# 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
* 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
* Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI
* Obaid Siddiqui

## Civil Servants

* 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
* 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

### 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