List of Famous people born in Uttar Pradesh, India
Sooraj Pancholi
Sooraj Pancholi is an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood Hindi films. He debuted in the romantic action film Hero (2015) for which he won a Filmfare award for Best Newcomer.
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard is an English singer, musician, actor, and philanthropist who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Gauhar Jaan
Gauhar Jaan was an Indian singer and dancer from Kolkata. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India, which was later released by the Gramophone Company of India. Having recorded more than 600 songs in more than ten languages between 1902 and 1920, Jaan is credited with popularising Hindustani classical music such as thumri, dadra, kajri, and tarana during the period.
Kamal Nath
Kamal Nath is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for approximately 15 months and resigned after a political crisis. He is the Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly since March 2020.
Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami Ahmed is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team. He is known as a Reverse swing specialist. He is a right-arm fast bowler, who consistently bowls around the 145 to 150 km/h mark, and swings and seams ball at that pace which makes him a deceptively potent fast bowler. He made his ODI debut against Pakistan in January 2013 where he bowled a record four maiden overs. He picked a five-wicket haul on his Test debut against West Indies in November 2013. On 23 January 2019 he became the fastest Indian bowler to take 150 ODI wickets. On 22 June 2019, Shami took a hat-trick against Afghanistan in world cup 2019 and India record's 50th World Cup win, and Shami became the fourth Indian cricketer to do so in One Day Cricket after Chetan Sharma, Kapil Dev and Kuldeep Yadav.
Pooja Batra
Pooja Batra is an Indian actress and model. She was crowned Femina Miss India International in 1993.
Rajesh Pilot
Squadron Leader Rajesh Pilot ; was an Indian politician, a minister in the Government of India and a former Indian Air Force officer. He belonged to the Indian National Congress party and represented the Dausa constituency in Lok Sabha. His original name was Rajesh Bidhuri. He died in a road accident, a few days after filing a nomination to contest as the president of the Congress party.
Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina is a former Indian international cricketer. An aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler, he is also regarded as one of the best fielders in world cricket. He plays for Uttar Pradesh in all forms of domestic cricket. He was the captain of the Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League, and is the current vice-captain of the Chennai Super Kings. He has also captained the Indian cricket team and is the second-youngest player ever to captain India. He is the first Indian batsman to hit a century in all three formats of international cricket.
Mahadevi Varma
Mahadevi Varma, was an Indian Hindi-language poet and a novelist. She is considered as one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has been also addressed as the Modern Meera. Poet Nirala had once called her "Saraswati in the vast temple of Hindi Literature". Varma had witnessed India both before and after independence. She was one of those poets who worked for the wider society of India. Not only her poetry but also her social upliftment work and welfare development among women were also depicted deeply in her writings. These largely influenced not only the readers but also the critics especially through her novel Deepshikha.
Vidyut Jamwal
Vidyut Jammwal is an Indian film actor and stunt performer, who predominantly works in Hindi-language films. Best known for his roles in action films like Commando series, he is a trained martial artist who studied the art of kalaripayattu since the age of three.