List of people from Purvanchal
This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.
Armed forces
- Abdul Hamid
- Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Scientists
Academics, science, and engineering
- Manindra Agrawal, mathematician, engineer
- Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
- Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician
- John B. Chitamber, educational reformer
- Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner[1]
- Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher
- Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer
- Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist
- Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist
- Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner[2]
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI[3]
Freedom fighters and kings
- Chittu Pandey
- Mangal Pandey
- Qurban Sheikh
Politicians
- Yogi Adityanath
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
- Giriraj Kishore
- Kalraj Mishra
- Raj Narain
- Jai Prakash Narayan
- Prem Prakash Pandey
- Jagdambika Pal
- Jharkhande Rai
- Anupriya Patel
- Sone Lal Patel
- Mahaveer Prasad
- Rajendra Prasad
- Kalpnath Rai
- Krishnanand Rai
- Sampurnanand
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Surya Pratap Shahi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Chandra Shekhar
- Amar Singh
- Om Prakash Singh
- Rajnath Singh
- Tribhuvan Narain Singh
- Vir Bahadur Singh
- Manoj Sinha
- Hari Shankar Tiwari
- Kamalapati Tripathi
- Ram Naresh Yadav
- Ramakant Yadav
- Om Prakash Rajbhar
Writers
- Meena Alexander, poet
- Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer
- Aniruddha Bahal, journalist, novelist
- Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
- Dharamvir Bharati, author, poet
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, poet
- Satish Chandra, writer, historian
- Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'
- Kapil Deva Dvivedi
- Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet
- Harisena, poet
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
- Rafiq Husain, writer, poet
- Ibn-e-Safi, novelist
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
- Shibli Nomani
- Jaishankar Prasad
- Munshi Premchand
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
- Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist
- Viveki Rai
- Rahul Sankrityayan
- Parichay Das
- Allan Sealy, author, writer
- Ramchandra Shukla
- Kedarnath Singh
- Julia Strachey, novelist, writer
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Baldev Upadhyaya
- Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
Entrepreneurs
- Samrat Singh Kapurpur
- Banarasidas
- Piyush Pandey
- Prasoon Pandey
- Sandeep Pandey
Criminals
- Mukhtar Ansari
- Munna Bajrangi
- Abhishek Singh Honey
- Brajesh Singh
Sportspeople
Hockey
Cricket
Gymnastics
- Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
- Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games
Baseball
Badminton
- Suresh Goel, badminton champion
- Syed Modi
Entertainment and media
- Anjaan
- Kaifi Azmi
- Baba Azmi
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Parichay Das
- Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
- Sulochana Brahaspati, singer
- Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
- Girija Devi
- Siddheshwari Devi
- Rajkumari Dubey
- Anshuman Jha, actor
- Anurag Kashyap, film director
- Ravi Kishan
- Kishan Maharaj
- Nalin Mazumdar, guitarist
- Chhannulal Mishra
- Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- Gopal Shankar Misra
- Lalmani Misra
- Indrani Mukherjee, actress
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Chunky Pandey
- Sudhanshu Pandey
- Kinsey Peile, playwright, actor
- Rahi Masoom Raza
- Sameer
- Jhanak Shukla
- Saurabh Shukla
- Supriya Shukla
- Vinay Shukla
- Kapila Vatsyayan
Artists
Social activists
Spiritual leaders
Others
References
- ↑ "Academic Report 2010-2011" (PDF). Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ↑ "Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History". http://www.slac.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 14 February 2014. External link in
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(help) - ↑ Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times.
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