Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar was born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan at his family home at Mohalla Khudadad in the famed Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshavar on December 11, 1922. The ancestral house is a three-storey building with six rooms. It is being converted into a heritage site. His father Lala Ghulam Sarwar was a fruit merchant who owned orchards in Peshavar and in Maharashtra.

Raj Kapoor
He is the son of the acting legend Prithviraj Kapoor. He too was born in Peshavar in 1924. His ancestral house is at Dakhi Nalbandi, Peshavar’s highest point. It collapsed yers ago but 60 rooms still survive.

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan’s some relatives still live in Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshavar.