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D.O.A. (band)

D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver. They are often referred to as being among the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Angry Samoans, Germs, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore.

Singer/guitarist Joey "Shithead" Keithley is the only founding member to have stayed in the band throughout its entire history, with original bassist Randy Rampage returning to the band twice after his original departure. D.O.A. has often released music on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles Records, and they have released an album with Biafra on vocals titled Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors.

D.O.A. is known for its outspoken political opinions and has a history of performing for many causes and benefits. Its slogan is "Talk Minus Action Equals Zero." The band's lyrics and imagery frequently advocate anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech, and environmentalism. In support of the Vancouver 5 defence fund, the band released the single Burn it Down from Hardcore '81. In a 1984 interview, Keithley stated that the Burn it Down 45 had raised at least $2,500, and disclosed that he was called by defence counsel as a character witness for Gerry Hannah while Hannah's sentencing was pending.

Founder Joe Keithley is also the founder of Sudden Death Records which has released music by D.O.A. and several other bands including Pointed Sticks and Young Canadians.

Formation and early years (1977–1980)
D.O.A. has its origins in The Skulls, an early Vancouver-area punk rock band that included future D.O.A. members Joey "Shithead" Keithley, along with founding members of the Subhumans, Brian "Wimpy Roy" Goble and Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery.

When the Skulls broke up after an ill-fated move to Toronto, Keithley moved back to Vancouver and formed D.O.A. in early 1978 with himself on guitar, Dimwit's brother Chuck Biscuits on drums, Randy Rampage on bass, and a lead singer known only as "Harry Homo", who suggested the band's name. The band's first gig took place at the Japanese Hall in Vancouver on February 20 of that year, after which Harry Homo was sacked for an apparent lack of rhythm; Keithley then became the band's singer. A second guitarist named "Randy Romance" played briefly with the band in March 1978 before leaving.

The band began playing frequently around Vancouver and added guitarist Brad Kent the following June. That summer, they recorded and self-released their first single, the four-song EP Disco Sucks. The single soon topped the charts of the University of San Francisco radio station KUSF, which prompted the band to begin touring down to San Francisco. They played their first shows there in August 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens. It was during this trip that the band first met Dead Kennedys frontman and future collaborator Jello Biafra. Kent was fired from the band in September and later that fall the band recorded and released their second single "The Prisoner".

In May 1979, the band embarked on their first North American tour. Upon its completion they hired Vancouver journalist and activist Ken Lester as their manager. Lester booked another tour for them the following October, in the middle of which they flew back to Vancouver to open for The Clash at the Pacific Coliseum. They soon after released their third single, "World War 3" / "Whatcha Gonna Do?". In late 1979, they added second guitarist, Dave Gregg. Soon after, Biscuits and Rampage left the band after a disastrous gig at the University of British Columbia's Student Union Building and were replaced by Andy Graffiti and Simon "Stubby Pecker" Wilde on drums and bass, respectively. Keithley soon became dissatisfied with the band's performances with the new line-up, however, and Biscuits and Rampage both rejoined the band in March 1980.

D.O.A. released their full-length debut Something Better Change on Friends Records in 1980 and continued touring the United States and Canada extensively.

Hardcore '81 and further line-up changes (1981–1989)
On April 22, 1981, the band released their second album Hardcore '81; the record's title and its extensive North American promotional tour is sometimes credited with popularizing the term "hardcore punk".

Randy Rampage was fired from the band on January 1, 1982, and was replaced by ex-Skulls drummer Dimwit on bass. After a short tour of California, Chuck Biscuits left the band and joined Black Flag. Dimwit switched back to drums and Subhumans singer Wimpy Roy, another ex-Skulls member, was hired as the new bass player and second singer, leaving Keithley as the last remaining original member. This line-up would last from 1982–1983 and later 1985–1986 and produced several notable releases, including the EP War on 45 (now expanded into a full-length album). War on 45 found the band expanding their sound with touches of funk and reggae, as well as making their anti-war and anti-imperialist political stance more clear.

1985's Let's Wreck The Party and 1987's True (North) Strong And Free saw the band taking on a more mainstream, hard-rock oriented production, but without watering down the band's political lyrical focus. Meanwhile, the band's line-up changes continued after Let's Wreck the Party, with Dimwit replaced by Kerr Belliveau. Belliveau stayed only three weeks with the band but recorded the Expo Hurts Everyone 7" as well as two songs for True (North) Strong and Free before being replaced by Jon Card from Personality Crisis. Dave Gregg quit in 1988 after D.O.A. fired their manager Ken Lester, to which he was close. The band hired Chris Prohom from the Dayglo Abortions as a replacement.

First break-up and reunion (1990–2002)
1990's Murder featured rawer, almost thrash metal production, rather than their original basic punk sound. The same year also produced a collaboration with Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra with Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors. In August 1990, Joey decided he was breaking up D.O.A. but, at the suggestion of promoter Dirk Dirksen, they did a farewell tour of the West Coast, playing their "final" show on December 1, 1990, at the Commodore in Vancouver. In 1991, they released a posthumous live album entitled Talk Minus Action = 0 while Keithley pursued an acting career.

19 months after D.O.A. broke up, Joey Shithead and Wimpy Roy had reunited as D.O.A in the summer of 1992. Fellow Canadian punk rock veteran John Wright from NoMeansNo suggested they hire Ken Jensen from Red Tide as the new drummer, which they did. The new line-up released an EP and two albums in the early 1990s, 13 Flavours Of Doom and Loggerheads. These albums found the band replacing the more hard-rock oriented sound of the 1980s with a return to punk rock, although it was a heavier, tighter brand of punk than their earlier work. These albums were produced by Wright, who also played keyboards on the recordings. The band then added Ford Pier on guitar and vocals.

Tragedy struck in 1995 when drummer Ken Jensen died in a house fire. The "Ken Jensen Memorial Single" EP was released on Alternative Tentacles, including two tracks each from D.O.A. and Red Tide. With John Wright filling in on drums, ninth full-length The Black Spot was recorded. The album featured a more basic, sing-along type punk rock sound that was reminiscent of the band's late 1970s and early 1980s output.

The late 1990s found the band's line-up in turmoil, with Wimpy Roy leaving the band after a decade and a half of service and Kuba joining to play bass from 1997 until 2001. Keithley experimented with different bassists and drummers and released the album Festival Of Atheists in 1998. By the early 2000s, the band had found a permanent drummer in the form of The Great Baldini. In 2002, Keithley put out his first solo album, Beat Trash, and original bassist Randy Rampage returned to the band after nearly 20 years for the Win The Battle album. However, the reunion did not last, with Rampage leaving the band again after the recording of the album, to be replaced by Dan Yaremko.

The Lost Tapes was the first release on Keithley's revived Sudden Death label, followed by Festival Of Atheists. During this period, Keithley also oversaw the re-release of the band's classic early records on Sudden Death, several of which had been out of print for many years.

Later years and second hiatus (2003–2013)
In 2003, Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell declared December 21 to be "D.O.A. Day" in honour of the band's 25th anniversary. In the same year, the band released a career-spanning retrospective entitled War And Peace. 2004 found the band releasing the ska-flavoured Live Free or Die. In 2006, Randy Rampage rejoined D.O.A. for his 3rd stint in the band.

The line-up remained stable until 2008, when The Great Baldini left the band to be replaced by new drummer James Hayden. Also in 2008, it was announced that Bob Rock, of Metallica fame would be producing the band's next album in time for their 30th anniversary. James Hayden quit before D.O.A. started to record to be replaced by Floor Tom Jones In September 2008, D.O.A. released Northern Avenger and embarked on their 30th anniversary tour. On the eve of the tour, it was announced that Randy Rampage was being replaced by Dan Yaremko once again.

D.O.A. played several dates in the summer of 2009 as part of the Van's Warped Tour 2009.

On May 1, 2010, D.O.A. released their fourteenth full-length album Talk Minus Action = Zero (a similarly titled live album Talk Minus Action Equals Zero had previously been released in 1990). Drummer Jesse Pinner (of the band Raised by Apes) took the place of Floor Tom Jones beginning on D.O.A.'s subsequent August 2010 tour due to Floor Tom Jones' commitments to his job at Canada Post.

In 2012, Joe announced that he would be seeking nomination as an NDP candidate in the B.C. provincial election. As a result, D.O.A. announced an indefinite hiatus, and began their farewell tour on January 18, 2013, in celebration of the band's thirty-five year anniversary.

Second reunion and recent activity (2014–present)
On September 22, 2014, Keithley officially announced on the Sudden Death Records website that he had decided to reform the band with Paddy Duddy on drums and Mike "Maggot" Hodsall on bass, and would be embarking on a Canadian tour in October in support of the recently released live album, Welcome To Chinatown. This line-up recorded and released the studio album Hard Rain Falling in 2015. In April 2016, the band released a new version of "Fucked Up Ronnie" entitled "Fucked Up Donald" (referring to the 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump) as a single.

Members
Current line-up
 * Joe Keithley – vocals, guitar (1978–present), bass (1996–1998)
 * Mike Hodsall – bass (2014–present)
 * Paddy Duddy – drums (2014–present)

Former members
 * Harry Homo – lead vocals (1978)
 * Brad Kent – guitar (1978)
 * Randy Romance – guitar (1978)
 * Zippy Pinhead – drums (1979; died 2019)
 * Simon Wilde – bass (1979–1980; died 1994)
 * Andy Graffiti – drums (1979–1980)
 * Randy Rampage – bass (1978–1979, 1980–1982, 2000–2002, 2006–2009; died 2018)
 * Chuck Biscuits – drums (1978–1979, 1980–1982)
 * Dave Gregg – guitar (1979–1988; died 2014)
 * Brian Roy Goble – bass (1982–1996; died 2014)
 * Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery – bass (1982), drums (1982–1983, 1984–1986; died 1994)
 * Gregg "Ned Peckerwood" James – drums (1983–1984)
 * Kerr Belliveau – drums (1986)
 * Jon Card – drums (1986–1990)
 * Chris Prohom – guitar (1988–1990)
 * Ken Jensen – drums (1992–1995; died 1995)
 * Jon Wright – keyboards (1992–1995), drums (1995–1996)
 * Ford Pier – guitar (1994–1996)
 * Wycliffe – bass (1997)
 * Kuba van der Pol – bass (1998–2000, 2002–2003)
 * Brien O'Brien – drums (1997–1999)
 * The Great Baldini – drums (2000–2008)
 * Dan Yaremko – bass (2003–2006, 2009–2013)
 * Floor Tom Jones – drums (2008–2010)
 * Jesse Pinner – drums (2010–2013)

Studio albums

 * Something Better Change (1980)
 * Hardcore '81 (1981)
 * Let's Wreck the Party (1985)
 * True (North) Strong and Free (1987)
 * Murder (1990)
 * 13 Flavours of Doom (1992)
 * Loggerheads (1993)
 * The Black Spot (1995)
 * Festival of Atheists (1998)
 * Win the Battle (2002)
 * Live Free or Die (2004)
 * Northern Avenger (2008)
 * Kings of Punk, Hockey and Beer (2009)
 * Talk-Action=0 (2010)
 * We Come in Peace (2012)
 * Hard Rain Falling (2015)
 * Fight Back (2018)
 * Treason (2020)

Live albums

 * Talk Minus Action Equals Zero (1991)
 * Welcome to Chinatown (2013)

EPs

 * Positively (1981)
 * War on 45 (1982)
 * D.O.A. & Thor – Are U Ready (2003)

Collaborations

 * Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors (with Jello Biafra) (1990)

Solo albums

 * Beat Trash (2002) – Solo project from Joey "Shithead" Keithley

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Chesham Bois

Chesham Bois (traditionally, but now more commonly ) is a village in the Chiltern Hills, in Buckinghamshire, England, adjacent to both Amersham and Chesham.

History
Initially a hamlet in the parish of Chesham, the manor was assessed at 1½ hides in the reign of King Edward the Confessor. The estate belonged to a brother of King Harold, who was killed with him at the Battle of Hastings, and William the Conqueror probably gave this "royal" land to his own half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. The village gets its name from the de Bosco family (the French version of which was "de Bois") and by 1213 in the reign of King John a William du Bois was holding the manor. By about 1430, in the reign of Henry VI, the manor had been acquired by the Cheynes of Chenies who remained for over 300 years, before conveying the manor to the Duke of Bedford in 1735. Chesham Bois House, the site of the manor, was the subject of an archaeological excavation by television programme Time Team, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in March 2007.

During the 1920s and 30s, the Metropolitan Railway’s Amersham station was named “Amersham and Chesham Bois”.

Famous people
Famous people born in Chesham Bois include the crime writer and composer Edmund Crispin; Lieutenant Commander Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy during World War II; and Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England. Chesham Bois was for a time, home to artist William Monk.

Today
The village contains two churches: the Anglican church of St. Leonard's (started in the 12th century) and the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (built in 1915 and extended in 1953), which also houses the traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Chesham Bois C of E School (1893) is located down Bois Lane, a mixed primary school with over 200 pupils. The Beacon School is also located in the village and is an independent preparatory school educating over 400 boys. Also located in the village is Our Lady's Roman Catholic Combined School which is opposite the church of the same name. Elangeni School is situated at the end of Woodside Avenue and is a mixed state school. A 40 acre sycamore and ash wood and common is the site of a cricket pavilion, as well as being the site for the biennial village fete.

Although "two hundred years ago it was in the depths of the country, a small village with no more than twenty-four houses", today some of Chesham Bois merges into Amersham-on-the-Hill.

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Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 3.2 ha and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. A second entrance in the eastern end was apparently blocked up a few centuries after it was built. The original defensive ditch was V-shaped with a small box rampart in front and a larger one behind it. Timber posts stood on the ramparts. Later the ditch was deepened and the extra material dumped on top of the ramparts to increase their size. A parapet wall of sarsen stones lined the top of the innermost rampart. It is very close to the Uffington White Horse on White Horse Hill.

Excavations
Excavations have indicated that it was probably built in the 8th or 7th century BCE and continued to be occupied throughout the Iron Age. Isolated postholes were found inside the fort but no evidence of buildings. Pottery, loom weights and animal bone finds suggest some form of occupation however. The most activity appears to have been during the Roman period as the artefacts recovered from the upper fills of the ditch attest. The ramparts were remodelled to provide more entrances, and a shrine seems to have been built in the early 4th century CE. Two oblong mounds, one containing 46 Romano-British burials and one containing eight Saxon burials, lie nearby.

The Ridgeway
An ancient track passes by the northern entrance to the hillfort; it is known as The Ridgeway. It links to the Icknield Way at the Goring Gap, and passes close to Avebury before heading south across Salisbury Plain. It also passes very close to a Neolithic chambered long barrow, Waylands Smithy, about a mile to the west.

Protection
The hillfort is a Scheduled Monument, and was included in the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 as one of the first 68 sites in Britain and Ireland to receive legal protection. Along with the Uffington White Horse on the slopes below the ramparts, it is in the care of English Heritage.

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List of people from Uttar Pradesh

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

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

Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics

 * 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

 * 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

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 Ikshvaku dynasty ruler of Kosala. Sāvatthī was his capital. He succeeded after.
 * Virudhaka, was a king of Kosala during the lifetime of the Buddha.
 * Chandragupta Maurya, (350-295 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire, a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
 * Ashoka, (, ; c. 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c. 268 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. 590–647 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 (lit. 'Conqueror of the World'), 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. January 19, 1732 – d. January 26, 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, (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

18th century

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

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

Later 19th and 20th centuries
• Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist

• Asaf Ali, independence fighter

• Genda Lal Dixit (30 November 1888 – 21 December 1920) was an Indian revolutionary who led the Shivaji Samiti group of freedom fighters against the British Raj.

• Chandra Shekhar Azad, leader of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association

• Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, independence fighter; member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association; close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad

• Chittu Pandey, independence fighter

• Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, independence fighter, journalist

• Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian independence fighter and politician; Chief Minister of the United Provinces; Bharat Ratna recipient

• Hasrat Mohani, independence fighter and poet

• Laxmi Raman Acharya, freedom fighter accused of the Agra Conspiracy case

• Mahavir Singh Rathore, independence fighter; member of Naujawan Bharat Sabha who helped Bhagat Singh escape

• Mahavir Tyagi, independence fighter

• Maulana Mohammad Ali, independence fighter

• Maulana Shaukat Ali, independence fighter

• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, independence fighter, Ghazipur

• Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay of Pratapgarh, Indian Independence fighter; two time Member of Parliament

• Purushottam Das Tandon, independence fighter

• Roshan Singh, (Kakori conspiracy) independence fighter

• Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Indian independence fighter and socialist

• Raja Mahendra Pratap, King of Hathras Princely State, known as Aryan Peshwa

• Rajendra Lahiri, independence fighter

• Ram Manohar Lohia, socialist

• Ram Prasad Bismil Indian independence fighter and socialist (Kakori conspiracy)

• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, freedom fighter.

• Vijay Singh Pathik

• Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi (5 October 1899 – 18 November 1959) was an Indian lawyer and politician.

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

Bharat Ratna
• Bhagwan Das, philosopher and freedom fighter, Varanasi

• Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement; first Prime Minister of India

• Lal Bahadur Shastri, freedom fighter, former Prime Minister; belonged to Varanasi and Allahabad

• Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon, freedom fighter, Allahabad

• Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, Ghazipur

• Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, educationist and politician, founder of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, politician, eleventh Prime Minister of India

Padma Vibhushan

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

Padma Bhushan
• Dhyan Chand, international hockey player

• Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan

• Amitabh Bachchan, film actor

• Mahesh Prasad Mehray, ophthalmologist

• Bhagwati Charan Varma, Hindi author

• Irfan Habib, historian

• Josh Malihabadi, poet

• Kishan Maharaj, tabla maestro

• Obaid Siddiqui, science

• Qurratulain Hyder, author

• Rahul Sankrityayan

• Ram Kinkar Upadhyay, scholar

• Srilal Shukla, Hindi writer

• Naushad, music director

Padma Shree
• Bekal Utsahi poet, writer

• Giriraj Kishore writer

• Gopaldas Neeraj, Hindi poet and lyricist

• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, scholar of Unani medicine

• Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India

• K. P. Saxena, writer

• Kanhai Chitrakar

• Kapil Deva Dvivedi

• Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, hockey Olympian

• Mohammed Shahid, ex-captain of Indian hockey team, Varanasi

• Muzaffar Ali, film director

• Prakash Singh

• Praveen Chandra, cardiac surgeon

• Vidya Niwas Mishra, writer

• Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri awardee yogi; founder director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur

• Ravindra Jain, singer, music composer, lyricst

• Malini Awasthi

• Usha Yadav, Educationist

• Anil K. Rajvanshi, Grassroot research

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

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

Gyananpith Awards
• Akhlaq Mohammed Khan

• Ali Sardar Jafri, writer and poet

• Amarkant

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet

• Mahadevi Verma, poet

• Qurratulain Hyder, writer

• Sri Lal Sukla

Magasaysay Award

 * Rajendra Singh, water conservationist
 * Sandeep Pandey

Arjuna Award
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta, badminton

• Ashish Kumar, gymnastics

• Narsingh Yadav, Wrestler

• Satish Kumar Yadav, Boxer

• Jagbir Singh, hockey

• Moraad Ali Khan, shooter

• Syed Modi, badminton

• Varun Bhati,

Major Dhyan Chand Award

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

Army
• Brigadier Mohammad Usman, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra

• Jadunath Singh, Rajput Regiment, recipient of Param Vir Chakra

• Abdul Hamid, four Grenadiers, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient

• K.M. Seth

• Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah

• Manoj Kumar Pandey, 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient

• Yogendra Singh Yadav, 18th Grenadiers of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient

• Asaram Tyagi, Mahavir Chakra in Indo-Pak war of 1965

Air force
• S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)

• Trevor Keelor IAF, Vir Chakra winner in Indo-Pak war of 1965

• Denzil Keelor IAF, Air Marshall (Retd), Vir Chakra winner; Kirti Chakra recipient

• Norman Anil Kumar Browne, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)

• S.P. Tyagi, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)

• Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, Air Chief Marshal, 26th Chief of the Air Staff (India)

Navy

 * Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla

Science and medicine

 * 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.
 * Shalini Kapoor, India's first woman IBM Fellow
 * 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.

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

 * 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,

Governors
• A R Kidwai, former Governor of Haryana

• Girish Chandra Saxena, former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir

• K.M. Seth, former Governor of Chhattisgarh

• Kalyan Singh, Governor of Rajasthan

• Khurshid Alam Khan, former Governor of Karnataka

• Mohammad Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra

• Mohammad Yunus Saleem, former Governor of Bihar

• Ram Naresh Yadav, former Governor of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

• Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand

• Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, former CAG and former Governor of Karnataka

• Virendra Verma, former Governor of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh

• Kalraj Mishra, Governor of Rajasthan and former Governor Himanchal Pradesh

• Satya Pal Malik, former Governor of Meghalaya, Odisha, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa

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

Chief Ministers
• Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari

• 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

• Babulal Gaur, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh

• Vishwanath Pratap Singh

• Sripati Mishra

• Vir Bahadur Singh

• Mulayam Singh Yadav

• Kalyan Singh

• Ram Prakash Gupta

• Rajnath Singh

• Mayawati

• Akhilesh Yadav

• Yogi Adityanath

Pre independence

 * 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
• Ajai Rai, 5 time MLA from Varanasi

• Akhilesh Das, union minister

• Akhilesh Yadav

• Amar Mani

• Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader

• Bacha Pathak, 7 time MLA from Bansdih constituency, 2 time cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh government

• Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader

• Chandra Shekhar, former prime minister of India

• Chaudhary Ajit Singh, political leader

• Choudhary Charan Singh

• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

• Devendra Nath Dwivedi, Indian politician and Governor designate of Gujarat

• Dinanath Bhaskar, political leader; former minister

• Feroze Gandhi

• Govind Ballabh Pant

• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna

• Indira Gandhi

• Kalyan Singh, UP CM and Rajasthan Governor; BJP Vice President

• K.C. Tyagi

• Kailash Nath Katju, former Union Home Minister and lawyer

• Kalpnath Rai

• Kamal Nath, politician

• Kamlesh Paswan, politician

• Kamlesh Tiwari, founder of Hindu Samaj Party, who insulted Muhammad, was imprisoned, and murdered after his release

• Kamalapati Tripathi

• Laxmi Raman Acharya

• Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader

• Manohar Lal (b. 1938), UP MLA, cabinet minister

• Mohsina Kidwai

• Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, founder of Samajwadi Party

• Mayawati, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

• Narayan Dutt Tiwari

• Om Prakash Singh, Former chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand

• Prakash Vir Shastri, member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement

• Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

• Raj Babbar, member of Parliament

• Raj Narain

• Raja Bhaiya, MLA

• Rajeev Shukla, journalist and political leader

• Rajendra Kumari Bajpai (1925–1999), former cabinet minister

• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India

• Ram Govind Chaudhary

• Ram Chandra Vikal, Deputy Chief Minister

• Ram Manohar Lohia

• Ram Naresh Yadav

• Sanjay Singh

• Satyapal Singh Yadav, former union minister

• Satyaveer Munna

• Sheila Kaul

• Shriprakash Jaiswal, union minister

• Shiv Pratap Shukla, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Minister of state (finance), former Cabinet Minister (Government of Uttar Pradesh)

• Shyama Charan Gupta, politician, entrepreneur

• Shyamlal Yadav, former union minister and Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha

• Sunder Lal

• Suresh Pasi, ministries of housing, vocational education, skill development

• Thakur Ji Pathak, activist, Indian political leader

• Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th prime minister of India

Indian Foreign Service
• Asaf Ali, first Indian Ambassador to the United States

• Braj Kumar Nehru, Indian diplomat and Ambassador of India to the United States

• Girija Shankar Bajpai, first Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs

• Shilendra Kumar Singh, former Foreign Secretary of India; former Governor of Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh

• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician; sister of Jawaharlal Nehru

Civil services
• Afroz Ahmad, member of NCA, Government of India

• Baleshwar Rai

• Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, bureaucrat

• Dharma Vira, ICS, cabinet secretary and governor of West Bengal, Mysore

• Durga Shanker Mishra

• Isha Basant Joshi, first woman to be appointed an IAS officer

• Neera Yadav

• Vinod Rai, CAG

• Vinod Kumar Yadav, first CEO of Railway Board

• Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India

• Vijai Shankar Dubey is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1966 cadre batch. He is the only IAS officer to have served as Chief Secretary of two states Bihar & Jharkhand.

• Yogendra Narain is a 1965 batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is a former Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha. He also served as the Defence Secretary of India, Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Surface Transport Secretary of India. He is the current Chancellor of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (HNBGU) situated in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttrakhand. From 2007 to 2017, he was serving as Director at Reliance Power and Reliance Infrastructure.

Indian Police Service
• Brij Lal

• Girish Bihari

• Jagmohan Yadav

• Manoj Yadava

• Mukul Goel

• Navniet Sekera

• Prakash Singh

• Shrish Chandra Dikshit

• Sulkhan Singh

• Laxmi Singh

Business
• Sumit Jain, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO Opentalk.to, Co-Founder and ex-CEO Commonfloor.com

• Gajendra Singh, CMD Saaibaba Telefilms; founder of Ganga Gauri Mahavidyalaya, Ramnagar, Baijabari, Azamgarh

• K.P. Singh, president of DLF Universal Group

• Shyama Charan Gupta, founder of Shyam Group

• Subroto Roy, founder of Sahara India

• Vinod Gupta, former CEO and chairman of InfoUSA; founder of Vinod Gupta School of Management

• Surendra Singh Nagar

• Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm Chairperson of Paras Milk Pvt. Ltd.

• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, and the co-founder of Ashoka University.

• Ponty Chadha

• Sunil Duggal

• Jaiprakash Gaur, (born c. 1930) is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded and, until his retirement in 2010, was the chairman of Jaypee Group.

• Himanshu Gupta, is an Indian American energy policy expert, engineer and entrepreneur in climate change. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of ClimateAI, which was recognized in 2022 by Time magazine as one of the greatest innovations of that year.

• Piyush Gupta, currently serving as the chief executive officer, and director of DBS Group, the largest bank in Southeast Asia by total assets.

• Puran Chandra Gupta, was an Indian journalist who founded the Dainik Jagran media group and it Hindi-language publication Dainik Jagran.

• Haji Kallan

• Khwaja Abdul Hamied

• Ashok Kumar Jain

• Indu Jain, was the chairperson of India's largest media group, popularly known as The Times Group.

• Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain

• Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain

• Deepali Pant Joshi

• Anil Khandelwal

• Suneet Maheshwari

• Samir Modi

• Narendra Mohan, was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Jagran Prakashan, the publisher of the Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran

• Kapil Mohan

• Meenakshi Sargogi

• Ajay S. Shriram

• Lala Kamlapat Singhania,   (1884 – 1937) founder of the J. K. Organisation, one of India's largest conglomerates.

• Saurabh Srivastava, entrepreneur, investment professional, institution builder and a former chairman of NASSCOM, a trade organization for the promotion of Indian IT industry.

• Ishwar Das Varshnei, died 1948) was the father of the glass industry in India.

• Shahnaz Husain, (born 1944)  the founder, chairperson and managing director of The Shahnaz Husain Group.

• Bimla Poddar, is an Indian social worker, businessperson, philanthropist and the founder of Jnana Pravaha

Educators / founders of educational institutions
• Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University

• Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Banaras Hindu University

• Jagdish Gandhi, founder of the City Montessori School

• Naheed Abidi

• Satish Bahadur

• Runa Banerjee

• Gulbadan Begum

• Kamala Bose

• Chandabai

• Saeeda Faiz

• Abidullah Ghazi

• V. Mohini Giri

• Saroj Chooramani Gopal

• Mona Chandravati Gupta

• Hamida Habibullah

• Ruqaiya Hasan

• Zoya Hasan

• Radhika Herzberger

• Sehba Hussain

• Pupul Jayakar

• Deepali Pant Joshi

• Rehana Khatoon

• Aruna Kori

• Birju Maharaj

• Chittaranjan Mitra

• Rajat Moona

• Bishambhar Nath Pande

• Bimla Poddar

• Azarmi Dukht Safavi

• Rani Dhavan Shankardass

• Lilavati Singh

• Uday Pratap Singh

• Parveen Talha

• Romila Thapar

• Rashmi Tiwari

• Ragini Trivedi

• Mahadevi Varma

• Zahida Zaidi

• Roohi Zuberi

Hindi
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• Acharya Chatursen (1891–1960), Hindi writer

• Acharya Kuber Nath Rai

• Amitabh Thakur Hindi writer

• Amritlal Nagar, Hindi writer

• Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay, Hindi writer

• Babu Gulabrai, Hindi writer

• Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi scholar and writer

• Bhagwati Charan Verma, Hindi writer

• Bharatendu Harishchandra, Hindi writer

• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Hindi novelist

• Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi writer

• Kashi Nath Singh, Hindi writer

• Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, polyglot

• Malik Muhammad Jayasi, author of Padmavat

• Munshi Prem Chand, novelist

• Rahi Masoom Raza, author of Topi Shukla and Adha Gaon

• Rajendra Yadav, Hindi novelist

• Ramchandra Shukla, Hindi writer and historian

• Parichay Das, essayist, poet, critic

• Ravindra Prabhat, Hindi novelist

• Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan

• Sahajanand Saraswati, author of books on sociology, freedom struggle, peasant movement, and autobiography

• Sapan Saxena (b. 5 April 1985), novelist known for Finders, Keepers, UNNS-The Captivation and The Tenth Riddle

• Shrilal Shukla, writer of Raag Darbari

• Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh

• Vibhuti Narain Rai, Hindi writer

• Vidya Niwas Mishra, Hindi scholar

• Vinod Kumar Shukla, writer

• Vishnu Sarma, author of Panchtantra

• Viveki Rai

• Yashpal, Hindi writer

Urdu
• Firaq Gorakhpuri

• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, author of books on Unani medicine

• Ibne Safi, novelist of Jasoosi Duniya

• Ismat Chugtai, writer

• Mirza Hadi Ruswa, author of Umrao Jaan

• Qurratulain Hyder, writer of Aag Ka Darya

English
• Leema Dhar, novelist, poet and columnist

• Attia Hosain, English author and journalist

• Ajay K. Pandey, English author

• Anil Swarup, English author

• Nitish Rajput, English author

• Nayantara Sahgal, novelist and writer

• Allan Sealy, novelist and writer

• Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A

• Ruchita Misra, author

• Ira Trivedi is an Indian author, columnist, and yoga teacher. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, often on issues related to women and gender in India.

Hindi
• Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Lit Nibandh

• Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay

• Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi poet

• Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'

• Harikrishna Prasad Gupta Agrahari, poet

• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet

• Jaishankar Prasad, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi

• Kaka Hathrasi, humorous poet

• Virendra Kumar Baranwal, writer of Jinnah: ek punardrishti

• Kedarnath Singh

• Kumar Vishwas, Hindi Poet

• Mahadevi Varma, a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry; won the Jnanpith award in 1982

• Maithilisharan Gupt, modern Hindi poet

• Dushyant Kumar, Hindi poet

• Ramashankar Yadav, Hindi Poet

• Shivmangal Singh Suman

• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

• Sumitranandan Pant, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi

• Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

Urdu
• Akbar Allahabadi, poet

• Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu poet

• Bekal Utsahi, Urdu poet

• Brij Narayan Chakbast, Urdu poet

• Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim, Urdu poet

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith award

• Hasrat Mohani, Urdu poet

• Jigar Moradabadi, Urdu poet

• Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet

• Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriter

• Khumar Barabankvi, Urdu poet

• Majaz, Urdu poet

• Majrooh Sultanpuri, poet and lyricist

• Maulana Hali, Urdu poet, biographer of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetry

• Mir Anis, Urdu Marsiya poet

• Mir Taqi Mir

• Mirza Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet

• A. M. Turaz, Poet & Film writer

• Safi Lakhnavi, Urdu poet

• Zaigham, Urdu poet who migrated to Bengal

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.

Fine arts
• Aman Singh Gulati, world's first almond artist

• Gogi Saroj Pal

• Ram Chandra Shukla, painter

• Arvind Gupta, he is an Indian toy inventor, author, translator and scientist.

• Basawan

• Sukumar Bose

• Eric Bowen

• Mallika Chabba

• Vijay Gaur

• Prayag Jha

• Govind Kanhai

• Krishn Kanhai

• Anil Karanjai

• Imtiyaz Ali Khan

• Frank Wesley

• Ranbir Singh Bisht

• Yashodhar Mathpal

• Mola Ram

Journalism

 * 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.

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.

Hockey
• Dhyan Chand, former international field hockey player, awarded the Padma Bhushan

• 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 field hockey player; member of the Indian team that won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; awarded Arjuna Award in 1980 and Padma Shri in 1986

• Jagbir Singh, captain and member of National Hockey team in 1988 and 1992 Olympics; awarded Arjuna Award in 1990

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

Cricket
• Arun Lal, former Test cricketer

• Ashish Zaidi, cricketer

• Obaid Kamal, cricketer

• Bhuvneshwar Kumar, international cricketer

• Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer

• Deepti Sharma, International cricketer

• Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer

• Hemlata Kala, member of Indian women's cricket team

• Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer

• Meghna Singh, International Cricketer

• Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer

• Mohammed Shami, international cricketer

• Narendra Hirwani

• Piyush Chawla

• Poonam Yadav, International Cricketer

• Priyam Garg

• Praveen Kumar

• Parvinder Awana

• R. P. Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.), international cricketer

• Swapnil Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.)

• Rajinder Hans

• Raman Lamba

• Rohan Gavaskar

• Sudip Tyagi

• Suresh Raina, international cricketer

• Suryakumar Yadav, international cricketer

• Surinder Amarnath

• Umesh Yadav, Deoria (U.P.), Indian cricketer

• Kuldeep Yadav, cricketer, Kanpur (U.P.)

• Shivam Mavi, cricketer

• Shubham Mavi

• Vijay Yadav, international cricketer

• Yashasvi Jaiswal, cricketer

• Kartik Tyagi, fast-bowler cricketer

• Rinku Singh (cricketer)

• Dhruv Jurel, cricketer

• Mohsin Khan (Indian cricketer), is an Indian cricketer.

• Sameer Rizvi, Uttar Pradesh cricketer.

• Sarfaraz Khan (cricketer), (born 22 October 1997) is an Indian international cricketer who represents the Indian national cricket team in Test cricket, he was born and brought up in the suburbs of Mumbai. His family hails from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh.

Badminton

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

Other sports
• Abhishek Yadav, footballer

• Annu Raj Singh, shooter

• Arjun Bhati, golfer

• Ghaus Mohammad, tennis player, the first Indian to reach quarterfinal of The Championships, Wimbledon

• Jaspal Rana, shooter

• Jitu Rai, shooter

• Moraad Ali Khan, shooter

• Nitin Tomar, Kabaddi

• Pawan Gupta (wushu), sanda fighter

• Punam Yadav, weightlifting

• Ram Singh Yadav, Marathon runner, represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics

• Saurabh Chaudhary, shooter

• Satish Kumar, Boxing

• Varun Singh Bhati, para athlete

• Ankit Sharma is an athlete who competes in the long jump event. He was born on 20 July 1992 in Pinahat block.

Musicians
• Nucleya, known by his name Udyan Sagar, is an Indian electronic music producer.

• Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player

• Begum Akhtar, ghazal singer

• Bismillah Khan, shehnai player, awarded the Bharat Ratna (2001)

• Cliff Richard, English singer

• Gopal Shankar Misra, vichitra veena player

• Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player

• Kishan Maharaj, tabla player

• Lalmani Misra, Indian classical musician

• Naushad Ali, music director; awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema

• Ravi Shankar, sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999; recipient of three Grammy awards

• Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, musicologist

• Vikash Maharaj sarod player, awarded the Karmveer, Shiromai, Manishi Ratn.

Singers
• Girija Devi at Bhopal (1).JPG

• Abhijeet Bhattacharya, from Kanpur

• Ankit Tiwari, from Kanpur

• Ravindra Jain

• Anup Jalota, Ghazal and Bhajan singer

• Girija Devi, Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singers

• Harshit Saxena, singer

• Kailash Kher, from Meerut

• Kanika Kapoor, from Lucknow

• Purshottam Das Jalota (1925–2011), bhajan singer, Padma Shri (2004)

• Sharafat Hussain Khan, from Atrauli

• Shubha Mudgal, singer

• Siddheshwari Devi, Hindustani singer from Banares, known as Maa (mother)

• Talat Mahmood, ghazal singer

Folk singers

 * Baleshwar Yadav
 * Bihari Lal Yadav
 * Hiralal Yadav
 * Malini Awasthi

Rappers

 * Hard Kaur, from Kanpur
 * Baba Sehgal

Dancers
• Birju Maharaj, Kathak exponent

• Lachhu Maharaj, Kathak exponent

• Kapila Vatsyayan, scholar of Indian classical dance

• Sitara Devi

• Uday Shankar

Actors and actresses
• Aarun Nagar

• Achint Kaur

• Aditi Sharma

• Aditya Srivastava

• Akshay Oberoi

• Ali Fazal

• Amit Sial

• Amitabh Bachchan

• Anushka Sharma

• Archana Gupta

• Archana Puran Singh

• Arun Govil

• Ashutosh Rana

• Chandrachur Singh

• Chunky Pandey

• Dalip Tahil

• Deepti Bhatnagar

• Dinesh Lal Yadav

• Dipti Bhatnagar

• Disha Patani

• Harsh Nagar

• Jaddanbai

• Javed Jaffrey

• Jimmy Shergill

• K.N. Singh

• Kadar Khan

• Kamal Rashid Khan

• Kumar Gaurav

• Lara Dutta

• Lavanya Tripathi

• Mandakini

• Marc Zuber

• Medha Shankar

• Meenakshi Dixit

• Mika Singh

• Nandini Singh

• Naseeruddin Shah

• Nawazuddin Siddiqui

• Nimmi

• Nivedita Bhattacharya

• Pooja Batra

• Raj Babbar

• Rajpal Yadav

• Ravi Kishan

• Raza Murad

• Saurabh Shukla

• Shweta Tiwari

• Siddharth Nigam

• Sonal Chauhan

• Soniya Bansal

• Surendra Pal

• Sushant Singh

• Tanveer Zaidi

• Tom Alter

• Tuntun

• Urvashi Rautela

• Vedita Pratap Singh

• Vineet Kumar Singh

• Vishwajeet Pradhan

• Vivek Mushran

• Zakir Hussain

• Zohra Segal

• Zoya Afroz

Directors/producers
• Aarun Nagar

• Abhinav Kashyap

• Abhishek Chaubey

• Anurag Kashyap

• Farhan Akhtar

• Gajendra Singh

• K. Asif

• Kamal Amrohi

• Prakash Mehra

• Shaad Ali

• Tigmanshu Dhulia

• Vishal Bhardwaj

• Zoya Akhtar

• Pankaj Advani

• Muzaffar Ali

• Alberrt Antoni

• Nupur Asthana

• Amitabh Aurora

• Sunil Batta

• Muazzam Beg

• Ashwni Dhir

• Mahmood Farooqui

• Ravindra Gautam

• Devendra Goel

• Shaukat Hussain Rizvi

• Nishtha Jain

• D.D. Kashyap

• Shaheed Latif

• Sudhir Mishra

• Vishal Mishra

• Premendra Mitra

• Subodh Mukherjee

• Gyan Mukherjee

• S. K. Ojha

• Rajkumar R. Pandey

• Anil Sharma

• Devi Sharma

• Manoj Sharma

• Dushyant Pratap Singh

• Siddharth Sinha

• Ajay Srivastava

• Sultan Ahmed

• Ravi Tandon

• Tushar Tyagi

• Vijay Krishna Acharya

Singers
• Abhijeet Bhattacharya

• Ankit Tiwari

• Anup Jalota

• Baba Sehgal

• Begum Akhtar

• Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay

• Kabban Mirza

• Kanika Kapoor

• Kavita Seth

• Malini Awasthi

• Rajkumari Dubey

• Ravindra Jain

• Sunidhi Chauhan

• Talat Mahmood

Lyricists
• Ali Sardar Jafri

• Ravindra Jain

• Anjaan

• Indeevar

• Javed Akhtar

• Kaifi Azmi

• Khumar Barabankvi

• Majrooh Sultanpuri

• Sameer

• Shakeel Badayuni

• Manoj Muntashir

• Santosh Anand

• A. M. Turaz

• Amitabh Bhattacharya

Composers
• Anand Milind

• Naushad Ali

• Nucleya

• Ravi K. Tripathi

• Rimi Basu Sinha

• S. N. Tripathi

• Shantanu Moitra

• Vishal Bhardwaj

• Vishal Mishra

Theatre related

 * Arvind Gaur
 * Nadira Babbar
 * Sushil Kumar Singh

Cinematographers

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

Story / script / dialogue writers
• Agha Jani Kashmiri

• Anuraadha Tewari

• Dhiraj Mishra

• Faaiz Anwar

• Himanshu Sharma

• Jalees Sherwani

• Javed Siddiqi

• Juhi Chaturvedi

• K. P. Saxena

• Kamleshwar

• Kamna Chandra

• Mukhram Sharma

• S. Ali Raza

• Shama Zaidi

• Sharat Kumar

• Shivgopal Krishna

• Tanuja Chandra

• Wajahat Mirza

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

Television
• Aadesh Chaudhary

• Aditya Srivastava

• Akshita Mudgal

• Aparna Dixit

• Aru Krishansh Verma

• Aryan Pandit

• Farman Haider

• Gajendra Singh

• Harsh Nagar

• Hiba Nawab

• Jaya Bhattacharya

• Kanika Maheshwari

• Kiran Dubey

• Kushal Tandon

• Pankhuri Awasthy Rode

• Param Singh

• Parul Chauhan

• Pavitra Punia

• Pravisht Mishra

• Rahi Masoom Raza

• Raju Srivastav

• Randeep Rai

• Ravi Dubey

• Rukhsar Rehman

• Sanjeev Tyagi

• Shalini Arora

• Soumya Seth

• Sumbul Touqeer

• Surendra Pal

• Yuvika Chaudhary

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.

Criminals
• Abu Salem, underworld criminal

• Atiq Ahmed, politician turned criminal

• Chavviram Singh Yadav, dacoit

• Daku Man Singh, dacoit

• Mukhtar Ansari, Ex MLA

• Munna Bajrangi

• Nirbhay Gujjar, dacoit

• Phoolan Devi, dacoit turned politician

• Prakash Shukla, gangster

• Dadua, dacoit

• Sibgatullah Ansari

• Khalid Azim

• Thug Behram

• Vikas Dubey

• Ravinder Kumar (serial killer)

• Rasheed Masood

• Ajay Mishra Teni

• Shiv Kumar Patel

• Satish (criminal)

• Devendra Sharma (serial killer)

• Sher Singh Rana

• Hari Shankar Tiwari

• Shekhar Tiwari

• Amarmani Tripathi

• Anand Sen Yadav

• D. P. Yadav

• Neera Yadav

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.
 * 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.

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List of people from West Bengal

This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.

Major figures

 * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
 * Manik Bandopadhyay
 * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
 * Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
 * Rajshekhar Basu
 * Suchitra Bhattacharya
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Amiya Chakravarty
 * Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
 * Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
 * Pramatha Chaudhuri
 * Ashapurna Devi
 * Mahasweta Devi
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt
 * Sudhindranath Dutta
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Premendra Mitra
 * Mimi Mondal
 * Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay
 * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
 * Annada Shankar Ray
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Narayan Sanyal
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj
 * Rabindranath Tagore

Children's story writers

 * Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
 * Anish Deb
 * Narayan Debnath
 * Narayan Gangopadhyay
 * Sunil Gangopadhyay
 * Leela Majumdar
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Premendra Mitra
 * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
 * Sourav Mukhopadhyay
 * Moti Nandi
 * Sukumar Ray
 * Hemendra Kumar Roy
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj

Medieval Bengal literary scene

 * Chandidas
 * Kashiram Das
 * Govindadasa
 * Krishnadasa Kaviraja
 * Krittibas Ojha
 * Bharatchandra Ray
 * Vidyapati

Other authors from early modern period

 * Akshay Kumar Baral
 * Nirupama Devi
 * Swarnakumari Devi
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Ishwar Chandra Gupta
 * Peary Chand Mitra
 * Parijat
 * Indra Bahadur Rai
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Kaliprasanna Singha
 * Jyotirindranath Tagore
 * Swami Vivekananda

Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Anirban Bhattacharyya
 * Upamanyu Chatterjee
 * Amit Chaudhuri
 * Souhardya De
 * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * Toru Dutt
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Amitav Ghosh
 * Jhumpa Lahiri
 * Mimi Mondal
 * Pritish Nandy

Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors

 * Anita Agnihotri
 * Ekram Ali
 * Afsar Amed
 * Jatindramohan Bagchi
 * Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
 * Tapan Bandyopadhyay
 * Subimal Basak
 * Abul Bashar
 * Sukanta Bhattacharya
 * Nachiketa Chakraborty
 * Smaranjit Chakraborty
 * Nirendranath Chakravarty
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Sandipan Chattopadhyay
 * Sanjib Chattopadhyay
 * Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
 * Shakti Chattopadhyay
 * Malay Roy Choudhury
 * Salil Chowdhury
 * Alokeranjan Dasgupta
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta
 * Anish Deb
 * Nabaneeta Dev Sen
 * Mahasweta Devi
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Narayan Gangopadhyay
 * Joy Goswami
 * Prabir Ghosh
 * Santosh Kumar Ghosh
 * Shankha Ghosh
 * Subodh Ghosh
 * Buddhadeb Guha
 * Baby Halder
 * Moinul Hassan
 * Syed Kawsar Jamal
 * Humayun Kabir
 * Bimal Kar
 * Binoy Majumdar
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Tarun Mandal
 * Arun Mitra
 * Bimal Mitra
 * Narendranath Mitra
 * Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay
 * Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 * Kumud Ranjan Mullick
 * Moti Nandi
 * Purnendu Pattrea
 * Sheikh Abdur Rahim
 * Dilipkumar Roy
 * Samir Roychoudhury
 * Sankar
 * Narayan Sanyal
 * Subodh Sarkar
 * Jatindranath Sengupta
 * Mallika Sengupta
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj

Journalists

 * Ekram Ali
 * Tamal Bandyopadhyay
 * Mrinal Chatterjee
 * Ramananda Chatterjee
 * Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Tushar Kanti Ghosh
 * Chandan Mitra
 * Moti Nandi
 * Pritish Nandy
 * Sukumar Ray
 * Barun Sengupta

Comics Writer

 * Narayan Debnath

Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences

 * Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer
 * Rajshekhar Basu, major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
 * Girindrasekhar Bose, first non-European correspondent of Freud
 * Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi
 * Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
 * Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, social philosopher
 * Kirti N. Chaudhuri, historian
 * Pramatha Chaudhuri, creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
 * Harinath De, linguist
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt, historian
 * Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society
 * Biraja Sankar Guha, anthropologist
 * Ranajit Guha, subaltern theorist
 * R. C. Majumdar, historian
 * Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic
 * Rajendralal Mitra, first Indian to work with Indologists
 * Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist
 * Niharranjan Ray, historian
 * Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian historian
 * Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy, first Bengali prose writer
 * Jadunath Sarkar, historian
 * Sumit Sarkar, historian
 * Susobhan Sarkar, historian
 * Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
 * Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
 * Sukumar Sen, linguist
 * Hara Prasad Shastri, historian of Bengali language and culture
 * Maniklal Sinha, novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh
 * Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist
 * Dineshchandra Sircar, epigraphist
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literature theorist.
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)

Scholars and polymaths

 * Asima Chatterjee, scholar of chemistry
 * Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
 * Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
 * Radhakanta Deb, linguist
 * Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician
 * Prithwindra Mukherjee, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture
 * Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, scientist

Pioneers

 * Girish Chandra Bose
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Ashutosh Mukherjee
 * Satish Chandra Mukherjee
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Post-independence

 * Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati

Modern times

 * Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari

Others

 * Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

Teachers

 * Babar Ali, the world's youngest headmaster, headmaster & founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan
 * Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy, Presidency College
 * Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, philosophy, University of Calcutta
 * Barun De, history, Presidency College
 * Mahasweta Devi, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College
 * Chinmoy Guha, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College and University of Calcutta
 * K. C. Nag, mathematics, Mitra institution
 * Susobhan Sarkar, history, Presidency College

Pre-modern period

 * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in Nabadwip of Nadia district to parents who hailed from Sylhet in present day Bangladesh
 * Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, Gopalganj District in present day Bangladesh & studied at Nabadwip in Nadia district
 * Raghunatha Siromani (Navya Nyaya) from Nabadwip

Modern age

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Abu Sayeed Ayyub, Born in Kolkata
 * Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya born in Serampore in Howrah district
 * Anukulchandra Chakravarty born in Pabna district in present day Bangladesh, worked & preached in Kolkata. After the Partition of India in 1947, he relocated to Deoghar
 * Surendranath Dasgupta, born in Kusthia of present day Bangladesh which was then a part of Nadia before Partition of India, studied in Kolkata
 * Balaram Hari, born in Nadia
 * Bimal Krishna Matilal, born in Jaynagar Majilpur in South 24 Parganas district
 * Amartya Sen, born in Shantiniketan in Birbhum District
 * Keshub Chandra Sen born in Kolkata
 * Rabindranath Tagore born in Kolkata
 * Swami Vivekananda, born in Kolkata

Early / Mid twenty century

 * Chandril Bhattacharya, born in Kolkata
 * Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, born in kolkata
 * Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari, born in Kolkata
 * Sibnarayan Ray, born in kolkata
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, born in Kolkata

Science

 * Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, computer scientist
 * Amar Nath Bhaduri, Indian molecular enzymologist and chemical biologist
 * Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology
 * Avik Bhattacharya, remote sensing
 * Santanu Bhattacharya, chemistry
 * Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya, Indian structural biologist, biochemist
 * Mani Lal Bhaumik
 * Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist
 * Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician
 * Upendranath Brahmachari
 * Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Computer scientist
 * Asis Datta, Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineer
 * Moumita Dutta, Indian Physicist
 * Anil Kumar Gain, mathematics
 * Partha Ghose
 * Sankar Ghosh, Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist
 * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
 * Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, Indian condensed matter physicist
 * Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar, Computer scientist
 * Ujjwal Maulik, computer scientist
 * Ashesh Prosad Mitra
 * Sisir Kumar Mitra, Indian physicist
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician
 * Indira Nath, Indian immunologist
 * Sankar Kumar Pal, Computer scientist
 * Shehla Pervin, Molecular biologist
 * Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist
 * Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
 * Somak Raychaudhury, Indian astrophysicist
 * Anjali Roy, mycologist
 * Subrata Roy, plasma physics
 * Ram Brahma Sanyal, zoology
 * Debi Prasad Sarkar, Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist
 * Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
 * Ashoke Sen, physics
 * Radhanath Sikdar
 * Snehasikta Swarnakar, Indian chemical biologist

Muslim

 * Jalaluddin Tabrizi (13th-century)
 * Gazi Pir (13th-century)
 * Pir Gorachand (13th-century)
 * Usman Serajuddin (1258–1357)
 * Alaul Haq (1301–1384)
 * Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
 * Shah Mehr Ali (1808–1868)
 * Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (1832–1885)
 * Azangachhi Shaheb (1828–1932)
 * Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943)
 * Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952)
 * Abbas Siddiqui (born 1987)

Pre-modern period

 * Krishnananda Agamavagisha
 * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
 * Nityananda
 * Ramprasad Sen
 * Six Goswamis of Vrindavan

The Brahmo Samaj

 * Anandamohan Bose
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 * Keshub Chandra Sen
 * Debendranath Tagore
 * Ram Chandra Vidyabagish

Hindu revival movement

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Sarada Devi
 * Ramakrishna
 * Swami Vivekananda

Mid-twentieth-century religious figures

 * Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
 * Lahiri Mahasaya
 * A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 * Paramahansa Yogananda

Major figures

 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Dwarkanath Ganguly
 * Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
 * Satish Chandra Mukherjee
 * Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 * Keshub Chandra Sen
 * Harichand Thakur
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
 * Swami Vivekananda

Derozians

 * Krishna Mohan Banerjee
 * Rajnarayan Basu
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt
 * Hara Chandra Ghosh
 * Ramgopal Ghosh
 * Ramtanu Lahiri
 * Rasik Krishna Mallick
 * Kishori Chand Mitra
 * Peary Chand Mitra
 * Radhanath Sikdar

Women's rights

 * Chandramukhi Basu
 * Sarala Devi
 * Kadambini Ganguly
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Charulata Mukherjee
 * Rani Rashmoni
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Romola Sinha

Military

 * Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
 * Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
 * Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
 * General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
 * Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970
 * Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
 * Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
 * Chief of the Air Staff Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force
 * Captain Man Bahadur Rai, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
 * Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
 * General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief

Early modern period

 * Ramkinkar Baij
 * Nandalal Bose
 * Mukul Dey
 * Kalipada Ghoshal
 * Sailoz Mookherjea
 * Benode Behari Mukherjee
 * Jamini Roy
 * Abanindranath Tagore
 * Gaganendranath Tagore

From mid-twentieth century

 * Bikash Bhattacharjee
 * Jogen Chowdhury
 * Jahar Dasgupta
 * Somnath Hore
 * Chintamoni Kar
 * Anil Karanjai
 * Paresh Maity
 * Hemen Majumdar
 * Rabin Mondal
 * Samir Mondal
 * Ganesh Pyne
 * Paritosh Sen

Film and photography

 * Dulal Dutta
 * Goutam Ghose, filmmaker, cinematographer, and music composer
 * Rituparno Ghosh, filmmaker
 * Suman Ghosh, filmmaker, documentary filmmaker
 * Atiul Islam, filmmaker, screenwriter
 * Ajoy Kar, cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriter
 * Tarun Majumdar, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator
 * Subrata Mitra, cinematographer
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director, editor and writer
 * Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
 * Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composer
 * Mrinal Sen, filmmaker, screenwriter, author

Composers

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Atulprasad Sen
 * Anil Biswas
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Dilipkumar Roy
 * Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
 * Hemanta Mukherjee
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam
 * Kamal Dasgupta
 * Kabir Suman
 * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
 * Nachiketa Ghosh
 * Raichand Boral
 * Rajanikanta Sen
 * Salil Chowdhury
 * Sachin Dev Burman
 * Sudhin Dasgupta

Performers (instrumental)

 * Allauddin Khan, sarod and multi-instrumentalist
 * Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
 * Annapurna Devi, surbahar
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta, sarod
 * Manilal Nag, sitar
 * Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
 * Ravi Shankar, sitar
 * Radhika Mohan Maitra, Sarod and Mohanveena
 * Sankha Chatterjee, tabla
 * Shankar Ghosh, tabla
 * Pannalal Ghosh, flute
 * Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Harmonium and tabla

Classical

 * Gopeshwar Banerjee
 * Naina Devi
 * Ajoy Chakrabarty, vocal
 * Bishnupur Gharana
 * Tarapada Chakraborty
 * Kaushiki Chakraborty

Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries

 * Dinendranath Tagore
 * Dilipkumar Roy
 * Sahana Devi
 * Amiya Tagore
 * Renuka Dasgupta
 * Malati Ghoshal
 * Santidev Ghosh
 * Debabrata Biswas
 * Uma Bose
 * Subinoy Roy
 * Kanika Bandyopadhyay
 * Suchitra Mitra
 * Nilima Sen
 * Gita Ghatak
 * Sarmila Bose
 * Indrani Sen

Modern

 * K. C. Dey
 * Manabendra Mukherjee
 * Pankaj Kumar Mullick
 * Kanan Devi
 * Ruma Guha Thakurta
 * Hemanta Mukherjee
 * Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
 * Manna Dey
 * Geeta Dutt
 * R D Burman
 * Sachin Dev Burman
 * Kishore Kumar
 * Shyamal Mitra
 * Amit Kumar
 * Indrani Sen
 * Antara Chowdhury
 * Bappi Lahiri
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Mohammed Aziz
 * Kumar Sanu
 * Kabir Suman
 * Nachiketa Chakraborty
 * Silajit Majumder
 * Abhijeet Bhattacharya
 * Babul Supriyo
 * Madhushree
 * Srikanta Acharya
 * Shantanu Moitra
 * Jeet Ganguly
 * Pritam
 * Shaan
 * Rupam Islam
 * Shreya Ghoshal
 * Anupam Roy
 * Arijit Singh
 * Monali Thakur

Nazrul geeti

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Sohrab Hossain
 * Indrani Sen
 * Purabi Dutta
 * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay

Bengali Folk Song

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
 * Ratan Kahar
 * Basudeb Das Baul
 * Timir Biswas
 * Fulati Gidali
 * Pousali Banerjee

Directors

 * Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Anurag Basu
 * Aparna Sen
 * Ayan Mukerji
 * Atiul islam
 * Basu Bhattacharya
 * Basu Chatterjee
 * Bimal Roy
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta
 * Chidananda Dasgupta
 * Debaki Bose
 * Farha Khatun
 * Goutam Ghose
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee
 * Mrinal Sen
 * Mujibar Rahaman
 * Premankur Atorthy
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Prem Prakash Modi
 * Raj Chakraborty
 * Mohammad Mohsin
 * Rituparno Ghosh
 * Ritwik Ghatak
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Shiboprosad Mukherjee
 * Shoojit Sircar
 * Srijit Mukherji
 * Sujit Mondal
 * Sujoy Ghosh
 * Supriyo Sen
 * Suman Mukhopadhyay
 * Tapan Sinha
 * Tarun Majumdar

Actors

 * Abhishek Chatterjee
 * Abir Chatterjee
 * Anil Chatterjee
 * Anirban Bhattacharya
 * Ankush Hazra
 * Apurva Agnihotri
 * Arun Mukherjee
 * Asit Sen
 * Bhanu Bandopadhyay
 * Biswajit Chakraborty
 * Chhabi Biswas
 * Chinmoy Roy
 * Chiranjeet Chakraborty
 * Dev
 * Dhritiman Chatterjee
 * Ferdous Ahmed
 * Harindranath Chattopadhyay
 * Hiran Chatterjee
 * Jeet
 * Jisshu Sengupta
 * Joy Kumar Mukherjee
 * Jayant Kripalani
 * Kali Banerjee
 * Kamal Mitra
 * Keshto Mukherjee
 * Lokesh
 * Mir Afsar Ali
 * Mithun Chakraborty
 * Pahari Sanyal
 * Parambrata Chatterjee
 * Pradeep Kumar
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Priyanshu
 * Prosenjit Chatterjee
 * Rabi Ghosh
 * Rahul Roy
 * Ranjit Mallick
 * Saswata Chatterjee
 * Soumitra Chatterjee
 * Subhendu Chatterjee
 * Tapas Paul
 * Tathagata Mukherjee
 * Tulsi Chakraborty
 * Utpal Datta
 * Uttam Kumar
 * Victor Banerjee

Actresses

 * Anita Guha
 * Aparna Sen
 * Arundhati Devi
 * Chhaya Devi
 * Debashree Roy
 * Devika Rani
 * Indrani Haldar
 * Joya Ahsan
 * June Malia
 * Kananbala
 * Kanan Devi
 * Koel Mullick
 * Madhabi Mukherjee
 * Mala Sinha
 * Mamata Shankar
 * Mimi Chakraborty
 * Nusrat Jahan
 * Moon Moon Sen
 * Moushmi Chatterji
 * Pratyusha Banerjee
 * Prema Narayan
 * Raakhee
 * Rachna Banerjee
 * Raima Sen
 * Reema Sen
 * Rimi Sen
 * Rituparna Sengupta
 * Riya Sen
 * Ruma Guha Thakurta
 * Sabitri Chatterjee
 * Sharmila Tagore
 * Srabanti Chatterjee
 * Subhashree Ganguly
 * Suchitra Sen
 * Sumita Sanyal
 * Supriya Devi
 * Sushmita Sen
 * Varsha Ashwathi

Cinematographer

 * Avik Mukhopadhyay
 * Baby Islam
 * Binod Pradhan
 * Kamal Bose
 * Nemai Ghosh (director)
 * Ramananda Sengupta
 * Subrata Mitra
 * Sudeep Chatterjee
 * Supratim Bhol

Editor

 * Dulal Dutta
 * Arghyakamal Mitra
 * Rabiranjan Maitra
 * Mainak Bhaumik
 * Srijit Mukherji

Screenplay Writer

 * Nabendu Ghosh
 * Shaktipada Rajguru
 * N. K. Salil
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Rudranil Ghosh

Dance

 * Uday Shankar
 * Amala Shankar
 * Mamata Shankar
 * Sharmila Biswas
 * Gambhir Singh Mura

Doctors

 * Rafiuddin Ahmed
 * Upendranath Brahmachari
 * Sambhu Nath De
 * Kadambini Ganguly
 * Madhusudan Gupta
 * Radha Gobinda Kar
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 * Bidhan Chandra Roy
 * Nilratan Sircar
 * Tabitha Solomon

Modern Days

 * Shyama Prasad Mandal

Drama/theatre

 * Girish Chandra Ghosh
 * Dinabandhu Mitra
 * Jyotirindranath Tagore
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Sisir Bhaduri
 * Bijon Bhattacharya
 * Shambhu Mitra
 * Utpal Dutt
 * Bibhas Chakraborty
 * Rudraprasad Sengupta
 * Badal Sarkar
 * Usha Ganguly
 * Manoj Mitra
 * Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
 * Debshankar Halder

Magicians

 * Ganapati Chakraborty
 * Amin Suhrawardy
 * P. C. Sorcar
 * P. C. Sorcar Jr.
 * P. C. Sorcar, Young
 * Maneka Sorcar

Pre-modern

 * Shashanka
 * Gopala
 * Dharmapala
 * Devapala
 * Mahipala
 * Ballal Sen
 * Lakshman Sen

Colonial period

 * Titumir
 * Alimuddin Ahmad
 * Satyendranath Tagore
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt
 * Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
 * Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar
 * Kalim Sharafi

Early figures

 * Durjan Singh, leader of Chuar Rebellion
 * Rani Shiromani, queen of Karnagarh and leader of Chuar Rebellion
 * Surendranath Banerjee
 * Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Twentieth century

 * Bipin Chandra Pal
 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Syed Badrudduja
 * Barindra Kumar Ghosh
 * Khudiram Bose
 * Bagha Jatin
 * Chittaranjan Das
 * Rash Behari Bose
 * Sarat Chandra Bose
 * Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
 * Alimuddin Ahmad
 * Jatindra Nath Das
 * Bina Das
 * Matangini Hazra
 * B. C. Roy
 * Triguna Sen
 * Panchanan Chakraborty
 * Syama Prasad Mookerjee
 * Basanta Kumar Biswas
 * Ambika Chakrobarty
 * Bipin Behari Ganguli
 * Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
 * Narendra Mohan Sen
 * Birendranath Sasmal
 * Sudhamoy Pramanick
 * Saroj Mukherjee
 * Renuka Ray
 * Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
 * Hemchandra Kanungo
 * Kanailal Bhattacharyya
 * Kanailal Bhattacharjee

Politicians

 * Ashok Mitra
 * Ajit Kumar Panja
 * A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
 * Atulya Ghosh
 * Amit Mitra
 * Abha Maiti
 * Muzaffar Ahmad
 * Bidhan Chandra Roy
 * Bimal Gurung
 * Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
 * Bir Singh Mahato
 * Babul Supriyo
 * Derek O'Brien
 * Dev
 * Firhad Hakim
 * Hashim Abdul Halim
 * Jyoti Basu
 * Kamal Guha
 * Kanailal Bhattacharyya
 * Kedarnath Bhattacharya
 * Mamata Banerjee
 * Mukul Roy
 * Mriganko Mahato
 * Mohammed Salim
 * Narahari Mahato
 * Partha Chatterjee
 * Pratap Chandra Chunder
 * Prafulla Chandra Sen
 * Pranab Mukherjee
 * Siddhartha Shankar Ray
 * Subrata Mukherjee
 * Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician)
 * Saugata Roy
 * Somnath Chatterjee
 * Sabina Yeasmin
 * Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
 * Tathagata Roy
 * Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Others

 * Abul Barkat

Old Calcutta / Bengal legends

 * Raja Nabakrishna Deb
 * Raja Radhakanta Deb, published two Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners
 * Gobindram Mitter
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Mutty Lal Seal
 * Bijoy Chand Mahtab
 * Uday Chand Mahtab
 * Mother Teresa
 * Manindra Chandra Nandy, Maharaja of Cossimbazar

Chess

 * Dibyendu Barua, Grandmaster
 * Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Grandmaster
 * Nisha Mohota, first woman Grandmaster of West Bengal

Cricket

 * Arun Lal
 * Benu Dasgupta
 * Deep Dasgupta
 * Gopal Bose
 * Jhulan Goswami
 * Pankaj Roy
 * Priyanka Roy
 * Probir Sen
 * Rumeli Dhar
 * Ambar Roy
 * Saba Karim
 * Sourav Ganguly
 * Subrata Guha
 * Saradindu Mukherjee
 * Ashok Dinda
 * Montu Banerjee
 * Manoj Tiwary
 * Nirode Chowdhury
 * Wriddhiman Saha
 * Shreevats Goswami
 * Shute Banerjee
 * Subroto Banerjee
 * Utpal Chatterjee

Football

 * Rahim Ali
 * P. K. Banerjee
 * Samar Banerjee
 * Shibdas Bhaduri
 * Subrata Bhattacharya
 * Krishanu Dey
 * Chuni Goswami
 * Sailen Manna
 * Abhijit Mondal
 * Arnab Mondal
 * Gostho Pal
 * Mohammed Rafique
 * Gautam Sarkar

Lawn tennis

 * Leander Paes, noted lawn tennis player of India
 * Jaidip Mukerjea

Squash

 * Saurav Ghosal, currently highest ranked Indian player
 * Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently second highest ranked Indian player

Bodybuilding

 * Manohar Aich, Mr. Universe, 1952
 * Monotosh Roy, Mr. Universe, 1951
 * Bishnu Charan Ghosh, Noted bodybuilder and hathayogi

Swimming

 * Arati Saha, first Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959
 * Bula Choudhury, first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice
 * Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958
 * Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer, 2010 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal
 * Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar

Table tennis

 * Subhajit Saha, Commonwealth games gold medalist
 * Mouma Das, table tennis player
 * Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis player
 * Ankita Das, table tennis player, 2012 Summer Olympics; participant in women's singles event, 2014 Commonwealth Games; participant in women's doubles even
 * Soumyajit Ghosh, table tennis player; as of January 2013, his rank is 1st in India and 68th in Asia; 2014 Commonwealth Games, Participant in men's doubles event

Weightlifting

 * Anil Mondal, Indian weightlifter, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Arjuna Award in the year (1972)
 * Sukhen Dey, Indian weightlifter; 2014 Commonwealth Games, gold medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games, gold medal

Others

 * Arjun Atwal, golfer
 * Anirban Lahiri, Indian golfer
 * Balaram Bose, philanthropist
 * Chhanda Gain, mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
 * Dipa Karmakar, Indian artistic gymnast; 2014 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant
 * Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
 * Joydeep Karmakar, Indian shooter, 2012 Summer Olympics; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; 2014 Commonwealth Games participant
 * Mohammad Ali Qamar, boxing, Commonwealth games gold medalist
 * Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer, 2002 Commonwealth Games, gold medal

Industry/business

 * Jagat Seth
 * Dwarakanath Tagore
 * Diptendu Pramanick
 * Rajen Mookerjee
 * S. K. Burman
 * Ghanshyam Das Birla
 * Jugal Kishore Birla
 * Ram Nath Goenka
 * Madhav Prasad Birla
 * Rajat Kumar Gupta
 * Purnendu Chatterjee
 * Sadhan Dutt
 * Subir Raha
 * Sumantra Ghoshal
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Alamohan Das
 * Dilip Shanghvi

Other areas

 * Ashis Nandy, author, political psychologist
 * Subroto Mukerjee
 * Shankar Roychowdhury
 * William Tolly
 * P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician from Kolkata
 * Arup Raha
 * Narayan Debnath
 * Joyita Mondal, Social Worker

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22:15 morwen_: JeLuF: Are you going to add all german districts to that article?  morwen: Shouldn't I? 22:18 secretlondon: why not? 22:18 morwen_: I dunno 22:18 morwen_: but we shouldn't import List of germans there, i would have thought  I thought you intended something like -              List of mathematical topics 22:18 secretlondon: indeed  so everything 22:18 secretlondon: or the albania one  else the Recent changes wouldn't work 22:19 morwen_: yeah 22:19 morwen_: but as an index, it wouldn't be much use if it was 99% german districts and -              villgaes, and 1% othe things  And it's not List of Germans, it's Chancelors and Presidents I just added. -              Important enough, no? 22:19  morwen_: I know 22:19 secretlondon: of course 22:20 morwen_: but if you add all districts, I don't see why you shouldn't add all Germans 22:20 morwen_: i just want to know what the policy is/will be 22:20 secretlondon: it should be as comprehensive as possible 22:20 morwen_: so it should be a superset of all Lists of german things? 22:20 morwen_: just linking to the lists isn't enough? 22:20 secretlondon: yes 22:20 morwen_: i see 22:21 secretlondon: but it doesn't all need doing now 22:21 morwen_: that's not how List of UK-related topics works  linking to the lists wouldn't make "Related changes" work 22:21 morwen_: i know that  secret: But I'm bored and need some stupid work to be done :-) 22:21 morwen_: i just was under the impression these were meant as an index for humans to use 22:22  morwen_: if they really are just for 'recent changes', i'm going to give up doing them 22:22  morwen_: and place the blank ones on vfd 22:22  morwen_: List_of_Philippine-related_topics agrees with me          but then, shouldn't this be part of the Germany article? 22:23  morwen_: as does List_of_South_Africa-related_topics 22:23  morwen_: but they have a categorised structure, which is more sensible if yuo are going to -               shove large amoutns of things in          OK, I'll stop and wait for a policy to evolve. 22:25 secretlondon: I think they should be the same as all the others 22:25  morwen_: right 22:25  morwen_: then the alphabetical thing needs to die 22:25 secretlondon: the blank ones are being filled in 22:25  morwen_: most of them have categories by subject

I think we agreed that an exhaustive list of places and people should be on the page, but perhaps in separate sections. Morwen 22:04, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)

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