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Manjit Bawa, modern artists from Punjab, later shifted to Delhi. Sohan Qadri, modern artists from Punjab, later shifted to Copenhagen. S. G. Thakur Singh, Punjabi artist who painted in oils, pastels and water colour. Satish Gujral, world known painter, sculptor and architect. Sidharth (artist), contemporary painter.
Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnic group belonging to the Punjab region. It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India , and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.
Hamza Shahbaz, former CM of Punjab (2022) Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018–2022) Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament; Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab (2024) Mian Aslam Iqbal, Provincial Minister of Industries & Commerce (2018–2022) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
The term "Punjab" came into currency during the reign of Akbar in the late sixteenth century. [43] [33] [34] Though the name Punjab is of Persian origin, its two parts (پنج, panj, 'five' and آب, āb, 'water') are cognates of the Sanskrit words, पञ्च, pañca, 'five' and अप्, áp, 'water', of the same meaning.
Punjabi culture grew out of the settlements along the five rivers (the name Punjab, is derived from two Persian words, Panj meaning "Five" and Âb meaning "Water") which served as an important route to the Near East as early as the ancient Indus Valley civilization, dating back to 3000 BCE. [1]
Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus: Ayn-Al Mulk Multani (d. 1325), general of Delhi Sultanate [7] Muzaffar Shah I (1342–1411), founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat [8] Khizr Khan (1351–1421), founder of the Sayyid dynasty. [9]
Economically it transformed the Punjab into the richest farming area of India, socially it sustained the power of large landowners and politically it encouraged cross-communal co-operation amongst land owning groups. [202] The Punjab also became the major centre of recruitment into the Indian Army. By patronising influential local allies and ...
Saleem Ullah Khan Niazi Paikhel, agriculturist and politician, former member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab [2] Samad Khan, provincial assembly member; Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar; Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, founder of Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam. Shafi Ullah Jan, provincial assembly member; Shah Abu Tarab Khan Bangash, provincial assembly member