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The following is a list of notable British Pakistanis, namely notable citizens or residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie in Pakistan:

Academia and education

Humanities
Sara Ahmed – professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism
Shabbir Akhtar – philosopher
Tariq Ali – academic, historian and novelist
Khizar Humayun Ansari OBE – director of the Centre for Minority Studies at the University of London, known for his work in the field of race and ethnic relations
Sarah Ansari – professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London
Akil Awan – British academic and the current RCUK Fellow at the Royal Holloway, University of London
Yasmin Khan – historian of British India and associate professor of history at the University of Oxford
Ziauddin Sardar – scholar, writer and cultural critic
Mona Siddiqui – professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, as well a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze, The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian and The Herald

Natural sciences
Haroon Ahmed – professor emeritus of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge
Saiful Islam – professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath and a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award
Syma Khalid – biophysicist who is a professor of Computational Biophysics in Chemistry at the University of Southampton.
Ehsan Masood – science writer, journalist and broadcaster; editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe; teaches International Science Policy at Imperial College London
Azra Meadows OBE – honorary lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow
Jawed Siddiqi – professor emeritus of software engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and political activist
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui – academic and political activist

Social sciences
Hamza Alavi – Marxist academic sociologist and activist
Muhammad Anwar – University of Warwick sociologist
Tariq Modood – professor of sociology, politics and public policy at the University of Bristol

University leadership and executives
Nazir Afzal – Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England; Chancellor of the University of Manchester, began his term in 2022 as the highest ranked Pashtun at any Russell Group institution
Aneez Esmail – Retired Associate Vice-president at the University of Manchester; formerly based at Institute of Population Health belonging to the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences; held a visiting professorship at Harvard University in the US
Sayeeda Warsi – former Conservative Party chairman and now Deputy-Chancellor of the University of Bolton

Business and finance

FTSE 100 and multinational corporations
Javed Ahmed – former Chief Executive of Tate & Lyle PLC from 2009 to 2018, a FTSE 100 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands
Mohammed Amin MBE – retired partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers UK; Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Amin joined the Liberal Democrats after the promotion of Boris Johnson
Salman Amin – chief executive officer of Pladis; group owner of Godiva premium chocolate and McVities biscuits
Zameer Choudrey – Chief Executive of Bestway Group; second richest Pakistani and the largest family-owned business in the United Kingdom
Naguib Kheraj – Vice-chairman of Barclays Bank PLC; former boss of JP Morgan Cazenove; his philanthropic interests have made him Chairman of the Aga Khan Foundation based in Karachi Pakistan
Sir Anwar Pervez OBE – Rawalpindi-born businessman founder of the Bestway Group; one of the largest financial backers to the UK Conservative Party; lives in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Saif Malik - CEO, UK and Regional Head, Client Coverage, UK & Europe at Standard Chartered.

Small and medium-sized enterprises
Mumtaz Khan Akbar – founder and owner of the Mumtaz brand
Amjad Ali – co-founder of fast food chain Dixy Chicken
Ruzwana Bashir – British businesswoman, former Oxford Union President and founder and CEO of Peek.com, travel company based in San Francisco, California
James Caan – businessman and entrepreneur; formerly a part of Dragons' Den
Mo Chaudry – born in Pakistan, raised in England; became a millionaire businessman in the West Midlands
Humayon Dar – advocate of Islamic banking and finance; founder of the Global Islamic Finance Awards
Afzal Kahn – Bradford-based entrepreneur, owns a specialist car design company; in 2008 he broke records by paying £440,000 for a distinctive 'F1' number plate; has previously shown an interest in purchasing Newcastle football club
Mohammed Khalid – founder and Chairman of the successful fast food chain Chicken Cottage
Zarine Kharas – co-founder and CEO of JustGiving
Abid Mehmood – co-founder of fast food chain Dixy Chicken
Amar Latif – Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller
Tahir Mohsan – founder of Time Computers, Supanet, and Tpad; currently manages several investment companies from his base in Dubai
Aneel Mussarat – property millionaire; his company, MCR Property Group, specialises in renting apartments to university students in Manchester and Liverpool
Tarak Ramzan – founder and CEO of the Quiz womenswear retail chain
Asim Siddiqui – chairman and a founding trustee of The City Circle
Adeem Younis - founder and CEO of SingleMuslim.com and Penny Appeal
Mohammad Zahoor - Ukraine-based British-Pakistani businessman and philanthropist.
Cash Haleem - United Kingdom-based British-Pakistani businessman

Entertainment

Asad Shan – actor and TV presenter B4U music & Zing TV. Won the title of Mr Asia UK and started in 4 feature. Directed 7 Welcome to London
Abdullah Afzal – actor and stand-up comedian
Shehzad Afzal – writer, director, producer and game designer; born in Dundee, Scotland
Riz Ahmed – British actor, best known for his role in films such as Four Lions, Nightcrawler, Rogue One, and Venom, as well as in the HBO miniseries The Night Of
Hajaz Akram – British Pakistani actor
Mina Anwar – British actress, best known for playing Police Constable Maggie Habib in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line
Humza Arshad – actor and comedian; the producer of the YouTube series Diary of a Bad Man
Sadia Azmat – stand-up comedian
Shabana Bakhsh – actress who has appeared in soaps such as River City and Doctors
Babar Bhatti – actor known for the part of Punkah Wallah Rumzan in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Jamil Dehlavi – London-based independent film director and producer of Pakistani-French origin
Dynamo – born Steven Frayne; popular magician; Pakistani father and English mother
Tan France – fashion designer, television personality, and author He is currently the fashion expert for the Netflix series Queer Eye.
Ahmad Hussain – singer-songwriter, executive, producer and founder and managing director of IQRA Promotions
Aziz Ibrahim – musician best known for his work as guitarist with Simply Red, The Stone Roses (post-John Squire)
Naz Ikramullah – British-Canadian artist and film producer; of Pakistani origin
Tez Ilyas – stand-up comedian of Pakistani descent
Jameela Jamil – actress, radio presenter and activist
Sarah Joyce – better known by her stage name, 'Rumer'; Pakistani-born British singer–songwriter
Annie Khalid – English-Pakistani musician and model
Abid Khan – director
Ahsan Khan – film and television actor, host and performer
Alyy Khan – film and television actor and host
Aqib Khan – actor who played Sajid Khan in the movie West is West
Armeena Rana Khan – Canadian born Pakistani-British film and television actress and model, known for her work in the Pakistani entertainment industry
Guz Khan – comedian and actor
Natasha Khan – known by her stage name, 'Bat for Lashes'; half Pakistani half English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Sair Khan – Coronation Street actress of Pakistani descent
Saira Khan – runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice; TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA
Shahid Khan – known as 'Naughty Boy'; British-born Pakistani songwriter, record producer and musician
Ayub Khan Din – actor and playwright, known for writing the film East Is East
Zack Knight – Punjabi singer, songwriter and performer
Mani Liaqat – Manchester-based British Asian actor and comedian
Art Malik – Pakistani-born British actor who achieved international fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant-Ivory television serials and films
Zayn Malik – former member of the British-Irish boyband One Direction from Bradford, whose father is from Pakistan; his mother is mixed British and Irish
Nadia Manzoor – writer, performer, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Jeff Mirza – stand-up comedian and actor
Shazia Mirza – comedian from Birmingham, England, whose act revolves around her Muslim faith
Suleman Mirza – lead dancer of dance group Signature; runner-up on Britain's Got Talent 2008
Zia Mohyeddin – Pakistani actor, narrator, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani and British cinema throughout his career
Mazhar Munir – television and film actor; before co-starring in the 2005 movie Syriana, he appeared in three British television shows: The Bill, Mile High, and Doctors
Murtz – television and radio presenter
Aki Nawaz – British singer and musician; part of the band Fun-Da-Mental
Adil Omar – British-born Pakistani recording artist
Adil Ray – presenter, better known as the creator of BBC South Asian Muslim comedy Citizen Khan in which he also portrays the protagonist
Sakina Samo – award-winning actress, producer and director
Kiran Sonia Sawar – Scottish actress best known for her role in the one-off drama Murdered by My Father
Nadine Shah – singer-songwriter and musician
Jay Shareef – award-winning stand-up comedian and broadcaster
Rani Taj – dhol player dubbed 'Dhol Queen' after her YouTube video went viral
Badi Uzzaman – television and film actor
Atta Yaqub – actor and model
Mikaal Zulfiqar – British born Pakistani actor and model
Mawaan Rizwan - British actor, writer and comedian
Asim Chaudhry - British comedian, writer, director and actor
Tahirah Sharif - British actress

Journalism and media
Ali Abbasi – former Scottish TV presenter
Kamran Abbasi – doctor, medical editor, and cricket writer; currently editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; former acting editor of British Medical Journal and editor of the bulletin of the World Health Organization
Asad Ahmad – BBC journalist and news presenter
Arif Ali – regional product director for the Associated Press news agency in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – journalist and author born in Uganda, currently columnist for The Independent and the Evening Standard
Shaista Aziz – journalist, writer, stand-up comedian, and former international aid worker
Anila Baig – columnist at The Sun
Martin Bashir – British journalist of Pakistani descent, currently with ABC's 20/20
Hassan Ghani – Scottish broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, based in London
Mishal Husain – anchor for BBC World
Faris Kermani – film director based in the UK, now head of Crescent Films, production company based in London
Reham Khan – journalist and anchor currently working at Dawn News
Rizwan Khan – works for Al Jazeera English; has his own show called Riz Khan
Mazher Mahmood (also known as the Fake Sheikh) – often dubbed as "Britain's most notorious undercover reporter"; in a GQ survey was voted as the 45th most powerful man in Britain, ahead of Prince William; the News of the World paid his six-figure salary
Javed Malik – television anchor; publisher of the UAE's first diplomatic magazine, The International Diplomat; executive director of the World Forum; served as Pakistan's Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
Sarfraz Manzoor – Pakistani-born British writer, journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster; writes regularly for The Guardian; presents documentaries on BBC Radio 4
Aasmah Mir – BBC presenter and former columnist for the Sunday Herald
Nazia Mogra – television journalist for BBC North West Tonight News on BBC One
Jason Mohammad – radio and television presenter
Saima Mohsin – British journalist
Shereen Nanjiani – radio journalist with BBC Radio Scotland
Adnan Nawaz – news and sports presenter working for the BBC World Service
Zarqa Nawaz – freelance writer, journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker
Asad Qureshi – filmmaker who was kidnapped on 26 March 2010 by a militant group called the "Asian Tigers" in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Osama Saeed – head of International and Media Relations at the Al Jazeera Media Network

Law and justice
Nazir Afzal – Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, who initiated prosecutions in the case of the Rochdale sex trafficking gang
Aamer Anwar – Glaswegian solicitor; named as Criminal Lawyer of the Year by the Law Awards of Scotland in 2005 and 2006
Tan Ikram – Deputy Senior District Judge (MC) of England & Wales based at Westminster Magistrates' Court; Associate Judge, SBA, Cyprus; holds honorary doctorates in laws (LLD) from the University of West London and the University of Wolverhampton; Contributing Editor, Archbold Magistrates Criminal Courts Practice 2020
Javed Khan – Chief Executive of Barnardo's, former Chief Executive of the British charity Victim Support; of Kashmiri origin; member of the Whitehall Social Policy Forum; an adviser to the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Programme
Karim Ahmad Khan – lawyer and chief International Criminal Court prosecutor
Khawar Qureshi QC – barrister and international lawyer.

Literature and art
Tariq Ali – historian and novelist
Moniza Alvi – poet and writer
Rasheed Araeen – London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator
Nadeem Aslam – novelist
Nasser Azam – contemporary artist, living and working in London
Shezad Dawood – artist based in London
Imtiaz Dharker – poet and documentary filmmaker
Roopa Farooki – novelist born in Lahore, Pakistan,
Mohsin Hamid – Pakistani writer of novels Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Aamer Hussein – short story writer and critic
Zahid Hussain – novelist, poet and screenwriter
Razia Iqbal – arts correspondent for the BBC; born in East Africa and is of Muslim Punjabi origin
Idris Khan – artist based in London
Shamshad Khan – Manchester-based poet born in Leeds; worked as an editor on an anthology of black women's poetry and advised the Arts Council of England North West
Vaseem Khan – writer, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency novels
Hanif Kureishi – playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer
Omar Mansoor – London-based fashion designer, best known for his couture occasionwear
Emran Mian – author and policy advisor at Whitehall
Suhayl Saadi – literary and erotic novelist; radio and stage playwright
Ziauddin Sardar – scholar, writer and cultural critic
Qaisra Shahraz – novelist, journalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a director of Gatehouse Books
Anwar Sheikh – Pakistani-born British author; lives in Cardiff, Wales

Architecture
Saira Hussain – Lancashire-based and Huddersfield University educated; named most influential woman in UK Architecture 2017

Civil service, military and police
Tarique Ghaffur – high-ranking British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service; Assistant Commissioner–Central Operations
Jabron Hashmi – soldier killed in action in Sangin, Afghanistan, in 2006
Amjad Hussain – senior Royal Navy officer; highest-ranking member of the British Armed Forces from an ethnic minority
Sajid Javid – Rochdale-born; former Home Secretary; included in The Times list of "Top 100 Global People to Watch in 2012", and in The Daily Telegraphs list of "Top 100 most influential figures from the Right"
Muhammed Akbar Khan – British recruit in the First World War and an officer in the Second World War; first Muslim to become a general in the British Army
Emran Mian – previously lived in Islamabad; later completed his PhD at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Policy Advisor at Whitehall and the Cabinet Office; won a 2014 UK Civil Servant of the Year Award

Politics

Members of Parliament
Imran Ahmad Khan – former Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield, president of the Transnational Crisis Project; expert on transnational security
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – former Scottish National Party MP for Ochil and South Perthshire
Tahir Ali – MP representing Birmingham Hall Green for the Labour Party
Rosena Allin-Khan – Labour MP for Tooting
Saqib Bhatti – Conservative MP for Meriden, first elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.
Rehman Chishti – Conservative MP for Gillingham and Rainham
Nus Ghani – Conservative MP for Wealden
Imran Hussain – Labour MP for Bradford East and Shadow Minister for International Development
Sajid Javid – Conservative MP for Bromsgrove
Afzal Khan – Labour MP for Manchester Gorton solicitor and former Labour MEP for North West region; first Asian Lord Mayor of Manchester;
Sadiq Khan – Mayor of London, former Labour MP for Tooting and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor
Khalid Mahmood – Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr
Shabana Mahmood – Labour MP For Birmingham Ladywood
Shahid Malik – former Labour MP for Dewsbury; served as a Minister for International Development in Gordon Brown's government
Anum Qaisar-Javed – Scottish National Party MP for Airdrie and Shotts
Yasmin Qureshi – Labour MP for Bolton South East
Faisal Rashid – former Labour MP for Warrington South, elected in 2017. He was the Mayor of Warrington in 2016.
Naz Shah – Labour MP for the constituency of Bradford West
Zarah Sultana – Labour Party MP for Coventry South
Mohammad Yasin – Labour MP for Bedford, elected in 2017

Peers
Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad – Conservative Baron of Wimbledon
Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed – Unaffiliated peer in the House of Lords, formerly Labour now retired.
Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey CBE Conservative life peer, businessman
Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine – Lead Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords
Shaista Gohir, Baroness Gohir OBE - Crossbench life peer
Wajid Khan, Baron Khan – Labour Baron of Burnley
Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor – Liberal Democrat Baroness; former Legal Services Ombudsman; former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik – Conservative Baroness of Mearns in the County of Renfrewshire; former Chairman of CBI Scotland
Michael Nazir-Ali – now retired Bishop in the House of Lords
Qurban, Lord Hussain – Life peer
Aamer Sarfraz, Baron Sarfraz – former Conservative party treasurer
Shas Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan – Liberal Democrat and Baroness of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth
Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh – Baron of Cornhill and Chairman of Conservative Muslim Forum
Sayeeda Hussain, Baroness Warsi – Conservative minister without portfolio and a former member of the Cabinet,

Members of Scottish Parliament
Bashir Ahmad – former SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament
Hanzala Malik – Scottish Labour Party member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, elected in 2011
Anas Sarwar – Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Labour MSP for the Glasgow region
Kaukab Stewart – SNP MSP for Glasgow Kelvin.
Humza Yousaf – SNP MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and former Justice Secretary (2018 to 2021)

Members of the Senedd
Mohammad Asghar – Welsh politician, representing Plaid Cymru and Welsh Conservatives. First ethnic minority member elected to the Senedd
Natasha Asghar – Welsh politician, representing the Welsh Conservatives. First female ethnic minority member elected to the Senedd

Members of the London Assembly
Hina Bokhari – Liberal Democrat AM
Sakina Sheikh – Labour AM

Mayors
Munir Ahmed – Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing 2021-22
Yasmine Dar - Lord Mayer of Manchester; first Asian Woman to be Lord Mayor.
Shiraz Mirza – Honorary Alderman and First Asian Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 2000 and again in 2007. Shiraz Mirza also served as the Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey Police.
Rokhsana Fiaz – Labour Party politician serving as Mayor of Newham
Sadiq Khan – elected Mayor of London in May 2016
Chauhdry Abdul Rashid – former Lord Mayor of Birmingham

Others in politics
Amjad Bashir – former Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber; former UKIP Small & Medium Business spokesman
Benyamin Habib – Brexit Party MEP for London from 2019 to 2020.
Sajjad Karim – former Conservative MEP; born in Brierfield, Lancashire; qualified as a solicitor and started a number of successful lawyers' practices before being elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2007; Conservative Legal Affairs Spokesman; sits on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee
Bashir Khanbhai – former Conservative MEP for East of England
Shaffaq Mohammed – Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020.
Mushtaq Ahmad – Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. He was the first Asian to serve as Provost of a Scottish council
Shahnaz Ali – British Muslim woman best known for her leadership role in equality, inclusion and human rights in the National Health Service and local government in England
Bashir Maan – Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman and writer
Munira Mirza – was the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London. Born in Oldham.
Salma Yaqoob – vice-chair of the Respect Party; Birmingham City Councillor
Zulfi Bukhari – Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development and Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan.

International governmental organizations
Aga Khan III – Karachi-born and Cambridge University educated. Khan III served as the President of the League of Nations from 1937 to 1938.
Lina Khan - legal scholar and chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission

Religion
Michael Nazir-Ali – 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England; holds dual Pakistani and British citizenship. Became Roman Catholic in 2021.
Musharraf Hussain – scientist, educator and religious scholar in Nottinghamshire
Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi – scholar and principal of the Hijaz College
Saleem Sidwai – accountant and Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Wales

Science and medicine
Haroon Ahmed – prominent scientist in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering
Qanta Ahmed – physician specializing in sleep disorders. She is also an author and a newspaper columnist
Rozina Ali – microvascular reconstructive plastic surgeon and consultant with a specialist interest in breast reconstruction; television presenter
Nadia Bukhari – pharmacist and youngest female fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; an honour bestowed to those who have achieved excellence and distinction in their pharmacy career.
Hasnat Khan – heart and lung surgeon who was romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales
Mohammad Naseem – qualified GP and the chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust
Asim Shahmalak – hair transplant surgeon and broadcaster, and proponent of such surgery; in 2009, he performed the UK's first eyelash transplant

Sport

Boxing
Tanveer Ahmed – former lightweight boxer; WBO Inter-Continental champion
Ijaz Ahmed – British super-flyweight boxer
Muhammad Ali – featherweight boxer; amateur champion
Kyle Yousaf – British flyweight boxer; held the English flyweight title in 2018
Hamzah Sheeraz – British light-middleweight boxer, WBO European title champion
Kash Ali – British heavyweight boxer, holds the IBF European heavyweight title
Ukashir Farooq – British bantamweight boxer, former British bantamweight title winner
Usman Ahmed – super flyweight boxer
Adnan Amar – British light-middleweight boxer, multiple title winner
Adil Anwar – British light-welterweight boxer and multiple title winner
Qais Ashfaq – British super-bantamweight boxer; Commonwealth silver medallist and WBA Continental title holder
Jawaid Khaliq, MBE – first British Asian to win a world title belt
Amer Khan – former undefeated light-heavyweight boxer, Central Area championship winner
Amir Khan – British light-welterweight boxer; 2004 Olympics silver medalist; former world champion
Haroon Khan – super-flyweight boxer and commonwealth bronze-medalist
Nadeem Siddique – former British welterweight boxer, multiple title winner
Adam Azim - professional boxer
Aqib Fiaz - Professional super-featherweight boxer

Cricket
Danial Ibrahim - All rounder for Sussex county cricket club
Saqib Mahmood - right arm fast bowler for Lancashire county cricket club
Shoaib Bashir - spin bowler for Somerset county cricket club
Saif Zaib - All rounder for Northamptonshire county cricket club
Feroze Khushi ‐ right handed batsman for Essex county cricket club
Aquib Afzaal – left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break
Kamran Afzaal – Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman
Usman Afzaal – cricketer who has played three Test matches for England
Ajaz Akhtar – former Pakistani people-born English cricketer
Mohammad Akhtar – Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break
Kabir Ali – English cricketer; formerly played for Worcestershire
Kadeer Ali – cricketer formerly playing for Worcestershire and is related to Kabir Ali
Moeen Ali – test cricketer playing for England and Worcestershire County Cricket Club
Rehan Alikhan – English-born former cricketer of Pakistani descent; right-handed batsman and off-break bowler
Akbar Ansari – English first class and List A cricketer who played his first class games for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence and List A cricket for Marylebone Cricket Club
Zafar Ansari – English cricketer who plays for Cambridge University and Surrey County Cricket Club
Imran Arif – Pakistani-born English cricketer; a fast-medium bowler; currently plays for Worcestershire County Cricket Club
Asim Butt – Scottish and Pakistani cricketer; primarily a left-arm medium fast bowler
Aamir Farooque – former Pakistani-born English cricketer
Majid Haq – Scottish cricket player
Omer Hussain – left-handed batsman; cousin of fellow Scottish international cricketer Majid Haq
Moneeb Iqbal – Scottish cricketer; right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler
Shammi Iqbal – English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace
Imran Jamshed – former Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace
Shaftab Khalid – English cricketer, a right-arm off-spinner who also bats right-handed
Aamer Khan – Pakistani-born former English cricketer
Amjad Khan – former cricketer for England International and the youngest to play for the Danish national team
Rawait Khan – former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and Pakistan Customs in a four-year first-class career which saw him bowl mostly in Second XI Championship matches
Wasim Khan MBE – first British-born Pakistani to play professional cricket in England; talented left-handed batsman who also bowled right arm medium pace; now chief executive of Leicestershire County Cricket Club
Sajid Mahmood – cricketer who formerly played international cricket for England and county cricket for Essex and Lancashire County Cricket Club
Nadeem Malik – English cricketer, a right-arm fast-medium seam bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman
Maneer Mirza – English cricketer; right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman who played for Worcestershire
Imraan Mohammad – English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break
Waqar Mohammad – former Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowled leg break
Saleem Mohammed – former English cricketer; right-handed batsman
Azeem Rafiq – English cricketer
Adil Rashid – English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire and England
Hamza Riazuddin – English cricketer; right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who currently plays for Hampshire
Naheem Sajjad – Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm fast-medium
Bilal Shafayat – cricketer
Rashid Shafayat – former English cricketer
Owais Shah – former Middlesex, Essex and Hampshire cricketer who also appeared for England in a number of One Day Internationals and two Test matches
Nadeem Shahid – former English first-class cricketer who played for Essex and Surrey
Ajmal Shahzad – cricketer who plays for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and formerly represented England in all three formats of the game
Safyaan Sharif – right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed batsman
Zoheb Sharif – left-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler
Qasim Sheikh – Scottish cricketer; has represented Scotland on more than 20 occasions
Alamgir Sheriyar – former Leicestershire cricketer
Naqaash Tahir – English cricketer; right-arm fast-medium bowler who has played for Lancashire and Warwickshire
Rehan Ahmed - English cricketer; youngest test debutant for England
Abtaha Maqsood - Scottish cricketer; first hijab-wearing cricketer, plays for Sunrisers, Birmingham Phoenix and Scotland

Football

Adnan Ahmed – former midfielder and Pakistan international
Iltaf Ahmed – former goalkeeper and Pakistan international
Reis Ashraf – former forward and Pakistan international
Atif Bashir – former defender and Pakistan international
Adam Docker – former defender
Abbas Farid – freestyle footballer from Newport, South Wales;
Usman Gondal – former midfielder and Pakistan international
Amjad Iqbal – former footballer who played as a defender and midfielder
Zidane Iqbal – professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Utrecht
Omar Kader – former midfielder
Otis Khan – footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grimsby Town and the Pakistan national team
Shabir Khan – former defender who played for Worcester City, having progressed through their youth system and the Pakistan national team
Adil Nabi – forward for West Bromwich Albion and the Pakistan national team
Zeeshan Rehman –former defender and Pakistan international; first Pakistani and British Asian to play in the Premiership with Fulham
Rashid Sarwar – Kilmarnock
Kashif Siddiqi – former defender and Pakistani international
Easah Suliman – defender and Pakistan international; has represented England at youth level, first player of Asian heritage to captain an England representative side, having done so at Under-16, Under-17 and Under-19 levels.
Harun Hamid – midfielder and Pakistan international
Nadia Khan - forward for Doncaster Rovers Belles and the Pakistan National Team
Shadab Iftikhar - football manager; first British Asian to manage a Scottish senior team.

Martial arts
Qasim Beg – undefeated kickboxing champion, two-time world champion
Imran Khan – two-time World Muay Thai champion
Nisar Smiler – two-time karate world champion and fifty-time gold medalist

Other sports
Enaam Ahmed – Indy NXT driver and British F3 champion, series' youngest-ever champion at just 17 years old
Shokat Ali – English snooker player of Pakistani descent; represents Pakistan in international tournaments
Ikram Butt – former professional rugby league footballer; first south Asian to play either code of international rugby for England in 1995; founder of the British Asian Rugby Association and the British Pakistani rugby league team
Gaz Choudhry – wheelchair basketball player; played for Paralympics GB in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London
Aamir Ghaffar – English badminton player
Adam Khan – racing driver from Bridlington, Yorkshire; represents Pakistan in the A1 Grand Prix series; currently demonstration driver for the Renault F1 racing team
Carla Khan – British-born squash player; granddaughter of squash legend Azam Khan
Hiddy Jahan – squash player who was ranked among the top-6 players in the world from 1970 through to 1986
Alessandro Latif – race car driver
Zia Mahmood – Pakistani professional bridge player; a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master
Imran Majid – professional British pool player
Imran Sherwani – former English field hockey player; was capped 45 times for Great Britain and 49 times for England
Lianna Swan – swimmer, represented Pakistan in the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Matthew Syed – table tennis international player; the English number one for many years

Other
Aliza Ayaz – youth climate activist
Mazhar Majeed – sporting agent and bookmaker who came under police investigation in 2010 following reports of cricket 'match fixing' after a News of the World sting operation
Omar Mansoor – fashion designer who showcased at the London Fashion Week in 2008
Robina Qureshi – Scottish human rights campaigner
Dina Wadia – daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Rattanbai Jinnah

See also
British Pakistani
Overseas Pakistani
List of Pakistani Americans
List of Pakistani Canadians
List of Pakistani Australians

References

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Pakistani diaspora in the United Kingdom
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