Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was hailed as ‘Shayar-e-Shabab’ and ‘Shayar-e-Inqilab’. For some time, he was also associated with the film industry in Poona and Bombay. He wrote songs for the movie "Man Ki Jeet" and a few others, but writing songs to the tune of music composers did not side well with him. Eventually, Bombay’s film-world did not suit him.
Josh was also quite famous for his quick-wittedness, mischievousness, and forthrightness. Numerous anecdotes are ascribed to him. In Bombay, he lived in a house where an actress lived upstairs. The house was built in such a way that Josh could just never get a glimpse of her. Therefore, he penned this Rubai:
mere kamre kī chhat pe hai us but kā makān
jalve kā nahīñ phir bhī koī imkān
goyā ai 'josh' maiñ huuñ aisā mazdūr
jo bhuuk meñ ho sar pe uThā.e hue ḳhvān

Brij Mohan Dattatray Kaifi Dehlavi (1866-1955), also known as ‘Ashiq-e-Urdu’, was a prominent poet, playwright, novelist and essayist. Initially, he not only took corrections on his poetry from Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali, but also emulated Hali’s ideas in his writings. Taking cue from Hali’s famous Musaddas ‘Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam’, Kaifi composed a Musaddas of his own titled ‘Bharat Darpan’, which later came to be known as ‘Musaddas-e-Kaifi’. An insightful Nazm, it touches upon the past glory of the Aryans, the then-current conditions, and the prospects that lie in the future. One couplet from the Musaddas reads:
GhaTaa kufr aur jahl ki sar se sarkii
Khulii.n Braham-Vidya se aankhe.n bashar kii
Dattatray Kaifi was an extremely learned and accomplished person. Besides being well-versed in Urdu, Persian, Arabic and English, he was also proficient in Sanskrit and Hindi.
Urdu’s first book on grammar, ‘Dariya-e-Latafat’, which was written in Persian language in 1808, was actually translated into Urdu by Brij Mohan Dattatray Kaifi.

Parveen Shakir (1952-1994) reached the pinnacle of fame and popularity in her brief life. In 1976 her first collection of poems ‘Khushbu’ came out, the cover page to which was made by famous artist Sadiqain Sahib. Faiz Ahmad Faiz saw the cover and remarked with a smile:
“Maine to umr bhar mein itni nazmen kahin hain.”, to which Sadiqain replied, “Parvin Shakir ziyada kahti hain magar achha kahti hain.”
The first edition of 'Khushbu' went sold-out in six months. Afterwards, many of her books made the scene.
To everyone’s curiosity, Parveen Shakir, Urdu’s beloved and renowned literary personality, usually took off her footwear whenever she was at a gathering or at her home. Moreover, she also drove her car barefoot.

Momin Khan Momin (1800-1852), the poet of whom Mirza Ghalib had remarked to confer his entire Diwan for this particular couplet:

Tum mire paas hote ho goyaa
Jab koi duusraa nahin hota

Besides being a masterful Ghazal poet, Momin was also very skilled in astrology and would often reckon on future events which usually would come out to be true. He was also well versed in Tarikh-Goi (composing chronograms), and would keep reinventing at every go. A few months before his death, Momin fell from the roof of his house, breaking his limbs. After this incident, he composed a Tarikh and foretold that he would die in five months. And so it happened, Momin’s composed chronogram is what finally proved to be the date of death and is engraved on his shrine.

Momin fell in love quite more than once, and after reading his Ghazals one figures that the poet doesn’t have an imaginary love interest, but has fallen for a purely human beloved. Apart from ghazals, he also wrote 12 Masnavis; 6 of them center around his own love life. He wrote his first Masnavi, ‘Shikayat-e-Sitam’, aged 16, which too, is one of his very own love stories.

Renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz was married in 1941 to British citizen Alys George in Srinagar and this knot was tied by Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The two celebrated their honeymoon in Maharaja Hari Singh's "Pari Mahal". Alys was named Kulsuum but was known as Alys Faiz. There was also an agreement with the marriage which stated:

“Alys ko Khula’ (Opting out of a marriage) lene ka Haqq tha aur Alice ke zinda rahte hue Faiz ko duusri shadi karne ki ijazat nahin thi. Is ke alawa, Alys ke Naan-o-Nafaqa (Sustenance) ki zimma-daari Faiz ki thi jab kih Alys ki kamaaii par sirf Alys ka Haqq tha.”

Faiz and Alys had a successful married life. Alice was a social worker and had joined the Communist Party at a young age. During the trying term of 1951-1955, when Faiz was accused and imprisoned in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case, Alys provided for her two daughters and squared up to their financial expenses. All this while, the letters that Faiz and Alys wrote to one another in English were published in Urdu under the title “Saliben Mere Dariche Mein”, and later in English under the title "Dear Heart".