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LUCKNOW
Most Famous People Born in Lucknow, India
- Notable people
- 425
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1950
- Most distinctive
- Civil Service 16.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lucknow during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lucknow Is Known For
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Politician is Lucknow's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (58).
Lucknow over-indexes on civil service — 16.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lucknow's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Science
- Sports
- Music
- Other
Cliff Richard
Born 1940
Phoolan Devi
1963 - 2001
Romila Thapar
Born 1931
Naushad
1919 - 2006
Amrit Kaur
1889 - 1964
Mohammad Hidayatullah
1905 - 1992
Muzaffar Ali
Born 1944
Waris Hussein
Born 1938
Kanika Kapoor
Born 1981
Vishnu Prabhakar
1912 - 2009
Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
1898 - 1983
Wajid Ali Shah
1822 - 1887
Begum Akhtar
1914 - 1974
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
1897 - 1994
Sai Paranjpye
Born 1938
Birju Maharaj
Born 1938
Basawan
1580 - 1600
Sampat Pal Devi
Born 1961
Rahmatullah Kairanawi
1817 - 1891
K. Asif
1922 - 1971
Talat Mahmood
1924 - 1998
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
1920 - 2013
Tanuja Chandra
Born 1969
Wazir Ali Khan
1780 - 1817
Tia Bajpai
Born 1988
Ram Charan (consultant)
Born 1939
Markandey Katju
Born 1946
Naiyer Masud
1936 - 2017
Tun Tun
1923 - 2003
Ajoy Ghatak
Born 1939
Abdul Halim Sharar
1860 - 1926
Shantanu Moitra
Born 1968
Leila Seth
1930 - 2017
Mirza Hadi Ruswa
1857 - 1931
Sudhir Mishra
-
Rajiv Jain
Born 1964
Marc Zuber
1944 - 2003
Swami Karpatri
1907 - 1982
Shaukat Siddiqui
1923 - 2006
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan
1752 - 1806
Iftikhar Arif
Born 1943
Sajjad Zaheer
1905 - 1973
Attia Hosain
1913 - 1998
Saleem Kidwai
Born 1951
Mirza Hameedullah Beg
1913 - 1988
Raghuvir Sahay
1929 - 1990
S. Ali Raza
1925 - 2007
Sheila Kaul
1915 - 2015
Agha Hasan Abedi
1922 - 1995
Abdul Rashid Khan
1908 - 2016
Amir Meenai
1829 - 1900
John de Courcy Ireland
1911 - 2006
Saiyid Nurul Hasan
1921 - 1993
I. K. Taimni
1898 - 1978
Govind Mishra
Born 1939
Baba Sehgal
Born 1965
Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad
1914 - 1973
Richa Panai
Born 1991
Juhi Chaturvedi
Born 1975
Dinesh Sharma
Born 1964
Amitabh Bhattacharya
Born 1977
Gopaldas Neeraj
1924 - 2018
Sumona Chakravarti
Born 1988
Zoya Afroz
Born 1994
Ashok Kumar (British politician)
1956 - 2010
Arun Nehru
1944 - 2013
Altaf Fatima
1929 - 2018
Kumar Gaurav
Born 1960
Niaz Fatehpuri
1884 - 1966
Jagdish Chandra Jain
1909 - 1994
Mohammad Mujeeb
1902 - 1985
Anupriya Goenka
Born 1987
Aditi Sharma
Born 1984
Sampath Raj
Born 1972
John Capper
1861 - 1955
Sadhu Kokila
Born 1966
Hajra Masroor
1930 - 2012
Anita Dube
Born 1958
Naveen Jain
Born 1959
Malcolm Low
1835 - 1923
Pooja Mor
Born 1991
Murray Murdoch
1904 - 2001
Ali Naqi Naqvi
1905 - 1988
Khurshed Alam Khan
1919 - 2013
Shah Muhammad Sulaiman
1886 - 1941
Sultan Ahmed (director)
1938 - 2002
Agha Hasan Amanat
1815 - 1858
Anaika Soti
Born 1993
Amjad Ali Shah
1801 - 1847
Devi Prasad (artist)
1921 - 2011
Namita Gokhale
Born 1956
Nikesh Arora
Born 1968
Gayatri Iyer
Born 1985
Rita Bhaduri
1955 - 2018
Hamid Hussain Musavi
1830 - 1880
Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh
1841 - 1917
Gungun Uprari
Born 1980
Pankaj Bhadouria
Born 1971
Kushal Tandon
Born 1985
Juhi Babbar
Born 1979
Aghajani Kashmeri
1908 - 1998
Amrapali Gupta
Born 1988
Sarfaraz K. Niazi
Born 1949
Anjuli Shukla
Born 1972
Pankaj Advani (director)
1965 - 2010
Aslam Farrukhi
1923 - 2016
Shefali Razdan Duggal
Born 1971
Santosh Mehrotra
Born 1955
Fazlur Rahman Faridi
1932 - 2011
Megha Gupta
Born 1985
Ravi Kumar (footballer)
Born 1993
Himanshu Sharma
Born 1980
Akshay Agrawal
Born 1998
Kamaal Rashid Khan
Born 1975
Latika Katt
Born 1954
Saraswati Devi (music director)
1912 - 1980
Ajay Arjun Singh
Born 1955
Sonia Singh
Born 1985
Alka Tomar
Born 1983
Dinesh Patel
Born 1989
Sikandar Kher
Born 1981
Abbas Ansari
Born 1992
K. P. Saxena
1932 - 2013
Prakash Vir Shastri
1923 - 1977
Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Born 1957
Sanjay Singh (activist)
Born 1972
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
1937 - 2017
Kirti Vardhan Singh
Born 1966
Surendra Pal
Born 1953
Jane Craven
-
Manoj Kumar Pandey
1975 - 1999
Ambrish Mithal
Born 1958
Kishore Bhanushali
Born 1977
Safi Lakhnavi
1862 - 1950
Hasan Kamal
-
Shahid Mahmood
Born 1989
Syed Ishrat Abbas
1928 - 1980
Ajit Seth
Born 1951
Nandini Singh
Born 1980
Nivedita Bhattacharya
Born 1970
Ravi K. Tripathi
Born 1978
Afaq Hussain
1939 - 2002
Ira Trivedi
Born 1984
Manjari Chaturvedi
Born 1974
Rajkumar R. Pandey
Born 1972
Chunni Lal Khetrapal
Born 1937
Thompson Capper
1863 - 1915
Aarti Puri
Born 1985
Syed Mohsin Nawab Rizvi
1911 - 1969
Om Prakash Rawat
Born 1953
Muhammad Zubair Umar
Born 1938
Vartika Singh
Born 1991
Sanjay Seth
Born 1961
Khursheed Aslam
1936 - 1993
Harshit Saxena
Born 1985
Manoj Bhargava
Born 1953
Akshdeep Nath
Born 1993
Ravindra Khattree
Born 1959
Sanjiv Jaiswal
Born 1972
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal
Born 1953
V. Mohini Giri
Born 1938
Digvijai Singh
1934 - 2018
Vandana Vishwas
Born 1970
Sukumar Bose
1912 - 1986
Masud Hassan Rizvi
1893 - 1975
Fakhar Zaman (poet)
Born 1943
Ali Haider Tabatabai
1854 - 1933
Sachchidanand Sahai
Born 1941
Akshay Oberoi
Born 1985
Sunil Kumar Verma
Born 1974
Abdul Haq Ansari
1931 - 2012
Mukhram Sharma
1909 - 2000
Vandana Katariya
Born 1992
Asim Umar
1974 - 2019
Amit Mishra (singer)
Born 1989
Kanchan Awasthi
-
Ruby McGregor-Smith
Born 1963
Mirza Mohammed Athar
1937 - 2016
Hardayal Singh
1928 - 2018
Nirbhay Sharma
Born 1948
Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri
1941 - 1993
Mohsin Raza
Born 1968
Syed Shahid Hamid
1910 - 1993
Ikram Akhtar
Born 1970
Robert M. Hanson
1920 - 1944
Zaheen Tahira
1949 - 2019
Aarti Singh
-
Ashok Agarwal
-
Yogesh (lyricist)
1943 - 2020
Pankhuri Awasthy
Born 1991
Aru Krishansh Verma
Born 1986
Waheed Zafar Qasmi
Born 1962
Srijan Pal Singh
-
Ramswaroop Verma
1923 - 1998
Qalandar Baba Auliya
1898 - 1979
Birjis Qadr
1845 - 1893
Munavvar Lakhnavi
1897 - 1970
Deeya Chopra
Born 1983
Simran Kaur
Born 1988
Zameer Naqvi
1944 - 2020
Anup Shukla
Born 1969
Muhammad Ali Shah
1777 - 1842
Mohammad Haleem
1925 - 2006
Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shah
1803 - 1837
Roshan Abbas
-
Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati
1833 - 1899
Rajesh Singh Adhikari
1970 - 1999
Neelabh Banerjee
Born 1963
Atul Kumar (chemist)
Born 1963
Alok Agarwal
Born 1967
Vishal Mishra
Born 1990
Rita Ganguly
-
Nupur Asthana
-
Anne Warner (politician)
Born 1945
Santosh Shukla
-
Radhika Herzberger
Born 1938
Ruchira Kamboj
Born 1964
Om Prakash Sharma (writer)
1924 - 1998
Urfi Javed
Born 1996
Kalbe Jawad
Born 1966
Aamir Raza Husain
Born 1957
Ritu Karidhal
-
Alfred Lauck Parson
1899 - 1970
Biswanath Basu
-
Rahul Seth
Born 1977
Dinshaw Eduljee
1919 - 1941
Enayat Khan
1895 - 1938
Anshuman Tiwari
Born 1974
Isha Basant Joshi
Born 1908
Hamida Habibullah
1916 - 2018
S. K. Kaul
Born 1934
Sandeep Dikshit
Born 1964
Vijender Kumar
Born 1968
Nitya Prakash
Born 1988
Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati
-
Surilie Gautam
Born 1987
Ridhima Tiwari
Born 1984
Seema Bhatnagar
Born 1971
Ashutosh Tandan
Born 1960
Rajeshwar Shastri Dravid
1899 - 1950
Sudha Roy
1914 - 1987
Santosh Bhartiya
Born 1950
Edward Hilton
1840 - 1922
Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan
1964 - 2008
Shraman Jain
-
Vineet Joshi
Born 1969
Nuruddin Sameer
Born 1998
Umesh Varshney
Born 1957
Jitesh Singh Deo
Born 1993
Mohanlal Saksena
1896 - 1965
Syed Ali Zaheer
1927 - 2014
June D'Rozario
Born 1949
Ranveer Brar
Born 1978
Tahir Mahmood
Born 1941
Shamim Karhani
1913 - 1975
Shakir Qasmi
Born 1943
Shanti Hiranand
Died 2020
Faizan Mustafa
-
Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)
-
Jocelyn Playfair
1904 - 1997
Vinod Pande
-
Mohammad Shakeel
1927 - 2007
Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Born 1977
K. C. Singh Baba
Born 1947
Roshan Taqui
Born 1958
Prateek Bhardwaj
Born 1989
Ranjit Bhargava
-
Vijay Upadhyaya
Born 1966
Norman Chappell
1925 - 1983
Poonam Sagar
-
Mudrarakshas
1933 - 2016
Ahmed Mustafa
1944 - 2013
Ahmed Javed
Born 1956
Muzaffar Hassan
1920 - 2012
Kalbe Sadiq
Born 1939
Sheetal Singh
Born 1989
Tulika Mehrotra
-
Pavitra Punia
Born 1986
Girjesh Govil
Born 1940
Sehba Hussain
-
Shrikant Lele
Born 1943
Sudhanshu Trivedi
-
Jazib Qureshi
Born 1940
Mata Prasad
-
Ibrahim Habibullah
Born 1910
R. K. Mathur
Born 1953
B. B. Tandon
-
Prem Prakash Pandey
Born 1958
Harry G. E. Luchford
1894 - 1917
Ram Kumar Caroli
-
S. K. Misra
Born 1932
Rasheed Kidwai
-
Anjana Singh
Born 1990
Asma Hussain
Born 1967
Hakim Abdul Aziz
1855 - 1911
Chris de Souza
Born 1943
Vandna Gupta
Born 1994
Ashish Singh
Born 1994
Anita Kanwal
Born 1954
Denzil Keelor
Born 1933