List of Urdu-language poets
13th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
- Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda
- Siraj Aurangabadi
- Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard
- Qayem Chandpuri, Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali Qayem
- Mir Taqi Mir, Mir
- Nazeer Akbarabadi, Nazeer
- Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat Jurat
- Mashafi Shaikh Ghulam Hamdani Mas'hafi
- Insha Allah Khan 'Insha', Insha
- Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin, Rangin
- Bahadur Shah, Zafar
- Imam Baksh Nasikh, Nasikh
- Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish, Atish
- Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Zauq
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ghalib
19th century
- Momin Khan Momin Momin
- Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer Dabeer
- Mir Babar Ali Anis Anis
- Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim,
- Amir Meenai
- Dagh Dehlvi Daagh
- Altaf Hussain Hali Hali
- Akbar Allahabadi Akbar
- Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Raza Bareilvi
- Bekhud Badayuni Bekhud
- Shibli Nomani
- Muztar Khairabadi
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang
- Hasrat Mohani Hasrat
- Dil Shahjahanpuri Dil
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal Iqbal
- Fani Badayuni Fani
- Seemab Akbarabadi
- Brij Narayan Chakbast,
- Bekhud Dehlvi
- Niaz Fatehpuri
- Yagana Changezi Yaas
- Josh Malsiyani Josh
- Tilok Chand Mehroom
- Qamar Jalalvi
- Jigar Moradabadi Jigar
- Raaz Chandpuri
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Josh Malihabadi Josh
- Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar Jauhar
- Firaq Gorakhpuri Firaq
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Abr Ahasani Gunnauri Abr
- Munavvar Lakhnavi Bisheshwar Prasad Munavvar
1900
- Hafeez Jalandhari
- Talib Chakwali Manohar Lal Kapur ‘Talib’
- Pandit Harichand Akhtar
- Alam Muzaffarnagari
- Bismil Saeedi
- Khushtar Girami
- Anand Narain Mulla
- Zaheen Shah Taji
- Syed Sajjad Zaheer
- Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari
- Akhtar Sheerani
- Saghar Nizami
- Abid Ali Abid
- Gopal Mittal
- Ratan Pandoravi Ratan
- Makhdum Muhiuddin
- Arsh Malsiani
- Majaz
- Abdul Hamid Adam
- Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri Lisan ul Mulk
- Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar, Sahar
1910
- Noon Meem Rashid
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Faiz
- Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah
- Aijaz Siddiqi
- Ravish Siddiqi
- Nushoor Wahidi
- Meeraji
- Shifa Gwaliori
- Shamim Karhani
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Dr. Rafiq Hussain
- Sahir Hoshiarpuri
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Raza Naqvi Wahi
- Mir Gul Khan Nasir
- Rais Amrohvi
- Ehsan Danish
- Jan Nisar Akhtar
- Majeed Amjad
- Sikandar Ali Wajd
- Akhtar ul Iman
- Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Nadeem
- Zamir Jafri, Zamir
- Shakeel Badayuni
- Agha Shorish Kashmiri Shorish
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
- Rishi Patialvi Rishi
- Jagan Nath Azad
- Kaifi Azmi
- Fikr Taunsvi
- Naeem Hashmi
- Majrooh Sultanpuri
- Khumar Barabankvi, Khumar
- Qateel Shifai, Qateel
- Masud Husain Khan
1920
- Salaam Machhalishahari, Salaam
- Sahir Ludhianvi, Sahir
- Krishan Mohan,Krishan Lal Krishan Mohan
- Wazir Agha,
- Sulaiman Areeb
- Nazish Pratapgarhi, Nazish
- Ada Jafri
- Nasir Kazmi, Nasir
- Bekas Akbarabadi,M.G Gupta wrote Urdu anthology, Rahat-i-Ruh,
- Rahi Masoom Raza
- Himayat Ali Shair, Shair
- Kanwal Ziai Hardayal Singh Datta
- Naresh Kumar Shad
- Ibn-e-Insha, Insha
- Bekal Utsahi,
- Sagar Siddiqui,
- Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
- Habib Jalib
- Dilawar Figar
- Munir Niazi
- Shabnam Romani,Shabnam
- Mazhar Imam
- Wasif Ali Wasif
- Dilawar Figar
1930
- Mustafa Zaidi
- Harbans Bhalla
- Ahmad Faraz
- Jon Elia
- Rajendar Nath Rehbar
- Satyapal Anand
- Syed Amin Ashraf
- Shakeb Jalali
- Rajinder Manchanda Bani Bani
- Mohsin Bhopali
- Sardar Panchhi
- Muzaffar Warsi
- Syed Waheed Ashraf
- Waheed Akhtar
- Sudarshan Faakir
- Murtaza Birlas
- Mohsin Zaidi
- Anwar Masood
- Aftab Iqbal Shamim
- Adil Mansuri
- Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
- Gulzar
- Shahzad A. Rizvi
- Unwan Chishti Iftikharul Hasan Unwan
- Nida Fazli
- Makhmoor Saeedi
- Syed Mahmood Khundmiri
- Obaidullah Aleem
- Allama Talib Jauhari
1940
- Mahmood Shaam
- Kishwar Naheed
- Jazib Qureshi
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
- Ahfaz ur Rahman
- Iftikhar Arif
- Shamim Farooqui
- Amjad Islam Amjad
- Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Qasir
- Bashir Badr
- Javed Akhtar
- Anwer Zahidi
- Afzal Ahmed Syed
- Shamim Hashimi
- Saleem Kausar
- Mohsin Naqvi
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi, Sha'oor
- Muhammad Izhar ul Haq
- Fehmida Riaz
- Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer
1950
- Rahat Indori
- Zahid Abrol
- Jamal Ehsani
- Ashfaq Hussain
- Haider Qureshi
- Parveen Shakir
- Abdul Hamid
- Sara Shagufta
- Kazim Jarwali
- Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi
- Noon Meem Danish
- Salma Shaheen
1960
- Fareed Parbati
- Samina Raja
- Anjum Rehbar
- Zahida Hina
- Raees Warsi
- Zulfiqar Naqvi
- Harris Khalique
- Idris Azad
- Riaz Tasneem
1970
- Irshad Kamil
- Akhtar Raza Saleemi
- Irfan Nasirabadi
- Sarim Momin
Non-Muslim Urdu poets
- Meera, Mira Bai
- Maharaja Chandu Lal Sadan
- Mah Laqa Bai
- Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim,
- Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Shad,
- Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi
- Brij Narayan Chakbast,
- Tilok Chand Mehroom
- Firaq Gorakhpuri Firaq
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Pandit Harichand Akhtar
- Anand Narain Mulla
- Khushtar Girami
- Gopal Mittal
- Ratan Pandoravi Ratan
- Arsh Malsiani
- Sahir Hoshiarpuri
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Rishi Patialvi Rishi
- Jagan Nath Azad
- Bhupendra Nath Kaushik
- Krishna Kumar Sharma
- Kanwal Ziai Hardayal Singh Datta
- Naresh Kumar Shad
- Harbans Bhalla
- Satyapal Anand
- Raj Pathria
- Dushyant Kumar
- Rajendar Nath Rehbar
- Sudarshan Faakir
- Mohinder Pratap Chand
- Jayant Parmer
Contemporary poets
- Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
Poets with unknown dates of birth
- Saleem Kausar,
- Shahin Badar,
- Siraj Aurangabadi,
- Ziauddin Ahmad,
- Sadhu Singh Hamdard
- Qamar Jalalabadi
- Kanwal Ziai
Contemporary poets with unknown dates of birth
- Kaif Bhopali
- Sayeed Quadri
- Khalid Irfan
- Kashmiri Lal Zakir
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