This is a list of prominent Pakistani scientists.

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*, Afsar Mian,Genetist and Ecologist * Abdul Hameed Nayyar, physicist *

Sitara Brooj Akbar Sitara Brooj Akbar is an academic, multiple world record holder and gold medalist. She first came to the limelight for speaking to crowds and on national television at the age of 5. She is currently a cancer researcher and scientist at the Unive ...

, Scientist and Child prodigy * Qamar Muneer Akbar, Computer Scientist and child prodigy *

Abdul Majid ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''Abd (Arabic), ʻabd'' ...

, rocket scientist and engineer *

Abdul Qadeer Khan Abdul Qadeer Khan (1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021) was a Pakistani Nuclear physics, nuclear physicist and metallurgist, metallurgical engineer. He is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction, Pakistan's ...

, metallurgical engineer * Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist *

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1 ...

, theoretical physicist (Nobel Laureate 1979) *

Ahmad Hasan Dani Ahmad Hassan Dani (Urdu: احمد حسن دانی) FRAS, SI, HI (20 June 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a Pakistani archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology ...

, archaeologist *

Ansar Pervaiz Ansar Pervaiz, also spelled as Ansar Parvez, HI, is a Pakistani scientist and a nuclear engineer who was the former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and former chairman of the Board of Governors of International Atomic ...

, nuclear scientist * Anwar Nasim, molecular biologist *

Arif Zaman Arif Zaman is a Pakistani mathematician, academic scientist, and a retired professor of Statistics and Mathematics from Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. Before j ...

, mathematician and statistician *

Asad A. Abidi Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956) is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam, Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore Universit ...

, electrical engineer *

Asghar Qadir Asghar Qadir ( born 23 July 1946) ''HI'', ''SI'', ''FPAS'', is a Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialised in mathematical physics and physical cosmology. Nowadays, he is widely considered one of the top mathematician ...

, mathematician and cosmologist * Atta ur Rahman, organic chemist * Awais Khan, plant geneticist

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Bina Shaheen Siddiqui Bina Shaheen Siddiqui is a Pakistani chemist and the Director of the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry at the University of Karachi. Siddiqui graduated from the University of Karachi with an MPhil in 1978. In 1980, she graduated from the sam ...

, chemist

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Faheem Hussain Faheem Hussain (31 July 1942 – 29 September 2009), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a professor of physics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). A research scientist in the field of superstring theory at the Nation ...

, theoretical physicist *

Fayyazuddin Fayyazuddin, also spelled as Fayyaz Uddin ( born 10 November 1930), is a Pakistani theoretical physicist, emeritus professor, specialising in theoretical physics and mathematical physics at Quaid-e-Azam University campus National Centre for Phy ...

, theoretical physicist * Faiz jalil , technology scientist Sitrara I imtiaz

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* Ghulam Dastagir Alam, theoretical physicist * Ghulam Murtaza, theoretical physicist

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Hakeem Muhammad Saeed Hakeem Muhammad Saeed (; 9 January 1920 – 17 October 1998) was a Pakistani medical researcher, author, scholar, and philanthropist. He served as governor of Sindh Province from 19 July 1993 until 23 January 1994. Saeed was one of Pakistan's m ...

, medical researcher *

Haroon Ahmed Haroon Ahmed, FREng (2 March 1936 – 23 October 2024), was a British-Pakistani scientist who specialised in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He was Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, t ...

, electrical engineer * Hasham Khan,doctor
Hassan Raza
PhD Computer Science

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Iqbal Hussain Qureshi Iqbal Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: اقبال حسين قریشی) (27 September 1937 – 8 December 2012) , best known as I.H. Qureshi, was a Pakistani nuclear chemist and an Emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Qureshi ...

, chemist *

Irfan Siddiqi Irfan Siddiqi (born March 4, 1976) is an American physicist and currently a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He currently is the director of ...

, physicist in quantum measurement & nano-science *

Irshad Hussain Irshad Hussain () is a Pakistani scientist in the field of chemistry and among the few pioneers to initiate nanomaterials research in Pakistan. He is among the founding faculty members of SBA School of Science and Engineering and played a key ro ...

, chemist *

Ishfaq Ahmad Ishfaq Ahmad (3 November 1930 – 18 January 2018) , was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan. A versatile theor ...

, nuclear physicist *

Ishrat Hussain Usmani Ishrat Hussain Usmani () ‎ (15 April 1917 – 17 June 1992) , best known as I. H. Usmani, was a Pakistani atomic physicist, and later a public official who chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1960 to 1971 as well as o ...

, nuclear physicist *

Ismat Beg Ismat Beg (Urdu: عصمت بیگ; born January 1951) is a Pakistani mathematician and academic. He serves as Distinguished National Professor at the Lahore School of Economics and has held faculty positions at universities in Pakistan and abroa ...

, mathematician

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Javaid Laghari Javaid Laghari (Urdu: جاويد لغارى) ''TI'' is a Pakistani American who has served as the Chairperson of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from August 2009 to August 2013 with the status of a Federal Minister. Publicatio ...

, electrical engineer * Javed Iqbal Kazi, renal pathologist

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Kushnood Ahmed Siddiqui Khushnood Ahmed Siddiqui, also known as Dr. K. A. Siddiqui (1937–2009), was a renowned Pakistani botanist and Sufi poet from Sindh, known widely for his work in genetic engineering (mainly in developing various cereal crops and wheat variet ...

, scientist

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* M. A. B. Beg, theoretical particle physicist * Muhammad Imran Qadir, pharmaceutical scientist * Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, organic chemist * Muhammad Masud Ahmad, theoretical physicist *

Muhammad Suhail Zubairy Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, HI, SI, FPAS (born 19 October 1952), is a University Distinguished Professor as of 2014 in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair ...

, physicist in quantum optics * Muhammad Yar Khohaver, chemist *

Mujahid Kamran Syed Mujahid Kamran (born 23 January 1951) is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a former vice-chancellor (education), vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a professor of Physics and previously served a ...

, theoretical physicist * Mumtaz Ali Kazi, chemist *

Muneer Ahmad Rashid Muneer Ahmad Rashid, FPAS (born 1934), also spelled as Munir Ahmad Rashid, is a Pakistani mathematical physicist and emeritus professor of applied and mathematical physics at the Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics of the National Uni ...

, applied mathematician *

Munir Ahmad Khan Munir Ahmad Khan (; 20 May 1926 – 22 April 1999), , was a Pakistani nuclear engineer who is credited, among others, with being the "father of the atomic bomb program" of Pakistan for their leading role in developing their nation's nuclear we ...

, nuclear engineer *

Muhammad Awais Muhammad Awais is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since 2024. Political career He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-backed independent candidate ...

, applied mathematician, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus

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* Nazir Ahmed, nuclear physicist *

Nergis Mavalvala Nergis Mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the dean of the university's school of ...

, astrophysicist * Naweed Syed, neuroscientist * Novaira Masood, computer scientist

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Pervez Hoodbhoy Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and author. He has been considered by many as one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal member of the Pakistani intelligentsia. Hoodbhoy is known for his oppositio ...

, nuclear physicist * Peter Finke, particle physicist

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Qaisar Shafi Qaisar Shafi is a Pakistani-American theoretical physicist and the Inaugural Bartol Research Institute Professor of Physics at the University of Delaware. Biography Shafi grew up in Karachi, Pakistan and lived there until his early teens when h ...

, theoretical physicist * Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, meteorologist * Qasim Mehdi, molecular biologist * M. Qasim Jan, geologist

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Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry () Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, FPAS Hilal-i-Imtiaz, HI, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, NI, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, SI, Civil decorations of Pakistan, Skdt (1 July 1903 – 4 December 1988) best known as R. M. Chaudhry, was a Pe ...

, nuclear physicist * Rayid Ghani, computer scientist *

Raziuddin Siddiqui Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui, FPAS, NI, HI, SI (Urdu: , ; 8 January 1908 – 8 January 1998), also known as Dr. Razi, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a mathematician who played a role in Pakistan's education system, and Pakistan' ...

, astrophysicist * Riaz-ud-Din, theoretical physicist

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* Safdar Kiyani, ecologist *

Salim Mehmud Salim Mehmud, also known as Salim Mehmood, is a Pakistani rocket scientist and nuclear engineer. Mehmud worked in the Apollo Program for NASA. He is the former chairman of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). He also served ...

, nuclear scientist *

Salim-uz-Zaman Siddiqui Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, ( ; 19 October 1897 – 14 April 1994) was a Pakistani organic chemist specialising in natural products, and a professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Siddiqui studied philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University ...

, chemist *

Samar Mubarakmand Samar Mubarakmand (Urdu: ; born 17 September 1942; ) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist known for his research in gamma spectroscopy and the experimental development of the Charged Particle Accelerator at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Scien ...

, nuclear physicist * Shahid Hussain Bokhari, computer systems engineer * Shaukat Hameed Khan, theoretical physicist *

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (; b. 1940) is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of Islamic studies. Having spent a distinguished career in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), he founded the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) in 1999 � ...

, nuclear and controls engineer * Syed Tajammul Hussain, chemist and nano-technologist *

Sarfaraz K. Niazi Sarfaraz Khan Niazi (Urdu: سرفراز خان نیازی; born 1949) is a Pakistani Americans, Pakistani-American academic with an expertise in pharmaceutical sciences. He is an expert in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and has worked in aca ...

, biopharmacist * Sufian Rasheed, Chemist

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* Tasneem M. Shah, theoretical physicist * Tasneem Zehra Hussain, string theorist *

Tariq Mustafa Dr. Tariq Mustafa (born 1934) is a Pakistani mechanical engineer with a first class honors degree from London University specializing in nuclear and space technology. He led the establishment of Pakistan's Space and Rocket Technology Program an ...

, nuclear scientist

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Umar Saif Umar Saif (; born 1979) is a Pakistani computer scientist and academic. He is known for his contributions to the tech ecosystem in Pakistan. He is the founder and CEO of aiSight.ai (formerly SurveyAuto Inc.), Chief Digital Officer of the Jang G ...

, computer scientist

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* Zia Mian, nuclear physicist

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