List of people from Punjab, India
This is a list of notable Indian people from Punjab.
Military leaders
Indian Armed Forces
Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief of the Indian Air Force
Army
- Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, Western Army Commander and War Hero 1965 Indo-Pak War
- General Joginder Jaswant Singh, former Indian Army Chief
Military Gallantry Award winners
Indian Armed Forces
Param Veer Chakra (PVC)
- Lance Naik Karam Singh, Sikh Regiment
- Subedar Joginder Singh, Sikh Regiment
Maha Veer Chakra (MVC)
- Major General Rajinder Singh Sparrow, Armoured Corps
Early modern era
- Bhai Mani Singh
- Baba Deep Singh
- Bhai Taru Singh
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Hari Singh Nalwa
- Akali Phula Singh
- Nawab Kapur Singh
- Hari Singh Dhillon
- Bhuma Singh Dhillon
- Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia
- Dewan Mokham Chand
- Diwan Sawan Mal
- Diwan Mulraj
- Maharaja Jagatjit Singh
- Maharaja Bhupinder Singh
Business
- Sunil Mittal, Chairman and managing director of the Bharti group
- Aroon Purie, India Today group
- Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
- Gurbaksh Chahal
- Trishneet Arora
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Naresh Goyal, of Jet Airways
Artists
Educators and scientists
- Megh R. Goyal, father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico
- Narinder Singh Kapany
Astronauts
Bollywood
Families
The Kapoors – 1
The Kapoors – 2
- Jeetendra (Ravi Kapoor)
The Malhotras
The Sahnis
The Anands
The Chopras
The Deols
The Dutts
The Tullis
The Puris
The Khannas – 1
The Khannas – 2
The Roshans
The Kapurs
The Devgans
The Oberois
The Paintals
Individual artists
- Amrish Puri[2]
- Anand Bakshi
- Akshay Kumar
- David Dhawan
- Deepti Naval
- Dara Singh
- Divya Dutta
- Gul Panag
- Honey Singh
- I. S. Johar
- Jimmy Sharma
- Kapil Sharma
- Kamini Kaushal
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kirron Kher
- Mangal Dhillon
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mandira Bedi
- Monica Bedi
- Neha Dhupia
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Poonam Dhillon
- Prem Chopra
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bedi
- Ruby Bhatia
- Ranjeet
- Raj Babbar
- Rati Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon
- Raageshwari
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rahul Roy
- Rajit Kapur
- Rubina Shergill
- Simone Singh
- Suraiya
- Simi Garewal
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Vinod Mehra
Documentary filmmakers
Directors
Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
History
Folklore
Religious and spiritual figures
The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
- Guru Nanak
- Guru Angad
- Guru Amar Das
- Guru Ram Das
- Guru Arjan Dev
- Guru Hargobind
- Guru Har Rai
- Guru Har Krishan
- Guru Teg Bahadur
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Guru Granth Sahib
Sikh
Related to Sikhism
- Sri Chand, son of Guru Nanak Dev ji
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- Bhai Gurdas
- Giani Gurdit Singh
- Bulleh Shah
- Waris Shah
- Hashim Shah
- Mian Muhammad Baksh
- Shah Mohammad
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Nanak Singh
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Damodar Das Arora
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Shareef Kunjahi
- Amrita Pritam
- Gulzar (full name Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner for movie Slumdog Millionaire
- Jaswant Neki
- Pash
- Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
- Harbhajan Singh
- Munir Niazi
- Ajmer Rode
- Navtej Bharati
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal
- Hafeez Jullundhri
- Mohammed Iqbal
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
English
- Khushwant Singh
- Vikram Chandra
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Amrita Pritam
- Partap Sharma
- Tariq Ali
- Susham Bedi
- Ahmed Rashid
- Nadeem Aslam
Journalists
India
Tamil cinema
- Sonia Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Models
- Waris Ahluwalia, American model, endorses the clothing brand GAP
Musicians
Classical
Bollywood
- Suraiya
- Shamshad Begum
- Mohammed Rafi
- OP Nayyar
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Madan Mohan
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Kamal Khan, Bollywood playback singer
Ghazals
Bhangra and other Punjabi people
India
- Jagmeet Bal
- Asa Singh Mastana
- Surinder Shinda
- Surinder Kaur
- Kuldeep Manak
- Amar Singh Chamkila
- Gurdas Mann
- Malkit Singh
- Manmohan Waris
- Kamal Heer
- Daler Mehndi
- Surjit Bindrakhia
- Babbu Mann
- Balkar Sidhu
- Lehmber Hussainpuri
- Hans Raj Hans
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Jaspinder Narula
- Kulwinder Dhillon
- Bombay Rockers
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Sukhbir
- Labh Janjua
- Sukhshinder Shinda
- Bally Sagoo
- Apache Indian
- Channi Singh
- Panjabi MC
- Jay Sean
- Hard Kaur
- Rishi Rich
- Juggy D
- Taz
- Harbhajan Mann
- Jazzy B
- Miss Pooja
- Soni Pabla
Pop and rock
India
Revolutionaries
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Bhai Parmanand
- Harnam Singh
- Udham Singh
- Kartar Singh Sarabha
- Bhagat Singh
- Madan Lal Dhingra
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Sukhdev
- Bhai Mati Das
Politicians
India
- Amarinder Singh
- Baldev Singh
- Bibi Jagir Kaur
- Buta Singh
- Darbara Singh
- Giani Zail Singh
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Gurcharan Singh Tohra
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Inder Kumar Gujral
- Krishan Kant
- Madanlal Khurana
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan
- Manmohan Singh
- Master Tara Singh
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Pratap Singh Kairon
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Sant Fateh Singh
- Sardul Singh Caveeshar
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Swaran Singh
- Laxmi Kanta Chawla
Sportspersons
Cricket
- Yadavendra Singh
- Lala Amarnath
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Gursharan Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Amarjit Kaypee
- Maninder Singh
- Rajinder Ghai
- Surinder Khanna
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Chetan Sharma
- Madan Lal
- Ashok Malhotra
- Vijay Mehra
- Aashish Kapoor
- Atul Wassan
- Akash Chopra
- Nikhil Chopra
- Dinesh Mongia
- Harvinder Singh
- Harbhajan Singh
- Yuvraj Singh
- V. R. V. Singh
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Gourav Dhiman
- Piyush Chawla
- Gautam Gambhir
- Sunny Sohal
- Ajay Ratra
Hockey
Field hockey
- Ajitpal Singh
- Balbir Singh Sr.
- Prithipal Singh
- Baljeet Singh Saini
- Gagan Ajit Singh
- Prabhjot Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Baljit Singh Dhillon
- Deepak Thakur
- Dhyan Chand
- Surjit Singh Randhawa
Athletics
- Milkha Singh
- Ajmer Singh (1940–2010), Olympian and 1966 Jakarta Asian Games gold medallist sprinter[5]
- Kamaljeet Sandhu
- Baljinder Singh (born 1986), race walker
Golf
Wrestling
- The Great Gama
- Dara Singh
- Jinder Mahal
- Premchand Dhingra
- Tiger Jeet Singh
- Gurjit Singh
- Sonjay Dutt (real name Ritesh Bhalla), a TNA wrestler
- Maddi, won the title of sitaare – e – Punjab; won many titles by Punajb sports organisations
Fighters
- Akshay Kumar, real name Rajeev Bhatia, black belt in karate; film actor
- Veeru Devgan, father of Ajay Devgan, action and stunt designer
Shooting
- Avneet Sidhu, Commonwealth Games medalist, Arjun Award recipient
Basketball
- Satnam Singh Bhamara, drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the 52nd pick in the 2015 NBA draft, making him the first person of Indian descent to be drafted into the NBA
See also
References
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20071211120409/http://164.100.24.209/newls/Biography.aspx?mpsno=197 Parliamentary Biography
- ^ http://www.gatewayforindia.com/entertainment/amrishpuri.htm
- ^ http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/alexanderpeople/g/Porus.htm
- ^ http://www.livius.org/pn-po/porus/porus.htm
- ^ "Olympian athlete Ajmer Singh passed away". The Times of India. Jan 27, 2010.