31.5498° N, 74.3435° E
LAHORE
Most Famous People Born in Lahore, Pakistan
- Notable people
- 920
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1961
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 22.4×
Behind the cricket-mad headlines, Lahore still carries its old Mughal-capital swagger — the runways and studios turn out fashion Models at a clip you wouldn't guess from a subcontinental megacity, and the Physicist bench is a quiet echo of the pre-Partition university scene when this was the liberal heart of Punjab. Alhamra and Government College still sit where the Mayo School of Arts drew the city's first generation of painters and engineers out into the wider world.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lahore during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lahore Is Known For
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Cricket is Lahore's biggest profession — 28% of all notables (262).
Lahore over-indexes on cricket — 22.4× the global rate.
Lahore under-produces writer — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lahore's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 - 1995
Ramanand Sagar
1917 - 2005
Chetan Anand (director)
1915 - 1997
A. A. K. Niazi
1915 - 2004
Shamshad Begum
1919 - 2013
Malik Meraj Khalid
1916 - 2003
Om Prakash
1919 - 1998
Pran Nath (musician)
1918 - 1996
Brij Mohan Kaul
1912 - 1972
Ustad Daman
1911 - 1984
Madan Puri
1915 - 1985
Mirza Adeeb
1914 - 1999
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
1917 - 1975
Sardar Akhtar
1915 - 1986
Gohar Mamajiwala
1910 - 1985
Madhav Satwalekar
1915 - 2006
H. D. Shourie
1911 - 2005
Nazir Ahmed Khan
1910 - 1983
Om Prakash Mehra
1919 - 2015
Dhanraj Bhagat
1917 - 1988
John Prendergast (British Army officer)
1910 - 2008
Syed Wajid Ali
1911 - 2008
Aspy Engineer
1912 - 2002
Jankidas
1910 - 2003
Manzur Qadir
1913 - 1974
Asghar Hameed
1919 - 2002
Mohammad Saeed (cricketer, born 1910)
1910 - 1979
Prem Narain Bhatia
1911 - 1995
M. N. Sathyaardhi
1913 - 1998
Ramprakash Mehra
1917 - 1983
B. K. Anand
1917 - 2007
Arthur Samuel Lall
1911 - 1998
Munawar Hussain
1914 - 2003
Khwaja Saeed
1911 - 1968
Jagmohan Chopra
1915 - 2013
Dev Puri
1916 - 1971
Balraj Krishna Kapur
Born 1910