List of people from Allahabad

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List of people from Allahabad city in India

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

People listed in bold were born in Allahabad.

Academics, science, and engineering[edit]

Authors and writers[edit]

  • Suryakant Tripathi Nirala – Hindi littérateur
  • 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
  • Dhirendra Verma – critic
  • Amarkant – writer
  • Leema Dhar -Novelist/Poet/ Motivational Speaker

Business and philanthropy[edit]

Fine arts[edit]

Media[edit]

  • 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
  • Hariprasad Chaurasia – composer, flutist
  • Rakesh Chaurasia – flautist
  • Tigmanshu Dhulia – director, producer, recipient of National Film Award
  • Tanveer Zaidi – film actor, educationist, television presenter
  • Aditya Srivastava – actor
  • Deepraj Rana – actor
  • Vikrant Chaturvedi – voice artist
  • Nikhil Dwivedi – actor
  • Jaddanbai – singer, actress
  • Nidhi Singh – Actress
  • Nalin Mazumdar – guitarist
  • Prachi Mishra – former Femina Miss India Earth
  • Indrani Mukherjee – actress
  • Nargis – actress
  • Kinsey Peile – playwright, actor
  • Siddharth Nigam – actor
  • Mudit Nayar – actor
  • Pawan Shankar – actor, entrepreneur
  • Faisal Malik- actor

Military[edit]

Music[edit]

Nobel laureates[edit]

Politics and law[edit]

Head of state and government[edit]

Others[edit]

  • Atique Ahmed – Indian politician, criminal and history sheeter
  • Asaf Ali – Governor of Odisha
  • Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna -Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Minister of Finance
  • Rita Bahuguna – Member of Parliament 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[20][21][22]
  • Mohammed Fazal – Governor of Maharashtra
  • Feroze Gandhi – politician, journalist
  • Terence Gavaghan – colonial administrator
  • 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 – Bharat Ratna, 25th, 34th and 50th President of the Indian National Congress[23]
  • Masuriya Din Pasi, Former Member Of Indian Parliament
  • 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 – former 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[24]
  • Purushottam Das Tandon – lawyer, freedom fighter
  • Kailas Nath Wanchoo – 10th Chief Justice of India
  • Baba Ram Adhar Yadav – freedom fighter, ex-MLA, social activist

Religion[edit]

Royal and noble ranks[edit]

Sports[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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