List of people from Lucknow
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This is a list of notable people from or associated with Lucknow, India.
Contents
Academics, education and science
- Parveen Talha, Former UPSC Member
- Birbal Sahni, paleobotanist
- Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and agricultural scientist
- Veena Talwar Oldenburg, professor of history
- Herbert V. Günther, professor of philosophy
- Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst
- Asma Hussain, Up's first fashion designer, Head of AIFT- Asma Hussain Institute of Fashon Technology, Lucknow.
- Ravi Pandey, ABES Engineering College
Arts and culture
- Cliff Richard, British singer and musician, now settled in Portugal
- Anup Jalota, Indian classical singer and musician
- Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet and lyricist, father of Javed Akhtar's
- Javed Akhtar, film story and screenplay writer, poet, lyricist
- Naushad Ali, film musician
- Mohammad Shakeel, contemporary artist, National Award
- Ranveer Brar, chef, television host
- Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre and television actress
- Adya Prasad Chaturvedi, Hindi writer & Doctor
Actors and singers
- Gungun Uprari,actress
- Amit Sadh
- Baba Sehgal, singer
- Kanika Kapoor, singer
Activists
- Sehba Hussain, activist, former member National Advisory Council
Poets, authors and journalists
- Vinod Mehta, journalist
- Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Islamic historian
- Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Lucknow historian
- Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow historian
- Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Islamic scholar and writer
- Shaukat Siddiqui, novelist
- Altaf Fatima, novelist
- Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar, novelist
- Mohsin Kakorvi, poet
- Mirza Hadi Ruswa, poet
- Mir Taqi Mir, poet
- Mir Babar Ali Anis, Marsiya writer (poet)
- Majaz, poet
- Kaifi Azmi, poet
- Josh Malihabadi, poet
- Mohsin Zaidi, poet
- Javed Akhtar, poet
- Iftikhar Arif, poet
- Maulana Hasrat Mohani, poet
- Brij Narayan Chakbast, poet
- Amritlal Nagar, Novelist
- Suryakumar Pandey, poet
- K.P. Saxena, poet
- Gaura Pant Shivani, writer
- Bhagwati Charan Verma, writer
- Yashpal, novelist, freedom fighter
- Harsh Narain, author
- Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, journalist
- Mirza Dabeer, Marsiya writer (poet)
Business and professionals
- Subrata Roy, businessman; worker director of Sahara India Pariwar, the world's largest employer
- Manoj Bhargava, US-based entrepreneur and founder and CEO of 5-hour energy drink
- Agha Hasan Abedi, banker and philanthropist
- Prashant Pathak, Canadian investor and entrepreneur
Military
- Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general
- Claude Martin, French major general who fought for the British, and established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta
- William Stephen Raikes Hodson, British officer
- John Coleman, soldier
- Henry Montgomery Lawrence, soldier
- John Alexander, soldier
- Edward Hilton, soldier
- Air Chief Marshal S. K. Kaul, Chief of the Air Force
- Wing Commander Trevor Keelor, Pilot, First to shoot-down a Pakistani F-86 Sabre in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
- Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, Param Vir Chakra
Politics
- Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh
- Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
- Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Oudh
- Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Oudh
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
- Mohammad Hidayatullah, Former acting President of India (20 July 1969 - 24 August 1969), Former vice-president of India (31 August 1979 - 30 August 1984), 11th Chief justice of India (25 February 1968 - 16 December 1970)
- Sheila Kaul, former Union Cabinet Minister in India
- K. C. Singh Baba, Parliament
- Amir Haider, Senior Congress Leader
- Kirti Vardhan Singh, Parliament
- Sayed, Nawab of Oudh
- Sandeep Dikshit, Parliament
- Satish Mishra, lawyer
- Mohammad Yunus Saleem, lawyer
- Sarvraj Singh, politician
- Brajesh Pathak, politician
- Ashok Kumar Rawat, politician
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health
- Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
- Mohammad Haleem, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, social reformer
- Auckland Colvin, administrator
- Anne Warner, Australian politician
Sports
- R. P. Singh, cricketer
- Shahid Mahmood, cricketer
- Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
- Apoorva Sengupta, cricketer
- Afaq Hussain, cricketer
- Suresh Raina, cricketer
- Mohd Kaif, cricketer
- Ashish Winston Zaidi, cricketer
- Rinku Singh, MLB pitcher
- Dinesh Patel, MLB pitcher
- Ravinder Pal Singh, hockey
