This is the list of notable people from Jhelum city and Jhelum District.
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- Aftab Iqbal Shamim, Urdu language poet
- Afzal Khan (British politician), British Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton
- General Asif Nawaz Janjua, former chief of army staff of Pakistan
- Azeem Hafeez, former Pakistani cricket team
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- Bhai Mati Das, Indian Sikh martyrs
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- Chaudhry Altaf Hussain, politician and former governor of Punjab
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- Ghulam Hussain, politician and doctor
- Gulzar, Indian poet and film director
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- Hasnat Ahmad Khan, a heart surgeon in Britain, also known as an ex-lover of Lady Diana
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- Inder Kumar Gujral, former prime minister of India
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- Jagjit Singh Aurora, Indian army officer
- Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian scholar and poet
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- Khalid Masud, Muslim scholar
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- M. Afzal Khan, British politician
- Masood Aslam, Pak army officer
- Major Muhammad Akram, Pak army officer, Nishan-e-Haider awarded
- Manmohan Singh, former prime minister of India was born in village of Gah, district Chakwal, then part of Jhelum District
- Muhammad Ali Mirza, Engineer and Islamic preacher
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- Nawabzada Raja Matloob Mehdi, politician
- Nanak Singh, Indian writer and poet
- Nasser Azam, British artist
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- Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan, politician and a leader of Pakistan Movement
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- Sunil Dutt, Bollywood actor
- Satish Gujral, Indian painter and sculptor
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- Admiral Tariq Kamal Khan, Chief of Naval Staff
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- Zafar Chaudhry, first chief of air staff of the Pakistan Air Force he was born in Sialkot
- Zamir Jafri, writer and poet.