List of people from Uttar Pradesh
This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. 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 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.
Deities and Avtaras
Authors of the Great Epics
Yogis, Sufis poets and Mystics
- Amir Khusro, Sufi mystic, one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent.
- Bharat Bhushan (yogi), the only 'Padmashri' recipient in Yoga, Founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur
- Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud, Gazi Miya of Baharaich.
- Gopi Krishna, a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer.
- Kabir, poet and SaintVaranasi
- Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint born in Badayun
- Paramhansa Yogananda, Mystic who introduced Yoga in the West, Gorakhpur
- Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
Poet-saints and Religious figures
- Akhaṇḍānanda Sarasvatī, scholar of Vedanta, Bhakti and Bhagavata Purana in 20th century, Varanasi
- Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur
- Rāmānanda, founder of the Rāmānandī sect, Prayag
- Sant Ravidas, poet and Saint, Varanasi
- Shiv Dayal Singh, Guru Maharaj of Radhasoamis, Agra
- Shriram Sharma Acharya, founder Gayatri Parivar, Mathura
- Surdas was a blind Hindu poet, sant and musician
- Svāmīnārāyaṇa, founder of the Swaminarayan sect, Gonda
- Svāmī Karapātrī, teacher of Advaita popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
- Tulasīdāsa, composer of the Ramcharitmanas, Banda
- Mira
- Raskhan
- Malik Mohammad Jayasi
Independence fighters
Mughal period
- Jograj Singh Gurjar, was a super commander of an army who fought against Timur (Tīmūr-e Lang "Timur the Lame") in 1398 A.D.He was also known as Jograj Singh Panwar.
- Ram Pyari Gurjar, was a lady commander who fought against Timur in 1398.
1857
Post 1857
- Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
- Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, independence fighter, journalist
- Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian independence fighter and socialist.
- Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian independence fighter and politician, became Chief Minister of the United Provinces. Also Bharat Ratna[1] recipient.
- Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He was close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad.
- Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Indian independence fighter and socialist.
- Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
- Ram Manohar Lohia, socialist
- Hasrat Mohani, independence fighter and poet
- Asaf Ali, independence fighter
- Rajendra Lahiri, independence fighter
- Laxmi Raman Acharya, Freedom Fighter Main Accused of the famous Agra Conspiracy case.
- Maulana Mohammad Ali, independence fighter
- Purushottam Das Tandon, independence fighter
- Maulana Shaukat Ali, independence fighter
- Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, independence fighter Ghazipur
- Mahavir Tyagi, independence fighter
National/ International Award Winners
Param Vir Chakra
Maha Vir Chakra
Veer Chakra
Col.T P Tyagi
Ashok Chakra
Bharat Ratna
Padam Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shree
Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Jnanpith Awards
Nobel Prize
- Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[4]. First Nobel Prize winner from Uttar Pradesh.
Magasaysay Award
Arjuna Award
Science and Medicine
- Atul Kumar, Scientist CDRI, inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug, Candidate and recipient of OPPI SCIENTIST Excellence AWARD
- Rishi Kumar Gandhi, Defence Scientist
- Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[2] First Nobel Prize winner from Uttar Pradesh.
- Harish-Chandra, (Mehrotra) was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
- Ravindra Khattree, is an Indian statistician, who did fundamental work in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, experimental designs, biostatistics and quality control.
- Zahoor Qasim, Oceanographer, leader of first Indian Expedition to Antarctica
- Prof. Prem Chand Pandey, Scientist, Physicist, Meteorologist (SAC/ISRO), Oceanographer, and Founder Director NCAOR-Indian Antarctic Program, Goa.
- P. K . Sethi, inventor of "Jaipur Foot"
- Kamla Kant Pandey, notable plant geneticist
- Mriganka Sur, Neuroscientist at MIT
- Prof Raj Shankar, Neuroscientist
- Syed Ziaur Rahman, Pharmacologist
- Manindra Agrawal, Computer Scientist IIT Kanpur
COMMERCE & ECONOMY
- Dr. Noorul Hasan, Professor in Dept. of Commerce, Shia Post Graduate College, Lucknow. Most famous writer and widely accepted authority on Commerce; who wrote more than 100 most popular and best selling books on different subjects of Commerce for different Universities.
Holders of High Offices
President
Vice President
Prime ministers
Governors
Chief Justices
Chief Ministers
Union Ministers
Prominent political figures
Pre Independence
Post Independence
- Govind Ballabh Pant
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
- Ram Manohar Lohia
- Choudhary Charan Singh
- Narayan Dutt Tiwari
- Laxmi Raman Acharya
- Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
- Kamalapati Tripathi
- Indira Gandhi
- Feroze Gandhi
- Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
- Mohsina Kidwai
- Sheila Kaul
- Raj Narain
- Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader
- Rajeev Shukla, journalist and political leader
- Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader
- Chaudhary Ajit Singh, political leader
- Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader
- Shriprakash Jaiswal, Union Minister
- Akhilesh Das, Union Minister
- Raj Babbar, Member of Parliament
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
- Kamal Nath, politician
- Prakash Vir Shastri, Member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement
- Kailash Nath Katju, Former Union Home Minister and Lawyer
- Satyapal Singh Yadav former union minister
- Om Prakash Singh
- Kalpnath Rai
Authors
Hindi
- Vishnu Sarma, author of Panchtantra
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati books on sociology, religion, freedom struggle, peasant movement, autobiography etc.
- Malik Muhammad Jayasi, author of Padmavat
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, polyglot wrote on almost everything.
- Munshi Prem Chand, renowned novelist, was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
- Vibhuti Narain Rai Hindi writer
- Amitabh Thakur Hindi writer
- Bharatendu Harishchandra, Hindi writer, who made major contributions in the field of journalism, drama and poetry.
- Amritlal Nagar, Hindi writer
- Bhagwati Charan Verma, Hindi writer
- Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
- Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi writer
- Babu Gulabrai, Hindi writer
- Yashpal, Hindi writer
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Hindi novelist
- Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi Scholar and writer
- Vidya Niwas Mishra, Hindi Scholar
- Rahi Masoom Raza, author of 'Topi Shukla' and 'Adha Gaon'
- Vinod Kumar Shukla, writer
- Shrilal Shukla, writer of 'Raag Darbari'
- Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla, Hindi writer and historian.
- Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
- Viveki Rai
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
- Hridyesh
Urdu
English
Poets
Urdu
- Mir Taqi Mir
- Mirza Ghalib, was a renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet of the subcontinent.
- Mir Anis, Urdu Marsia poet
- Maulana Hali, Urdu poet, one of the most well-regarded biographers of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetry.
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith[3] award
- Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriter.
- Safi Lakhnavi, eminent Urdu poet
- Majrooh Sultanpuri, poet and lyricist
- Josh Malihabadi, eminent Urdu poet
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, eminent Urdu poet
- Jigar Moradabadi, Urdu poet
- Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu poet
- Khumar Barabankvi, Urdu poet
- Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim, Urdu poet
- Brij Narayan Chakbast, Urdu poet
- Akbar Allahabadi, poet
- Majaz, Urdu poet
- Rahul Aggarwal, Urdu poet
Hindi
- Kedarnath Singh, major works are "baagh", "toota truck", tolstoy aur cycle", etc.
- Jaishankar Prasad, one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi.
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet.
- Mahadevi Varma, a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry. She won the Jnanpith[3] award in 1982.
- Sumitranandan Pant, 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, Humorous Poet
- Shivmangal Singh Suman
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
Founders of Educational Institutions
Defence Services
Army
Air Force
Civil Service / Diplomacy
Indian Foreign Service
Civil Services
Music and Dance
Musicians
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai maestro, awarded the Bharat Ratna,[1] (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 player, awarded the Bharat Ratna[1] in 1999. He has also won three Grammy awards.
- Begum Akhtar, was a Ghazal singer
- Naushad, music director, was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
- Sir Cliff Richard, the popular English singer
- Kishan Maharaj, Tabla Maestro
- Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
- Dr.Lalmani Misra was an Indian classical musician. Dean & Head, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and his son
- Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, Vichitra Veena player
- Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, eminent Musician
Singers
Rappers
Dancers
Sports
Hockey
Cricket
- Ashish Zaidi, cricketer
- Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer
- Arun Lal, former Test cricketer
- Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer
- Suresh Raina, international cricketer
- R. P. Singh, international cricketer
- Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer
- Hemlata Kala, member Indian Women's Cricket team
- Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
- Piyush Chawla
- Narendra Hirwani
- Surinder Amarnath
- Raman Lamba
- Surinder Amarnath
- Rohan Gavaskar
- Rajinder Hans
- Ravikant Shukla, U-19 captain
- Praveen Kumar
- Pankaj Singh Baghel
- Sudip Tyagi
Badminton
Other sports
Journalism
- Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, Times of India & Navbharat Times
- Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, was an eminent Indian journalist and an authority on the Nehruvian thought.
- Feroze Gandhi, Managing editor of National Herald
- Dharamvir Bharati, former editor of Dharamyug magazine
- Arun Nehru, former Minister and Columnist
- Saeed Naqvi, Journalist and TV producer
- Vinod Mehta, editor
- Narendra Mohan, Dainik Jagran
- Aniruddha Bahal, investigative journalist
- Pankaj Mishra, Journalist
- Yogendra Yadav
- Ram Bahadur Rai, magazine editor
Satire, Comedy, Cartoons
Cinema & Theatre
Actors & Actresses
- Amitabh BachchanAIIAHABAD, Bollywood actor, and one of the most prominent figures in the Indian film industry, awarded the Padma Bhushan[5] in 2001.
- Naseeruddin Shah, actor (He was born in barabanki district of lucknow division U.P)
- Marc Zuber, actor
- Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000 and Actress.
- Raj Babbar, actor and Member of Parliament.
- Jaddanbai, actor
- Nargis, was an actress best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Mother India.
- Nimmi, film actress in the 1950s.
- Lara Dutta, actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and the 2000 Miss Universe.
- K.N. Singh, actor
- Tuntun, comedy actress
- Sushant Singh, actor
- Ravi Kishan, Bhojpuri film actor
- Udita Goswami, Bollywood actress
- Priyanka Sharma, Bollywood actress
- Zohra Sehgal, Bollywood actress
- Saurabh Shukla, Bollywood actor
- Sonal Chauhan, Bollywood actress
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Pooja Batra
- Vedita Pratap Singh, Model & Actress
- Rajpal Yadav, Actor
Directors/ Producers
Singers
Lyricists
Music Composers
Theatre
Cinematographers
Story/ Script/ Dialogue Writers
Nawabs of Awadh
Navratnas
Television
Judges and Lawyers
Environmentalists
Scholars
Fine arts
Business
Social Service
Crime
Others
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