List of Kashmiri people

This is an incomplete list of notable persons of Kashmiri origin.

Activists

Administrators, diplomats, bankers and jurists

Armed forces

Authors and poets

Businesspeople and industrialists

Philosophers and historians

Politicians

Royalty

Saints, mystics and philosophers

  • Baba Shadi Shaheed, a Sufi Saint and first Chib Rajput convert to Islam
  • Bhagwan Gopinath (1898–1968), a mystic and saint
  • Hamza Makhdoom (c. 1494 – c. 1576), popularly known as Makhdoom Sahib, a Kashmiri Sufi mystic, scholar and spiritual teacher .
  • Lal Ded (1320–1392), a Shaivite saint
  • Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907), kashmiri Gujjar a Sufi saint and poet
  • Rupa Bhawani (ca. 1620 – ca. 1720), a mystic from the Saahib clan of Kashmiri Pandits
  • Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali (1377–1440), a saint who belonged to the Rishi order
  • Swami Lakshman Joo (1907–1991), a scholar of Kashmir Shaivism

Scholars and educationists

Separatist leaders & militants

Sportspeople

Visual and performing artists

Journalists

  • Nidhi Razdan, award-winning television journalist.
  • Moeed Pirzada, Kashmiri-British political commentator, geostrategic analyst and a television news journalist.
  • Hamid Mir, award-winning journalist, columnist and an author.
  • Aarti Tikoo Singh, assistant editor in The Times of India, conflict and international affairs writer and former reporter
  • Gharida Farooqi, television host and anchorperson.
  • Aamir Rafiq Peerzada, award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker.
  • Kamran Yousuf, Freelance Kashmiri photojournalist .
  • Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, (1927 – 25 January 1992) was the founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers which currently publishes many Urdu and English newspapers in Pakistan.
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