List of people from Jammu and Kashmir
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This is an alphabetically arranged list of notable people from Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Academics and science
- Amitabh Mattoo, thinker and professor
- Lalit Gupta, art historian
- Subhash Kak, American computer scientist
- Sonam Wangchuk, engineer, innovator and education reformist
Administration and police
- Masud Choudhary, ex IPS officer
- Shesh Paul Vaid, IPS officer
- Shah Faesal, first IAS topper from Kashmir
- Abdul Rashid Khan, IPS, Ex Inspector General of Police and Member State Human Rights Commission. Currently columnist and Author
- Farooq Khan, ex IPS, politician, advisor
Artists
- Allah Rakha, musician
- Bhajan Sopori, musician
- Dina Nath Walli, painter
- Ghulam Rasool Santosh, painter
- Kanish Sharma, music director/singer
- KSHMR, EDM artist
- Rahul Bhat, actor
- Aamir Bashir,actor
- Mir Sarwar, actor
- Tochi Raina, singer
- MC Kash, rapper and singer
- Malika Pukhraj, singer
- Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, musician
- Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
- Vibha Saraf, singer & musician
Comptrollers
- V. N. Kaul, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Padma Bhushan
Defence forces
- Bana Singh, PVC recipient
- Chewang Rinchen, double MVC recipient
- General Bikram Singh, ex Chief of Army Staff
- Nirmal Chander Vij, ex Chief of Army Staff
- Rajinder Singh, first MVC recipient
- Nazir Ahmad Wani, first Ashoka Chakra recipient
Films and television
- Aamir Bashir, actor
- Abrar Qazi, actor
- Anjali Abrol, film actress
- Aly Goni, TV actor
- Anupam Kher, actor
- Ekta Kaul, TV actress
- Hina Khan, TV actress
- Sandeepa Dhar, actress
- Jeevan, actor
- Joanna Lumley, actress
- K. K. Raina, actor, director
- Kanchi Kaul, actress
- Kiran Kumar, actor
- KL Saigal, singer and actor
- Kunal Khemu, actor
- Leenesh Mattoo, TV actor
- Loveleen Kaur Sasan, TV serial actress
- M. K. Raina, actor, theatre director
- Mir Sarwar , actor, former model
- Iqbal Khan, actor
- Mohammed Iqbal Khan, TV actor
- Mohit Raina, actor
- Mukesh Rishi, actor
- Mushtaq Kak, actor and theatre director
- Om Prakash, character actor
- Praneet Bhat, actor
- Qazi Touqeer, singer
- Raaj Kumar, film actor
- Raj Zutshi, actor
- Raj Singh Arora, actor
- Reyhna Malhotra, actress
- Sana Dua, fbb Femina Miss India 2017 1st runner up & Miss India United Continents 2017
- Sanjay Kak, independent documentary film maker
- Sanjay Suri, actor
- Shaheer Sheikh, TV actor
- Siddharth Kak, Indian documentary maker, television producer and presenter
- Sidhant Gupta, actor
- Sumit Kaul, actor
- Sunder, actor
- Tej Sapru, actor
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra, filmmaker
- Vidyut Jamwal, actor
- Vineet Raina, actor
- Vinay Sapru, actor, writer, director/filmmaker
- Waseem Mushtaq, TV actor
- Husain Khan, Actor
- Kanish Sharma, music director/singer
- Zaira Wasim, film actress
Journalism & media
- Nidhi Razdan, newscaster
- Shujaat Bukhari
Law and justice
- Adarsh Sein Anand, ex Chief Justice of India
- Bilal Nazki, ex Chief Justice of Orissa and Chairman of Human Rights Commission of Bihar
- Mehr Chand Mahajan, ex Chief Justice of India
- Parvez Imroz, human rights activist and lawyer
- T.S. Thakur, ex Chief Justice of India
Literature
- Agha Shahid Ali, poet and finalist for National Book Award of United States in 2001
- Basharat Peer, author and scriptwriter
- Deen Bandhu Sharma, writer
- Farooq Nazki, poet, broadcaster and media personality
- Habba Khatun, 16th-century poet
- Hakeem Manzoor, writer, poet
- Lalleshwari, poet-saint
- Moti Lal Kemmu, Kashmiri writer and social worker
- Padma Sachdev, poet, novelist
- Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
- Rafiq Anjum, poet, researcherPrf. Rahman Rahi Poet and Critic
- Bill Koul, author, philosopher, columnist, editor and engineer
Musicians & Singers
Politics
- Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
- Farooq Abdullah, former Cabinet Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
- Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Cabinet Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
- Karan Singh, ex Sadar-e-Raiyasat
- Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
- Shamma Jain, Ambassador of India
- Sheikh Abdullah, former Prime Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
- Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of J&K state, first woman CM of J&K
- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former Chief Minister of J&K and former Home Minister of India
- Fairoz Khan, current national president of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI)
- Engineer Rashid
Royalty
- Gulab Singh, Maharaja
- Hari Singh, Maharaja
- Karan Singh, Maharaja
- Lalitaditya Muktapida, king of Kashmir
- Pratap Singh, Maharaja
- Ranbir Singh Maharaja
Social Activists
- Ayaz Mughal, social activist, writer
- Parveena Ahanger, cofounder and chairman of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
- Mushtaq Pahalgami, social activist, environmentalist
Sports
- Ishfaq Ahmed, Indian Football Team
- Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Indian Football team
- Mithun Manhas, Indian Premier League player
- Parvez Rasool, first J&K cricketer to represent India in International cricket
- Shubham Khajuria, cricketer
- Chain Singh, J&K's first Olympian, Asian Games 2014 Bronze Medal winner in shooting
- Rasikh Salam, Indian Premier League player