List of people from Uttar Pradesh
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This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

, a state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 in India
India
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. The criteria of this list includes those persons who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1947; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces, by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of...

 that now are part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. Though their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity
Social status
In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society . It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc....

.

Deities and Avtaras

  • Rama
    Rama
    Rama or full name Ramachandra is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a king of Ayodhya in ancient Indian...

     (Birth place:Ayodhya), is a legendary or historical king of ancient India
    Kingdoms of Ancient India
    Epic India is the geography of Greater India traditionally around early 10th century BC and later on from the Sanskrit epics, viz. the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as well as Puranic literature ....

    . In Hinduism
    Hinduism
    Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...

    , he is considered to be the seventh Avatar
    Avatar
    In Hinduism, an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation," but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation"....

     of Vishnu
    Vishnu
    Vishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God....

    .
  • Krishna
    Krishna
    Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...

     (Birth Place:Mathura), is a deity
    Deity
    A deity is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers....

      worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism
    Hinduism
    Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...

    .
  • Neminath
    Neminath
    Neminatha was twenty-second Jain Tirthankar of the present age . According to Jain beliefs, he became a Siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. He is also known as Arishtanemi He along with Rishabha or Adinatha is mentioned in the Rig Veda Samhita...

     (Birth Place:Mathura), was 22nd Teerthanks of Jainism.
  • Lakshmana
    Lakshmana
    Lakshmana was the brother and close companion of Rama, and himself a hero in the famous epic Ramayana...

     (Birth place:Ayodhya), was the brother and close companion of Rama, and himself a hero in the famous epic 'Ramayana
    Ramayana
    The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...

    '
  • Parashuram (Birth Place Ghazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...

    ), was an avatar of Vishnu
    Vishnu
    Vishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God....

    .
  • Shreyansnath(Birth Place:Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, was 11th Teerthankar of Jainism.

Authors of the Great Epics

  • Valmiki
    Valmiki
    Valmiki is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself. He is revered as the Adi Kavi, which means First Poet, for he discovered the first śloka i.e...

    , wrote Ramayan
  • Vyasa
    Vyasa
    Vyasa is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa , or Krishna Dvaipayana...

     (Devanāgarī
    Devanagari
    Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

    : व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu
    Hinduism
    Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...

     traditions who authored Mahabharata
    Mahabharata
    The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....

  • Tulsidas
    Tulsidas
    Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...

    a, Awadhi poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and philosopher, wrote Rāmacaritamānasa ("The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama.
  • Surdas
    Surdas
    Surdas, the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' , out of which only about 8,000 are extant...

  • Bhrigu Birth PlaceBallia
    Ballia
    Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The eastern boundary of the city lies at the junction of the Ganges and the Ghaghara...


Yogis, Sufis poets and Mystics

  • Amir Khusro
    Amir Khusro
    Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...

    , Sufi mystic
    Mysticism
    Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

    , one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent
    Indian subcontinent
    The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...

    .
  • Bharat Bhushan (yogi), the only 'Padmashri' recipient in Yoga, Founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur
    Saharanpur
    Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal Corporation in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur District as well as Saharanpur Division...

  • Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud
    Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud
    Ghazi Saiyyed Salar Masud was nephew of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi and a Muslim missionary. Salar Masud was a Islamic scholar who came along with his uncle Jalaluddin Bukhari and teacher Syed Ibrahim Mashadi Bara Hazari in early 11th century to the South Asia for propagation of Islam...

    , Gazi Miya of Baharaich.
  • Gopi Krishna, a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer.
  • Kabir
    Kabir
    Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...

    , poet and SaintVaranasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Nizamuddin Auliya
    Nizamuddin Auliya
    Sultan-ul-Mashaikh, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, Hazrat Shaikh Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya , also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent, an order that believed in drawing close to God through renunciation of the world and service to...

    , Sufi saint born in Badayun
  • Paramhansa Yogananda, Mystic who introduced Yoga in the West, Gorakhpur
    Gorakhpur
    Gorakhpur is a city in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, near the border with Nepal. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur District and Gorakhpur Division. Gorakhpur is one of the proposed capitals of the Purvanchal state which is yet to be formed...

  • Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
    Agra
    Agra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most...


Poet-saints and Religious figures

  • Akhaṇḍānanda Sarasvatī
    Akhandanand
    - Birth :Anantshri Swami Akhandanandji Saraswati , was an exponent of Bhagavata Purana and a scholar of diverse spiritual traditions including Vedanta, Bhakti, and associated Shastras...

    , scholar of Vedanta
    Vedanta
    Vedānta was originally a word used in Hindu philosophy as a synonym for that part of the Veda texts known also as the Upanishads. The name is a morphophonological form of Veda-anta = "Veda-end" = "the appendix to the Vedic hymns." It is also speculated that "Vedānta" means "the purpose or goal...

    , Bhakti
    Bhakti
    In Hinduism Bhakti is religious devotion in the form of active involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine.Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Svayam Bhagavan.Bhakti can be used of either...

     and Bhagavata Purana
    Bhagavata purana
    The Bhāgavata Purāṇa is one of the "Maha" Puranic texts of Hindu literature, with its primary focus on bhakti to the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna...

     in 20th century, Varanasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya
    Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya
    Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya, born 14 January 1950 as Giridhar Mishra, is a Hindu religious leader, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four...

    , Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit
    Sanskrit
    Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

     commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur
    Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
    Jaunpur is a city and a municipal board in Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Jaunpur district is located to the northwest of the district of Varanasi in the eastern part of the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to the 2001 census, Jaunpur district had a population...

  • Rāmānanda, founder of the Rāmānandī sect, Prayag
  • Sant Ravidas, poet and Saint, Varanasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Shiv Dayal Singh
    Shiv Dayal Singh
    Seth Shiv Dayal Singh was born on the 25th august. At the age of five, he was sent to school where he learnt Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Gurumukhi. He also acquired a working knowledge of Arabic and Sanskrit...

    , Guru Maharaj of Radhasoamis, Agra
    Agra
    Agra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most...

  • Shriram Sharma Acharya
    Shriram Sharma Acharya
    Shriram Sharma was an Indian seer, sage, a prominent philosopher, a visionary of the New Golden Era, and the Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, which has its headquarters at Shantikunj, Haridwar....

    , founder Gayatri Parivar, Mathura
  • Surdas
    Surdas
    Surdas, the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' , out of which only about 8,000 are extant...

     was a blind Hindu poet, sant
    Sant
    Sant is an Indian term derived from a Sanskrit verb that means both "to be good" and "to be real". From the fifteenth century the term has often referred to those who sing the name of God and worship Him, particularly the bhakti poets of Marathi...

     and musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

  • Svāmīnārāyaṇa, founder of the Swaminarayan sect
    Swaminarayan Faith
    Swaminarayan Hinduism, also known as the Swaminarayan faith or the Swaminarayan sect, is a modern tradition in the Vaishnava denomination of Hinduism, in which followers offer devotion to and worship Swaminarayan as the final manifestation of God....

    , Gonda
  • Svāmī Karapātrī
    Swami Karpatri
    Swami Karpatri was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition. His ordained name as a monk was Hariharananda Saraswati, but he was popularly known by the name Karpatri Swami. He was married and the father of a baby daughter when he left home at age 17 to seek ordination as a sannyasi...

    , teacher of Advaita popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
    Gorakhpur
    Gorakhpur is a city in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, near the border with Nepal. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur District and Gorakhpur Division. Gorakhpur is one of the proposed capitals of the Purvanchal state which is yet to be formed...

  • Tulasīdāsa
    Tulsidas
    Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...

    , composer of the Ramcharitmanas, Banda
  • Mira
    Mira
    Mira also known as Omicron Ceti , is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away in the constellation Cetus. Mira is a binary star, consisting of the red giant Mira A along with Mira B. Mira A is also an oscillating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered,...

  • Raskhan
    Raskhan
    Raskhan was a poet who was both a Muslim and follower of Lord Krishna. His real name was Sayyad Ibrahim and is known to have lived in Amroha in India. In his early years, he became a follower of Lord Krishna and learned the religion from Goswami Vitthalnath and began living in Vrindavan and spent...

  • Malik Mohammad Jayasi

Independence fighters

Mughal period

  • Jograj Singh Gurjar
    Jograj Singh Gurjar
    Jograj Singh Gurjar or Yograj Singh Gurjar was a super commander of an army who fought against Timur in 1398 A.D.He was also known as Jograj Singh Panwar.-Early life:...

    , was a super commander of an army who fought against Timur
    Timur
    Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

     (Tīmūr-e Lang "Timur the Lame") in 1398 A.D.He was also known as Jograj Singh Panwar.
  • Ram Pyari Gurjar
    Ram Pyari Gurjar
    Rampyari Gurjar was a lady commander who fought against Timur in 1398, when Timurl invaded the regions from Haridwar to ancient Dehli, leading to a later association of her name with the term "Brave Rampyari" in colloquial Hindi.She is said to have trained over 40,000 women to be warriors...

    , was a lady commander who fought against Timur
    Timur
    Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

     in 1398.

1857

  • Rani Lakshmibai
    Rani Lakshmibai
    Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of Jhansi, situated in the northern part of India...

    , The Rani (Queen) of Jhansi
  • Kotwal Dhan Singh Gurjar
    Kotwal Dhan Singh Gurjar
    Kotwal Dhan Singh Gurjar was one of the freedom fighters of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.-Revolt of 1857 in Meerut:The freedom movement, which started in 1822 from Kunja Bahadurpur, came to shape in 1857. In the Indian mutiny of 1857, the mutineers had the support of the army...

    , One of the earliest freedom fighters of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
    Indian Rebellion of 1857
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

    , recorded in Meerut Gazetteers.
  • Mangal Pandey
    Mangal Pandey
    Mangal Pandey was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry of the English East India Company. He is widely known in India as one of its first freedom fighters...

    , One of the earliest independence fighters of 1857, recently subject of Bollywood blockbuster-Ballia
    Ballia
    Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The eastern boundary of the city lies at the junction of the Ganges and the Ghaghara...

  • Rao Kadam Singh, The freedom fighter who was elected by his Gurjar clansmen as their leader to fight against Britishers during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
    Indian Rebellion of 1857
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

    .
  • Begum Hazrat Mahal
    Begum Hazrat Mahal
    Begum Hazrat Mahal , also known as Begum of Awadh, was the first wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.-Queen of Awadh:Her maiden name was Muhammadi Khanum and she was born at Faizabad, Awadh, India. She was a courtesan by profession and had been taken into the royal harem as a Khawasin, after being sold by...

    , Indian independence fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857
    Indian Rebellion of 1857
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

    .
  • Maulvi Liaquat Ali
    Maulvi liaquat ali
    Maulvi Liaquat Ali was a Muslim religious leader from Allahabad, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in present day India. He was one of the leaders in the revolt against the British in 1857, in what is now known as the Indian Mutiny, or the Sepoy Mutiny...

    , Indian independence fighter of 1857 from Allahabad
    Allahabad
    Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...

    , Maulvi captured the Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India.
  • Bakht Khan
    Bakht Khan
    Bakht Khan Rohilla was nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company.-Background:...


Post 1857

  • Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
    Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
    Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was a revolutionary organisation established in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla New Delhi by Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and others...

    .
  • Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
    Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
    Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi , was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He is mostly known as the founder-editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Pratap....

    , independence fighter, journalist
  • Ram Prasad Bismil
    Ram Prasad Bismil
    Ram Prasad Bismil Ram Prasad Bismil Ram Prasad Bismil (Hindi: राम प्रसाद 'बिस्मिल', Gujarati: રામપ્રસાદ બિસ્મિલ, (Malayalam: രാം പ്രസാദ് ബിസ്മിൽ, Tamil: ராம் பிரசாத் பிஸ்மில், Born: 11 June 1897, Executed: 19 December 1927) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in Mainpuri Shadyantra of...

    , Indian independence fighter and socialist.
  • Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

    , Indian independence fighter and politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , became Chief Minister of the United Provinces. Also Bharat Ratna recipient.
  • Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori
    Kakori
    Kakori is a town and a nagar panchayat in Lucknow district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated 14 km north of Lucknow. More widely known for its kebabs, Zardozi work and Dasheri mangoes, Kakori is also the centre of once flourishing Urdu poetry, literature and the Qadiriya...

    , Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
    Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
    Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was a revolutionary organisation established in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla New Delhi by Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and others...

    . He was close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad.
  • Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
    Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
    Rafi Ahmed Kidwai , was an Indian independence activist and a socialist, sometimes described as an Islamic socialist...

    , Indian independence fighter and socialist.
  • Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
  • Ram Manohar Lohia
    Ram Manohar Lohia
    Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...

    , socialist
  • Hasrat Mohani
    Hasrat Mohani
    Maulana Hasrat Mohani was a romantic poet of Urdu language, journalist, politician, parliamentarian and a fearless freedom fighter of Indian Sub-continent . His real name was Syed Fazl ul Hasan. He was born in 1875 at Mohan in Unnao district of U.P...

    , independence fighter and poet
  • Asaf Ali
    Asaf Ali
    Asaf Ali was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa....

    , independence fighter
  • Rajendra Lahiri
    Rajendra Lahiri
    Rajendra Lahiri , also known as Rajendra Nath Lahiri,, was a Bengali Hindu Brahmin revolutionary, who participated in various revolutionary activities of the Hindustan Republican Association aimed at ousting the British forever from India.-Brief life sketch:Rajendra Lahiri was born on 23 Jun 1901...

    , independence fighter
  • Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya was born on 2 November 1914 in Alwar, Rajasthan as the eldest son of Late Shri Rewati Raman Acharya who was a revenue minister in the princely state of Alwar and later on quit his high profile position due to the British leaning of the King and joined the Indian National...

    , Freedom Fighter Main Accused of the famous Agra Conspiracy case.
  • Maulana Mohammad Ali
    Maulana Mohammad Ali
    Maulana Mohammad Ali Jouhar was an Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet, and was among the leading figures of the Khilafat Movement....

    , independence fighter
  • Purushottam Das Tandon
    Purushottam Das Tandon
    Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन , was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Punjabi Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi...

    , independence fighter
  • Maulana Shaukat Ali
    Maulana Shaukat Ali
    Maulana Shaukat Ali was an Indian Muslim nationalist and leader of the Khilafat movement. He was the brother of Maulana Mohammad Ali.-Early life:...

    , independence fighter
  • Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
    Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
    Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement...

    , independence fighter Ghazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...

  • Mahavir Tyagi
    Mahavir Tyagi
    Mahavir Tyagi was an Indian independence fighter and famous parliamentarian from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.Early life=Tyagi was educated in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He joined the British Indian Army and was posted in Persia but resigned after the Amritsar Massacre, or Jallianwala Bagh...

    , independence fighter

  • Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati , born in a Jijhoutia Brahminfamily of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic of Dashnami Order of Adi Shankara Sampradaya as well as a nationalist and peasant leader of India...

     Freedom Fighter

Param Vir Chakra

  • Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid, Ghazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...

  • Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey
    Manoj Kumar Pandey
    Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, PVC ,was an officer of the Indian Army of the regiment 1/11 Gurkha Rifles, posthumously awarded the India's highest military honour, Param Vir Chakra for his audacious courage and leadership during adverse times...

  • Naik Jadu Nath Singh
    Naik Jadu Nath Singh
    Naik Jadu Nath Singh was a soldier of Indian Army who fought the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 in Jammu & Kashmir. He died in the battle and was later awarded with the Param Vir Chakra for his bravery in the War. He was the fourth recipient of Param Vir Chakra....

  • Major Somnath Sharma, the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, the highest Indian gallantry award.
  • Yogendra Singh Yadav of Orangabad, Bulandshaher, the hero of Tiger Hill in Kargil war

Maha Vir Chakra

  • Brigadier Mohammad Usman
    Brigadier Mohammad Usman
    Brigadier Mohammad Usman was the highest rank officer of Indian Army killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, who as a Muslim became a "symbol of" India's "inclusive secularism". At the time of partition of India he with many other officers declined to move to the Pakistan Army and continued to...

    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...

  • Mahendra Nath Mulla
    Mahendra Nath Mulla
    Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, was an officer of the Indian Navy and the Captain of the INS Khukri, who went down with his ship during the 1971 war on the old tradition, "captains don't abandon their ships".He was reported to be in a saluting gesture while sinking down with Khukri...

  • Ram Ugrah PandeyGhazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...


Bharat Ratna

  • Bhagwan Das
    Bhagwan Das
    Bhagwan Das was an Indian theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became allied with the Hindustani Culture Society and was active in opposing rioting as a form of protest...

    , philosopher and Freedom FighterVaranasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon
    Purushottam Das Tandon
    Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुषोत्तम दास टंडन , was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Punjabi Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi...

    , Freedom Fighter
  • Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

    , Freedom Fighter
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...

    , Freedom FighterVaranasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Indira Gandhi
    Indira Gandhi
    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...

    , Freedom Fighter
  • Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

    , Sitar MaesroGhazipur
    Ghazipur
    Ghazipur , or Ghazipur City, previously spelt Ghazeepore, is a city/town and a municipal corporation and headquarter of Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghazipur Division and Sub-division...

  • Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai MaestroVaranasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Rajeev Gandhi, Prime Minister of India

Padma Bhushan

  • Prof Irfan Habib
    Irfan Habib
    Irfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University. He has served in the Indian History Congress for many years. Irfan Habib and R.S...

    , Historian
  • Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya , a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that...

    , Author
  • Josh Malihabadi
    Josh Malihabadi
    Josh Malihabadi was a noted Urdu poet born in British India, who was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a Pakistani citizen...

    , Poet
  • Kishan Maharaj
    Kishan Maharaj
    Pandit Kishan Maharaj was an Indian tabla player who belonged to the Benares gharana of Hindustani classical music.-Early life and background:...

    , Tabla Maestro
  • Ram Kinkar Upadhyay
    Ram Kinkar Upadhyay
    Ram Kinkar Upadhyay is a noted scholar on Indian scriptures and a recipient of Padma Bhushan - the third highest civil award of India - in 1999. He hails from Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 1st of Nov 1924 in Jabalpur but his ancestors were from village Barainin in UP...

    , scholar
  • Bhagwati Charan Varma, Hindi Author
  • Obaid Siddiqui
    Obaid Siddiqui
    Obaid Siddiqi is a neurogeneticist who has done pioneering work on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. He is still active as a researcher at National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore .-Early life:...

     Science
  • Rahul Sankrityayan
    Rahul Sankrityayan
    Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan , who is called the Father of Hindi Travel literature, was one of the most widely-traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He became a buddhist monk and eventually took up Marxist Socialism...

  • Srilal Shukla, Hindi Writer
  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

    ,film actor

Padma Shree

  • Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
    Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
    Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...

    , Scholar of Unani medicine
  • Muzaffar Ali
    Muzaffar Ali
    Rajah Muzaffar Ali is an Indian film-maker, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, and a social worker.He belongs to a Royal Muslim Rajput family of Kotwara. He is not to be confused with the famous 16th century Persian artist of the Persian miniature.Muzaffar Ali was...

    , Film Director
  • K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena is a Lucknow-based satirist and writer. He was employed by the Indian Railways but he was a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers.He was awarded Padma Shri by Government of India, in year 2000....

    , Writer
  • Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, Hockey Olympian
  • Gopaldas Neeraj
    Gopaldas Neeraj
    Gopaldas Saxena 'Neeraj is among the best-known poets and authors in Hindi literature. He is also a famous poet of Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He was born in the small village Puravali of Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, India on 4 January 1924. He wrote under the pen name "Neeraj"...

    , Hindi poet and lyricist
  • Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan
    Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan
    Bharat Bhushan is an Indian yoga teacher and winner of the Padma Shri for literature and education in 1991.Born at Saharanpur U.P., Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan is the first recipient of the coveted "Padmashri Award" given by the President of India for his contribution to yoga in 1991.In 1971, Bhushan...

    , http://www.bharatyog.com the only Padmashri awardee Yogi, founder Director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur
    Saharanpur
    Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal Corporation in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur District as well as Saharanpur Division...

  • Mohammed Shahid
    Mohammed Shahid
    Mohammed Shahid is a former field hockey player from India. A dashing forward with the ability to weave past any defence with his amazing dribbling skills. He was a member of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and was captain of India during 1985-86...

     Ex Captain Indian Hockey Team Varanasi
    Varanasi
    -Etymology:The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi, for the old city lies in the north shores of the Ganga bounded by its two tributaries, the Varuna and the Asi, with the Ganges being to its south...

  • Pritam Singh
    Pritam Singh
    Dr Pritam Singh, current Director of IMI , New Delhi, is a professor of eminence in the field of management studies and has been awarded the Padma Shri for his outstanding contribution in the field of management education.In 2003, he became the second Padam Shri recipient in the field of management...

  • Kapil Deva Dvivedi
    Kapil Deva Dvivedi
    Dr. Kapil Deva Dvivedi is the director of Vishva Bharati Research Institute, and a noted Sanskrit scholar in India. He has published over 70 books on Vedic and Sanskrit Literature...

  • Prakash Singh
    Prakash Singh
    Prakash Singh VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Biography:...

  • Giriraj Kishore
    Giriraj Kishore
    Giriraj Kishore is an Indian activist and politician. He belongs to kayastha community.He serves as the senior vice-president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, International wing of the Hindu nationalist Sangh Parivar.Kishore is from state of Uttar Pradesh...

     writer
  • Vidya Niwas Mishra
    Vidya Niwas Mishra
    Vidya Niwas Mishra was a scholar, a noted Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist.Born at Pakardiha in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh in January, 1926, he had his education at Allahabad University and Gorakhpur University. After his M.A...

     writer
  • Hamid AnsariVice President
    Vice president
    A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...

  • Sita Ram Pal
  • Moh.Swaleh Ansari
  • Satish Chandra Rai

Jnanpith Awards

  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Raghupati Sahay , better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri , was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India...

    , poet
  • Mahadevi Verma, poet
  • Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya , a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that...

    , writer
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri was an Urdu writer, poet, critic and film lyricist from India.-Early life and education:Ali Sardar Jafri was born in an aristocratic family in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he spent his formative years....

    , writer and poet
  • Amar Kant
    Amar Kant
    Amar Kant is a noted writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007. Octogenarian Amar Kant is fighting against penury. And his only weapon is his pen. He has been awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009.-References:...

  • Sri Lal Sukla
    Sri Lal Sukla
    Shrilal Shukla was a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He worked as a Provincial Civil Services officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, later inducted into the IAS...


Nobel Prize

  • Rajendra K. Pachauri
    Rajendra K. Pachauri
    Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002, during which his tenure has engendered controversy. He is also been director general of TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University...

    , Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[4]. First Nobel Prize winner from Uttar Pradesh.

Arjuna Award

  • Syed Modi
    Syed Modi
    Syed Modi was an Indian badminton player, and an eight-time National Badminton champion . He won the Austrian International in 1983 and 1984 and 1982 Commonwealth Games, Men's singles title...

    , Badminton
  • Abhinn Shyam Gupta
    Abhinn Shyam Gupta
    Abhinn Shyam Gupta is a male badminton player from India. Presently he lives in City of Allahabad and is a former national champion in singles...

    , Badminton
  • Moraad Ali Khan
    Moraad Ali Khan
    Moraad Ali Khan is one of the top shooters of India. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1996. He won gold medal at the Manchester Commonwealth Games and many other international medal at the Asian and world level competitions. He has also been the National Champion seven times.Born in 1961 he...

    , shooter
  • Jaspal Rana
    Jaspal Rana
    Jaspal Rana is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, and 2006 Asian Games. At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.- Early days...

    , shooter (Uttarkhand)

Science and Medicine

  • Atul Kumar
    Atul Kumar
    Atul Kumar [ अतुल कुमार् ] is a scientist in the Central Drug Research Institute of Lucknow, India....

    , Scientist CDRI, inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug, Candidate and recipient of OPPI SCIENTIST Excellence AWARD
  • Rishi Kumar Gandhi, Defence Scientist
  • Rajendra K. Pachauri
    Rajendra K. Pachauri
    Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002, during which his tenure has engendered controversy. He is also been director general of TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University...

    , chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...

    . First Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     winner from Uttar Pradesh.
  • Harish-Chandra
    Harish-Chandra
    Harish-Chandra was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. -Life:...

    , (Mehrotra) was an India
    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...

    n mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    , who did fundamental work in representation theory
    Representation theory
    Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studiesmodules over these abstract algebraic structures...

    , especially Harmonic analysis
    Harmonic analysis
    Harmonic analysis is the branch of mathematics that studies the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves. It investigates and generalizes the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms...

     on semisimple Lie groups.
  • Ravindra Khattree
    Ravindra Khattree
    Ravindra Khattree is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. His contribution to the Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two...

    , is an India
    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...

    n statistician
    Statistician
    A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

    , who did fundamental work in statistical inference
    Statistical inference
    In statistics, statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation...

    , multivariate analysis
    Multivariate analysis
    Multivariate analysis is based on the statistical principle of multivariate statistics, which involves observation and analysis of more than one statistical variable at a time...

    , experimental designs, biostatistics
    Biostatistics
    Biostatistics is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology...

     and quality control
    Quality control
    Quality control, or QC for short, is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. This approach places an emphasis on three aspects:...

    .
  • Zahoor Qasim
    Zahoor Qasim
    Padma Bhushan Syed Zahoor Qasim is a leading Indian marine biologist. Qasim helped lead India's exploration to Antarctica and guided the other seven expeditions from 1981 to 1988. He was a Member of the Planning Commission of India from 1991 to 1996...

    , Oceanographer, leader of first Indian Expedition to Antarctica
  • Prof. Prem Chand Pandey
    Prem Chand Pandey
    Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian scientist and academic in the fields of Satellite Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Science, Antarctic and Climate Change.-Education and career:...

    , Scientist
    Scientist
    A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

    , Physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

    , Meteorologist (SAC
    Space Applications Centre
    The Space Applications Centre is an institution of research in Ahmedabad, India under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organization...

    /ISRO), Oceanographer, and Founder Director NCAOR
    NCAOR
    The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research as an Indian research and development institution, and an autonomous Institution of the Department of Ocean Development , Government of India. Situated at Vasco, Goa, it is responsible for administering the Indian Antarctic Program and maintains...

    -Indian Antarctic Program
    Indian Antarctic Program
    The Indian Antarctic Program is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional program under the control of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica...

    , Goa.
  • P. K . Sethi
    P. K . Sethi
    Pramod Karan Sethi was an Indian orthopaedic surgeon. With Ram Chandra Sharma, he co-invented the "Jaipur foot", an inexpensive and flexible artificial limb, in 1969....

    , inventor of "Jaipur Foot"
  • Kamla Kant Pandey
    Kamla Kant Pandey
    Kamla Kant Pandey is a notable plant geneticists in the world. He is the head of the Genetics Unit, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand. In 1975 he made discovery of a revolutionary technique in plant breeding . By this technique selected genes of a flowering plant can be...

    , notable plant geneticist
  • Mriganka Sur
    Mriganka Sur
    Mriganka Sur is an Indian-born neuroscientist working in the USA.-Biography:Sur did his early schooling in Allahabad, India at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School...

    , Neuroscientist at MIT
  • Prof Raj Shankar
    Raj Shankar
    Raj Shankar , was an Indian biochemist. His main fields of specialization were neurobiochemistry and clinical biochemistry...

    , Neuroscientist
  • Syed Ziaur Rahman
    Syed Ziaur Rahman
    Dr Syed Ziaur Rahman is a faculty member in the discipline of Pharmacology and Chair of the Advisory Council , International Association of Medical Colleges.-Biography:...

    , Pharmacologist
  • Manindra Agrawal
    Manindra Agrawal
    Manindra Agrawal is a professor at the department of computer science and engineering and the Dean of Resource, Planning and Generation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics.-Early life:Manindra Agrawal obtained a...

    , Computer Scientist IIT Kanpur

Prime ministers

  • Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...

    , first Prime Minister of India
    Prime Minister of India
    The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...

     and Bharat Ratna awardee.

  • Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...

    , third Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee.
  • Indira Gandhi
    Indira Gandhi
    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...

    , fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee.
  • Rajeev Gandhi, fifth prime minister of India and Bharat Ratna
  • Choudhary Charan Singh
    Choudhary Charan Singh
    Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.Born into a Jat family in 1902, Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement...

    , sixth Prime Minister of India
  • Vishwanath Pratap Singh, eighth Prime Minister of India
  • Chandra Shekhar
    Chandra Shekhar
    Chandra Shekhar Singh was the eighth Prime Minister of India.-Early years:He was born on 1 July 1927 to a Rajput farming family in Ibrahimpatti - Ballia in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Chandra Shekhar Singh did his Master of Arts at Allahabad University. He was known as a firebrand in student politics...

    , ninth Prime Minister of India
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

    . eleventh Prime Minister of India

Governors

  • Syed Sibtey Razi
    Syed Sibtey Razi
    Syed Sibtey Razi is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress who has been Governor of Assam since July 2009. Previously he was Governor of Jharkhand.-Early life:...

    , Governor of Jharkhand
    Jharkhand
    Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

  • Khurshid Alam Khan, former Governor of Karnataka
  • Mohammad Yunus Saleem
    Mohammad Yunus Saleem
    Mohammad Yunus Saleem was an Indian politician, scholar and lawyer.He was born in Manoha, near Lucknow.He was known for his simplicity and integrity.He was also active in both religious and political fields, and never compromised in his ethics.The Mohammad Yunus Saleem Memorial Education Trust had...

    , former Governor of Bihar
  • A R Kidwai, Governor of Haryana
  • Mohammad Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra
  • Girish Chandra Saxena
    Girish Chandra Saxena
    Girish Chandra 'Gary' Saxena is a former governor of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Born in Agra in 1928 he joined IPS and held many positions in police and retired as Director of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency....

    , former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir
  • K.M. Seth, former Governor of Chhatisgarh
  • Virendra Verma
    Virendra Verma
    Virendra Verma was a Jat politician and freedom fighter in the Indian political sphere. He was born in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. He served as Governor of Punjab, Administrator of Chandigarh as well as Governor of Himachal Pradesh .-Personal life:Virendra Verma was educated in J.H...

    , former Governor of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
  • Shauktullah Shah AnsariOrissa
    Orissa
    Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...


Chief Justices

  • Mohammad Hidayatullah
    Mohammad Hidayatullah
    Mohammad Hidayatullah , OBE was the Chief Justice of India. He served as the acting President of India and was also the sixth Vice-President of India for one complete term...

    , former Chief Justice of India
  • Mirza Hameedullah Beg
    Mirza Hameedullah Beg
    Mirza Hameedullah Beg was Chief Justice of India from January 1977 to February 1978.-Early life and education:...

    , former Chief Justice of India

Chief Ministers

  • Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

  • Sampurnanand
    Sampurnanand
    Dr Sampurnanand was a teacher and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was elected to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly and served as chief minister of the state from 1954 to 1960.If we consider single tenure in the office of the U.P. C.M. then Dr...

  • Sucheta Kripalani
  • Chandra Bhanu Gupta
    Chandra Bhanu Gupta
    Chandra Bhanu Gupta was chief minister of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for three times. He was born in Aligarh district in 1902.-Early life:...

  • Choudhary Charan Singh
    Choudhary Charan Singh
    Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.Born into a Jat family in 1902, Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement...

  • Tribhuvan Narain Singh
    Tribhuvan Narain Singh
    Tribhuvan Narain Singh was a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.He remained Chief Minister from 18 October 1970 till 4 April 1971.Singh later served as governor of West Bengal from the late 1970s until 1981...

  • Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi , the writer, journalist, editor and freedom fighter was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as well as the Union Minister for Railways....

  • Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
    Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
    Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna was a Congress Party leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.-Early life:...

  • Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari is an Indian political figure. He was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times during the 1970s and 1980s and was Chief Minister of Uttarkhand from 2002 to 2007...

  • Ram Naresh Yadav
    Ram Naresh Yadav
    Ram Naresh Yadav , is the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India. He was from Janata Party, later he joined the Congress. He was appointed Governor of Madhya Pradesh on 26th August 2011 by President Pratibha Patil and was sworn into office on 8 September 2011.He was born on 1 July 1928in...

  • Banarsi Das
    Banarsi Das
    Babu Banarsi Das was a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was from Janata Party.-Personal life:Banarsi Das was married and have three sons. one of his sons DR.Akhilesh das gupta is Rajya sabha MP and national general secretary from BSP and was minister of state in Manmohan singh government...

  • Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  • Sripati Mishra
    Sripati Mishra
    Pandit Sripati Mishra , an Indian National Congress politician was former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.-Birth:Born in January 1923 in a humble family in Shekhpura village in Sultanpur.-Political carrier:...

  • Vir Bahadur Singh
    Vir Bahadur Singh
    Vir Bahadur Singh was an Indian National Congress Leader from Gorakhpur and a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Union Cabinet Minister of Communication.-Political career:He participated in Quit India movement in 1942....

  • Mulayam Singh Yadav
    Mulayam Singh Yadav
    Mulayam Singh Yadav in Hindi मुलायम सिंह यादव is an Indian politician and has influence mainly in Uttar Pradesh state of India...

  • Kalyan Singh
    Kalyan Singh
    Kalayan Singh is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He has served 3 times as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.-Role in demolition of Babri Masjid:...

  • Ram Prakash Gupta
    Ram Prakash Gupta
    Ram Prakash Gupta was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and governor of Madhya Pradesh.He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party ....

  • Rajnath Singh
    Rajnath Singh
    Rajnath Singh is a prominent Indian politician and who has served the country in many capacities. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a Cabinet Minister in the NDA regime and became the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the single largest Opposition party in India...

  • Mayawati
    Mayawati
    Mayawati is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India. She heads the Bahujan Samaj Party, which represents the Bahujans or Dalits, the weakest strata of Indian society. This is her fourth term as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh...

    , present Chief Minister of UP

Union Ministers

  • Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi , the writer, journalist, editor and freedom fighter was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as well as the Union Minister for Railways....

  • Murli Manohar Joshi
    Murli Manohar Joshi
    Murli Manohar Joshi was the Union Human Resources Development minister of India in the NDA government. Joshi is a leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party...

  • Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari is an Indian political figure. He was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times during the 1970s and 1980s and was Chief Minister of Uttarkhand from 2002 to 2007...

  • Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya was born on 2 November 1914 in Alwar, Rajasthan as the eldest son of Late Shri Rewati Raman Acharya who was a revenue minister in the princely state of Alwar and later on quit his high profile position due to the British leaning of the King and joined the Indian National...

  • K.C. Pant
  • Mahaveer Prasad
    Mahaveer Prasad
    Mahaveer Prasad was an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the Indian National Congress ticket and until his death was a Member of Parliament for Bansgaon...

  • Shriprakash Jaiswal
    Shriprakash Jaiswal
    Shriprakash Jaiswal is an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the Indian National Congress ticket and is currently a Member of Parliament from Kanpur...

  • .Akhilesh Das
    Akhilesh Das
    Akhilesh Das Gupta is an Indian politician, currently representing the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Rajya Sabha. Earlier he had long been in an Rajya Sabha MP with the Indian National Congress party...

  • Santosh Gangwar
    Santosh Gangwar
    Santosh Gangwar is a former minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party . He had been the Member of Parliament from the city of Bareilly for 20 years...

  • Maneka Gandhi
    Maneka Gandhi
    Maneka Gandhi is an Indian politician, animal rights activist, environmentalist, former model and widow of the Indian politician, Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments, and has authored a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare...

  • Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
    Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
    Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is a former Indian federal minister and a Bharatiya Janata Party leader. Born in Allahabad in 15 Oct 1957 he studied law and arts at Allahabad University, while Collage time he was President of Student Union Government Intermediate College Allahabad.He contested first for...

  • Shriram Chauhan
    Shriram Chauhan
    Shriram Chauhan is a former union minister of state of India. He was minister of state for consumer affairs in Vajpayee ministry from 1999 to 2001. He was elected to 13th Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. He was born in 1953 in Basti. He was imprisoned in the emergency in 1975.- External...

  • Kalpnath Rai
    Kalpnath Rai
    Shri Kalpnath Rai was a member Rajya Sabha from 1974-80, 1980-86, 1986-92 and represented Ghosi four times to the Lok Sabha, he was also Minister in various Congress ministries at the centre and was a senior Congress Leader.- Biography :...

  • Swami Chinmayanand
    Swami Chinmayanand
    Swami Chinmayanand is a former union minister state of India. He was minister of state for internal affairs in Third Vajpayee Ministry. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...

  • Rajnath Singh
    Rajnath Singh
    Rajnath Singh is a prominent Indian politician and who has served the country in many capacities. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a Cabinet Minister in the NDA regime and became the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the single largest Opposition party in India...

  • Ashok Kumar Pradhan
    Ashok Kumar Pradhan
    Ashok Kumar Pradhan is an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the BJP ticket and is currently a Member of Parliament from Khurja. Ashok Pradhan is a former union minister of state of India. He was minister of state Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution in Third...

  • Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav is a former union minister of state in Government of India. He was minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999 and held the portfolio of food and consumer affairs...

  • Raj Narain
    Raj Narain
    Raj Narain was an Indian politician who, as a candidate of Janata Party for the Lok Sabha in 1977, ran for office in Rae Bareli constituency and defeated Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India...

  • Salman Khursheed
  • Jitin Prasada
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav
    Mulayam Singh Yadav
    Mulayam Singh Yadav in Hindi मुलायम सिंह यादव is an Indian politician and has influence mainly in Uttar Pradesh state of India...


Pre Independence

  • Motilal Nehru
    Motilal Nehru
    Motilal Nehru was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, who remained Congress President twice, and...

    , prominent Indian National Congress
    Indian National Congress
    The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

     leader
  • Dr.Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
    Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
    Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement...

    , former President of Indian National Congress
  • Rai Rajeshwar Bali, education minister (1924–1928)
  • Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...

  • Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

  • Sampurnanand
    Sampurnanand
    Dr Sampurnanand was a teacher and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was elected to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly and served as chief minister of the state from 1954 to 1960.If we consider single tenure in the office of the U.P. C.M. then Dr...

  • Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati , born in a Jijhoutia Brahminfamily of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic of Dashnami Order of Adi Shankara Sampradaya as well as a nationalist and peasant leader of India...


Post Independence

  • Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...

  • Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
  • Ram Manohar Lohia
    Ram Manohar Lohia
    Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...

  • Choudhary Charan Singh
    Choudhary Charan Singh
    Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.Born into a Jat family in 1902, Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement...

  • Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari
    Narayan Dutt Tiwari is an Indian political figure. He was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times during the 1970s and 1980s and was Chief Minister of Uttarkhand from 2002 to 2007...

  • Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya was born on 2 November 1914 in Alwar, Rajasthan as the eldest son of Late Shri Rewati Raman Acharya who was a revenue minister in the princely state of Alwar and later on quit his high profile position due to the British leaning of the King and joined the Indian National...

  • Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
    Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
    Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna was a Congress Party leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.-Early life:...

  • Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi
    Kamalapati Tripathi , the writer, journalist, editor and freedom fighter was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as well as the Union Minister for Railways....

  • Indira Gandhi
    Indira Gandhi
    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...

  • Feroze Gandhi
    Feroze Gandhi
    Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow....

  • Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
    Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
    Rafi Ahmed Kidwai , was an Indian independence activist and a socialist, sometimes described as an Islamic socialist...

  • Mohsina Kidwai
    Mohsina Kidwai
    Mohsina Kidwai is a leader of Indian National Congress party, she belongs to Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.Currently she is a member of Rajya Sabha, elected from Chattisgarh., She is a member of the Congress Working Committee , the Highest decision-making body of the Congress Party as well as the All...

  • Sheila Kaul
    Sheila Kaul
    Sheila Kaul is a social democratic leader of the Indian National Congress and a former union cabinet minister and provincial Governor in India. She was also an educationist, social worker, and social reformer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and an independence activist in British India...

  • Raj Narain
    Raj Narain
    Raj Narain was an Indian politician who, as a candidate of Janata Party for the Lok Sabha in 1977, ran for office in Rae Bareli constituency and defeated Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India...

  • Mahendra Singh Tikait
    Mahendra Singh Tikait
    Mahendra Singh Tikait was a noted Indian leader of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh state. He was born in 1935 at village Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. He was the President of the 'Bharatiya Kisan Union'. Tikait died in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on 15 May 2011 due to...

    , Kisan leader
  • Rajeev Shukla
    Rajeev Shukla
    Rajeev Shukla is an Indian journalist and the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India.He is a Member of Parliament since 2000. He serves as secretary of the All India Congress Committee, the central governing body of India's largest political party...

    , journalist and political leader
  • Arif Mohammad Khan
    Arif Mohammad Khan
    Arif Mohammad Khan is a former Indian Union minister. He is currently a leader of Bahujan Samaj Party.-Early Life and education:...

    , political leader
  • Chaudhary Ajit Singh
    Chaudhary Ajit Singh
    Chaudhary Ajit Singh is an Indian politician and a prominent Jat leader from Western Uttar Pradesh. He is the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognised in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 12 February 1939 at village Bhadola in the Meerut District of...

    , political leader
  • Beni Prasad Verma
    Beni Prasad Verma
    Beni Prasad Verma is an Indian politician and presently a member of the Indian National Congress political party. Early he was with Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav.-Political career:...

    , former minister and leader
  • Shriprakash Jaiswal
    Shriprakash Jaiswal
    Shriprakash Jaiswal is an Indian politician. He stood for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the Indian National Congress ticket and is currently a Member of Parliament from Kanpur...

    , Union Minister
  • Akhilesh Das
    Akhilesh Das
    Akhilesh Das Gupta is an Indian politician, currently representing the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Rajya Sabha. Earlier he had long been in an Rajya Sabha MP with the Indian National Congress party...

    , Union Minister
  • Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...

    , Member of Parliament
  • Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
    Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
    Dame Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist....

    , Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
  • Kamal Nath
    Kamal Nath
    Kamal Nath is an Indian politician and the current Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development. He is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Chhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress .-Early life:Born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He...

    , politician
  • Prakash Vir Shastri
    Prakash Vir Shastri
    Pandit Prakash Vir Shastri was a noted Member of the Parliament of India .Born on December 30, 1923 as Om Prakash Tyagi in the village of Rehra to a sepoy father, he earned his Shastri degree from Banaras Hindu University.- Career :Shastri was born in the village of Rehra in the J.P...

    , Member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj
    Arya Samaj
    Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda emphasized the ideals of brahmacharya...

     movement
  • Kailash Nath Katju, Former Union Home Minister and Lawyer
  • Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav is a former union minister of state in Government of India. He was minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999 and held the portfolio of food and consumer affairs...

     former union minister
  • Om Prakash Singh
    Om Prakash Singh
    Om Prakash Singh is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party in Uttar Pradesh in India. He is a senior leader of the party and has earlier held cabinet minister positions in ministries led by Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh and Ram Prakash Gupta. He is MLA from Mirzapur district...

  • Kalpnath Rai
    Kalpnath Rai
    Shri Kalpnath Rai was a member Rajya Sabha from 1974-80, 1980-86, 1986-92 and represented Ghosi four times to the Lok Sabha, he was also Minister in various Congress ministries at the centre and was a senior Congress Leader.- Biography :...


Hindi

  • Vishnu Sarma
    Vishnu Sarma
    Vishnu Sharma was an Indian scholar and author who is believed to have written the Panchatantra collection of fables. The exact period of the composition of the Panchatantra is uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 300 CE...

    , author of Panchtantra
  • Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    Swami Sahajanand Saraswati , born in a Jijhoutia Brahminfamily of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic of Dashnami Order of Adi Shankara Sampradaya as well as a nationalist and peasant leader of India...

     books on sociology
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

    , religion
    Religion
    Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

    , freedom struggle, peasant movement
    Peasant movement
    Peasant movement is a social movement involved with the agricultural policy.Peasants movement have a long history that can be traced to the numerous peasant uprisings that occurred in various regions of the world throughout human history. Early peasant movements were usually the result of stresses...

    , autobiography
    Autobiography
    An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...

     etc.
  • Malik Muhammad Jayasi
    Malik Muhammad Jayasi
    Malik Muhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi.He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh...

    , author of Padmavat
    Padmavat
    Padmavat or Padmawat is an epic poem written in 1540 by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in the Awadhi language. It is the first important work in Awadhi.- Theme :...

  • Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, polyglot
    Multilingualism
    Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...

     wrote on almost everything.
  • Munshi Prem Chand, renowned novelist, was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi
    Hindi
    Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

     and Urdu
    Urdu
    Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

     literature.
  • Vibhuti Narain Rai
    Vibhuti Narain Rai
    Vibhuti Narain Rai did M.A. in English Literature from Allahabad University in the year 1971. He joined Indian Police Service in 1975 and was allotted Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served many sensitive districts as Superintendent of Police....

     Hindi writer
  • Amitabh Thakur
    Amitabh Thakur
    Amitabh Thakur is an officer of the Indian Police Service who is a Superintendent of Police in Uttar Pradesh. He is presently doing a fellowship at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow following a controversy in which his request for a leave was denied by the government in Uttar Pradesh....

     Hindi writer
  • Bharatendu Harishchandra
    Bharatendu Harishchandra
    Bharatendu Harishchandra is known as the father of modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. A recognized poet, he was also a trend setter in Hindi prose-writing...

    , Hindi writer, who made major contributions in the field of journalism
    Journalism
    Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

    , drama
    Drama
    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

     and poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

    .
  • Amritlal Nagar
    Amritlal Nagar
    Amritlal Nagar born 17 August 1916 in Agra Uttar Pradesh, has been one of the prominent Hindi writers of modern times.He started off as an author and journalist, but moved on to be an active writer in Indian Film Industry for next 7 years. He worked as a drama producer in All India Radio at...

    , Hindi writer
  • Bhagwati Charan Verma
    Bhagwati Charan Verma
    Bhagwati Charan Verma , was one of the leading writers in Hindi. He wrote many novels, but his magnum opus was 'Chitralekha' , which was made into two successful Hindi films, 1941 and 1964....

    , Hindi writer
  • Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
  • Jaishankar Prasad
    Jaishankar Prasad
    Jaishankar Prasad , one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.- Biography :...

    , Hindi writer
  • Babu Gulabrai
    Babu Gulabrai
    Babu Gulabrai was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature.-Biography:...

    , Hindi writer
  • Yashpal
    Yashpal
    Not to be confused with Yash Pal Yashpal was a Hindi author renowned for झूटा सच Jhutha Sach , which is regarded as one of the best Hindi novels ever written...

    , Hindi writer
  • Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
    Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
    Acharya' Hazari Prasad Dwivedi was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar...

    , Hindi novelist
  • Baldev Upadhyaya
    Baldev Upadhyaya
    Pandit Baldev Upadhyaya was a renowned Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic. He penned numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature. He is noted for discussing Sanskrit literature in the Hindi language...

    , Hindi Scholar and writer
  • Vidya Niwas Mishra
    Vidya Niwas Mishra
    Vidya Niwas Mishra was a scholar, a noted Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist.Born at Pakardiha in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh in January, 1926, he had his education at Allahabad University and Gorakhpur University. After his M.A...

    , Hindi Scholar
  • Rahi Masoom Raza
    Rahi Masoom Raza
    Rahi Masoom Reza, born in Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh in a Muslim family, was a famous Urdu shayar. He also won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979. He also wrote in Hindustani and Hindi language...

    , author of 'Topi Shukla' and 'Adha Gaon'
  • Vinod Kumar Shukla
    Vinod Kumar Shukla
    Vinod Kumar Shukla is a modern Hindi writer known for his simple yet charming style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez ; and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi...

    , writer
  • Shrilal Shukla, writer of 'Raag Darbari'
  • Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla
    Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla
    Ram Chandra Shukla , better known as Acharya Shukla, is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by efforting great research with scanty resources and published ‘Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihaas’.This monumental work traces the genesis of Hindi poetry and...

    , Hindi
    Hindi
    Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and historian.
  • Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
    Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
    Sri Krishna Rai "Hridyesh" was a literary figure of Hindi. He belongs to Kathaut, Gauspur Ghazipur U P. He was a freedom fighter. He was written more than two dozen books...

  • Viveki Rai
    Viveki Rai
    Viveki Rai is a famous literary figure of Hindi & Bhojpuri literature. He belongs to Sonwani village in Ghazipur. He got many awards from U P Govt. He has written more than 50 books. Sonamati is a popular novel of Mr.Rai...

  • Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
    Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
    Acharya Kuber Nath Rai was a writer and scholar of Hindi Literature and Sanskrit.-Early life:He was born in Matsa village, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh in a Brahmin of bhumihar Brahmin clan family...


Urdu

  • Ibne Safi, novelist of Jasoosi Duniya fame
  • Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurratulain Hyder
    Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya , a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that...

    , writer of Aag Ka Darya fame
  • Ismat Chugtai, writer
  • Mirza Hadi Ruswa
    Mirza Hadi Ruswa
    Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa was an Urdu poet and writer of fiction, plays, and treatises . He remained on the Nizam of Awadh's advisory board on language matters for years...

    , author of Umrao Jaan
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Raghupati Sahay , better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri , was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India...

  • Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
    Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
    Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...

    , author of books on Unani medicine

English

  • Nayantara Sahgal
    Nayantara Sahgal
    Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition...

    , novelist and writer
  • Attia Hosain
    Attia Hosain
    Attia Hosain is a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947.-Biography:Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College...

    , English author and journalist
  • Allan Sealy
    Allan Sealy
    Irwin Allan Sealy is a writer born in 1951 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. His novel The Everest Hotel: A Calendar was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize.-Biography:...

    , Novelist and writer
  • Vikas Swarup
    Vikas Swarup
    Vikas Swarup is an Indian novelist and diplomat who has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Japan, best known for his novels Q & A and Six Suspects.-Early life:...

    , Author of "Q&A"

Urdu

  • Mir Taqi Mir
    Mir Taqi Mir
    Khuda-e-sukhan Mir Taqi Mir , whose real name was Muhammad Taqi and takhallus was Mir , was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself...

  • 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...

    , was a renowned classical Urdu
    Urdu
    Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

     and Persian
    Persian language
    Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

     poet of the subcontinent
    Indian subcontinent
    The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...

    .
  • Mir Anis, Urdu Marsia
    Marsia
    Marsiya is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain and his comrades of the Karbala...

     poet
  • Maulana Hali
    Maulana Hali
    Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali was an Urdu poet, and Writer. Hali occupies a special position in the history of Urdu literature. He was a poet, a critic, a teacher, a reformer and an impressive prose-writer...

    , Urdu poet, one of the most well-regarded biographers of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetry.
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Raghupati Sahay , better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri , was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India...

    , Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith award
  • Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.-Early life:...

    , Urdu
    Urdu
    Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

     and Hindi
    Hindi
    Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

     lyricist
    Lyricist
    A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

    .
  • Safi Lakhnavi
    Safi Lakhnavi
    Safi Lakhnavi , born Syed Ali Naqi Zaidi , was a prominent Urdu poet. He was born in the city of Lucknow, India in a family of Zaidi Syeds who claimed direct descent from Hazrat Imam Husain.His father Syed Fazal Husain was appointed an Ataliq to Prince Suleiman Qader Bahadur, son of Nawab Amjad...

    , eminent Urdu poet
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter...

    , poet and lyricist
  • Josh Malihabadi
    Josh Malihabadi
    Josh Malihabadi was a noted Urdu poet born in British India, who was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a Pakistani citizen...

    , eminent Urdu poet
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Firaq Gorakhpuri
    Raghupati Sahay , better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri , was a writer, critic, and one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India...

    , eminent Urdu poet
  • Jigar Moradabadi
    Jigar Moradabadi
    Jigar Moradabadi was the nom de plume of Ali Sikandar , one of the most famous Urdu poets of the 20th century and a celebrated Urdu ghazal writer...

    , Urdu poet
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri was an Urdu writer, poet, critic and film lyricist from India.-Early life and education:Ali Sardar Jafri was born in an aristocratic family in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he spent his formative years....

    , Urdu poet
  • Khumar Barabankvi
    Khumar Barabankvi
    Khumār Barabankvi was an Urdu poet and lyricist from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. His real name was Mohammed Haidar Khan, but he wrote under the takhallus of Khumār, which means intoxication. The word comes from the Arabic root 'Khmr' which means alcoholic wine.Khumār died in 1999.-External...

    , Urdu poet
  • Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim
    Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim
    Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim was a Urdu poet of the 19th century who won fame for his epic Gul Bakawali. He was defended by Brij Narayan Chakbast when it was suggested that he was not the author of this book. The poet lived from 1811–1845.-External links:...

    , Urdu poet
  • Brij Narayan Chakbast
    Brij Narayan Chakbast
    Brij Narayan Chakbast, also spelled, Brij Narain Chakbast, was an Urdu poet.- Life :Chakbast was an Urdu poet. He was born in 19 January 1882 in a Kashmiri Pandit family settled in North India in 15th century A.D.. Chakbast was born in Faizabad in 1882...

    , Urdu poet
  • Akbar Allahabadi
    Akbar Allahabadi
    Syed Akbar Hussain Rizvi popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi was an Indian Urdu poet.-Early life:...

    , poet
  • Majaz
    Majaz
    Asrar ul Haq Majaz was an Indian Urdu poet. He was known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu.-Early life:...

    , Urdu poet
  • Rahul Aggarwal
    Rahul Aggarwal
    Rahul Aggarwal is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks and has played a significant role in the development of MPLS and in particular multicast in MPLS and BGP VPNs.- Career :...

    , Urdu poet

Hindi

  • Kedarnath Singh
    Kedarnath Singh
    Kedar Nath Singh is one of the most prominent modern poets writing Hindi. He is also an eminent critic and essayist. He was awarded the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his poetry collection, Akaal Mein Saras .-Early life:He was born in village chakia of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh in...

    , major works are "baagh", "toota truck", tolstoy aur cycle", etc.
  • Jaishankar Prasad
    Jaishankar Prasad
    Jaishankar Prasad , one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.- Biography :...

    , one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi
    Chhayavaad
    Chhayavaad refers to the era of Neo-romanticism in Hindi literature particularly Hindi poetry, 1917–1938, and was marked by an upsurge of romantic and humanist content. Chhayavad was marked by a renewed sense of the self and personal expression, visible in the writings of time...

     School of Hindi.
  • Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet.
  • Mahadevi Varma
    Mahadevi Varma
    Mahadevi Varma best known as an outstanding Hindi poet, was a freedom fighter, woman's activist and educationist from India. She is widely regarded as the "modern Meera". She was a major poet of the Chhayavaad generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry ranging from 1914-1938...

    , a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism
    Romanticism
    Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

     in Modern Hindi poetry. She won the Jnanpith award in 1982.
  • Sumitranandan Pant
    Sumitranandan Pant
    Sumitranandan Pant was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi. Pant authored twenty eight published works including poetry, verse plays and essays.Pant was born at...

    , one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi.
  • Maithilisharan Gupt, one of the most famous modern Hindi poets.
  • Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi poetKaka Hathrasi
    Kaka Hathrasi
    Kaka Hathrasi was a noted Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India. His real name was Prabhu Dayal Garg, though he wrote under the pen name Kaka Hathrasi, after his home town Hathras, and published over 42 collections of humorous verse, in all...

    , Humorous Poet
  • Shivmangal Singh Suman
    Shivmangal Singh Suman
    Shivmangal Singh 'Suman was a noted Hindi Poet and Academician.Upon his death, the then Prime Minister of India, said, "Dr Shiv Mangal Singh ‘Suman’ was not only a powerful signature in the field of Hindi poetry, but he was also the custodian of the collective consciousness of his time...

  • Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
    Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
    Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' was one of the most famous figures of the modern Hindi literature. He was a poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer...

  • Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
    Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
    Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was an Indian poetess famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs.-Early life:Born in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh. She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls’ School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919...

  • Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
    Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
    Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt was a renowned poet and dramatist. He is known as Wordsworth of India.-Life:...


Founders of Educational Institutions

  • Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University
    Aligarh Muslim University
    Aligarh Muslim University ,is a residential academic university, established in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as Mohammedan Angelo-Oriental College and later granted the status of Central University by an Act of the Indian Parliament in 1920...

    .
  • Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Benaras Hindu University.
  • Jagdish Gandhi
    Jagdish Gandhi
    Jagdish Gandhi is an Indian educator, noteworthy as the founding chairman of City Montessori School. The school has 20 branches in Lucknow with over 37,000 enrolled students, which has earned it a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.The Peace and other initiatives of Jagdish Gandhi are...

    , founder of the City Montessori School
    City Montessori School
    City Montessori School , Lucknow is a private school that offers education up to the level of under-graduation, in Lucknow, India. The school was founded in 1959 by Bharti Gandhi and Jagdish Gandhi. By 2008 its enrollment had reached 32,000 pupils, a world record...

    .

Army

  • Lt. Gen K.M. Seth
  • Manoj Kumar Pandey
    Manoj Kumar Pandey
    Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, PVC ,was an officer of the Indian Army of the regiment 1/11 Gurkha Rifles, posthumously awarded the India's highest military honour, Param Vir Chakra for his audacious courage and leadership during adverse times...

    , 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army
    Indian Army
    The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...

    , Param Vir Chakra recipient.
  • Brigadier Mohammad Usman
    Brigadier Mohammad Usman
    Brigadier Mohammad Usman was the highest rank officer of Indian Army killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, who as a Muslim became a "symbol of" India's "inclusive secularism". At the time of partition of India he with many other officers declined to move to the Pakistan Army and continued to...

    , recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
  • Abdul Hamid (soldier), 4 Grenadiers, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient.
  • Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah
  • Maj Narendra Tripathi

Air Force

  • S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
  • Trevor Keelor
    Trevor Keelor
    Trevor Keelor, VrC, was a hero of the Indo-Pakistani war. He was honoured with a number of medals including the Vir Chakra and the Vayu Sena Medal. He had an elder brother, Denzil, who was also honoured for his service in the Indian Air Force. Both brothers have a Vir Chakra for the same feat of...

     IAF, Vir Chakra winner in Indo-Pak war of 1965
  • Denzil Keelor
    Denzil Keelor
    Denzil Keelor VrC was a hero of the Indo-Pakistani war. He was honoured with a number of medals including the Veer Chakra, the Param Vishist Sewa Medal, the Keerti Chakra and the Ati Vishist Sewa Medal. He has a younger brother, Trevor, who was also honoured for his service in the Indian Air Force...

     IAF, Air Marshall (Retd), Vir Chakra winner and Kirti Chakra recipient.

Indian Foreign Service

  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
    Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
    Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the great-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, all of whom served as Prime Minister of India.In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, who died on 14 January 1944...

     was an Indian diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

     and politician, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, and the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly
    President of the United Nations General Assembly
    The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly on a yearly basis.- Election :...

    .
  • Asaf Ali
    Asaf Ali
    Asaf Ali was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa....

    , first Indian Ambassador to US
  • Girija Shankar Bajpai
    Girija Shankar Bajpai
    Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, KCSI, KBE, CIE was an eminent Indian civil servant, diplomat and Governor. He entered the ICS in 1915, and was appointed a CBE in 1922. In 1926, he was appointed a CIE and was knighted in 1935 with the KBE....

    , First Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs
  • Braj Kumar Nehru
    Braj Kumar Nehru
    Braj Kumar Nehru was the son of Brijlal and Rameshwari Nehru and a relative of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru....

    , a relative of Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...

    , served as a diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

    , as ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to several countries and was offered the post of United Nations Secretary-General
    United Nations Secretary-General
    The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the Secretariat of the United Nations, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations....

     in 1951, but declined. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan
    Padma Vibhushan
    The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India. It was established on 2 January 1954. It ranks behind the Bharat Ratna and comes before the Padma Bhushan...

    award in 1999.

Civil Services

  • Dharma Vira
    Dharma Vira
    Dharma Vira was a former Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India and former governor of Punjab, West Bengal and Karnataka .-Early life and education:...

    , ICS, cabinet secretary and governor of West Bengal, Mysore.
  • Isha Basant Joshi
    Isha Basant Joshi
    Isha Basant Joshi was born Isha Basant Mukand and published books under the name of Esha Joshi. She was the first woman to be accepted as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service...

    , first woman to be appointed IAS
    Indian Administrative Service
    The Indian Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Government of India. It is one of the three All India Services....

     officer
  • Amitabh Thakur
    Amitabh Thakur
    Amitabh Thakur is an officer of the Indian Police Service who is a Superintendent of Police in Uttar Pradesh. He is presently doing a fellowship at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow following a controversy in which his request for a leave was denied by the government in Uttar Pradesh....

     IPS Officer
  • Sir Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
    Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
    Chandrika Prasad Srivastava is a retired Indian civil servant and international administrator and diplomat.-Biography:C.P. Srivastava was born on 8 July 1920 and was educated in Lucknow, India...

    , eminent bureaucrat
  • Wajahat Habibullah
    Wajahat Habibullah
    Wajahat Habibullah is Ex Chief Information Commissioner of the Government of India since October 26, 2005. He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service from 1968 until his retirement in August 2005...

    , Chief Information Commissioner of India
  • Baleshwar Rai
    Baleshwar Rai
    Baleshwar Rai is a 1970-batch UT cadre Indian Administrative Service officer. He was additional secretary and Union Labour minister. He was the Chief Secretary of Goa for over two years. He also served as the joint secretary in the Union power ministry....

  • Vinod Rai
    Vinod Rai
    Vinod Rai is the present Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on . He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, and Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.He did his schooling from Vidya Niketan - Birla Public School - BPS Pilani...

    , CAG
  • Chandrika Prasad Tiwari IAS

Musicians

  • Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai
    Shehnai
    The shehnai, shahnai, shenai or mangal vadya, is an aerophonic instrument, a double reed conical oboe, common in North India, West India and Pakistan, made out of wood, with a metal flare bell at the end...

     maestro
    Maestro
    Maestro is a title of extreme respect given to a master musician. The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera. This is associated with the ubiquitous use of Italian vocabulary for classical music terms...

    , awarded the Bharat Ratna, (2001), also had the distinction of being one of the few people to be awarded all the top four civilian awards.

  • Pandit Ravi Shankar, classical Sitar
    Sitar
    The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...

     player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999. He has also won three Grammy awards.
  • Begum Akhtar
    Begum Akhtar
    Akhtari Bai Faizabadi or Begum Akhtar was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra and Thumri.She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India...

    , was a Ghazal
    Ghazal
    The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century...

     singer
  • Naushad
    Naushad
    Naushad Ali was an Indian musician. He was one of the foremost music directors for Bollywood films, and is particularly known for popularizing the use of classical music in films.His first film as an independent music director was Prem Nagar in 1940...

    , music director
    Music director
    A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

    , was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award
    Dadasaheb Phalke Award
    The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered as the father of Indian cinema.The award for a particular year is...

    for his contributions to Indian cinema.
  • Sir Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard
    Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....

    , the popular English singer
  • Kishan Maharaj
    Kishan Maharaj
    Pandit Kishan Maharaj was an Indian tabla player who belonged to the Benares gharana of Hindustani classical music.-Early life and background:...

    , Tabla Maestro
  • Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
  • Dr.Lalmani Misra
    Lalmani Misra
    Lalmani Misra , M.A., Ph.D., D. Mus. , M.Mus. , B.Mus. , Dean & Head, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, was an eminent Indian classical musician known as much for his art as for his scholarship.-Initiation into music:Lalmani learnt Dhruvapada Dhamar in the...

     was an Indian classical musician. Dean & Head, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University
    Banaras Hindu University
    Banaras Hindu University is a public university located in Varanasi, India and is one of the Central Universities of India. It is the largest residential university in Asia, with over 24,000 students in its campus. BHU was founded in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya under the Parliamentary...

    , Varanasi and his son
  • Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra
    Gopal Shankar Misra
    Gopal Shankar Misra was an Indian musician and music teacher, who played the vichitra veena.-Inheriting music:...

    , Vichitra Veena
    Vichitra veena
    The vichitra veena is a plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music. It is similar to the Carnatic gottuvadhyam . It has no frets and is played with a slide.-The structure:...

     player
  • Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, eminent Musician

Singers

  • Girija Devi
    Girija Devi
    Girija Devi is an Indian classical singer of the Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri.-Early life:Girija Devi was born in Varanasi, India in 1929...

    , is an Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singers
  • Shubha Mudgal
    Shubha Mudgal
    Shubha Mudgal is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej', the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music,...

    , Singer
  • Talat Mahmood
    Talat Mahmood
    Talat Mahmood was a popular Indian playback singer and film actor. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1992, he was famous for singing ghazals. For this quality he was known as the King of ghazals....

    , ghazal singer
  • Anup Jalota
    Anup Jalota
    Anup Jalota is an Indian singer/musician, best known for his performances in the Indian musical form, the bhajan and the Urdu form of poetry: ghazal.He is popularly known as the Bhajan Samraat .-Early life:...

    , Ghazal and Bhajan Singer
  • Siddheshwari Devi
    Siddheshwari Devi
    Siddheswari Devi was a Hindustani singer from Varanasi, India, known as Maa . Born in 1907, she lost her parents early and was brought up by her aunt, the noted singer Rajeshwari Devi.-Initiation into Music:...

    , was a famous Hindustani singer from Benares, lovingly known as Maa (mother).
  • Kailash Kher from Meerut

Dancers

  • Birju Maharaj
    Birju Maharaj
    Brijmo Mishra popularly known as Pandit Birju Maharaj is currently the leading exponent of the Varanasi Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Kathak dance in India.He is a descendant of the legendary Maharaj family of Kathak dancers, including his two uncles, Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj, and his father...

    , Kathak exponent
  • Lachhu Maharaj
    Lachhu Maharaj
    Lachhu Maharaj was an Indian dancer. He came from a family of illustrious Kathak exponents in Lucknow.He received extensive training from Pandit Bindadin Maharaj, his uncle and the court dancer of the Nawab of Awadh, for nearly ten years...

    , Kathak exponent
  • Kapila Vatsyayan
    Kapila Vatsyayan
    Kapila Vatsyayan is a leading Indian scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian art and architecture.Vatsyayan received her M.A. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University. She is the author of many books including The Square and the Circle of Indian Arts,...

    , scholar of Indian classical dance
  • Sitara Devi
    Sitara Devi
    Sitara Devi is an eminent Indian dancer of the classical Kathak style of dancing. When she was in her teens, Rabindranath Tagore, after watching a performance by her described her as Nritya Samragini, meaning, the empress of dance...

  • Uday Shankar
    Uday Shankar
    Uday Shankar , the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of...


Hockey

  • Dhyan Chand
    Dhyan Chand
    Dhyan Chand ; born August 29, 1905 in Allahabad, United Provinces, British India. – Died:December 3, 1979), was an Indian field hockey player, regarded as one of the greatest field hockey players of all time...

    , former international hockey
    Hockey
    Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

     player, awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour
  • Zafar Iqbal
    Zafar Iqbal (field hockey)
    Zafar Iqbal is an Indian field hockey player. He wore Indian blue jersey number 11.-Professional career:Iqbal was a member of the 1980 Summer Olympics field hockey team that won the last Olympic Gold Medal for India...

    , former international captain of the Indian hockey team and Chief coach of Indian hockey team.
  • K. D. Singh
    K. D. Singh
    Kunwar Digvijay Singh , popularly known as "K.D.Singh 'Babu'", was an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. Babu's artistry, craftsmanship and creative instincts saw him blossom into one of the finest inside-rights that India has produced...

    , former National Hockey player and Olympian
  • Mohammed Shahid
    Mohammed Shahid
    Mohammed Shahid is a former field hockey player from India. A dashing forward with the ability to weave past any defence with his amazing dribbling skills. He was a member of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and was captain of India during 1985-86...

    , former international hockey
    Hockey
    Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

     player, was member of the Indian team that won Gold Medal at the 1980 Olympic Games
    1980 Summer Olympics
    The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

     in Moscow. He was awarded Arjuna Award
    Arjuna award
    The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll....

    in 1980 and Padma Shri
    Padma Shri
    Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...

    in 1986.

Cricket

  • Ashish Zaidi
    Ashish Zaidi
    Ashish Winston Zaidi is an Indian first class cricketer. A right arm fast-medium bowler, Zaidi was a former member of the Uttar Pradesh since his debut in 1988/89. Ashish announced his retirement from first class cricket on September 26, 2007...

    , cricketer
  • Manoj Prabhakar
    Manoj Prabhakar
    Manoj Prabhakar is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a lower-order batsman who also opened the innings sometimes for the Indian cricket team until his retirement in 1995–96. He was banned by the BCCI for his involvement in match fixing scandals...

    , cricketer
  • Arun Lal
    Arun Lal
    Jagdishlal Arun Lal is a retired Indian cricketer, and a cricket commentator....

    , former Test cricketer
  • Mohammed Kaif
    Mohammed Kaif
    Mohammad Kaif is an Indian cricketer. He is a thinly built cricketer who made it to the national team on the strength of his performances at the Under-19 level, where he captained the Indian team to victory in the Under-19 World Cup in 2000...

    , international cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er
  • Suresh Raina, international cricketer
  • R. P. Singh, international cricketer
  • Chetan Chauhan
    Chetan Chauhan
    Chetan Pratap Singh Chauhan is a former cricketer who played 40 Test matches for India...

    , former Test cricketer
  • Hemlata Kala
    Hemlata Kala
    Hemlata Kala is an Indian cricketer who has played seven women's test matches and 74 women's one-day internationals. She is a right-hand bat and bowls right-arm medium-fast.-References:...

    , member Indian Women's Cricket team
  • Gyanendra Pandey
    Gyanendra Pandey
    Gyanendra Kedarnath Pandey is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler....

    , cricketer
  • Piyush Chawla
    Piyush Chawla
    Piyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. His Hometown is Moradabad,. He is seen as a leg-spinning allrounder in domestic cricket, but has not fired as a batsman in the One Day International format...

  • Narendra Hirwani
    Narendra Hirwani
    Narendra Deepchand Hirwani is a leg spin bowler who played for India. He is mainly remembered for his outstanding success on his Test debut.-Early days:...

  • Surinder Amarnath
    Surinder Amarnath
    Surinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian Test and One Day International cricketer.Amarnath was an aggressive left-handed batsman who performed extremely well at Indian domestic level but was largely unable to cement a regular place in the Indian national team...

  • Raman Lamba
    Raman Lamba
    Raman Lamba was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman died in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh after three days of vain efforts by a team of doctors, ever since he was seriously hit on the forehead by a full blooded pull...

  • Surinder Amarnath
    Surinder Amarnath
    Surinder Amarnath Bhardwaj is a former Indian Test and One Day International cricketer.Amarnath was an aggressive left-handed batsman who performed extremely well at Indian domestic level but was largely unable to cement a regular place in the Indian national team...

  • Rohan Gavaskar
    Rohan Gavaskar
    Rohan Sunil Gavaskar is an Indian cricketer who has played in 11 One Day Internationals. He is a specialist middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler. He studied at St...

  • Rajinder Hans
    Rajinder Hans
    Rajinder Singh Hans in Mumbai is a former Indian first class cricketer. He was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and played for Uttar Pradesh between 1976/77 and 1986/87....

  • Ravikant Shukla
    Ravikant Shukla
    Ravikant Shukla was born in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. He has done his Graduation in Engineering from Pune . Ravikant Shukla is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman...

    , U-19 captain
  • Praveen Kumar
    Praveen Kumar
    Praveen Kumar is an Indian swing bowler who bowls medium pace. In first class cricket, he plays for Uttar Pradesh. He relies on his ability to swing the ball both ways along with line and length. He is most effective when given the new ball. Kumar is also considered as a pinch hitter with the bat...

  • Pankaj Singh
    Pankaj Singh
    Pankaj Singh is an Indian first-class cricketer. He was born in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Pankaj is a fast bowler. He was selected to the Indian test cricket squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series of 2007-08 in Australia, but was not selected to play....


Badminton

  • Suresh Goel
    Suresh Goel
    Suresh Goel was Indian national badminton champion and a recipient of Arjuna award. He was noted for his extremely deceptive strokesSuresh Goel was born at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh in 1943...

    , national badminton
    Badminton
    Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

     champion
  • Abhinn Shyam Gupta
    Abhinn Shyam Gupta
    Abhinn Shyam Gupta is a male badminton player from India. Presently he lives in City of Allahabad and is a former national champion in singles...

    , former national badminton
    Badminton
    Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

     champion
  • Syed Modi
    Syed Modi
    Syed Modi was an Indian badminton player, and an eight-time National Badminton champion . He won the Austrian International in 1983 and 1984 and 1982 Commonwealth Games, Men's singles title...

    , former national badminton champion

Other sports

  • Moraad Ali Khan
    Moraad Ali Khan
    Moraad Ali Khan is one of the top shooters of India. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1996. He won gold medal at the Manchester Commonwealth Games and many other international medal at the Asian and world level competitions. He has also been the National Champion seven times.Born in 1961 he...

    , shooter
  • Ghaus Mohammad
    Ghaus Mohammad
    Ghaus Mohammad Khan from Malihabad was the first Indian to reach the Quarter Finals in the Wimbledon in 1939 where he lost to American tennis player Bobby Riggs.-External links:* *...

    , tennis player, the first Indian to reach quarterfinal of The Championships, Wimbledon
    The Championships, Wimbledon
    The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

  • Jaspal Rana
    Jaspal Rana
    Jaspal Rana is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, and 2006 Asian Games. At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.- Early days...

    , shooter

Journalism

  • Sahu
    Sahu
    Sahu is an Indian and Pakistani surname belonging to the Vaishya varna or Jat varna respectively .They derive their name Sahu, or sometimes pronounced Sao and Sah, from their ancestral family business of bankers and money lending: from the Hindi word SAHUKAR, meaning, in a sense, persons dealing...

     Ramesh Chandra Jain, Times of India & Navbharat Times
  • Manikonda Chalapathi Rau
    Manikonda Chalapathi Rau
    Manikonda Chalapathi Rau was an eminent Indian journalist and an authority on the Nehruvian thought. Rau was the reputed editor of the English daily National Herald of Lucknow for over thirty years . The National Herald was founded by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938. He has also authored several books...

    , was an eminent Indian journalist and an authority on the Nehruvian thought.
  • Feroze Gandhi
    Feroze Gandhi
    Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow....

    , Managing editor of National Herald
  • Dharamvir Bharati
    Dharamvir Bharati
    Dr. Dharamvir Bharati was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug....

    , former editor of Dharamyug magazine
  • Arun Nehru
    Arun Nehru
    Arun Nehru is an Indian politician and columnist. In the 1980s he was the chief strategist for his cousin Rajiv Gandhi and a minister in his government, but owing to ideological differences defected with V.P. Singh to the Janata Dal. Presently he is politically more close to BJP...

    , former Minister and Columnist
  • Saeed Naqvi
    Saeed Naqvi
    Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer, and a Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi...

    , Journalist and TV producer
  • Vinod Mehta
    Vinod Mehta
    Vinod Mehta is the editor-in-chief of Outlook India.Mehta was born in Rawalpindi, in Pakistan. His family fled to India when he was three. He attended La Martinere school in Lucknow and the university there. He has published three books, including a biography of Sanjay Gandhi. He took over as...

    , editor
  • Narendra Mohan
    Narendra Mohan
    Narendra Mohan was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Rs 874-crore Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran...

    , Dainik Jagran
  • Aniruddha Bahal
    Aniruddha Bahal
    Aniruddha Bahal is an Indian journalist, author, founder and editor of the online magazine Cobrapost.com. Born in Allahabad, Bahal worked as a journalist and editor for India Today and Outlook. In 1999, he along with Tarun Tejpal co-founded Tehelka, a news website...

    , investigative journalist
  • Pankaj Mishra
    Pankaj Mishra
    Pankaj Mishra born 1969 in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh , is an Indian essayist and novelist. He is particularly notable for his book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, a sociological study of small-town India, and his writing for the New York Review of Books.He graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce...

    , Journalist
  • Yogendra Yadav
    Yogendra Yadav
    Professor Yogendra Yadav is an Indian social scientist. He was appointed as a member of the NAC for the implementation of the RTÉ act in 2010. Yogendra Yadav is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi since 2004....

  • Ram Bahadur Rai
    Ram Bahadur Rai
    Rambahadur Rai is a eminent Hindi Journalist. Rai is the editor of Pratham Pravakta, a Hindi fortnightly news magazine published from Delhi. A former news editor of Jansatta newspaper, he is the author of Rahvari ke Sawal and Manjil se Jyada Safar . A founder organiser of JP Movement, Ram bahadur...

    , magazine editor

Satire, Comedy, Cartoons

  • Akbar Allahabadi
    Akbar Allahabadi
    Syed Akbar Hussain Rizvi popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi was an Indian Urdu poet.-Early life:...

    , poet and satirist
  • Kaka Hathrasi
    Kaka Hathrasi
    Kaka Hathrasi was a noted Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India. His real name was Prabhu Dayal Garg, though he wrote under the pen name Kaka Hathrasi, after his home town Hathras, and published over 42 collections of humorous verse, in all...

    , satirist
  • Tuntun
    Tuntun
    Tun Tun was the screen name of Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne, Uma Devi Khatri, who is often called the 'first woman comedienne of Hindi cinema'.-Early life:...

    , comedian
  • K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena is a Lucknow-based satirist and writer. He was employed by the Indian Railways but he was a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers.He was awarded Padma Shri by Government of India, in year 2000....

  • Raju Srivastava
    Raju Srivastava
    Raju Srivastav often credited as Raju Shrivastav or Raju Srivastava, is an Indian comedian, and more popularly, an observational comedian. He is known most for his acute scrutiny and comical timing about various aspects of Indian life....

    , actor and stand up comedian

Actors & Actesses

  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

    AIIAHABAD, Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

     actor, and one of the most prominent figures in the Indian film industry
    Cinema of India
    The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...

    , awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
  • Naseeruddin Shah
    Naseeruddin Shah
    Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian / Bollywood film actor and director. He is considered to be one of the finest actors of Indian cinema. In 2003, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan for his contributions towards Indian cinema.-Early life:...

    , actor (He was born in barabanki district of lucknow division U.P)
  • Marc Zuber
    Marc Zuber
    Marc Zuber was an actor.Film appearances include: The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Wind and the Lion, The Sea Wolves, Shirley Valentine and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.Television credits include: The Onedin Line, Doomwatch, The Regiment, The Changes, Space: 1999,...

    , actor
  • Priyanka Chopra
    Priyanka Chopra
    Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000. She is often referred to by the nickname "Piggy Chops", which was given to her by co-stars on the set of the film...

    , Miss World 2000
    Miss World 2000
    Miss World 2000, the 50th Miss World pageant, was held on 30 November 2000 at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. The pageant's swimsuit segment was filmed in the Maldives....

     and Actress.
  • Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar
    Raj Babbar is a Hindi & Punjabi film actor since 1977 and the current Member of Parliament from Firozabad which he won by defeating Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav & daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav. This is his fourth term as MP, in previous terms he was the part of Samajwadi...

    , actor and Member of Parliament.
  • Jaddanbai
    Jaddanbai
    Jaddanbai was an early singer, music composer, actress and filmmaker of Bollywood and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She was the mother of well-known actress, Nargis and maternal grandmother of Sanjay Dutt.-Biography:...

    , actor
  • Nargis
    Nargis
    Nargis Dutt , born Fatima Rashid but known by her screen name, Nargis, was an Indian film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. She made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna...

    , was an actress best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Mother India
    Mother India
    Mother India is a 1957 Hindi film epic, written and directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. The film, a melodrama, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film, Aurat...

    .
  • Nimmi
    Nimmi
    Nimmi was a popular Indian screen actress who achieved stardom in the 1950s and early 1960s in Hindi films. She gained popularity playing spirited village belle type characters, but also appeared in diverse genres such as fantasy and social films.-Early life:...

    , film actress in the 1950s.
  • Lara Dutta
    Lara Dutta
    Lara Dutta Bhupathi is an Indian actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, and former Miss Universe.-Early life:Dutta was born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to a Punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta and her mother is Jennifer Dutta...

    , actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
    UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
    UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of the United Nations Population Fund and use their talent and fame to advocate for the human right of reproductive health.-Current Goodwill Ambassadors:...

     and the 2000 Miss Universe
    Miss Universe
    Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

    .
  • K.N. Singh, actor
  • Tuntun
    Tuntun
    Tun Tun was the screen name of Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne, Uma Devi Khatri, who is often called the 'first woman comedienne of Hindi cinema'.-Early life:...

    , comedy actress
  • Sushant Singh
    Sushant Singh
    Sushant Singh is an Indian actor, born in 1971.-Biography:He hails from Bijnor District in Uttar Pradesh. He did his schooling from a residential public school in Nainital - Birla Vidya Mandir. He did his post graduation in English Literature from Kirori Mal College and was involved with the fine...

    , actor
  • Ravi Kishan
    Ravi Kishan
    Ravi Kishan is an Indian film actor and television personality, who works in Hindi cinema and Bhojpuri cinema. In 2006, he participated in Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.-Early life:...

    , Bhojpuri film actor
  • Udita Goswami
    Udita Goswami
    -Early life:Goswami was born in Dehradun, Uttarkhand to a father from Benares , Uttar Pradesh and a mother from Shillong, Meghalaya. She was educated in Dehradun where she studied at the D.A.V. Public School until class 8...

    , Bollywood actress
  • Priyanka Sharma
    Priyanka Sharma
    Priyanka Sharma is an Indian VJ and actress. She was born in Ghaziabad, India and later moved to Jhansi. She attended Lady Shri Ram College for Women in Delhi....

    , Bollywood actress
  • Zohra Sehgal
    Zohra Sehgal
    Zohra Segal is an Indian stage and film actress, who started her career as dancer with dancer Uday Shankar in 1935 and worked with him for the next eight years. She has appeared in many Bollywood films as well as English language films and television series...

    , Bollywood actress
  • Saurabh Shukla
    Saurabh Shukla
    -Early life:Shukla's family left Gorakhpur for Delhi when he was two years old. After completing his schooling, he did his graduation from Khalsa College, Delhi...

    , Bollywood actor
  • Sonal Chauhan
    Sonal Chauhan
    Sonal Chauhan is an Indian fashion model and actress. She has won several beauty contests and made her acting debut in the movie Jannat directed by Kunal Deshmukh .-Early life:...

    , Bollywood actress
  • Abhishek Bachchan
    Abhishek Bachchan
    Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....

  • Pooja Batra
    Pooja Batra
    Pooja Batra in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian actress.-Early life and background:Pooja Batra was born to Ravi Batra, an army colonel who was wounded in the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. Her mother, Neelam Batra was a former Miss India participant in 1971...

  • Vedita Pratap Singh
    Vedita Pratap Singh
    Vedita Pratap Singh was born on October 9, 1987 in Allahabad, U.P., India. Her debut film is Bhindi Baazaar, in which she is playing the role of Shabana. However she was first noticed as winner of MTV Model Hunt & Channel V's show, India's Hottest 2008-09....

    , Model & Actress
  • Rajpal Yadav
    Rajpal Yadav
    Rajpal Yadav is an Indian film actor, known for his comedy oriented roles.-Early life and education:Rajpal Yadav was born and brought up in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where he received his education.He did his college from Sardar Patel Hindu Inter College, Shahjahanpur.He played in Shahjahanpur...

    , Actor

Directors/ Producers

  • K. Asif
    K. Asif
    K. Asif was a film director, film producer and screenwriter who was famous for his work for the Hindi epic motion picture, Mughal-e-Azam .-Early life:...

    , was a film director, film producer and screenwriter who was famous for his work for the Hindi epic motion picture, Mughal-e-Azam
    Mughal-e-Azam
    Mughal-E-Azam is a 1960 Indian historical epic film produced under the banner of Sterling Investment Corporation Pvt Ltd, and directed by K. Asif. With its unmatched production, K. Asif's magnum opus took nine years and $3 million to complete this movie. This was when a typical Bollywood film...

    .
  • Shaad Ali
    Shaad Ali
    -Early life:Shaad Ali was born to Muzaffar Ali and Subhashini Ali née Sehgal, an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India ). He is thus the grandson of Azad Hind Fauj commander Lakshmi Sahgal...

    , film director
  • Kamal Amrohi
    Kamal Amrohi
    Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi popularly known as Kamal Amrohi or Amrohvi in Urdu was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and dialogue writer. He was a Shi'a Muslim and an Urdu and Hindi poet. He is most known for his Hindi films such as Mahal , Pakeezah and Razia Sultan...

    , Director of Pakeezah fame
  • Prakash Mehra
    Prakash Mehra
    -Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...

    , Director
  • Prasoon Pandey
    Prasoon Pandey
    Prasoon Pandey, born 1961, is a renowned Indian director of advertising films. Advertising Age listed him among the Top 100 advertising film directors of the world. Gunn Report ranked him at No. 24 in a list of the best and most awarded ad film directors in 2001...

    , director
  • Vishal Bharadwaj, Omkara director

Singers

  • Talat Mahmood
    Talat Mahmood
    Talat Mahmood was a popular Indian playback singer and film actor. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1992, he was famous for singing ghazals. For this quality he was known as the King of ghazals....

  • Rajkumari Dubey
    Rajkumari Dubey
    Rajkumari Dubey , better known by her first name, was an Indian playback singer.-Biography:Rajkumari was born in 1924. She never really had the opportunity to learn to sing, but was always supported by her family. She was just 10 years old when she recorded her first song for HMV in 1934 and she...

  • Begum Akhtar
    Begum Akhtar
    Akhtari Bai Faizabadi or Begum Akhtar was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra and Thumri.She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India...

  • Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
    Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
    Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay also known as Hemanta Mukherjee was an Bengali singer, composer and producer. He sang in Hindi films under the name Hemant Kumar.-Early life:...

  • Abhijeet Bhattacharya (Singer)
  • Kabban Mirza
    Kabban Mirza
    Kabban Mirza is known for singing a couple of melodious songs in Hindi cinema. Not much is known about Mirza's life and his whereabouts, though it is known that he belonged to Uttar Pradesh. His singing was featured in the film Razia Sultan, directed by Kamal Amrohi . Two of his songs are "Aayee...

  • Anup Jalota
    Anup Jalota
    Anup Jalota is an Indian singer/musician, best known for his performances in the Indian musical form, the bhajan and the Urdu form of poetry: ghazal.He is popularly known as the Bhajan Samraat .-Early life:...

  • Baba Sehgal
    Baba Sehgal
    Baba Sehgal, a Khatri Sikh, is an Indian rapper and actor. Brought up in Lucknow, he was famous in the mid 1990s. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon, and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India...

  • Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....


Lyricists

  • Shakeel Badayuni
    Shakeel Badayuni
    Shakeel Badayuni was an accomplished Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter.-Early life and background:Shakeel Badayuni was born in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh...

  • Indeevar
    Indeevar
    Shyamalal Bahu Rai, known professionally as Indeevar, was one of the leading Hindi film lyricists in the 1960s...

  • Shakeel Badayuni
    Shakeel Badayuni
    Shakeel Badayuni was an accomplished Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter.-Early life and background:Shakeel Badayuni was born in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh...

  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter...

  • Khumar Barabankvi
    Khumar Barabankvi
    Khumār Barabankvi was an Urdu poet and lyricist from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. His real name was Mohammed Haidar Khan, but he wrote under the takhallus of Khumār, which means intoxication. The word comes from the Arabic root 'Khmr' which means alcoholic wine.Khumār died in 1999.-External...

  • Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi
    Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.-Early life:...

  • Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri
    Ali Sardar Jafri was an Urdu writer, poet, critic and film lyricist from India.-Early life and education:Ali Sardar Jafri was born in an aristocratic family in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, where he spent his formative years....

  • Anjaan
    Anjaan
    Anjaan was the nom-de-plume of Lalji Pandey, the Hindi movie lyricist famous for songs such as Khaike Paan Banaraswala from Don and Rote hue aate hain sab from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar....

  • Sameer

Story/ Script/ Dialogue Writers

  • Wajahat Mirza
    Wajahat Mirza
    Wajahat Mirza , also known as Vajahat Mirza and Wajahat Mirza Changezi, was an Indian screenwriter and film director....

  • S.Ali Raza
  • Javed Siddiqi, film script writer
  • K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena
    K. P. Saxena is a Lucknow-based satirist and writer. He was employed by the Indian Railways but he was a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers.He was awarded Padma Shri by Government of India, in year 2000....

    , dialogue writer of Lagaan
    Lagaan
    Lagaan is a 2001 Bollywood sports film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. Aamir Khan, who was also the producer for the film, stars with Gracy Singh in the lead roles; British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne play the supporting roles...

    , Swades
    Swades
    Swades: We, the People is a 2004 Indian film written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film stars Shahrukh Khan and debutante Gayatri Joshi...


Nawabs of Awadh

  • Asaf-Ud-Dowlah
    Asaf-Ud-Dowlah
    Asaf-Ud-Daula was the nawab wazir of Oudh from 26 January 1775 to 21 September 1797, and the son of Shuja-ud-Dowlah, his mother and grandmother being the begums of Oudh, whose spoliation formed one of the chief counts in the charges against Warren Hastings.-Life:A contemporary chronicler describes...

    , the fourth Nawab, founder of modern Lucknow
  • Wajid Ali Shah
    Wajid Ali Shah
    Wajid Ali Shah was the fifth King of Oudh, holding the position from 13 February 1847 to 7 February 1856....

    , the poet, choreographer, the last King of Awadh

Navratnas

  • Raja Todar Mal
    Raja Todar Mal
    Raja Todar Mal was born in Laharpur, Uttar Pradesh in a Punjabi Kayastha family, and rose to become the Finance Minister in Akbar's Darbar of the Mughal empire. He was made in charge of Agra and settled in Gujarat. Later, he was made in charge of Gujarat as well. He also managed Akbar's Mint at...

    , Finance Minister and one of the Navratnas
    Navratnas
    Navratna was the title given originally to nine Public Sector Enterprises identified by the Government of India in 1997 as "public sector companies that have comparative advantages", giving them greater autonomy to compete in the global market so as to "support [them] in their drive to become...

     of Akbar
  • Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana
    Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana
    Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana , also known as Rahim was a composer in the times of Mughal emperor Akbar, and one of his main nine ministers in his court, also known as the Navaratnas; he is most known for his Hindi couplets and his books on Astrology...

    , Hindi Poet and a Navratna of Akbar

Television

  • Kamleshwar
    Kamleshwar
    Kamleshwar was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and script and dialogue writer for Hindi cinema and television...

    , writer and TV administrator
  • Rahi Masoom Raza
    Rahi Masoom Raza
    Rahi Masoom Reza, born in Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh in a Muslim family, was a famous Urdu shayar. He also won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979. He also wrote in Hindustani and Hindi language...

    , dialogue writer of TV serial 'Ramayan'
  • Raju Srivastav
  • Surendra Pal
    Surendra Pal
    Surendra Pal is an Indian film and television character actor who is best known for his television roles of Dronacharya in Mahabharat, Amatya Rakshas in Chanakya and Tamraj Kilvish in Shaktiman.Surendra Pal was born in 1953....

     Dronacharaya in Mahabharat

Judges and Lawyers

  • Mohammad Hidayatullah
    Mohammad Hidayatullah
    Mohammad Hidayatullah , OBE was the Chief Justice of India. He served as the acting President of India and was also the sixth Vice-President of India for one complete term...

    , former Chief Justice of India
  • Mirza Hameedullah Beg
    Mirza Hameedullah Beg
    Mirza Hameedullah Beg was Chief Justice of India from January 1977 to February 1978.-Early life and education:...

    , former Chief Justice of India
  • Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya
    Laxmi Raman Acharya was born on 2 November 1914 in Alwar, Rajasthan as the eldest son of Late Shri Rewati Raman Acharya who was a revenue minister in the princely state of Alwar and later on quit his high profile position due to the British leaning of the King and joined the Indian National...

    , prominent Advocate
  • Jagmohanlal Sinha
    Jagmohanlal Sinha
    Jagmohanlal Sinha was a former Indian Permanent Judge. He was known mostly for his 1975 ruling in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain on the election of then Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in which he declared the election invalid...

    , judge
  • Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, eminent lawyer
  • Leila Seth
    Leila Seth
    Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court.-Background:Born in Lucknow in October 1930, she joined the Bar in 1959....

    , first woman Chief Justice of State

Environmentalists

  • Sundarlal Bahuguna
    Sundarlal Bahuguna
    Sunderlal Bahuguna is a noted Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha. His actual family name is Bandyopadhyay a common family name for Bengali Brahmin. About 800 years ago, three men from a Bandyopadhyay family...

    , Environmentlist
  • Billy Arjan Singh
    Billy Arjan Singh
    Kunwar "Billy" Arjan Singh was an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild....

    , Conservationist

Scholars

  • Acharya Narendra Dev
  • Mushirul Hasan
    Mushirul Hasan
    Professor Mushirul Hasan second son for noted historian and professor at his time Muhibbul Hasan he originally belongs to Village Muhammadpur Tehsil Fatehpur District Barabanki,is an internationally known historian, author and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University at Delhi...

    , Historian
  • Adya Prasad Pandey, economist
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani
    Ahmad Hasan Dani
    Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani FRAS, SI, HI , was a Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh...

    , archaeologist and historian.

Business

  • Subroto Roy, founder Sahara India
  • K.P. Singh, President of DLF Universal Group
  • Vinod Gupta
    Vinod Gupta
    Vinod Gupta is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of infoGROUP . Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and from August 1998 to August 2008...

    , Former CEO and Chairman of InfoUSA
    InfoUSA
    Infogroup, Inc., is a data, research and marketing company which offers email marketing and other marketing services. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Papillion, Nebraska. Infogroup employs approximately 3,200 people and operates in 9 countries.- History :Infogroup was formed in...

     and Founder of Vinod Gupta School of Management
    Vinod Gupta School of Management
    The Vinod Gupta School of Management is a business school in India. It was established in 1993 at IIT Kharagpur and was the first management school to be setup within the IIT system....

    , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is an autonomous engineering, technology and management oriented institute of higher education established by the government of India in 1951...


Social Service

  • Sandeep Pandey
    Sandeep Pandey
    Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist. He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph...

    Magsaysay Award winner
  • Dhirendra Swarup
    Dhirendra Swarup
    A veteran of the Ministry of Finance in India, he was appointed as the first chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority in 2004. PFRDA is intended to be the key player...

     Expenditure Secretary

Others

  • Jaichand of Kannauj
    Jaichand of Kannauj
    Jaichand was the Rajput ruler of Kannauj. He was the father of Sanyogita, Prithvi Raj Chauhan's wife. Jaichand was the name of the last ruler of Kannauj belonging to the Rathore dynasty.-Sources:...

    , historical figure
  • Sheila Dixit, CM of Delhi state
  • Begum Samru, historical figure
  • Abdul Karim
    Abdul Karim (the Munshi)
    Hafiz Mohammed Abdul Karim CIE, CVO , known as "the Munshi", was an Indian Muslim attendant of Queen Victoria. He served her during the final fifteen years of her reign, gaining her affection over that time....

    , Munshi to Queen Victoria
  • Lala Deen Dayal
    Lala Deen Dayal
    Lala Deen Dayal was an Indian photographer. His photography career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer, eventually he set up studios in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderbad; he became the court photographer to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mahbub Ali Khan, Asif Jah VI, who awarded him...

    , photographer
  • Mustafa Kamil
    Mustafa Kamil
    Muṣṭafā Kāmil Pasha was an Egyptian lawyer, journalist, and nationalist activist.-Biography:...

    , former tutor of HH Prince Karim, Aga Khan
  • Deep Tyagi
    Deep Tyagi
    Dharmendra Kumar Tyagi, better known as Deep Tyagi or DK Tyagi , was an Assistant Commissioner for the Indian Family Planning program until 1969. An early pioneer of family planning in India and elsewhere, he was a champion of the program under the premierships of Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur...

    , pioneer of Family Planning programme in India
  • Baron Khalid Hameed, eminent doctor and social worker in UK

See also

  • List of people by India state
  • States and territories of India
    States and territories of India
    India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

  • List of Hindi authors
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