List of people from Purvanchal

This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.

Academics, science, and engineering

• Dinesh Kunwar Patel (Scientist & Educator), Innovator and developer of World's most languages speaking womanoid Robot Shalu)
• Manindra Agrawal, mathematician, engineer
• Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
• Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
• Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician
• John B. Chitamber, educational reformer
• Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
• 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
• Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI
• Obaid Siddiqui

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
• Mukhtar Ansari
• Munna Bajrangi
• Subhash Thakur

Entertainment and media

• Anjaan
• Kaifi Azmi
• Baba Azmi
• Amitabh Bachchan
• 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.
• Pawan Singh bhojpuri actor
• Girija Devi
• 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

Politicians

• Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
• Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
• Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.
• Giriraj Kishore
• Kalraj Mishra
• Kamlesh Paswan
• Raj Narain
• Jai Prakash Narayan, Independence activist.
• Prem Prakash Pandey
• Jagdambika Pal
• Jharkhande Rai
• Anupriya Patel
• Sone Lal Patel
• Mahaveer Prasad
• Rajendra Prasad, First President of India.
• Kalpnath Rai
• Krishnanand Rai
• Sampurnanand
• Sahajanand Saraswati
• Surya Pratap Shahi
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, Former Prime minister of India.
• Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime minister of India.
• Amar Singh
• Om Prakash Singh
• Rajnath Singh Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Tribhuvan Narain Singh
• Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Manoj Sinha
• Hari Shankar Tiwari
• Kamalapati Tripathi
• Ram Naresh Yadav
• Ramakant Yadav
• Om Prakash Rajbhar

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
• Iqbal Abdullah
• Umesh Yadav
• Suresh Raina
• Mohammad Kaif
• Rudra Pratap Singh
• Piyush Chawala

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