Notable alumni Government College University
* Dr Khalid Ranjha- Famous lawyer, constitutionalist and serving Senator for Pakistan, former provincial and federal minister for Law, Human Rights and Parliamentary affairs
* Maulana Tariq Jamil - famous Muslim Scholar
* Altaf Gauhar - writer, scholar, political journalist, 1923-2000
* Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid - barrister and public administrator
* Ijaz Batalvi - lawyer, 1923 -2004 [1]
* Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal - poet and philosopher
* Waseem Sajjad - Rhodes Scholar, Chairman Senate, two times Former Interim President of Pakistan
* Makhdoom Ali Khan- Barrister, Former Attorney General of Pakistan
* Moeen Qureshi - Former Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Nawaz Sharif - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali - former Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Abdul Rauf Anjum - English Head of the department
* Faiz Ahmed Faiz - poet and philosopher
* Patras Bokhari - Urdu writer
* Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - Diplomat, First Pakistani Foreign Minister, Representative to the League of Nations, Representative to the United Nations, President of the United Nations eneral assembly, President of the International Court of Justice Hague
* Dr. Abdus Salam - nobel laureate, founding director SUPARCO, director international centre for theoretical physics Italy, director third world academy of sciences (TWAS) Italy, famously worked on unifying two fundamental forces of nature
* Dr. Har Gobind Khorana - Nobel Laureate
* Mr. Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear engineer, Chairman PAEC, 1972-1991.
* Dev Anand - Indian film actor
* Musa Javed Chohan - former ambassador to France, Malaysia
* Sarvadaman Chowla - mathematician
* Dr.Ishfaq Ahmad - theoretical physicist, Chairman PAEC, 1991-2001.
* Sahir Ludhiyanvi - Urdu poet/Hindi lyricist and songwriter
* Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, a well known nuclear scientist of Pakistan
* Farkhanda Lodhi - female novelist
* Bano Qudsia - female novelist
* Wajid Ali Khan - Member of Canadian Parliament and advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
* Malik Zahoor Ahmad - Diplomat, Middle East/South Asia expert, Political Analyst.
* Ahmed Rashid - Famous Pakistani journalist and the author of the best seller Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press (March 2000) ISBN 0-300-08340-8
* Khaled Ahmed, Consultive Editor of The Friday Times and contributor to Daily Times
* Dr. Safdar Mahmood - retired federal secretary, eminent historian, political analyst, scholar and author of several books on Pakistan history
* Majid Khan (cricketer) - Retired cricketer, specialist batsman and former captain of the Pakistan team.
* Amjad Islam Amjad - Urdu poet and playwright
* Ashfaq Ahmed - Urdu writer playwright, broadcaster and intellectual
* Chetan Anand (producer and director) - producer and director from India and elder brother of Dev and Vijay Anand
* Javid Iqbal - scholar, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and son of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal
* Nasir Kazmi - famous Urdu poet
* Qudrat Ullah Shahab - famous Urdu writer and civil servant
* Hadiqa Kiyani - popular female singer
* Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan - popular male singer
* Khushwant Singh - prominent Indian novelist and journalist
* Inder Kumar Gujral - former Indian Prime Minister
* Sarvadaman Chowla - a prominent British-Indian-American mathematician
* Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj - College principal and drama writer who wrote Anarkali
* Balraj Sahni - famous Indian actor
* Prakash Tandon - an influential Indian businessman
* Abdul Qadir (cricketer)
* Amir Sohail, former cricket player
* Ramiz Raja, former Pakistani cricket captain