List of families of Lahore

The old city of Lahore, Pakistan, has had many notable families in its history, who have contributed significantly to its politics, society, the creative arts, sports and other fields. Notable individuals are listed elsewhere.
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* Khandan e Shareefi, the prominent family of royal physicians of the Mughal court reside in Lahore. One of most famous politicians and Hakim include Hakim Muhammad Ajmal Khan, one of the founder of All India Muslim League. This family traces their lineage from Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar (R.A) a grandmaster of Naqshbandi Sufi silsila.
*The Hakim Khana Family which has produced KB Hakim Ahmad Shuja, the writer and poet who chronicled the life of the Bhati Gate area of Old Lahore, and his son Anwar Kamal Pasha, the noted early film director of Pakistan who married the actress Shamim Bano. American feminist Islamic scholar Dr Riffat Hassan, Pakistani jurist and legal expert Syed Afzal Haider, Pakistan Television Corporation's former director-producer Yawar Hayat Khan and renowned Pakistani poet and scholar Omer Tarin are also related from their maternal side to this family. Another closely linked and related old family is the Syed "Fakir Khana"
* The Diyal Family is a notable family of Lahore. The Diyal's have been involved in politics from a long time, They are also major landlords in the Wahga area. Diyal Family has been a part of National assembly of Pakistan from NA 130. and NA 100 and provincial assembly of Punjab from PP 158 and PP 157.
* The Syed Family of Old Muslim Town. Dr Syed Muhammad Hussain graduated from King Edward Medical College Lahore and became a famous medical practitioner. He bought land from personal funds and established Old Muslim Town and gifted large plots of land to known Muslim figures.
* The Khan family which has contributed to politics, military and civil services of Pakistan. Distinguished members are ex-Governor Punjab Lt. Gen Ghulam Jilani Khan, Lt. Gen Zia Ullah Khan and Capt. (R) Asad Ullah Khan. Ghulam Jilani Khan is the founder of the Chand Bagh School and was also responsible for introducing Nawaz Sharif into politics by making him a finance minister first, then Chief Minister and eventually seeing him become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Zia Ullah Khan is attributed with major contributions in the military such as serving as Corps Commander of XII Corps Quetta. Capt. (R) Asad Ullah Khan is a renowned bureaucrat who has served as Commissioner Bahawalpur and Multan Divisions where he made various contributions. He has also served as Secretary Irrigation and Secretary Forest, Wildlife and Fisheries Department of Punjab Government.
* The 'Khwaja' family of old city of Lahore, which produced Khwaja Ferozuddin Bar-at-Law, famous music director Khwaja Khurshid Anwar and American-Pakistani poet and scholar Waqas Ahmad Khwaja.
* The Malik Arain Family of Lahore. Famous Arain Family of Pervez Malik Federal Minister.
* The Syed Maratib Ali Family, of businessmen, diplomats and philanthropists, including Syed Amjad Ali, Syed Babar Ali, Syed Wajid Ali and others. Founders, among other things, of the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
* The Ansari family, of Wazir Khan the Mughal minister who made the famous Wazir Khan Mosque.
* The famous Nawab Arain Mian Family Baghbanpura, Lahore, traditional custodians of the famed Shalimar Gardens, which produced many important figures from Mughal to British times.
* The Qizilbash family, of Nawab Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash, Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash and others, including Shahtaj Qizilbash in more recent times.
* The Mangtanwala/Doulat Ram Family, which produced the famous engineer and philanthropist, Sir Ganga Ram—designer of the General Post Office, Lahore, the present Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, the present National College of Arts and others; and he also established the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, as a charitable cause.
* The Sialkoti Kashmiri family of Pakistan's national poet, Allama Dr Sir Muhammad Iqbal, and his son former Justice Javid Iqbal.
* The Faiz-Hashmi family, to which belong such celebrities as poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Alys Faiz, Salima Hashmi, Shoaib Hashmi and Adeel Hashmi.
* The Zoroastrian Bhandara Family, originally from village Bhandara in Maharashtra, India, and owners of the Murree Brewery, Pakistan, including the late Peshton Bhandara, Minocher Bhandara, Isphanyar Bhandara and the renowned Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa (née Bhandara).
* The Najmuddin family of prominent Pakistani Christian educationalists, who run the famous Joan McDonald School in Lahore and Islamabad, and a lady from which family was one of the early principals/administrators of the Kinnaird College. Former Pakistani Inspector-general of Police Dr Dilshad Najmuddin also belongs to this family.
* The Kapur Family, including Indian filmmakers J.K. Kapur and Shekhar Kapur, acclaimed Indian film director and producer.
* The Sharif family of businessmen-politicians and three times Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif, who own and run the Sharif Group and Ittefaq Group and his younger brother is current Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif.
* The Kardar Arain family which produced the actors and director Abdur Rashid Kardar and the cricketer Abdul Hafeez Kardar.
* The Mian Saeed Arain family which also produced notable cricketers such as Muhammad Saeed and Yawar Saeed, also related to cricketer Fazal Mahmood.
* Members of the famed musical Patiala gharana, some of whom such as Ustads Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amanat Ali Khan, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Fateh Ali Khan, Hamid Ali Khan and others, have long graced this city with their classical virtuosity.
* The Butt Kashmiri family of Pehlwans, famed for their Pehlwani wrestling skills, which includes The Great Gama, Zubair alias Jhara and others; originally from Amritsar, Punjab, British India.
*The Shahbaz family of aristocratic descent from pre-partition British Raj. Members include HRH Sahahzade Shahbaz and HRH Ali Shahbaz, Pakistan's Youth Ambassador to the United Nations before joining Georgetown University.
* The Kashmiri Muslim Manto family, migrants from Ludhiana, of the writer Saadat Hasan Manto, and also his niece the historian Ayesha Jalal.
* The Cornelius family, Christian settlers originally from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, British India, the most famous member of which was Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius.
* The Nevile family, once residents of Lahore who migrated to India, and one of whom is the well-known Indian author, scholar and expert on Lahore's pre-1947 history, Pran Nevile, whose book 'Lahore - A Sentimental Journey' (1992) is a sympathetic and loving memoir to his ancestral home.
* The Roman Catholic Chaudhrys who came from the Salt Range area of the Punjab and settled in Lahore, where Elmer Chaudhry remained the chief photographer of The Times, and his son Cecil Chaudhry was an officer of the Pakistan Air Force, and later a distinguished educational administrator.
* Durrani/Sadozai family/clan of Afghans settled in Lahore. Shehzada Sultan Ali Durani was a renowned poet and religious scholar of his time. Another person of this family Ghulam Hussain was a teacher of Allama Ala-ud-din Siddiqi. Today, Qaiser Ali Agha is a writer . One family was also living in the historical Bangla Ayub Shah inside Kashmiri Gate Lahore

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