List of people from Purvanchal

This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.

Academics, science, and engineering

 * Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
 * Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
 * Jhillu Singh Yadav, chemist
 * Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
 * Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher
 * Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer
 * Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist
 * Prem Chand Pandey
 * Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist
 * Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
 * Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI
 * Obaid Siddiqui

Civil Servants

 * Jagmohan Yadav, Former chief of Uttar Pradesh Police
 * Vinod Kumar Yadav, Former Chairman and CEO of Railway Board
 * Vinod Rai, former CAG.
 * Vikas Swarup, former diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Armed forces

 * Mahendra Nath Mulla
 * Abdul Hamid
 * Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Artists

 * Bismillah Khan
 * Birju Maharaj
 * Ravi Shankar
 * Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
 * Ram Kinkar Upadhyay

Criminals

 * Shri Prakash Shukla
 * Ramakant Yadav
 * Umakant Yadav
 * Munna Bajrangi

Entertainment and media

 * Amitabh Bachchan
 * Anjaan
 * Baba Azmi
 * Harivansh Rai Bachchan
 * Manoj Bajpai, actor.
 * Pankaj Tripathi, actor.
 * Parichay Das
 * Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
 * Sulochana Brahaspati, singer
 * Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
 * Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician.
 * Manoj Tiwari, actor and Politician.
 * Amrapali Dubey, actress.
 * Girija Devi
 * Kaifi Azmi
 * Siddheshwari Devi
 * Rajkumari Dubey
 * Anshuman Jha, actor
 * Anurag Kashyap, film director
 * Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician.
 * Kishan Maharaj
 * Nalin Mazumdar, guitarist
 * Chhannulal Mishra
 * Rajan and Sajan Mishra
 * Gopal Shankar Misra
 * Lalmani Misra
 * Indrani Mukherjee, actress
 * Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
 * Chunky Pandey
 * Sudhanshu Pandey
 * Kinsey Peile, playwright, actor
 * Rahi Masoom Raza
 * Sameer
 * Jhanak Shukla
 * Saurabh Shukla
 * Supriya Shukla
 * Vinay Shukla
 * Kapila Vatsyayan

Entrepreneurs

 * Subrata Roy
 * Banarasidas
 * Piyush Pandey
 * Prasoon Pandey
 * Sandeep Pandey

Freedom fighters and kings

 * Mangal Pandey
 * Chittu Pandey
 * Veer Abdul Hamid
 * Vibhuti Narayan Singh Maharaja Banaras Kashinaresh
 * Rewati Raman Singh

Politicians

 * Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
 * Rajendra Prasad, First President of India.
 * Lal Bahadur Shastri, Former Prime minister of India.
 * Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
 * Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.
 * Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime minister of India.
 * Jai Prakash Narayan, Independence activist.
 * Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
 * Rajnath Singh Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
 * Giriraj Kishore
 * Kalraj Mishra
 * Kamlesh Paswan
 * Raj Narain
 * Prem Prakash Pandey
 * Jagdambika Pal
 * Jharkhande Rai
 * Anupriya Patel
 * Sone Lal Patel
 * Mahaveer Prasad
 * Kalpnath Rai
 * Krishnanand Rai
 * Sampurnanand
 * Sahajanand Saraswati
 * Surya Pratap Shahi
 * Amar Singh
 * Om Prakash Singh
 * Tribhuvan Narain Singh
 * Manoj Sinha
 * Hari Shankar Tiwari
 * Kamalapati Tripathi
 * Ram Naresh Yadav
 * Ramakant Yadav
 * Om Prakash Rajbhar
 * Ajai Rai
 * Avadhesh Singh
 * Kripashankar Singh
 * Pramod Tiwari
 * Ajay Kumar Lallu
 * Atul Rai
 * Nadeem Javed
 * Gopal Rai

Social activists

 * Veer Bhadra Mishra, academic, environmentalist
 * Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist

Spiritual leaders

 * Bhagwan Das

Badminton

 * Suresh Goel

Baseball

 * Rinku Singh

Cricket

 * Narendra Hirwani
 * Umesh Yadav
 * Suresh Raina
 * Mohammad Kaif
 * Rudra Pratap Singh
 * Piyush Chawla

Gymnastics

 * Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
 * Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games

Hockey

 * Dhyan Chand
 * Mohammed Shahid

Writers

 * Premchand.
 * Meena Alexander, poet
 * Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer
 * Aniruddha Bahal, journalist, novelist
 * Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
 * Dharamvir Bharati, author, poet
 * Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, poet
 * Satish Chandra, writer, historian
 * Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'
 * Kapil Deva Dvivedi
 * Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet
 * Harisena, poet
 * Bharatendu Harishchandra
 * Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
 * Rafiq Husain, writer, poet
 * Ibn-e-Safi, novelist
 * Laxmi Narayan Mishra
 * Vidya Niwas Mishra
 * Shibli Nomani
 * Jaishankar Prasad
 * Munshi Premchand
 * Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
 * Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist
 * Viveki Rai
 * Rahul Sankrityayan
 * Parichay Das
 * Allan Sealy, author, writer
 * Ramchandra Shukla
 * Kedarnath Singh
 * Julia Strachey, novelist, writer
 * Sri Lal Sukla
 * Baldev Upadhyaya
 * Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
 * Amish Tripathi