List of people from Prayagraj explained

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 Prayagraj (Allahabad).

Academics, science, and engineering

• 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
• Alakh Pandey- educational reformers
• Divya Dwivedi — philosopher
• Sorab K. Ghandhi – educational reformer^[2]
• Rajesh Gopakumar – theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[3]
• Raj Narain Kapoor – educational reformer
• Ravindra Khattree – statistician, author
• 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

• 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

• 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

Fine arts

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

Media

• 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
• Roshni Walia – actor
• Mudit Nayar – actor
• Pawan Shankar – actor, entrepreneur
• Faisal Malik- 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^[14]
• 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

• Bholanath Prasanna - classical flautist
• Hariprasad Chaurasia – classical flautist
• Sahana Devi – singer, resident of Allahabad^[15]
• Shubha Mudgal – classical

Nobel laureates

• Rudyard Kipling – author, assistant editor at The Pioneer (Allahabad), Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)^[16]

Politics and law

Head of state and government

• Indira Gandhi - 3rd Prime Minister of India; born in and resident of Allahabad^[17]
• Jawaharlal Nehru - 1st Prime Minister of India^[18]
• 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^[19]
• Keshav Prasad Maurya - Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, BJP Significant Campaigner, Former Member of Lok Sabha / Parliament and ex State President of Bharatiya Janata Party^[19]

Others

• 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]
• 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^[21]
• Masuriya Din Pasi, Former Member Of Indian Parliament
• Janeshwar Mishra – politician
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Vice President of the BJP
• Nazar Abbas Naqvi - Bharatiya Janata Party leader
• 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^[22]
• Purushottam Das Tandon – lawyer, freedom fighter
• Kailas Nath Wanchoo – 10th Chief Justice of India
• Baba Ram Adhar Yadav – freedom fighter, ex-MLA, social activist
• Tanaya Narendra – sexual health educator, doctor, embryologist, and scientist

Religion

• Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi – religious scholar
• Muhibullah Allahabadi -Sufi scholar
• Samuel H. Kellogg – Presbyterian missionary who played a major role in revising and retranslating the Hindi Bible; teacher at Allahabad Bible Seminary^{[23] [24]}
• Kripalu Maharaj – spiritual leader
• Ramananda – reviver of the Ramanandi sect^[25]
• John Banerjee – Assistant bishop of Lahore for the Church of England

Royal and noble ranks

• Khusrau Mirza – Prince of the Mughal Empire
• Mirza Nali – Prince of the Mughal Empire

Sports

• Ali Murtaza – first-class cricketer
• Yash Dayal - Indian Cricketer
• Dayal
• Hyder Ali – first-class professional bowler
• Dhyan Chand – Olympic gold medalist^[26]
• Nikhil Chopra – first-class professional bowler
• Suresh Goel – badminton champion
• Sunil Gulati - president of the United States Soccer Federation; born in Allahabad^{[27] [28]}
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta – Olympic badminton player
• Mohammad Kaif – first-class batsman in Indian Cricket Team^[29]
• 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
• Prayagraj

Notes and References

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5. Web site: Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History. https://archive.today/20130403093954/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/wwwhist?a=Raychaudhuri,+Amitava. dead. 3 April 2013. slac.stanford.edu/. 14 February 2014.
6. News: Pulakkat . Hari . 19 December 2013 . How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen? . .
7. News: Harivansh Rai Bachchan . 21 January 2003 . The Independent . Rupert . Snell . 21 February 2019 .
8. Web site: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Allahabad's prodigal poet. 29 November 2014.
9. http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,919787,00.html Puppets on a String Mithu Banerji in the Observer 23 March 2003 Guardian Unlimited
10. Web site: Julia Strachey Orlando Project.
11. Web site: Wise words from the Subcontinent - the Nation . 11 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150612175820/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/sunday/Wise-words-from-the-Subcontinent-30261219.html . 12 June 2015 . dead .
12. Book: Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. 9780802846808. Anderson. Gerald H.. 1999.
13. News: Masih . Archana . 9 October 2012 . Take a tour of Amitabh's home in Allahabad . . 14 February 2014 .
14. Web site: Browne takes charge as Chief of the Air Staff - the Hindu - the Hindu: Mobile Edition . . 29 April 2015 . https://archive.today/20150429175216/http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/browne-takes-charge-as-chief-of-the-air-staff/article2311046.ece/ . 29 April 2015 . dead .
15. Web site: Bungalows where Kipling, Tagore stayed lie neglected – Times of India. The Times of India.
16. News: Rudyard Kipling's Allahabad bungalow in shambles. https://web.archive.org/web/20130306003601/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/BooksNews/Rudyard-Kipling-s-Allahabad-bungalow-in-shambles/Article1-316198.aspx. dead. 6 March 2013. Hindustan Times . 8 June 2008 .
17. News: 30 years after Indira, Congress pale shadow of former self (Thirty years after Indira Gandhi's assassination) . 14 November 2020 . Business Standard India . 30 October 2014.
18. Web site: PM Narendra Modi pays tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary | the Financial Express . 6 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150531085159/http://www.financialexpress.com/article/miscellaneous/companies/pm-narendra-modi-pays-tributes-to-pandit-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-death-anniversary/76699/ . 31 May 2015 . dead .
19. Web site: Tripathi sworn in as Mizoram governor . 29 April 2015 . dead . https://archive.today/20150429170019/http://thenorthlines.com/readMore.aspx?nid=38780 . 29 April 2015 .
20. S. V. . FitzGerald . Edge, Sir John (1841–1926) . revised Stearn, Roger T. . 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/32969 . 11 August 2014.
21. Book: Bhattacherje, S. B. . 1 May 2009 . Encyclopaedia of Indian Events & Dates . Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd . 138–139 . 9788120740747. 24 March 2014 .
22. Book: Encyclopaedia of Indian Events & Dates. S. B. Bhattacherje. 9788120740747. A-118 . May 2009.
23. Mal Couch, Russell Penney An introduction to classical evangelical hemeneutics 2000 Page 118 "Kellogg taught at the seminary in Allahabad and completed a monumental grammar on the Hindi language in 1875"
24. Web site: KELLOGG, Samuel Henry, Rev. [1836-1899] -- American missionary in India.
25. Book: Khan, Iqtidar . 25 April 2008 . Historical Dictionary of Medieval India . Scarecrow Press . 121 . 9780810864016. 2 November 2014 .
26. Book: Garg, Chitra . 2010 . Indian Champions: Profiles of Famous Indian Sportspersons . New Delhi . Rajpal & Sons . 9788170288527 . 14 February 2014 .
27. News: Allahabad-born Sunil Gulati could be next FIFA president . 18 March 2022 . The Economic Times. 4 June 2015.
28. News: Economics Professor Seeks U.S. Soccer Model. The New York Times. 14 April 2006. Robinson. Joshua . 18 March 2022.
29. Web site: Latest Sports News, Live Scores, Results Today's Sports Headlines Updates – NDTV Sports.