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John (Philip) Dundas was Governor of Prince of Wales Isle (Penang) from 1805 to 1807.

Molvi Noor Ahmed Chishti was born in 10th June 1823 at Lahore and died in 11th August, 1867 at the age of 44. He taught Urdu, Persian and Arabic, including to Lord Lawrence and Charles Aitcheson. Tehkikat e Chishti and Yadgar e Chishti were written by him. His father, Molvi Ahmed Bakhsh Yakdil, was also a scholar. He is buried in Sultan Pura Lahore near Lahore Railway Station.

Robert Eyles Egerton served as a British administrator in India after being educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Haileybury. He began his career in India in 1849. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he served as Deputy Commissioner at Lahore. In 1869, he was appointed Commissioner of Nagpur and, in 1871, he was made Financial Commissioner of the Punjab. In 1879 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. Egerton retired in 1882. There is a memorial to Egerton and his wife, Mary Warren, in the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, Lahore.

Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys was a French sinologist also known for his research on dreams. In 1851 D'Hervey published his Recherches sur l'agriculture et l'horticulture des Chinois , in which considered plants and animals that might be able to acclimatize to Western countries. He translated Chinese texts and stories. He also published works concerning oneirology.

Ernest Mason Satow was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. Satow was influential in East Asia and Japan, particularly in Bakumatsu (1853–1867) and the Meiji-period (1868–1912). He also served in China after the Boxer Rebellion (1900–1906), in Thailand, Uruguay and Morocco, and represented Britain at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. Satow was a linguist, a traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist (chiefly with Frederick Dickins) and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects. He authored A Diplomat in Japan and, in retirement, published A Guide to Diplomatic Practice .