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The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed theHanafi Islamicmaddhab followed by a subsection featuring contemporary Hanafi scholars, in chronological order.

• Abu Hanifa (d. 767)
• Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl (d. 775)
• Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797)
• Abu Yusuf (d. 798)
• Yahya ibn Sa'id al Qattan
• Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805)
• Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (d. 827)
• Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847)
• Al-Hassaf (d. 874)
• Al-Tahawi (d. 933)
• Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944)
• Hakim al-Shahid (d. 945)
• Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 953-956)
• Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)
• Abu Zayd al-Dabusi (d. 1038)
• Ali al-Hujwiri (d. 1072)
• Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
• Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)
• Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)
• Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142)
• Siraj al-Din al-Ushi (d. 1179)
• Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 1185)
• Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
• Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 1196)
• Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197)
• Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi (d. Beginning of the 12th century C.E)
• Mu'in al-Din Chishti (d. 1236)
• Rumi (d. 1273)
• Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)
• Fakhr al-Din al-Zayla'i (d. 1300)
• Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 1310)
• Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 1346-47)
• Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)
• Ala al-Haq (1301-1384)
• Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 1384)
• Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 1389)
• Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
• Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1431)
• 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 1438)
• Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451)
• Ibn Kemal (d. 1536)
• Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549)
• Ali al-Qari (d. 1605)
• Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624)
• 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1642)
• Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al-Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1659)
• Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689)
• Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1671)
• Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1731)
• Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1762)
• Shah Nuri Bengali (d. 1785)
• Syed Ahmad Barelvi (29 November 1786)
• Majduddin (d. 1813)
• Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (d. 1824)
• Ibn Abidin (d. 1836)
• Haji Shariatullah (1781-1840)
• Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (1789-7 October 1851)
• Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819-1862)
• Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-1873)
• Najib Ali Choudhury (1870s)
• Naqi Ali Khan (1830-1880)
• Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832-15 April 1880)
• Al-Maydani (d. 1881)
• Yaqub Nanautawi (1833-1884)
• Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1886)
• Mahmud Deobandi (d. 1886)
• Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834-1899)
• Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850-1905)
• Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (1826-1905)
• Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869-31 March 1920)
• Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851-30 November 1920)
• Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867-18 June 1921)
• Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (14 June 1856-28 October 1921)
• Sufi Azizur Rahman (1862-1922)
• Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (d. 1928)
• Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad (1862-1930)
• Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872-1931)
• Anwar Shah Kashmiri (16 November 1875-28 May 1933)
• Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)
• Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875-June 1935)
• Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique Pir-e-Furfura (15 April 1865-17 March 1943)
• Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895/1896-23 March 1942)
• Ibrahim Ujani (1863-1943)
• Habibullah Qurayshi (1865-1943)
• Ashraf Ali Thanwi (19 August 1863-4 July 1943)
• Ubaidullah Sindhi (10 March 1872-21 August 1944)
• Hamid Raza Khan (1875-1943)
• Asghar Hussain Deobandi (16 October 1877-8 January 1945)
• Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1884-11 January 1946)
• Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (d. 1948)
• Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 1887-13 December 1949)
• Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868-1951)
• Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873-1952)
• Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (1879-1952)
• Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875-31 December 1952)
• Izaz Ali Amrohi (November 1882-1955)
• Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892-5 June 1956)
• Hussain Ahmad Madani (6 October 1879-5 December 1957)
• Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898-1959)
• Azizul Haq (1903-1961)
• Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882-1967)
• Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889-1972)
• Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892-1981)
• Maqsudullah (1883-1961)
• Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907-1965)
• Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896-1969)
• Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907-1971)
• Abdur Rahman Kashgari (d. 1971)
• Deen Muhammad Khan (1900-1974)
• Amimul Ehsan Barkati (1911-1974)
• Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903-1975)
• Muhammad Faizullah (1890-1976)
• Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1890-29 September 1976)
• Athar Ali Bengali (1891-6 October 1976)
• Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880-17 November 1976)
• Muhammad Shafi (25 January 1897-6 October 1976)
• Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915-1977)
• Mufti Mahmud (1919-1980)
• Zakariyya Kandhlawi (2 February 1898-24 May 1982)
• Shah Abdul Wahhab (1894-2 June 1982)
• Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887—1984)
• Ibrahim Ali Chatuli (1894-1984)
• Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911-23 February 1984)
• Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908-1985)
• Harun Babunagari (1902-1986)
• Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900-1986)
• Abdur Rahim Firozpuri (1918-1987)
• Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895-1987)
• Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897-1988)
• Uzair Gul Peshawari (d. 17 November 1989)
• Abdul Jalil Choudhury (1925-1989)
• Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915-1990)
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915-1990)
• Muhammad Taqi Amini (5 May 1926-21 January 1991)
• Abul Hasan Jashori (1918 – 8 July 1993)
• Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919-1995)
• Abdul Haque Faridi (25 May 1903-5 February 1996)
• Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907-2 September 1996)
• Shamsuddin Qasemi (5 March 1935-19 October 1996)
• ʿAbd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah (9 May 1917-16 February 1997)
• Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (26 June 1914-16 August 1997)
• Mawlana Abdullah Ghazi (1935-1998)
• Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (5 December 1913-31 December 1999)
• Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri (1925-2002)
• Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924-2005)
• Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928-2005)
• Abrarul Haq Haqqi (20 December 1920-17 May 2006)
• Syed Fazlul Karim (1935-26 November 2006)
• Ubaidul Haq (1928-2007)
• Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934-2008)
• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913-2008)
• Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927-2008)
• Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949-2009)
• Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1 October 1945-14 August 2010)
• Zafeeruddin Miftahi (7 March 1926-31 March 2011)
• Azizul Haque (1919-2012)
• Abdus Sattar Akon (1929-2012)
• Fazlul Haque Amini (1945-12 December 2012)
• Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (15 June 1933–15 July 2013)
• Nurul Islam Farooqi (1959-2014)
• Abdur Rahman (scholar) (1920-2015)
• Muhiuddin Khan (1935-2016)
• Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937-2016)
• Abdul Haq Azmi (1928-30 December 2016)
• Yunus Jaunpuri (1937-2017)
• Muhammad Salim Qasmi (8 January 1926-14 April 2018)
• Akhtar Raza Khan (1943-2018)
• Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938-2020)
• Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1940-19 May 2020)
• Salman Mazahiri (10 October 1946-20 July 2020)
• Muhammad Adil Khan (d. 10 October 2020)
• Muhammad Abdus Sobhan (1936-2020)
• Shah Ahmad Shafi (1945-2020)
• Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945-2020)
• Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926-2021)
• Noor Alam Khalil Amini (18 December 1952-3 May 2021)
• Muhammad Wakkas (1952-2021)
• Junaid Babunagari (1953-2021)
• Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943-2021)
• Nurul Islam Jihadi (1916-2021)
• Abdul Halim Bukhari (1945-2022)
• Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf (15 April 1952-10 March 2015)
• Habibur Rahman Azami (1941–12 May 2021)
• Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri (1938-2024)
• Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi (1856-1924)

• Muhibbullah Babunagari (born: 1934)
• Raza Saqib
• Mahmudul Hasan (born: 5 July 1950)
• Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1 February 1971)
• Mufti Rafi Usmani (born: 21 July 1936)
• Nematullah Azami (born: 1936)
• Taqi Usmani
• Abul Qasim Nomani (born: 14 January 1947)
• Salman Husaini Nadwi (born: 1954)
• Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born: 26 September 1954)
• Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (born November 1956)
• Sameeruddin Qasmi (b. 1950)
• Salman Mansoorpuri (born 11 February 1967)
• Salman Bijnori (born 14 April 1969)
• Rawil Gaynetdin (born: 25 August 1959)
• Husein Kavazović (born: 3 July 1964)
• Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born: 10 May 1965)
• Shefqet Krasniqi (born: 1966)
• Mahfuzul Haque (born: 1969)
• Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq (born: 1971)
• Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera (born: 1974)
• Mufti Ebrahim Desai
• Mamunul Haque (born: 1973)
• Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri (born: 13 May 1978)
• Yusuf Ziya Kavakçı
• Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
• Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (born: 1 April 1953)
• Maulana Ilyas Attar Qadri (born: 1950)
• A F M Khalid Hossain
• Shiekh Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut
• Maulana Tariq Jameel
• Faraz Rabbani
• Shiekh Yunus Jaunpuri
• Shiekh Abu Ghudda
• Muhammad 'Awwamah
• al-Kawthari
• Wahbi Sulayman Ghawji
• Sheikh Saad Nomani
• Hifzur Rahman
• Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (b. 1982)
• Omar Abedeen Qasmi Madani (b. 1981)

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