List of people from Jammu and Kashmir
This is an alphabetically arranged list of notable people from Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Academics and science
- Amitabh Mattoo, thinker and professor
- Lalit Gupta, art historian
- Subhash Kak, American computer scientist
- Sonam Wangchuk, engineer, innovator and education reformist
- Vijay Mahajan, American Marketing Professor from Jammu
Administration and police
- Masud Choudhary, ex IPS officer
- Shesh Paul Vaid, IPS officer
- Shah Faesal, first IAS topper from Kashmir
- Abdul Rashid Khan, IPS, Ex Inspector General of Police and Member State Human Rights Commission.
- Farooq Khan, ex IPS, politician, advisor
Artists
- Krsna (rapper), rapper and actor
- Allah Rakha, musician
- Bhajan Sopori, musician
- Dina Nath Walli, painter
- Ghulam Rasool Santosh, painter
- Kanish Sharma, music director/singer
- KSHMR, EDM artist
- Rahul Bhat, actor
- Aamir Bashir,actor
- Mir Sarwar, actor
- Tochi Raina, singer
- MC Kash, rapper and singer
- Malika Pukhraj, singer
- Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, musician
- Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
- Vibha Saraf, singer & musician
Comptrollers
- V. N. Kaul, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Padma Bhushan
Defence forces
- Bana Singh, PVC recipient
- Chewang Rinchen, double MVC recipient
- General Bikram Singh, ex Chief of Army Staff
- Nirmal Chander Vij, ex Chief of Army Staff
- Rajinder Singh, first MVC recipient
- Nazir Ahmad Wani, first Ashoka Chakra recipient
Films and television
- Aamir Bashir, actor
- Abrar Qazi, actor
- Anjali Abrol, film actress
- Aly Goni, TV actor
- Anupam Kher, actor
- Ekta Kaul, TV actress
- Hina Khan, TV actress
- Sandeepa Dhar, actress
- Jeevan, actor
- Joanna Lumley, actress
- K. K. Raina, actor, director
- Kanchi Kaul, actress
- Kiran Kumar, actor
- KL Saigal, singer and actor
- Kunal Khemu, actor
- Leenesh Mattoo, TV actor
- Loveleen Kaur Sasan, TV serial actress
- M. K. Raina, actor, theatre director
- Mir Sarwar , actor, former model
- Iqbal Khan, actor
- Mohit Raina, actor
- Mukesh Rishi, actor
- Mushtaq Kak, actor and theatre director
- Om Prakash, character actor
- Praneet Bhat, actor
- Qazi Touqeer, singer
- Raaj Kumar, film actor
- Raj Zutshi, actor
- Raj Singh Arora, TV actor
- Reyhna Malhotra, TV actress
- Sana Dua, model
- Sanjay Kak, documentary film maker
- Sanjay Suri, actor
- Shaheer Sheikh, TV actor
- Siddharth Kak, television producer and presenter
- Sidhant Gupta, actor
- Sumit Kaul, actor
- Sunder, actor
- Tej Sapru, actor
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra8
- Vineet Raina, actor
- Vinay Sapru, actor, writer, director
- Waseem Mushtaq, TV actor
- Husain Khan, Actor
- Kanish Sharma, music director
- Zaira Wasim, film actress
- Nitin Sharma, model
Journalism & media
- Nidhi Razdan, newscaster
- Shujaat Bukhari
Law and justice
- Adarsh Sein Anand, ex Chief Justice of India
- Bilal Nazki, ex Chief Justice of Orissa and Chairman of Human Rights Commission of Bihar
- Mehr Chand Mahajan, ex Chief Justice of India
- Parvez Imroz, human rights activist and lawyer
- T.S. Thakur, ex Chief Justice of India
Literature
- Agha Shahid Ali, poet and finalist for National Book Award of United States in 2001
- Basharat Peer, author and scriptwriter
- Deen Bandhu Sharma, writer
- Farooq Nazki, poet, broadcaster and media personality
- Habba Khatun, 16th-century poet, known as "Nightingale of Kashmir"
- Hakeem Manzoor, writer, poet
- Lalleshwari, poet-saint
- Moti Lal Kemmu, Kashmiri writer and social worker
- Padma Sachdev, poet, novelist, first modern women poet of Dogri language
- Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
- Rafiq Anjum, poet, researcherPrf. Rahman Rahi Poet and Critic
- Ram Nath Shastri, known as "Father of Dogri" as he brought Dogri language at national level, a Dogri poet
Politics
- Altaf Bukhari, former Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Karan Singh, ex Sadar-e-Raiyasat
- Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Mirza Mehboob Beg (1949-), politician.
- Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg (d.1982) was the first deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. and former Home Minister of India
- Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Prem Nath Dogra, founder of Praja Parishad Party
- Shah Faisal, Independent politician, founder of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement.
- Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Syed Mir Qasim, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Royalty
- Gulab Singh, Maharaja
- Hari Singh, Maharaja
- Karan Singh, Maharaja
- Lalitaditya Muktapida, king of Kashmir
- Pratap Singh, Maharaja
- Ranbir Singh Maharaja
Social Activists
- Parveena Ahanger, cofounder and chairman of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
- Mushtaq Pahalgami, social activist, environmentalist
Sports
- Ishfaq Ahmed, Indian Football Team
- Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Indian Football team
- Mithun Manhas, Indian Premier League player
- Parvez Rasool, first J&K cricketer to represent India in International cricket
- Abdul Samad, J&K cricketer, played IPL through Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Shubham Khajuria, cricketer
- Chain Singh, J&K's first Olympian, Asian Games 2014 Bronze Medal winner in shooting
- Rasikh Salam, Indian Premier League player
- Danish Farooq Bhat, Indian footballer plays as midfielder for real kashmir team
- Iqra Rasool, Indian cricketer. Also known as Baramullah SupergirSupergir
References
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