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• Cricketers
• Politicians and bureaucrats
• Scholars and Sufi
• Scientists, doctors & Bankers
• Writers and poets

This is a list of notable people from Jhang.

Cricketers

• Aleem Dar, cricketer and world class cricket umpire who was declared as best umpire of cricket of the year for three consecutive years
• Mariam Hasan, cricketer
• Ghulam Shabber, cricketer

Politicians and bureaucrats

• Khan Muhammad Arif Khan Rajbana Sial, politician and key figure in Pakistan Movement.
• Abida Hussain, politician and ambassador
• Sahibzada Muhammad Mehboob Sultan, member of National Assembly
• Javid Husain, former ambassador/diplomat
• Faisal Saleh Hayat, politician
• Ghulam Bibi Bharwana, politician
• Saima Akhtar Bharwana, politician
• Sheikh Waqas Akram, politician
• Sheikh Muhammad Akram, politician and businessman

Scholars and Sufi

• Shah Jeewna, Muslim Sufi and saint
• Sultan Bahu, Muslim Sufi and saint
• Tahir-ul-Qadri, Muslim Sufi Scholar, Minhaj-ul-Quran

Scientists, doctors & Bankers

• Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, 1979
• Muhammad Saeed, dental surgeon
• Irshad Hussain chemist and nanomaterials scientist

Writers and poets

• Majeed Amjad, Urdu language poet
• Mohsin Mighiana, writer and columnist