List of people from Lucknow

This is a list of notable people from or associated with Lucknow, India.

Academics, education & science

• Jagdish Gandhi, educationist, Head of City Montessori School, world's largest school, with over 52 thousand students.
• Parveen Talha, Former UPSC Member.
• Birbal Sahni, paleobotanist
• Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and agricultural scientist
• Veena Talwar Oldenburg, professor of history
• Herbert V. Günther, professor of philosophy
• Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst
• Saiyid Nurul Hasan, historian
• Asma Hussain, Up's first Fashion Designer, Head of AIFT- Asma Hussain Institute of Fashon Technology, Lucknow.

Arts and culture

• Cliff Richard, British Singer and Musician, now settled in Portugal
• Anup Jalota, Indian classical singer and musician
• Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet and lyricist, father of Javed Akhtar's
• Javed Akhtar, film story & screenplay writer, poet, lyricist
• Naushad Ali, film musician
• Mohammad Shakeel, contemporary artist,National Award
• Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha, Theatre Director, Actor and Playwright
• Ranveer Brar, Chef,Television Host

Actors and singers

• Aayuush Kumar, a well known theatre and Film/Serial actor. Won the Best Up-coming Actor's award at The India International Film Festival held at Tashkent,Uzbekistan ( Former USSR)
• Gungun Uprari,actress
• Amit Sadh
• Baba Sehgal, singer
• Kanika Kapoor, singer

Activists

• Sehba Hussain, activist, former member National Advisory Council
• kamran Asad, Social activist, former President Nagrik Shakti Manch

Poets, Authors & Journalists

• Vinod Mehta, Journalist
• Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Islamic Historian
• Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Lucknow Historian
• Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow Historian
• Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Islamic scholar and Writer
• Shaukat Siddiqui, Novelist
• Altaf Fatima, Novelist
• Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar, Novelist
• Mohsin Kakorvi, Poet
• Mirza Hadi Ruswa, Poet
• Mir Taqi Mir, Poet
• Mir Babar Ali Anis, Marsiya Writer (Poet)
• Majaz, Poet
• Kaifi Azmi, Poet
• Josh Malihabadi, Poet
• Mohsin Zaidi, Poet
• Javed Akhtar, Poet
• Iftikhar Arif, Poet
• Maulana Hasrat Mohani, Poet
• Brij Narayan Chakbast, Poet
• Amritlal Nagar, Novelist
• Suryakumar Pandey, Poet
• K.P. Saxena, Poet
• Shrilal Shukl, Writer
• Gaura Pant Shivani, Writer
• Bhagwaticharan Verma, Writer
• Yashpal, Novelist, Freedom-Fighter
• Harsh Narain, Author
• Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, Journalist
• Kamran Asad, Journalist
• Mirza Dabeer, Marsiya Writer (Poet)
• Mohammad azam . journalist and writer

Business & professionals

• Subrata Roy, businessman; Worker Director of Sahara India Pariwar, the world's largest employer
• Manoj Bhargava, US based Entrepreneur and founder & CEO of 5-hour Energy drink
• Agha Hasan Abedi, banker and philanthropist
• Prateek Hira, Tour Operator

Military

• Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general
• Claude Martin, French Major General who fought for the British, and established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta
• William Stephen Raikes Hodson, British officer
• John Coleman, soldier
• Henry Montgomery Lawrence, soldier
• John Alexander, soldier
• Edward Hilton, soldier
• Air Chief Marshal S. K. Kaul, Chief of the Air Force
• Wing Commander Trevor Keelor, Pilot, First to shoot-down a Pakistani F-86 Sabre in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
• Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, Param Vir Chakra
• Major General Enaith Habibullah, First Commandant National Defence Academy,^[1] Khadakvasla

Politics

• Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh
• Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
• Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Oudh
• Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Oudh
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former President of India
• Sheila Kaul, former Union Cabinet Minister in India
• K. C. Singh Baba, Parliament
• Amir Haider, Senior Congress Leader
• Kirti Vardhan Singh, Parliament
• Sayed, Nawab of Oudh
• Sandeep Dikshit, Parliament
• Satish Mishra, lawyer
• Mohammad Yunus Saleem, lawyer
• Sarvraj Singh, politician
• Brajesh Pathak, politician
• Ashok Kumar Rawat, politician
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• Mohammad Haleem, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, social reformer
• Auckland Colvin, administrator
• Anne Warner, Australian politician

Sports

• R. P. Singh, cricketer
• Shahid Mahmood, cricketer
• Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
• Apoorva Sengupta, cricketer
• Afaq Hussain, cricketer
• Suresh Raina, cricketer
• Mohd Kaif, cricketer
• Ashish Winston Zaidi, cricketer
• Rinku Singh, MLB pitcher
• Dinesh Patel, MLB pitcher
• Ravinder Pal Singh, hockey
• Padmashree jammanlal sharma. hockey
• Shagufta hashmi. hockey

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