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词条 List of British Punjabis
释义

  1. Academia and education

  2. Business and the professions

  3. Charity, community and non-profit

  4. Film, drama and entertainment

  5. Law and justice

  6. Journalism, writers, creatives and media

  7. Music

  8. Politics

  9. Royalty and revolutionaries

  10. Sports

  11. Cause célèbres

  12. See also

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List of British Punjabis is a list of prominent Punjabi people from the United Kingdom who may follow a variety of beliefs including Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Atheism.

Academia and education

  • Harminder Dua – Discovered a previously unknown layer lurking in the human eye named the "dua's layer".
  • Humayon Dar – Director general of Islamic Research & Training Institute (IRTI)
  • Jagjit Chadha – Professor and chair in Money and Banking in the Department of Economics at the University of Kent
  • Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841–1913) – senior administrator of the British Raj who was posted in the Punjab; prolific scholar and author; converted to Sikhism in the 1860s
  • Peter Bance – Historian, author and Maharaja Duleep Singh archivist
  • Simon Singh – Mathematician and author
  • Sukhbir Singh Kapoor – Vice chancellor of The International School of Sikh Studies and Khalsa College London
  • Tejinder Virdee – Experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London

Business and the professions

  • Avtar Lit – Former owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group
  • Emran Mian – author and civil servant
  • Aneel Mussarat – Ranked the 466th richest person in the United Kingdom and 21st richest Asian in the UK in 2007 by the Sunday Times
  • Sir Anwar Pervez – Founder and chairman of Bestway
  • Dabinderjit Singh – Director at the National Audit Office
  • Gulu Lalvani – Founder and chairman of Binatone
  • Hasnat Khan – Heart and lung surgeon. He was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales.
  • James Caan – Entrepreneur and Dragon's Den
  • Jasminder Singh – Chairman of the Radisson Edwardian hotel empire.
  • Jojar S Dhinsa – Founded the Athlone Group which delivers a multitude of services to support businesses worldwide.
  • Kamel Hothi – Former banker at Lloyds Bank
  • Karamjit Singh – Chair of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
  • Kulveer Ranger – Management Consultant. Former London Transport Minister and Mayor's Director of Environment and Digital London
  • Mo Chaudry – Chairman of WaterWorld aqua park
  • Mohammad Naseem – GP
  • Osama Saeed – Scottish communications professional
  • Rami Ranger – Founder of Sun Mark, an international marketing and distribution company
  • Ranjit Singh Boparan – Founder and owner of 2 Sisters Food Group
  • Reuben Singh – CEO of contact centre company alldayPA
  • Simon Arora – Billionaire businessman, CEO of the retail chain B & M.
  • Surinder Arora – Hotelier
  • Tom Singh – Founder of the high street fashion chain New Look.
  • Zameer Choudrey

Charity, community and non-profit

  • Balwant Kaur – Founder and chairperson of Mata Nanki Foundation
  • Daljit Singh Shergill – President of Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick
  • Harpal Kumar – Chief executive of Cancer Research UK
  • Imandeep Kaur – Director of Impact Hub: Birmingham
  • Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia (Bhai Sahib) – Chairman of the Nishkam Group
  • Nidar Singh Nihang - Scholar and Grandmaster of Shaster Vidya
  • Ravi Singh – CEO Khalsa Aid

Film, drama and entertainment

  • Abdullah Afzal – comedian
  • Adeel Akhtar – actor
  • Ameet Chana – Actor
  • Amrit Maghera – Professional model turned actress
  • Art Malik – actor
  • Chandeep Uppal – Best known for her critically acclaimed starring role as Meena Kumar in the film Anita and Me.
  • Danny Bhoy – comedian
  • Gurinder Chadha – Film director
  • Guz Khan – comedian
  • Harnaam Kaur – Model, anti-bullying activist, body positive activist
  • Humza Arshad – comedian
  • Jas Binag – Actor/Model
  • Jay Islaam – comedian
  • Jimi Mistry – actor
  • Kulvinder Ghir – Actor, comedian and writer
  • Lena Kaur – Best known for her role as Leila Roy in Channel 4
  • Mandy Takhar – Actress
  • Meera Syal – comedian
  • Neelam Gill – She is known for her work with Burberry, Abercrombie & Fitch and appearing in Vogue.
  • Nitin Kundra – actor
  • Nitin Sawhney – musician, producer and composer
  • Paul Chowdhry – Comedian and actor
  • Parminder Nagra – Actress born in Leicester
  • Parvez Qadir – actor
  • Perry Bhandal – Film director, screenwriter
  • Saeed Jaffrey – actor
  • Sair Khan – Actress
  • Saira Choudhry – Actress
  • Saira Khan – Television presenter
  • Samir Bhamra – playwright, designer, producer, director
  • Sanjeev Bhaskar – comedian
  • Sanjeev Kohli – comedian
  • Shabana Bakhsh – actor
  • Simon Rivers – English actor who played the role of Kevin Tyler in Doctors
  • Stephen Uppal – Known for playing Ravi Roy in the long-running British soap Hollyoaks
  • Tahirah Sharif – actor
  • Zia Mohyeddin – actor

Law and justice

  • Anup Singh Choudry – Retired High Court Judge
  • Bobbie Cheema-Grubb (The Hon. Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb) – Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
  • Jasvir Singh – Family Law Barrister
  • Jo Sidhu QC – Criminal Law Barrister
  • Mota Singh QC – Retired Circuit judge England
  • Nazir Afzal – Lawyer
  • Rabinder Singh (The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice) – English Court of Appeal judge, formerly a High Court judge of the Queen's Bench Division
  • Tarique Ghaffur – Former high ranking police officer

Journalism, writers, creatives and media

  • Aatish Taseer – Writer-journalist, and the son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh
  • Adil Ray – actor, comedian and radio and television presenter
  • Atta Yaqub – model
  • Anita Rani – Radio and television presenter
  • Chila Kumari Burman – artist
  • Bobby Friction – DJ, television presenter and radio presenter
  • Daljit Nagra – Poet
  • Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Writer
  • Hardeep Singh Kohli – Radio and television presenter
  • Hassan Ghani – Scottish broadcast journalist
  • Imtiaz Dharke – poet, artist and documentary filmmaker
  • Martin Bashir – journalist
  • Mishal Husain – British news presenter
  • Mo Dutta – television and radio presenter
  • Mohsin Hamid – novelist, writer and brand consultant
  • Moniza Alvi – poet and writer
  • Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal – Journalist and writer
  • Omar Mansoor – designer
  • Priya Kaur-Jones – Newsreader
  • Qaisra Shahraz – novelist, scriptwriter, college inspector, teacher trainer, education consultant
  • Raman Mundair – Poet, writer, artist and playwright
  • Ranvir Singh – English television presenter and journalist
  • Razia Iqbal –  journalist employed by BBC News
  • Rizwan Khan – broadcaster
  • Riz Lateef – journalist, newsreader and deputy news manager at the BBC
  • Sangita Myska – television presenter and journalist
  • Sarfraz Manzoor –  journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster
  • Sathnam Sanghera – British journalist and author
  • Sonia Deol – English radio and television presenter
  • Sunny Hundal – Journalist, blogger and academic
  • Tariq Ali – writer, journalist
  • Tahir Rashid – poet, manager and entrepreneur in the Islamic media
  • Ziauddin Sardar – scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic

Music

  • Aman Hayer – Bhangra producer and singer
  • Bally Sagoo – Record producer
  • Channi Singh – British-Indian bhangra musician, known as the "godfather" of bhangra in the West.
  • Diamond Duggal – Music producer, DJ, songwriter and guitarist
  • Dr Zeus – Punjabi singer and music producer
  • Gurdeep Samra – Music producer and DJ
  • Hard Kaur – Rapper and hip hop singer
  • Indy Sagu – Bhangra and hip hop musician
  • Jas Mann – Songwriter, musician, singer, record producer and film producer
  • Jassi Sidhu – Bhangra singer and the former lead singer of British Indian bhangra band B21
  • Jay Sean- R&B Artist
  • Juggy D – Bhangra, Punjabi, R&B
  • Malkit Singh – Punjabi bhangra singer
  • Manj Musik – Music composer, singer
  • Manni Sandhu – Music director
  • Ms Scandalous – bhangra/rap artist
  • Naughty Boy – Rapper, musician and DJ
  • Panjabi MC – Rapper, musician and DJ
  • Rishi Rich – Music producer
  • Silinder Pardesi – Bhangra singer-songwriter, lyricist, and composer
  • Sukshinder Shinda – Bhangra Record producer and singer–songwriter
  • Prof Surinder Singh Matharu – Founder of the Raj Academy Conservatoire
  • Surjit Khan – Record producer, musician and singer-songwriter
  • Tarsame Singh Saini – Singer, composer and actor
  • Talvin Singh – Producer, composer and tabla player
  • Tigerstyle – Folkhop group
  • Tjinder Singh, lead singer of British indie rock band Cornershop

Politics

  • Atma Singh – Policy Advisor to the Mayor of London on Asian Affairs in the Greater London Authority, under Mayor of London Ken Livingstone
  • Afzal Khan – British Labour Party politician who serves as a member of parliament for the Manchester Gorton constituency
  • Anas Sarwar – Scottish Labour Party politician
  • Bashir Ahmad – SNP Politician
  • Bashir Khanbhai – former MEP for East of England and Conservative Party politician.
  • Bashir Maan – Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman, judge, community worker and writer.
  • Diljit Rana – Member of the house of Lords
  • Gurinder Josan – Labour party activist
  • Hanzala Malik – Scottish Labour Party politician
  • Humza Yousaf – SNP Politician
  • Indarjit Singh (The Lord Singh of Wimbledon CBE) – Member House of Lords
  • Marsha Singh – British Labour Party politician, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West from 1997 to 2012
  • Mohammad Sarwar – Former Pakistani Senator
  • Neena Gill – Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands
  • Nosheena Mobarik – Life peer
  • Onkar Sahota – Member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon
  • Parmjit Dhanda – British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester from 2001 until the 2010 general election
  • Parmjit Singh Gill – Member of Parliament for Leicester South from July 2004 to May 2005, he was the first ethnic-minority Liberal Democrat MP.
  • Paul Uppal – Small business commissioner
  • Piara Khabra – Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 1992 until his death
  • Preet Gill – Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since the 2017 general election. She is the first female British Sikh MP.
  • Ranbir Singh Suri, Baron Suri – Member House of Lords
  • Sajid Javid – Current home secretary for the UK
  • Seema Malhotra – Labour MP for Feltham
  • Shas Sheehan – Life peer
  • Sonika Nirwal – Senior Ealing Southall constituency Labour politician representing the Greenford Broadway ward
  • Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi – British Labour Party politician. Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough since 2017
  • Virendra Sharma – Labour Party Politician
  • Yasmin Qureshi – Labour Party politician
  • Zahida Manzoor – Conservative member of the House of Lords

Royalty and revolutionaries

  • Maharaja Duleep Singh – The last Maharaja of the Sikh Kingdom, exiled in 1849 during the British Raj and possibly the first permanent Sikh resident in England
  • Frederick Duleep Singh – Younger son of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
  • Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh – Prominent suffragette and accredited nurse
  • Udham Singh – Punjab revolutionary and freedom fighter belonging to the Ghadar Party

Sports

  • Ajmal Shahzad – Cricketer
  • Akaash Bhatia – British boxer
  • Aman Dosanj – First British Asian footballer to represent England
  • Amir Khan – Boxer
  • Asim Butt – Cricketer
  • Danny Batth – Footballer and Captain of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
  • Fauja Singh – British Sikh centenarian marathon runner
  • Harpal Singh – Footballer
  • Imran Jamshed – Cricketer
  • Imran Majid – Pool player
  • Kabir Ali – Cricketer
  • Kadeer Ali – Cricketer
  • Kamran Afzaal – Cricketer
  • Kash Gill – Former kickboxing world champion
  • Michael Chopra – Footballer
  • Mohammad Akhtar – Cricketer
  • Monty Panesar – England cricketer
  • Ravi Bopara – England cricketer
  • Saqlain Mushtaq – Cricketer
  • Shaftab Khalid – Cricketer
  • Surinder Sunar – Professional poker player
  • Usman Afzaal – Cricketer
  • Zafar Ansari – Cricketer
  • Zesh Rehman – Footballer

Cause célèbres

  • Jagtar Singh Johal
  • Lakhvir Kaur Singh

See also

  • British Punjabis
  • Punjabi diaspora
  • British Indians
  • List of British Sikhs

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