Doru Shahabad is considered as a place of intelligence, where great scholars like Mehmood Shah Gami, Rasul Mir Shahabadi & Waris Hafiz Itoo were born.

In present times, Shahabad has produced chief ministers such as Syed Mir Qasim, and other politicians, bureaucrats, and leading agricultural scientists.

The religious Kashmiri pandit scholar Damodhar Pandita Shahabadi and Saadat Hasan Manto also had there roots in the town.

The historian of Zain-ul-Aabideen's court, Mullah Mohammad, who translated Rajatarangini from Sanskrit into Persian, was from Doru Shahabad, along with Mir Saidullah, the author of Bagh-i-Sulaiman.

Syed Mir Qasim, who served as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister from 1971 to 1975, as well as social activist Abdul Gani Malik.