List of people from Ballia

The following is a list of notable people from or related to Ballia district, India

Academics

 * Ibrahim Balyawi, Indian Islamic scholar
 * Ganesh Prasad - indian mathematician
 * Jagadish Shukla - 	meteorology scientist

Activism, social work, and philanthropy

 * Bhrigu – Brahmin saint from Ballia district
 * Chittu Pandey – activist of 1942 Quit India Movement
 * Mangal Pandey – prominent soldier in the 1857 revolution of India
 * Manzoor Alam Quraishi, Nationalist Indian Civil Service officer, joined India at the Partition of India 1947
 * Rabindra Nath Upadhyay – Social worker and Padma Shri recipient

Art and literature

 * Amarkant – writer of Hindi literature
 * Bulaki Das - saint and Bhojpuri poet
 * Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – novelist and literary historian
 * Kedar Nath Pandey - writer and member of Bihar Legislative Council
 * Suryakumar Pandey – poet and writer
 * Atul Kumar Rai - Young novelist and Sahitya Academy Award
 * Doodhnath Singh – Hindi language writer, critic and poet
 * Kedarnath Singh – poet, critic, and essayist
 * Baldev Upadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar, literary historian and essayist

Film, television and entertainment

 * Siddhant Chaturvedi - Bollywood film actor
 * Kamlesh Pandey - Bollywood Film writer
 * Atul Kumar Rai - Bollywood Film writer

Politics and government

 * Gulam Rasool Balyawi - Former Member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar and Member of the Former Bihar Legislative Council
 * Ram Govind Chaudhary - politician of the Samajwadi Party, ex-Leader of Opposition.
 * Murli Manohar – politician from Uttar Pradesh state, member of parliament in 1962 for the Ballia Lok Sabha constituency from the Indian National Congress
 * Virendra Singh Mast - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, 17th Lok Sabha, Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)
 * Janeshwar Mishra – Ex MP Rajyasabha, Ex Rail Minister
 * Jayaprakash Narayan – Independence activist and political leader
 * Bacha Pathak - Indian National Congress - Member of Legislative Assembly. ( Constituency - Bansdih, Ballia), Two time Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government.
 * Rajeev Rai - Samajwadi Party - 18th Lok Sabha, Ghosi (Lok Sabha constituency)
 * Chandra Shekhar – 8th Prime Minister of India
 * Neeraj Shekhar - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)
 * Bharat Singh - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, 16th Lok Sabha, Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency), ex MLA
 * Daya Shankar Singh - Minister of Transport, Government of Uttar Pradesh in the Second Yogi Adityanath ministry
 * Harivansh Narayan Singh – Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha (2018)
 * Manager Singh - political leader elected five times as the MLA from Doaba constituency.
 * Umashankar Singh - BSP Rasara constituency
 * Upendra Tiwari - BJP Phephana constituency