Notable people
People with origins in Jhelum[44] are listed below:
- Raja Porus who fought against Alexander in 326BC
- Major Muhammad Akram, Shaheed Nishan-e-Haider
- General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former Chief of Army Staff Pakistan Army
- Admiral (R) Tariq Kamal Khan, former Chief of Naval Staff Pakistan Navy
- Lt Gen Masood Aslam, SJ, XI Corps Commander
- Lt Gen (R) Ejaz Azim, former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
- Lt Gen (R) Afzal Janjua ex Director General ISI.
- Air Marshal (R) Raja Shahid Hamid, former DG Air Weapons Complex
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, Sufi saint and a Pahari poet of great repute, he is especially renowned as the writer of a book of poetry called Saiful Malūk[45].
- Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan[46]
- Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry[47] Chief Justice Of Lahore High Court
- Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, former Governor of Punjab
- Dr. Hasnat Khan, linked to Diana, Princess of Wales
- Dr. Anwar Naseem, Adviser Science, COMSTECH, Islamabad
- Rabia Qari, First Muslim woman barrister
- Syed Zamir Jafri, poet
- Allama Khalid Masud, a Muslim scholar of Pakistan, wrote a number of books and articles and delivered lectures on Islam, science and other subjects.
- Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime minister of India
- Man Mohan Singh, Present Prime Minister of India
- Sunil Dutt, Bollywood actor
- Satish Gujral[48]
- Azeem Hafeez, a Pakistani cricketer, fast bowler
- Gulzar (lyricist)
- Aftab Iqbal Shamim, an Urdu language poet
- Nosheen Idrees, crowned the third runner up for the Miss Pakistan World [49]
- Jaswant Neki, a leading Sikh Scholar, poet and former Director of PGI, Chandigarh
- Mirza Dildar Baig
- Irfan-ul-haq
- Indra Sen, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, psychologist, author, and educator, and the founder of Integral Psychology as an academic discipline
- Nanak Singh, a poet, songwriter and novelist in the Punjabi language
- Jagjit Singh Arora, (February 13, 1916 – May 3, 2005) was the commander of the Indian army in the Eastern front in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 which led to the creation of Bangladesh. He was born in Jhelum during the British Raj and died in New Delhi, India.
- Bhai Mati Das, one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history
- Nasser Azam, successful contemporary artist practicing in London.
- Dr Shahbaz Khan international water scientist and engineer
- Dr Ghulam Hussain[50]
- Brig (R) Raja Mansoor, former Personal Secretary to PM Zafarullah Khan Jamali
- Maj Gen Saeed-u-Zaman Janjua, Ex Embassidor Brunai.
- Maj Gen Agha Mohammad Umer Farooq, Commandant School of Infantry and Tactics
- Maj Gen (Dr) Azhar Mahmood Kiyani, cardiologist.
- Rear Admiral (R) Mushtaq Ahmed
- Brig (Dr) Raja Sami Ullah, Medical Specialist
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