# List of eponymous roads in Delhi

This is a list of roads in Delhi, India named after people, organized by district.

## Central Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 11th President of India. Formerly called Aurangzeb Road, after the 6th Mughal Emperor. |
| Ajmal Khan Road | Mohammad Ajmal Khan | Founder of Jamia Millia Islamia. |
| Amrita Shergil Marg | Amrita Sher-Gil | Hungarian-Indian painter. Formerly called Ratendone Road. The road runs alongside Lodi Garden, which was previously called Lady Willingdon Park. Ratendone Road was named after her son, Viscount Ratendone. |
| Baba Kharak Singh Marg | Baba Kharak Singh | Indian independence activist. Formerly called Irwin Road, after British viceroy Lord Irwin. |
| Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg | Bahadur Shah Zafar | Last Mughal emperor. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of India. Formerly called Circular Road. |
| Kasturba Gandhi Marg | Kasturba Gandhi | Wife of Mahatma Gandhi. Formerly called Curzon Road, after George Curzon. |
| Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Marg | Madhavrao Scindia | Union minister. Formerly called Canning Road, after British Governor-General Charles Canning. |
| Maulana Azad Road | Abul Kalam Azad | 1st Minister of Education. Formerly called King Edward Road. |
| Rafi Marg | Rafi Ahmed Kidwai | 1st Minister for Communications. Formerly called Old Mill Road, after a flour mill in the area. |
| Rajaji Marg | C. Rajagopalachari | Last Governor-General of India. Formerly called King George's Avenue, after George VI. |
| Rajesh Pilot Marg | Rajesh Pilot | Union minister. Formerly called South End Road |
| Sardar Patel Marg | Vallabhbhai Patel | 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India. Originally named Kitchener Road, after British Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener. |
| Subramania Bharti Marg | Subramania Bharati | 20th century Tamil poet. Formerly called Cornwallis Road after the British governor general Edward Cornwallis. |
| Thyagaraja Marg | Tyagaraja | 18th century Carnatic music composer. Formerly called Clive Road, after first British administrator of Bengal Robert Clive. |
| Tilak Marg | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Hardinge Road, after British viceroy Charles Hardinge. |
| Tolstoy Marg | Leo Tolstoy | Russian writer. Formerly called Keeling Road, after chief engineer of Delhi, Hugh Keeling. |
| 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. |

## East Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Haneef Uddin Marg | Haneef Uddin | Indian Army Captain who died while serving with the 11th battalion of Rajputana Rifles in the Kargil War. |
| Maharaja Agrasen Road | Agrasen | Legendary Maharaja of Agroha. |

## New Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Akbar Road | Akbar | 3rd Mughal emperor. |
| Alexander M. Kadakin Marg | Alexander Kadakin | Russian Ambassador to India. |
| André Malraux Marg | André Malraux | French novelist and French Minister of Cultural Affairs. |
| 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). |
| Connaught Lane | Duke of Connaught | |
| Dara Shikoh Road | Dara Shikoh | Eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Formerly called Dalhousie Road, after Governor-General Lord Dalhousie. |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser Marg | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 2nd President of Egypt. |
| Hailey Road | Malcolm Hailey | British peer and administrator in British India. |
| Indira Chowk | Indira Gandhi | Formerly called Connaught Circus, after the Duke of Connaught. |
| Jai Singh Marg | Jai Singh III | Maharajah of Jaipur State. |
| Justice S.B. Road | S. B. Sinha | Supreme Court Justice. |
| Justice Sunanda Bhandare Marg | Sunanda Bhandare | Delhi High Court Justice. |
| 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. |
| Lodi Road | Lodi dynasty | Last dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. |
| Maharshi Raman Marg | Ramana Maharshi | Indian sage. |
| Archbishop Makarios Marg | Makarios III | Archbishop and 1st President of Cyprus. |
| Mansingh Road | Man Singh II | Maharajah of Jaipur State |
| 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. |
| Motilal Nehru Marg | Motilal Nehru | Formerly called York Road, after George VI who was made the Duke of York in 1920. |
| Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Marg | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Founder of the Republic of Turkey. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Rajmata of Gwalior State |
| Dr Zakir Hussain Marg | Zakir Husain | 3rd President of India. |

## North Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Sham Nath Marg | Sham Nath | Deputy Minister for Railways in the 1960s. Formerly called Alipur Road. |
| Rani Jhansi Road | Lakshmibai | Rani of Jhansi. Formerly called Mutiny Memorial Road(often abbreviated to MM Road) |

## Old Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Ansari Road | Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | Indian political leader. Formerly called Darya Ganj Road. |
| Netaji Subhash Marg | Subhas Chandra Bose | Indian nationalist. Formerly called Elgin Road, after British viceroy. |
| Swami Shradhanand Marg | Swami Shraddhanand | Social reformer. Formerly called Garstin Bastion Road.(Widely known as GB Road) |

## South Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| 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. |

## South West Delhi

| Road | Named after | Notes |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Marg | Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Pashtun independence activist. |

## Roads formerly named after people

The following roads were once named after people, but have since been renamed after something else.
| Road | Named after | Notes |
| 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. |
| Baird Road | David Baird | British general. Renamed Bangla Sahib Marg, after a nearby gurdwara. |
| 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. |
| Reading Road | Lord Reading | British Viceroy. Renamed Mandir Marg, after the Laxmi Narayan Temple. |
| Roberts Road | Robert Tor Russell | Chief Architect to the Public Works Department who designed Connaught Place. Renamed Teen Murti Marg after Teen Murti Bhavan. |