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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Hamid Mir
Born 1966
Pran Chopra
1921 - 2013
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
1917 - 1975
Ayesha Siddiqa
Born 1966
Marvia Malik
Born 1997
Ali Sethi
Born 1984
Farooq Qaiser
Born 1945
Abid Qaiyum Suleri
Born 1969
Amir Hussain
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Olive Christian Malvery
1877 - 1914
Iqrar Ul Hassan
Born 1985
Uma Anand
1923 - 2009
Prem Narain Bhatia
1911 - 1995
Murtaza Razvi
1964 - 2012
Habiba Nosheen
Born 1982
Nasim Zehra
Born 1952
Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich
Born 1993
Kamran Shahid
Born 1975
Nusrat Javed
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Annie Ali Khan
1980 - 2018
Zabir Saeed
Born 1972
Syed Mohammad Taqweem Ahsan
Born 1959
Saadia Sehar Haidari
Born 1971