List of people from Varanasi
Varanasi on the banks of the holy Ganges River
This is a list of notable people from Varanasi, India.
Arts, music and entertainment
- Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player, music educator, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1966)
- Girija Devi, singer Padma Bhushan
- Siddheshwari Devi, khayal singer, Padma Shri
- Sitara Devi, Padma Shri
- Bismillah Khan, shehnai player, Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan
- Birju Maharaj, kathak guru, Padma Vibhushan
- Kishan Maharaj, tabla player, Padma Vibhushan
- Channulal Mishra, Hindustani classical player, Padma Bhushan
- Shamta Prasad (Gudai Maharaj), tabla player, Padma Shri
- Ritwik Sanyal, singer, dhrupad
- Ravi Shankar, sitar player, Bharat Ratna
- Uday Shankar, dancer, Padma Vibhushan
Literature and academics
- Gyaneshwer Chaubey, scientist[1]
- Kabir Das
- Tulasi Das
- Bharatendu Harishchandra, writer
- Gopinath Kaviraj (1887–1976), Sanskrit scholar; Principal Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi (1923–1937); Padma Vibhushan (1964) [2]
- Devaki Nandan Khatri, writer
- Veerbhadra Mishra, founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation; former professor and HOD of Civil Engineering at IIT (BHU), Varanasi[3]
- Anand Mohan, professor[4] IIT(BHU),Presently Director NIT Kurukshetra [5]
- Jaishankar Prasad, writer
- Premchand, Hindi writer
- Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit scholar, Tantric, linguist and grammarian
- Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic, Padma Bhushan
Politics
- Devendra Nath Dwivedi, politician and the Governor designate of Gujarat
- Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of the Banaras Hindu University, Bharat Ratna
- Sri Prakasa, Governor of Assam
- Sampurnanand, freedom fighter; writer who became Chief Minister of UP and Governor of Rajasthan; responsible for renaming Benares to Varanasi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, former Prime Minister of India, Bharat Ratna
- Kamalapati Tripathi, writer, journalist, editor and freedom fighter
Royalty
- Maharani Lakshmibai
- Maharaj Balwant Singh, expanded territories of Benaras Kingdom till Basti, Gorakhpur & Deoria
- Maharaj Chait Narain Singh, arrested Warren Hastings
- Maharaj Prabhu Narain Singh, donated 1300 acres of land to BHU
- Maharaj Vibhuti Narayan Singh, last king of Varanasi
Sports
- Prashanti Singh, basketball player
Others
- Sunil Bansal, founder of the Rangolee Securities
- Sir James Brooke, founder of the White Rajah dynasty of Sarawak
- Bhagwan Das, Bharat Ratna
- Rai Krishnadasa, Padma Vibhushan
- Lahiri Mahasaya, yogi
- Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, plant scientist Padma Shri (2001), World Food Prize (2014)
- Ravidas
- Sameer, lyrics writer
- K. L. Shrimali, Padma Vibhushan
- Gaurav Singhal, an educationist
- Dr. Arvind Kumar Verma, scientist, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
References
- ↑ http://ebc.ee/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=61%3Agyaneshwer-chaubey&catid=13%3Aevolutionary-biology&Itemid=68&lang=en
- ↑ "Sri Sri Anandamayi Ma's Devotees". Anandamayi Ma. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
- ↑ http://www.sankatmochanfoundationonline.org/mahantji.html
- ↑ http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2011/06/prof_anand_moha.php
- ↑ http://nitkkr.ac.in/pagesUI/homePage.jsf?pageEvent=47&page=content&language=2
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