List of people from Delhi
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This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.
Armed forces
- Anuj Nayyar, Kargil Hero
Advocates
Arts and entertainment
- Nandita Das
- Chetan Bhagat
- Tushar Raheja
- Arjun Rampal
- Amba Sanyal (b. 1945), stage actor and costume designer [1]
- Imran Zahid
- Rahul Dev
- Sandeep Marwah
- Shahid Kapoor
- Shakti Kapoor
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Bipasha Basu
- Esha Gupta
- Minissha Lamba
- Sudhir Tailang
- Shah Rukh Khan, Actor
- Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director [2]
Politics
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Priyanka Gandhi
- HKL Bhagat
- Sahib Singh Verma
- Kedar Nath Sahani
- Rahul Gandhi
Poetry
Yaseen Anwer discussing poetry with renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil at Delhi Poetry Festival, 2013
- Ghalib renowned Urdu/Persian poet.
- Bedil Dehlavi, poet (1642–1720),
- Bahadurshah Zafar Mughal king (Last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and acclaimed Urdu poet.
- Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
- Yaseen Anwer (born 1989) Poet, founder & managing editor, Poets' Corner Group, he is also founding member of Delhi Poetry Festival.
- Raghavendra Madhu Poet,Founder, Poetry Couture Initiatives Poetic Adda (Open Mic) and Fresh Leaf Readings(Exclusive Poets).
Sports
- Ishant Sharma
- Virender Sehwag
- Warren Lee (cricketer)
- Gautam Gambhir
- Virat Kohli
- Amit Mishra
- Ashish Nehra
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Mithun Manhas
- Ajay Jadeja
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Amit Bhandari
- Atul Wassan
- Chetan Chauhan
- Kirti Azad
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Nikhil Chopra
- Rahul Sanghvi
- Rajinder Goel
- Raman Lamba
- Robin Singh, Jr.
- Salim Durani
- Sanjeev Sharma
- Sunil Valson
- Surinder Khanna
- Unmukt Chand
- Vijay Dahiya
- Vivek Razdan
- Yogesh Nagar
- Yuki Bhambri
Others
- Ratish Nanda, Indian conservation architect [3]
- Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian [4]
- Laila Tyabji (b. 1947) co-founder Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)[5]
References
- ↑ "AMBA SANYAL Akademi Award: Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing)". Sangeet Natak Akademi. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ Gupta, Priya (28 February 2014). "Politics excites me as much as movies do: Vikas Bahl". Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
- ↑ "Lunch with BS: Ratish Nanda". Business Standard. October 4, 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
- ↑ "India in the 1940s: The way we were". Hindustan Times. August 10, 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
- ↑ "Business Standard". Business Standard. 21 March 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.