Siraj Aurangabadi Sayyid Sirajuddin, commonly known as Siraj Aurangabadi ( ur, ; 1715 - 1763), was an Indian mystic poet who initially wrote in Persian and later started writing in Urdu. Work and Life The anthology of his poems, ''Kulliyat-e-Siraj'', contain ...

Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi (1720–1799) was an Urdu poet in the court of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula. Soz was a master in Persian and Arabic language and an expert in calligraphy. Life and work Mohammad Meer Soz son Ziauddin was born in 1720 in Delhi ...

Khwaja Mir Dard Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) ( ur, ) was a poet of the Delhi School and a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi The Naqshbandi ( fa, نقشبندی)), Neqshebendi ( ku, نه‌قشه‌به‌ندی), and Nakşibendi (in Turkish) is a major Sunni ...

Nazeer Akbarabadi Nazeer Akbarabadi (born Wali Muhammad; 1735 – 1830) was an 18th-century Indian poet known as "Father of Nazm", who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under the pen name (takhallus) "Nazeer", most remembered for his poems like '' Banjaranama'' ...

Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat (born Yahya Khan), was an Indian poet of the Lucknow school. He was born 1748 in Delhi but spent his childhood in Faizabad and later migrated to Lucknow. He was the disciple of Mirza Jafar Ali Hasrat and a close friend of In ...

Insha Allah Khan 'Insha' Insha Allah Khan ( ur, ; c. 1752 Murshidabad –1817), known as Insha, was an Urdu poet in the courts of Lucknow and Delhi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. A multi-talented polyglot, he was the author of the first grammar of ...

Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin Nawab Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin ( ur, ) (1757, Sirhind – 1835, Lucknow) was an Urdu poet and prose writer. He is credited with the creating a feminist form of Urdu poetry known as " Rekhti". Background He was born in Sirhind, brought up Delhi ...

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Kala Mahal, Agra, Maratha Confederacy , death_date = , death_place = Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Delhi, British India , occupation = Poet , language ...

Momin Khan Momin Momin Khan Momin (; 1800–14 May 1852) was a late Mughal era poet known for his Urdu ghazals. A lesser-known contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq, he used "Momin" as his pen name. His grave is located in the Mehdiyan cemetery in Maulana Azad M ...

Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer ( ur, ), (29 August 1803 – 6 March 1875) was an Urdu poet who excelled and perfected the art of Marsiya writing. He is considered the leading exponent of Marsiya Nigari or marsiya writing along with Mir Anees. Mi ...

Mir Babar Ali Anis Mir Babar Ali Anees ( ur, مير ببر على انيس) (1800–1874), also known as Mir Anees was an Indian Urdu poet. He used his pen-name (takhallus) of Anees (Urdu: , ''Anees'' means "close friend, companion") in poetry. Anees used Persian, ...

Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim Daya Shankar Kaul "Nasim" (1811 1845) was an Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Amir Meenai Ameer Minai or Amir Meenai ( ur, ; 1829 — 13 October 1900) was a 19th-century Indian poet. He was respected by several contemporary poets including Ghalib and Daagh Dehalvi and by Muhammad Iqbal.Dagh Dehlvi (Nawab Mirza Khan), ''Daagh'' (1831–1905) *

Altaf Hussain Hali Altaf Hussain Hali ( – ; 1837 – 31 December 1914), also known as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and writer. Early life He was born in Panipat to Aizad Baksh and was a descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. He was in the care of his ...

(Hali Panipati), ''Hali'' (1837–1914) * Akbar Allahabadi (Syed Akbar Hussain), ''Akbar'' (1846–1921) * Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Maulana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi), ''Raza'' (1856–1921) *

Hassan Raza Khan Hassan Raza Khan Bareilwi was an Islamic scholar, Sufi and poet and the younger brother of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan, the main leader of the Ahle Sunnat movement. He was a disciple of Sha Ale Rasool Marehrvi in to Sufism, revered Sufi master from ...

Barelvi (Maulana Hassan Raza Khan Barelvi), ''Hassan'' (1859-1908) * Bekhud Badayuni (Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui), ''Bekhud'' (1857–1912) *

Shibli Nomani Shibli Nomani ( ur, – ; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh.Muztar Khairabadi (1862–1927) *

Alam Alam is a masculine name derived from several ancient languages including : # Arabic: (''ʿĀlam'') meaning "world" or "universe" # Hebrew: cognate word is transcribed as '' Olam'', also meaning "World" # Tagalog: ''Alam'' means "Knowledge" ...

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Zaigham Hafiz Ikram Ahmad ( ur, ), or simply known by his pen name Zaigham ( ur, ), was a 19th-century teacher and alchemist based in Bengal. He became prominent due to his talent in Urdu and Persian language poetry, specialising in ghazal and marsi ...

(d. 1869) * Tashna (1872–1931) *

Zafar Ali Khan Zafar Ali Khan (1874– 27 November 1956) ( pnb, – ), also known as Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani writer, poet, translator and a journalist who played an important role in the Pakistan Movement against the British Raj. He is genera ...

(1873–1956) * Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang (1875–1952) * Hasrat Mohani (Syed Fazlul Hussain), ''Hasrat'' (1875–1951) * Dil Shahjahanpuri (Zameer Hasan Khan), ''Dil'' (1875–1959) *

Allama Muhammad Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

(Allama Iqbal), ''Iqbal'' (1877–1938) *

Mohammad Ali Jauhar Muhammad Ali Jauhar (10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931), was an British Raj, Indian Muslim activist, prominent member of the All-India Muslim League, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of J ...

(Maulana Jauhar), ''Jauhar'' (1878-1931) *

Fani Badayuni Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet. Early life He was schooled at Government High School and graduated from Bareilly College in 1901, studied law at Aligarh Muslim U ...

(Shaukat Ali Khan), ''Fani'' (1879–1941) *

Seemab Akbarabadi Seemab Akbarabadi ( ur, ) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui ( ur, , 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.Brij Narayan Chakbast Brij Narayan Chakbast (19 January 1882 12 February 1926), also spelled as Brij Narain Chakbast, was a British Indian Urdu poet. Life Chakbast (1882–1926) was an Urdu poet. He was born on 19 January 1882 in a Kashmiri Pandit family settled ...

(1882–1926) * Bekhud Dehlvi (Syed Wahiduddin Ahmed) (1882–1955) *

Niaz Fatehpuri Niaz Fatehpuri (1884–1966) was the pen name of Niyaz Muhammed Khan, a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and polemicist. He was also the founder and editor of ''Nigar''. In 1962, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India for "Literat ...

(Maulana Niyaz Muhammad Khan) (1882–1966) *

Yagana Changezi Yagana Changezi (1884–1956) was an Indian Urdu language poet who published several collections over a 30-year period. Early life He was born as Mirza Wajid Husain in 1884 in Patna, Bihar. He later settled in Lucknow writing under the name, Y ...

(Mirza Wajid Hussain Yaas) ''Yaas'' (1883–1956) *

Josh Malsiyani Labhu Ram (1883-1976), better known by his pen name Josh Malsiyani, was an Indian Urdu poet who much acclaimed during his time. He was born in a poor family in the Aquilpur locality of Malsian, a small town near Jalandhar which town was the d ...

(Labhu Ram) ''Josh'' (1883–1976) *

Asghar Gondvi Asghar Husain Asghar (1884–1936) popularly known by his pen name Asghar Gondvi, born in 1884 in Gorakhpur. Gondvi's father lived in the district of Gorakhpur Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of ...

(Asghar Hussain Asghar), ''Asghar'' (1884-1936) * Tilok Chand Mehroom (1887–1966) * Qamar Jalalvi (1887–1968) * Amjad Hyderabadi (Amjad Hussain), ''Amjad'' (1888-1961) * Jigar Moradabadi (Ali Sikandar), ''Jigar'' (1890–1960) * Raaz Chandpuri (Mohd. Sadiq) (1892–1969) *

Hakim Ahmad Shuja Hakim Ahmad Shuja MBE (; sometimes written as 'Hakeem Ahmed Shujah' and 'Hakim Ahmad Shuja Pasha') (4 November 1893 – 4 January 1969), was a famous Urdu and Persian poet, playwright, writer, film writer and lyricist, scholar and mysti ...

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Josh Malihabadi Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan; 5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (poet of revolution) was a Pakistani poet and is regarded as one of the finest Urdu poets of the era of British India. Kno ...

(Shabbir Hassan Khan), ''Josh'' (1894–1982) * Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar, ''Jauhar'' (1895– 1985) *

Firaq Gorakhpuri Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself ...

(Raghupati Sahay), ''Firaq'' (1896–1982) *

Ram Prasad Bismil Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, a ...

(1897–1927) * Abr Ahasani Gunnauri (Ahmed Baksh) ''Abr'' (1897–1973) * Munavvar Lakhnavi Bisheshwar Prasad ''Munavvar'' (1897–1970) *

Abdur Rauf Urooj Abdur Rauf Urooj ( 17 May 1990) was a Pakistani poet, critic, journalist, and research scholar. Besides writing poetry, he also composed songs, including his first song titled "Phir aaj Divali aai" (Diwali came today again) which was recorded b ...

(c. 19321990)

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Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (3 March 1900 – 26 September 1966) was a political activist from Bihar, prominent in the Indian independence movement. Early life Ajazi was born on 3 March 1900 in village Dihuli, Block Sakra of District Muz ...

(1900–1966) *

Hafeez Jalandhari Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari ( ur, ) (born 14 January 1900 – 21 December 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan

(Mohd.Hafeez), ''Hafeez'' (1900–1982) * Talib Chakwali Manohar Lal Kapur ‘Talib’ (1900–1988) * Pandit Harichand Akhtar ('Akhtar') (1901–1958) * Alam Muzaffarnagari (Muhammad Ishaaq) (1901–1969) * Bismil Saeedi (1901–1977) * Khushtar Girami (Dewan Ram Rakhamal Kalia) (1902–1988) * Anand Narain Mulla (1901–1997) * Zaheen Shah Taji (1902–1978) * Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1904–1973) *

Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari often abbreviated as Z. A. Bukhari (Urdu:ذوالفقار علی بخاری) (July 6, 1904 – July 12, 1975) was a broadcaster of British India and later Pakistan. He is notoriously remembered for being the reason Bade G ...

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Akhtar Sheerani Akhtar Shirani (born Muhammad Dawood Khan; 4 May 1905 – 9 September 1948; also spelled Sheerani or Sherani), was an Urdu poet. He is considered to be one of the leading romantic poets of Urdu language. Early life and career Akhtar Shairan ...

(Mohd.Dawood Khan) (1905–1948) *

Saghar Nizami Saghar Nizami (1905–1983), also known as Samad Yar Khan, was an Indian poet and writer of ghazal and nazm in Urdu. He was one of the earliest disciples of Seemab Akbarabadi (1882–1951) and was a recipient of the third highest Indian honour ...

(1905–1984) * Abid Ali Abid (1906–1971) *

Gopal Mittal Gopal Mittal (1906–1993) (Urdu: گوپال مِتّل) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist. Biography Gopal Mittal was born on 6 June 1906 in Malerkotla, Punjab Province, British India. His father, Walayati Ram Jain, was a renown ...

(1906–1993) * Ratan Pandoravi (Rala Ram), ''Ratan'' (1907–1998) * Makhdum Muhiuddin (1908–1969) *

Arsh Malsiani Bal Labhu Ram Mukand (1908–1979), better known by his penname Arsh Malsiani, was an Indian Urdu poet and writer. He was the son of Josh Malsiyani, an Urdu and Persian scholar and poet. From 1948 up to his retirement in 1968, Malsiani worked ...

(Bal Mukund) (1908–1979) *

Majaz Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 – 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet. He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed '' ghazals'' and ''nazms'' in Urdu. He was the maternal uncle of p ...

(Asrar-ul-Haq), ''Majaz'' (1909–1955) *

Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...

''Adam'' (1909–1981) * Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, ''Lisan ul Mulk''(1909–1985) * Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar, ''Sahar'' (1909-1998)

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Noon Meem Rashid Nazar Muhammad Rashed ( ur, ), (1 August 1910 – 9 October 1975) commonly known as Noon Meem Rashed ( ur, ) or N.M. Rashed, was a Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry.Faiz Ahmed Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Out ...

, ''Faiz'' (1911–1984) *

Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, known by some as Khatib ul Islam, was a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar, orator, poet, and writer. Political and social contribution He was president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan for ten years, and struggled to establi ...

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Aijaz Siddiqi Aijaz ( ur, ) Siddiqi (1911–1978) was an Urdu writer and poet. He was the son of the famous Urdu poet, Seemab Akbarabadi. He was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. After having founded ''Qasr-ul-Adab'' in 1923, Seemab Akbarabadi had in the year 1 ...

(1911–1978) * Ravish Siddiqi (''Ravish'') (1911–1971) * Nushoor Wahidi (1911–1981) *

Meeraji Mohammad Sanaullah Dar (25 May 1912 – 3 November 1949), better known as Meeraji was an Indian Urdu poet. He lived the life of a bohemian, working only intermittently. Early life Born into a Kashmiri family of Gujranwala and named Moham ...

(1912–1949) *

Shifa Gwaliori Shifa Gwaliori (1912–1968) was an Urdu poet. He has written ghazals and nazms. Biography Shifa Gwaliori was born in Gwalior, Gwalior State. He was a disciple of the Urdu poet Seemab Akbarabadi. He has published three poetry collections. Ma ...

(1912–1968) * Shamim Karhani (1913–1975) *

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Mehr or Mihr may refer to: Persian names * Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity * Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars * Mehr's day, or ...

(1913–1986) * Dr. Rafiq Hussain (1913–1990) * Sahir Hoshiarpuri (1913–1994) *

Ali Sardar Jafri Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist. Biography Early life and education Ali Sardar Jafri was born in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he sp ...

(1913–2000) * Raza Naqvi Wahi (1914–2002) *

Mir Gul Khan Nasir Gul Khan Naseer ( ur, ), also known as Malek o-Sho'arā Balochistan ( ur, ; 14 May 1914 – 6 December 1983) was a politician, poet, historian, and journalist from Balochistan, Pakistan. Born on 14 May 1914 in Noshki, Gul Khan Naseer was at the ...

(1914–1983) *

Rais Amrohvi Rais Amrohvi ( ur, ), whose real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi (1914-1988) was a Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator, and psychoanalyst and elder brother of Jaun Elia. He was known for his style of qatanigari (quatrain writ ...

(1914–1988) * Ehsan Danish (1914–1982) *

Jan Nisar Akhtar Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. He was son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson ...

(1914–1976) *

Majeed Amjad Majeed Amjad (Punjabi, ur, ) (29 June 1914 – 11 May 1974) was an Urdu poet from Pakistan. One newspaper described him as a "philosophical poet of depth and sensitivity". His ghazals have also been sung by various Pakistani singers. Personal ...

(1914–1974) * Sikandar Ali Wajd (1914–1983) *

Akhtar ul Iman Akhtar ul Iman (12 November 1915 9 March 1996) was a noted Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who had a major influence on modern Urdu nazm. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue in 1963 for ''Dharmputra'' and 1966 for '' W ...

(1915–1996) *

Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi ( ur, ) born Ahmad Shah Awan ( ur, ) (20 November 1916 - 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction ...

, ''Nadeem'' (1916–2006) * Zamir Jafri, ''Zamir'' (1916–1999) * Shakeel Badayuni (1916–1970) *

Agha Shorish Kashmiri Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; ) was a Pakistani scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement in the British Raj, as well as the chief editor of the weekly ''Chattan'' m ...

(Agha Abdul Kareem) ''Shorish'' (1917–1975) * Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (1917–2005) * Rishi Patialvi (Bam Dev Sharma) ''Rishi'' (1917–1999) *

Jagan Nath Azad Jagan Nath Azad (5 December 1918 – 24 July 2004), List.No.380 was an Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician. He wrote over 70 books, including poetry collections, poems, biographies, and travelogues. He was an authority on the life, ...

(1918–2004) *

Kaifi Azmi Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated ...

(1918–2002) * Fikr Taunsvi (1918-1987) *

Naeem Hashmi Naeem Hashmi (died 27 April 1976) was a Pakistani film, television and stage actor, writer, poet, producer, and director. He was known for his roles as a villain in the late 1940s and 1950s, but he later took character roles in over 100 films. ...

(1919–1976) *

Majrooh Sultanpuri Asrar ul Hassan Khan (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000), better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in India's Hindi language film industry. He wrote Hindustani lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He was ...

(1919–2000) * Khumar Barabankvi, ''Khumar'' (1919–1999) *

Qateel Shifai Muhammad Aurangzeb or Qateel Shifai ( ur, ), (24 December 1919 – 11 July 2001) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and lyricist. Early life and career Qateel Shifai was born in Haripur District as Muhammad Aurangzeb in 1919 in British India (now Paki ...

, ''Qateel'' (1919–2001) *

Masud Husain Khan Masud Husain Khan (28 January 1919 – 16 October 2010) was an Indian linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Del ...

(1919–2010)

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Salaam Machhalishahari Salaam Machhalishahari (1921-1972), or Salam Machhali Sheri, was an Indian Urdu-language poet. Biography Machhalishahari was born in Machhali Shahar, a city in District Jaunpur district, Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh, on 1 July 1921. He was fluent ...

, ''Salaam'' (1921–1972) *

Sahir Ludhianvi Abdul Hayee (8 March 1921 – 25 October 1980), popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet and film song lyricist who wrote primarily in Urdu in addition to Hindi. His work influenced Indian cinema, i ...

, ''Sahir'' (1921–1980) *

Krishan Mohan Krishan Mohan (28 November 1922 – 2004) was an Indian Urdu poet who gained prominence after India gained independence from the British Raj. Mohan was the takhallus of Krishan Lal Bhatia who was born in Sialkot, British India. His father, ...

, Krishan Lal ''Krishan Mohan'' (1922–2004) *

Wazir Agha Wazir Agha ( ur, ) was a Pakistani Urdu language writer, poet, critic and essayist. He has written many poetry and prose books. He was also editor and publisher of the literary magazine "Auraq" for many decades. He introduced many theories in U ...

(1922–2010) * Sulaiman Areeb (1922–1970) *

Nazish Pratapgarhi Nazish Pratapgarhi (born Mohammad Ahmad; 12 July 1924 – 10 April 1984) was an Urdu poet from India, who was known for his thoughts and ability to create contact between himself and lovers of Urdu poetry. Early life Pratapgarhi hailed from P ...

, ''Nazish'' (1924–1981) *

Ada Jafri Ada Jafarey ( ur, : ) , often spelled Ada Jafri (22 August 1924 – 12 March 2015), was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry". She was also an ...

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Nasir Kazmi Nasir Raza Kazmi ( ur, was an Urdu poet from Pakistan. Kazmi was born on 8 December 1925 at Ambala, Punjab, (British India). Kazmi used simple words in his poetry, including "Chand", "Raat", "Baarish", "Mausam", "Yaad", "Tanhai", "Darya" and ...

, ''Nasir'' (1925–1972) * Bekas Akbarabadi, ''M.G Gupta'' wrote Urdu anthology, Rahat-i-Ruh (2004),(1925–2011) *

Rahi Masoom Raza Rahi Masoom Reza (September 1927 – 15 March 1992) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film ''Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki'' in 1979, followed by '' Mili'' and ...

(1925–1992) *

Himayat Ali Shair Himayat Ali Shair ( ur, ; July 14, 1926 – July 15, 2019) was an Urdu poet, writer, film songwriter, actor and radio drama artist from Pakistan. He received the 2002 Pride of Performance Award for his literary services in Urdu literature from ...

, ''Shair'' (1926) *

Kanwal Ziai Kanwal Ziai (born Hardayal Singh Datta) (15 March 1927 – 27 October 2011) was an Urdu and Hindi language poet and author from India. Early life Ziai was born on 15 March 1927 in Kanjrur Dattan, Sialkot, (now Pakistan). He received award ''Doo ...

Hardayal Singh Datta (1927–2012) * Naresh Kumar Shad (1927–1969) *

Ibn-e-Insha Sher Muhammad Khan ( ur, ), ( Punjabi, ), better known by his pen name Ibn-e-Insha, ( ur, ), ( Punjabi, ) (15 June 1927 – 11 January 1978)Bekal Utsahi (1928–2016) * Sagar Siddiqui (1928–1974) *

Raja Mehdi Ali Khan Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (23 September 1915 – 29 July 1966) was an Indian poet, writer and a lyricist. Early life and career Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was born on 23 September 1915 at Karamabad village, near Wazirabad, Gujranwala District of Punjab, Br ...

(1928–1966) *

Habib Jalib Habib Jalib (24 March 1928 - 12 March 1993; Urdu, Punjabi: ) was a Pakistani revolutionary poet, left-wing activist who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression. Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz said that he was the poet of ...

(1928–1993) *

Dilawar Figar ) , image = , caption = , other names = , birth_name = Dilawar Hussain , birth_date = 8 July 1929 , birth_place = Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, British India , death_date = , death_place = Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan , occupation = ...

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Munir Niazi Munir Ahmed Niazi, ( pa, ) (9 April 1923– 26 December 2006) was an Punjabi and Urdu poet from Pakistan. He also wrote for newspapers, magazines and radio. In 1960, he established a publication institute, ''Al-Misal''. He was later asso ...

(1928–2006) * Shabnam Romani, ''Shabnam'' (1928–2009) * Mazhar Imam (1928–2012) *

Wasif Ali Wasif Wasif Ali Wasif (15 January 1929 – 18 January 1993) was a teacher, writer, poet and sufi from Pakistan. Early life Wasif was the son of Malik Muhammad Arif Abbasi and received his early education in Khushab before going to Jhang to study. E ...

(1929–1993) *

Dilawar Figar ) , image = , caption = , other names = , birth_name = Dilawar Hussain , birth_date = 8 July 1929 , birth_place = Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, British India , death_date = , death_place = Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan , occupation = ...

(1929-1998)

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Mustafa Zaidi Mustafa Zaidi (born Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi; 10 October 1930 – 2 October 1970) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant. Early life In 1954, he passed the competitive examination and was sent to England for training before being gi ...

(1930–1970) * Harbans Bhalla (1930–1993) *

Ahmad Faraz Syed Ahmad Shah (), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, ( 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote h ...

(1931–2008) *

Jon Elia Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known as Jaun Elia ( ur, , 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was an Indo-Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets, popular for his unconve ...

(1931–2003) *

Rajendar Nath Rehbar Rajendar Nath Rehbar (5 November 1931 - 13 November 2022) was an Urdu Poet and Bollywood lyricist. He is the writer of the nazm ''Teri Khushboo Me Base Khat'' sung by ghazal singer Jagjit Singh. He is a disciple of the Urdu poet Ratan Pandorav ...

(1931) *

Satyapal Anand Satyapal Anand ( hi, सत्य पाल आनंद , ur, ; born April 24, 1931) is an Indian-American poet, critic and writer. He has written several fictional and poetry books in four languages: English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. He has ...

(1931) *

Syed Amin Ashraf Syed Amin Ashraf (10 July 1930 7 February 2013) was an Urdu Ghazal poet and critic. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Aligarh Muslim University on the topic ''Major Themes and Imagery in Sarogini Naidu's Poetry'', and later served ...

(1931) * Shakeb Jalali (1932–1966) *

Rajinder Manchanda Bani Rajinder Manchanda Bani (1932-1981) was an Indian poet. He was born at Multan in 1932. His family migrated to Delhi in 1947 where he died in 1981. He was a Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbr ...

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Mohsin Bhopali Mohsin Bhopali ( ur, ) (born 1932 - 17 January 2007) was a Pakistani poet. He was known for a travelogue Travelogue may refer to: Genres * Travel literature, a record of the experiences of an author travelling * Travel documentary A travel d ...

(1932–2007) * Sardar Panchhi (1932) *

Muzaffar Warsi Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; ur, مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as seve ...

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Syed Waheed Ashraf Syed Waheed Ashraf is an Indian Sufi scholar and poet in Persian and Urdu. Ashraf received his B.A., M.A. and PhD (1965) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. The title of his doctoral dissertation was ''A Critical Edition of Lataife Ashraf ...

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Waheed Akhtar Syed Waheed Akhtar ( ur, ) (12 August 1934, in Aurangabad (Deccan) – 13 December 1996) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher. Works According to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, "Wahid Akhtar, regarded by ma ...

(1934–1996) * Sudarshan Faakir (1934–2008) *

Murtaza Birlas Murtaza Birlas ( ur, ) (also spelt Barlas) is a poet of modern Urdu Ghazal from Pakistan. His work has been published in journals and magazines of Urdu literature since the early 60s. He published four compilations of Ghazal poetry. His style ...

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Mohsin Zaidi Mohsin Zaidi (10 July 1935 – 3 September 2003) was an Indian Urdu poet who used the pen name 'Mohsin'. He is best known as a writer of ghazals, who expressed new ideas with this traditional form. Early life and education Saiyed Mohsin Raza ...

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Anwar Masood Anwar Masood ( ur, , pnb, ); born 8 November 1935) is a Pakistani poet known for his comic poetry. However, his works include other genres as well. He writes in Punjabi, Urdu and Persian languages. His poetry is known for the unique use of ...

(1935) * Aftab Iqbal Shamim (1936) *

Adil Mansuri Adil Farid Mohammed Ghulam Nabi Mansuri (18 May 1936 – 6 November 2008) was an Indian poet, playwright, and calligrapher, primarily responsible for the development of modern Gujarati ghazal poetry and plays. He wrote in several languages, namel ...

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Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Akhlaq Mohammad Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), better known by his ''takhallus'' Shahryar'','' was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Bollywood, Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in ''Ga ...

(Shahryar) (1936–2012) *

Gulzar Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar, is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of greatest Urdu poets of this ...

(1936) * Shahzad A. Rizvi (1937) *

Unwan Chishti Unwan Chishti (5 February 1937 – 1 February 2004) was an Urdu poet who gained repute as a poet, as a scholar, as a teacher and as a literary critic. He was the disciple of Abr Ahasani Gunnauri. Life Chishti was born Iftikharul Hasan ...

Iftikharul Hasan ''Unwan'' (1937–2004) *

Nida Fazli Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli, known as Nida Fazli (12 October 1938 – 8 February 2016), was a prominent Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013 by the government of India for his contribution t ...

(1938-2016) * Makhmoor Saeedi (1938–2010) * Syed Mahmood Khundmiri (1938–2011) *

Obaidullah Aleem Obaidullah Aleem ( ur, , 12 June 1939 – 18 May 2003) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language. Life Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India. His father moved to Sialkot following Partition. Aleem was from a Kashmiri Butt family and was an A ...

(1939–1997) * Allama Talib Jauhari (1939– )

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Mahmood Shaam Mahmood Shaam ( ur, ) born Tariq Mahmood ( ur, ) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst. After serving Pakistan's largest newspaper Jang Group for more than 16 years continuously as Group ...

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Kishwar Naheed Kishwar Naheed ( ur, ) (born 1940) is a feminist Urdu poet and a writer from Pakistan. She has written several poetry books. She has also received awards including Sitara-e-Imtiaz for her literary contribution towards Urdu literature. Early l ...

(1940) * Jazib Qureshi (1940) *

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi ( ur, ) (born 25 November 1941) is a spiritual leader and founder of the spiritual movements ''RAGS International'' (now known as Messiah Foundation International) and ''Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam''. He is the author ...

(1941) * Ahfaz ur Rahman (1942) *

Iftikhar Arif Iftikhar Hussain Arif ( ur, ; born 21 March 1944), is an Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur from Pakistan. His style is romantic Urdu poetry. He has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority. He has received t ...

(1943) * Shamim Farooqui (1943–2014) * Amjad Islam Amjad (1944) * Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, ''Qasir'' (1944–1999) * Bashir Badr (1945) * Javed Akhtar (1945) *

Anwer Zahidi Anwer Zahidi ( ur, )(born July 9, 1946) is a Pakistani Urdu author of more than twelve books of poetry, short stories, travelogue and translations. After completing his graduation in science from Punjab University, Anwer Zahidi received a degree o ...

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Afzal Ahmed Syed Afzal Ahmed Syed (افضال احمد سيد) is a contemporary Urdu poet and translator, known for his mastery of both classical and modern Urdu poetic expression. Born in Ghazipur, India, in 1946, Afzal Ahmed Syed has lived since 1976 in Karachi, ...

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Shamim Hashimi Shamim Hashimi (Urdu/Persian language, Persian/Arabic: ; hi, शमीम हाशिमी ; born Syed Muhammad Shamimuddin on 14 August 1947) is an Urdu and Persian language, Persian poet. He is basically a poet of Ghazal. He has als ...

(1947) * Saleem Kausar (1947) *

Mohsin Naqvi Mohsin Naqvi (10 May 1947 − 15 January 1996) was a Pakistani poet, known for his ghazals. Early life Naqvi was born on 10 May 1947 in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). His father, Syed Chirag Hussain Shah, was a ...

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Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi (19 September 1948 – 10 February 2002), widely known as Adeeb-e-Asr and Allamah Shaoor, was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah scholar, public speaker, translator, and historian as well as an author and poet. He authored and ...

, ''Sha'oor''(1948–2002) * Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (1948) *

Fehmida Riaz Fahmida Riaz ( ur, ) (28 July 1946 – 21 November 2018) was a Urdu writer, poet and activist of Pakistan. She authored many books, of which some are ''Godaavari'', ''Khatt-e Marmuz'', and ''Khana e Aab O Gil'' the first translation in rhyme o ...

(1948) * Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer (1949–2009) * Zameer Akhtar Naqvi (1944-2020)

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Rahat Indori Rahat Indori, born as Rahat Qureshi, (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. He was also a former professor of Urdu language and a painter. Prior to this he was a pedagogist of Urdu literature at DAV ...

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Zahid Abrol Vijay Kumar Abrol, (born on 20 December 1950), better known by his pen name Zahid Abrol, is a well-versed Indian Urdu poet. He has done 'the first-ever Urdu translation' of the 12th century Sufi-poet Baba Farid's shlokas and shabads and that to ...

(1950) * Jamal Ehsani (1951–1998) * Ashfaq Hussain (1951–) *

Haider Qureshi Haider Qureshi ( ur, ),Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad ( ur, ) born on 1 September 1953 in Rabwah, Punjab, He is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor and journalist. He writes in Urdu. Personal life Haider Qures ...

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Munawwar Rana Munawwar Rana (born 26 November 1952) is an Indian Urdu poet. Early life Munawwar Rana was born in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1952, but spent most of his life in Kolkata, West Bengal. Poetic style He uses Hindi and Awadhi words an ...

(1952–) * Parveen Shakir (1952–1994) *

Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...

(1953–) * Sara Shagufta (1954–1984) *

Kazim Jarwali Kazim Jarwali ( ur, ) (born 15 June 1955) is an Indian Urdu language poet. Biography He settled in Lucknow and married to daughter of shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic p ...

(1955–) * Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi (1957-2013) * Noon Meem Danish (1958–) *

Salma Shaheen Salma Shaheen (born 16 April 1954) is a Pakistani poet, fiction writer, researcher, and the first Pashto-woman novelist, who also served as the first-woman director of Pashto Academy of University of Peshawar. She primarily wrote poems in Urdu a ...

(1954)

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Fareed Parbati Fareed Parbati ( ur, ), born Ghulam Nabi Bhat ( ur, ) on 4 August 1961 died 14 December 2011, was an Indian Urdu language poet and writer from Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has written many books including poetry. He wrote in the form of poet ...

(1961) * Samina Raja (1961) * Anjum Rehbar (1962) *

Zahida Hina Zahida Hina (Urdu: زاہدہ حنا) is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan. Life Zahida was born in India, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, her father, Muhammad Abul Khair, ...

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Raees Warsi Raees may refer to: * Raees (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language drama film * ''Raees'' (2017 film), an Indian Hindi-language action film * ''Raees'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film * Rais, a title used by the rulers of Arab stat ...

(1963) * Zulfiqar Naqvi (1965) *

Harris Khalique Harris Khalique ( ur, ; born 20 October 1966) is a Pakistani poet in Urdu and English and a civil society activist. Khalique has authored nine collections of poetry and two books of non-fiction. In March 2018, he received the Presidential Pride o ...

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Idris Azad Idris Azad ( ur, , Idrees Ahmad ur, ) born on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction, journalism, critic, poetry, philosophy, mysticism and art.Riaz Tasneem (1969)

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Irshad Kamil Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist. His songs appear in Bollywood films including ''Jab We Met'', '' Chameli'', '' Love Aaj Kal'', '' Rockstar'', ''Aashiqui 2, Raanjhanaa, Highway, Tamasha,'' and ''Jab Harry Me ...

(1971) * Akhtar Raza Saleemi (1974) * Ali Akbar Natiq (1974) *

Irfan Nasirabadi In Islam, ‘Irfan (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: ; tr, İrfan), literally ‘knowledge, awareness, wisdom’, is gnosis. Islamic mysticism can be considered as a vast range that engulfs theoretical and practical and conventional mysticism, but the c ...

(1975) * Sarim Momin (1978)

Non-Muslim Urdu poets

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Meera Meera, better known as Mirabai and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. Mirabai was born into a Rathore ...

, ''Mira Bai'' (c. 1498) *

Maharaja Chandu Lal Chandu Lal Malhotra (1766 – 15 April 1845 ), better known as Maharaja Chandu Lal was the prime minister (1833–1844) for 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad Sikandar Jah. He was born in Hyderabad Deccan (now Hyderabad, India) and hails from a family from ...

''Sadan'' (1766 – 1845) *

Mah Laqa Bai Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), born Chanda Bai, and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda, was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet, courtesan and philanthropist based in Hyderabad. In 1824, she became the first female poet to hav ...

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Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim Daya Shankar Kaul "Nasim" (1811 1845) was an Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur Yamin us-Sultanat (1864 – 13 May 1940) was an Indian noble who served as Prime Minister of Hyderabad twice. He was a childhood friend of the Nizam and was a staunch Nizam loyalist throughout his life. In ...

, ''Shad'' (1864-1940) * Brij Mohan Dattatreya ''Kaifi'' (1866 – 1955) *

Brij Narayan Chakbast Brij Narayan Chakbast (19 January 1882 12 February 1926), also spelled as Brij Narain Chakbast, was a British Indian Urdu poet. Life Chakbast (1882–1926) was an Urdu poet. He was born on 19 January 1882 in a Kashmiri Pandit family settled ...

(1882–1926) * Tilok Chand Mehroom (1887–1966) *

Firaq Gorakhpuri Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself ...

(Raghupati Sahay) ''Firaq'' (1896–1982) *

Ram Prasad Bismil Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, a ...

(1897–1927) * Pandit Harichand Akhtar ('Akhtar') (1901–1958) * Anand Narain Mulla (1901–1997) * Khushtar Girami (Dewan Ram Rakhamal Kalia) (1902–1988) *

Gopal Mittal Gopal Mittal (1906–1993) (Urdu: گوپال مِتّل) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist. Biography Gopal Mittal was born on 6 June 1906 in Malerkotla, Punjab Province, British India. His father, Walayati Ram Jain, was a renown ...

(1906–1993) * Ratan Pandoravi (Rala Ram) ''Ratan'' (1907–1998) *

Arsh Malsiani Bal Labhu Ram Mukand (1908–1979), better known by his penname Arsh Malsiani, was an Indian Urdu poet and writer. He was the son of Josh Malsiyani, an Urdu and Persian scholar and poet. From 1948 up to his retirement in 1968, Malsiani worked ...

(Bal Mukund) (1908–1979) * Sahir Hoshiarpuri (1913–1994) *

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Mehr or Mihr may refer to: Persian names * Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity * Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars * Mehr's day, or ...

(1913–1986) * Rishi Patialvi (Bam Dev Sharma) ''Rishi'' (1917–1999) *

Jagan Nath Azad Jagan Nath Azad (5 December 1918 – 24 July 2004), List.No.380 was an Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician. He wrote over 70 books, including poetry collections, poems, biographies, and travelogues. He was an authority on the life, ...

(1918–2004) * Bhupendra Nath Kaushik (1924 – 2007) * Krishna Kumar Sharma (1924–2001) *

Kanwal Ziai Kanwal Ziai (born Hardayal Singh Datta) (15 March 1927 – 27 October 2011) was an Urdu and Hindi language poet and author from India. Early life Ziai was born on 15 March 1927 in Kanjrur Dattan, Sialkot, (now Pakistan). He received award ''Doo ...

Hardayal Singh Datta (1927–2012) * Naresh Kumar Shad (1927–1969) * Harbans Bhalla (1930–1993) *

Satyapal Anand Satyapal Anand ( hi, सत्य पाल आनंद , ur, ; born April 24, 1931) is an Indian-American poet, critic and writer. He has written several fictional and poetry books in four languages: English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. He has ...

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Raj Pathria Raj Kumar Pathria (born March 30, 1933) is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet.Men of Sciences & Technology in India, Edited by Raj K Khosla, Premier Publishers (India), New Delh ...

(1933) *

Dushyant Kumar Dushyant Kumar Tyagi (1 September 1931 – 30 December 1975) was an Indian poet of modern Hindi literature. He is famous for writing Hindi Ghazals, and is generally recognised as one of the foremost Hindi poets of the 20th century. Personal l ...

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Rajendar Nath Rehbar Rajendar Nath Rehbar (5 November 1931 - 13 November 2022) was an Urdu Poet and Bollywood lyricist. He is the writer of the nazm ''Teri Khushboo Me Base Khat'' sung by ghazal singer Jagjit Singh. He is a disciple of the Urdu poet Ratan Pandorav ...

(1931) * Sudarshan Faakir (1934–2008) * Mohinder Pratap Chand (1935) * Jayant Parmer (1954)

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Mashal Sultanpuri Mohammed Ramzan Bhat (1937 October 2020), known by his pen name as Mashal Sultanpuri, was a Kashmiri poet, writer and critic. He was primarily engaged in writing Kashmiri prose. Prior to his appointment as a patron of Adbee Markaz Kamraz, the ...

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Meena Kumari Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972) was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Popularly known as ''The Tragedy Queen'', she was active between 1939 and 1972. Kumari is widely considered one of ...

(1 August 1933 - 31 March 1972)

Contemporary poets

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Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri Fuzail Ahmad Nāsirī (born 13 May 1978) is an Indian Islamic scholar, Urdu writer and poet, who is a professor of hadith and vice-administrator of education at the Jamia Imam Muhammad Anwar Shah. He is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. His b ...

(b. 1978)

Poets with unknown dates of birth

* Saleem Kausar, *

Shahin Badar Shahin Badar (born 17 June 1974) is an English singer-songwriter who is best known in Europe and North America for her vocals on The Prodigy's single "Smack My Bitch Up" (1997). It earned her a Double Platinum award. Early life Badar was bor ...

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Siraj Aurangabadi Sayyid Sirajuddin, commonly known as Siraj Aurangabadi ( ur, ; 1715 - 1763), was an Indian mystic poet who initially wrote in Persian and later started writing in Urdu. Work and Life The anthology of his poems, ''Kulliyat-e-Siraj'', contain ...

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Ziauddin Ahmad Sir Ziauddin Ahmad (born Ziauddin Ahmed Zuberi; 13 February 1873 – 23 December 1947) was an Indian mathematician, parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, politician, political theorist, educationist and a scholar.Sadhu Singh Hamdard *

Qamar Jalalabadi Om Prakash Bhandari (9 March 1917 – 9 January 2003), better known as Qamar Jalalabadi, was an Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies. He composed the title track of the popular television serial Vikram Aur Betaal. Early life He ...

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Kanwal Ziai Kanwal Ziai (born Hardayal Singh Datta) (15 March 1927 – 27 October 2011) was an Urdu and Hindi language poet and author from India. Early life Ziai was born on 15 March 1927 in Kanjrur Dattan, Sialkot, (now Pakistan). He received award ''Doo ...

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Kaif Bhopali Kaif Bhopali (20 February 1920 – 24 July 1991) was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist. He was a poet in the Urdu mushaira circles, and is known as the writer of songs like ''Chalo Dildar Chalo,'' sung by Mohd. Rafi in Kamal Amrohi's 1972 cl ...

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Sayeed Quadri Sayeed Quadri is an Indian lyricist and poet who works in Bollywood. He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He won the Best Lyricist award at the 6th IIFA Awards for ''Murder'', and Standout Performance by Lyricist at the Stardust Awards 2005 for ...

* Khalid Irfan *

Kashmiri Lal Zakir Kashmiri Lal Zakir (7 April 1919 – 31 August 2016) was an Indian poet, novelist, dramatist and short story writer of Urdu literature. His career—which started with his first ghazal published in ''Adabi Duniya'', a publication from Lahor ...

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