This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh also few parts of Bihar state of India.
Academics, science, and engineering Sushruta, father of plastic surgery Bishun Khare, Research Scientist Arvind Mohan Kayastha, Biologist Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi. Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician Jhillu Singh Yadav, chemist Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist Prem Chand Pandey Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI Obaid Siddiqui
Civil Servants
Jagmohan Yadav, Former chief of Uttar Pradesh Police Chandrika Prasad Srivastava Anil Sinha, Bihar Ex-CBI Director Vinod Kumar Yadav, Former Chairman and CEO of Railway Board Vinod Rai, former CAG. Vikas Swarup, former diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Armed forces Mahendra Nath Mulla Abdul Hamid Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Artists Bismillah Khan Birju Maharaj Ravi Shankar Ram Chandra Shukla, painter Ram Kinkar Upadhyay
Entertainment and media Actor
Amitabh Bachchan Anjaan Baba Azmi Manoj Bajpai, actor Pankaj Tripathi, actor Parichay Das Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor Sudhir Dar, cartoonist Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician Manoj Tiwari, actor and politician Vidisha Srivastava, actress Shanvi Srivastava, actress Amrapali Dubey, actress Girija Devi Kaifi Azmi Siddheshwari Devi Rajkumari Dubey Anshuman Jha, actor Anurag Kashyap, film director Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician Chhannulal Mishra Rajan and Sajan Mishra Gopal Shankar Misra Lalmani Misra Indrani Mukherjee, actress Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Chunky Pandey Sudhanshu Pandey Kinsey Peile, playwright, actor Rahi Masoom Raza Jhanak Shukla Saurabh Shukla Supriya Shukla Vinay Shukla Kapila Vatsyayan
Singer Sulochana Brahaspati, singer Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor, singer, and politician Manoj Tiwari, actor, singer, and politician Sameer Musician Nalin Mazumdar, guitarist Kishan Maharaj
Entrepreneurs, Businessman and Tech office holders Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Founder of Security Intelligence Service Pvt. Ltd. Subrata Roy, Founder Sahara India Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare. Sandeep Pandey
Freedom fighters and kings
Jay Prakash Narayan Mangal Pandey Chittu Pandey Veer Abdul Hamid Vibhuti Narayan Singh Maharaja Banaras Kashinaresh Rewati Raman Singh
Politicians President of India Rajendra Prasad, First President of India Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India. Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Ex-Prime minister of India. Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India. Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh, Former Prime Minister of India
Deputy Prime Ministers of India
Jagjivan Ram, First Labour Minister of India, first Dalit Deputy PM of India and founder of All India Depressed Classes League & Congress (Jagjivan).
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Sampurnanand Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Kamalapati Tripathi, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Rajnath Singh, Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Ministers of Bihar (India) Harihar Singh (1969-1969) Lalu Prasad Yadav (1990-1995) Rabri Devi (1997-2005) Daroga Prasad Rai (1970, for 10 months) Kedar Pandey (1972-1973) Abdul Ghafoor (1973-1975) Ram Sundar Das (1979-1980) Bindeshwari Dubey (1985-1988)
Governors of States Girish Chandra Saxena, Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Governor of Assam Devendra Nath Dwivedi, former Governor of Gujarat Sri Prakasa, former Governor of Assam Sampurnanand, former Governor of Rajasthan
Deputy Chief Ministers Deputy CM Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Deputy CM Bihar Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar (2015-2017) Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav, Bihar (1971-1972) Renu Devi, Bihar (2020-2022) Other Raj Narain, Ex-MP Ravindra Kishore Sinha Bihar Ex-MP Rajya Sabha, Billionaire Anil Shastri, Ex-MP Varanasi Sunil Shastri, Ex-MLA Gorakhpur Manglesh Kumar Srivastava, Mayor of Gorakhpur Jagdambika Pal MP Sidharth Nath Singh, MLA Allahabad West, Ex-Cabinet Minister of UP Anupriya Patel Central Cabinet Minister Giriraj Singh Bihar Central Cabinet Minister Rashmi Varma Bihar Surya Pratap Shahi Swatantra Dev Singh Nand Gopal Gupta Anil Rajbhar Ravindra Jaiswal Mangal Pandey, Cabinet Minister of Bihar Om Prakash Rajbhar Pramod Tiwari MP Rajya Sabha Mohd Zama Khan, Cabinet Minister of Bihar
Chief Justice and Judges V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India
National and International Award winners Bharat Ratna
Bismillah Khan Jayaprakash Narayan Rajendra Prasad
Magasaysay Award
Jayaprakash Narayan Ravish Kumar
Social activists Veer Bhadra Mishra, academic, environmentalist Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist
Spiritual leaders Bhagwan Das
Sportspeople
Badminton Suresh Goel
Baseball Rinku Singh
Cricket Narendra Hirwani Umesh Yadav Suresh Raina Mohammad Kaif Rudra Pratap Singh Piyush Chawla
Gymnastics Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games
Hockey Dhyan Chand Mohammed Shahid
Writers Premchand. Ramlochan Vishwakarma, Indian folk writer Meena Alexander, poet Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer Aniruddha Bahal, journalist, novelist Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt' Dharamvir Bharati, author, poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, poet Satish Chandra, writer, historian Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil' Kapil Deva Dvivedi Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet Harisena, poet Bharatendu Harishchandra Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh Rafiq Husain, writer, poet Ibn-e-Safi, novelist Laxmi Narayan Mishra Vidya Niwas Mishra Shibli Nomani Jaishankar Prasad Munshi Premchand Acharya Kuber Nath Rai Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist Viveki Rai Rahul Sankrityayan Parichay Das Allan Sealy, author, writer Ramchandra Shukla Kedarnath Singh Julia Strachey, novelist, writer Sri Lal Sukla Baldev Upadhyaya Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Amish Tripathi
Scholar Sachchidananda Sinha, lawyer and parliamentarian Ananda Prasad, biochemist Gupteshwar Pandey, former DGP of Bihar Kapil Muni Tiwary, linguist
Journalists
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