List of people from Delhi
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This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.
Advocates
Art
Armed forces
- Anuj Nayyar, Kargil hero
Author and Writer
- Anurag Anand
- Chetan Bhagat
- Kiran Desai
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Meenakshi Jain
- Ritu Lalit
- Jaishree Misra
- Amrita Pritam
- Aman Nath
- Tushar Raheja
- Gaurav Sharma
- Shobha Deepak Singh
- Valmik Thapar
Business and Industrialist
- Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur
- Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur
- Patu Keswani, entrepreneur
- Surinder Mehta
- Sunil Mittal, entrepreneur
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, entrepreneur
- Bharat Ram
- Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur
- KP Singh, entrepreneur
Film, Television and Entertainment
Actors
- Varun Badola
- Arjan Bajwa
- Manoj Bakshi
- Rohit Bakshi
- Tahir Raj Bhasin
- Priyanshu Chatterjee
- Aakash Dahiya
- Mukul Dev
- Rahul Dev
- Ajay Devgan (born 1969), Indian Bollywood actor and producer
- Rajneesh Duggal
- Karan Singh Grover, television and Bollywood actor
- Zain Imam, television actor
- Kishore Namit Kapoor
- Shahid Kapoor
- Shakti Kapoor
- Saif Ali Khan (born 1970), Indian actor
- Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965), Indian Bollywood actor
- Rajesh Khattar, actor
- Himansh Kohli
- Akshay Kumar
- Manoj Kumar
- Pavan Malhotra
- Siddharth Malhotra, actor
- Alok Nath
- Manoj Pahwa
- Ssumier Pasricha, actor and comedian
- Pran
- Arjun Rampal
- Gautam Rode
- Sumeet Sachdev
- Anuj Sachdeva
- Saqib Saleem
- Pulkit Samrat
- Keith Sequeira
- Satyajit Sharma
- Saurabh Shukla
- Inderpal Singh
- Manjot Singh
- Shaurya Singh
- Barun Sobti, television actor
- karan Wahi
Actress
- Astha Agarwal
- Roma Arora
- Naseem Banu
- Ritu Barmecha
- Bipasha Basu
- Swara Bhaskar
- Bibbo
- Sheeba Chaddha
- Isha Chawla
- Ridhi Dogra
- Esha Gupta
- Padmapriya Janakiraman
- Vaani Kapoor
- Minissha Lamba
- Radhika Madan
- Madhubala (born Mumtaaz Jehan Dehlavi)
- Rashi Mal
- Sanya Malhotra
- Manasvi Mamgai
- Monal Naval
- Arundathi Nag
- Shonali Nagrani
- Aishveryaa Nidhi
- Huma Qureshi, actress
- Kriti Sanon, actress
- Amba Sanyal (born 1945), stage actor and costume designer[1]
- Deeksha Seth
- Sushmita Sen
- Urvashi Sharma
- Deepika Singh
- Kashish Singh
- Neetu Singh
- Sarika Thakur
- Vani Tripathi
Director, Producer and Writer
- Atul Agnihotri
- Shubhavi Arya
- Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director[2]
- Dev Benegal
- Aditya Dhar
- Amar Kanwar (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist
- Rajat Kapoor
- Anu Malhotra
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Nisha Pahuja
- Aanand L. Rai
- Maneesh Sharma
- Alankrita Shrivastava
- Loveleen Tandan
Singers
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Mukesh Chand Mathur, bollywood singer
- Zascha Moktan (born 1981), German-Nepalese songwriter and singer
- Bif Naked (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer
- Peter Plate (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)
- Honey Singh
Choreography
Beauty Pageants
Youtube
- Bhuvan Bam, Youtuber
Journalist
- Gopinath Aman
- Afshan Anjum
- Vikram Chandra
- Barkha Dutt
- Sagarika Ghose
- Sonal Kalra
- Mayanti Langer
- Charul Malik
- Rajat Sharma
- Prema Sridevi
- Sabina Sehgal Saikia
- Hari Shankar Vyas
Judiciary
Medical
- Daljeet Singh Gambhir
- Hemlata Gupta
- Jitendra Mohan Hans
- Ganesh Kumar Mani
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Indira Nath
- Abha Saxena
- Krishna Gopal Saxena
- Santosh Kumar Sen
- Sujata Sharma
- Noshir M. Shroff, Ophthalmologist
- M. V. Padma Srivastava
- Nikhil Tandon
- Brihaspati Dev Triguna
Music
- Madhup Mudgal
- Aashish Kaushik (Delhi, India) [1]
Poetry
- Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet
- Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet
- Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet
- Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
- Nitin Soni
Politics
- Paddy Ashdown (1941–2018), British politician
- Michael Bennet (born 1964), American politician
- Gautam Gambhir
- Maneka Gandhi
- Priyanka Gandhi
- Rahul Gandhi
- Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
- Arvind kejriwal ( chief minister )
- Ramesh Bidhuri
- Pervez Musharraf (born 1943), Pakistani politician
- Kedar Nath Sahani
- Kanwar Singh Tanwar
- Sahib Singh Verma
- Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma
Rulers
Tomars
- Anangpal Tomar, King of Haryana and Delhi
Sayyids
Lodis
Mughals
Scholar
- Deepak Gaur, molecular biologist, and professor
- Anil Grover
- Partha Sarathi Gupta
- Champat Rai Jain
- Hakim Ajmal Khan
- Syed Ahmad Khan
- Madhu Khanna
- Sunil Kothari
- Sushil Kumar Saxena
- Malati Shendge
- Sampat Kumar Tandon
- Kapila Vatsyayan
Science
- Diwakar Vaish, roboticist, known for developing Manav (India's first 3D printed humanoid robot) and researcher in mind-controlled robots
Social Worker
Sports
Athletic
Badminton
Billiards
- Geet Sethi (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion
Chess
- Aryan Chopra
- Sahaj Grover
- Parimarjan Negi (born 1993), Indian chess player
- Tania Sachdev
Cricket
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Kirti Azad
- Amit Bhandari
- Unmukt Chand
- Chetan Chauhan
- Nikhil Chopra
- Vijay Dahiya
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Salim Durani
- Gautam Gambhir
- Rajinder Goel
- Shilpa Gupta
- Ajay Jadeja
- Surinder Khanna
- Virat Kohli
- Raman Lamba
- Warren Lee
- Mithun Manhas
- Amit Mishra
- Yogesh Nagar
- Parvinder Awana
- Ashish Nehra
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Vivek Razdan
- Rahul Sanghvi
- Virender Sehwag
- Amita Sharma
- Ishant Sharma
- Sanjeev Sharma
- Robin Singh, Jr.
- Sunil Valson
- Atul Wassan
Football
- Jyoti Ann Burrett
- Aayushmaan Chaturvedi
- Aditi Chauhan
- Dalima Chhibber
- Rohit Kumar
- Munmun Lugun
- Tanvie Hans
Golf
- Gaurav Ghei
- Shiv Kapur
- Rashid Khan
- Chiragh Kumar
- Mukesh Kumar
- Amit Luthra
- Rishi Narain
- Himmat Rai
- Jyoti Randhawa
- Digvijay Singh
Hockey
- Raghbir Singh Bhola
- Arthur Charles Hind
- Abdul Qayyum Khan
- Manju Phalswal
- Jaswant Singh Rajput
- Aziz-ur Rehman
- Gursimran Singh
- Joginder Singh
- Khawaja Muhammad Taqi
Martial art
Table tennis
Boxing
- Gaurav Bidhuri, world boxing Bronze medal winner
Tennis
Wrestling
- Jyoti
- Parkash Gian
- Guru Hanuman
- Sonika Kaliraman
- Pawan Kumar
- Sushil Kumar
- Sujeet Maan
- Malwa Singh
- Satpal Singh
Others
- Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian[3]
- Ratish Nanda, conservation architect[4]
- Laila Tyabji (born 1947), co-founder of Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)[5]
References
- ^ "AMBA SANYAL Akademi Award: Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing)". Sangeet Natak Akademi. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Gupta, Priya (28 February 2014). "Politics excites me as much as movies do: Vikas Bahl". Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
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