List of Famous people born in Uttar Pradesh, India

Guru das Agrawal also known as Sant Swami Sanand, Sant Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand was an Indian environmentalist, engineer, religious leader, monk, environmental activist, professor. He was the Patron of Ganga Mahasabha founded by Madan Mohan Malviya in 1905.

Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (infantryman) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) regiment of the British East India Company. In 1984, the Indian government issued a postage stamp to remember him. His life and actions have also been portrayed in several cinematic productions.

Vartika Brij Nath Singh is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Universe India 2019 and represented India at 68th edition of the Miss Universe pageant. She was previously crowned as Miss Grand India in 2015. The GQ magazine had ranked her among the hottest women of India in 2017.

Srijan Pal Singh is an Indian author, public speaker and social entrepreneur. He was born and raised in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Ahmed Javed was the 39th Commissioner of Police, Mumbai, India. He was succeeded by Dattatray Padsalgikar. He is former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Javed is the second former Mumbai police commissioner to get a prestigious diplomatic posting after J. F. Ribeiro who served as Indian ambassador to Romania between 1989–1993.

Sharad Tripathi was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has represented the Sant Kabir Nagar constituency in the Indian Parliament since the 2014 general elecion.

Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. Starting from a single village in 1985, over the years TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons, has brought water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali.

Chaudhary Ajit Singh is an Indian politician. He is the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognized in western part of state of Uttar Pradesh, and son of former Prime Minister of India late Chaudhary Charan Singh.

Raja Chaudhary is an Indian television actor, writer and producer. He was a contestant on Indian reality show Bigg Boss.

Deepti Bhagwan Sharma is an international cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national cricket team. She is an all rounder who bats Left-handed and bowls right-arm off break and is currently ranked 4th in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings. Deepti Sharma is also the current third highest individual scorer by a woman cricketer in ODIs.