List of people from Purvanchal
This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.
Academics, science, and engineering
- Manindra Agrawal, mathematician, engineer
- Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
- Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician
- John B. Chitamber, educational reformer
- Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner[1]
- Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher
- Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer
- Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist
- Prem Chand Pandey
- Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist
- Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner[2]
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI[3]
- Obaid Siddiqui
Armed forces
- Mahendra Nath Mulla
- Abdul Hamid
- Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Artists
Entertainment and media
- Anjaan
- Kaifi Azmi
- Baba Azmi
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Manoj Bajpai, actor.
- Pankaj Tripathi, actor.
- Parichay Das
- Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
- Sulochana Brahaspati, singer
- Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
- Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician.
- Manoj Tiwari, actor and Politician.
- Amrapali Dubey, actress.
- Girija Devi
- Siddheshwari Devi
- Rajkumari Dubey
- Anshuman Jha, actor
- Anurag Kashyap, film director
- Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician.
- Kishan Maharaj
- Nalin Mazumdar, guitarist
- Chhannulal Mishra
- Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- Gopal Shankar Misra
- Lalmani Misra
- Indrani Mukherjee, actress
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Chunky Pandey
- Sudhanshu Pandey
- Kinsey Peile, playwright, actor
- Rahi Masoom Raza
- Sameer
- Jhanak Shukla
- Saurabh Shukla
- Supriya Shukla
- Vinay Shukla
- Kapila Vatsyayan
Entrepreneurs
Freedom fighters and kings
Politicians
- Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
- Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.
- Giriraj Kishore
- Kalraj Mishra
- Kamlesh Paswan
- Raj Narain
- Jai Prakash Narayan, Independence activist.
- Prem Prakash Pandey
- Jagdambika Pal
- Jharkhande Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- Sone Lal Patel
- Mahaveer Prasad
- Rajendra Prasad, First President of India.
- Kalpnath Rai
- Krishnanand Rai
- Sampurnanand
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Surya Pratap Shahi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, Former Prime minister of India.
- Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime minister of India.
- Amar Singh
- Om Prakash Singh
- Rajnath Singh Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
- Tribhuvan Narain Singh
- Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
- Manoj Sinha
- Hari Shankar Tiwari
- Kamalapati Tripathi
- Ram Naresh Yadav
- Ramakant Yadav
- Om Prakash Rajbhar
Social activists
- Veer Bhadra Mishra, academic, environmentalist
- Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist
Spiritual leaders
Sportspeople
Badminton
Baseball
Cricket
Gymnastics
- Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
- Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games
Hockey
Writers
- Premchand.
- Meena Alexander, poet
- Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer
- Aniruddha Bahal, journalist, novelist
- Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
- Dharamvir Bharati, author, poet
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, poet
- Satish Chandra, writer, historian
- Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'
- Kapil Deva Dvivedi
- Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet
- Harisena, poet
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
- Rafiq Husain, writer, poet
- Ibn-e-Safi, novelist
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
- Shibli Nomani
- Jaishankar Prasad
- Munshi Premchand
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
- Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist
- Viveki Rai
- Rahul Sankrityayan
- Parichay Das
- Allan Sealy, author, writer
- Ramchandra Shukla
- Kedarnath Singh
- Julia Strachey, novelist, writer
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Baldev Upadhyaya
- Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
References
- "Academic Report 2010-2011" (PDF). Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- "Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History". slac.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times.
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