List of people from Jharkhand
This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.
Ancient
- The King Medini Ray (1662–1674)
National / international award winners
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
- Deepika Kumari - 2016, sports, archery
- Premlata Agarwal - 2013
- Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti[1]
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey - 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer[2]
- Mukund Nayak - 2017, folk singer and dancer
- Ram Dayal Munda
- Simon Oraon
Sports
Archery
Boxing
- Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion
- Diwakar Prasad - international boxer
Cricket
- Varun Aaron
- Kirti Azad
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni - captain of the Indian cricket team
- Randhir Singh
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Ishan Kishan
Football
- Sanjay Balmuchu - Indian footballer, plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League; 2012 graduate of the Tata Football Academy[3]
- Lal Mohan Hansda - Indian footballer, plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League
- Munmun Lugun - Indian footballer, plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League
Hockey
- Michael Kindo
- Birendra Lakra - born in Simdega
- Jaipal Singh Munda - captained the Indian field hockey team to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
- Sylvanus Dung Dung-former field hockey player from India.
- Masira Surin
- Kanti Baa
- Sumrai Tete
- Manohar Topno
Mountaineering
- Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 45[4]
Art
Hollywood
Anurag Anand - director and producer, Hazaribag
Bollywood
- Imtiaz Ali - director and writer, Jamshedpur
- Imran Zahid - actor, born in Bokaro
- Meiyang Chang - actor, born in Dhanbad
- Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, actress, born in Jamshedpur
- Sriram Dalton - director
- Zeishan Quadri- actor and writer, born in Wasseypur
- Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004, actress, born in Jamshedpur
- Ishita Dutta - younger sister of Tanushree Dutta, born in Jamshedpur
- Raj Kumar Gupta - director, born in Hazaribag
- Chetan Joshi
- Akashaditya Lama - director and Scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi
- R. Madhavan - actor, born in Jamshedpur
- Gul Bahar Singh - film director, born in Pakur
- Mannara Chopra - actress, born in Bokaro
- Shweta Prasad - actress, born in Jamshedpur
- Amrita Raichand - actress, born in Dhanbad
- Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri
- Komal Jha - actress, born in Ranchi
- Supriya Kumari - actress, born in Ranchi
- Krishna Bharadwaj - actor, born in Ranchi
- Madhurima Tuli - actress, born in Dhanbad
Military police
Writers and scholars
Journalists
Writers
- Tuhin Sinha - best selling author of eight book, screenwriter and social commentator
- Kajol Aikat - best selling author, short story writer and novelist
- Khagendra Thakur
- Nikita Singh - author
Poets
- Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi[5]
- Ram Krishna Singh - published seventeen poetry collections in English[6]
Academics
- Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925
- Ram Dayal Munda
- Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976[7] poet with several publications
- Jitendra Kumar - teacher of computer science and applications at Rajendra Vidyalaya, Jamshedpur, since 2001
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
- Birsa Munda - freedom fighter and a folk hero; belonged to the tribal group of Munda people
- Kanhu Murmu
- Sido Murmu
Religious
- Thakur Anukulchandra
- Nirmal Baba
- Father Kamil Bulke
- Sister Nirmala Joshi - Mother Teresa's successor
- Parshvanatha - twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism; achieved mokṣa at the age of one hundred atop Shikharji, Giridih district
- Telesphore Toppo
Social service
- Jyoti Dhawale
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - spent the last 18 to 20 years of his life among the Santhals at Karmatar, Jamtara district; the station Karmatar has been renamed as 'Vidyasagar' railway station in his honour
Business
- Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006[8]
- Ashwin Srivastava - venture capitalist
- Mahesh Poddar - industrialist
Holders of high Constitutional offices
Governors of other states
- Rameshwar Thakur- Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
- Bhishma Narain Singh- Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andman Nicobar Island
Chief Minister
- Bindeshwari Dubey - Chief Minister of Bihar from 12 March 1985 to 14 February 1988; was involved in a Trade Union Movement in Chotanagpur collieries and industries since 1944; played an important role in the nationalization of collieries in India, specially in Jharkhand; was 6 term MLA from Bermo constituency in Bokaro District and MP from Giridih in Jharkhand
- Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
- Raghubar Das
- Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
- Madhu Koda-Ex-chief minister of jharkhand
- Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
- Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur
- Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
- Hemant Soren
- Shibu Soren-
Politicians
- Jaipal Singh Munda-Marang Gomke - tribal leader who participated in making of Indian Constitution representing whole tribal community
- Binodanand Jha - former Chief Minister of Undivided Bihar (Bihar and Jharkhand)
- K.B.Sahay - former Chief Minister of Undivided Bihar (Bihar and Jharkhand)
- Bindeshwari Dubey - former Chief Minister of Undivided Bihar (Bihar and Jharkhand) and Union Cabinet Minister / played an important role in the nationalization of Indian collieries
- Kartik Oraon - former Union Minister
- Shibu Soren - former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, union minister and famous leader of Jharkhand movement
- Kariya Munda - Deputy Chief of 15th Lok Sabha and former Union Minister
- Babulal Marandi - first chief Minister of jharkhand and Union Cabinet Minister
- Yashwant Sinha - former Union Cabinet minister, Government of India
- Subodh Kant Sahay - former cabinet minister, government of India
Medical
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay - created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation
Others
- Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India
- Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi
References
- ↑ "Ranchi Express". Ranchi Express. 26 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.successcds.net/currentaffairs/list-of-padma-shri-awards-2012-12185.html
- ↑ Kapadia, Novy. "Silver Jubilee of Tata Football Academy". SportsKeeda. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ↑ "On the top of the world - Steel city mom oldest Indian woman to scale Everest". The Telegraph (Kolkata). May 21, 2011.
- ↑ https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html
- ↑ http://issuu.com/kirim-tatar-kitaplari/docs/nazar_2013_09_online
- ↑ http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=50527
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/7XUE.html
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