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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
- Field: Singer Clear ×
Neeti Mohan
Born 1979
KK (singer)
Born 1968
Rekha Bhardwaj
Born 1964
Bally Sagoo
Born 1964
Peter Plate
Born 1967
Iqbal Bano
1935 - 2009
Aziz Mian
1942 - 2000
Anushka Manchanda
Born 1985
Harshdeep Kaur
Born 1986
Sharon Prabhakar
Born 1955
Srilekha Parthasarathy
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Iqbal Ahmad Khan
Born 1954
Sukriti Kakar
Born 1995
Akhlaq Ahmed
1946 - 1999
Wasifuddin Dagar
Born 1969
Gupz Sehra
Born 1988
Manzoor Niazi Qawwal
1922 - 2013
Chand Nizami
Born 1959