gagan Narang, the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
Avneet Sidhu, Commenwealth Games medalist, Arjun Awardee

Cycling

Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh, won gold medal in Olympics

Soccer

Foreign

Indien

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, 2nd Indian goalkeepeer and 1st to professionally play as GK for 1st division European club
Sandesh Jhingan, India u-23 and national team player, was adjudged the best footballer of the inaugural ISL

Boxing

Volleyball

Nirmal Saini

Mixed Martial Arts

Kultar Gill, Indian-Canadian Mixed Martial Artist
Singh Jaideep, Indian-Japanese Mixed Martial Artist

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