Listed below are major Urdu poets, sorted by date of birth. As far as possible in the list below, the takhallus, or nom de plume, is in italics

List

Chronologically, Urdu poets have included:

• Quli Qutub Shah (1565 - 1611)
• Wali Deccani (1635 - 1707)
• Siraj Aurangabadi (1715 - 1763)
• Khwaja Mir Dard (1721 - 1785)
• Mir Taqi Mir (1723 - 1810)
• Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi (1725 - 1824)
• Inshallah Khan Insha (1757 - 1817)
• Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish (1778 - 1846)
• Iman Baksh Nasikh (1787 - 1838)
• Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797 - 1869)
• Hakim Momin Khan Momin (1801 - 1852)
• Mir Babar Ali Anis (1802 - 1874)
• Mirza Salamat Ali Dabir (1803 - 1875)
• Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh Dehelwi (1831 - 1905)
• Mohammad Husain Azad (1830 - 1910)
• Altaf Husain Hali (1837 - 1914)
• Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938)
• Josh Malihabadi (1898 - 1982)
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911 - 1984)
• Makhdoom Mohiuddin (1908 - 1969)
• Majaz Lucknawi (1909 - 1955)
• Ali Sardar Jafri (b.1913)
• Zamir Jafri (1916-1999; see also [1])
• Kaifi Azmi (1918-2002)
• Qateel Shifai (1919 - 2001)
• Sahir Ludhianawi (1921 - 1980)
• Nasir Kazmi (1925 - 1972)
• Jaun Elia (1931 - 2003)
• Ahmed Faraz (b.1931)
• Adil Mansuri (b.1936)
• Syed Sibi-i-Ali Saba (1941-1980)
• Javed Akhtar (b.1945)
• Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi (b. 1916)

Other major poets are:

• Ustadh Zauq
• Ibne Insha
• Qabil Ajmeri
• Dilawar Figar
• Jan Nisar Akhtar

See also

Urdu poetry, Urdu, List of poets, Progressive Writers' Movement