List of Urdu language poets

Listed below are major Urdu poets, sorted by date of birth. As far as possible in the list below, the takhallus, or nom de plume, is mentioned in italics after the name.

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Chronologically, Urdu poets have included:

• Quli Qutub Shah (1565 - 1611)
• Wali Deccani, Wali (1635 - 1707)
• Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699 - 1781)
• Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda (1713 - 1780)
• Siraj Aurangabadi (1715 - 1763)
• Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard (1721 - 1785)
• Mir Taqi Mir, Mir (1723 - 1810)
• Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi (1725 - 1824)
• Nazeer Akbarabadi (1740 - 1830)
• Inshallah Khan Insha, Insha (1757 - 1817)
• Bahadur Shah, "Zafar" (1775 - 1862)
• Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish, Atish (1778 - 1846)
• Iman Bakhsh Nasikh (1787 - 1838)
• Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ghalib (1796 - 1869)
• Hakim Mumin Khan Mumin, Mumin (1801 - 1852)
• Mir Babbar Ali Anis, Anis (1802 - 1874)
• Mirza Salamat Ali Dabir, Dabir (1803 - 1875)
• Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh Dehlawi, Dagh (1831 - 1905)
• Muhammad Husain Azad, Azad (1830 - 1910)
• Altaf Husain Hali (1837 - 1914)
• Syed Akbar Hussain Akbar Allahabadi, Akbar Allahabadi (1846 - 1921)
• Hasrat Mohani, Syed Tafazzul Husain Hasrat (1875 - 1952)
• Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Iqbal (1877 - 1938)
• Pandit Birj Narayan Chakbast, Chakbast (1882 - 1926)
• Tilok Chand 'Mahrum' {1885-1966)
• Meher Baba, "Huma" (1894 - 1969)
• Josh Malihabadi, Josh (1898 - 1982)
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Faiz (1911 - 1984)
• Makhdum Muhiuddin (1908 - 1969)
• Noon Meem Rashid (1910 - 1975)
• Israr-ul-Haq Majaz (1909 - 1955)
• Ali Sardar Jafri (b.1913-2000)
• Ravish Siddiqui(1911-1971)
• Nushoor Wahidi (1911-1981)
• Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914-1976)
• Ehsan Danish, Danish (1914 - 1982)
• Majeed Amjad, (1914-1974)
• Yazdani Jallandhari (1915-1990)
• Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Nadeem (1916-2006)
• Zamir Jafri, Zamir (1916 - 1999;
• Shakeel Badayuni (1916 - 1970)
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (1917 - 2005)
• Jagannath Azad {1918- 2004}
• Kaifi Azmi (1918 - 2002)
• Qatil Shifai, Qatil (1919 - 2001)
• Qaem Amrohawi, Qaem Amrohvi (1919 - 1990)
• Sahir Ludhianvi, Sahir (1921 - 1980)
• Nasir Kazmi, Nasir (1925 - 1972)
• Ibn-e-Insha, Insha (1927 - 1978)
• Munir Niazi, (b.1928)
• Dilawar Figar,(1928-1998)
• Mustafa Zaidi, (1930-1970)
• Jon Elia (1931 - 2003)
• Ahmed Faraz, Faraz (b.1931)
• Zafar Iqbal, (b.1932)
• Shakeb Jalali (1932 - 1966)
• Waheed Akhtar (1934-1996)
• Bashir Zaidi Aseer (b.1934)
• Adil Mansuri (b.1936)
• Khaqan Khawar (1936 - 2002)
• Aftab Iqbal Shamim (b.1936)
• Zaka Siddiqi (1937 - 2003)
• Maajed Siddiqui (b.1938)
• Syed Sibt-e-Ali Saba (1941 - 1980)
• Javed Akhtar (b.1945)
• Ghulam Muhammad Qasir, Qasir (1944 - 1999)
• Afzal Ahmed Syed, (b.1946)
• Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (b.1948)
• Fehmida Riaz, (b.1948)
• Sabir Zafar, (b.1948)
• Saadat Saeed (b. 1949)
• Ashfaq Hussain (b.1951)
• Liaquat Ali Asim (b.1951)
• Parveen Shakir, (1953-1995)
• syed khalid Yazdani (b.1954)Home page
• Hamid Yazdani (b.1961)
• Tahir Aslam Gora (b.1963)
• Fazil Jamili, (b.1968)
• Ali Arman, (b.1973)
• Syed Kashif Raza, (b.1973)
• syed Abdul Rehman Yazdani, (b.1977)
• Syed Faragh Bukhari, (b. 1913)
• Syed Mohammad Meerza Uns
• Syed Mohammad Meerza Mo'addab
• Syed Mohammad Meerza Muhazzab
• Raghupati Sahay "Firaq" First Jnanpith Awardee in urdu
• Syed Zair Husain Zaidi

Other major poets are:

• Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Zauq
• Qabil Ajmeri, Qabil
• Iftikhar Arif
• Waheed Ahmed
• Pagal Adilabadi, Pagal
• Khurshid Rizvi
• Muhammad Asim Khurshid
• Ehsan Ullah Saqib,(born 1942)

Saleemurrahman 23:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)==See also==

• Urdu poetry
• Urdu
• Progressive Writers' Movement
• List of Urdu writers

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