List of Famous people born in Uttar Pradesh, India
S. Ali Raza
S. Ali Raza was an Indian film screenwriter and director associated with writing the script for hit films such as Aan, Andaz, Mother India, Reshma Aur Shera, Raja Jani and Dus Numbri.
Gopal Swarup Pathak
Gopal Swarup Pathak was the fourth Vice President of India from August 1969 to August 1974. He was the first Indian Vice President not to succeed his superior as President.
Mohanlal Saksena
Mohanlal Saxena (1896-1965) was an Indian author and politician from Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Union Minister of Rehabilitation (1948-1950). He was a member of the United Provinces Legislative Council (1924-1926), Central Legislative Assembly (1935-1947), Constituent Assembly of India, Provisional Parliament (1950-1952) and the Lok Sabha (1952-1957). He was nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha from 1959 to 1964. Saxena was also the Secretary/ President of UP Congress Committee in 1929-1935 and 1937–1939.
Henry Torrens
Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens was a British army officer and colonial governor. He was born in Meerut, India, the son of Henry Whitelock Torrens and Eliza Mary Roberts and died in London.
Satyapal Singh
Satya Pal Singh is India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development responsible for Higher Education and Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation. He is a Member of Parliament (MP), since 2014, representing Baghpat constituency, Uttar Pradesh in the 17th Lok Sabha and then retaining his seat in 2019 elections. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He formerly served as the Police Commissioner of Mumbai.
Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar Aggarwal was an Indian cinematographer who worked mainly in the South Indian film industry. In a career that spanned nearly four decades, he worked in over 125 feature films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi languages. Aggarwal was a member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC).
Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet
Sir Hugh Francis Ivo Elliott, 3rd Baronet, OBE was an eminent British conservationist, ornithologist and colonial civil servant.
Malcolm Low
William Malcolm Low was a British Conservative party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Grantham division of Lincolnshire from 1886 to 1892.
Iftekhar
Sayedna Iftekhar Ahmed Sharif, often mononymously credited as Iftekhar, was an Indian actor who mainly worked in Hindi cinema. He is especially known for his roles as a police officer.