List of people from Delhi

This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.

Architect

 * Ratish Nanda, conservation architect

Author

 * Anurag Anand
 * Asloob Ahmad Ansari
 * Chetan Bhagat
 * Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet
 * Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet
 * Kiran Desai
 * Madhur Jaffrey
 * Meenakshi Jain
 * Ritu Lalit
 * Jaishree Misra
 * Amrita Pritam
 * Aman Nath
 * Tushar Raheja
 * Nattal Sahu, writer during Tomara reign
 * Gaurav Sharma
 * Shobha Deepak Singh
 * Nitin Soni
 * Vibudh Shridhar, writer in medieval period
 * Sudhir Tailang, Cartoonist
 * Valmik Thapar
 * Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
 * Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet

Business

 * Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur
 * Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur
 * Vijay Shekhar Sharma, entrepreneur, Paytm
 * Analjit Singh, entrepreneur, Max Group
 * Vikram Lal, entrepreneur, Eicher Motors
 * Jawed Habib, hairstylist, entrepreneur
 * Patu Keswani, entrepreneur
 * Surinder Mehta
 * Bharat Ram
 * Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur
 * Ajay Singh, businessman, sports administrator, bureaucrat and investor

Education

 * Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian
 * Deepak Gaur, molecular biologist, and professor
 * Anil Grover
 * Partha Sarathi Gupta
 * Champat Rai Jain
 * Hakim Ajmal Khan
 * Syed Ahmad Khan
 * Madhu Khanna
 * Sunil Kothari
 * Sushil Kumar Saxena
 * Malati Shendge
 * Sampat Kumar Tandon

Journalist

 * Gopinath Aman
 * Afshan Anjum
 * Vikram Chandra
 * Barkha Dutt
 * Sagarika Ghose
 * Sonal Kalra
 * Mayanti Langer
 * Charul Malik
 * Rajat Sharma
 * Sabina Sehgal Saikia
 * Hari Shankar Vyas

Law and judiciary

 * Sanjiv Khanna
 * Subodh Markandeya

Medical

 * Daljeet Singh Gambhir
 * Hemlata Gupta
 * Jitendra Mohan Hans
 * Ganesh Kumar Mani
 * Siddhartha Mukherjee
 * Indira Nath
 * Abha Saxena
 * Krishna Gopal Saxena
 * Santosh Kumar Sen
 * Sujata Sharma
 * Noshir M. Shroff, Ophthalmologist
 * M. V. Padma Srivastava
 * Nikhil Tandon
 * Brihaspati Dev Triguna

Military

 * Anuj Nayyar, Indian army captain
 * Pervez Musharraf, 7th Army Chief of Pakistan.

Actors

 * Varun Badola
 * Arjan Bajwa
 * Manoj Bakshi
 * Rohit Bakshi
 * Rakesh Bedi
 * Tahir Raj Bhasin
 * Gajendra Chauhan
 * Priyanshu Chatterjee
 * Gaurav Chopra
 * Aakash Dahiya
 * Mukul Dev
 * Rahul Dev
 * Ajay Devgan (born 1969), Indian Bollywood actor and producer
 * Rajneesh Duggal
 * Gulshan Grover
 * Karan Singh Grover, television and Bollywood actor
 * Zain Imam, television actor
 * Sourabh Raj Jain, television actor
 * Kishore Namit Kapoor
 * Ram Kapoor
 * Shahid Kapoor
 * Shakti Kapoor
 * Saif Ali Khan (born 1970), Indian actor
 * Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965), Indian Bollywood actor
 * Rajesh Khattar, actor
 * Samir Kochhar
 * Himansh Kohli
 * Akshay Kumar
 * Darshan Kumar
 * Manoj Kumar
 * Laksh Lalwani
 * Pavan Malhotra
 * Siddharth Malhotra, actor
 * Shivin Narang
 * Hiten Noonwal
 * Manoj Pahwa
 * Ssumier Pasricha, actor and comedian
 * Pran
 * Vijay Raaz
 * Gautam Rode
 * Sumeet Sachdev
 * Anuj Sachdeva
 * Amit Sadh
 * Saqib Saleem
 * Pulkit Samrat
 * Keith Sequeira
 * Divyendu Sharma
 * Satyajit Sharma
 * Saurabh Shukla
 * Inderpal Singh
 * Manjot Singh
 * Shaurya Singh
 * Barun Sobti, television actor
 * Karan Wahi
 * Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub

Actress

 * Anu Aggarwal
 * Roma Arora
 * Neelima Azeem
 * Naseem Banu
 * Ritu Barmecha
 * Bipasha Basu
 * Swara Bhaskar
 * Bibbo
 * Sheeba Chaddha
 * Isha Chawla
 * Ridhi Dogra
 * Esha Gupta
 * Neena Gupta
 * Padmapriya Janakiraman
 * Vaani Kapoor
 * Minissha Lamba
 * Radhika Madan
 * Madhubala (1933–69), Indian Bollywood actress
 * Rashi Mal
 * Sanya Malhotra
 * Manasvi Mamgai
 * Monal Naval
 * Arundathi Nag
 * Shonali Nagrani
 * Aishveryaa Nidhi
 * Tapsee Pannu
 * Huma Qureshi, actress
 * Kriti Sanon, actress
 * Amba Sanyal (born 1945), stage actor and costume designer
 * Deeksha Seth
 * Pooja Sharma
 * Urvashi Sharma
 * Deepika Singh
 * Kashish Singh
 * Neetu Singh
 * Rakul Preet Singh
 * Raashi Khanna
 * Sarika Thakur
 * Vani Tripathi

Directors, producers and writers

 * Atul Agnihotri
 * Shubhavi Arya
 * Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director
 * Dev Benegal
 * Aditya Dhar
 * Amar Kanwar (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist
 * Rajat Kapoor
 * Bhushan Kumar
 * Divya Khosla Kumar
 * Gulshan Kumar
 * Anu Malhotra
 * Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
 * Nisha Pahuja
 * Aanand L. Rai
 * Maneesh Sharma
 * Alankrita Shrivastava
 * Loveleen Tandan

Singers

 * KK (singer)
 * Sunidhi Chauhan
 * Javed Ali
 * Akriti Kakar
 * Prakriti Kakar
 * Sukriti Kakar
 * Harshdeep Kaur
 * Tulsi Kumar
 * Madhup Mudgal
 * Anushka Manchanda
 * Mukesh Chand Mathur, Bollywood singer
 * Bif Naked (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer
 * Peter Plate (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)
 * Honey Singh

Choreography

 * Shakti Mohan

Philanthropists and social workers

 * Kiran Martin

Politics

 * Paddy Ashdown (1941–2018), British politician
 * Ramesh Bidhuri
 * Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
 * Michael Bennet (born 1964), American politician
 * Sheila Dikshit, former Chief minister
 * Gautam Gambhir
 * Maneka Gandhi
 * Priyanka Gandhi
 * Rahul Gandhi
 * S. Jaishankar
 * Arun Jaitley
 * Arvind Kejriwal, Chief minister
 * Meenakshi Lekhi, Cabinet minister
 * Chaudhary Bharat Singh
 * Ajay Maken
 * Pervez Musharraf (born 1943), Pakistani politician
 * Kedar Nath Sahani
 * Kanwar Singh Tanwar
 * Harsh Vardhan
 * Sahib Singh Verma
 * Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma

Rajputs

 * Anangpal Tomar, King of Haryana and Delhi
 * Prithviraj Chauhan, King of much of North India

Sayyids

 * Muhammad Shah

Lodi

 * Ibrahim Lodhi

Mughals

 * Ahmad Shah Bahadur
 * Shah Alam II
 * Bahadur Shah Zafar

Science

 * Diwakar Vaish, roboticist

Athletic

 * Arun Bhardwaj
 * Amoj Jacob
 * Lalit Mathur
 * Tejaswin Shankar
 * Sourabh Vij

Badminton

 * Damayanti Tambay

Billiards

 * Geet Sethi (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion

Chess

 * Aryan Chopra
 * Sahaj Grover
 * Parimarjan Negi (born 1993), Indian chess player
 * Tania Sachdev

Cricket

 * Mohinder Amarnath
 * Kirti Azad
 * Amit Bhandari
 * Unmukt Chand
 * Chetan Chauhan
 * Aakash Chopra
 * Anjum Chopra
 * Nikhil Chopra
 * Vijay Dahiya
 * Shikhar Dhawan
 * Salim Durani
 * Gautam Gambhir
 * Rajinder Goel
 * Shilpa Gupta
 * Ajay Jadeja
 * Surinder Khanna
 * Virat Kohli
 * Raman Lamba
 * Warren Lee
 * Reema Malhotra
 * Mithun Manhas
 * Amit Mishra
 * Parvinder Awana
 * Ashish Nehra
 * Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
 * Manoj Prabhakar
 * Vivek Razdan
 * Rahul Sanghvi
 * Virender Sehwag
 * Ajay Sharma
 * Amita Sharma
 * Ishant Sharma
 * Sanjeev Sharma
 * Robin Singh, Jr.
 * Sunil Valson
 * Atul Wassan

Football

 * Jyoti Ann Burrett
 * Aayushmaan Chaturvedi
 * Aditi Chauhan
 * Dalima Chhibber
 * Narender Gahlot
 * Tanvie Hans
 * Rohit Kumar
 * Munmun Lugun
 * Ishan Pandita

Golf

 * Gaurav Ghei
 * Shiv Kapur
 * Rashid Khan
 * Chiragh Kumar
 * Mukesh Kumar
 * Amit Luthra
 * Himmat Rai
 * Jyoti Randhawa
 * Digvijay Singh

Hockey

 * Raghbir Singh Bhola
 * Arthur Charles Hind
 * Abdul Qayyum Khan
 * Manju Phalswal
 * Jaswant Singh Rajput
 * Aziz-ur Rehman
 * Joginder Singh
 * Khawaja Muhammad Taqi

Martial art

 * Om Prakash Bhardwaj
 * Akram Shah
 * Narender Singh

Skiing

 * Neha Ahuja, Winter Olympian
 * Shailaja Kumar, Winter Olympian

Table tennis

 * Manika Batra
 * Indu Puri

Boxing

 * Gaurav Bidhuri, world boxing Bronze medal winner

Tennis

 * Ankita Bhambri
 * Prerna Bhambri
 * Yuki Bhambri
 * Divij Sharan
 * Ashutosh Singh
 * Jasjit Singh

Wrestling

 * Jyoti
 * Parkash Gian
 * Guru Hanuman
 * Sonika Kaliraman
 * Pawan Kumar
 * Sushil Kumar
 * Sujeet Maan
 * Malwa Singh
 * Satpal Singh

Miscellaneous

 * Gita Bhartiji (born 1944), Hindu guru.
 * Ravi Gulati (born 1974), social activist.
 * Laila Tyabji (born 1947), co-founder of Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)