List of people from Purvanchal explained

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^[1]
• 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^[2]
• Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI^[3]
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Academic Report 2010-2011 . Harish-Chandra Research Institute . 2012-06-13 .
2. Web site: Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History. slac.stanford.edu/ . 14 February 2014.
3. News: Pulakkat . Hari . 19 December 2013 . How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen? . .