The following is a list of notable British Pakistanis, namely notable citizens or residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie in Pakistan:
Academia and education
Humanities
Sara Ahmed – professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism Shabbir Akhtar – philosopher Tariq Ali – academic, historian and novelist Khizar Humayun Ansari OBE – director of the Centre for Minority Studies at the University of London, known for his work in the field of race and ethnic relations Sarah Ansari – professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London Akil Awan – British academic and the current RCUK Fellow at the Royal Holloway, University of London Yasmin Khan – historian of British India and associate professor of history at the University of Oxford Ziauddin Sardar – scholar, writer and cultural critic Mona Siddiqui – professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, as well a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze, The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian and The Herald
Natural sciences
Haroon Ahmed – professor emeritus of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge Saiful Islam – professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath and a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award Syma Khalid – biophysicist who is a professor of Computational Biophysics in Chemistry at the University of Southampton. Ehsan Masood – science writer, journalist and broadcaster; editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe; teaches International Science Policy at Imperial College London Azra Meadows OBE – honorary lecturer in the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow Jawed Siddiqi – professor emeritus of software engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and political activist Ghayasuddin Siddiqui – academic and political activist
Social sciences
Hamza Alavi – Marxist academic sociologist and activist
Muhammad Anwar – University of Warwick sociologist
Tariq Modood – professor of sociology, politics and public policy at the University of Bristol
University leadership and executives
Nazir Afzal – Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England; Chancellor of the University of Manchester, began his term in 2022 as the highest ranked Pashtun at any Russell Group institution Aneez Esmail – Retired Associate Vice-president at the University of Manchester; formerly based at Institute of Population Health belonging to the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences; held a visiting professorship at Harvard University in the US Sayeeda Warsi – former Conservative Party chairman and now Deputy-Chancellor of the University of Bolton
Business and finance
FTSE 100 and multinational corporations
Javed Ahmed – former Chief Executive of Tate & Lyle PLC from 2009 to 2018, a FTSE 100 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands Mohammed Amin MBE – retired partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers UK; Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Amin joined the Liberal Democrats after the promotion of Boris Johnson Salman Amin – chief executive officer of Pladis; group owner of Godiva premium chocolate and McVities biscuits Zameer Choudrey – Chief Executive of Bestway Group; second richest Pakistani and the largest family-owned business in the United Kingdom Naguib Kheraj – Vice-chairman of Barclays Bank PLC; former boss of JP Morgan Cazenove; his philanthropic interests have made him Chairman of the Aga Khan Foundation based in Karachi Pakistan Sir Anwar Pervez OBE – Rawalpindi-born businessman founder of the Bestway Group; one of the largest financial backers to the UK Conservative Party; lives in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Saif Malik - CEO, UK and Regional Head, Client Coverage, UK & Europe at Standard Chartered.