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This is a list of notable people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. The criteria of this list includes those who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces that now is part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Deities and avatars

Jains Gods / Deities

Rishabhanatha or Ādinath (birthplace: Ayodhya) 1st Tirthankara of Jainism and founder of Jainism
Ajitnatha (birthplace: Ayodhya) 2nd Tirthankara of Jainism.
Sambhavanatha (birthplace: Shravasti) 3rd Tirthankara of Jainism.
Abhinandananatha (birthplace: Ayodhya ) 4th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Sumatinatha (birthplace: Ayodhya) 5th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Padmaprabha (birthplace: Kaushambi) 6th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Suparshvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi) 7th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Chandraprabha (birthplace: Chandrawati, Varanasi) 8th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Pushpadanta (birthplace: Khukhundoo) 9th Tirthankara of Jainism.
Shreyansnath (birthplace: Sarnath), 11th Tirthankara of Jainism
Vimalanatha (birthplace: Kampilya), 13th Tirthankara of Jainism
Anantanatha (birthplace: Ayodhya), 14th Tirthankara of Jainism
Dharmanatha (birthplace: Ratnapuri), 15th Tirthankara of Jainism
Shantinath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 16th Tirthankara of Jainism
Kunthunath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 17th Tirthankara of Jainism
Aranath (birthplace: Hastinapur), 18th Tirthankara of Jainism
Neminath (birthplace: Mathura), 22nd Tirthankara of Jainism
Parsvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi), 23rd Tirthankara of Jainism

Hindu gods / deities

Rama (birthplace: Ayodhya), legendary or historical king of ancient India; in Hinduism, he is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu
Lakshmana (birthplace: Ayodhya), brother and close companion of Rama; a hero in the epic Ramayana
Lord Shree Krishna (birthplace: Mathura) deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism
Parashuram (birthplace: Ghazipur), was an avatar of Vishnu

Lord Shree Krishna statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore)
L to R: Lord Rama and Lakshmana
Neminatha (stone). Chahaman, 11th century AD, Narhad, Rajasthan
Parsvanatha statue in Bhelupur Jain temple, Varanasi
Lord Rama with arrows
Shreyansanatha at Sarnath Jain Tirth

Authors of the great epics

Bhrigu (birthplace: Ballia), one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, one of the Prajapatis created by Brahma
Sur (birthplace: Mathura), saint, poet and musician
Tulsidas (Ramayana: Chitrakoot), Awadhi poet and philosopher; wrote Rāmacaritamānasa ("The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama
Vyasa, central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions; authored Mahabharata

Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Valmiki

Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics

Amir Khusro, Sufi mystic, one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent
Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri recipient in yoga; founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur
Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud, Gazi Miya of Bahraich
Kabir, poet and saint Varanasi
Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint, born in Budaun
Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogi and Guru who introduced Yoga in the West. Born in Gorakhpur in 1893.
Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra

Poet-saints and religious figures

Hindu scholars

Narottama Dasa
Devraha Baba, Yogi Allahabad
Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur.
Ramanand, founder of the Rāmānandī sect Prayag (in modern Allahabad)
Raskhan
Sant Ravidas, poet and saint, Varanasi
Shiv Dayal Singh, founder and first guru of Radha Soami sect, Agra
Shrivatsa Goswami, Indologist and Gaudiya Vaishnava leader
Sur, blind Hindu poet, saint and musician born in Runkata near Agra
Swami Karpatri, teacher of Advaita, popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
Swaminarayan, founder of the Swaminarayan sect, Gonda
Tulsidas, composer of the Ramcharitmanas

Islam scholars

Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (1606–1651), natural philosopher
Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-1873), Islamic scholar
Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834-1899), Islamic scholar
Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867–1921), Islamic scholar
Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875–1935), Islamic scholar
Majid Ali Jaunpuri (died 1935), Islamic scholar
Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001), Sufi saint
Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri (1937–2017), Islamic scholar
Malik Mohammad Jayasi

Rulers and generals

Ancient

Keśin Dālbhya, (or Dārbhya) was a king of Panchala during the Late Vedic period, most likely between c. 900 and 750 BCE. He is mentioned prominently in the Taittiriya and Jaiminiya Brahmanas.
Pravahana Jaivali, was a king of Panchala during the Late Vedic period (8th or 7th century BCE), mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Vi.ii.9-13) and the Chandogya Upanishad (V.4-8). Like King Ajatashatru of Kashi and King Asvapati Kaikeya of Madra, he is depicted as a major Hindu philosopher-king.
Pasenadi, (c. 6th century BCE) was an Aikṣvāka ruler of Kosala. Sāvatthī was his capital. He succeeded after Sanjaya Mahākosala.
Virudhaka, was a king of Kosala during the lifetime of the Buddha.
Chandragupta Maurya, (350-295 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire, a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
Ashoka, (Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈʃo:kɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c. 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent during c. 268 to 232 BCE.
Samudragupta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.
Chandragupta II (c. 375-415), also known by his title Vikramaditya, as well as Chandragupta Vikramaditya, was the third ruler of the Gupta Empire in India.
Kumaragupta I (c. 415–455 CE), an emperor of the Gupta Empire of Ancient India. A son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II and Queen Dhruvadevi, he seems to have maintained control of his inherited territory, which extended from Gujarat in the west to Bengal region in the east.
Gomitra
Gomitra II
Brahmamitra

Medieval

Rajyavardhana, , also known as Rajya Vardhan, was the eldest son of Prabhakarvardhana and member of the Pushyabhuti dynasty. He ascended the throne after his father's death and was succeeded by his younger brother, Harsha.
Harsha, (IAST Harṣa-vardhana; c. 590–647 CE) was a Pushyabhuti emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 CE. He was the son of Prabhakaravardhana who had defeated the Alchon Hun invaders, and the younger brother of Rajyavardhana, a king of Thanesar, present-day Haryana.
Jahangir, (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir (Persian pronunciation: [d͡ʒahɑːn'giːr]; lit. 'Conqueror of the World'), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627.

Modern

Rani of Jhansi, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828 — 18 June 1858), was the Maharani consort of the princely state of Jhansi in Maratha Empire from 1843 to 1853 by marriage to Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar.

Nawab of Awadh

Shuja-ud-Daula, (b. (1732-01-19)19 January 1732 – d. (1775-01-26)26 January 1775) was the Subedar and Nawab of Oudh and the Vizier of Delhi from 5 October 1754 to 26 January 1775.
Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, (23 September 1748 – 21 September 1797) was the Nawab wazir of Oudh ratified by Shah Alam II, from 26 January 1775 to 21 September 1797, and the son of Shuja-ud-Dowlah.
Wajid Ali Shah, (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and last King of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856.

Banaras state

Balwant Singh, His eldest son, Rafa'at wa Awal-i-Martabat Raja Sri Balwant Singh Sahib Bahadur Bhumihar who succeeded his father as Raja of Kaswar and Nazim of Benares in 1738.
Maharaja Chait Singh, commonly known as Chait Singh, a Bhumihar king was a ruler of Kingdom of Benaras in northern India.
Prabhu Narayan Singh, GCSI GCIE (26 November 1855 – 4 August 1931) was ruler of the Benares State (Royal House of Benares), an Indian princely state, from 1889 to 1931.
Vibhuti Narayan Singh, (5 November 1927 – 25 December 2000) was the king of Benares, a city considered holy, located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Kohra estate

Independence Fighters

18th century

Maharaja Chait Singh, ruler of Banaras, one of the earliest rebel against Company rule.

Indian Rebellion of 1857

Mangal Pandey, one of the earliest independence fighters of 1857.
Banke Chamar, was the freedom fighter of the 1857 revolution who was leading the revolution from Jaunpur.
Bakht Khan, nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Amar Shahid Bandhu Singh, fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857, he was from Dumari Riyasat of Gorakhpur
Begum Hazrat Mahal, widow of the last Nawab of Awadh; Indian independence fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857
Lal Pratap Singh, fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Yuvraj of Kalakankar
Maulvi Liaquat Ali, Indian independence fighter of 1857 from Allahabad; captured the Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India
Rani Lakshmibai, Rani (Queen) of Jhansi
Rao Kadam Singh, freedom fighter; elected by his Gurjar clansmen as their leader to fight against the British forces during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Jhalkari Bai Koli, Great Indian freedom fighter of 1857; fought against British rule; Commander of Army of Jhansi
Dhan Singh Gurjar, main freedom fighter of 1857 revolt from Meerut
Babu Bhoop Singh, ruler of Kohra (estate) and a leader of Indian Rebellion of 1857
Rao Umrao Singh Bhati, ruler of Dadri and a leader of 1857 rebellion

Later 19th and 20th centuries

Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
Asaf Ali, independence fighter
Genda Lal Dixit (30 November 1888 – 21 December 1920) was an Indian revolutionary who led the Shivaji Samiti group of freedom fighters against the British Raj.
Chandra Shekhar Azad, leader of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, independence fighter; member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association; close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad
Chittu Pandey, independence fighter
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, independence fighter, journalist
Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian independence fighter and politician; Chief Minister of the United Provinces; Bharat Ratna recipient
Hasrat Mohani, independence fighter and poet
Laxmi Raman Acharya, freedom fighter accused of the Agra Conspiracy case
Mahavir Singh Rathore, independence fighter; member of Naujawan Bharat Sabha who helped Bhagat Singh escape
Mahavir Tyagi, independence fighter
Maulana Mohammad Ali, independence fighter
Maulana Shaukat Ali, independence fighter
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, independence fighter, Ghazipur
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay of Pratapgarh, Indian Independence fighter; two time Member of Parliament
Purushottam Das Tandon, independence fighter
Roshan Singh, (Kakori conspiracy) independence fighter
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Indian independence fighter and socialist
Raja Mahendra Pratap, King of Hathras Princely State, known as Aryan Peshwa
Rajendra Lahiri, independence fighter
Ram Manohar Lohia, socialist
Ram Prasad Bismil Indian independence fighter and socialist (Kakori conspiracy)
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, freedom fighter.
Vijay Singh Pathik
Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi (5 October 1899 – 18 November 1959) was an Indian lawyer and politician.

Award winners

Param Vir Chakra

Company Quartermaster Havildar Abdul Hamid, Ghazipur
Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey
Naik Jadu Nath Singh Rathore Shahjahan pur, fighter of World War II and Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948
Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav, of Aurangabad, Bulandshahr; hero of Tiger Hill in Kargil war

Maha Vir Chakra

Ashok Chakra

Constable Kamlesh Kumari
Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
Lieutenant Colonel Harsh Uday Singh Gaur
Lieutenant Colonel Jas Ram Singh

Bharat Ratna

Bhagwan Das, philosopher and freedom fighter, Varanasi
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement; first Prime Minister of India
Lal Bahadur Shastri, freedom fighter, former Prime Minister; belonged to Varanasi and Allahabad
Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon, freedom fighter, Allahabad
Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, Ghazipur
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, educationist and politician, founder of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, politician, eleventh Prime Minister of India

Padma Vibhushan

Padma Bhushan

Dhyan Chand, international hockey player
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Amitabh Bachchan, film actor
Mahesh Prasad Mehray, ophthalmologist
Bhagwati Charan Varma, Hindi author
Irfan Habib, historian
Josh Malihabadi, poet
Kishan Maharaj, tabla maestro
Obaid Siddiqui, science
Qurratulain Hyder, author
Rahul Sankrityayan
Ram Kinkar Upadhyay, scholar
Srilal Shukla, Hindi writer
Naushad, music director

Padma Shree

Bekal Utsahi poet, writer
Giriraj Kishore writer
Gopaldas Neeraj, Hindi poet and lyricist
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, scholar of Unani medicine
Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India
K. P. Saxena, writer
Kanhai Chitrakar
Kapil Deva Dvivedi
Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, hockey Olympian
Mohammed Shahid, ex-captain of Indian hockey team, Varanasi
Muzaffar Ali, film director
Prakash Singh
Praveen Chandra, cardiac surgeon
Vidya Niwas Mishra, writer
Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri awardee yogi; founder director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur
Ravindra Jain, singer, music composer, lyricst
Malini Awasthi
Usha Yadav, Educationist
Anil K. Rajvanshi, Grassroot research

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Majrooh Sultanpuri, lyricist
Naushad Ali, music composer
Amitabh Bachchan, film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer

Gyananpith Awards

Magasaysay Award

Rajendra Singh, water conservationist
Sandeep Pandey

Arjuna Award

Abhinn Shyam Gupta, badminton
Ashish Kumar, gymnastics
Narsingh Yadav, Wrestler
Satish Kumar Yadav, Boxer
Jagbir Singh, hockey
Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
Syed Modi, badminton
Varun Bhati,

Major Dhyan Chand Award

Rajkumar Baisla, (Wrestling) from Vill. Mewla Bhatti, Ghaziabad

Defence services

Army

Brigadier Mohammad Usman, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
Jadunath Singh, Rajput Regiment, recipient of Param Vir Chakra
Abdul Hamid, four Grenadiers, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
K.M. Seth
Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah
Manoj Kumar Pandey, 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
Yogendra Singh Yadav, 18th Grenadiers of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
Asaram Tyagi, Mahavir Chakra in Indo-Pak war of 1965

Air force

S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
Trevor Keelor IAF, Vir Chakra winner in Indo-Pak war of 1965
Denzil Keelor IAF, Air Marshall (Retd), Vir Chakra winner; Kirti Chakra recipient
Norman Anil Kumar Browne, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
S.P. Tyagi, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, Air Chief Marshal, 26th Chief of the Air Staff (India)

Navy

Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla

Science and medicine

Sushruta,is the listed author of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), a treatise considered to be one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda.
Anil K. Rajvanshi, sustainability and rural development expert
Afroz Ahmad, environmental scientist and administrator
Harish-Chandra (Mehrotra), mathematician who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
Atul Kumar, CSIR-CDRI (inventor of anti-osteoporosis drug)
Lalji Singh, molecular biologist
P. K . Sethi, inventor of the Jaipur foot
Prem Chand Pandey, scientist, physicist, meteorologist, oceanographer
Raj Vir Singh Yadav
Kazi Mobin-Uddin, inventor of Inferior vena cava filter
Shahid Jameel, Indian virologist
Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie, Indian marine geologist and former director of the National Institute of Oceanography.
Mriganka Sur, Indian-born neuroscientist working in the United States
Digvijai Singh
Jhillu Singh Yadav, Chemist
Sri Niwas, Indian geophysicist.
Nishith Gupta, molecular biologist
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, organic chemist specialising in natural product chemistry
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ravindra Khattree, Distinguished Professor and statistician who worked in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, experimental designs, biostatistics and quality control
Syed Ziaur Rahman, medical pharmacologist
Rajeev Kumar Varshney, agricultural scientist, genomics specialist, biotechnologist
Zahoor Qasim, oceanographer, leader of first Indian expedition to Antarctica
Aditi Sen De is an Indian scientist, a professor in quantum information and computation group at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist and rheumatologist.
Saroj Chooramani Gopal, is an Indian medical doctor, medical educationist and considered as the first woman M.ch paediatric surgeon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in the country.
Gaiti Hasan (born 19 November 1956) is an Indian scientist who researches in the fields of molecular biology, genetics, neuroscience and cell signalling.
Ruqaiya Hasan (3 July 1931 – 24 June 2015) was a professor of linguistics who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England.
Zoya Hasan was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Ritu Karidhal is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer working in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). She was a Deputy Operations Director to India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan.
Soniya Nityanand (born 6 September 1962) is an Indian immunologist specialising in hematology.
Qamar Rahman is an Indian scientist who has worked extensively in the last 40 years to understand the physiological effects of nanoparticles.
Rani Dhavan Shankardass is an Indian social historian and global expert on prison reform.
Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma, more popularly known as G K Vishwakarma, was an eminent orthopedic surgeon, academician and public health administrator.

Technology

Dinesh Kunwar Patel, innovator and developer of world's most languages speaking humanoid Robot Shalu.
Shalini Kapoor, India's first woman IBM Fellow
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO of Paytm
Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare.
Deepali Pant Joshi is a former executive director of the Reserve Bank of India (retired in 2017).
Divya Jain is an Indian software engineer and entrepreneur. Jain has been called a "data doyenne" by Fortune.
Sairee Chahal is a technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of SHEROES, a platform that supports women entrepreneurs.

Holders of high offices

President

Mohammad Hidayatullah, Acting President of India
Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of India

Vice President

Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice-President of India
Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Vice-President of India
Hamid Ansari, former Vice-President of India

Prime Ministers

Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Lal Bahadur Shastri, second Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Indira Gandhi, fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Choudhary Charan Singh, fifth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Rajiv Gandhi, sixth prime minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, eighth Prime Minister of India
Chandra Shekhar, ninth Prime Minister of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee. eleventh Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee

Prime Ministers of other countries

Anerood Jugnauth, former Prime Minister of Mauritius, His grand father migrated from Ballia district
Pravind Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Mauritius, Son of Anerood Jugnauth

President of other countries

Anerood Jugnauth, former President of Mauritius, his grand father migrated from Ballia district,

Governors

A R Kidwai, former Governor of Haryana
Girish Chandra Saxena, former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir
K.M. Seth, former Governor of Chhattisgarh
Kalyan Singh, Governor of Rajasthan
Khurshid Alam Khan, former Governor of Karnataka
Mohammad Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra
Mohammad Yunus Saleem, former Governor of Bihar
Ram Naresh Yadav, former Governor of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, former CAG and former Governor of Karnataka
Virendra Verma, former Governor of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
Kalraj Mishra, Governor of Rajasthan and former Governor Himanchal Pradesh
Satya Pal Malik, former Governor of Meghalaya, Odisha, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa

Chief Justices

Kailas Nath Wanchoo, former Chief Justice of India
Kamal Narain Singh, former Chief Justice of India
Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Chief Justice of India
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, former Chief Justice of India
V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India

Chief Ministers

Political figures

Pre independence

Govind Ballabh Pant
Jawaharlal Nehru
Motilal Nehru, Indian National Congress leader
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, former President of Indian National Congress
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Rai Rajeshwar Bali, education minister (1924–1928)
Sampurnanand
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

Post independence

Ajai Rai, 5 time MLA from Varanasi
Akhilesh Das, union minister
Akhilesh Yadav
Amar Mani
Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader
Bacha Pathak, 7 time MLA from Bansdih constituency, 2 time cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh government
Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader
Chandra Shekhar, former prime minister of India
Chaudhary Ajit Singh, political leader
Choudhary Charan Singh
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Devendra Nath Dwivedi, Indian politician and Governor designate of Gujarat
Dinanath Bhaskar, political leader; former minister
Feroze Gandhi
Govind Ballabh Pant
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
Indira Gandhi
Ishwar Chandra Shukla
Kalyan Singh, UP CM and Rajasthan Governor; BJP Vice President
K.C. Tyagi
Kailash Nath Katju, former Union Home Minister and lawyer
Kalpnath Rai
Kamal Nath, politician
Kamlesh Paswan, politician
Kamlesh Tiwari, founder of Hindu Samaj Party, who insulted Muhammad, was imprisoned, and murdered after his release
Kamalapati Tripathi
Laxmi Raman Acharya
Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader
Manohar Lal (b. 1938), UP MLA, cabinet minister
Mohsina Kidwai
Mulayam Singh Yadav, former Defence Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, founder of Samajwadi Party
Mayawati, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Narayan Dutt Tiwari
Om Prakash Singh, Former chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand
Prakash Vir Shastri, member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Raj Babbar, member of Parliament
Raj Narain
Raja Bhaiya, MLA
Rajeev Shukla, journalist and political leader
Rajendra Kumari Bajpai (1925–1999), former cabinet minister
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
Ram Govind Chaudhary
Ram Chandra Vikal, Deputy Chief Minister
Ram Manohar Lohia
Ram Naresh Yadav
Sanjay Singh
Satyapal Singh Yadav, former union minister
Satyaveer Munna
Sheila Kaul
Shriprakash Jaiswal, union minister
Shiv Pratap Shukla, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Minister of state (finance), former Cabinet Minister (Government of Uttar Pradesh)
Shyama Charan Gupta, politician, entrepreneur
Shyamlal Yadav, former union minister and Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha
Sunder Lal
Suresh Pasi, ministries of housing, vocational education, skill development
Thakur Ji Pathak, activist, Indian political leader
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th prime minister of India

Civil service / diplomacy

Indian Foreign Service

Asaf Ali, first Indian Ambassador to the United States
Braj Kumar Nehru, Indian diplomat and Ambassador of India to the United States
Girija Shankar Bajpai, first Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs
Shilendra Kumar Singh, former Foreign Secretary of India; former Governor of Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician; sister of Jawaharlal Nehru

Civil services

Afroz Ahmad, member of NCA, Government of India
Baleshwar Rai
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, bureaucrat
Dharma Vira, ICS, cabinet secretary and governor of West Bengal, Mysore
Durga Shanker Mishra
Isha Basant Joshi, first woman to be appointed an IAS officer
Neera Yadav
Vinod Rai, CAG
Vinod Kumar Yadav, first CEO of Railway Board
Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
Vijai Shankar Dubey is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1966 cadre batch. He is the only IAS officer to have served as Chief Secretary of two states Bihar & Jharkhand.
Yogendra Narain is a 1965 batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is a former Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha. He also served as the Defence Secretary of India, Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Surface Transport Secretary of India. He is the current Chancellor of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (HNBGU) situated in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttrakhand. From 2007 to 2017, he was serving as Director at Reliance Power and Reliance Infrastructure.

Indian Police Service

Business

Sumit Jain, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO Opentalk.to, Co-Founder and ex-CEO Commonfloor.com
Gajendra Singh, CMD Saaibaba Telefilms; founder of Ganga Gauri Mahavidyalaya, Ramnagar, Baijabari, Azamgarh
K.P. Singh, president of DLF Universal Group
Shyama Charan Gupta, founder of Shyam Group
Subroto Roy, founder of Sahara India
Vinod Gupta, former CEO and chairman of InfoUSA; founder of Vinod Gupta School of Management
Surendra Singh Nagar
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm Chairperson of Paras Milk Pvt. Ltd.
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, and the co-founder of Ashoka University.
Ponty Chadha
Sunil Duggal
Jaiprakash Gaur, (born c.1930) is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded and, until his retirement in 2010, was the chairman of Jaypee Group.
Himanshu Gupta, is an Indian American energy policy expert, engineer and entrepreneur in climate change. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of ClimateAI, which was recognized in 2022 by Time magazine as one of the greatest innovations of that year.
Piyush Gupta, currently serving as the chief executive officer, and director of DBS Group, the largest bank in Southeast Asia by total assets.
Puran Chandra Gupta, was an Indian journalist who founded the Dainik Jagran media group and it Hindi-language publication Dainik Jagran.
Haji Kallan
Khwaja Abdul Hamied
Ashok Kumar Jain
Indu Jain, was the chairperson of India's largest media group, popularly known as The Times Group.
Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
Deepali Pant Joshi
Anil Khandelwal
Suneet Maheshwari
Samir Modi
Narendra Mohan, was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Jagran Prakashan, the publisher of the Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran
Kapil Mohan
Meenakshi Sargogi
Ajay S. Shriram
Lala Kamlapat Singhania, (1884 – 1937) founder of the J. K. Organisation, one of India's largest conglomerates.
Saurabh Srivastava, entrepreneur, investment professional, institution builder and a former chairman of NASSCOM, a trade organization for the promotion of Indian IT industry.
Ishwar Das Varshnei, died 1948) was the father of the glass industry in India.
Shahnaz Husain, (born 1944) the founder, chairperson and managing director of The Shahnaz Husain Group.
Bimla Poddar, is an Indian social worker, businessperson, philanthropist and the founder of Jnana Pravaha

Educators / founders of educational institutions

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Banaras Hindu University
Jagdish Gandhi, founder of the City Montessori School
Naheed Abidi
Satish Bahadur
Runa Banerjee
Gulbadan Begum
Kamala Bose
Chandabai
Saeeda Faiz
Abidullah Ghazi
V. Mohini Giri
Saroj Chooramani Gopal
Mona Chandravati Gupta
Hamida Habibullah
Ruqaiya Hasan
Zoya Hasan
Radhika Herzberger
Sehba Hussain
Pupul Jayakar
Deepali Pant Joshi
Rehana Khatoon
Aruna Kori
Birju Maharaj
Chittaranjan Mitra
Rajat Moona
Bishambhar Nath Pande
Bimla Poddar
Azarmi Dukht Safavi
Rani Dhavan Shankardass
Lilavati Singh
Uday Pratap Singh
Parveen Talha
Romila Thapar
Rashmi Tiwari
Ragini Trivedi
Mahadevi Varma
Zahida Zaidi
Roohi Zuberi

Authors

Hindi

Acharya Chatursen (1891–1960), Hindi writer
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
Amitabh Thakur Hindi writer
Amritlal Nagar, Hindi writer
Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay, Hindi writer
Babu Gulabrai, Hindi writer
Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi scholar and writer
Bhagwati Charan Verma, Hindi writer
Bharatendu Harishchandra, Hindi writer
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Hindi novelist
Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi writer
Kashi Nath Singh, Hindi writer
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, polyglot
Malik Muhammad Jayasi, author of Padmavat
Munshi Prem Chand, novelist
Rahi Masoom Raza, author of Topi Shukla and Adha Gaon
Rajendra Yadav, Hindi novelist
Ramchandra Shukla, Hindi writer and historian
Ramlochan Vishwakarma, Lok Writer
Parichay Das, essayist, poet, critic
Ravindra Prabhat, Hindi novelist
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
Sahajanand Saraswati, author of books on sociology, freedom struggle, peasant movement, and autobiography
Sapan Saxena (b. 5 April 1985), novelist known for Finders, Keepers, UNNS-The Captivation and The Tenth Riddle
Shrilal Shukla, writer of Raag Darbari
Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
Vibhuti Narain Rai, Hindi writer
Vidya Niwas Mishra, Hindi scholar
Vinod Kumar Shukla, writer
Vishnu Sarma, author of Panchtantra
Viveki Rai
Yashpal, Hindi writer

Urdu

Firaq Gorakhpuri
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, author of books on Unani medicine
Ibne Safi, novelist of Jasoosi Duniya
Ismat Chugtai, writer
Mirza Hadi Ruswa, author of Umrao Jaan
Qurratulain Hyder, writer of Aag Ka Darya

English

Leema Dhar, novelist, poet and columnist
Attia Hosain, English author and journalist
Ajay K. Pandey, English author
Anil Swarup, English author
Nitish Rajput, English author
Nayantara Sahgal, novelist and writer
Allan Sealy, novelist and writer
Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A
Ruchita Misra, author
Ira Trivedi is an Indian author, columnist, and yoga teacher. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, often on issues related to women and gender in India.

Poets

Hindi

Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Lit Nibandh
Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay
Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi poet
Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
Harikrishna Prasad Gupta Agrahari, poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet
Jaishankar Prasad, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi
Kaka Hathrasi, humorous poet
Virendra Kumar Baranwal, writer of Jinnah: ek punardrishti
Kedarnath Singh
Kumar Vishwas, Hindi Poet
Mahadevi Varma, a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry; won the Jnanpith award in 1982
Maithilisharan Gupt, modern Hindi poet
Dushyant Kumar, Hindi poet
Ramashankar Yadav, Hindi Poet
Shivmangal Singh Suman
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Sumitranandan Pant, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

Urdu

Akbar Allahabadi, poet
Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu poet
Bekal Utsahi, Urdu poet
Brij Narayan Chakbast, Urdu poet
Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim, Urdu poet
Firaq Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet, winner of Jnanpith award
Hasrat Mohani, Urdu poet
Jigar Moradabadi, Urdu poet
Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet
Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriter
Khumar Barabankvi, Urdu poet
Majaz, Urdu poet
Majrooh Sultanpuri, poet and lyricist
Maulana Hali, Urdu poet, biographer of Ghalib's life, and a commentator of his poetry
Mir Anis, Urdu Marsiya poet
Mir Taqi Mir
Mirza Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet
A. M. Turaz, Poet & Film writer
Safi Lakhnavi, Urdu poet
Zaigham, Urdu poet who migrated to Bengal

Bhojpuri

Environmentalists

Billy Arjan Singh, as an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild.
Afroz Ahmad, is an Indian environment scientist and a former civil servant.
Ranjit Bhargava, is an Indian environmentalist, known for his endeavors towards environmental conservation and his efforts for obtaining UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the upper Ganga region.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.
Anupam Mishra (1948 – 19 December 2016) was an Indian Gandhian, author, journalist, environmentalist, TED speaker, and water conservationist who worked on promoting water conservation, water management and traditional rainwater harvesting techniques.
Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.

Scholars

Arun Tiwari, missile scientist, author, professor
Acharya Narendra Dev
Adya Prasad Pandey, notable economist of Banaras Hindu University and Currently Vice Chancellor of Manipur University
Divya Dwivedi, philosopher
Masud Husain Khan, eminent linguist; first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University; fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi
Mushirul Hasan, historian
Raja Ram Yadav, educationist, Physicist, former Vice Chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System; President of the University of Houston; first Indian American to lead a major research university in the United States
Saket Kushwaha, educationist and agricultural economist of Banaras Hindu University, currently Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, former Vice Chancellor of Lalit Narayan Mithila University
Shah Syed Hasnain Baqai, Islamic scholar, thinker, reformer; known for his inclusive and broadminded interpretation of Islam; born in Safipur
Sudhakara Dvivedi was born in 1855 in Khajuri, a village near Varanasi. In childhood he studied mathematics under Pandit Devakrsna.

Fine arts

Aman Singh Gulati, world's first almond artist
Gogi Saroj Pal
Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
Arvind Gupta, he is an Indian toy inventor, author, translator and scientist.
Basawan
Sukumar Bose
Eric Bowen
Mallika Chabba
Vijay Gaur
Prayag Jha
Govind Kanhai
Krishn Kanhai
Anil Karanjai
Imtiyaz Ali Khan
Frank Wesley
Ranbir Singh Bisht
Yashodhar Mathpal
Mola Ram

Journalism

Aniruddha Bahal, investigative journalist
Arun Nehru, former minister and columnist
Dharamvir Bharati, former editor of Dharamyug magazine
Feroze Gandhi, managing editor of National Herald
Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, Indian journalist and an authority on Nehruvian thought
Narendra Mohan, Dainik Jagran
Pankaj Mishra, journalist
Parichay Das, writer, essayist, poet and editor of contemporary Bhojpuri poetry
Raghuvir Sahay, editor of Dinmaan
Ram Bahadur Rai, magazine editor
Saeed Naqvi, journalist and TV producer
Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, Times of India and Navbharat Times
Surendra Pratap Singh, editor of Ravivar
Vinod Mehta, editor
Inderjit Badhwar (born 1943) is an Indian journalist, novelist and the former editor of India Today.

Sports

Basketball

Prashanti Singh (born 5 May 1984, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team.
Pratima Singh is a member of the India women's national basketball team, hailing from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989 in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and former captain of the India Women's National Basketball Team.
Divya Singh (Hindi:'दिव्या सिंह') (born 21 July 1982) is former captain of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team.

Hockey

Dhyan Chand, former international field hockey player, awarded the Padma Bhushan
Zafar Iqbal, former international captain of the Indian hockey team and Chief coach of Indian hockey team
K. D. Singh, former national hockey player and Olympian
Mohammed Shahid, former international field hockey player; member of the Indian team that won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; awarded Arjuna Award in 1980 and Padma Shri in 1986
Jagbir Singh, captain and member of National Hockey team in 1988 and 1992 Olympics; awarded Arjuna Award in 1990

Baseball

Rinku Singh, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
Dinesh Patel, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States

Wrestling

Cricket

Arun Lal, former Test cricketer
Ashish Zaidi, cricketer
Obaid Kamal, cricketer
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, international cricketer
Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer
Deepti Sharma, International cricketer
Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
Hemlata Kala, member of Indian women's cricket team
Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer
Meghna Singh, International Cricketer
Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer
Mohammed Shami, international cricketer
Narendra Hirwani
Piyush Chawla
Poonam Yadav, International Cricketer
Priyam Garg
Praveen Kumar
Parvinder Awana
R. P. Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.), international cricketer
Swapnil Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.)
Rajinder Hans
Raman Lamba
Rohan Gavaskar
Sudip Tyagi
Suresh Raina, international cricketer
Suryakumar Yadav, international cricketer
Surinder Amarnath
Umesh Yadav, Deoria (U.P.), Indian cricketer
Kuldeep Yadav, cricketer, Kanpur (U.P.)
Shivam Mavi, cricketer
Shubham Mavi
Vijay Yadav, international cricketer
Yashasvi Jaiswal, cricketer
Kartik Tyagi, fast-bowler cricketer
Rinku Singh (cricketer)
Dhruv Jurel, cricketer
Mohsin Khan (Indian cricketer), is an Indian cricketer.
Sameer Rizvi, Uttar Pradesh cricketer.
Sarfaraz Khan (cricketer), (born 22 October 1997) is an Indian international cricketer who represents the Indian national cricket team in Test cricket, he was born and brought up in the suburbs of Mumbai. His family hails from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh.

Badminton

Abhinn Shyam Gupta, former national badminton champion
Syed Modi, former national badminton champion

Other sports

Abhishek Yadav, footballer
Annu Raj Singh, shooter
Arjun Bhati, golfer
Ghaus Mohammad, tennis player, the first Indian to reach quarterfinal of The Championships, Wimbledon
Jaspal Rana, shooter
Jitu Rai, shooter
Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
Nitin Tomar, Kabaddi
Pawan Gupta (wushu), sanda fighter
Punam Yadav, weightlifting
Ram Singh Yadav, Marathon runner, represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Saurabh Chaudhary, shooter
Satish Kumar, Boxing
Varun Singh Bhati, para athlete
Ankit Sharma is an athlete who competes in the long jump event. He was born on 20 July 1992 in Pinahat block.
Praveen Kumar (para-athlete, born 2003)

Music dance

Musicians

Nucleya, known by his name Udyan Sagar, is an Indian electronic music producer.
Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player
Begum Akhtar, ghazal singer
Bismillah Khan, shehnai player, awarded the Bharat Ratna (2001)
Cliff Richard, English singer
Gopal Shankar Misra, vichitra veena player
Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
Kishan Maharaj, tabla player
Lalmani Misra, Indian classical musician
Naushad Ali, music director; awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema
Ravi Shankar, sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999; recipient of three Grammy awards
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, musicologist
Vikash Maharaj sarod player, awarded the Karmveer, Shiromai, Manishi Ratn.

Singers

Abhijeet Bhattacharya, from Kanpur
Ankit Tiwari, from Kanpur
Ravindra Jain
Anup Jalota, Ghazal and Bhajan singer
Girija Devi, Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singers
Harshit Saxena, singer
Kailash Kher, from Meerut
Kanika Kapoor, from Lucknow
Purshottam Das Jalota (1925–2011), bhajan singer, Padma Shri (2004)
Sharafat Hussain Khan, from Atrauli
Shubha Mudgal, singer
Siddheshwari Devi, Hindustani singer from Banares, known as Maa (mother)
Talat Mahmood, ghazal singer

Folk singers

Rappers

Hard Kaur, from Kanpur
Baba Sehgal

Dancers

Birju Maharaj, Kathak exponent
Lachhu Maharaj, Kathak exponent
Kapila Vatsyayan, scholar of Indian classical dance
Sitara Devi
Uday Shankar

Cinema and theatre

Actors and actresses

Directors/producers

Singers

Lyricists

Composers

Theatre related

Cinematographers

Story / script / dialogue writers

Navratnas

Raja Todar Mal, Finance Minister and one of the Navratnas of Akbar
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Hindi poet and a Navratna of Akbar
Birbal, jester and poet of Akbar's court

Television

Satire, comedy, cartoons

Akbar Allahabadi, poet and satirist
K. P. Saxena
Kaak (b. 1940, Harish Chandra Shukla), cartoonist
Kaka Hathrasi, satirist
Rajpal Yadav, actor and comedian
Raju Srivastava, actor and stand up comedian
Tuntun, comedian
Anubhav Singh Bassi is an Indian actor, YouTuber and stand-up comedian. His career as a standup comic started after an open mic in 2017.
Aseem Trivedi (born 17 February 1987) is an Indian political cartoonist and activist, known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption

Photographers

Lala Deen Dayal, Indian photographer
Tarun Khiwal (born 1967), Indian fashion and commercial photographer
Darogha Ubbas Alli (aka Darogha Abbas Ali) was a 19th-century Indian engineer and photographer.
Farhat Basir Khan (born 2 August 1957) is an Indian photographer.
Richa Maheshwari is a Delhi-based fashion photographer.
Virendra Prabhakar (1928 – 2015) was an Indian press photojournalist, cited by the Limca Book of Records as the longest serving press photojournalist.
Devi Prasad (artist) (1921 – 1 June 2011) was an Indian artist and peace activist. He was a pioneering studio potter, painter, designer, photographer, art educator and peace activist.

Criminals

Militants

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Others

Abdul Karim, Munshi to Queen Victoria
Begum Samru, historical figure
Deep Tyagi, pioneer of family planning programme in India
Jaichand of Kannauj, historical figure
Tabassum Mansoor, Indian educationist in Libya
Rahul Mishra (born 1979), fashion designer
Sampat Pal Devi, women's rights activist
Sheila Dikshit, former Chief Minister of Delhi
Vinod Rai, former CAG and IAS
Mohammad Waliullah was a senior judge of the Allahabad High Court in India.
Shiv Prasad Gupta (28 June 1883 – 24 April 1944) was a visionary, philanthropist, a leader of the Indian Freedom Movement and the founder of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth.
Malini Agarwal (born 26 May 1977), also known as MissMalini, is an Indian digital influencer, TV host, entrepreneur, and author.

Photo gallery

Abdul Hamid's bust at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
Jadunath Singh's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
Param Vir Chakra Awardee Yogendra Yadav at India Gate on Kargil Vijay Divas, 2018
Manoj Pandey's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Poonam Yadav bowling for India against Bangladesh during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Suresh Raina
Surya in Kolkata Knight Riders apparel during the 2017 Indian Premier League

Notes

- Pāli:चन्दगुत्त मोरीय Candagutta Mōrīya
- Sanskrit: चन्द्रगुप्त मौर्य Candragupta Maurya
- Ancient Greek: Σανδράκοπτος Sandrákoptos Σανδράκοττος Sandrákottos Ανδροκόττος Androkóttos
After government birth records were lost in Pratapgarh, Hasan's mother re-registered Ruqaiya's birthdate as 3 July 1931, slightly earlier than her real birthdate, to enroll her in school earlier.

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