List of Famous people born in Uttar Pradesh, India

Dinesh Sharma is an Indian politician serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was previously the mayor of Lucknow, the state capital. A university professor by profession, he is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and he has held various posts in the party.

Dinesh Singh was an Indian politician. His family is from Kalakankar. He served as a Member of Parliament on several occasions, and twice served as the Minister of External Affairs of India.

Tanuja Chandra is an Indian film director and writer. She co-wrote the screenplay Yash Chopra's hit Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and for frequently directing woman-oriented films where the female actors are the main protagonists of her films, notably Dushman (1998) and Sangharsh (1999).

Mohammad Hidayatullah, OBE pronunciation (help·info) was the 11th Chief Justice of India serving from 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970, and the sixth Vice President of India, serving from 31 August 1979 to 30 August 1984. He had also served as the Acting President of India from 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969 and from 6 October 1982 to 31 October 1982. He is regarded as an eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist.

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, better known as B. P. Koirala, was a Nepali revolutionary, political leader and writer. He was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political party.

Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and writer. He is the current Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India and has previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India. He is best known as the author of the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.

Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (Urdu: مِرزا محمد ہادی رُسوا‎ was an Urdu poet and writer of fiction, plays, and treatises. He served on the Nawab of Awadh's advisory board on language matters for many years. He was well-versed in Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, English, Latin, and Greek.

Abhinn Shyam Gupta is a male badminton player from India. Presently he lives in City of Allahabad and is a former national champion in singles. Gupta played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Park Tae-sang of South Korea. He had been coached by Malik Shamim Sultan.

Prince Azim-us-Shan was the second son of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I, by his second wife, Maharajkumari Amrita Bai Sahiba. He was the grandson of Emperor Aurangzeb, during whose reign, he was the subahdar (viceroy) of Bengal Subah, Bihar and Odisha from 1697 to his death in 1712, and the great grandson of Emperor Shah Jahan.

Zubair Ahmed Siddiqi, better known as Marc Zuber, was an actor who appeared in many British and Hindi films and television dramas.