This is a list of famous and notable people from Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

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India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.

Arts and entertainment

• Shahrukh Khan
  Shahrukh Khan
  Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....
  
  
• Nandita Das
  Nandita Das
  Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and...
  
  
• Imtiaz Ali
  Imtiaz Ali
  Imtiaz Ali is a former West Indian cricketer who played in one Test against India in 1976....
  
  
• Sonu Nigam
  Sonu Nigam
  Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...
  
  
• Chetan Bhagat
  Chetan Bhagat
  Chetan Bhagat , is an Indian author, columnist, and speaker. Bhagat is the author of five bestselling novels, Five Point Someone , One Night @ the Call Center , The 3 Mistakes of My Life , 2 States & Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition...
  
  , IIT Delhi Alumni
• Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal
  Arjun Rampal , born 26 November 1972, is an award-winning Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films, as well as a fashion model.- Film career :...
  
  
• Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor
  Shakti Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor. He is notably known for playing vulgar comic and villainous roles. He is known for acting alongside comedian Kader Khan as his sidekick along with Asrani in over 100 films.-Early life:...
  
  

Politics

• Bahadur Shah Zafar
• Sheila Dikshit
  Sheila Dikshit
  Sheila Dikshit is the Chief Minister of Delhi. She is from the Indian National Congress. Dikshit was sworn in as the Chief Minister for a third consecutive term of the Government of Delhi state in January 2009 after pulling a victory in November 2008 state elections...
  
  , Chief Minister
  Chief Minister
  A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
  
  
• Jagdish Tytler
  Jagdish Tytler
  Jagdish Tytler is a controversial Indian National Congress politician, and former member of Indian Parliament...
  
  
• Priyanka Gandhi
  Priyanka Gandhi
  Priyanka Vadra , is an Indian politician. She is the granddaughter of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, and belongs tothe Nehru-Gandhi family.-Early life:...
  
  
• HKL Bhagat
• Sahib Singh Verma
  Sahib Singh Verma
  Sahib Singh Verma was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi and was member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India...
  
  
• Madanlal Khurana
• Guru Radha Kishan
  Guru Radha Kishan
  Guru Radha Kishan was born in the year 1925 on Krishna Janmashtami in Bid village of district Harda of Madhya Pradesh in a Brahmin family of farmers. He has to experience the hardships of the life very early as his father was expired while he was a kid...
  
  
• Kedar Nath Sahani
• Aung Sang Suu Kyi, DU Alumni
• Rahul Gandhi
  Rahul Gandhi
  Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician and member of the parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Shashi Tharoor
  Shashi Tharoor
  Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala...
  
  
• Salman Khurshid
  Salman Khurshid
  Salman Khurshid is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress, a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009. He belongs to Farrukhabad. He is presently the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Law and Justice...
  
  

Literature

• Bedil Dehlavi, poet (1642–1720),
• Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
• Mirza Ghalib
  Mirza Ghalib
  Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan , pen-name Ghalib and Asad , was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule...
  
  , poet
• Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh
  Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country....
  
  

Sports

• Ishant Sharma
  Ishant Sharma
  Ishant Sharma is an Indian cricketer. He is a right arm fast medium bowler. He has a high arm delivery action and is not a swinger of the ball but depends a lot on pace and movement off the seam....
  
  
• Virender Sehwag
  Virender Sehwag
  Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...
  
  
• Warren Lee (cricketer)
  Warren Lee (cricketer)
  Warren Wain Lee is an Indian-born English cricketer, currently playing for Kent.A right arm medium-fast bowler, Lee made his List A debut for Kent in their heavy defeat to Somerset on 26 April 2009.-External links:...
  
  
• Gautam Gambhir
  Gautam Gambhir
  Gautam Gambhir is an Indian cricketer, a batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 and 2004...
  
  

Others

• Sameer Chhabra

• Lala Ram Charan Aggarwal
• Comrade M Farooqui
• Bhumit Kamboj
• Deepak Chadha