List of people from Lucknow

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

Academics, education and science

• Parveen Talha, Former UPSC Member
• Birbal Sahni, paleobotanist
• Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and agricultural scientist
• Veena Talwar Oldenburg, professor of history
• Herbert V. Günther, professor of philosophy
• Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst
• Asma Hussain, Up's first fashion designer, Head of AIFT- Asma Hussain Institute of Fashon Technology, Lucknow.

Arts and culture

• Cliff Richard, British singer and musician, now settled in Portugal
• Anup Jalota, Indian classical singer and musician
• Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet and lyricist, father of Javed Akhtar's
• Javed Akhtar, film story and screenplay writer, poet, lyricist
• Naushad Ali, film musician
• Mohammad Shakeel, contemporary artist, National Award
• Ranveer Brar, chef, television host
• Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre and television actress
• Adya Prasad Chaturvedi, Hindi writer & Doctor

Actors and singers

• Gungun Uprari,actress
• Amit Sadh
• Baba Sehgal, singer
• Kanika Kapoor, singer

Activists

• Sehba Hussain, activist, former member National Advisory Council

Poets, authors and journalists

• Vinod Mehta, journalist
• Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Islamic historian
• Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Lucknow historian
• Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow historian
• Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Islamic scholar and writer
• Shaukat Siddiqui, novelist
• Altaf Fatima, novelist
• Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar, novelist
• Mohsin Kakorvi, poet
• Mirza Hadi Ruswa, poet
• Mir Taqi Mir, poet
• Mir Babar Ali Anis, Marsiya writer (poet)
• Majaz, poet
• Kaifi Azmi, poet
• Josh Malihabadi, poet
• Mohsin Zaidi, poet
• Javed Akhtar, poet
• Iftikhar Arif, poet
• Maulana Hasrat Mohani, poet
• Brij Narayan Chakbast, poet
• Amritlal Nagar, Novelist
• Suryakumar Pandey, poet
• K.P. Saxena, poet
• Gaura Pant Shivani, writer
• Bhagwati Charan Verma, writer
• Yashpal, novelist, freedom fighter
• Harsh Narain, author
• Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, journalist
• Mirza Dabeer, Marsiya writer (poet)

Business and professionals

• Subrata Roy, businessman; worker director of Sahara India Pariwar, the world's largest employer
• Manoj Bhargava, US-based entrepreneur and founder and CEO of 5-hour energy drink
• Agha Hasan Abedi, banker and philanthropist
• Prashant Pathak, Canadian investor and entrepreneur

Military

• Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general
• Claude Martin, French major general who fought for the British, and established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta
• William Stephen Raikes Hodson, British officer
• John Coleman, soldier
• Henry Montgomery Lawrence, soldier
• John Alexander, soldier
• Edward Hilton, soldier
• Air Chief Marshal S. K. Kaul, Chief of the Air Force
• Wing Commander Trevor Keelor, Pilot, First to shoot-down a Pakistani F-86 Sabre in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
• Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, Param Vir Chakra

Politics

• Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh
• Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
• Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Oudh
• Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Oudh
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former President of India
• Sheila Kaul, former Union Cabinet Minister in India
• K. C. Singh Baba, Parliament
• Amir Haider, Senior Congress Leader
• Kirti Vardhan Singh, Parliament
• Sayed, Nawab of Oudh
• Sandeep Dikshit, Parliament
• Satish Mishra, lawyer
• Mohammad Yunus Saleem, lawyer
• Sarvraj Singh, politician
• Brajesh Pathak, politician
• Ashok Kumar Rawat, politician
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• Mohammad Haleem, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, social reformer
• Auckland Colvin, administrator
• Anne Warner, Australian politician

Sports

• R. P. Singh, cricketer
• Shahid Mahmood, cricketer
• Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
• Apoorva Sengupta, cricketer
• Afaq Hussain, cricketer
• Suresh Raina, cricketer
• Mohd Kaif, cricketer
• Ashish Winston Zaidi, cricketer
• Rinku Singh, MLB pitcher
• Dinesh Patel, MLB pitcher
• Ravinder Pal Singh, hockey

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