With the rich history of the Punjab, there were a number of important figures from Lahore. Listed below are some of the better known ones.
Pre-independence (pre-1947)
- Allama Mashriqi
- Khushwant Singh
- A Hameed
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- Alfred Woolner
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Khawaja Sultan
- Sayyid Sajjad Rizavi
- Khawaja Khurshid Anwar
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad
- Mian Mir
- Mashkoor Hussain Yad
- Shakir Ali
- Nayyar Ali Dada
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal (Tomb in Lahore)
- Rudyard Kipling
- Shah Jahan
Post-independence (post-1947)
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar
- Abdul Qadir
- Atif Rahman Baig
- Hafiz Mohammad Saeed
- Imran Khan
- Israr Ahmed
- Muhammad Salahuddin
- Munawar Zarif
- Muhammad Asif
- Nawaz Sharif
- Naeem Bukhari
- Rangeela
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan
- Salman Saeed Warraich
- Sara Suleri
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Sultan Rahi
- Tariq Ali
- Saadat saeed
- Uzma Gilani
- Wasim Akram
- Zarif
- Ali Afzaal
- Usman Ghani
- Hassaan Ghazali
