List of people from Jhelum

This is the list of notable people from Jhelum city and Jhelum District.

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A

• Aftab Iqbal Shamim, Urdu language poet
• Afzal Khan (British politician), British Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton
• General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former chief of army staff of Pakistan
• Azeem Hafeez, former Pakistani cricket team

B

• Bhai Mati Das, Indian Sikh martyrs

C

• Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, politician and former governor of Punjab

G

• Ghulam Hussain, politician and doctor
• Gulzar, Indian poet and film director

H

• Hasnat Ahmad Khan, a heart surgeon in Britain, also known as an ex-lover of Lady Diana

I

• Inder Kumar Gujral, former prime minister of India

J

• Jagjit Singh Aurora, Indian army officer
• Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian scholar and poet

K

• Khalid Masud, Muslim scholar

M

• M. Afzal Khan, British politician
• Masood Aslam, Pak army officer
• Major Muhammad Akram, Pak army officer, Nishan-e-Haider awarded
• Manmohan Singh, former prime minister of India was born in village of Gah, district Chakwal, then part of Jhelum District
• Muhammad Ali Mirza, Engineer and Islamic preacher

N

• Nawabzada Raja Matloob Mehdi, politician
• Nanak Singh, Indian writer and poet
• Nasser Azam, British artist

R

• Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan, politician and a leader of Pakistan Movement

S

• Sunil Dutt, Bollywood actor
• Satish Gujral, Indian painter and sculptor

T

• Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan, Chief of Naval Staff

Z

• Zafar Chaudhry, first chief of air staff of the Pakistan Air Force he was born in Sialkot
• Zamir Jafri, writer and poet.