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List of people from Purvanchal

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Last edited March 14, 2023

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This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh state of India.

Academics, science, and engineering

Dinesh Kunwar Patel (Scientist & Educator), Innovator and developer of World's most languages speaking womanoid Robot Shalu)
Manindra Agrawal, mathematician, engineer
Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician
John B. Chitamber, educational reformer
Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[1]
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^[2]
Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI^[3]
Obaid Siddiqui

Armed forces

Mahendra Nath Mulla
Abdul Hamid
Bhopinder Singh, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Artists

Criminals

Entertainment and media

Entrepreneurs

Freedom fighters and kings

Politicians

Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime minister of India.
Indira Gandhi, Former Prime minister of India.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Former Vice President of India.
Giriraj Kishore
Kalraj Mishra
Kamlesh Paswan
Raj Narain
Jai Prakash Narayan, Independence activist.
Prem Prakash Pandey
Jagdambika Pal
Jharkhande Rai
Anupriya Patel
Sone Lal Patel
Mahaveer Prasad
Rajendra Prasad, First President of India.
Kalpnath Rai
Krishnanand Rai
Sampurnanand
Sahajanand Saraswati
Surya Pratap Shahi
Lal Bahadur Shastri, Former Prime minister of India.
Chandra Shekhar, Former Prime minister of India.
Amar Singh
Om Prakash Singh
Rajnath Singh Defense Minister of India and Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Tribhuvan Narain Singh
Vir Bahadur Singh, Former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Manoj Sinha
Hari Shankar Tiwari
Kamalapati Tripathi
Ram Naresh Yadav
Ramakant Yadav
Om Prakash Rajbhar

Social activists

Veer Bhadra Mishra, academic, environmentalist
Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist

Spiritual leaders

Bhagwan Das

Sportspeople

Badminton

Suresh Goel

Baseball

Rinku Singh

Cricket

Gymnastics

Ashish Kumar, holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
Vivek Mishra, gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games

Hockey

Writers

References

↑ "Academic Report 2010-2011" (PDF). Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Retrieved 13 June 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ "Raychaudhuri, Amitava: Institutional History". slac.stanford.edu/. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
↑ Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times.

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