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Lahore (pak)

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Lahore ranks 288th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kazan, Norway, and Leiden. Memorable people born in Lahore include Shah Jahan, Shehbaz Sharif, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Memorable people who died in Lahore include Muhammad Iqbal, Qutb al-Din Aibak, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Lahore has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Lahore is located in Pakistan.

Lahore is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 26th largest in the world, with a population of over 13 million. Located in central-eastern Punjab, along the River Ravi, it is the largest Punjabi-speaking city in the world. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs. It has been the historic capital and cultural centre of the wider Punjab region, and is one of Pakistan's most socially liberal, progressive, and cosmopolitan cities. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1016 and 2002, Lahore was the birth place of 45 globally memorable people, including Shah Jahan, Shehbaz Sharif, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Additionaly, 23 globally memorable people have passed away in Lahore including Muhammad Iqbal, Qutb al-Din Aibak, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

People Born in Lahore

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People Deceased in Lahore

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Lahore were politicians (11), actors (9), writers (4), film directors (3), and physicists (2),  while most who died were politicians (10), writers (4), religious figures (3), singers (2), and companions (1).

Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Lahore, including Shehbaz Sharif, Imran Khan, and Nawaz Sharif. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Lahore, including Shah Jahan, Shehbaz Sharif, and Imran Khan.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 16 globally memorable people born in Lahore since 1700.