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KARACHI

Most Famous People Born in Karachi, Pakistan

Notable people

851

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1968

Most distinctive

Actress 35.9×

Pakistan's biggest city was designed around Jinnah's new capital project in 1947 and then exploded into a media and commercial megalopolis. The Cricket count runs at better than twenty times the global baseline and the Actress count at more than thirty-five — the Lollywood-and-glossies axis of Pakistani soft power — with Model, Film and Diplomat benches rounding out a city that exports its television dramas, its ambassadors and its fast bowlers in roughly equal measure.