17 Notable alumni of
Quaid-i-Azam University

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Quaid-i-Azam University is 2188th in the world, 526th in Asia, and 7th in Pakistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Quaid-i-Azam University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Hamza Ali Abbasi

    Hamza Ali Abbasi
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1984-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    actorfilm director
    Biography

    Hamza Ali Abbasi is a Pakistani actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Afzal in the drama serial Pyarey Afzal (2013) and as Salahuddin in the drama serial Mann Mayal (2016).

  2. Abrar-ul-Haq

    Abrar-ul-Haq
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    singerpolitician
    Biography

    Abrar-ul-Haq is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and a politician.

  3. Maleeha Lodhi

    Maleeha Lodhi
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    journalistdiplomatcolumnist
    Biography

    Maleeha Lodhi is a Pakistani diplomat, political scientist, and a former Pakistan's Representative to the United Nations. She was the first woman to hold the position. Previously, she served as Pakistan's envoy to the Court of St James' and twice as its ambassador to the United States.

  4. Abdul Rashid Ghazi

    Abdul Rashid Ghazi
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1964-2007 (aged 43)
    Occupations
    imam
    Biography

    Mawlānā Abdul Rashid Ghazi was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Islamist dissident who served as Khatib of Lal Masjid and the President of Faridia University. Prior to this he had also briefly served as a diplomat for UNESCO, a specialized agency of the United Nations.

  5. Shamshad Akhtar

    Shamshad Akhtar
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    bankereconomist
    Biography

    Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who served as the caretaker finance minister of Pakistan from 2023 to 2024 as well as from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.

  6. Gulalai Ismail

    Gulalai Ismail
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    politicianhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Gulalai Ismail is a Pakistani human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is the chairperson of Aware Girls, a global ambassador for Humanists International, and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). She speaks on the subject of promoting peace and women's empowerment at conferences internationally, and is the recipient of the International Humanist of the Year Award, the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.

  7. Khalid Shameem Wynne

    Khalid Shameem Wynne
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1953-2017 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Khalid Shameem Wynne NI, HI(M)(Urdu: خالد شمیم وائیں; 28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017), was a Pakistani four-star general who served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee appointed in 2010 until retiring on 8 October 2013.

  8. Tehmina Janjua

    Tehmina Janjua
    Enrolled in Quaid-i-Azam University
    In 1984 graduated with master's degree in French literature
    Occupations
    career diplomat
    Biography

    Tehmina Janjua is a retired Pakistani career diplomat who served in BPS-22 grade (highest attainable rank for a serving officer) as the 29th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. Among her other notable appointments, was her position as Pakistan's Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and as ambassador to Italy, with concurrent accreditation to Albania, San Marino and Slovenia.

  9. Salma Zahid

    Salma Zahid
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Salma Zahid MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding of Scarborough Centre during the 2015 Canadian federal election. She succeeded the Conservative Roxanne James.

  10. Abdul Basit

    Abdul Basit
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India. He was appointed to his position in 2014 and was based at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. Previously, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Germany from May 2012 to March 2014. During his career, he has been posted at Moscow, New York, Sana'a, Geneva and London.

  11. Lal Khan

    Lal Khan
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1956-2020 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    writerpolitician
    Biography

    Lal Khan was a Pakistani political activist and Marxist political theorist.

  12. Naela Chohan

    Naela Chohan
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    diplomatpainterhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Naela Chohan is a Pakistani artist and diplomat. As a seasoned and veteran diplomat, ambassador Chohan has assumed a leadership position in eight different Pakistani diplomatic missions on five different continents. Naela Chohan is a hyperpolyglot with demonstrable fluency in seven Indo-European languages including Persian, French, and Spanish.

  13. Ansar Pervaiz

    Ansar Pervaiz
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    engineerphysicistnuclear physicist
    Biography

    Ansar Pervaiz, also spelled as, HI, is a Pakistani scientist and a nuclear engineer who was the former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and former chairman of the Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pervaiz is widely given credit for establishing the nuclear engineering, nuclear physics and nuclear technology institutes within Pakistan.

  14. Muhammad Sharif

    Muhammad Sharif
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Muhammad Sharif, TI, FPAS, is a Pakistani professor, specialised in mathematical physics and cosmology. He worked as the chairman of the department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab (PU), Lahore for six years, i.e., from 2013 to 2019. Sharif served as a Dean, Faculty of Science at University of the Punjab from 2019 to 2021. Now, Sharif is an HOD, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Lahore. He is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Distinguished National Professor. He has been awarded with the Izaz-Fazeelat and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan.

  15. Irshad Hussain

    Irshad Hussain
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Irshad Hussain is a Pakistani scientist in the field of chemistry and among the few pioneers to initiate nanomaterials research in Pakistan.

  16. Samina Yasmeen

    Samina Yasmeen
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in Quaid-i-Azam University
    1975-1977 graduated with Master of Science
    Occupations
    academic
    Biography

    Samina Yasmeen AM is an Australian–Pakistani author and intellectual who is known for her work in political and strategic development in South Asia and the role of Islam in world politics. She has published articles on the position of Pakistani and Middle Eastern women, the role of Muslims in Australia, and India–Pakistan relations.

  17. Muhammad Imran Qadir

    Muhammad Imran Qadir
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1978-.. (age 47)
    Enrolled in Quaid-i-Azam University
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    pharmacologistresearcher
    Biography

    Muhammad Imran Qadir, also known as M. I. Qadir, is a Pakistani biomedical, and pharmaceutical scientist with a large number of inventions and discoveries in real life.