Rafique Ghaznavi

Rafiq Ghaznavi (Urdu: رفیق غزنوی)(1907 –March 2, 1974) was a British Indian musician and actor,known for his contributions in Abdul Rashid Kardar's Heer Ranjha (1932) film, Mehboob Khan's Taqdeer (1943), film Ek Din Ka Sultan (1945) among others.<ref>Rafiq Ghaznavi - Singer, Actor and Music Director of the 1940s Retrieved 6 February 2018</ref. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore.

Rafiq Ghaznavi's ancestors originally comes from Ghazni, Afghanistan. After partition of India in 1947, he migrated to Lahore, Pakistan. Later, he moved to Karachi, Pakistan. In Pakistan, he composed music for director Ashfaq Malik's film Parwaaz (1954) and director Aziz Ahmed's film Mandi (1956). He later joined Radio Pakistan and dedicated himself exclusively to Radio programs as a music director.

He died in Karachi at the age of 67 on 2 March 1974.