List of people from Jharkhand

This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.

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Award winners

Padma Bhushan

• Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay - 2010, Social Activist, Gandhian
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2018, Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
• Kariya Munda - 2019, Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha

Padma Shri

• Shashadhar Acharya - 2020, Chhau dancer
• Premlata Agarwal - 2013
• Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti
• Makar Dhwaja Darogha - 2011, Chhau Dancer
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2009, Indian international cricketer
• Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey - 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer
• Balbir Dutt - 2017, journalist
• Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - 2022, Literature
• Chutni Devi - 2021, social worker
• Digamber Hansda - 2018
• Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - 2020, folk singer
• Bulu Imam - 2019, activist
• Deepika Kumari - 2016, sports, archery
• Vasundhara Komkali - 2006, classical musician
• Mukund Nayak - 2017, folk singer
• Parasu Ram Mishra
• Ram Dayal Munda - 2010, Indian scholar and regional music exponent
• Simon Oraon - 2016, Indian environmentalist and social worker
• Shyama Charan Pati - 2006, Chhau Dancer
• Kedar Nath Sahoo - 2005, classical dancer
• Jamuna Tudu - 2019, environmental activist

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

• Chetan Joshi, flautist
• Mahavir Nayak, nagpuri folk singer
• Mukund Nayak, folk artist

Jharkhand Gaurav Samman

• Lal Vijay Shahdeo - 2019, film director, producer and writer

Nari Shakti Puraskar

• Chami Murmu - 2019, environmental activist
• Dr. Bharti Kashyap - 2017, vision and safe motherhood intervention

Academics

• Bhuneshwar Anuj, scholar
• Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925
• Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - Literature and Scholar
• Shravan Kumar Goswami, Professor and Scholar
• Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari - educationist, writer, scholar
• Shakuntala Mishra, Professor and writer
• Ram Dayal Munda - former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University
• Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976

Authors

• Miniya Chatterji - author
• Pankaj Dubey - author
• Aditi Gupta - author
• Bulu Imam - environmentalist, writer
• Shiv Khera - author, motivational speaker, activist
• Praful Kumar Rai - writer
• Nikita Singh - author
• Sahani Upendra Pal Singh - writer
• Khagendra Thakur

Bureaucrats

• Subodh Kumar Jaiswal - Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)
• Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi

Business and industry

• Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006 ^[1]
• Atul Kochhar - Indian-born, British based chef, restaurateur, and television personality
• Mahesh Poddar - industrialist
• Ashwin Srivastava - venture capitalist

Cinema and theatre

Actors

• Krishna Bharadwaj (actor) - born in Ranchi
• Bibhu Bhattacharya - born in Jharia
• Meiyang Chang - born in Dhanbad
• Dipankar De - born in Jamshedpur
• Dinesh Deva - dancer and actor
• Adarsh Gourav - born in Jamshedpur
• Raman Gupta - actor and dancer
• Rajesh Jais - born in Ranchi
• Sanjeev Jaiswal - born in Jamshedpur
• Deepak Lohar, actor
• R. Madhavan - born in Jamshedpur
• Zeishan Quadri - actor and writer, born in Wasseypur
• Vikram Singh - actor and producer, born in Jamshedpur
• Imran Zahid - born in Bokaro

Actresses

• Pratyusha Banerjee - born in Jamshedpur
• Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Deeba - actress, born in Ranchi
• Rasika Duggal - actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Ishita Dutta - younger sister of Tanushree Dutta, born in Jamshedpur
• Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004, actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Auritra Ghosh - actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Komal Jha - actress, born in Ranchi
• Shweta Prasad - actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Amrita Raichand - actress, born in Dhanbad
• Anushka Sen, actress, born in Ranchi
• Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri
• Eenu Shree - actress, born in Jamshedpur
• Alisha Singh - actress, dancer and choreographer, born in Ranchi
• Pooja Singh - born in Jamshedpur
• Reecha Sinha - actress, born in Hazaribagh
• Simone Singh - born in Jamshedpur
• Supriya Kumari, actress
• Sumann - born in Jamshedpur
• Tania - Punjabi actress, born in Jamshedpur

Cinematographer / Choreographers

• Aseem Mishra - cinematographer, born in Dhanbad
• Alisha Singh - choreographer and actor, born in Ranchi

Directors / Producers

• Imtiaz Ali - director and writer, Jamshedpur
• Amit Bose - director, born in Jamshedpur
• Sriram Dalton - director, born in Daltonganj
• Raj Kumar Gupta - director, born in Hazaribag
• Sanjivan Lal - director and writer, born in Jamshedpur
• Akashaditya Lama - director and scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi
• Prem Prakash Modi - director and writer, Dumka
• Shomu Mukherjee - director, writer and producer, born in Jamshedpur
• Lal Vijay Shahdeo - director, producer and writer based in Mumbai, born in Lohardaga
• Gul Bahar Singh - director, born in Pakur
• Biju Toppo - director and producer, born in Mahuadanr

Music / playback singers / Lyricist / Poet

• Karan Singh Arora - Indian singer, songwriter, rapper, music composer, music director, lyricist and model, Ranchi
• Rajdeep Chatterjee - singer
• Biswajit Roy Chowdhury - Hindustani classical musician and sarod player, Deoghar
• Payal Dev - playback singer
• Ronkini Gupta - playback singer, born in Jamshedpur
• Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - folk singer, born in Ranchi
• Chetan Joshi - flautist in the Hindustani classical music, Jharia
• Govind Sharan Lohra - nagpuri folk singer
• Monica Mundu - playback singer, also acted in film M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
• Nandlal Nayak - music composer
• Shilpa Rao - singer, born in Jamshedpur
• Chandan Tiwari - folk singer, Bokaro

Freedom fighters and revolutionaries

• Budhu Bhagat - freedom fighter
• Sheikh Bhikhari - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
• Telanga Kharia - freedom fighter
• Chanku Mahato- freedom fighter in Godda
• Dhananjay Mahato - freedom fighter
• Raghunath mahato - freedom fighter
• Tilka Majhi - freedom fighter
• Birsa Munda - freedom fighter and folk hero; belonged to the tribal group of Munda people
• Kanhu Murmu - leader of Santal revolt
• Sido Murmu - leader of Santal revolt
• Nilambar and Pitambar - freedom fighter
• Jagabandhu Patnaik - freedom fighter
• Pandey Ganpat Rai - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
• Bakhtar Say - freedom fighter, fought against British force in 1812
• Thakur Vishwanath Shahdeo - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
• Ganga Narayan Singh - leader of Bhumij revolt
• Mundal Singh - freedom fighter, fought against British force in 1812
• Raja Arjun Singh - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
• Ram Narayan Singh - freedom fighter
• Tikait Umrao Singh - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion

Journalism

• Bhuneshwar Anuj, editor
• Dayamani Barla - journalist in Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar
• Balbir Dutt - founder director and editor in chief of Hindi daily Deshpran.
• Anjana Om Kashyap - executive editor of the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak

Jurists and Lawyers

• Binod Bihari Mahato - lawyer, politician, political activist
• Lal Pingley Nath Shahdeo - jurist and political activist
• Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - lawyer, writer, political activist

Medical

• Bharti Kashyap - ophthalmologist
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay - created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation

Gallantry Awards winner

• Rakesh Asthana
• Albert Ekka - recipient of Param Vir Chakra
• Randhir Prasad Verma - recipient of Ashoka Chakra

Poetry

• Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi ^[2]
• Ghasiram Mahli - Nagpuri poet
• Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - Nagpuri poet
• Raghunath Shah - Nagvanshi king and poet
• Dalel Singh, poet
• Ram Krishna Singh - published seventeen poetry collections in English ^[3]

Politics

Activist

• Arjun Munda
• Banna Gupta
• Salkhan Murmu - Indian socio-political activist
• Surya Singh Besra - politician and activist
• Binod Bihari Mahato - lawyer, politician, political activist
• Nirmal Mahto - political activist
• Teklal Mahto - politician
• Thakur Ji Pathak - Indian activist, politician, businessman, well-known leader of Jharkhand(bihar)
• Jaipal Singh Munda, hockey player and tribal leader
• Kunal Sarangi - politician
• Rudra Pratap Sarangi - politician and activist
• Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - lawyer, writer, political activist
• Shibu Soren - politician

Governors of other states

• Bhishma Narain Singh - Member of Namudag royal family and governor of Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Rameshwar Thakur - Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh

Chief Minister

• Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
• Raghubar Das - former chief minister of Jharkhand
• Bindeshwari Dubey - Chief Minister of Bihar from 12 March 1985 to 14 February 1988; was involved in a Trade Union Movement in Chotanagpur collieries and industries since 1944; played an important role in the nationalization of collieries in India, specially in Jharkhand; was 6 term MLA from Bermo constituency in Bokaro District and MP from Giridih in Jharkhand
• Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
• Madhu Koda - former chief minister of Jharkhand
• Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
• Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.
• Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
• Hemant Soren - current Chief Minister of Jharkhand
• Shibu Soren - former Chief Minister of Jharkhand
• Champai Soren - Former Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Cabinet minister

• Yadunath Baskey - Minister in Bihar government
• Satyanand Bhogta - minister of labour
• Sudesh Kumar Mahto - former deputy chief minister
• Arjun Munda - Minister of Tribal Affairs of India
• Kariya Munda - former speaker of Loksabha
• Vimla Pradhan - former tourism minister
• Dinesh Sarangi - first health minister Jharkhand
• Sanatan Sardar - Veteran tribal leader, former irrigation minister, Bihar and three-term MLA from Potka
• Subodh Kant Sahay - former cabinet minister, government of India
• Basant Narain Singh - cabinet minister in Bihar
• Jayant Sinha - aviation minister
• Yashwant Sinha - former Union Cabinet minister, Government of India

Other

• Lobin Hembrom - politician
• Ajoy Kumar - former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer; elected as the MP (Member of Parliament)
• Bidyut Baran Mahato - MP from Jamshedpur
• Shashank Manjari - member of Ramgarh Raj royal family and ex MLA from Dumri
• Kartik Oraon - former member of Parliament
• Sambit Patra - politician and spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Vijaya Raje - member of Ramgarh Raj royal family and ex MLA from Chatra
• Ravindra Kumar Ray - former member of Parliament
• Kunal Sarangi - politician
• Lal Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo - last Nagvanshi king and MLA from Ranchi
• Kamakhya Narain Singh - King of Ramgarh Raj and politician

Religion

• Thakur Anukulchandra
• Father Kamil Bulke
• Parshvanatha - twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism
• Telesphore Toppo
• Dular Lakra

Rulers

• Bairisal, Nagvanshi king in 16th century
• Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo, Nagvanshi king in 20th century
• Bhim Karn, Nagvanshi king in 12th century
• Pratap Karn, Nagvanshi king in 15th century
• Shivdas Karn, Nagvanshi king in 14th century
• Gajghat Rai, Nagvanshi king in 9th century
• Phani Mukut Rai, first Nagvanshi king
• Medini Ray, King of Palamu in 17th century
• Durjan Shah, Nagvanshi king in 17th century
• Dripnath Shah, Nagvanshi king in 18th century
• Madhu Karn Shah, Nagvanshi king in 16th century
• Raghunath Shah, Nagvanshi king in 17th century
• Ram Shah, Nagvanshi king in 17th century
• Ani Nath Shahdeo, king of Barkagarh
• Lal Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo, last Nagvanshi king
• Thakur Vishwanath Shahdeo, King of Barkagarh
• Baghdeo Singh, first king of Ramgarh Raj
• Dalel Singh, king of Ramgarh in 17th century
• Jagatpal Singh, king of Pithuriya
• Kamakhya Narain Singh, king of Ramgarh
• Mukund Singh, king of Ramgarh
• Raja Arjun Singh, King of Porahat
• Tikait Umrao Singh, king of Ormanjhi

Social service

• Jyoti Dhawale - HIV activist
• Dr. Bharti Kashyap - vision and cervical cancer activist
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - 19th Century Indian educator and social reformer

Sports

Archery

• Komalika Bari
• Mangal Singh Champia - Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several International event, including Asian Games.
• Deepika Kumari - Indian athlete who competes in archery status, currently ranked number 1 in the world.
• Madhumita Kumari - won the Silver Medal Asian Games 2018 in the Women's compound archery team event.
• Laxmirani Majhi
• Purnima Mahato - won the Indian national archery championships and a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

Boxing

• Anthresh Lalit Lakra - international boxer
• Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion
• Diwakar Prasad - international boxer
• Birju Shah - international boxer
• Selay Soy - boxer

Cricket

• Varun Aaron
• Kirti Azad
• Rajesh Chauhan
• Kumar Deobrat
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Ishank Jaggi
• Monu Kumar
• Kumar Kushagra
• Shahbaz Nadeem
• Shubhlakshmi Sharma - Indian female cricket player
• Pratyush Singh - made his first-class debut for Jharkhand in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 20 October 2016.
• Randhir Singh
• Utkarsh Singh
• Virat Singh
• Saurabh Tiwary
• Rahul Tripathi
• Vikash Vishal
• Ishan Kishan

Association football

• Deepak Mondal - Indian professional footballer
• Sanjay Balmuchu - Indian footballer, plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League; 2012 graduate of the Tata Football Academy ^[4]
• Lal Mohan Hansda - Indian footballer, plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League
• Munmun Lugun - Indian footballer, plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League

Hockey

• Kanti Baa
• Sylvanus Dung Dung - former field hockey player from India
• Michael Kindo
• Sangita Kumari
• Bimal Lakra
• Birendra Lakra - born in Simdega
• Jaipal Singh Munda - captained the Indian field hockey team to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
• Nikki Pradhan
• Pushpa Pradhan
• Masira Surin
• Sumrai Tete
• Manohar Topno

Lawn bowls

• Lovely Choubey
• Rupa Rani Tirkey

Mountaineering

• Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011, became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 45 ^[5]
• Binita Soren - mountain climber; on May 26, 2012, became the first tribal woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 25 ^[6]

Others

• Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India
• Swati Ghosh - contemporary artist

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