This is a list of roads in Delhi, India named after people, organized by district.
Road | Named after | Notes |
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G.B. ROAD | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 11th President of India. Formerly called Aurangzeb Road, after the 6th Mughal Emperor.[ citation needed ] |
Ajmal Khan Road | Mohammad Ajmal Khan | Founder of Jamia Millia Islamia. [1] |
Amrita Shergil Marg | Amrita Sher-Gil | Hungarian-Indian painter. Formerly called Ratendone Road. The road runs alongside Lodhi Garden, which was previously called Lady Willingdon Park. Ratendone Road was named after her son, Viscount Ratendone. [1] [2] |
Baba Kharak Singh Marg | Baba Kharak Singh | Indian independence activist. Formerly called Irwin Road, after British viceroy Lord Irwin. [1] |
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg | Bahadur Shah Zafar | Last Mughal emperor. [1] |
Balwant Rai Mehta Lane | Balwantrai Mehta | 2nd Chief Minister of Gujarat. Formerly called Curzon Lane, after the British Viceroy who oversaw the partition of Bengal, George Curzon. [1] |
Dr Bishambar Das Marg | Bishambar Das | Das was a Punjab-born doctor who popularized homoeopathy in India. Formerly called Allenby Road, after British field marshal Edmund Allenby. [1] |
Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of India. Formerly called Circular Road. [1] |
Kasturba Gandhi Marg | Kasturba Gandhi | Wife of Mahatma Gandhi. Formerly called Curzon Road, after George Curzon. [1] |
Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Marg | Madhavrao Scindia | Union minister. Formerly called Canning Road, after British Governor-General Charles Canning. [1] |
Maulana Azad Road | Abul Kalam Azad | 1st Minister of Education. Formerly called King Edward Road. [1] |
Rafi Marg | Rafi Ahmed Kidwai | 1st Minister for Communications. Formerly called Old Mill Road, after a flour mill in the area. [1] |
Rajaji Marg | C. Rajagopalachari | Last Governor-General of India. Formerly called King George's Avenue, after George VI. [1] |
Rajesh Pilot Marg | Rajesh Pilot | Union minister. [3] Formerly called South End Road [4] |
Sardar Patel Marg | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India. Originally named Kitchener Road, after British Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener. [1] |
Subramania Bharti Marg | Subramania Bharati | 20th century Tamil poet. Formerly called Cornwallis Road after the British governor general Edward Cornwallis. [1] |
Thyagaraja Marg | Tyagaraja | 18th century Carnatic music composer. Formerly called Clive Road, after first British administrator of Bengal Robert Clive. [1] |
Tilak Marg | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Hardinge Road, after British viceroy Charles Hardinge. [1] |
Tolstoy Marg | Leo Tolstoy | Russian writer. Formerly called Keeling Road, after chief engineer of Delhi, Hugh Keeling. [1] |
Vivekanand Marg | Swami Vivekananda | Formerly called Minto Road, after British Governor-General 1st Earl of Minto and his grandson Governor-General 4th Earl of Minto. [1] |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Haneef Uddin Marg | Haneef Uddin | Indian Army Captain who died while serving with the 11th battalion of Rajputana Rifles in the Kargil War. [5] |
Maharaja Agrasen Road | Agrasen | Legendary Maharaja of Agroha. |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Akbar Road | Akbar | 3rd Mughal emperor. [1] |
Alexander M. Kadakin Marg | Alexander Kadakin | Russian Ambassador to India. [6] [7] [8] |
André Malraux Marg | André Malraux | French novelist and French Minister of Cultural Affairs. [3] |
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg | Aruna Asaf Ali | First Mayor of Delhi. |
Bhai Vir Singh Marg | Vir Singh | Punjabi writer. |
Chelmsford Road | Lord Chelmsford | Viceroy (1916–21). [1] |
Connaught Lane | Duke of Connaught | [1] |
Dara Shikoh Road | Dara Shikoh | Eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Formerly called Dalhousie Road, after Governor-General Lord Dalhousie. [9] |
Gamal Abdel Nasser Marg | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 2nd President of Egypt. [10] |
Hailey Road | Malcolm Hailey | British peer and administrator in British India. |
Indira Chowk | Indira Gandhi | Formerly called Connaught Circus, after the Duke of Connaught. [11] |
Jai Singh Marg | Jai Singh III | Maharajah of Jaipur State. [12] |
Justice S.B. Road | S. B. Sinha | Supreme Court Justice.[ citation needed ] |
Justice Sunanda Bhandare Marg | Sunanda Bhandare | Delhi High Court Justice. [13] |
Kamraj Road | K. Kamaraj | 3rd Chief Minister of Madras State. Formerly called Dupleix Road, after Governor General of French India Joseph François Dupleix. |
Kwame Nkrumah Marg | Kwame Nkrumah | 1st Prime Minister and President of Ghana. [10] |
Lodhi Road | Lodhi dynasty | Last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. [1] |
Maharshi Raman Marg | Ramana Maharshi | Indian sage. [12] |
Archbishop Makarios Marg | Makarios III | Archbishop and 1st President of Cyprus. [13] |
Mansingh Road | Man Singh II | Maharajah of Jaipur State [11] |
Mohammad Ali Jauhar Marg | Mohammad Ali Jauhar | One of the founders and presidents of the All-India Muslim League. |
Mother Teresa Crescent | Mother Teresa | Formerly called Willingdon Crescent. [14] [15] |
Motilal Nehru Marg | Motilal Nehru | Formerly called York Road, after George VI who was made the Duke of York in 1920. [11] |
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Marg | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Founder of the Republic of Turkey. [13] |
Najaf Khan Road | Najaf Khan | Builder of Najafgarh and commander of the Mughal armies during 1772-82. |
Nelson Mandela Road | Nelson Mandela | 1st President of South Africa. |
Prithviraj Road | Prithviraj Chauhan | King from the Chahamana (Chauhan) dynasty. |
Rajiv Chowk | Rajiv Gandhi | 6th Prime Minister of India. Formerly called Connaught Place, after the Duke of Connaught. [11] |
Rao Tula Ram Marg | Rao Tula Ram | Leader in the rebellion of 1857. |
Safdarjung Road | Safdar Jang | Nawab of Awadh |
Shahjahan Road | Shah Jahan | 5th Mughal emperor |
Tughlaq Road | Tughlaq dynasty | Dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1320 to 1413. |
Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Marg | Vijaya Raje Scindia | [16] |
Dr Zakir Hussain Marg | Zakir Husain | 3rd President of India. [12] |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Sham Nath Marg | Sham Nath | Deputy Minister for Railways in the 1960s. Formerly called Alipur Road. [1] |
Rani Jhansi Road | Lakshmibai | Rani of Jhansi. Formerly called Mutiny Memorial Road [1] (often abbreviated to MM Road) |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Ansari Road | Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | Indian political leader. Formerly called Darya Ganj Road. [1] |
Netaji Subhash Marg | Subhas Chandra Bose | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Elgin Road, after British viceroy. [1] |
Swami Shradhanand Marg | Swami Shraddhanand | Social reformer. Formerly called Garstin Bastion Road. [1] (Widely known as GB Road) |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Benito Juarez Marg | Benito Juarez | 26th President of Mexico. |
Sri Aurobindo Marg | Sri Aurobindo | Indian philosopher and nationalist. |
Josip Broz Tito Marg | Josip Broz Tito | Yugoslav communist leader. |
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Marg | Bacha Khan | Pashtun independence activist. [17] |
The following roads were once named after people, but have since been renamed after something else.
Road | Named after | Notes |
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Albuquerque Road | Afonso de Albuquerque | Portuguese governor of Goa in the 16th century. Renamed Tees January Marg, after the date on which Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on the premises of a bungalow located on the road. [1] |
Baird Road | David Baird | British general. Renamed Bangla Sahib Marg, after a nearby gurdwara. [1] |
Havelock Road | Henry Havelock | British general who recaptured Kanpur during the 1857 rebellion. Renamed Kali Bari Marg, after a Kali Temple built in the 1930s. [1] |
Reading Road | Lord Reading | British Viceroy. Renamed Mandir Marg, after the Laxmi Narayan Temple. [1] |
Roberts Road | Robert Tor Russell | Chief Architect to the Public Works Department who designed Connaught Place. Renamed Teen Murti Marg after Teen Murti Bhavan. [1] |
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