Rampur district

Rampur district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Rampur town is the district headquarters. Rampur district is a part of Moradabad division. The district occupies an area of 2367 km2.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Rampur district has a population of 2,335,819, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia or the US state of New Mexico. This gives it a ranking of 194th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 987 PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.4%. Rampur has a sex ratio of 905 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 75.08%. 25.20% of the population live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes make up 13.18% of the population.

Islam is the majority religion in the district. Three out of five tehsils in Rampur have a Muslim majority and one a Muslim plurality. Hindus are majority in rural areas, while Muslims predominate in urban areas. Sikhs are a significant minority in Bilaspur and Suar tehsils, while Christians are a small minority in concentrated in Rampur city.

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 73.85% of the population of the district spoke Hindi, 23.04% Urdu and 2.54% Punjabi as their first language. There are also some Bengali speakers in Bilaspur tehsil. The Punjabis and Bengalis are refugees from Partition who were settled in the district.

Notable people

 * Ali Yusuf Ali, Indian politician
 * Muhammad Kazim Ali Khan, Indian politician
 * Azam Khan, Indian politician
 * Mohammad Ali, Pakistani Actor
 * Mohammad Ali Jauhar
 * Maulana Shaukhat Ali, Politician
 * Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
 * Raza Murad
 * Murad (actor)
 * Rukhsar Rehman
 * Athar Shah Khan Jaidi
 * Javed Siddiqui
 * Zohra Sehgal
 * Uzra Butt