List of people from Purvanchal
# List of people from Purvanchal

This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.

## Academics, science, and engineering

* Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
* Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
* Jhillu Singh Yadav, chemist
* Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
* Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher
* Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer
* Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist
* Prem Chand Pandey
* Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist
* Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
* Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI
* Obaid Siddiqui

## Civil Servants

* Jagmohan Yadav, Former chief of Uttar Pradesh Police
* Vinod Kumar Yadav, Former Chairman and CEO of Railway Board
* Vinod Rai, former CAG.
* Vikas Swarup, former diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

## Armed forces

* Mahendra Nath Mulla
* Abdul Hamid
* Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

## Artists

* Bismillah Khan
* Birju Maharaj
* Ravi Shankar
* Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
* Ram Kinkar Upadhyay

## Criminals

* Shri Prakash Shukla
* Ramakant Yadav
* Umakant Yadav
* Munna Bajrangi

## Entertainment and media

* Amitabh Bachchan
* Anjaan
* Baba Azmi
* Harivansh Rai Bachchan
* Manoj Bajpai, actor.
* Pankaj Tripathi, actor.
* Parichay Das
* Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
* Sulochana Brahaspati, singer
* Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
* Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician.
* Manoj Tiwari, actor and Politician.
* Amrapali Dubey, actress.
* Girija Devi
* Kaifi Azmi
* Siddheshwari Devi
* Rajkumari Dubey
* Anshuman Jha, actor
* Anurag Kashyap, film director
* Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician.
* 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

## Entrepreneurs

* Subrata Roy
* Banarasidas
* Piyush Pandey
* Prasoon Pandey
* Sandeep Pandey

## Freedom fighters and kings

* Mangal Pandey
* Chittu Pandey
* Veer Abdul Hamid
* Vibhuti Narayan Singh Maharaja Banaras Kashinaresh
* Rewati Raman Singh

## Politicians

* Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
* Rajendra Prasad, First President of India.
* Lal Bahadur Shastri, Former Prime minister of India.
* Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
* Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.
* Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime minister of India.
* Jai Prakash Narayan, Independence activist.
* Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
* Rajnath Singh Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
* Giriraj Kishore
* Kalraj Mishra
* Kamlesh Paswan
* Raj Narain
* Prem Prakash Pandey
* Jagdambika Pal
* Jharkhande Rai
* Anupriya Patel
* Sone Lal Patel
* Mahaveer Prasad
* Kalpnath Rai
* Krishnanand Rai
* Sampurnanand
* Sahajanand Saraswati
* Surya Pratap Shahi
* Amar Singh
* Om Prakash Singh
* Tribhuvan Narain Singh
* Manoj Sinha
* Hari Shankar Tiwari
* Kamalapati Tripathi
* Ram Naresh Yadav
* Ramakant Yadav
* Om Prakash Rajbhar
* Ajai Rai
* Avadhesh Singh
* Kripashankar Singh
* Pramod Tiwari
* Ajay Kumar Lallu
* Atul Rai
* Nadeem Javed
* Gopal Rai

## Social activists

* Veer Bhadra Mishra, academic, environmentalist
* Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist

## Spiritual leaders

* Bhagwan Das

## Sportspeople

### Badminton

* Suresh Goel

### Baseball

* Rinku Singh

### Cricket

* Narendra Hirwani
* Umesh Yadav
* Suresh Raina
* Mohammad Kaif
* Rudra Pratap Singh
* Piyush Chawla

### Gymnastics

* Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
* Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games

### Hockey

* Dhyan Chand
* Mohammed Shahid

## Writers

* Premchand.
* 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
* Amish Tripathi
