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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 Prayagraj (Allahabad).
Academics, science, and engineering
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
Fine arts
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
Music
Nobel laureates
Politics and law
Head of state and government
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]
[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
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
[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
Tanaya Narendra – sexual health educator, doctor, embryologist, and scientist
Religion
Royal and noble ranks
Sports
See also
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