This is a list of notable people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. The criteria of this list includes those who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces that now is part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Deities and avatars

; Jains Gods / Deities

  • Rishabhanatha or Ādinath (birthplace: Ayodhya) 1st Tirthankara of Jainism and founder of Jainism
  • Ajitnatha (birthplace: Ayodhya) 2nd Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Sambhavanatha (birthplace: Shravasti) 3rd Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Abhinandananatha (birthplace: Ayodhya) 4th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Sumatinatha (birthplace: Ayodhya) 5th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Padmaprabha (birthplace: Kaushambi) 6th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Suparshvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi) 7th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Chandraprabha (birthplace: Chandrawati, Varanasi) 8th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Pushpadanta (birthplace: Khukhundoo) 9th Tirthankara of Jainism.
  • Shreyansnath (birthplace: Sarnath), 11th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Vimalanatha (birthplace: Kampilya), 13th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Anantanatha (birthplace: Ayodhya), 14th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Dharmanatha (birthplace: Ratnapuri), 15th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Shantinath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 16th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Kunthunath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 17th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Aranath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 18th Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Neminath (birthplace: Mathura), 22nd Tirthankara of Jainism
  • Parsvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi), 23rd Tirthankara of Jainism

; Hindu gods / deities

  • Rama (birthplace: Ayodhya), legendary or historical king of ancient India; in Hinduism, he is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu
  • Lakshmana (birthplace: Ayodhya), brother and close companion of Rama; a hero in the epic Ramayana
  • Lord Shree Krishna (birthplace: Mathura) deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism
  • Parashuram (birthplace: Ghazipur), was an avatar of Vishnu

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File:Sri Mariamman Temple Singapore 2 amk.jpg|Lord Shree Krishna statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore)

File:Rama Lakshmana.jpg|L to R: Lord Rama and Lakshmana

File:Neminatha sculpture.jpg|Neminatha (stone). Chahaman, 11th century AD, Narhad, Rajasthan

File:Bhelupur Jain temple (cropped).jpg|Parsvanatha statue in Bhelupur Jain temple, Varanasi

File:The Great Human ShriRam.jpg|Lord Rama with arrows

File:Sarnath Jain Temple (3).jpg|Shreyansanatha at Sarnath Jain Tirth

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Authors of the great epics

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  • Bhrigu (birthplace: Ballia), one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, one of the Prajapatis created by Brahma
  • Sur (birthplace: Mathura), saint, poet and musician
  • Tulsidas (Ramayana: Chitrakoot), Awadhi poet and philosopher; wrote Rāmacaritamānasa ("The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama
  • Vyasa, central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions; authored Mahabharata

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File:Queen_Nagamati_talks_to_her_parrot,_Padmavat,_c1750.jpg|Malik Mohammed Jayasi

File:Valmiki Ramayana.jpg|Valmiki

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Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics

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  • Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint, born in Budaun
  • Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri recipient in yoga; founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur
  • Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
  • Kabir, poet and saint Varanasi
  • Amir Khusro, Sufi mystic, one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent
  • Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud, Gazi Miya of Bahraich
  • Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogi and Guru who introduced Yoga in the West. Born in Gorakhpur in 1893.

Poet-saints and religious figures

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;Hindu scholars

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  • Devraha Baba, Yogi Allahabad
  • Narottama Dasa
  • Shrivatsa Goswami, Indologist and Gaudiya Vaishnava leader
  • Swami Karpatri, teacher of Advaita, popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
  • Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur.
  • Ramanand, founder of the Rāmānandī sect Prayag (in modern Allahabad)
  • Raskhan
  • Sant Ravidas, poet and saint, Varanasi
  • Shiv Dayal Singh, founder and first guru of Radha Soami sect, Agra
  • Sur, blind Hindu poet, saint and musician born in Runkata near Agra
  • Swaminarayan, founder of the Swaminarayan sect, Gonda
  • Tulsidas, composer of the Ramcharitmanas

;Islam scholars

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  • Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (1606–1651), natural philosopher
  • Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-1873), Islamic scholar
  • Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834-1899), Islamic scholar
  • Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867–1921), Islamic scholar
  • Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875–1935), Islamic scholar
  • Majid Ali Jaunpuri (died 1935), Islamic scholar
  • Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001), Sufi saint
  • Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri (1937–2017), Islamic scholar
  • Malik Mohammad Jayasi

Rulers and generals

Ancient

  • Ashoka, (, ; &nbsp;– 232&nbsp;BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE.
  • Brahmamitra
  • Chandragupta II (c. 375-415), also known by his title Vikramaditya, as well as Chandragupta Vikramaditya, was the third ruler of the Gupta Empire in India.
  • Keśin Dālbhya, (or Dārbhya) was a king of Panchala during the Late Vedic period, most likely between 900 and 750 BCE. He is mentioned prominently in the Taittiriya and Jaiminiya Brahmanas.
  • Gomitra
  • Gomitra II
  • Pravahana Jaivali, was a king of Panchala during the Late Vedic period (8th or 7th century BCE), mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Vi.ii.9-13) and the Chandogya Upanishad (V.4-8). Like King Ajatashatru of Kashi and King Asvapati Kaikeya of Madra, he is depicted as a major Hindu philosopher-king.
  • Kumaragupta I (c. 415–455 CE), an emperor of the Gupta Empire of Ancient India. A son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II and Queen Dhruvadevi, he seems to have maintained control of his inherited territory, which extended from Gujarat in the west to Bengal region in the east.
  • Chandragupta Maurya, (350-295 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire, a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
  • Pasenadi, (c. 6th century BCE) was an Ikshvaku dynasty| ruler of Kosala. Sāvatthī was his capital. He succeeded after .
  • Samudragupta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.
  • Virudhaka, was a king of Kosala during the lifetime of the Buddha.

Medieval

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  • Harsha, (IAST Harṣa-vardhana; –647 CE) was a Pushyabhuti emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 CE. He was the son of Prabhakaravardhana who had defeated the Alchon Hun invaders, and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, a king of Thanesar, present-day Haryana.
  • Jahangir, (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir (; ), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627.
  • Rajyavardhana, also known as Rajya Vardhan, was the eldest son of Prabhakarvardhana and member of the Pushyabhuti dynasty. He ascended the throne after his father's death and was succeeded by his younger brother, Harsha.

Modern

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  • Rani of Jhansi, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828<!-- Please do not add birth year 1835 as historians no longer accept it as correct; see cited sources and discussion on Talk page --> — 18 June 1858), was the Maharani consort of the princely state of Jhansi in Maratha Empire from 1843 to 1853 by marriage to Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar.

Nawab of Awadh

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  • Shuja-ud-Daula, (b. – d. ) was the Subedar and Nawab of Oudh and the Vizier of Delhi from 5 October 1754 to 26 January 1775.
  • Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, (23 September 1748 – 21 September 1797) was the Nawab wazir of Oudh ratified by Shah Alam II, from 26 January 1775 to 21 September 1797, and the son of Shuja-ud-Dowlah.
  • Wajid Ali Shah, (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and last King of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856.

Banaras state

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  • Balwant Singh, His eldest son, Rafa'at wa Awal-i-Martabat Raja Sri Balwant Singh Sahib Bahadur Bhumihar who succeeded his father as Raja of Kaswar and Nazim of Benares in 1738.
  • Maharaja Chait Singh, commonly known as Chait Singh, a Bhumihar king was a ruler of Kingdom of Benaras in northern India.
  • Prabhu Narayan Singh, (26 November 1855 – 4 August 1931) was ruler of the Benares State (Royal House of Benares), an Indian princely state, from 1889 to 1931.
  • Vibhuti Narayan Singh, (5 November 1927 – 25 December 2000) was the king of Benares, a city considered holy, located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Kohra estate

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  • Babu Himmat Sah
  • Babu Bhoop Singh

Independence Fighters

18th century

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  • Maharaja Chait Singh, ruler of Banaras, one of the earliest rebel against Company rule.

Indian Rebellion of 1857

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  • Maulvi Liaquat Ali, Indian independence fighter of 1857 from Allahabad; captured the Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India
  • Rao Umrao Singh Bhati, ruler of Dadri and a leader of 1857 rebellion
  • Banke Chamar, was the freedom fighter of the 1857 revolution who was leading the revolution from Jaunpur.
  • Dhan Singh Gurjar, main freedom fighter of 1857 revolt from Meerut
  • Jhalkari Bai Koli, Great Indian freedom fighter of 1857; fought against British rule; Commander of Army of Jhansi
  • Bakht Khan, nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
  • Rani Lakshmibai, Rani (Queen) of Jhansi
  • Begum Hazrat Mahal, widow of the last Nawab of Awadh; Indian independence fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857
  • Mangal Pandey, one of the earliest independence fighters of 1857.
  • Amar Shahid Bandhu Singh, fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857, he was from Dumari Riyasat of Gorakhpur
  • Babu Bhoop Singh, ruler of Kohra (estate) and a leader of Indian Rebellion of 1857
  • Lal Pratap Singh, fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Yuvraj of Kalakankar
  • Rao Kadam Singh, freedom fighter; elected by his Gurjar clansmen as their leader to fight against the British forces during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Later 19th and 20th centuries

Award winners

Param Vir Chakra

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  • Company Quartermaster Havildar Abdul Hamid, Ghazipur
  • Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey
  • Naik Jadu Nath Singh Rathore Shahjahan pur, fighter of World War II and Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948
  • Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav, of Aurangabad, Bulandshahr; hero of Tiger Hill in Kargil war

Maha Vir Chakra

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  • Air Chief Marshall Swaroop Krishna Kaul
  • Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla
  • Lance Naik Ram Ugrah Pandey
  • Brigadier Mohammad Usman Azamgarh

Ashok Chakra

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  • Lieutenant Colonel Harsh Uday Singh Gaur
  • Constable Kamlesh Kumari
  • Lieutenant Colonel Jas Ram Singh
  • Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh

Bharat Ratna

Padma Vibhushan

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  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
  • Kishan Maharaj
  • Uday Shankar
  • Kalyan Singh
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav

Padma Bhushan

Padma Shree

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

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  • Naushad Ali, music composer
  • Amitabh Bachchan, film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri, lyricist

Gyananpith Awards

Magasaysay Award

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  • Sandeep Pandey
  • Rajendra Singh, water conservationist

Arjuna Award

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Major Dhyan Chand Award

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  • Rajkumar Baisla, (Wrestling) from Vill. Mewla Bhatti, Ghaziabad

Defence services

Army

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Air force

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  • Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla

Science and medicine

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  • Afroz Ahmad, environmental scientist and administrator
  • Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist and rheumatologist.
  • Harish-Chandra (Mehrotra), mathematician who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
  • Aditi Sen De is an Indian scientist, a professor in quantum information and computation group at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
  • Saroj Chooramani Gopal, is an Indian medical doctor, medical educationist and considered as the first woman M.ch paediatric surgeon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in the country.
  • Nishith Gupta, molecular biologist
  • Gaiti Hasan (born 19 November 1956) is an Indian scientist who researches in the fields of molecular biology, genetics, neuroscience and cell signalling.
  • Ruqaiya Hasan (3 July 1931 – 24 June 2015) was a professor of linguistics who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England.
  • Zoya Hasan was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Shahid Jameel, Indian virologist
  • Ritu Karidhal is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer working in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). She was a Deputy Operations Director to India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan.
  • Ravindra Khattree, Distinguished Professor and statistician who worked in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, experimental designs, biostatistics and quality control
  • Atul Kumar, CSIR-CDRI (inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug)
  • Kazi Mobin-Uddin, inventor of Inferior vena cava filter
  • Soniya Nityanand (born 6 September 1962) is an Indian immunologist specialising in hematology.
  • Sri Niwas, Indian geophysicist.
  • Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Prem Chand Pandey, scientist, physicist, meteorologist, oceanographer
  • Zahoor Qasim, oceanographer, leader of first Indian expedition to Antarctica
  • Qamar Rahman is an Indian scientist who has worked extensively in the last 40 years to understand the physiological effects of nanoparticles.
  • Syed Ziaur Rahman, medical pharmacologist
  • Anil K. Rajvanshi, sustainability and rural development expert
  • P. K . Sethi, inventor of the Jaipur foot
  • Rani Dhavan Shankardass is an Indian social historian and global expert on prison reform.
  • Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, organic chemist specialising in natural product chemistry
  • Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie, Indian marine geologist and former director of the National Institute of Oceanography.
  • Digvijai Singh
  • Lalji Singh, molecular biologist
  • Mriganka Sur, Indian-born neuroscientist working in the United States
  • Sushruta, is the listed author of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), a treatise considered to be one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda.
  • Rajeev Kumar Varshney, agricultural scientist, genomics specialist, biotechnologist
  • Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma, more popularly known as G K Vishwakarma, was an eminent orthopedic surgeon, academician and public health administrator.
  • Jhillu Singh Yadav, Chemist
  • Raj Vir Singh Yadav

Technology

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  • Sairee Chahal is a technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of SHEROES, a platform that supports women entrepreneurs.
  • Divya Jain is an Indian software engineer and entrepreneur. Jain has been called a "data doyenne" by Fortune.
  • Deepali Pant Joshi is a former executive director of the Reserve Bank of India (retired in 2017).
  • Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO of Paytm
  • Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare.

Holders of high offices

President

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  • Mohammad Hidayatullah, Acting President of India
  • Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of India

Vice President

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  • Hamid Ansari, former Vice-President of India
  • Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Vice-President of India
  • Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice-President of India

Prime Ministers

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  • Indira Gandhi, fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
  • Pravind Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Mauritius, Son of Anerood Jugnauth

President of other countries

  • Anerood Jugnauth, former President of Mauritius, his grand father migrated from Ballia district,
  • Dinanath Bhaskar, political leader; former minister
  • Ram Govind Chaudhary
  • Devendra Nath Dwivedi, Indian politician and Governor designate of Gujarat
  • Feroze Gandhi
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Shyama Charan Gupta, politician, entrepreneur
  • Muzaffar Hasan, former Transport Minister, Indian National Congress party
  • Sriprakash Jaiswal, union minister
  • Kailash Nath Katju, former Union Home Minister and lawyer
  • Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
  • Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader
  • Mohsina Kidwai
  • Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
  • Manohar Lal (b. 1938), UP MLA, cabinet minister
  • Sunder Lal
  • Marghoob Ahmad Lari, former State Minister of Tourism
  • Ram Manohar Lohia
  • Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
  • Mayawati, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
  • Raj Narain
  • Kamal Nath, politician
  • Raj Mangal Pande
  • Govind Ballabh Pant
  • Suresh Pasi, ministries of housing, vocational education, skill development
  • Bacha Pathak, 7 time MLA from Bansdih constituency, 2 time cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh government
  • Thakur Ji Pathak, activist, Indian political leader
  • Kalpnath Rai
  • Sampurnanand, Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri, Ex-Prime Minister of India
  • Prakash Vir Shastri, member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement
  • Chandra Shekhar, former prime minister of India
  • Ishwar Chandra Shukla
  • Shiv Pratap Shukla, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Minister of state (finance), former Cabinet Minister (Government of Uttar Pradesh)
  • Ajit Singh, political leader
  • Charan Singh
  • Kalyan Singh, UP CM and Rajasthan Governor; BJP Vice President
  • Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader
  • Om Prakash Singh, Former chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand
  • Sanjay Singh
  • V. P. Singh, 7th prime minister of India
  • Kamlesh Tiwari, founder of Hindu Samaj Party, who insulted Muhammad, was imprisoned, and murdered after his release
  • N. D. Tiwari
  • Kamalapati Tripathi
  • K. C. Tyagi
  • Deendayal Upadhyaya
  • Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader
  • Ram Chandra Vikal, Deputy Chief Minister
  • Akhilesh Yadav, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, President of Samajwadi Party
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, founder of Samajwadi Party
  • Ram Naresh Yadav
  • Satyapal Singh Yadav, former union minister
  • Shyam Lal Yadav, former union minister and Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Civil service / diplomacy

Indian Foreign Service

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Civil services

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Indian Police Service

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Business

Educators / founders of educational institutions

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Authors

Hindi

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Urdu

English

Poets

Hindi

Urdu

Bhojpuri

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  • Parichay Das
  • Viveki Rai

Environmentalists

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  • Afroz Ahmad, is an Indian environment scientist and a former civil servant.
  • Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.
  • Ranjit Bhargava, is an Indian environmentalist, known for his endeavors towards environmental conservation and his efforts for obtaining UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the upper Ganga region.
  • Anupam Mishra (1948 – 19 December 2016) was an Indian Gandhian, author, journalist, environmentalist, TED speaker, and water conservationist who worked on promoting water conservation, water management and traditional rainwater harvesting techniques.
  • Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.
  • Billy Arjan Singh, as an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild.

Scholars

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  • Hasnain Baqai, Islamic scholar, thinker, reformer; known for his inclusive and broadminded interpretation of Islam; born in Safipur
  • Narendra Deva
  • Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna.
  • Divya Dwivedi, philosopher
  • Mushirul Hasan, historian
  • Masud Husain Khan, eminent linguist; first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University; fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi
  • Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System; President of the University of Houston; first Indian American to lead a major research university in the United States
  • Saket Kushwaha, educationist and agricultural economist of Banaras Hindu University, currently Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, former Vice Chancellor of Lalit Narayan Mithila University
  • Adya Prasad Pandey, notable economist of Banaras Hindu University and Currently Vice Chancellor of Manipur University
  • Arun Tiwari, missile scientist, author, professor
  • Raja Ram Yadav, educationist, Physicist, former Vice Chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University

Fine arts

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Journalism

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  • Inderjit Badhwar (born 1943) is an Indian journalist, novelist and the former editor of India Today.
  • Aniruddha Bahal, investigative journalist
  • Dharamvir Bharati, former editor of Dharamyug magazine
  • Parichay Das, writer, essayist, poet and editor of contemporary Bhojpuri poetry
  • Feroze Gandhi, managing editor of National Herald
  • Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, Times of India and Navbharat Times
  • Vinod Mehta, editor
  • Pankaj Mishra, journalist
  • Narendra Mohan, Dainik Jagran
  • Saeed Naqvi, journalist and TV producer
  • Arun Nehru, former minister and columnist
  • Ram Bahadur Rai, magazine editor
  • M. Chalapathi Rau, Indian journalist and an authority on Nehruvian thought
  • Raghuvir Sahay, editor of Dinmaan
  • Surendra Pratap Singh, editor of Ravivar

Sports

Badminton

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  • Abhinn Shyam Gupta, former national badminton champion
  • Syed Modi, former national badminton champion

Baseball

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  • Dinesh Patel, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
  • Rinku Singh, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States

Basketball

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  • Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989 in Varanasi) is an Indian basketball player and former captain of the India Women's National Basketball Team.
  • Divya Singh (born 21 July 1982) former captain of the India women's national basketball team.
  • Prashanti Singh (born 5 May 1984, in Varanasi), is a shooting guard for the India women's national basketball team.
  • Pratima Singh is a member of the India women's national basketball team, hailing from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Cricket

Hockey

Wrestling

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  • Anuj Chaudhary
  • Divya Kakran
  • Narsingh Yadav
  • Sandeep Tulsi Yadav

Other sports

Music dance

Musicians