26.8481° N, 80.9336° E
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.
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Archana Pandey
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Krishna Chandra Chunekar
1928 - 2019
Nisha Madhulika
Born 1959
Arpita Pandey
Born 1980
Vikram Singh (police officer)
Born 1950
Parveen Talha
-
Anil K. Rajvanshi
Born 1950
Patu Keswani
Born 1959
Amar Kaushik
Born 1983
Pramod Tandon
Born 1950
Tarlochan Singh Kler
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Trevor Keelor
1934 - 2002
Alexander Watson (cricketer, born 1945)
Born 1945
Daya Kishore Hazra
-
Money Sharma
Born 1986
LC Singh
Born 1948
Aparna Sharma
-
Saurabh Srivastava
-
Imitiaz Qureshi
Born 1931
Pulok Chatterji
Born 1952
Thakur Malkhan Singh
1889 - 1962
Nityanand Misra
Born 1982
Babu Singh Kushwaha
Born 1966
Dilip Pandey
Born 1980
Dewan Singh Bhakuni
Born 1930
Ashish Shukla
Born 1963
Abrar Hussain (general)
1918 - 1992
Ruchita Misra
Born 1984
Zeeshan Ansari
Born 1999
Mukesh Haikerwal
Born 1960
Herbert Hastings Harington
1868 - 1916
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Born 1982
Prabhakar Misra
-
Atul Kumar Anjan
Born 1956
Ravindra Gautam
-
Ganesh Prasad Pandey
Born 1954
Ashok Trivedi
-
Shekhar Dikshit
Born 1983
Sheorajvati Nehru
1897 - 1955
Vivek Yadav
Born 1981
Sunil Shastri
Born 1950
Smita Singh
Born 1980
Rishi Khurana
-
Shalini Arora
Born 1971
Prashant Awasthi
Born 1990
Naina Balsaver
Born 1959
Daljeet Singh Gambhir
-
Shyam Sundar Rai
Born 1954
Ghanshyam Swarup
Born 1953
Irfan Khan (footballer)
Born 1993
Jyotii Sethi
-
Himanshu Asnora
Born 1995
H. L. Dusadh
Born 1953
Ritesh Pandey
-
Divya Prakash Dubey
Born 1982
Praveen Singh Aron
Born 1959
Ravidas Mehrotra
Born 1955
Suboth Bhati
Born 1990
Bal Kumar Patel
Born 1964
Umar Ansari
Born 1998
Raj Baveja
Born 1934
Anam Hashim
Born 1995
Sunil Batta
Born 1961
Syed Nabiullah
1860 - 1925
Brahm Shanker Srivastava
Born 1943
Kaushal Kishore (scientist)
1940 - 1999
Anand Bhatia
Born 1947
Rakesh Bhatnagar
Born 1951
Shiv Narain Kureel
Born 1956
Shazil Islam Ansari
Born 1976
Syed Mohammad Waris Hasan Naqvi
Died 2008
Mithlesh Kumar
Born 1964
Baleshwar Yadav
Born 1942
Virendra Nath Pandey
Born 1947
J S Randhawa
-
Jagdish Narain Sinha
Born 1939
Nirupam Bajpai
-
Vivek Sahai
-
Sultan Baig
Born 1957
Salik Lucknawi
1913 - 2013
Malabika Kanan
1930 - 2009
Vijay Bahadur Pathak
-
Hafeez Ahmed Khan
Died 2006
S. P. Singh (jurist)
1937 - 2020
Abdus Samad Khan
1861 - 1922
Khalid Kidwai
Born 1974
Saurabh Kumar (ambassador)
Born 1966
Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel
Born 1947
Ashok Kataria
Born 1972
Virendra Prabhakar
1928 - 2015
Rais Ansari
Born 1951
Kamal Rani
1958 - 2020
Deependra Pandey
Born 1985
Rambeer Singh Tomar
1970 - 2001
Rajkumar Baisla
Born 1960
Aslam Kiratpuri
Born 1951
Vijai Shankar Dubey
Born 1942
Suresh Chandra Tiwari
Born 1956
Rajesh Bind
Born 1994
Mohammad Abdur Rab
-
Darshana Singh
Born 1974
Frederick Eccleston
1905 - 1988
John B. Chitamber
1920 - 2005
Mungtu Ram Jaipuria
-
Chandra Vijay Singh
Born 1950
Alok Krishna Sinha
Born 1969
Hashim Akhtar Naqvi
Born 1948
Charles Temple Morris
1876 - 1956
James McConnell
1848 - 1895
S C Rai
1937 - 2016
Aditi Sharma (cricketer)
Born 1996
Arthur Thorpe
Born 1939
Jai Devi
-
Dinesh Khanna (director)
-
Babaji Nath
1929 - 2012
Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty
Born 1951
Ambrish Singh Pushkar
-
Mahfooz Yar Khan
Born 1950
Pushkar Johari
Born 1936
Zahir Qasmi
1922 - 1988
Siddiqa Begum
Born 1925
Jai Prakash Anchal
-
Shivani Mishra
Born 1973
Kumari Alia
Born 1953
Lalita Ahmed
Born 1939