Munawar Zarif (Punjabi, Urdu: منور ظریف) (25 December 1940 – 29 April 1976) was a Pakistani film actor and comedian.

[3][1] He was one of the most popular and highest paid actors of the 1970s and is considered one of the greatest comedians of South Asia.

Subsequently, he was cast as the lead actor in films such as Banarsi Thug (1973) and Jeera Blade (1973).

Another elder brother was Munir Zarif (1934-2014), a film and TV actor famous for his roles in serials like Sona Chandi, Aalif Laila and Ainak Wala Jin, who died in 2014.

[8] His only son Faisal Munawar Zarif debuted as an actor with Puttar Munawar Zareef Da in 1994, followed by other movies like Puttar Jeeray Blade Da (1996) and Khotay Sikay (1998), but he couldn't find success in the film industry, so he moved to England before relocating to Morocco after marrying a Moroccan woman, where he died in 2018 of cardiac arrest at the age of 44.