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DELHI
Most Famous People Born in Delhi, India
- Notable people
- 822
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1969
- Most distinctive
- Emperor 20.3×
Mughal Delhi still leaves fingerprints on the modern file — the Emperor bench running twenty times the baseline is Bahadur Shah Zafar and his predecessors, the last living memory of the city Shah Jahan built around the Red Fort. Layered on top is the post-Independence capital of TV soaps and IPL dressing rooms, where an equally outsized Cricket cohort and a thick Actor line meet a quietly strange Wrestler count out of the akhara tradition in the old city.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Delhi during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 159 notable births.
What Delhi Is Known For
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Cricket is Delhi's biggest profession — 25% of all notables (202).
Delhi over-indexes on emperor — 20.3× the global rate.
Delhi under-produces writer — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Delhi's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Science
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Ahmed Ali (writer)
1910 - 1994
Naseem Banu
1916 - 2002
Sikander Bakht
1918 - 2004
Robin Lindsay
1914 - 2011
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
1917 - 2005
Brahm Prakash (politician)
1918 - 1993
Mirza Hamid Hussain
1914 - 1987
Idrees Baig
1911 - 1986
Sheikh Mukhtar
1914 - 1980
Tabish Dehlvi
1911 - 2004
Santosh Kumar Sen
1910 - 1979
Krishna Gopal Saxena
1912 - 2003