# List of people from Jharkhand

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

## 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
* 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
* Bunty Singh, actor and dancer
* 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
* 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

## 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
* 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
* Binita Soren - mountain climber; on May 26, 2012, became the first tribal woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 25

## Others

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