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This is a list of famous and notable people from Madhya Pradesh, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, politician
- Rajesh Sharma, politician
- Jabar Singh, Great leader and politician
- Arjun Singh, politician
- Ashok Kumar, actor
- Govind Namdev, actor, sagar (M.P.)
- Ashutosh Rana, actor, Gadarawara (M.P.)
- Mukesh Tiwari, actor, sagar (M.P.)
- Shaan, singer
- Devendra Patel,politician
- Tansen, singer
- Baiju Bawara, musician
- Sharat Saxena, actor
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former PM of India
- Pratap Bhanu Sharma, politician
- Kishore Kumar, singer
- Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary
- Guru Radha Kishan, independence activist
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- Digvijay Singh, chief minister, (1993-2003)
- Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of state (2003-)
- Osho Rajneesh, spiritual guru
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the TM school of meditation.
- Aslam Sher Khan, former India hockey player
- Habib Tanvir, theatre person
- Jaya Bachchan, actor
- Madhavrao Scindia, of the Scindia family, erstwhile rulers of Gwalior, former Union Minister
- Raghuvir Yadav, actor
- Kumar Gandharva, Hindustani classical singer
- Javed Akhtar, eminent writer and poet
- Kamta Prasad Guru, Hindi grammarian
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi, writer & Urdu scholar
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Bhopal born scholar of Unani medicine
- Pankaj Sharma, well known journalist
- Parasram Gurjar, (allegedly 10 October 1886 – 10 December 2011), 'oldest man in India', winner of the Shatayu Samman award
- Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi, activist for the rights of the victims of the Bhopal gas catastrophe
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan, current Chief Minister
- Salman Khan, Superstar of Bollywood and Founder of Being Human
- Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yoga.
Jabalpur district
- Malhar Rao Holkar, first ruler of Malva from Holkar Dynasty.
- Ahilya Bai Holkar, erstwhile ruler of Indore state.
- Yashwantrao Holkar, gifted military leader & Maharaja of Indore.
- Lata Mangeshkar, born in Indore.
- Dr B.R. Ambedkar, born in Mhow the Cantonment town in Indore district.
- Colonel C.K. Nayudu, first man to captain India in test cricket.
- Captain Mushtaq Ali, Colonel Nayudu's teammate in the Holkar team and in the Indian team.
- Prakash Chandra Sethi, former CM of MP and former Union cabinet minister.
- Guru Radha Kishan, freedom Fighter and eminent social worker.
- M.F. Hussain, artist who spent his childhood in Indore.
- General K Sundarji commandant of the College of Combat Mhow during the early eighties. The College is now known as the Army War College.
- Chandu Sarwate, former India cricketer.
- Amay Khurasiya, former India cricketer.
- Narendra Hirwani, former India cricketer.
- Salman Khan, actor
- Comedian Johnny Walker
- Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer born in Indore.
- Arjun Rampal, Indian film actor born in Jabalpur.
- Shantanu Mukherjee, singer
- Himangini Singh Yadu, Miss Asia Pacific World 2012.