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The following is a '''list of Urdu-language poets'''.
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==13th century==
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! Poet !! Image !! Pen Name !! Era !! Work
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| [[Amir Khusro]]||[[File:Amir Khusro.jpg|100px]]|| || (1253–1325)|| Tuhfat-us-Sigh
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| [[Bande Nawaz]]||[[File:Amir Khusro.jpg|100px]]|| || (1321–1442)||
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| [[Kabir]]||[[File:Kabir004.jpg|100px]]|| || (15th century)||
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==15th century==
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! Poet !! Image !! Pen Name !! Era !! Work
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| [[Meera]]|| [[File:Meerabai painting.jpg|100px]]|| Mira Bai|| 1498
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==16th century==
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! Poet !! Image !! Pen Name !! Era !! Work
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| [[Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali]]|| || || 1518 – 5 June 1580||
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| [[Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana]]|| [[File:Young Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana being received by Akbar, Akbarnama.jpg|100px]]|| || (1556 – 1627)|| Wrote poetry primarily in [[Persian poetry|Persian]], but also in [[Hindustani language|Hindavi]]
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| [[Ali Adil Shah I]]|| [[File:Aliadilshah.jpg|100px]]|| || 1558–1579||
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| [[Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah]]|| [[File:Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah portrait.JPG|100px]]|| || (1565–1611)|| ''Kulliyat-e-Quli Qutub Shah'' wrote poetry primarily in [[Persian poetry|Persian]], but also in [[Hindustani language|Hindavi]]
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|[[Ibrahim Adil Shah II]]|| [[File:Ibrahim Adil Shah II Sultan of Bijapur.jpg|100px]]|| || 1571 – 12 September 1627||
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|[[Chandar Bhan Brahman]]|| || || unknown – 1662|| Brahman was appointed as court chronicler and he was give responsibility for maintaining [[Shah Jahan]]'s personal diary. He wrote a memoir Chahar Chaman
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==17th century==
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! Poet !! Image !! Pen Name !! Era !! Work
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|[[Nusrati]]
|[[File:Nusrati.jpg|100px]]
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|(died 1674)
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|[[Abdul-Qādir Bedil|Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil Dehlavi]]
|
|Bedil
|(1642-1720)
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| [[Wali Muhammad Wali]]||
[[File:Wali Mohammed Wali New.svg|100px]]
||Wali Deccani|| (1667–1707)||
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| [[Shah Mubarak Abroo]]|| |||| (1683–1733)||
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| [[Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu]]|||| Arzu|| (1687–1756)|| Mehr-o-Mah, Guka-ri-Kayal
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| [[Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan]]||
[[File:Jan janani.png|100px]]
|| Jan-e-Janaan|| (1699–1781)|| Majmua-Urdu-Ashaar
|}

==18th century==
[[File:Mushafi-ghulam-hamdani.png|thumb|250px|Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "''Urdu''" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time.<ref>Garcia, Maria Isabel Maldonado. "The Urdu language reforms." Studies 26 (2011): 97.</ref>]]
* [[Mirza Rafi Sauda|Mirza Muhammad Rafi]], ''Sauda'' (1713–1780)
* [[Siraj Aurangabadi]], ''Siraj'' (1715–1763)
*[[Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi]], ''Soz'' (1720-1799)
* [[Khwaja Mir Dard]], ''Dard'' (1721–1785)
* [[Qayem Chandpuri]], Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali ''Qayem'' (1722–1793)
* [[Mir Taqi Mir]], ''Mir'' (1723–1810)
* [[Fidvi Lahori]], ''Fidvi'' (1729–1780)
* [[Nazeer Akbarabadi]], ''Nazeer'' (1740–1830)
* [[Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat]], ''Jurat'' (1748–1810)
* [[Mas'hafi|Mashafi Shaikh Ghulam Hamdani]], ''Mas'hafi'' (1750–1824)
* [[Insha Allah Khan 'Insha']], ''Insha'' (1756–1817)
* [[Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin]], ''Rangin'' (1757–1835)
* [[Bahadur Shah II|Bahadur Shah]], ''Zafar'' (1775–1862)
* [[Imam Baksh Nasikh]], ''Nasikh'' (1776–1838)
* [[Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish]], ''Atish'' (1778–1846)
* [[Zauq|Muhammad Ibrahim Khan]], ''Zauq'' (1789–1854)
* [[Mirza Ghalib|Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib]], ''Ghalib'' (1797–1869)
* [[Chhannu Lal Dilgeer]], ''Ghulam Hussain'' (1780–1848)

==19th century==
* [[Momin Khan Momin]], ''Momin'' (1801–1852)
* [[Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer]] (Mirza Salaamat Ali), ''Dabeer'' (1803–1875)
* [[Mir Babar Ali Anis]], ''Anis'' (1803–1874)
* [[Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim]] (1811–1845)
* [[Amir Meenai]], ''Amir'' (1828–1900)
* [[Dagh Dehlvi]] (Nawab Mirza Khan), ''Daagh'' (1831–1905)
* [[Altaf Hussain Hali]] (Hali Panipati), ''Hali'' (1837–1914)
* [[Akbar Allahabadi]] (Syed Akbar Hussain), ''Akbar'' (1846–1921)
* [[Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi]] (Maulana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi), ''Raza'' (1856–1921)
* [[Hassan Raza Khan]] Barelvi (Maulana Hassan Raza Khan Barelvi), ''Hassan'' (1859-1908)
* [[Bekhud Badayuni]] (Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui), ''Bekhud'' (1857–1912)
* [[Shibli Nomani]] (Allama Shibli Nomani). ''Shibli'' (1857–1914)
* [[Muztar Khairabadi]] (1862–1927)
* [[Ismail Alam|Alam]] (1868–1937)
* [[Zaigham]] (d. 1869)
* [[Saqib Lakhnavi]] (1869–1946)<ref name="p932">{{cite web | last=Times | first=Navhind | title=‘Saqib’: The ‘star’ Urdu poet and his ‘garden of life’ | website=The Navhind Times | date=20 May 2023 | url=https://www.navhindtimes.in/2023/05/21/magazines/panorama/saqib-the-star-urdu-poet-and-his-garden-of-life/ | access-date=28 Nov 2024}}</ref>
* [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna|Tashna]] (1872–1931)
* [[Zafar Ali Khan]] (1873–1956)
* [[Arzoo Lakhnavi]] (1873–1951)
* [[Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang]] (1875–1952)
* [[Hasrat Mohani]] (Syed Fazlul Hussain), ''Hasrat'' (1875–1951)
* [[Dil Shahjahanpuri]] (Zameer Hasan Khan), ''Dil'' (1875–1959)
* [[Allama Muhammad Iqbal]] (Allama Iqbal), ''Iqbal'' (1877–1938)
* [[Mohammad Ali Jauhar]] (Maulana Jauhar), ''Jauhar'' (1878-1931)
* [[Fani Badayuni]] (Shaukat Ali Khan), ''Fani'' (1879–1941)
* [[Seemab Akbarabadi]] (Ashiq Hussain) (1882–1951)
* [[Brij Narayan Chakbast]] (1882–1926)
* [[Bekhud Dehlvi]] (Syed Wahiduddin Ahmed) (1882–1955)
* [[Niaz Fatehpuri]] (Maulana Niyaz Muhammad Khan) (1882–1966)
* [[Yagana Changezi]] (Mirza Wajid Hussain Yaas) ''Yaas'' (1883–1956)
* [[Josh Malsiyani]] (Labhu Ram) ''Josh'' (1883–1976)
* [[Asghar Gondvi]] (Asghar Hussain Asghar), ''Asghar'' (1884-1936)
* [[Tilok Chand Mehroom]] (1887–1966)
* [[Qamar Jalalvi]] (1887–1968)
* [[Amjad Hyderabadi]] (Amjad Hussain), ''Amjad'' (1888-1961)
* [[Jigar Moradabadi]] (Ali Sikandar), ''Jigar'' (1890–1960)
* [[Raaz Chandpuri]] (Mohd. Sadiq) (1892–1969)
* [[Zamin Ali]], ''Zamin'' (1893–1955)
* [[Hakim Ahmad Shuja]] (1893–1969)
* [[Josh Malihabadi]] (Shabbir Hassan Khan), ''Josh'' (1894–1982)
* [[Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar]], ''Jauhar'' (1895– 1985)
* [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]] (Raghupati Sahay), ''Firaq'' (1896–1982)
* [[Ram Prasad Bismil]] (1897–1927)
* [[Abr Ahasani Gunnauri]] (Ahmed Baksh) ''Abr'' (1897–1973)
* [[Munavvar Lakhnavi]] Bisheshwar Prasad ''Munavvar'' (1897–1970)
* [[Ahmaq Phaphoondvi]] (1895-1957)
* [[Abdur Rauf Urooj]] (c. 1932{{endash}}1990)

==1900==
* [[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]] (1900–1966)
* [[Hafeez Jalandhari]] (Mohd.Hafeez), ''Hafeez'' (1900–1982)
* [[Talib Chakwali]] Manohar Lal Kapur ‘Talib’ (1900–1988)
* [[Pandit Harichand Akhtar]] ('Akhtar') (1901–1958)
* [[Alam Muzaffarnagari]] (Muhammad Ishaaq) (1901–1969)
* [[Bismil Saeedi]] (1901–1977)
* [[Khushtar Girami]] (Dewan Ram Rakhamal Kalia) (1902–1988)
* [[Anand Narain Mulla]] (1901–1997)
* [[Zaheen Shah Taji]] (1902–1978)
* [[Syed Sajjad Zaheer]] (1904–1973)
* [[Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari]] (1904–1975)
* [[Akhtar Sheerani]] (Mohd.Dawood Khan) (1905–1948)
* [[Saghar Nizami]] (1905–1984)
* [[Abid Ali Abid]] (1906–1971)
* [[Gopal Mittal]] (1906–1993)
* [[Ratan Pandoravi]] (Rala Ram), ''Ratan'' (1907–1998)
* [[Makhdum Muhiuddin]] (1908–1969)
* [[Arsh Malsiani]] (Bal Mukund) (1908–1979)
* [[Majaz]] (Asrar-ul-Haq), ''Majaz'' (1909–1955)
* [[Abdul Hamid]] ''Adam'' (1909–1981)
* [[Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri]], ''Lisan ul Mulk''(1909–1985)
* [[Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar]], ''Sahar'' (1909-1998)

==1910==
* [[Noon Meem Rashid]] (1910–1975)
* [[Faiz Ahmed Faiz]], ''Faiz'' (1911–1984)
* [[Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah]] (1911–1984)
* [[Aijaz Siddiqi]] (1911–1978)
* [[Ravish Siddiqi]] (''Ravish'') (1911–1971)
* [[Nushoor Wahidi]] (1911–1981)
* [[Meeraji]] (1912–1949)
* [[Shifa Gwaliori]] (1912–1968)
* [[Shamim Karhani]] (1913–1975)
* [[Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi]] (1913–1986)
* [[Dr. Rafiq Hussain]] (1913–1990)
* [[Sahir Hoshiarpuri]] (1913–1994)
* [[Ali Sardar Jafri]] (1913–2000)
* [[Raza Naqvi Wahi]] (1914–2002)
* [[Mir Gul Khan Nasir]] (1914–1983)
* [[Rais Amrohvi]] (1914–1988)
* [[Ehsan Danish]] (1914–1982)
* [[Jan Nisar Akhtar]] (1914–1976)
* [[Majeed Amjad]] (1914–1974)
* [[Sikandar Ali Wajd]] (1914–1983)
* [[Akhtar ul Iman]] (1915–1996)
* [[Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi|Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi]], ''Nadeem'' (1916–2006)
* [[Zamir Jafri]], ''Zamir'' (1916–1999)
* [[Shakeel Badayuni]] (1916–1970)
* [[Agha Shorish Kashmiri]] (Agha Abdul Kareem) ''Shorish'' (1917–1975)
* [[Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee]] (1917–2005)
* [[Rishi Patialvi]] (Bam Dev Sharma) ''Rishi'' (1917–1999)
* [[Jagan Nath Azad]] (1918–2004)
* [[Kaifi Azmi]] (1918–2002)
* [[Fikr Taunsvi]] (1918-1987)
* [[Naeem Hashmi]] (1919–1976)
* [[Majrooh Sultanpuri]] (1919–2000)
* [[Khumar Barabankvi]], ''Khumar'' (1919–1999)
* [[Qateel Shifai]], ''Qateel'' (1919–2001)
* [[Masud Husain Khan]] (1919–2010)

==1920==
* [[Salaam Machhalishahari]], ''Salaam'' (1921–1972)
* [[Sahir Ludhianvi]], ''Sahir'' (1921–1980)
* [[Krishan Mohan]], Krishan Lal ''Krishan Mohan'' (1922–2004)
* [[Wazir Agha]] (1922–2010)
* [[Sulaiman Areeb]] (1922–1970)
* [[Nazish Pratapgarhi]], ''Nazish'' (1924–1981)
* [[Ada Jafri]] (1924–)
* [[Nasir Kazmi]], ''Nasir'' (1925–1972)
* [[Bekas Akbarabadi]], ''M.G Gupta'' wrote Urdu anthology, Rahat-i-Ruh (2004),(1925–2011)
* [[Rahi Masoom Raza]] (1925–1992)
* [[Himayat Ali Shair]], ''Shair'' (1926)
* [[Kanwal Ziai]] Hardayal Singh Datta (1927–2012)
* [[Naresh Kumar Shad]] (1927–1969)
* [[Khadija Mastoor]] (1927-1982)
* [[Ibn-e-Insha]], ''Insha'' (1927–1978)
* [[Bekal Utsahi]] (1928–2016)
* [[Sagar Siddiqui]] (1928–1974)
* [[Raja Mehdi Ali Khan]] (1928–1966)
* [[Habib Jalib]] (1928–1993)
* [[Dilawar Figar]] (1928–1998)
* [[Munir Niazi]] (1928–2006)
* [[Shabnam Romani]], ''Shabnam'' (1928–2009)
* [[Mazhar Imam]] (1928–2012)
* [[Wasif Ali Wasif]] (1929–1993)
* [[Dilawar Figar]] (1929-1998)

==1930==
* [[Mustafa Zaidi]] (1930–1970)
* [[Harbans Bhalla]] (1930–1993)
* [[Ahmad Faraz]] (1931–2008)
* [[Jon Elia|Jaun Elia]] (1931–2003)
* [[Rajendar Nath Rehbar]] (1931)
* [[Satyapal Anand]] (1931)
* [[Syed Amin Ashraf]] (1931)
* [[Nurul Ain Lari|Ahmar Lari]] (1932–2011),
* [[Shakeb Jalali]] (1932–1966)
* [[Rajinder Manchanda Bani]] ''Bani'' (1932–1981)
* [[Mohsin Bhopali]] (1932–2007)
* [[Sardar Panchhi]] (1932)
* [[Muzaffar Warsi]] (1933–2011)
* [[Syed Waheed Ashraf]] (1933)
* [[Waheed Akhtar]] (1934–1996)
* [[Sudarshan Faakir]] (1934–2008)
* [[Murtaza Birlas]] (1934)
* [[Mohsin Zaidi]] (1935–2003)
* [[Anwar Masood]] (1935)
* [[Bashar Nawaz]] (1935-2015)
* [[Aftab Iqbal Shamim]] (1936)
* [[Adil Mansuri]] (1936–2009)
* [[Akhlaq Mohammed Khan]] (Shahryar) (1936–2012)
* [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]] (1936)
* [[Shahzad A. Rizvi]] (1937)
* [[Unwan Chishti]] Iftikharul Hasan ''Unwan'' (1937–2004)
* [[Nida Fazli]] (1938-2016)
* [[Makhmoor Saeedi]] (1938–2010)
* [[Syed Mahmood Khundmiri]] (1938–2011)
* [[Obaidullah Aleem]] (1939–1997)
* [[Allama Talib Jauhari]] (1939– )

==1940==
* [[Mahmood Shaam]] (1940)
* [[Kishwar Naheed]] (1940)
* [[Jazib Qureshi]] (1940)
* [[Muzaffar Ahmad Lari]] (1940)
* [[Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi]] (1941)
* [[Ahfaz ur Rahman]] (1942)
* [[Khalid Ahmad]] (1943)
* [[Iftikhar Arif]] (1943)
* [[Shamim Farooqui]] (1943–2014)
* [[Amjad Islam Amjad]] (1944)
* [[Ghulam Muhammad Qasir]], ''Qasir'' (1944–1999)
* [[Bashir Badr]] (1945)
* [[Javed Akhtar]] (1945)
* [[Anwer Zahidi]] (1946)
* [[Afzal Ahmed Syed]] (1946)
* [[Shamim Hashimi]] (1947)
* [[Saleem Kausar]] (1947)
* [[Mohsin Naqvi]] (1947-1996)
* [[Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi]], ''Sha'oor''(1948–2002)
* [[Muhammad Izhar ul Haq]] (1948)
* [[Fehmida Riaz]] (1948)
* [[Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer]] (1949–2009)
*[[Zameer Akhtar Naqvi]] (1944-2020)

==1950==
* [[Rahat Indori]] (1950–2020)
* [[Zahid Abrol]] (1950)
* [[Jamal Ehsani]] (1951–1998)
* [[Ashfaq Hussain]] (1951–)
* [[Haider Qureshi]] (1952–)
* [[Munawwar Rana]] (1952–)
* [[Parveen Shakir]] (1952–1994)
* [[Abdul Hamid]] (1953–)
* [[Sara Shagufta]] (1954–1984)
* [[Kazim Jarwali]] (1955–)
* [[Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi]] (1957-2013)
* [[Noon Meem Danish]] (1958–)
* [[Salma Shaheen]] (1954)

==1960==
* [[Fareed Parbati]] (1961)
* [[Samina Raja]] (1961)
* [[Anjum Rehbar]] (1962)
* [[Zahida Hina]] (1962–)
* [[Muhammad Fazal Azim Taha]] (1962–)
* [[Raees Warsi]] (1963)
* [[Zulfiqar Naqvi]] (1965)
* [[Harris Khalique]] (1966)
* [[Idris Azad]] (1969)
* [[Riaz Tasneem]] (1969)

==1970==
* [[Irshad Kamil]] (1971)
*[[Akhtar Raza Saleemi]] (1974)
* [[Ali Akbar Natiq]] (1974)
* [[Sarim Momin]] (1978)

==Non-Muslim Urdu poets==
* [[Maharaja Chandu Lal]] ''Sadan'' (1766 – 1845)
* [[Mah Laqa Bai]] (1768-1824)
* [[Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim]] (1811–1845)
* [[Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad]], ''Shad'' (1864-1940)
* [[Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi|Brij Mohan Dattatreya ''Kaifi'']] (1866 – 1955)
* [[Brij Narayan Chakbast]] (1882–1926)
* [[Tilok Chand Mehroom]] (1887–1966)
* [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]] (Raghupati Sahay) ''Firaq'' (1896–1982)
* [[Ram Prasad Bismil]] (1897–1927)
* [[Pandit Harichand Akhtar]] ('Akhtar') (1901–1958)
* [[Anand Narain Mulla]] (1901–1997)
* [[Khushtar Girami]] (Dewan Ram Rakhamal Kalia) (1902–1988)
* [[Gopal Mittal]] (1906–1993)
* [[Ratan Pandoravi]] (Rala Ram) ''Ratan'' (1907–1998)
* [[Arsh Malsiani]] (Bal Mukund) (1908–1979)
* [[Sahir Hoshiarpuri]] (1913–1994)
* [[Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi]] (1913–1986)
* [[Rishi Patialvi]] (Bam Dev Sharma) ''Rishi'' (1917–1999)
* [[Jagan Nath Azad]] (1918–2004)
* [[Bhupendra Nath Kaushik]] (1924 – 2007)
* [[Krishna Kumar Sharma]] (1924–2001)
* [[Kanwal Ziai]] Hardayal Singh Datta (1927–2012)
* [[Naresh Kumar Shad]] (1927–1969)
* [[Harbans Bhalla]] (1930–1993)
* [[Satyapal Anand]] (1931)
* [[Raj Pathria]] (1933)
* [[Dushyant Kumar]] (1933–1975)
* [[Rajendar Nath Rehbar]] (1931– 2022)
* [[Sudarshan Faakir]] (1934–2008)
* [[Mohinder Pratap Chand]] (1935)
* [[Jayant Parmer]] (1954)
* [[Fahmi Badayuni]] (1952{{En dash}}2024)

== 20th century ==
* [[Mashal Sultanpuri]] (1937 – October 2020)
* [[Meena Kumari]] (1 August 1933 - 31 March 1972)

==Contemporary poets==
* [[Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri]] (b. 1978)

==Poets with unknown dates of birth==
* [[Saleem Kausar]],
* [[Shahin Badar]],
* [[Siraj Aurangabadi]],
* [[Ziauddin Ahmad]],
* [[Sadhu Singh Hamdard]]
* [[Qamar Jalalabadi]]
* [[Kanwal Ziai]]

==Contemporary poets with unknown dates of birth==
* [[Kaif Bhopali]]
* [[Sayeed Quadri]]
* [[Khalid Irfan]]
* [[Kashmiri Lal Zakir]]

==See also==
* [[List of Pakistani poets]]
* [[List of Pakistani writers]]
* [[List of Urdu-language writers]]
* [[List of Pakistanis]]

==References==
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