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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
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Jamiluddin Aali
1926 - 2015
Muhammad Husain Azad
1830 - 1910
Shah Abdul Aziz
1746 - 1823
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
1917 - 2005
Debjani Chatterjee
Born 1952
Mohan Rana
Born 1964
Sanil Sachar
Born 1992
Anadish Pal
Born 1963
Tabish Dehlvi
1911 - 2004
Nawab Mustafa Khan Shefta
1809 - 1869
Pirzada Qasim
Born 1943
Balswaroop Raahi
Born 1936
Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi
1926 - 2020