List of Sindhi people

The following is a list of notable ethnic Sindhi people.

Historical personalities

• Hemu Kalani, freedom fighter
• Hazrat Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari Sharif
• Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
• Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki
• Shah Inayat Shaheed
• Lal Shahbaz Qalander
• Sachal Sarmast
• Dodo Bin Khafef Soomro III
• Jam Nizamuddin II
• Jam Feroz
• Jam Unar
• Jam Tamachi
• Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
• Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi
• Mir Ali Sir Thattvi
• Mirza Ghazi Beg
• Muhammad Salih Tahtawi
• Mian Adam Shah Kalhoro, Amir
• Main Noor Mohammad Kalhoro, ruler of Sindh
• Muhammad Muradyab Khan (Nawab Sarbuland Khan), ruler of Sindh
• Mian Ghuam Shah Kalhoro (Shah Wardi Khan), ruler of Sindh
• Mir Nasir Khan Talpur
• Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur
• Gernal Hosh Mohammad Sheedi
• Mir Ali Murad Talpur
• Mir Allahyar Talpur
• Hoshu Sheedi
• Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Sardar Darya Khan
• Raja Dahir
• Hakeem Muhammad Amin Soomro, Royal Hakeem of Princely State of Khairpur, Sindh, Muslim politician and freedom fighter, student of Hakeem Ajmal Khan
• Raees Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri

Politics

• Muhammad Ayub Khuhro
• Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II
• Rasool Bux Palijo
• G.M Syed
• Lal Krishna Advani, leader of BJP and former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Benazir Bhutto
• Ayaz Latif Palijo
• Bashir Qureshi
• Mohammad Khan Junejo
• Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto
• Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
• Asif Zardari
• Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
• Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
• Mir Bandeh Ali Khan Talpur, former Chief Minister of Sindh
• Haider Bux Jatoi, founder of 'Jeay Sindh' slogan
• Elahi Bux Soomro, former Parliamentary Speaker
• Yusuf Haroon
• Murtaza Bhutto
• Haji Amir Bux Junejo
• Muhammad Mian Soomro
• Fatima Bhutto, author
• Sucheta Kriplani, first Sindhi Indian woman Chief Minister
• Lal Krishna Advani
• K. R. Malkani
• Mir Ghalib Hussain Domki
• Allah Bux Soomro, first Prime Minister of Sindh
• Syed Zafar Ali Shah, former Deputy Speaker Of Pakistan.

Journalists

• Amar Jaleel
• Aijaz Ahmad Mangi
• Ali Kazi
• Rajesh Mirchandani

Poets

• Talib-ul-Mola
• Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
• Sachal Sarmast
• Anwar Pirzada, Sindhi poet, journalist
• Shaikh Ayaz, Sindhi/Urdu poet, scholar
• Qadir Bux Bedil
• Imdad Hussaini
• Elsa Kazi
• Pir Sadardin
• Tajal Bewas
• Minyoon Shah Inat
• Shah Abdul Karim Bulri
• Shah Inayatullah
• Minyoon Shah Inat
• Sami
• Rohal Faqir
• Bedil
• Muhammad Mohsin Bekas
• Darya Khan Rind
• Sikandar Khan Khoso
• Sawan Fakir
• Adal Soomro
• Allah Baksh Sarshar Uqaili
• Anwar Peerzada
• Shah Inayat Rizvi
• Elsa Kazi
• Ghulam Ali Allana
• Syed Ahmed Bukhari, known by his pen name "Ustad Bukhari"
• Naseer Soomro
• Ram Bellaney 'Khumar'

Science and technology

• Sind ibn Ali, Sindhi Muslim astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
• Ahmed Mohiuddin
• Gul Agha, computer scientist
• Pervez Hoodbhoy
• Raziuddin Siddiqui
• Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, founder of computing in Sindhi
• Rajeev Motwani, co-author of PageRank

Educationalists

• Anita Ghulam Ali
• Hassan Ali Effendi
• Allama I. I. Kazi
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Hassanally A. Rahman
• Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
• Haji Mehar Ali Khoja
• Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi, first DPI Sindh 1936-39
• Abul Khair Kashfi
• Abul Lais Siddiqui
• Aslam Farrukhi
• Farman Fatehpuri
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Jameel Jalibi
• Khalida Ghous
• Moonis Ahmar
• Naseem Amrohvi
• Talat A. Wizarat
• Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
• Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
• Ali Ahmed S Kazi
• Mushtak Ali Kazi
• Mutawakkil Kazi, Judge of the High Court of Sindh
• Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi, 8th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
• Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi
• Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi
• Noor Muhammad Lakhir, Founder of Noor Muhammad High School Hyderabad Sindh
• Dada Pribhdas Tolani, Tolani Foundations, Adipur.

Entertainment industry

• Abida Parveen, Pakistani Sufi singer
• Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
• Allan Fakir
• Anand L. Rai, Indian film director and producer
• Arjun Bijlani, television actor
• Asrani, Indian comedian and actor
• Babita, Indian actress and mother of Kareena and Karisma
• Bhagat Kanwar Ram
• Dalip Tahil, Indian actor
• Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor, producer, host, anchor and model
• G P Sippy, Indian filmmaker
• Govind Nihalani, director of serious and art films
• Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
• Hari Shivdasani, Indian actor and father of Babita
• Hiten Tejwani, television actor
• Hussain Chandio
• Imran Channa
• Manzoor Sakhirani
• Master Chander
• Muhammad Juman, Sindhi musician and classical singer
• Mustafa Qureshi, film and television actor from Sindh, Pakistan
• Nikhil Advani, Indian director and screenwriter
• Ramesh Sippy, Indian director, son of G P Sippy
• Rajkumar Hirani, Indian movie director
• Ramsay Brothers, horror filmmakers from India
• Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
• Ritesh Sidhwani, Indian movie producer
• Rithvik Dhanjani, television actor
• Runa Laila
• Sadhna, Indian Actress and cousin of Babita
• Saif Samejo
• Sanam Baloch, Pakistani actress and a television host
• Sanam Marvi
• Sangeeta Bijlani, Indian Actress
• Sarmad Sindhi
• Shafi Muhammad Shah, Pakistani film and television actor
• Shazia Khushk
• Suhrab Faqir
• Tamannaah, Indian actress
• Tarun Mansukhani, Indian movie director
• Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan
• Vashu Bhagnani, Indian filmmaker
• Vishal Dadlani, Indian music director
• Zarina Baloch, Pakistani folk music singer and composer

Law experts

• Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
• Faqir Muhammad Khokhar
• Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi
• Ram Jethmalani
• Mahesh Jethmalani
• Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri

Scholars

• Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan, scholar of Islam and the Quran, linguist, professor of Urdu
• Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi
• Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
• Mirza Qalich Baig
• Allama I. I. Kazi
• Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
• Elsa Kazi
• Ali Muhammad Rashidi
• Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
• Ghulam Ali Allana
• Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi
• M. H. Panhwar
• Mangharam Udharam Malkani,

Researchers

• Ghulam Mustafa Khan, researcher, linguist, poet, author, scholar
• Muhammad Yar Khuhawar
• Fahmida Hussain
• Anwar Peerzada

Writers

• Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
• Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi
• Mirza Kalich Beg
• Ghulam Nabi, "Gul" Wajahat Publication Larkana
• Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
• Shaikh Ayaz
• Sobho Gianchandani, writer
• Jamal Abro, Sindhi novelist
• Fehmida Riaz, writer, poet, activist
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan, writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar
• Muzaffar Warsi, poet
• Zamir Ali Badayuni, critic
• Altaf Shaikh
• Naseem Kharal
• Mir Muhammad Soomro, religious scholar, historian, biographer, poet
• Faqeer Muhammad Soomro, writer, researcher and columnist, writer of Soomran Jo Shujro

Short story writers

• Jamal Abro
• Mazhar Abro
• Amar Jaleel
• Naseem Kharal

Business and industry

• Sabir Bhatia, Indian entrepreneur and founder of Hotmail
• Yusuf Haroon
• Mahmoud Haroon
• Agha Hasan Abedi, banker
• Micky Jagtiani
• Eros International
• Tips Industries Limited
• Hari Harilela
• Rajan Raheja

Philanthropists and social activists

• Hussain Haroon
• Jam Saqi
• Fahmida Riaz
• Ansar Burney

Economics

• Dr. Shamshad Akhtar
• Hameed Haroon
• Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Naveed Qamar, Finance Minister of Pakistan
• Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of microcredit and microfinance in Pakistan, founder of Orangi Pilot Project

Law and judiciary

• Ram Jethmalani, former Law Minister of India
• Mahesh Jethmalani
• Jan Muhammad Junejo
• Rana Bhagwandas
• Sajjad Ali Shah
• Rasul Bux Palejo
• Abdul Hafiz Pirzada
• A K Brohi
• Tufail Ali Abdul Rehman
• Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
• Hassanally A. Rahman

Metaphysics, spirituality and religion

• Ghulam Mustafa Khan, head of Naqashbandi Sufi Order, scholar, writer, poet
• Abu Mashar Sindhi (786 AD), teacher of Arab scholars
• Abu Raja Sindhi (d. 321 A.H.), scholar, poet, teacher
• Abul Hassan Sindhi (d. 1176 AH), made the first translation of Qur'an from Arabic to Sindhi
• Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (died 1174 AH), Ahl-us-Sunnah scholar
• Maulana Taj Mohammad Amrothi (d. 1929), freedom fighter from Sukkur, Sindh
• Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar and author of the Akbarnama
• Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi, Muslim scholar at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar
• Mir Ali Sir Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
• Tahir Muhammad Thattvi, Sindhi Muslim poet and historian during the rule of the Mughal Empire
• Abu'l-Qásim Faizi, Persian poet of late medieval India
• Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher
• Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
• Ubaidullah Sindhi, pan-Islamic leader and a political activist
• Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century
• Raees-Ul-Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo, a leader of the Khilafat Movement
• Badi' ud-Din Shah al-Rashidi
• Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Tahir
• Allama Ali Khan Abro
• Maulana deen Muhammad Wafai
• Moulana Jan Mohammad Abbasi
• Makhdoom Bilawal
• Asadullah Bhutto
• Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, spiritual leader of the Hurs
• Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, spiritual leader of Hurs
• Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
• Dada Vaswani

Saints and sufis

• Lal Shahbaz Qalander
• Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
• Abdullah Shah Ghazi
• Sachal Sarmast
• Mian Adam Shah Kalhoro
• Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
• Abdul Raheem Garhori
• Khwaja Muhammad Tahir Bakhshi, alias Sajjan Saeen
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Swami Lilashah

Sports

• Syed Hussain Shah, boxer who won the bronze medal for boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Pankaj Advani, world champion in Snooker and Billiards from India
• Abdul Rashid Qambrani, boxer
• Narendra Hirwani, cricketer from India
• Annie Rupani, entrepreneur and beauty pageant
• Zehra Sheerazi, beauty pageant
• Sarfraz Ahmed Memon, Pakistani cricketer
• Sarmad Bhatti, [pakistani Cricketer Represent U19 Team (2009/2010) From Khairpur]

Medicine

• Mir Masoom Bakhree
• Abdul Hai Arifi, Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine
• Ghulam Nabi Kazi, National Officer for Program Development at the World Health Organization

Actors

• Juhi Chawla

Others

• Tarun Tahiliani, Indian fashion designer
• Dabboo Ratnani, Indian fashion designer

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