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This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttar Pradesh , a state in India. The criteria of this list includes those persons who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces that now is part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. Though their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity .
Deities and avatars Aranath (birthplace: Hastinapur , Uttar Pradesh), 18th Teerthankar of JainismKrishna (birthplace: Mathura ) deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism Kunthunath (birthplace: Hastinapur , Uttar Pradesh), 17th Teerthankar of JainismLakshmana (birthplace: Ayodhya ), brother and close companion of Rama; a hero in the epic Ramayana Neminath (birthplace: Mathura ), 22nd Teerthanks of JainismParashuram (birthplace: Ghazipur ), was an avatar of Vishnu Parsvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi , Uttar Pradesh), was 23rd Tirthankara of JainismRama (birthplace: Ayodhya ), is a legendary or historical king of ancient India ; in Hinduism , he is considered to be the seventh avatar of VishnuShantinath (birthplace: Hastinapur , Uttar Pradesh), 16th Teerthankar of JainismShreyansnath (birthplace: Varanasi , Uttar Pradesh), 11th Teerthankar of JainismAuthors of the great epics
Gosvami Tulsidas
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Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics Yogananda Amir Khusro , Sufi mystic , one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent Bharat Bhushan , the only Padmashri recipient in yoga; founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud , Gazi Miya of Bahraich Kabir , poet and saint Varanasi Nizamuddin Auliya , Sufi saint, born in Budaun Paramhansa Yogananda , mystic who introduced Yoga in the west, Gorakhpur Salim Chishti , Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Poet-saints and religious figures Goswami Tulsidas Akhandanand , scholar of Vedanta , Bhakti and Bhagavata Purana in the 20th century, Varanasi Devraha Baba , Yogi Allahabad Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya , Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi , Jaunpur .Malik Mohammad Jayasi Mira Ramanand , founder of the Rāmānandī sect Prayag Raskhan Sant Ravidas , poet and saint, Varanasi Shiv Dayal Singh , Guru Maharaj of Radhasoamis, Agra Shriram Sharma Acharya , founder Gayatri Parivar, Anwal Kheda in the District of AgraSurdas , blind Hindu poet, saint and musician born in Runkata near AgraSwami Karpatri , teacher of Advaita , popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur Swaminarayan , founder of the Swaminarayan sect , Gonda Tulsidas , composer of the Ramcharitmanas Independence fighters Mangal Pandey Indian Rebellion of 1857 File:Chandra Sekhar Azad.jpg Chandra Shekhar Azad Later 19th and 20th centuries Acharya Narendra Dev , socialistAsaf Ali , independence fighterAshfaqullah Khan of Kakori , Indian independence fighter; member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association ; close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad Chandra Shekhar Azad , Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association Chittu Pandey , independence fighterGanesh Shankar Vidyarthi , independence fighter, journalistGovind Ballabh Pant , Indian independence fighter and politician; Chief Minister of the United Provinces; Bharat Ratna recipient[2] Hasrat Mohani , independence fighter and poetLaxmi Raman Acharya , freedom fighter accused of the Agra Conspiracy caseMahavir Tyagi , independence fighterMaulana Mohammad Ali , independence fighterMaulana Shaukat Ali , independence fighterMukhtar Ahmed Ansari , independence fighter, Ghazipur Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay of Pratapgarh, Indian Independence fighter; two time Member of ParliamentPurushottam Das Tandon , independence fighterRafi Ahmed Kidwai , Indian independence fighter and socialistRaja Mahendra Pratap , King of Hathras Princely State, known as Aryan PeshwaRajendra Lahiri , independence fighterRam Manohar Lohia , socialistRam Prasad Bismil , Indian independence fighter and socialistSwami Sahajanand Saraswati , freedom fighterAward winners Param Vir Chakra Maha Vir Chakra Ashok Chakra Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee , eleventh Prime Minister of IndiaBhagwan Das , philosopher and Freedom Fighter, Varanasi Jawaharlal Nehru , leader of the Indian independence movement; first Prime Minister of IndiaLal Bahadur Shastri , freedom fighter, former Prime Minister; belonged to Varanasi and Allahabad Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon , freedom fighter, AllahabadRavi Shankar , Sitar Maestro, Ghazipur Ustad Bismillah Khan , Shehnai Maestro, Varanasi Padma Vibhushan Padma Bhushan Padma Shree Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan Bekal Utsahi poet, writerGiriraj Kishore writerGopaldas Neeraj , Hindi poet and lyricistHakim Syed Zillur Rahman , scholar of Unani medicineHamid Ansari , Vice President of IndiaK. P. Saxena , writerKanhai Chitrakar Kapil Deva Dvivedi Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, hockey OlympianMohammed Shahid , ex-captain of Indian hockey team, Varanasi Muzaffar Ali , film directorPrakash Singh Vidya Niwas Mishra , writerYogiraj Bharat Bhushan , only Padmashri awardee yogi; founder director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur Dada Saheb Phalke Award Gyananpith Awards Magasaysay Award Arjuna Award Science and medicine Lalji Singh Afroz Ahmad , environmental scientist and administrator Hari Om Srivastava , broadcast scientistHarish-Chandra (Mehrotra), mathematician who did fundamental work in representation theory , especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups Lalji Singh , molecular biologistP. K . Sethi , inventor of "Jaipur Foot"Prem Chand Pandey , scientist, physicist, meteorologist, oceanographerRajendra K. Pachauri , chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [3] Ravindra Khattree , statistician who worked in statistical inference , multivariate analysis , experimental designs , biostatistics and quality control Syed Ziaur Rahman , medical pharmacologistZahoor Qasim , oceanographer, leader of first Indian expedition to AntarcticaHolders of high offices Vice President Prime ministers File:1736 Lal Bahadur Shastri.jpg Lal Bahadur Shastri on postage stamp of Hungary Governors Kalyan Singh A R Kidwai , Governor of HaryanaGirish Chandra Saxena , former Governor of Jammu & KashmirK.M. Seth , former Governor of ChhattisgarhKalyan Singh , Governor of RajasthanKhurshid Alam Khan , former Governor of KarnatakaMohammad Fazal , former Governor of MaharashtraMohammad Yunus Saleem , former Governor of BiharRam Naresh Yadav , Governor of Madhya PradeshSyed Sibtey Razi , Governor of Jharkhand Triloki Nath Chaturvedi , former CAG and former Governor of KarnatakaVirendra Verma , former Governor of Punjab and Himachal PradeshChief Justices Chief Ministers File:Charan Singh (cropped).jpg Choudhary Charan Singh Rajnath Singh Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Political figures Pre Independence Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Post Independence File:Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.jpg Deen Dayal Upadhyaya File:Devendra Nath Dwivedi (2004-01-31).jpg Devendra Nath Dwivedi Akhilesh Das , Union MinisterAkhilesh Yadav Amar Mani Arif Mohammad Khan , political leaderBeni Prasad Verma , former minister and leaderChaudhary Ajit Singh , political leaderChoudhary Charan Singh Dinanath Bhaskar , political leader; former ministerDeen Dayal Upadhyaya Devendra Nath Dwivedi , Indian politician and Governor designate of Gujarat Feroze Gandhi Govind Ballabh Pant Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Indira Gandhi Kalyan Singh , UP CM and Rajasthan Governor; BJP Vice PresidentK.C. Tyagi Kailash Nath Katju , former Union Home Minister and lawyerKalpnath Rai Kamal Nath , politicianKamalapati Tripathi Laxmi Raman Acharya Mahendra Singh Tikait , Kisan leaderManohar Lal (b. 1938), UP MLA, cabinet minister[4] Mohsina Kidwai Mulayam Singh Yadav Mayawati Narayan Dutt Tiwari Om Prakash Singh Prakash Vir Shastri , member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movementSanjay Singh , King of Amethi Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Raj Babbar , member of ParliamentRaj Narain Raja Bhaiya Rajeev Shukla , journalist and political leaderRajendra Kumari Bajpai (1925–1999), former cabinet minister[5] Rajkumari Amrit Kaur , Gandhian, first lady Minister of IndiaRam Govind Chaudhary Ram Manohar Lohia Ram Naresh Yadav Satyapal Singh Yadav , former union ministerSatyaveer Munna Sheila Kaul Shriprakash Jaiswal , union ministerShyama Charan Gupta , politician, entrepreneurAuthors Hindi File:Baldev Upadhyaya.jpg Baldev Upadhyaya Ramchandra Shukla Acharya Chatursen (1891–1960), Hindi writerAcharya Kuber Nath Rai Amitabh Thakur Hindi writerAmritlal Nagar , Hindi writerAyodhya Prasad Upadhyay , Hindi writerBabu Gulabrai , Hindi writerBaldev Upadhyaya , Hindi scholar and writerBhagwati Charan Verma , Hindi writerBharatendu Harishchandra , Hindi writerHazari Prasad Dwivedi , Hindi novelistJaishankar Prasad , Hindi writerKashi Nath Singh , Hindi wiriterMahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan , polyglot Malik Muhammad Jayasi , author of Padmavat Munshi Prem Chand , novelistRahi Masoom Raza , author of Topi Shukla and Adha Gaon Rajendra Yadav , Hindi novelistRamchandra Shukla , Hindi writer and historianRavindra Prabhat ,Hindi novelistSachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Shrilal Shukla , writer of Raag Darbari Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh Swami Sahajanand Saraswati , author of books on sociology, religion, freedom struggle, peasant movement , and autobiographyVibhuti Narain Rai Hindi writerVidya Niwas Mishra , Hindi scholarVinod Kumar Shukla , writerVishnu Sarma , author of Panchtantra Viveki Rai Yashpal , Hindi writerUrdu English Nayantara Sahgal Poets Urdu
Akbar Allahabadi , poetAli Sardar Jafri , Urdu poetBekal Utsahi , Urdu poetBrij Narayan Chakbast , Urdu poetDaya Shankar Kaul Nasim , Urdu poetFiraq Gorakhpuri , Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith award[6] Jigar Moradabadi , Urdu poetJosh Malihabadi , Urdu poetKaifi Azmi , Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriterKhumar Barabankvi , Urdu poetMajaz , Urdu poetMajrooh Sultanpuri , poet and lyricistMaulana Hali , Urdu poet, biographer of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetryMir Anis , Urdu Marsiya poetMir Taqi Mir Mirza Ghalib , classical Urdu and Persian poetSafi Lakhnavi , Urdu poet
Hindi Acharya Kuber Nath Rai , Lit NibandhAyodhya Prasad Upadhyay Gopal Das Neeraj , Hindi poetGuru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt' Harikrishna Prasad Gupta Agrahari , poetHarivansh Rai Bachchan , writer and poetJaishankar Prasad , one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of HindiKaka Hathrasi , humorous poetKedarnath Singh Mahadevi Varma , a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry; won the Jnanpith award in 1982[6] Maithilisharan Gupt , modern Hindi poetShivmangal Singh Suman Subhadra Kumari Chauhan Sumitranandan Pant , one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of HindiSuryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' Bhojpuri Founders of educational institutions Defence services Army Air Force Navy Civil service / diplomacy Indian Foreign Service Civil services Music and dance Musicians Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player; music educator from Varanasi ; Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1966)Begum Akhtar , ghazal singerCliff Richard , English singerGopal Shankar Misra , vichitra veena playerHari Prasad Chaurasia , bansuri playerKishan Maharaj , tabla maestroLalmani Misra , Indian classical musician; dean and head of the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi and his sonNaushad Ali , music director; awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema Pandit Ravi Shankar , classical sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna[2] Grammy awards Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande , musicianUstad Bismillah Khan , Shehnai maestro , awarded the Bharat Ratna[2] Vikash Maharaj , Sarod maestro; recipient of the awarded highest civilian award, Yash Bharti, 2013–14Singers Girija Devi Abhijeet Bhattacharya , from Kanpur Ankit Tiwari , from Kanpur Anup Jalota , Ghazal and Bhajan singerGirija Devi , Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singersHarshit Saxena , singerKailash Kher , from Meerut Kanika Kapoor , from Lucknow Purshottam Das Jalota (1925–2011), ;hajan singer, Padma Shri (2004)Sharafat Hussain Khan , from Atrauli Shubha Mudgal , singerSiddheshwari Devi , Hindustani singer from Banares, known as Maa (mother)Talat Mahmood , ghazal singerVinit Singh , from Lucknow Rappers Dancers Sports Hockey Baseball Rinku Singh , one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United StatesDinesh Patel , one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United StatesCricket Bhuvneshwar Kumar Suresh Raina Arun Lal , former Test cricketerAshish Zaidi , cricketerObaid Kamal , cricketerBhuvneshwar Kumar , international cricketerChetan Chauhan , former Test cricketerGyanendra Pandey , cricketerHemlata Kala , member of Indian women's cricket teamManoj Prabhakar , cricketerMohammed Kaif , international cricketer Mohammed Shami , international cricketerNarendra Hirwani Piyush Chawla Praveen Kumar R. P. Singh , Rae Bareli (U.P.), international cricketerRajinder Hans Raman Lamba Ravikant Shukla , U-19 captainRohan Gavaskar Sudip Tyagi Suresh Raina , international cricketerSurinder Amarnath Umesh Yadav , Deoria (U.P.), Indian cricketerBadminton Other sports Journalism File:Rsahay2.jpg Raghuvir Sahay Aniruddha Bahal , investigative journalistArun Nehru , former minister and columnistDharamvir Bharati , former editor of Dharamyug Feroze Gandhi , managing editor of National Herald Manikonda Chalapathi Rau , Indian journalist and an authority on Nehruvian thoughtNarendra Mohan , Dainik JagranPankaj Mishra , journalistParichay Das , writer, essayist, poet and editor of contemporary Bhojpuri poetryRaghuvir Sahay , editor of Dinmaan Ram Bahadur Rai , magazine editorSaeed Naqvi , journalist and TV producerSahu Ramesh Chandra Jain , Times of India and Navbharat Times Surendra Pratap Singh , editor of Ravivar Vinod Mehta , editorSatire, comedy, cartoons Cinema and theatre Actors and actresses Amitabh Bachchan Nargis Vedita Pratap Singh Abhishek Bachchan Aditya Srivastava , actor and voiceover artist, CID Akshay Oberoi , actorAli Fazal ,actorAmitabh Bachchan , Bollywood actor awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001Anushka Sharma Ashutosh Rana , Indian film actorChandrachur Singh , actorDisha Patani , actress from BareillyJaddanbai , actorK.N. Singh , actorKadar Khan , actorMarc Zuber , actorMeenakshi Dixit , actress from Rae BareliNargis , actress best known for her role in the Oscar -nominated film Mother India Naseeruddin Shah , actor; born in Barabanki district of Lucknow division, U.P.Nawazuddin Siddiqui , actor, Gangs of Wasseypur Nimmi , film actress in the 1950sRajpal Yadav Ravi Kishan , Bhojpuri film actorSaurabh Shukla , Bollywood actorShweta Tiwari , Indian television actressSonal Chauhan , Bollywood actressSurinder Pal , actorSushant Singh , actorTanveer Zaidi , actor, educationistTuntun , comedy actressVedita Pratap Singh , model and actressZakir Hussain , Indian film actorZoya Afroz , Bollywood actressDirectors/producers Abhinav Kashyap , directorAbhishek Chaubey , directorAnurag Kashyap , directorFarhan Akhtar , directorGajendra Singh , editor, director and producerK. Asif , film director, film producer and screenwriter who worked on the Hindi epic motion picture Mughal-e-Azam Kamal Amrohi , directorPrakash Mehra , directorPrasoon Pandey , directorShaad Ali , film directorTigmanshu Dhulia , directorVishal Bhardwaj , Omkara directorZoya Akhtar , directorSingers Lyricists Composers Theatre Cinematographers Story/script/dialogue writers Nawabs of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah Navratnas Television Environmentalists Scholars Fine arts Business Crime [8]
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