Swaran Lata (Urdu: سوَرن لتا), (Hindi: स्वर्न लता), 20 December 1924 – 8 February 2008) was a Pakistani film actress.

[2] She was known as The Tragedy Queen after she proved her mettle in her emotional, tragic roles, her presence on the film screen and her moving dialogue delivery.

[1][3] Swaran Lata was born into a Siyal Khatri Sikh family in Rawalpindi, British India, now in Pakistan on 20 December 1924.

[5] Swaran Lata later converted to Islam after she married Nazir Ahmed, a famous actor, director and producer at the time.

However, it is the story of how she got discovered that Swaran tells with great passion: "I was a student at a college in Lucknow, India.

[2][1] In her lifetime, Swaran worked with great names like Prithviraj Kapoor and Motilal in India and with Santosh Kumar, Darpan, Inayat Hussain Bhatti and Habib in Pakistan.