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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)
- Ali Sardar Jafri (b.1913)
- Zamir Jafri (1916-1999; see also )
- 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)
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See also
Urdu poetry, Urdu, List of poets, Progressive Writers' Movement
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