List of people from Jharkhand
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This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.
National/ International Award Winners
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
- Ram Dayal Munda
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey – 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer[1]
- Premlata Agarwal - 2013
- Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti[2]
Sports
Cricket
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni- Captain of the Indian Cricket Team
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Varun Aaron
- Randhir Singh
Hockey
Jaipal Singh Munda
- Jaipal Singh- captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
- Birendra Lakra born in Simdega
- Michael Kindo
Mountaineering
- Premlata Agarwal, Indian mountain climber, who on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at the age of 45 years.[3]
Archery
Deepika Kumari
- Deepika Kumari
- Purnima Mahato
- Jhanu Hansda- breaks world record[4]
Football
- Lal Mohan Hansda is an Indian footballer who plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League.
- Sanjay Balmuchu is an Indian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League. He is a graduate of the Tata Football Academy having graduated from it in 2012.[5]
- Munmun Lugun is an Indian footballer who plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League.
Boxing
- Aruna Mishra: 2004 world champion
Art
Bollywood
- Sriram Dalton- Director
- Priyanka Chopra- Former Miss World, Film actor, born in Jamshedpur
- Imran Zahid- Film actor, born in Bokaro
- Tanushree Dutta- Former Miss India
- Madhavan- Jamshedpur
- Imtiaz Ali- Jamshedpur
- Simone Singh- Jamshedpur
- Meenakshi Seshadri born in Sindri, she won the Miss India contest in 1981 at age 17, the youngest woman to be crowned Miss India.
- Chetan Joshi
- Akashaditya lama is an Indian Film Director and scriptwriter based in Bollywood. Born in Ranchi, Jharkhand and brought up in Kolkata (West Bengal) Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) and Faridkot (Punjab). Lama got his diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 1996-97. He got his first break in the business of films and television in 1998 by assisting in Ad films Pillsbury Wheat Flour, Camelin and more.
- Komal Jha
- Raj Kumar Gupta- Director, born in Hazaribag
- Meiyang Chang- Born in Dhanbad
- Shweta Prasad
Jollywood
- Sushil Ankan- Director of Jollywoodjharkhand.com
- Varsha Lakra- Film actress[6]
Military police
Albert Ekka
Writers and scholars
Journalist
Writer
- Khagendra Thakur
Poet
- Anuj Lugun- won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi[7]
- Ram Krishna Singh- has published seventeen poetry collections in English. His poems have been widely read.[8]
Academics
Gerald Durrell
- Gerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India on 7 January 1925.He was famous naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter.
- Ram Dayal Munda
- Ram Krishna Singh has been teaching English language skills and Indian Writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976.[9] He is also known as a poet with several publications to his credit.
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
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Birsa Munda
- Birsa Munda was an Indian freedom fighter and a folk hero, who belonged to the tribal group of Munda people .
- Kanhu Murmu
- Sido Murmu
- Devendra Prasad Gupta
- [Ganga narayan singh]
Religious
- Parshvanatha( twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism) achieved mokṣa at the age of one hundred atop Shikharji, Giridih district
- Father Kamil Bulke
- Telesphore Toppo
- Nirmal Baba
Thakur Anukulchandra
Social service
- Jyoti Dhawale
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar spent the last 18 to 20 years of his life among the Santhals at Karmatar, Jamtara district. The station Karmatar has been renamed as 'Vidysagar' railway station in his honour
Business
- Anurag Dikshit- born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 among the World's Richest People in 2006.[10]
Holders of High Constitutional Offices
Governor Of Other State
- Rameshwar Thakur- Madhyapradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhrapradesh
Chief Minister
- Krishna Ballabh Sahay, ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
- Binodanand Jha- Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
- Bhagwat Jha Azad- chief minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989, born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
- Babulal Marandi- First Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
- Arjun Munda born in Jamshedpur
- Shibu Soren
- Madhu Koda
- Hemant Soren
- Raghubar Das
Politician
- Bhishma Narain Singh
- Jaipal Singh
- Kartik Oraon
- Kariya Munda, Deputy Chief of 15th Lok Sabha
Yashwant Sinha
- Yashwant Sinha - Former Cabinet Minister, Government of India
- C.P.Singh- Former Speaker, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha
- Subodh Kant Sahay- Former Cabinet Minister, Government of India
- Sudarshan Bhagat- Minister of State of India for Social Justice & Empowerment in the Narendra Modi government
- Jayant Sinha- Minister of State of India for Finance in the Narendra Modi government
Medical
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)- created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation
Others
- Rameesh Kailasam-noted governance reform and policy expert from India
- Rajeev Topno- Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, former Director of Prime Minister's office(PMO), New Delhi.
References
- ↑ http://www.successcds.net/currentaffairs/list-of-padma-shri-awards-2012-12185.html
- ↑ "Ranchi Express". Ranchi Express. 26 January 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ↑ "On the top of the world - Steel city mom oldest Indian woman to scale Everest". The Telegraph (Kolkata). May 21, 2011.
- ↑ http://rediff.com/sports/2006/sep/09arch.htm
- ↑ Kapadia, Novy. "Silver Jubilee of Tata Football Academy". SportsKeeda. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ↑ http://forum.jharkhand.org.in/2009/02/jharkhand-film-industry-daastan-e.html?m=0
- ↑ https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html
- ↑ http://issuu.com/kirim-tatar-kitaplari/docs/nazar_2013_09_online
- ↑ http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=50527
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/7XUE.html