List of Famous people born in Uttar Pradesh, India

Joy Mukherjee was an Indian film actor and director. He was titled as the 'heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s'.

Rahi Masoom Reza, born in Gangauli, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, was an Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979, followed by Mili and Lamhe, which he won posthumously.

Wajid Ali Shah was the eleventh and last King of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856.

Mamnoon Hussain is a Pakistani politician and industrialist who served as the 12th President of Pakistan, in office from 2013 to 2018. He was first appointed as Governor of Sindh in June 1999 by President Rafiq Tarar; but was removed from the post a few months later due to the 1999 military coup d'état. Hussain was then nominated for the presidency by the PML-N in July 2013 and was elected through an indirect presidential election. Hussain took over the presidency after an oath administered by the Chief Justice of Pakistan on 9 September 2013. Hussain maintained a low-key profile as President and his role was rarely seen in the nation's politics, although he was involved in a Polio eradication program.

Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. He currently holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington, D.C. A former Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland, Ahmed was a member of the Civil Service of Pakistan and served as Political Agent in South Waziristan Agency and Commissioner in Baluchistan. He also served as the Iqbal Fellow at the University of Cambridge as well as holding teaching positions at Harvard, Princeton, and the U.S. Naval Academy. An anthropologist and scholar of Islam, he received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has been called "the world's leading authority on contemporary Islam" by the BBC.

Poonam Dhillon is an Indian Hindi-language film, theatre and TV actress and a politician. A former Femina Miss India (1977), she is best known for her 1979 film Noorie. Some of her well-known films include Red Rose, Dard, Romance (1983), Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Teri Meherbaniyan (1985) Samundar (1986), Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986), Karma (1986), Naam (1986) and Maalamaal (1988).