List of people from Purvanchal

This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh also few parts of Bihar state of India.

Academics, science, and engineering

• Sushruta, father of plastic surgery
• Bishun Khare, Research Scientist
• Arvind Mohan Kayastha, Biologist
• Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
• Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
• Jhillu Singh Yadav, chemist
• Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner ^[1]
• 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 ^[2]
• Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI ^[3]
• Obaid Siddiqui

Civil Servants

Jagmohan Yadav addressing a press conference

• Jagmohan Yadav, Former chief of Uttar Pradesh Police
• Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
• Anil Sinha, Bihar Ex-CBI Director
• Vinod Kumar Yadav, Former Chairman and CEO of Railway Board
• Vinod Rai, former CAG.
• Vikas Swarup, former diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

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

Entertainment and media

Actor

Amitabh Bachchan

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Anjaan
• Baba Azmi
• Manoj Bajpai, actor
• Pankaj Tripathi, actor
• Parichay Das
• Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
• Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
• Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician
• Manoj Tiwari, actor and politician
• Vidisha Srivastava, actress
• Shanvi Srivastava, actress
• Amrapali Dubey, actress
• Girija Devi
• Kaifi Azmi
• Siddheshwari Devi
• Rajkumari Dubey
• Anshuman Jha, actor
• Anurag Kashyap, film director
• Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician
• 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
• Jhanak Shukla
• Saurabh Shukla
• Supriya Shukla
• Vinay Shukla
• Kapila Vatsyayan

Singer

• Sulochana Brahaspati, singer
• Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor, singer, and politician
• Manoj Tiwari, actor, singer, and politician
• Sameer

Musician

• Nalin Mazumdar, guitarist
• Kishan Maharaj

Entrepreneurs, Businessman and Tech office holders

• Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Founder of Security Intelligence Service Pvt. Ltd.
• Subrata Roy, Founder Sahara India
• Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare.
• Sandeep Pandey

Freedom fighters and kings

• Jay Prakash Narayan
• Mangal Pandey
• Chittu Pandey
• Veer Abdul Hamid
• Vibhuti Narayan Singh Maharaja Banaras Kashinaresh
• Rewati Raman Singh

Politicians

President of India

• Rajendra Prasad, First President of India

Vice President of India

• Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.

Prime Minister of India

• Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri, Ex-Prime minister of India.
• Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
• Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime Minister of India
• V. P. Singh, Former Prime Minister of India

Deputy Prime Ministers of India

• Jagjivan Ram, First Labour Minister of India, first Dalit Deputy PM of India and founder of All India Depressed Classes League & Congress (Jagjivan).

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

• Sampurnanand Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Kamalapati Tripathi, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Rajnath Singh, Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Chief Ministers of Bihar (India)

• Harihar Singh (1969-1969)
• Lalu Prasad Yadav (1990-1995)
• Rabri Devi (1997-2005)
• Daroga Prasad Rai (1970, for 10 months)
• Kedar Pandey (1972-1973)
• Abdul Ghafoor (1973-1975)
• Ram Sundar Das (1979-1980)
• Bindeshwari Dubey (1985-1988)

Governors of States

• Girish Chandra Saxena, Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
• Manoj Sinha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
• Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Governor of Assam
• Devendra Nath Dwivedi, former Governor of Gujarat
• Sri Prakasa, former Governor of Assam
• Sampurnanand, former Governor of Rajasthan

Deputy Chief Ministers

Deputy CM Uttar Pradesh

• Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

Deputy CM Bihar

• Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar (2015-2017)
• Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav, Bihar (1971-1972)
• Renu Devi, Bihar (2020-2022)

Other

• Raj Narain, Ex-MP
• Ravindra Kishore Sinha Bihar Ex-MP Rajya Sabha, Billionaire
• Anil Shastri, Ex-MP Varanasi
• Sunil Shastri, Ex-MLA Gorakhpur
• Manglesh Kumar Srivastava, Mayor of Gorakhpur
• Jagdambika Pal MP
• Sidharth Nath Singh, MLA Allahabad West, Ex-Cabinet Minister of UP
• Anupriya Patel Central Cabinet Minister
• Giriraj Singh Bihar Central Cabinet Minister
• Rashmi Varma Bihar
• Surya Pratap Shahi
• Swatantra Dev Singh
• Nand Gopal Gupta
• Anil Rajbhar
• Ravindra Jaiswal
• Mangal Pandey, Cabinet Minister of Bihar
• Om Prakash Rajbhar
• Pramod Tiwari MP Rajya Sabha
• Mohd Zama Khan, Cabinet Minister of Bihar

Chief Justice and Judges

• V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India

National and International Award winners

Bharat Ratna

• Bismillah Khan
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Rajendra Prasad

Magasaysay Award

• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Ravish Kumar

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
• Umesh Yadav
• Suresh Raina
• Mohammad Kaif
• Rudra Pratap Singh
• Piyush Chawla

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.
• Ramlochan Vishwakarma, Indian folk writer
• 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
• Amish Tripathi

Scholar

• Sachchidananda Sinha, lawyer and parliamentarian
• Ananda Prasad, biochemist
• Gupteshwar Pandey, former DGP of Bihar
• Kapil Muni Tiwary, linguist

References

1. "Academic Report 2010-2011" (PDF). Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Retrieved 13 June 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. "Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History". slac.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
3. Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times . Archived from the original on 22 December 2013.