List of people from Peshawar
This is a list of notable people from Peshawar, Pakistan.
- F. C. Kohli Father of Indian IT Industry.
- Vasubandhu, founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism
- Samar Haroon Bilour, First Female Elected Parliamentarian from Peshawar, MPA, Widow of Haroon Bilour
- Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
- Farhatullah Babar, Pakistan Peoples Party president and spokesman
- Bashir Ahmad Bilour, Member of Provincial Assembly, senior minister
- Patras Bokhari, Urdu poet
- Umar Gul, cricketer
- Shah Rukh Khan, Indian Actor
- Ismail Gulgee, artist
- Yasir Hameed, cricketer
- Raj Kapoor, Indian actor
- Aamir Atlas Khan, Pakistan squash player
- Hashim Khan, former British Open squash champion
- Jahangir Khan, former World No. 1 squash player
- Jansher Khan, former squash world champion
- Kabir Khan, cricketer
- Marina Khan, actress
- Yahya Khan, President and Commander in Chief and Pakistan Army
- Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
- Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian film actor
- Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
- Abdur Rab Nishtar, leader in Pakistan Movement; first Governor of Punjab, Pakistan
- Sania Nishtar, cardiologist and health policy expert
- Abdur Rehman Peshawri, member of the Young Turks, Turkish Ambassador to Afghanistan
- Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Urdu poet
- Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, founder of Islamia College and Legislative Council member
- Muhammad Rehman, cardiovascular surgeon and founder Rehman Medical College
- Malik Saad, late CCPO of Peshawar
- Ismail Shahid, Pashto comedian and actor
- Mohammed Yahya, educationist, Minister of Education N.W.F.P., 1946-1947
- Rahimullah Yusufzai, journalist
- Qamar Zaman, squash player
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