List of Ravians

Politicians

• Lord Malhi - Quaid-e-Azam's close aide and one of Pakistan's founding fathers. Former Minister of Education, Law & Parliamentary Affairs
• Nawaz Sharif - Ex Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Yousaf Raza Gillani - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Moeen Qureshi – former interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Muhammad Zafarullah Khan – first Foreign Minister of Pakistan; President of United; Nations General Assembly; President of International Court of Justice
• Swaran Singh, the longest-serving Indian federal minister
• Aitzaz Ahsan – barrister;Former Federal Minister of Interior, Law & Justice; President of Supreme Court Bar Association
• Aseff Ahmad Ali – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Deputy Chairman Planning Commission
• Dr. Ghulam Hussain – former Federal Minister for Railways and Secretary-General of Pakistan People's Party
• Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Hanif Ramay – intellectual, journalist; former Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab

  Government officials

• Malik Zahoor Ahmad – diplomat, Middle East/South Asia expert, political analyst
• Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad – former Secretary of Commerce and Finance; Deputy Director Planning Commission of Pakistan; former Finance Minister Pakistan
• Musa Javed Chohan – diplomat, former ambassador to France, Malaysia
• Javid Husain - diplomat, former ambassador of Pakistan to Iran, South Korea, and the Netherlands
• Abdus Salim Khan - senior Pakistani diplomat and former ambassador of Pakistan to Ceylon, Japan and Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
• Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala - diplomat, former Indian Ambassador to Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador

  Armed Forces officers

• Lieutenant General Hamid Gul – retired, Pakistani Army
• General Shamim Alam Khan, NI, SJ, SBt
• General Raheel Sharif - former Chief of Army Staff
• Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir - Former Chief of Air Staff
• Major Shabbir Sharif, NH, SJ - Recipient of sword of honour and only person to receive both Sitara-e-Jurrat & Nishan-e-Haider

  Nuclear scientists

• Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad - nuclear physicist; chairman of PAEC, 1991-2001
• Dr. Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz - researcher in theoretical physics with PAEC; his son Mansoor Ijaz was involved in the memogate controversy
• Munir Ahmad Khan - Chairman of PAEC, 1972–1991; IAEA staff member, 1958–72; Chairman of IAEA Board of Governors, 1986–87
• Dr. Samar Mubarakmand - experimental nuclear physicist and missile engineer

  Nobel Laureates

• Dr. Har Gobind Khorana - Nobel Prize in Medicine;
• Dr. Abdus Salam - Nobel Laureate in theoretical physics; astrophysicist

  Actors

• Dev Anand – Indian actor
• Balraj Sahni
• Ahsan Khan
• Usman Peerzada

  Poets

• Faiz Ahmed Faiz - one of Pakistan's leading Marxist's who won the Lenin Peace Prize
• Muhammad Iqbal – Pakistan's national poet
• Noon Meem Rashid - poet
• Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum – poet

  Writers

• Vasay Chaudhry - Film, Drama writer, Actor
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Ashfaq Ahmed – Urdu writer, playwright, broadcaster and intellectual
• Mirza Athar Baig - novelist, playwright, philosopher and short story writer
• Patras Bokhari – Urdu writer; first Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations ; former Under-Secretary General of United
• Bano Qudsia – novelist
• Qudrat Ullah Shahab – Urdu writer and civil servant
• Wasif Ali Wasif Poet and Intellectual
• Khushwant Singh - Indian Novelist

  Journalists

• Aftab Iqbal- CEO and Founder AAP NEWS NETWORK
• Amir Mir - investigative journalist
• Hamid Mir – journalist, political analyst and TV anchor
• Ahmed Rashid – UK-based journalist, analyst and writer
• Mansoor Ali Khan - Anchorperson To the Point
• Najam Sethi - News Analyst
• Iqrar Ul Hassan - Hosts Sar e Aam at ARY NEWS
• Waseem Badami - Journalist at ARY News

  Judiciary & Lawyer

• Javid Iqbal – scholar; former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court; Judge of Supreme Court; son of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal
• M. R. Kayani – former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court
• Makhdoom Ali Khan - Barrister, former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Nasim Hasan Shah - former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Mian Saqib Nisar - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Asif Saeed Khan Khosa - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan.
• Azam Nazir Tarar

  Musicians

• Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan – singer
• Mustafa Zahid - pop singer and vocalist of the band Roxen
• Hadiqa Kiani - singer
• Ali Zafar - pop singer

  Scholars

• Allama Iqbal – poet, philosopher, politician, lawyer, architect of the idea of Pakistan
• Mirza Athar Baig – novelist, playwright and philosopher
• Muhammad Ajmal – founder of psychology in Pakistan, former Principal of Government College and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Punjab
• Javed Ashraf – economist, academician and Vice Chancellor of Quaid-e-Azam University
• Tariq Jameel Islamic Scholar and Preacher
• Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Islamic Modernist Scholar
• Malik Ram - Urdu, Arabic and Persian Scholar and Writer
• Ishfaq Ahmad - Well known for research in computer science
• Ismat Beg mathematician and academician. Known for his work in fixed point theory and multicriteria decision making problems.
• Arfa Sayeda Zehra – Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert
• Asghar Zaidi Vice Chancellor Government College University GCU
• Khalid Manzoor Butt Pakistani Political Science Scholar & Chairperson of Political Science Department GCU Lahore.

  Others

• Chetan Anand – producer and director from India; elder brother of Dev and Vijay Anand
• Sarvadaman Chowla – Indian-American mathematician
• Prakash Tandon – Indian businessman