Multan

Crossed the Indus in 326 BCE, defeated Porus, and turned back at the Beas when his army refused to go on. He was badly wounded storming a Malli town, probably near Multan.

Sher-e-Punjab, the Lion of Punjab. United the misls into the Sikh Empire, ruled from Lahore for forty years and covered the Harmandir Sahib in gold.

Turkic sultan who raided India some seventeen times. His conquests made Lahore a Ghaznavid city and brought Punjab into the Persian-speaking Islamic world.

Afghan ruler who drove out Humayun, built Rohtas Fort and rebuilt the great road from Bengal to Punjab that became the Grand Trunk Road.

Commander-in-chief of the Sikh army on the north-west frontier. Governed Kashmir and Peshawar and died holding Jamrud against the Afghans.

Batsman from Multan whose innings in the 1992 World Cup semi-final announced him, and who became Pakistan's captain.

Chishti Sufi of Pakpattan and the first great poet of the Punjabi language. His hymns and saloks are part of the Guru Granth Sahib.

Javelin thrower from a village near Mian Channu who won Olympic gold in Paris in 2024 with an Olympic record of 92.97 metres.

Biochemist from a village near Multan who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for showing how the genetic code is read.

Ranjit Singh's eldest son and successor. Nominal commander at Multan in 1818, he was sidelined within months of his accession and died, possibly poisoned, in November 1840.

Nihang leader and jathedar of the Akal Takht who once had Ranjit Singh flogged for a moral lapse. Killed leading the charge at Nowshera.

Ranjit Singh's wife from the Nakai misl and mother of Kharak Singh, who accompanied the Multan campaign and handled its supplies.

Artillery commander who rose from clerk to general and led the storming of Multan in 1818 and the conquest of Kashmir in 1819.

Governor of Multan whose revolt in April 1848, after two British officers were killed in the city, began the Second Anglo-Sikh War.

Governor of Multan for over twenty years, who turned its dry lands to farming with new canals. His son Mulraj succeeded him.