List of people from Allahabad

Allahabad-born people

Amitabh Bachchan Norman Anil Kumar Browne Indira Gandhi Sunil Gulati Dhyan Chand Tigmanshu Dhulia Manindra Agrawal Shubha Mudgal Sorab K. Ghandhi Pawan Shankar

The people listed below were all born in, residents of, worked in, adopted in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and its surrounding suburbs.

List

People listed in bold were born in Allahabad.

Academics, science, and engineering

Pandit Sir Sundar Lal (Dave) - First Indian Vice Chancellor Allahabad University, Co Founder and First Vice Chancellor Banras Hindu University

• Manindra Agrawal - mathematician, engineer, recipient of Padmashree, Infosys Prize and Fulkerson Prize^[1]
• Ziauddin Ahmad - mathematician
• Amiya Charan Banerjee - mathematician
• John B. Chitamber - educational reformer
• Sorab K. Ghandhi - educational reformer^[2]
• Rajesh Gopakumar - theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[3]
• Raj Narain Kapoor - educational reformer
• Chittaranjan Mitra - scientist
• Henri Pequet - pilot of the official airmail flight^[4]
• Zahoor Qasim - marine biologist
• Amitava Raychaudhuri - theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[5]
• Ashoke Sen - string theorist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Milner Prize winner, theoretical physicist at HRI^[6]

Authors and writers

• Meena Alexander - poet
• Akbar Allahabadi - poet
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan - poet, writer, born in and resident of Allahabad^[7]
• Aniruddha Bahal - journalist, novelist
• Dharamvir Bharati - author, poet
• Krishna Prakash Bahadur - writer
• Satish Chandra - writer, historian
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan - poet
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi - poet
• Harisena - poet
• Rafiq Husain - writer, poet
• Arvind Krishna Mehrotra - poet, anthologist and resident of Allahabad^[8]
• Sumitranandan Pant - writer, poet
• Vibhuti Narain Rai - novelist
• Ibn-e-Safi - novelist
• Allan Sealy - author, writer, recipient of Commonwealth Writers' Prize^[9]
• Julia Strachey - novelist, writer^[10]
• Vikas Swarup - novelist, diplomat^[11]
• Mahadevi Varma - poet
• Dr. Dhirendra Verma - critic
• Leema Dhar - Novelist, Poet, Columnist
• Rajnath - author,journalist

Business and philanthropy

• Abhay Bhushan - computer engineer
• Amol Bose - "grandfather of Indian advertising"
• Sarala Devi Chaudhurani - founder of Bharat Stree Mahamandal
• Jagmal Raja Chauhan - contractor, industrialist and philanthropist
• Imtiaz Alam Hanfi - banker, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
• Sam Higginbottom - philanthropist, founder of Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences^[12]
• Neeraj Roy - Managing Director and CEO Hungama
• Mason Vaugh - philanthropist, educational reformer

Crime

• Atique Ahmed - criminal-politician, murderer

Fine arts

• Mallika Chabba - painter
• Hariprasad Chaurasia - musician
• Ram Chandra Shukla - painter
• Shubha Mudgal - musician

Media

• Karan Arora - film producer
• Amitabh Bachchan - film actor, recipient of Padma Vibhushan, Knight of the Legion of Honour and resident of Allahabad^[13]
• Vijay Bose - theatre director and actor
• Sulochana Brahaspati - singer
• Vikrant Chaturvedi - voice artist
• Hariprasad Chaurasia - composer, flutist
• Rakesh Chaurasia - flautist
• Tigmanshu Dhulia - director, producer, recipient of National Film Award
• Nikhil Dwivedi - actor
• Jaddanbai - singer, actress
• Anshuman Jha - actor^[14]
• Nalin Mazumdar - guitarist
• Prachi Mishra - former Femina Miss India Earth
• Indrani Mukherjee - actress
• Nargis - actress
• Siddharth Nigam - actor, gymnast^[15]
• Kinsey Peile - playwright, actor
• Deepraj Rana - actor, resident of Allahabad^[16]
• Anubhav Sinha - director
• Tanveer Zaidi - actor

Military

• Girish Bihari - IPS officer
• Norman Anil Kumar Browne - former Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force; India's ambassador to Norway; born in Allahabad^[17]
• George Nicolas Channer - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Syed Ata Hasnain - Lieutenant General in the Indian Army
• Bhopinder Singh - Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Music

• Sahana Devi - singer, resident of Allahabad^[18]
• Shubha Mudgal - classical

Nobel laureates

• Rudyard Kipling - author, assistant editor at The Pioneer (Allahabad), Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)^[19]

Politics and law

Head of state and government

• Indira Gandhi - 3rd Prime Minister of India; born in and resident of Allahabad^[20]
• Rajiv Gandhi - 6th Prime Minister of India
• Gulzarilal Nanda - interim Prime Minister of India
• Jawaharlal Nehru - 1st Prime Minister of India^[21]
• Lal Bahadur Shastri - 2nd Prime Minister of India
• Chandra Shekhar - 8th Prime Minister of India
• Vishwanath Pratap Singh - 7th Prime Minister of India
• Keshari Nath Tripathi - Governor of West Bengal, Governor of Bihar, Governor of Mizoram and lawyer at Allahabad High Court^[22]

Others

• Asaf Ali - Governor of Odisha
• Kamal Aslam - first Asian to hold 500+ world records; world ranked #3 record setter; motivator; painter
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna - Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Minister of Finance
• Rita Bahuguna - mayor of Allahabad
• Vijay Bahuguna - Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• Rajendra Kumari Bajpai - Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry, Union Minister of India
• Shanti Bhushan - 5th Law Minister of India
• B. K. Chaturvedi - cabinet secretary of India, recipient of Padma Bhushan
• Alvin Robert Cornelius - 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan
• John Edge - Chief Justice of High Court of Judicature of the North-Western Provinces^{[23][24][25][26]}
• Mohammed Fazal - Governor of Maharashtra
• Feroze Gandhi - politician, journalist
• A. N. D. Haksar - diplomat
• Saligram Jaiswal - freedom fighter; former Health Minister, U.P.
• Murli Manohar Joshi - 1st Minister of Human Resource Development, former Ministry of Science and Technology of India
• V. N. Khare - 33rd Chief Justice of India
• Madan Mohan Malaviya - 25th, 34th and 50th President of the Indian National Congress^[27]
• Janeshwar Mishra - politician
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Vice President of the BJP
• Kamala Nehru - freedom fighter, First Lady of the Indian National Congress
• Motilal Nehru - 36th and 47th President of the Indian National Congress
• Bishambhar Nath Pande - mayor of Allahabad
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - politician, recipient of Bharat Ratna
• Gopal Swarup Pathak - 4th Vice President of India, 4th Governor of Karnataka
• Ferdino Rebello - 42nd Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
• Girish Chandra Saxena - former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
• Krishna Mohan Seth - former Governor of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura
• Anshuman Singh - former Governor of Rajasthan and Gujarat, former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court
• Cornelia Sorabji - first woman advocate of India when admitted to Allahabad High Court^[28]
• Purushottam Das Tandon - lawyer, freedom fighter
• Kailas Nath Wanchoo - 10th Chief Justice of India

Religion

• Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi - religious scholar
• Samuel H. Kellogg - Presbyterian missionary who played a major role in revising and retranslating the Hindi Bible; teacher at Allahabad Bible Seminary^[29][30]
• Kripalu Maharaj - spiritual leader
• Ramananda - reviver of the Ramanandi sect^[31]

Royal and noble ranks

• Akbar the Great - Mughal Emperor
• Khusrau Mirza - Prince of the Mughal Empire
• Mirza Nali - Prince of the Mughal Empire

Sports

• Hyder Ali - first-class professional bowler
• Dhyan Chand - Olympic gold medalist^[32]
• Nikhil Chopra - first-class professional bowler
• Suresh Goel - badminton champion
• Sunil Gulati - president of the United States Soccer Federation; born in Allahabad^[33][34]
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta - Olympic badminton player
• Mohammad Kaif - first-class batsman in Indian Cricket Team^[35]
• Ashish Kumar - holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
• Vivek Mishra - gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games
• Danish Mujtaba - Olympic player
• Shalabh Srivastava - first-class professional bowler
• Jyoti Yadav - first-class batsman in UP Cricket Team
• Ashish Zaidi - first-class professional bowler
• Obaid Kamal - first-class professional bowler

See also

• List of University of Allahabad alumni
• Allahabad

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