List of people from Amritsar explained

This is a list of notable people from Amritsar.

Spiritual leaders

• Guru Hargobind, 6th Guru of Sikhs
• Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs
• Nawab Kapur Singh, Sikh leader
• Sanaullah Amritsari, Islamic scholar of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement
• Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, historian and writer

Freedom fighters

• Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter
• Madan Lal Dhingra, independence activist

Defense personnel

• Baba Deep Singh, General
• Bhagat Singh Thind,^[1] US Sikh Leader
• Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
• Saurabh Kalia, soldier

Sportspersons

• Abhishek Sharma, cricketer
• Bishan Singh Bedi, cricketer
• Dara Singh, wrestler and actor
• Ghulam Mohammad Baksh, wrestler
• Madan Lal, cricketer
• Ramandeep Singh, footballer
• Ashok Malhotra
• Gursharan Singh
• Sarandeep Singh
• Vinay Choudhary
• Harvinder Singh
• Sharad Lumba
• Chandan Madan
• Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)

Politicians

• Manmohan Singh, 13th Prime Minister of India
• Navjot Singh Sidhu, politician
• Raghunandan Lal Bhatia, politician
• Krishan Kant, 10th Vice-President of India
• Raj Kumar Verka, politician

Entertainers

• Akshay Kumar, actor
• Amrinder Gill, Punjabi singer
• Bharti Singh, Indian stand-up comedian
• Chandan Prabhakar, comedian
• Deepa Mehta, Indo-Canadian filmmaker
• Deepti Naval, actress
• Geeta Bali, actress
• Gurpreet Ghuggi, Punjabi Comedian
• Gurshabad, Playback Singer and actor
• Jeetendra, actor
• Kapil Sharma, comedian
• Mahendra Kapoor, playback singer
• Maurice Barrymore, (patriarch of the Barrymore acting family)
• Mohammed Rafi, recording artist
• Narendra Chanchal, singer
• Pramod Moutho, Indian actor
• Prem Dhillon, Punjabi singer
• Rajesh Khanna, actor
• Richa Chadda, actress
• Sahila Chadha, actress
• Shamshad Begum, classical singer
• Sudesh Lehri, comedian
• Veeru Devgan, director and producer of Hindi films
• Vinod Mehra, actor
• Vipul Mehta, singer
• Waris Ahluwalia, model, actor in US
• Yash Johar, director and producer of Hindi films

Writers

• Abdul Hameed, writer
• Bhisham Sahni, Hindi writer
• Dalbir Chetan, Punjabi short-story writer^[2]
• Ghulam Abbas, writer
• M. D. Taseer, Urdu poet
• Rupa Bajwa, writer
• Saadat Hasan Manto, writer
• Vir Singh, Punjabi poet
• Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, Urdu poet and writer who proposed the name of Pakistan's new capital city Islamabad.

Others

• Bhagat Puran Singh, environmentalist
• Hans Raj Khanna, Judge at the Supreme court of India
• Kiran Bedi, First woman IPS officer
• Laxmi Kanta Chawla, politician
• Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designer
• Shammi Rana, Indian sports executive and administrator
• Vikas Khanna, chef

See also

• List of people by India state

Notes and References

1. Web site: South/Southeast Asia Library – UC Berkeley Library. 20 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150510224434/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/chapter10/chapter10.html. 10 May 2015. live.
2. Web site: Readings | Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture | Global Studies and Languages | MIT OpenCourseWare . 12 May 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518102424/http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21f-041-topics-in-south-asian-literature-and-culture-fall-2004/readings/ . 18 May 2015 .