List of people from Lucknow

This is a list of notable people from or associated with Lucknow, India.

Academics, education and science

 * S. P. Chakravarti, father of Electronics and Telecommunications engineering education in India.
 * Dalip Kumar Upreti, Indian Lichenologist
 * Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst
 * Herbert V. Günther, professor of philosophy
 * Mukesh Haikerwal, general practitioner and former federal president of the Australian Medical Association, Companion of the Order of Australia since 2011.
 * Asma Hussain, UP's first fashion designer; Head of Asma Hussain Institute of Fashion Technology, Lucknow
 * Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and agricultural scientist
 * Gopal Khanna, 5th Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, United States Department of Health and Human Services
 * Veena Talwar Oldenburg, professor of history
 * Anil K. Rajvanshi, rural development expert Padma Shri 2022.
 * Maqbool Ahmed Lari, services in literature and education (Urdu) Padma Shri 1971.
 * Kalbe Sadiq, educationist
 * Abhishek Shukla, geriatrician and palliative care physician

Arts and culture

 * Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet and lyricist, father of Javed Akhtar
 * Muzaffar Ali, filmmaker
 * Naushad Ali, film musician
 * Amitabh Bhattacharya, Bollywood singer and lyricist
 * Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre and television actress
 * Ranveer Brar, chef, television host
 * Pali Chandra, Kathak dancer
 * Anup Jalota, Indian classical singer and musician
 * Cliff Richard, British singer and musician, now settled in Portugal and Barbados
 * Mohammad Shakeel, contemporary artist
 * Kavi Pradeep, Poet and lyricist. Famous for writing patriotic songs

Actors and singers

 * Disha Patani, actress
 * Urfi Javed, actress
 * Aahana Kumra, actress
 * Talat Mahmood, singer
 * Sumona Chakravarti, actress
 * Tia Bajpai, singer
 * Sachet Tandon, part of the Indian music composer, vocalist and lyricist duo Sachet-Parampara
 * Ali Fazal, actor
 * Amit Mishra, Singer
 * Kanika Kapoor, singer
 * Shantanu Moitra, music composer
 * Gayatri Iyer, singer
 * Baba Sehgal, singer
 * Aditi Sharma, actress
 * Kushal Tandon, actor
 * Richa Panai, actress
 * Zoya Afroz, actress, Miss India
 * Anaika Soti, actress
 * Nandini Singh, actress
 * Amrapali Gupta, actress
 * Surendra Pal, actor
 * Kumar Gaurav, actor
 * Arti Singh, actress
 * Gungun Uprari, actress
 * Cliff Richard, singer
 * Amit Sadh, actor
 * Anil Rastogi, actor
 * Malini Awasthi, singer
 * Roshan Abbas, TV anchor
 * Javed Akhtar, writer
 * Vartika Singh, actress, Miss India

Activists

 * Sehba Hussain, activist, former member of National Advisory Council
 * Runa Banerjee, social worker and co-founder of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Poets, authors and journalists

 * Mir Babar Ali Anis, Marsiya writer (poet)
 * Chhannu Lal Dilgeer (Ghulam Hussain), Marsiya writer (poet)
 * Iftikhar Arif, poet
 * Brij Narayan Chakbast, poet
 * Mirza Dabeer, Marsiya writer (poet)
 * Altaf Fatima, novelist
 * Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Lucknow historian
 * Majaz, poet
 * Josh Malihabadi, poet
 * Vinod Mehta, journalist
 * Mir Taqi Mir, poet
 * Amaresh Misra, historian and author
 * Maulana Hasrat Mohani, poet
 * Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Islamic historian
 * Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Islamic scholar and writer
 * Amritlal Nagar, novelist
 * Suryakumar Pandey, poet
 * Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, journalist
 * Mirza Hadi Ruswa, poet
 * Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar, novelist
 * K.P. Saxena, poet
 * Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow historian
 * Gaura Pant Shivani, writer
 * Sri Lal Sukla. novelist
 * Shaukat Siddiqui, novelist
 * Srijan Pal Singh, author and advisor to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
 * Ruchita Misra, author
 * Bhagwati Charan Verma, writer
 * Yashpal, novelist, freedom fighter
 * Mohsin Zaidi, poet
 * Masroor Jahan, novelist and short-story writer
 * Zameer Akhtar Naqvi poet
 * yogesh praveen historian and author

Business and professionals

 * Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani banker and philanthropist
 * Manoj Bhargava, US-based entrepreneur; founder and CEO of 5-Hour Energy Drink
 * Ved Rattan Mohan, MD of Mohan Meakin
 * Prashant Pathak, Canadian investor and entrepreneur
 * Rajesh Gopinathan, MD and CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
 * Subrata Roy, businessman; worker director of Sahara India Pariwar, the world's largest employer
 * Syed Safawi, entrepreneur

Military

 * John Alexander, soldier
 * John Coleman, soldier
 * Edward Hilton, soldier
 * William Stephen Raikes Hodson, British officer
 * Henry Montgomery Lawrence, soldier
 * Claude Martin, French major general who fought for the British; established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta
 * Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general
 * Manoj Kumar Pandey, 1st battalion, 11 Gorkha Rifles, Param Vir Chakra
 * Arthur Skey, Royal Navy rear-admiral
 * George Powell Thomas, A British soldier, artist and poet.

Politics

 * Intezar Abidi, politician
 * K. C. Singh Baba, Parliament
 * Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna former Chief Minister of UP
 * Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
 * Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
 * Sandeep Dikshit, Parliament
 * Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Oudh
 * Chandra Bhanu Gupta Three times Chief Minister of UP.
 * Amir Haider, Senior Congress Leader
 * Mohammad Haleem, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Mohammad Hidayatullah, former acting President of India (1969–1969); former vice-president of India (1979–1984); 11th Chief justice of India (1968–1970)
 * Sheila Kaul, former Union Cabinet Minister in India
 * Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health
 * Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Oudh
 * Satish Mishra, lawyer
 * Brajesh Pathak, politician
 * Ashok Kumar Rawat, politician
 * Mohammad Yunus Saleem, lawyer
 * Sayed, Nawab of Oudh
 * Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh
 * Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
 * Kirti Vardhan Singh, Parliament
 * Kaushal Kishore, Indian Politician
 * Sarvraj Singh, politician
 * Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
 * Anne Warner, Australian politician
 * Lalji Tandon, Indian politician
 * Sudhanshu Trivedi, Indian politician

Sports

 * Afaq Hussain, cricketer
 * Shahid Mahmood, cricketer
 * Ravinder Pal Singh, hockey
 * Apoorva Sengupta, cricketer
 * Rinku Singh, professional wrestler signed with WWE's development territory NXT
 * Suresh Raina, cricketer
 * Arthur Skey, cricketer

Others

 * Laxmi Singh, first woman police commissioner of U.P.
 * Versha Verma, social worker