The invention relates to a zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the zoom lens. In the zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a front group including at least one lens unit; a positive lens unit; and a negative lens unit, an interval between the lens units adjacent to each other is changed during zooming, a combined focal length of the front group is negative at a wide angle end, the positive lens unit moves toward the object side during zooming from the wide angle end to a telephoto end, the negative lens unit moves toward the image side during focusing from infinity to proximity at a first zoom position, and during focusing from infinity to proximity at a second zoom position, which is on a telephoto side of the first zoom position, the positive lens unit moves toward the image side, and the negative lens unit moves toward the object side.