List of people from Uttar Pradesh

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This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. The criteria of this list includes those persons who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces that now are part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. Though their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity. Kindly add people by occupation and give a brief introduction about their field of contributions while adding names to this list.

Deities and Avtaras

Krishna as a young cowherd boy, playing the bansuri (flute).

• Rama (Birth place:Ayodhya), is a legendary or historical king of ancient India. In Hinduism, he is considered to be the seventh Avatar of Vishnu.
• Krishna (Birth Place:Mathura), is a deity worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism.
• Lakshmana (Birth place:Ayodhya), was the brother and close companion of Rama, and himself a hero in the famous epic 'Ramayana'

Authors of the Great Epics

• Valmiki,wrote "Ramayan"
• Vyasa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions who authored Mahabharata
• Tulsidasa, Awadhi poet and philosopher, wrote Rāmacaritamānasa ("The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama.

Yogis, Sufis and Mystics

• Kabir,poet and Saint
• Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint born in Badayun
• Amir Khusro, Sufi mystic, one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent.

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Paramhans Yogananda

• Sant Ravidas,poet and Saint
• Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri.
• Waris Pak of Deva Sharif, Barabanki
• Paramhansa Yogananda, Mystic who introduced Yoga in the West
• Surdas was a blind Hindu poet, sant and musician
• Shiv Dayal Singh,Guru Maharaj of Radhasoamis
• Shriram Sharma Acharya, founder Gayatri Parivar
• Jagadguru Kripalu Ji Maharaj
• Hans Ji Maharaj
• Prem Rawat,known for his message of Inner Peace

Freedom Fighters

Mangal Pandey

1857

• Mangal Pandey,foremost freedom fighter of 1857
• Rani Laxmibai, Indian freedom fighter from Jhansi.
• Begum Hazrat Mahal, Indian freedom fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857.
• Nana Sahab, Indian freedom fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857 who took over Kanpur (not born in UP)
• Tatya Tope, commander-in-cheif of Rebel forces in Indian Rebellion of 1857 until late 1858. (not born in UP)

Post 1857

• Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian freedom fighter.
• Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, freedom fighter, journalist
• Capt Lakshmi Sehgal, of INA (born Madras)
• Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian freedom fighter and socialist.
• Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian freedom fighter and politician, became Chief Minister of the United Provinces. Also Bharat Ratna recipient.
• Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, Indian freedom fighter. He was close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad.
• Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Indian freedom fighter and socialist.
• Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
• Ram Manohar Lohia, socialist
• Hasrat Mohani, freedom fighter and poet
• Asaf Ali, freedom fighter
• Rajendra Lahiri, freedom fighter
• Maulana Mohammad Ali, freedom fighter
• Purushottam Das Tandon, freedom fighter
• Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, freedom fighter
• Mahavir Tyagi, freedom fighter
• Captain Ram Singh Thakur, was an Indian Freedom Fighter, Musician and the Composer of Indian National Anthem, Jana Gana.

National / International Award Winners

Bharat Ratna

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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

• Bhagwan Das, philosopher and Freedom Fighter
• Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
• Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon, Freedom Fighter
• Govind Ballabh Pant,Freedom Fighter
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, Freedom Fighter
• Indira Gandhi,Freedom Fighter
• Ravi Shankar,Sitar Maesro
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai Maestro

Param Vir Chakra

• Naik Jadu Nath Singh
• Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid
• Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey

Maha Vir Chakra

• Brigadier Mohammad Usman

Padma Vibhushan

• Justice V. N. Khare

Ashok Chakra

• Kamlesh Kumari

Padma Bhushan

• Prof Irfan Habib, Historian
• Qurratulain Hyder,Author
• Josh Malihabadi, Poet
• Kishan Maharaj, Tabla Maestro

Padma Shree

• Runa Banerjee,Social Work
• Muzaffar Ali, Films
• Asifa Zamani, Persian Scholar
• K.P. Saxena, Writer
• Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, Hockey Olympian

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

• Naushad Ali, Music Composer
• Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist

Jnanpith Awards

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet
• Mahadevi Verma,poet
• Qurratulain Hyder, writer
• Ali Sardar Jafri,writer and poet

Magasaysay Award

• Sandeep Pandey

Arjuna Award

• Syed Modi,Badminton
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta, Badminton
• Moraad Ali Khan,shooter
• Jaspal Rana,shooter (Uttarkhand)

Science and Medicine

• Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad
• Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Harish-Chandra, was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
• Zahoor Qasim, Oceanographer,leader of first Indian Expedition to Antarctica
• P. K . Sethi , inventor of "Jaipur Foot"
• Kamla Kant Pandey,notable plant geneticist
• Mriganka Sur,Neuroscientist at MIT
• Prof Raj Shankar, Neuroscientist

Holders of High Offices

President

• Muhammad Hidayatullah,acting President in 1969

Vice President

• Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice President of India

Prime Ministers

• Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee.

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Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee.
• Indira Gandhi, fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee.
• Choudhary Charan Singh, sixth Prime Minister of India
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, eighth Prime Mininster of India
• Chandra Shekhar, ninth Prime Minister of India
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee. eleventh Prime Minister of India
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, ex Prime Minister of Nepal

Governors

• Saiyid Nurul Hasan, former Governor of West Bengal
• Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand
• Khurshid Alam Khan, former Governor of Karnataka
• Mohammad Yunus Saleem,former Governor of Bihar
• A R Kidwai, Governor of Haryana
• Mohammad Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra
• Girish Chandra Saxena,former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir
• K.M. Seth,former Governor of Chhatisgarh

Chief Justices

• Mohammad Hidayatullah,former Chief Justice of India
• VN Khare, former Chief Justice of India
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• R.S.Pathak, former Chief Justice of India

Chief Ministers

• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Sampurnanand
• Sucheta Kripalani
• Chandra Bhanu Gupta
• Choudhary Charan Singh
• Tribhuvan Narain Singh
• Kamalapati Tripathi
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
• Narayan Dutt Tiwari
• Ram Naresh Yadav
• Banarsi Das
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh
• Sripati Mishra
• Vir Bahadur Singh
• Mulayam Singh Yadav
• Kalyan Singh
• Ram Prakash Gupta
• Rajnath Singh
• Mayawati, present Chief Minister of UP

Union Ministers

• Mahaveer Prasad
• Shriprakash Jaiswal
• Dr.Akhilesh Das

Prominent political figures

Pre Independence

• Motilal Nehru, prominent Indian National Congress leader
• Dr.Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, former President of Indian National Congress
• Rai Rajeshwar Bali, education minister (1924-1928)
• Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Sampurnanand

Post Independence

• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
• Ram Manohar Lohia
• Choudhary Charan Singh
• Narayan Dutt Tiwari
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
• Kamalapati Tripathi
• Indira Gandhi
• Feroze Gandhi
• Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
• Mohsina Kidwai
• Sheila Kaul
• Raj Narain
• Noor Bano
• Mohammad Azam Khan, political leader
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader
• Rajeev Shukla, journalist and political leader
• Amar Singh, political leader
• Murli Manohar Joshi,former Union HRD Minister
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, political leader
• Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader
• Choudhary Ajit Singh, political leader
• Satish Mishra, Deputy CM of UP
• Promod Tiwari,MLA
• Kalraj Mishra,former Minister
• Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader
• Shriprakash Jaiswal, Union Minister
• Akhilesh Das,Union Minister
• Raj Babbar,Member of Parliament

Authors

Hindi

• Vishnu Sarma,author of Panchtantra
• Malik Mohammad Jaisi,author of Padmavat
• Munshi Prem Chand, renowned novelist, was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
• Bharatendu Harishchandra, Hindi writer, who made major contributions in the field of journalism, drama and poetry.
• Amritlal Nagar, Hindi writer
• Bhagwati Charan Verma, Hindi writer
• Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, popularly known by his pen-name "Ajneya" (or Agyeya), was a pioneer of modern trends not only in the realm of Hindi poetry, but also fiction, criticism and journalism
• Jaishankar Prasad,Hindi writer
• Yashpal, Hindi writer
• Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi writer
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi,Hindi novelist
• Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi Scholar and writer
• Vidya Niwas Mishra, Hindi Scholar
• Rahi Masoom Raza,author of 'Topi Shukla' and 'Adha Gaon'
• Vinod Kumar Shukla,writer
• Shrilal Shukla,writer of 'Raag Darbari'

Urdu

• Ibne Safi Novelist of Jasoosi Duniya fame
• Qurratulain Hyder, writer of Aag Ka Darya fame
• Ismat Chugtai, writer
• Mirza Hadi Ruswa, author of Umrao Jaan

English

• Allan Sealy, Novelist and writer
• Attia Hosain, English author and journalist
• Zameer Hassan Kazmi, Writer in English
• Namita Gokhale,A uthor
• Vikas Swarup, Author of "Q&A"
• Rukun Advani, Author and publisher
• Mariam-Karim Ahlawat, writes for children

Poets

Urdu

• Mirza Ghalib, was a renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet of the subcontinent.
• Mir Anis, Urdu Marsia poet
• Maulana Hali, Urdu poet, one of the most well-regarded biographers of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetry.
• Firaq Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith award
• Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriter.
• Safi Lakhnavi, eminent Urdu poet
• Majrooh Sultanpuri, poet and lyricist
• Josh Malihabadi,eminent Urdu poet
• Firaq Gorakhpuri, eminent Urdu poet
• Jigar Moradabadi, Urdu poet
• Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu poet
• Khumar Barabankvi, Urdu poet
• Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim, Urdu poet
• Brij Narayan Chakbast, Urdu poet
• Akbar Allahabadi, poet
• Majaz, Urdu poet

Hindi

• Jaishankar Prasad, one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi.
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet.
• Mahadevi Varma, a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry. She won the Jnanpith award in 1982.
• Sumitranandan Pant, one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi.
• Maithilisharan Gupt, one of the most famous modern Hindi poets.
• Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi poetKaka Hathrasi, Humorous Poet
• Shivmangal Singh Suman
• Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

Founders of Educational Institutions

• Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University.
• Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Benaras Hindu University.
• Jagdish Gandhi, founder of the City Montessori School.

Defence Services

Army

• Lt. Gen K.M. Seth
• Manoj Kumar Pandey, 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient.
• Abdul Hamid (soldier), 4 Grenadiers, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient.
• Jadu Nath Singh, 1 Rajput Regiment, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient.

Air Force

• S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
• Brigadier Mohammad Usman, receipient of Maha Vir Chakra
• Trevor Keelor IAF , Vir Chakra winner in Indo-Pak war of 1965
• Denzil Keelor IAF , Air Marshall (Retd), Vir Chakra winner and Kirti Chakra recipient.

Civil Service / Diplomacy

Indian Foreign Service

• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, and the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly.
• Asaf Ali, first Indian Ambassador to US
• Girija Shankar Bajpai, First Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs
• Braj Kumar Nehru, a relative of Jawaharlal Nehru, served as a diplomat, as ambassador to several countries and was offered the post of United Nations Secretary-General in 1951, but declined. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan award in 1999.
• R.K.Nehru,former diplomat
• Virendra Dayal, former Under Secretary General of UN

Indian Administrative Service

• Isha Basant Joshi, first woman to be appointed IAS officer
• Sir Chandrika Prasad Srivastava,eminent bureaucrat
• Naresh Chandra Saxena, Eminent bureaucrat
• Yogendra Narain, former Defence Secretary of India
• Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
• B.K.Chaturvedi, former Cabinet Secretary
• B.B.Tandon, former Chief Election Commissioner
• Ahmed Nazir Kidwai, former Chief Secretary of Assam

Music and Dance

Musicians

• Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai maestro, awarded the Bharat Ratna, (2001), also had the distinction of being one of the few people to be awarded all the top four civilian awards.

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Ravi Shankar

• Pandit Ravi Shankar, classical Sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999. He has also won three Grammy awards.
• Begum Akhtar, was a Ghazal singer
• Naushad, music director, was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
• Sir Cliff Richard, the popular English singer
• Kishan Maharaj, Tabla Maestro
• Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
• Dr.Lalmani Misra was an Indian classical musician. Dean & Head, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and his son
• Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, Vichitra Veena player
• Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, eminent Musician

Singers

• Girija Devi, is an Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singers
• Shubha Mudgal, Singer
• Baba Sehgal, Singer
• Talat Mahmood, ghazal singer
• Anup Jalota, Ghazal and Bhajan Singer
• Siddheshwari Devi, was a famous Hindustani singer from Benares, lovingly known as Maa (mother).

Dancers

• Birju Maharaj, Kathak exponent
• Lachhu Maharaj, Kathak exponent

Sports

Hockey

• Dhyan Chand, former international hockey player, awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour
• Zafar Iqbal, former international captain of the Indian hockey team and Chief coach of Indian hockey team.
• K. D. Singh, former National Hockey player and Olympian
• Mohammed Shahid, former international hockey player, was member of the Indian team that won Gold Medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 1980 and Padma Shri in 1986.

Cricket

• Ashish Zaidi,cricketer
• Manoj Prabhakar,cricketer
• Arun Lal, former Test cricketer
• Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer
• Bob Woolmer, international cricketer, professional coach and also a professional commentator.
• Suresh Raina, international cricketer
• Rudra Pratap Singh, international cricketer
• Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer
• Hemlata Kala, member Indian Women's Cricket team
• Gopal Sharma, cricketer
• Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
• Piyush Chawla
• Narendra Hirwani
• Surinder Amarnath
• Raman Lamba
• Surinder Amarnath
• Rohan Gavaskar
• Rajinder Hans
• Rohan Gavaskar

Badminton

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

Other sports

• Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
• Ghaus Mohammad, first Indian to reach Quarterfinal of Wimbeldon
• Jaspal Rana,shooter

Journalism

Print

• Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, was an eminent Indian journalist and an authority on the Nehruvian thought.
• Feroze Gandhi, Managing editor of National Herald
• Dharamvir Bharati, former editor of Dharamyug magazine
• Arun Nehru, former Minister and Columnist
• Saeed Naqvi, Journalist and TV producer
• Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook magazine
• Narendra Mohan, Dainik Jagran
• Aniruddha Bahal, investigative journalist
• Kunal Pradhan, Reuters
• Pankaj Mishra, Journalist

Radio

• Attia Hosain, BBC Urdu Service
• Sanjeev Srivastava, Head of BBCHindi Service

Electronic

• Kamal Khan, NDTV
• Ruchi Kumar, India TV
• Sameer Abbas, IBN 7
• Govind Pant Raju, AajTak

Cinema & Theatre

Actors

• Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor, and one of the most prominent figures in the Indian film industry, awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
• Naseeruddin Shah, actor (not certain whre he was born)
• Marc Zuber, actor

Nimmi

• Raj Babbar, actor and Member of Parliament.
• Jaddanbai,actor
• Nargis, was an actress best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Mother India.
• Nimmi, film actress in the 1950s.
• Lara Dutta, actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and the 2000 Miss Universe.
• Raju Srivastava, Comedian
• Joy Mukherjee, actor (not certain where he was born)
• Subodh Mukherjee, actor (not certain where he was born)
• Rajpal Yadav, actor
• Kamal Narain Singh, actor
• Tuntun, comedy actress
• Rajlaksmi Devi, Bengali actress

Directors / Producers

• K. Asif, was a film director, film producer and screenwriter who was famous for his work for the Hindi epic motion picture, Mughal-e-Azam.
• Shaad Ali, film director
• Kamal Amrohi, Director of Pakeezah fame
• Prakash Mehra, Director
• Muzaffar Ali, film producer. director
• Shama Zaidi, documentary film maker
• Waris Hussein , film maker in UK
• Abrar Alvi, film writer , director

Singers

• Talat Mahmood
• Rajkumari Dubey
• Kailash Kher,Sufi Singer
• Begum Akhtar
• Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
• Abhijeet
• Kabban Mirza
• Anup Jalota
• Baba Sehgal
• Altaf Raja(not born in UP)

Lyricists

• Shakeel Badayuni
• Indeevar
• Shakeel Badayuni
• Majrooh Sultanpuri
• Khumar Barabankvi
• Javed Akhtar (born MP)
• Kaifi Azmi
• Ali Sardar Jafri
• Anjaan

Music Composers

• Naushad Ali
• Shantanu Moitra

Theatre

• Nadira Babbar
• Sai Paranjpye
• Gopal Sharman
• Raj Bisaria

Cinematographer

• Ravikant Nagaich, Cinematographer

Story/ Script/ Dialogue Writers

• Wajahat Mirza, writer of Mughal-e-Azam & Ganga Jamuna
• Javed Siddiqi, film script writer
• K.P.Saxena, dialogue writer of Lagaan
• Ali Reza, film story of 'Dus Numberi'

Nawabs of Awadh

Wajid Ali Shah

• Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, the fourth Nawab,founder of modern Lucknow
• Wajid Ali Shah, the poet, choreographer , the last King of Awadh

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

Television

• Kamleshwar
• Rahi Masoom Raza, dialogue writer of TV serial 'Ramayan'
• Roshan Abbas, TV host
• Gajendra Singh, TV programme producer

Judges and Lawyers

• Mohammad Hidayatullah,former Chief Justice of India
• VN Khare, former Chief Justice of India
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• Jagmohanlal Sinha, judge
• Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru,eminent lawyer
• Markandey Katju,Supreme Court judge

Nature Lovers

• Jim Corbett
• Sundarlal Bahuguna, Environmentlist
• Billy Arjan Singh, Conservationist

Advertising

• Prasoon Joshi,multi talented advertising personality

Business

• Shahnaz Husain, beautician and entrepreneur
• Subroto Roy, owner of Sahara India

Social Service

• Nanaji Deshmukh, social worker
• Sandeep Pandey

Crime

• Phoolan Devi
• Abu Salem
• Daku Man Singh

Others

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• Irfan Habib Historian
• Prasoon Joshi,eminent advertising personality
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
• Nayantara Sahgal, novelist and writer
• Begum Samru, historical figure
• Lala Deen Dayal, photographer
• Jaichand of Kannauj, historical figure
• Kamal Nath, politician
• Mustafa Kamil, former tutor of HH Prince Karim , Aga Khan
• Sheila Dikshit, CM of Delhi
• Imtiaz Qureshi, Master Chef of Awadhi Cuisine
• Kapila Vatsyayan, scholar of Indian classical dance
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, Vice Chancellor of BHU and first Director General of CSIR
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, archaeologist and historian.
• Lalmani Misra, musician
• Prakash Vir Shastri, Member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement
• Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla, Hindi writer and historian.
• Ram Chandra Shukla, painter.
• Gogi Saroj Pal,artist
• Jagannath Prasad Ratnakar,
• Devaki Nandan Khatri
• Tegh Ali
• Baldev Upadhyaya, was a renowned Hindi,Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic. He penned numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature.
• Vidya Niwas Mishra, was a scholar, a noted Hindi-Sanskrit litterateur, and a journalist.
• Kashi Nath Singh
• Namvar Singh,
• Rudra Kashikeya,
• Nirgun

More

• Rai Krishnadas, his son Prof. Anand Krishna,
• Pt. Omkarnath Thakur
• Dr. N. Rajam,
• Dr.Rajbhan Singh,
• Pt.Anokhelal,
• Pt.Samta Prasad,
• Kanthe Maharaj,
• Pt.M. V. Kalvint,
• Gopi Krishna, of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer.
• Rajan and Sajan Misra,
• Mahadev Mishra,
• Upendra Nath 'Ashk', Poet
• V. P. Singh, Prime Minister(not born in UP)
• Dhananjaya Kumar, Yogacharya, Poet
• Megh Nad Saha, Scientist
• Allama Hakim Ahmad Hussain Al-Usmani, Founder State Unani Medical College, Allahabad
• Ahmad Usmani, Shefa-ul-Mulk, Unani Physician
• Hammad Usmani, Unani Physician and Philosopher
• Ram Chandra Shukla, Artist
• Badruddin Siddiqui, Freedom Fighter
• Abdul Rasheed, Freedom Fighter
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, Politician
• Vikas Bhalla, Hindi Pop Singer
• Venkat Bharat Gupta, Classical Singer
• Kailash Nath Katju, Former Union Home Minister and Lawyer
• Aaadietya Pandey, numerologist
• Manoj Kumar Pandey, officer and hero of Operation Vijay
• Prasoon Pandey, film director
• Pt. Tarkeshwar Pandey, former Indian Member of Parliament
• Yogendra Shukla
• Ram Chandra Shukla

See also:

• List of people by India state
• States and territories of India
• List of Hindi authors

Notes

• Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award.
• Padma Shri stands fourth in the hierarchy of civilian awards after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
• Sahitya Akademi is an Indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.