List of Sindhi people
The following is a list of notable ethnic Sindhi people.
Historical Personalities
- sardar ghulam muhammad khan mahar the richist man in sindh as know as raja of sind
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
- Shah Inayat Shaheed
- Lal Shahbaz Qalander
- Sachal Sarmast
- Dodo Bin Khafef Soomro III
- Jam Nizamuddin II
- Jam Ferozudin
- Jam Unar
- Jam Sanghar
- Jam Tamachi
- Chief Sardar Ghazi Khan Channa
- Khan Sahib Sardar Sohrab Khan Sarki MLA Sindh 1939
- 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
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Fatima Jinnah
- Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi
- Ubaidullah Sindhi
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- Khan Sahib Ali bilal Khan Domki
- Sardar Darya khan
- Shah Mardan Shah rashidi
- Raja Dahir
- Muhammad Ibrahim Shaikh
Politics
- G.M Syed
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- sardar ghulam muhammad khan mahar
- Benazir Bhutto
- Mohammad Khan Junejo
- Pir Pagro
- Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto
- Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
- Asif Zardari
- Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
- Mumtaz Ali Bhutto
- Haider Bux Jatoi founder of 'Jeay Sindh' slogan
- Elahi Bux Soomro, former Paliamentary Speaker
- Dur Mohammad Khan Osto
- Yusuf Haroon
- Bashir Khan Qurashi
- Hatan Khan Shar (Adam Ali Shar), Sindhi Nationalist, Social Worker
- Sayed Jalal Mehmood Shah, Sindh Nationalist
- Murtaza Bhutto
- Haji Amir Bux Junejo
- Dr.Sohrab Khan Sarki
- Muhammad Mian Soomro
- Fatima Bhutto,author
- Sucheta Kriplani, first Sindhi Indian Woman Chief Minister
- Lal Krishna Advani
- Sharjeel Inam Memon, Minister of Information, Sindh, Pakistan
- K. R. Malkani
- Mir Ghalib hussain Domki
- Allah bux soomro ,first prime minster of sindh
Columnists
Artists and Painters
Poets
Classics
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
- Mian Shah Inayat
- Sachal Sarmast
- Allah Bakhsh Sarshar Uqaili
- Anwar Pirzada, Sindhi poet, journalist
- Ahmed Shah Ustad Bukhari
- Shaikh Ayaz (Poet)
New Age
- Shaikh Ayaz, Sindhi/Urdu poet, scholar
- Qadir Bux Bedil
- Bekas
- Imdad Hussaini
- Elsa Kazi
- Pir Sadardin
- Tajal Bewas
- Minyoon Shah Inat
- Shah Abdul Karim Bulri
- Shah Inayatullah
- Minyoon Shah Inat
- Gohar Sindhi
Short Story Writers
Science and Technology
- Sind ibn Ali, Sindhi Muslim astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
- Ahmed Mohiuddin
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Raziuddin Siddiqui
- Abdul-Majid Bhurgri
Educationists
- Allama I. I. Kazi
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- Hassanally A. Rahman
- Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
- Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi, first DPI Sindh 1936-39
- Abul Khair Kashfi
- Abul Lais Siddiqui
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan Mahar
- Aslam Farrukhi
- Farman Fatehpuri
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- Jameel Jalibi
- Khalida Ghous
- Moonis Ahmar
- Naseem Amrohvi
- Talat A. Wizarat
- Shahid Aziz Siddiqi, former Federal Secretary and Vice Chancellor Ziauddin University
- Naresh Sindhi
Scholars
- Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
- Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, scholar of Islam and the Quran, linguist, professor of Urdu and Persian, author, poet, critic
- 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
Researchers
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, researcher, linguist, poet, author, scholar
- JamaNl Abro
- Fahmida Hussain
- Anwar Peerzada
Naresh Sindhi, Research Scientist Bio analytics, Ahmedabad, Gujarat ,India
Writers
- Jamal Abro, Sindhi novelist
- Fehmida Riaz, writer, poet, activist
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, writer, critic, linguist, researcher, scholar
- Muzaffar Warsi, poet
- Zamir Ali Badayuni, critic
Business and Industry
- Yusuf Haroon
- Mahmoud Haroon
- Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, founder of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, United Bank Limited
Philanthropists and Social Activists
Economics
- 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
- 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
- [Muhammad Paryal Tanwri]
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, Sind
- 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, a Persian poet of late medieval India
- Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, author, poet and researcher of Sindh, Pakistan
- Hafiz Muhammad Siddique, title 'Hafiz-ul-milat' (حافظ الملت), a scholar from Sindh and founder of school of thought in Bharchundi
- Ubaidullah Sindhi, a pan-Islamic leader and a political activist in the Indian independence movement
- Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi, a prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the 18th century; a teacher of the founder of the Wahhabi movement
- 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
- Moulana Muhammad Sadiq (Madressah Mazharul Uloom, Khadda,Karachi)⟨⟩
Saints and Sufis
Hazrat sultanul oliya Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of LUARI SHARIF Hazrat Qazi Ahmed Naqshbandi
- Lal Shahbaz Qalander
- Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
- Abdullah Shah Ghazi
- Sachal Sarmast
- Mian Adam Shah Kalhoro,
- Hazrat Sohna Saeen
- Allama Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
- Abdul Raheem Garhori
- Khwaja Muhammad Tahir Bakhshi, alias Sajjan Saeen
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Performing arts and media
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Preeti Jhangiani
- Aarti Chabria
- Govinda
- Abida Parveen
- Shafi Muhammad Shah, TV actor
- Mustafa Qureshi
- Atiqa Odho
- Anwar Solangi
- Jeejee Zarina Baloch
- Sarmad Sindhi
- Allan Faquir
- Govind Nihalani
- Asrani, actor
- [Muhammad Yousuf]-Actor
- [Jalal Chandio]-Singer
- [Manzoor Qureshi]-Actor/director
- [Gulab Chandio]-actor
- [Latif Munno]-Actor
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
- Javed Miandad, cricketer
- Rashid Latif, cricketer
Medicine
- Mir Masoom Bakhree
- Abdul Hai Arifi, Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine
- Mohammad Ali Shah, Provincial Sports Minister of Sindh, orthopaedic surgeon
- Muhammed Ibrahim Memon, Professor of Pediatrics, Ex-Principal Liaquat Medical College, Ex-President, Pakistan Society of Pediatrics.
- Muhammed Saleh Memon, Ex-Secretary, Department of Health, Government of Sindh
- Muhammed Shafi Qureshi, Professor of Medicine, Ex-Principal, Dow Medical College, Ex-Secretary Department of Health, Government of Sindh
- Sultan Farooqi, Ex-President, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan.
- Saeed Sadiq Hamid, Professor, Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Agha Khan University
- M A Almani, Professor of Medicine, Ex-Principal Liaquat Medical College.
- Abdul Ghani Siddiqui Professor of Surgery, Liaquat Medical College
- Abdul Qadir Shaikh, Professor of Medicine, Ex-Principal Liaquat Medical College.
- Irshad Ahmad Moriani, Professor of Medicine, Ex-Principal Liaquat Medical College.
- Jan Muhammed Memon, Professor of Surgery, Founder Vice Chancellor, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Ex-President, Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology.
- Noshad Ahmed Shaikh, Professor of Surgery, Vice Chancellor, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Principal Secretary to Governor of Sindh, Ex-Secreraty, Department of Health, Government of Sindh
- Masood Hameed Khan, Professor of Medicine, Founder Vice Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi
- Iqbal Memon Professor of Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Principal, Lyari Medical College.
- Noor Muhammed Memon, Professor of Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences.
- Abdul Sattar Memon, Professor of Surgery, President Society of Surgeons of Pakistan, Vice President of College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan.
- Saeed Qureshi, Professor of Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Medical Superintendent, Civil Hospital Karachi
- Rasool Bukhsh Memon, Professor of Medicine, Liaquat Medical College.
- KarimUllah Makki, Professor of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
- Amjad Siraj Memon, Professor of Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
- Shafique Rehman Memon, Professor of Urology, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences.
- Muhammed Umer Memon, Professor, Forensic Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan
- Ghulam Nabi Kazi, National Officer for Program Development at the World Health Organization
- Sikandar Ali Shaikh, Professor of Surgery, Founder Vice Chancellor, Shaheed Mohtarma Benzair Bhutto Medical University Larkana
- Shafi Muhammed Jatoi, Professor of Ophthalmology, Liaquat Medical College, Hyderabad, Pakistan.
- Irshad Waheed Khan, Professor of Surgery, Ex-President, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan
- Asghar Channa, Professor of Surgery, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan
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