List of people from Chhattisgarh

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This is a list of notable people from Chhattisgarh, India, throughout history.

Religion

• Guru Ghasidas - founder of Satnami Sect
• Vallabha - vaishnavite philosopher

Politicians

• Ajit Jogi - First Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• Shyama Charan Shukla - former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
• Nareshchandra Singh - former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
• Bhupesh Baghel - former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• Raman Singh - former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• Motilal Vora - former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh ^{[1] [2]}
• Vishnu Deo Sai - Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• Arun Sao - Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
• Tokhan Sahu - Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs of India
• Vidya Charan Shukla - former Minister of External Affairs
• Arvind Netam - former Minister of State
• Vijay Sharma - Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh

Activists

• Thakur Pyarelal - Trade union leader and Freedom fighter
• Shankar Guha Niyogi - Trade union leader. founder of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha
• Soni Sori - Adivasi right activist. won Front Line Defenders award
• Sudha Bharadwaj - Trade unionist and lawyer. Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha member
• Shamshad Begum - Padma Shri awardee social worker
• Alok Shukla - Environment activist. founder of Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan. won Goldman Environmental Prize in 2024
• Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman environmental prize awardee social worker
• Phoolbasan Bai Yadav - Padma Shri awardee social worker
• Damodar Bapat - Padma Shri awardee social worker

Scientists

• Rajendra Badgaiyan - Cognitive Neuroscientist
• Pukhraj Bafna - Paediatrician ^[3]
• Narendra Kumar - Theoretical Physicist
• Binayak Sen - Paediatrician

Musicians

• Teejan Bai - Exponent of Pandavani(Kapalik) ^[4]
• Anupama Bhagwat - Sitarist ^[5]
• Mamta Chandrakar - Playback singer ^[6]
• Usha Barle - Pandavani singer
• Rajat Dholakia
• Sumedha Karmahe
• Punaram Nishad - Pandavani singer(Vedamati)
• Sulakshana Pandit
• Jagdish Prasad

Cinema

Director

• Anurag Basu
• Satish Jain

Actors

• Satyajeet Dubey
• Pooran Kiri
• Omkar Das Manikpuri
• Aashay Mishra
• Govind Ram Nirmalkar
• Kishore Sahu
• Anuj Sharma
• Vega Tamotia
• Sandit Tiwari
• Gehana Vasisth
• Swati Verma

Writer

• Habib Tanvir

Models

• Unnati Davara
• Shivani Jadhav

Military

• Kaushal Yadav

Sports

• Leslie Claudius - three time Summer Olympics gold medallist in field Hockey
• Rajendra Prasad - Arjuna Awardee boxer
• Saba Anjum Karim - Arjuna Awardee Field hockey player
• Renuka Yadav - Field hockey player
• Chitrasen Sahu - Para-Mountaineer
• Kiran Pisda - Football player, ex-ŽNK Dinamo Zagreb
• Aakarshi Kashyap - Silver medallist at 2022 Commonwealth Games in Mixed team
• Shashank Singh [Cricket]

See also

• List of people from Madhya Pradesh
• Lists of Indian people

References

1. "motilal vora: Latest News & Videos, Photos about motilal vora | The Economic Times - Page 1". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
2. "MP CM Kamal Nath condole death of Cong veteran Motilal Vora".
3. "Chhattisgarh News". Chhattisgarh News. 24 March 2011. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
4. Pandavani
5. "Anupama - Biography". Anupama.org. Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
6. "Mamta Chandrakar". cgkhabar. 26 Jan 2016. Retrieved 2016-01-26.