List of people from Amritsar

This is a list of notable people from Amritsar.

Spiritual leaders

 * Guru Hargobind, 6th Guru of Sikhs
 * Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs
 * Nawab Kapur Singh, Sikh leader
 * Sanaullah Amritsari, Islamic scholar of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement
 * Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, historian and writer

Freedom fighters

 * Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter
 * Madan Lal Dhingra, independence activist

Defense personnel

 * Baba Deep Singh, General
 * Bhagat Singh Thind, US Sikh Leader
 * Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
 * Saurabh Kalia, soldier

Sportspersons

 * Abhishek Sharma, cricketer
 * Bishan Singh Bedi, cricketer
 * Dara Singh, wrestler and actor
 * Ghulam Mohammad Baksh, wrestler
 * Madan Lal, cricketer
 * Ramandeep Singh, footballer
 * Ashok Malhotra
 * Gursharan Singh
 * Sarandeep Singh
 * Vinay Choudhary
 * Harvinder Singh
 * Sharad Lumba
 * Chandan Madan
 * Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)

Politicians

 * Manmohan Singh, 13th Prime Minister of India
 * Navjot Singh Sidhu, politician
 * Raghunandan Lal Bhatia, politician
 * Krishan Kant, 10th Vice-President of India
 * Raj Kumar Verka, politician

Entertainers

 * Akshay Kumar, actor
 * Amrinder Gill, Punjabi singer
 * Bharti Singh, Indian stand-up comedian
 * Chandan Prabhakar, comedian
 * Deepa Mehta, Indo-Canadian filmmaker
 * Deepti Naval, actress
 * Geeta Bali, actress
 * Gurpreet Ghuggi, Punjabi Comedian
 * Gurshabad, Playback Singer and actor
 * Jeetendra, actor
 * Kapil Sharma, comedian
 * Mahendra Kapoor, playback singer
 * Maurice Barrymore, (patriarch of the Barrymore acting family)
 * Mohammed Rafi, recording artist
 * Narendra Chanchal, singer
 * Pramod Moutho, Indian actor
 * Prem Dhillon, Punjabi singer
 * Rajesh Khanna, actor
 * Richa Chadda, actress
 * Sahila Chadha, actress
 * Shamshad Begum, classical singer
 * Sudesh Lehri, comedian
 * Veeru Devgan, director and producer of Hindi films
 * Vinod Mehra, actor
 * Vipul Mehta, singer
 * Waris Ahluwalia, model, actor in US
 * Yash Johar, director and producer of Hindi films

Writers

 * Abdul Hameed, writer
 * Bhisham Sahni, Hindi writer
 * Dalbir Chetan, Punjabi short-story writer
 * Ghulam Abbas, writer
 * M. D. Taseer, Urdu poet
 * Rupa Bajwa, writer
 * Saadat Hasan Manto, writer
 * Vir Singh, Punjabi poet
 * Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, Urdu poet and writer who proposed the name of Pakistan's new capital city Islamabad.

Others

 * Bhagat Puran Singh, environmentalist
 * Hans Raj Khanna, Judge at the Supreme court of India
 * Kiran Bedi, First woman IPS officer
 * Laxmi Kanta Chawla, politician
 * Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designer
 * Shammi Rana, Indian sports executive and administrator
 * Vikas Khanna, chef