List of people from Uttar Pradesh

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates 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

• Lord Shree Krishna statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore)
  Lord Shree Krishna statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore)
• L to R: Lord Rama and Lakshmana
  L to R: Lord Rama and Lakshmana
• Neminatha (stone). Chahaman, 11th century AD, Narhad, Rajasthan
  Neminatha (stone). Chahaman, 11th century AD, Narhad, Rajasthan
• Parsvanatha statue in Bhelupur Jain temple, Varanasi
  Parsvanatha statue in Bhelupur Jain temple, Varanasi
• Lord Rama with arrows
  Lord Rama with arrows
• Shreyansanatha at Sarnath Jain Tirth
  Shreyansanatha at Sarnath Jain Tirth

Authors of the great epics

• 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

• Malik Mohammed Jayasi
  Malik Mohammed Jayasi
• Valmiki
  Valmiki

Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics

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Salím Chishtí

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

Poet-saints and religious figures

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Goswami Tulsidas

Hindu scholars

• Narottama Dasa
• Devraha Baba, Yogi Allahabad
• 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
• Shrivatsa Goswami, Indologist and Gaudiya Vaishnava leader
• Sur, blind Hindu poet, saint and musician born in Runkata near Agra
• Swami Karpatri, teacher of Advaita, popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
• Swaminarayan, founder of the Swaminarayan sect, Gonda
• Tulsidas, composer of the Ramcharitmanas

Islam scholars

• 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

• Keśin Dālbhya, (or Dārbhya) was a king of Panchala during the Late Vedic period, most likely between c. 900 and 750 BCE. He is mentioned prominently in the Taittiriya and Jaiminiya Brahmanas.
• 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.
• Pasenadi, (c. 6th century BCE) was an ruler of Kosala. Sāvatthī was his capital. He succeeded after .
• Virudhaka, was a king of Kosala during the lifetime of the Buddha.
• Chandragupta Maurya, Template:Efn (350-295 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire, a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
• Ashoka, (, Template:IAST3; c. Template:Trim – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c. Template:Trim to 232 BCE.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Gomitra
• Gomitra II
• Brahmamitra

Medieval

• 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.
• Harsha, (IAST Harṣa-vardhana; c. Template:Trim–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 (; Template:Lit), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627.

Modern

• Rani of Jhansi, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828 — 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

• Shuja-ud-Daula, (b. (1732-01-19)19 January 1732 – d. (1775-01-26)26 January 1775) 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

• 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, Template:Post-nominals (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

• Babu Himmat Sah
• Babu Bhoop Singh

Independence Fighters

18th century

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

Indian Rebellion of 1857

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Mangal Pandey

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Babu Bhoop Singh of Kohra (estate), Leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857

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

Award winners

Param Vir Chakra

• 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

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

Ashok Chakra

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

Padma Vibhushan

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

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

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

Magasaysay Award

• Rajendra Singh, water conservationist
• Sandeep Pandey

Major Dhyan Chand Award

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

Defence services

Navy

• Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla

Science and medicine

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Lalji Singh

• 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.
• Anil K. Rajvanshi, sustainability and rural development expert
• Afroz Ahmad, environmental scientist and administrator
• Harish-Chandra (Mehrotra), mathematician who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
• Atul Kumar, CSIR-CDRI (inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug)
• Lalji Singh, molecular biologist
• P. K . Sethi, inventor of the Jaipur foot
• Prem Chand Pandey, scientist, physicist, meteorologist, oceanographer
• Raj Vir Singh Yadav
• Kazi Mobin-Uddin, inventor of Inferior vena cava filter
• Shahid Jameel, Indian virologist
• Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie, Indian marine geologist and former director of the National Institute of Oceanography.
• Mriganka Sur, Indian-born neuroscientist working in the United States
• Digvijai Singh
• Jhillu Singh Yadav, Chemist
• Sri Niwas, Indian geophysicist.
• Nishith Gupta, molecular biologist
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, organic chemist specialising in natural product chemistry
• Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Ravindra Khattree, Distinguished Professor and statistician who worked in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, experimental designs, biostatistics and quality control
• Syed Ziaur Rahman, medical pharmacologist
• Rajeev Kumar Varshney, agricultural scientist, genomics specialist, biotechnologist
• Zahoor Qasim, oceanographer, leader of first Indian expedition to Antarctica
• Aditi Sen De is an Indian scientist, a professor in quantum information and computation group at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
• Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist and rheumatologist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Soniya Nityanand (born 6 September 1962) is an Indian immunologist specialising in hematology.
• Qamar Rahman is an Indian scientist who has worked extensively in the last 40 years to understand the physiological effects of nanoparticles.
• Rani Dhavan Shankardass is an Indian social historian and global expert on prison reform.
• Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma, more popularly known as G K Vishwakarma, was an eminent orthopedic surgeon, academician and public health administrator.

Technology

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

Holders of high offices

President

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

Vice President

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

Prime Ministers

• Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, second Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
• Indira Gandhi, fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
• Choudhary Charan Singh, fifth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
• Rajiv Gandhi, sixth prime minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, eighth Prime Minister of India
• Chandra Shekhar, ninth Prime Minister of India
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee. eleventh Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee

Prime Ministers of other countries

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Jugnauth (center) with Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao (left) and Finance Minister Manmohan Singh (right) in New Delhi, 1991

• Anerood Jugnauth, former Prime Minister of Mauritius, His grand father migrated from Ballia district
• 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,

Chief Justices

• Kailas Nath Wanchoo, former Chief Justice of India
• Kamal Narain Singh, former Chief Justice of India
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Chief Justice of India
• Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, former Chief Justice of India
• V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India

Political figures

Pre independence

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Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya

• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Motilal Nehru, Indian National Congress leader
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, former President of Indian National Congress
• Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay
• Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
• Rai Rajeshwar Bali, education minister (1924–1928)
• Sampurnanand
• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

Post independence

• Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

Poets

Bhojpuri

• Parichay Das
• Viveki Rai

Environmentalists

• 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.
• Afroz Ahmad, is an Indian environment scientist and a former civil servant.
• 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.
• Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.
• 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.

Scholars

• Arun Tiwari, missile scientist, author, professor
• Acharya Narendra Dev
• Adya Prasad Pandey, notable economist of Banaras Hindu University and Currently Vice Chancellor of Manipur University
• Divya Dwivedi, philosopher
• 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
• Mushirul Hasan, historian
• Raja Ram Yadav, educationist, Physicist, former Vice Chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
• 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
• Shah Syed Hasnain Baqai, Islamic scholar, thinker, reformer; known for his inclusive and broadminded interpretation of Islam; born in Safipur
• Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna.

Journalism

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Raghuvir Sahay

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

Sports

Basketball

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

Baseball

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

Wrestling

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

Badminton

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

Music dance

Folk singers

• Baleshwar Yadav
• Bihari Lal Yadav
• Hiralal Yadav
• Malini Awasthi

Rappers

• Hard Kaur, from Kanpur
• Baba Sehgal

Cinema and theatre

Theatre related

• Arvind Gaur
• Nadira Babbar
• Sushil Kumar SinghTemplate:Dn

Cinematographers

• Anjuli Shukla
• Ashok Kumar
• Ayananka Bose
• Hemant Chaturvedi
• Ravikant Nagaich
• Vierendrra Lalit

Navratnas

• Raja Todar Mal, Finance Minister and one of the Navratnas of Akbar
• Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Hindi poet and a Navratna of Akbar
• Birbal, jester and poet of Akbar's court

Satire, comedy, cartoons

• Akbar Allahabadi, poet and satirist
• K. P. Saxena
• Kaak (b. 1940, Harish Chandra Shukla), cartoonist
• Kaka Hathrasi, satirist
• Rajpal Yadav, actor and comedian
• Raju Srivastava, actor and stand up comedian
• Tuntun, comedian
• Anubhav Singh Bassi is an Indian actor, YouTuber and stand-up comedian. His career as a standup comic started after an open mic in 2017.
• Aseem Trivedi (born 17 February 1987) is an Indian political cartoonist and activist, known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption

Photographers

• Lala Deen Dayal, Indian photographer
• Tarun Khiwal (born 1967), Indian fashion and commercial photographer
• Darogha Ubbas Alli (aka Darogha Abbas Ali) was a 19th-century Indian engineer and photographer.
• Farhat Basir Khan (born 2 August 1957) is an Indian photographer.
• Richa Maheshwari is a Delhi-based fashion photographer.
• Virendra Prabhakar (1928 – 2015) was an Indian press photojournalist, cited by the Limca Book of Records as the longest serving press photojournalist.
• Devi Prasad (artist) (1921 – 1 June 2011) was an Indian artist and peace activist. He was a pioneering studio potter, painter, designer, photographer, art educator and peace activist.

Militants

• Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Others

• Abdul Karim, Munshi to Queen Victoria
• Begum Samru, historical figure
• Deep Tyagi, pioneer of family planning programme in India
• Jaichand of Kannauj, historical figure
• Tabassum Mansoor, Indian educationist in Libya
• Rahul Mishra (born 1979), fashion designer
• Sampat Pal Devi, women's rights activist
• Sheila Dikshit, former Chief Minister of Delhi
• Vinod Rai, former CAG and IAS
• Mohammad Waliullah was a senior judge of the Allahabad High Court in India.
• Acharya Prashant, is an Indian author and Advaita teacher. He teaches seventeen forms of Gita and sixty forms of Upanishads.
• Shiv Prasad Gupta (28 June 1883 – 24 April 1944) was a visionary, philanthropist, a leader of the Indian Freedom Movement and the founder of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth.
• Malini Agarwal (born 26 May 1977), also known as MissMalini, is an Indian digital influencer, TV host, entrepreneur, and author.

Photo gallery

• Abdul Hamid's bust at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
  Abdul Hamid's bust at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
• Jadunath Singh's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
  Jadunath Singh's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
• Param Vir Chakra Awardee Yogendra Yadav at India Gate on Kargil Vijay Divas, 2018
  Param Vir Chakra Awardee Yogendra Yadav at India Gate on Kargil Vijay Divas, 2018
• Manoj Pandey's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
  Manoj Pandey's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
  Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Yadav bowling for India against Bangladesh during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
  Poonam Yadav bowling for India against Bangladesh during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
• Suresh Raina
  Suresh Raina
• Surya in Kolkata Knight Riders apparel during the 2017 Indian Premier League
  Surya in Kolkata Knight Riders apparel during the 2017 Indian Premier League

See also

• Lists of Indian people
• List of people from Purvanchal
• States and union territories of India