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This is a list of eminent people from Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana State of India.
Arts, music and cinema
- Mast Ali, actor
- Rashid Ali, singer
- Talat Aziz, ghazal singer
- Mohammad Ali Baig, producer-director, heads the Hyderabad-based Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation
- Shyam Benegal, director and screenwriter
- Mynampati Sreerama Chandra, singer
- Sherlyn Chopra, model, actress, singer
- Rana Daggubati, actor, model
- Farah, Bollywood actress (1980s and early 90s)
- Diana Hayden, Miss World (1997)
- Vedala Hemachandra, singer
- Aditi Rao Hydari, actress
- N. C. Karunya, singer
- Anjali Parvati Koda, playwright and stand-up comedian
- Nagesh Kukunoor (b. 1967), filmmaker and screenwriter
- Gopichand Lagadapati, actor, writer, director, producer
- Asmita Marwa, fashion designer
- Dia Mirza, model and actress, Miss Asia-Pacific (2000)
- Aziz Naser, actor
- Vivek Oberoi, actor
- Bairu Raghuram (born 1949), painter
- Vithal Rao (born 1929), ghazal singer
- Rathna Shekar Reddy, theatre and film actor, founder of Samahaara
- Payal Rohatgi, actress
- Sushmita Sen, actress and Miss Universe 1994
- Mani Shankar, filmmaker
- Tabu, actress
- Kabir Khan, film director
- Rohit Khandelwal, actor and Mister World 2016
Business
Civil servants and diplomats
Educationists
Information technology
Literature
- Amjad Hussain (pen name: Amjad Hyderabadi) (1878-1961), Urdu poet
- Jwalamukhi (1938–2008), poet, novelist, essayist and political activist
- Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949), poet and political activist
- Jameela Nishat (1955), Urdu poet, feminist and social activist
- Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), poet, journalist, writer, translator, literary critic, educationist and politician
- Mohiuddin Qadri Zore (1905–1962), poet, literary critic and historian
Media and television
Sports
Badminton
Cricket
- Mohammad Azharuddin, former captain of Indian Cricket Team.
- Ghulam Ahmed, test player
- Syed Abid Ali, former cricketer
- Arshad Ayub (1987–1990)
- Abbas Ali Baig
- Harsha Bhogle,Indian cricketer and Commentator
- Noel David, former cricketer
- Syed Mohammad Hadi, nicknamed Indian Rainbow Hadi
- M. L. Jaisimha, known as 'cultivated stylist' in cricket team
- V. V. S. Laxman, former cricketer
- C. K. Nayudu (1895–1967), first captain of the Indian cricket team
- Pragyan Ojha
- Venkatapathy Raju, former cricketer
- Ambati Rayudu, cricketer
- Shivlal Yadav (1979–1987), played 35 tests
Tennis
Politics
Recipients of National Awards
Bharat Ratna
Padma Shree
Nizams of Hyderabad
See also
References
