List of people from Uttar Pradesh
Appearance
This is a list of people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India.
- Lord Rama ( Ayodhya )
- Lord Krishna ( Mathura )
- Prem Chand , Greatest Hindi Novalist ( Rangbhoomi,Godan etc )
- Mangal Pandey, Initiator of the First Independence War of India
- Diwakar Singh , born on 12 Jan 1975 native of Banaras. He is currently working in Software Giant Lenovo with ashwathi as his colleague
- Ayaz Khan, born in Lucknow, software engineer working in USA in software company.
- Gosvami Tulasidasa ( Wrote Ramayana , The greatest epic ever told).
- Jaishankar Prasad , ( kamayani )one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd and best prime minister of India, whose slogan was Jai Javan, Jai Kishan
- Pavhari Baba, a great and enlightened saint from Ghazipur
- Sumitranandan Pant , one of four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi School of Hindi
- Chittu Pandey (Shere Ballia) 1865-1946Hero of 1942 revolution in Ballia district. He lead the "Quit India Movement in Ballia
- Anuj Lavania, Hailing from Agra and a rank holder in MBA from VTU, currently working in Lenovo
- Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, great freedom fighter and Hero of freedom strugle of India. He was closed associate with Bhagat singh and Chandrashekhar.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, (1889-1948), Prime Minister of India
- Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
- Kanshi Ram, politician
- Lalji Tandon, politician
- Mayawati, politician
- Abu Asim Azmi Plitician
- Zafar Iqbal, Hockey star, olympian,former captain and chief coach Indian hockey,presently working as general manager (Civil engineering) at Indian air Lines.
- Mohammed Kaif, (born 1980) cricketer
- Mulayam Singh Yadav, politician
- Tushima Sharma (born 1982), Senior Customer Service Associate,GSDC,IBM(Bangalore)
- Raj Babbar, (born 1952), actor
- Gulshan Kumar, film producer
- Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime Minister of India
- Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Founder of BHU
- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Founder of AMU
- Maulana Abul Hassan Nadvi Great Muslim Scholer of Nadwa, Lucknow and Internationaly know and Dean of Islamic Studies Department - Oxford University London.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Motilal Nehru
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Govind Ballabh Pant
- Amitabh Bachchan,Actor
- Pandit Raj Mangal Pandey (SOHANG, KASIA, KUSHINAGAR)a noted politician and Social reformer, Former Minister.
- Pandit Vishwanath Shukla (SOHANG) A farmer, a hard worker and Social Worker.
- Ranganath Mishra, former Chief Justice of India
- K.N. Singh, former Chief Justice of India
- Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice President of India
- Gulzari Lal Nanda, former Prime Minister of India
- Prof. Daulat Singh Kothari, Physicist
- H.N. Bahuguna, former Deputy Prime Minister of India
- Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi, former Union Minister, Human Resource & Development
- Mahadevi Varma poetess
- Ashirvadi Lal Srivastava historian
- Chander Shekhar Azad, Great Freedom Fighter
- Ram Prasad Bismil, Freedom Fighter
- Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister of India
- Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, Shia scholar who moved to Persia (now Iran), grandfather of Ayatollah Khomeini.
See also: List of people by India state [[Category:Uttar Pradesh|*]