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This is a '''list of notable people from [[Delhi]], [[India]]'''.<br />
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==Architect==<br />
* [[Ratish Nanda]], conservation architect<ref name=bs>{{cite web | title = Lunch with BS: Ratish Nanda |publisher= Business Standard| url = http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-ratish-nanda-111100400015_1.html |date=4 October 2011| accessdate = 2013-11-25}}</ref><br />
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==Art and literature==<br />
*[[Anurag Anand]]<br />
*[[Asloob Ahmad Ansari]]<br />
* [[Chetan Bhagat]]<br />
* [[Bedil Dehlavi]] (1642–1720), poet <br />
* [[Ghalib]], Urdu/Persian poet<br />
*[[Kiran Desai]]<br />
*[[Madhur Jaffrey]]<br />
*[[Meenakshi Jain]]<br />
*[[Ritu Lalit]]<br />
*[[Jaishree Misra]]<br />
*[[Amrita Pritam]]<br />
*[[Aman Nath]]<br />
* [[Tushar Raheja]]<br />
*[[Nattal Sahu]], writer during Tomara reign<br />
*[[Gaurav Sharma (author)|Gaurav Sharma]]<br />
*[[Saudamini mishra]]<br />
*[[Shobha Deepak Singh]]<br />
*[[Nitin Soni]]<br />
*[[Vibudh Shridhar]], writer in medieval period<br />
*[[Sudhir Tailang]], Cartoonist<br />
*[[Valmik Thapar]]<br />
* [[Zauq]], poet laureate of Mughal court<br />
* [[Bahadurshah Zafar]], Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet<br />
<br />
==Business==<br />
*[[Kunal Bahl]], entrepreneur<br />
*[[Rohit Bansal]], entrepreneur<br />
*[[Vijay Shekhar Sharma]], entrepreneur, Paytm<br />
*[[Analjit Singh]], entrepreneur, Max Group <br />
*[[Vikram Lal]], entrepreneur, Eicher Motors<br />
*[[Jawed Habib]], hairstylist, entrepreneur<br />
*[[Patu Keswani]], entrepreneur<br />
*[[Surinder Mehta]]<br />
*[[Bharat Ram]]<br />
*[[Kunwer Sachdev]], entrepreneur<br />
*[[Ajay Singh (entrepreneur)|Ajay Singh]], businessman, sports administrator, bureaucrat and investor<br />
==Education==<br />
* [[Jasleen Dhamija]] (born 1933), textile historian<ref name=ht>{{cite web | title = India in the 1940s: The way we were|work= Hindustan Times | url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/brunch-stories/india-in-the-1940s-the-way-we-were/article1-1106116.aspx | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130811091838/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Brunch/Brunch-Stories/India-in-the-1940s-The-way-we-were/Article1-1106116.aspx | url-status = dead | archive-date = 11 August 2013 |date=10 August 2013| accessdate = 2014-10-09 }}</ref><br />
*[[Deepak Gaur]], molecular biologist, and professor<br />
*[[Anil Grover]]<br />
*[[Partha Sarathi Gupta]]<br />
*[[Champat Rai Jain]]<br />
*[[Hakim Ajmal Khan]]<br />
*[[Syed Ahmad Khan]]<br />
*[[Madhu Khanna]]<br />
*[[Sunil Kothari]]<br />
*[[Sushil Kumar Saxena]]<br />
*[[Malati Shendge]]<br />
*[[Sampat Kumar Tandon]]<br />
<br />
==Journalist==<br />
*[[Gopinath Aman]]<br />
*[[Afshan Anjum]]<br />
*[[Vikram Chandra (journalist)|Vikram Chandra]]<br />
*[[Barkha Dutt]]<br />
*[[Sagarika Ghose]]<br />
*[[Sonal Kalra]]<br />
*[[Mayanti Langer]]<br />
*[[Charul Malik]]<br />
*[[Rajat Sharma]]<br />
*[[Sabina Sehgal Saikia]]<br />
*[[Hari Shankar Vyas]]<br />
<br />
==Law and judiciary==<br />
*[[Sanjiv Khanna]]<br />
*[[Subodh Markandeya]]<br />
==Medical==<br />
*[[Daljeet Singh Gambhir]]<br />
*[[Hemlata Gupta]]<br />
*[[Jitendra Mohan Hans]]<br />
*[[Ganesh Kumar Mani]]<br />
*[[Siddhartha Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Indira Nath]]<br />
*[[Abha Saxena]]<br />
*[[Krishna Gopal Saxena]]<br />
*[[Santosh Kumar Sen]]<br />
*[[Sujata Sharma]]<br />
*[[Noshir M. Shroff]], Ophthalmologist<br />
*[[M. V. Padma Srivastava]]<br />
*[[Nikhil Tandon]]<br />
*[[Brihaspati Dev Triguna]]<br />
==Military==<br />
* [[Anuj Nayyar]], Kargil hero<br />
<br />
==Performing arts== <br />
===Actors===<br />
*[[Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub]]<br />
*[[Varun Badola]]<br />
*[[Arjan Bajwa]]<br />
*[[Manoj Bakshi]]<br />
*[[Rohit Bakshi (actor)|Rohit Bakshi]]<br />
*[[Rakesh Bedi]]<br />
*[[Tahir Raj Bhasin]]<br />
*[[Gajendra Chauhan]]<br />
*[[Priyanshu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Aakash Dahiya]]<br />
*[[Mukul Dev]]<br />
* [[Rahul Dev]]<br />
* [[Ajay Devgan]] (born 1969), Indian Bollywood actor and producer<br />
*[[Rajneesh Duggal]]<br />
*[[Gulshan Grover]]<br />
* [[Karan Singh Grover]], television and Bollywood actor<br />
* [[Zain Imam]], television actor<br />
*[[Sourabh Raj Jain]], television actor<br />
*[[Kishore Namit Kapoor]]<br />
* [[Ram Kapoor]]<br />
* [[Shahid Kapoor]]<br />
* [[Shakti Kapoor]]<br />
* [[Saif Ali Khan]] (born 1970), Indian actor <br />
* [[Shah Rukh Khan]] (born 1965), Indian Bollywood actor<br />
* [[Rajesh Khattar]], actor<br />
*[[Himansh Kohli]]<br />
* [[Akshay Kumar]]<br />
*[[Manoj Kumar]]<br />
*[[Laksh Lalwani]]<br />
*[[Pavan Malhotra]]<br />
* [[Siddharth Malhotra]], actor<br />
* [[Shivin Narang]]<br />
*[[Manoj Pahwa]]<br />
* [[Ssumier Pasricha]], actor and comedian<br />
*[[Pran (actor)|Pran]]<br />
*[[Vijay Raaz]]<br />
*[[Gautam Rode]]<br />
*[[Sumeet Sachdev]]<br />
*[[Anuj Sachdeva]]<br />
*[[Saqib Saleem]]<br />
*[[Pulkit Samrat]]<br />
*[[Keith Sequeira]]<br />
*[[Satyajit Sharma]]<br />
*[[Saurabh Shukla]]<br />
*[[Inderpal Singh]]<br />
*[[Manjot Singh]]<br />
*[[Shaurya Singh]]<br />
*[[Barun Sobti]], television actor<br />
*[[Karan Wahi]]<br />
<br />
===Actress===<br />
*[[Roma Arora]]<br />
*[[Neelima Azeem]]<br />
*[[Naseem Banu]]<br />
*[[Ritu Barmecha]]<br />
* [[Bipasha Basu]]<br />
*[[Swara Bhaskar]]<br />
*[[Bibbo (actress)|Bibbo]]<br />
*[[Sheeba Chaddha]]<br />
*[[Isha Chawla]]<br />
*[[Ridhi Dogra]]<br />
* [[Esha Gupta]]<br />
*[[Neena Gupta]]<br />
*[[Padmapriya Janakiraman]]<br />
*[[Vaani Kapoor]]<br />
* [[Minissha Lamba]]<br />
*[[Radhika Madan]]<br />
* [[Madhubala]] (born ''Mumtaaz Jehan Dehlavi'')<br />
*[[Rashi Mal]]<br />
*[[Sanya Malhotra]]<br />
*[[Manasvi Mamgai]]<br />
*[[Monal Naval]]<br />
*[[Arundathi Nag]]<br />
*[[Shonali Nagrani]]<br />
*[[Aishveryaa Nidhi]]<br />
*[[Tapsee Pannu]]<br />
*[[Huma Qureshi (actress)|Huma Qureshi]], actress<br />
* [[Kriti Sanon]], actress<br />
* [[Amba Sanyal]] (born 1945), stage actor and costume designer<ref name=sna>{{cite web|title=AMBA SANYAL Akademi Award: Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing) |url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/sna-awards2008/amba-sanyal.htm |publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] |accessdate=2014-04-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013233230/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/sna-awards2008/amba-sanyal.htm |archivedate=2013-10-13 }}</ref><br />
*[[Deeksha Seth]]<br />
*[[Pooja Sharma (Indian actress)|Pooja Sharma]]<br />
*[[Urvashi Sharma]]<br />
*[[Deepika Singh]]<br />
*[[Kashish Singh]]<br />
*[[Neetu Singh]]<br />
*[[Rakul Preet Singh]]<br />
*[[Raashi Khanna]]<br />
*[[Sarika|Sarika Thakur]]<br />
*[[Vani Tripathi]]<br />
<br />
===Directors, producers and writers===<br />
*[[Atul Agnihotri]]<br />
*[[Shubhavi Arya]]<br />
* [[Vikas Bahl]] (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director<ref name=times>{{cite web|last=Gupta|first=Priya (28 February 2014)|title=Politics excites me as much as movies do: Vikas Bahl|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news-interviews/Politics-excites-me-as-much-as-movies-do-Vikas-Bahl/articleshow/31112185.cms?|work=Times of India|accessdate=12 March 2014}}</ref><br />
*[[Dev Benegal]]<br />
*[[Aditya Dhar]]<br />
* [[Amar Kanwar]] (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist<br />
*[[Rajat Kapoor]]<br />
*[[Bhushan Kumar]]<br />
*[[Divya Khosla Kumar]]<br />
*[[Gulshan Kumar]]<br />
*[[Anu Malhotra]]<br />
*[[Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra]]<br />
*[[Nisha Pahuja]]<br />
*[[Aanand L. Rai]]<br />
*[[Maneesh Sharma]]<br />
*[[Alankrita Shrivastava]]<br />
*[[Loveleen Tandan]]<br />
<br />
===Singers===<br />
*[[KK (singer)]]<br />
* [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]<br />
* [[Javed Ali]]<br />
* [[Akriti Kakar]]<br />
* [[Prakriti Kakar]]<br />
* [[Sukriti Kakar]]<br />
* [[Harshdeep Kaur]]<br />
* [[Tulsi Kumar]]<br />
* [[Madhup Mudgal]]<br />
* [[Anushka Manchanda]]<br />
* [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh Chand Mathur]], bollywood singer<br />
* * [[Avi Misra]] (born 1983), Indian- Australian singer, songwriter and producer<br />
* [[Bif Naked]] (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer<br />
* [[Peter Plate]] (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)<br />
* [[Honey Singh]]<br />
<br />
===Choreography===<br />
*[[Shakti Mohan]]<br />
<br />
===Beauty Pageants===<br />
* [[Koyal Rana]]<br />
===YouTubers===<br />
* [[Bhuvan Bam]]<br />
* [[Amit Bhadana (comedian)|Amit Bhadana]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=देश के सबसे बड़े यू-टयूबर ने वकालत की पढ़ाई कर सुनी दिल की बात और फिर बन गए स्टार|url=https://www.patrika.com/noida-news/youtuber-amit-bhadana-latest-hindi-news-5047651/|website=Patrika News|language=hindi|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref><br />
* [[Ajey Nagar]] also known as CarryMinati<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-13|title=CarryMinakshi: Everything you should know about the YouTube star|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/everything-you-should-know-about-youtube-star-carryminakshi-6455510/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Philanthropists and social workers==<br />
*[[Kiran Martin]]<br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
* [[Paddy Ashdown]] (1941–2018), British politician<br />
* [[Ramesh Bidhuri]]<br />
* [[Ramvir Singh Bidhuri]]<br />
* [[Michael Bennet]] (born 1964), American politician<br />
* [[Gautam Gambhir]]<br />
*[[Maneka Gandhi]]<br />
* [[Priyanka Gandhi]]<br />
* [[Rahul Gandhi]]<br />
* [[Arun Jaitley]]<br />
* [[Arvind Kejriwal]], Chief minister<br />
* [[Meenakshi Lekhi]], Cabinet minister <br />
* [[Ajay Maken]]<br />
* [[Pervez Musharraf]] (born 1943), Pakistani politician<br />
* [[Kedar Nath Sahani]]<br />
* [[Kanwar Singh Tanwar]]<br />
* [[Sahib Singh Verma]]<br />
* [[Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma]]<br />
<br />
==Rulers==<br />
===Tomars===<br />
*[[Anangpal Tomar]], King of Haryana and Delhi<br />
===Sayyids===<br />
*[[Muhammad Shah (Sayyid dynasty)|Muhammad Shah]]<br />
===Lodi===<br />
*[[Ibrahim Lodhi]]<br />
===Mughals===<br />
*[[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]]<br />
*[[Shah Alam II]]<br />
*[[Bahadur Shah Zafar]]<br />
<br />
==Science== <br />
*[[Diwakar Vaish]], roboticist<br />
<br />
==Sports==<br />
===Athletic===<br />
*[[Arun Bhardwaj]]<br />
*[[Amoj Jacob]]<br />
*[[Lalit Mathur]]<br />
*[[Tejaswin Shankar]]<br />
*[[Sourabh Vij]]<br />
===Badminton===<br />
*[[Damayanti Tambay]]<br />
===Billiards===<br />
* [[Geet Sethi]] (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion<br />
===Chess===<br />
*[[Aryan Chopra]]<br />
*[[Sahaj Grover]]<br />
* [[Parimarjan Negi]] (born 1993), Indian chess player<br />
*[[Tania Sachdev]]<br />
===Cricket===<br />
* [[Mohinder Amarnath]]<br />
* [[Kirti Azad]]<br />
* [[Amit Bhandari]]<br />
* [[Unmukt Chand]]<br />
* [[Chetan Chauhan]]<br />
* [[Aakash Chopra]]<br />
* [[Anjum Chopra]]<br />
* [[Nikhil Chopra]]<br />
* [[Vijay Dahiya]] <br />
* [[Shikhar Dhawan]]<br />
* [[Salim Durani]]<br />
* [[Gautam Gambhir]]<br />
* [[Rajinder Goel]]<br />
* [[Shilpa Gupta (cricketer)|Shilpa Gupta]]<br />
* [[Ajay Jadeja]]<br />
* [[Surinder Khanna]]<br />
* [[Virat Kohli]]<br />
* [[Raman Lamba]]<br />
* [[Warren Lee (cricketer)|Warren Lee]]<br />
* [[Reema Malhotra]]<br />
* [[Mithun Manhas]]<br />
* [[Amit Mishra]]<br />
* [[Yogesh Nagar]]<br />
* [[Parvinder Awana]]<br />
* [[Ashish Nehra]]<br />
* [[Manoj Prabhakar]]<br />
* [[Vivek Razdan]]<br />
* [[Rahul Sanghvi]]<br />
* [[Virender Sehwag]]<br />
* [[Amita Sharma]]<br />
* [[Ishant Sharma]]<br />
* [[Sanjeev Sharma]]<br />
* [[Pratyush Singh]] (born 1994),<ref name=ht>{{cite web | title = India in the 1940s: The way we were|work= Hindustan Times | url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/brunch-stories/india-in-the-1940s-the-way-we-were/article1-1106116.aspx | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130811091838/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Brunch/Brunch-Stories/India-in-the-1940s-The-way-we-were/Article1-1106116.aspx | url-status = dead | archive-date = 11 August 2013 |date=10 August 2013| accessdate = 2014-10-09 }}</ref><br />
* [[Robin Singh, Jr.]]<br />
* [[Sunil Valson]]<br />
* [[Atul Wassan]]<br />
<br />
===Football===<br />
*[[Jyoti Ann Burrett]]<br />
*[[Aayushmaan Chaturvedi]]<br />
*[[Aditi Chauhan]]<br />
*[[Dalima Chhibber]]<br />
*[[Rohit Kumar]]<br />
*[[Munmun Lugun]]<br />
*[[Tanvie Hans]]<br />
===Golf===<br />
*[[Gaurav Ghei]]<br />
*[[Shiv Kapur]]<br />
*[[Rashid Khan (golfer)|Rashid Khan]]<br />
*[[Chiragh Kumar]]<br />
*[[Mukesh Kumar (golfer)|Mukesh Kumar]]<br />
*[[Amit Luthra]]<br />
*[[Rishi Narain]]<br />
*[[Himmat Rai]]<br />
*[[Jyoti Randhawa]]<br />
*[[Digvijay Singh (golfer)|Digvijay Singh]]<br />
===Hockey===<br />
*[[Raghbir Singh Bhola]]<br />
*[[Arthur Charles Hind]]<br />
*[[Abdul Qayyum Khan (field hockey)|Abdul Qayyum Khan]]<br />
*[[Manju Phalswal]]<br />
*[[Jaswant Singh Rajput]]<br />
*[[Aziz-ur Rehman]]<br />
*[[Joginder Singh (field hockey)|Joginder Singh]]<br />
*[[Khawaja Muhammad Taqi]]<br />
===Martial art===<br />
*[[Om Prakash Bhardwaj]]<br />
*[[Akram Shah]]<br />
*[[Narender Singh (judoka)|Narender Singh]]<br />
<br />
===Skiing===<br />
*[[Neha Ahuja]], Winter Olympian<br />
<br />
===Table tennis===<br />
*[[Manika Batra]]<br />
*[[Indu Puri]]<br />
===Boxing===<br />
*[[Gaurav Bidhuri]], world boxing Bronze medal winner<br />
<br />
===Tennis===<br />
*[[Ankita Bhambri]]<br />
*[[Prerna Bhambri]]<br />
*[[Yuki Bhambri]]<br />
*[[Divij Sharan]]<br />
*[[Ashutosh Singh (tennis)|Ashutosh Singh]]<br />
*[[Jasjit Singh (tennis)|Jasjit Singh]]<br />
===Wrestling===<br />
*[[Jyoti (wrestler)|Jyoti]]<br />
*[[Parkash Gian]]<br />
*[[Guru Hanuman]]<br />
*[[Sonika Kaliraman]]<br />
*[[Pawan Kumar (wrestler)|Pawan Kumar]]<br />
*[[Sushil Kumar (wrestler)|Sushil Kumar]]<br />
*[[Sujeet Maan]]<br />
*[[Malwa Singh]]<br />
*[[Satpal Singh]]<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
* [[Laila Tyabji]] (born 1947), co-founder of [[Dastkar]], Padma Shri (2012)<ref name="Business Standard">{{cite web | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-laila-tyabji-114032101237_1.html | title=Business Standard | publisher=Business Standard | date=21 March 2014 | accessdate=3 December 2014}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category:Lists of people by state or union territory in India|Delhi]]<br />
[[Category:People from Delhi| *]]<br />
[[Category:Delhi-related lists|People]]<br />
[[Category:Lists of people by city in India|Delhi]]</div>
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