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Actors

• Amitabh Bachchan: Son of well known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan. He has a brother named Ajitabh. He completed his education from Uttar Pradesh and moved to Bombay to find work as a film star, in vain though, as film-makers preferred someone with a fairer skin, and he was not quite fair enough. But they did use one of his other assets…
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui: Nawazuddin Siddiqui (born 1974) also known as Nowaz is an Indian film actor who has appeared in some of Bollywood’s major films including, Black Friday (2004), New York (2009), Peepli Live (2010), Kahani (2012), Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2 (2012). Early life and education Nawazuddin Siddiqui is from Budhana a small town of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh…
• Mandakini: Attractive, talented, young Mandakini won the hearts of millions of Indians worldwide in her performance in “Ram Teri Ganga Melli”. Thereafter her name was a household name. She starred with Mithun Chakraborty in another hit movie “Dance Dance” which won many accolades for her. Since her other passion was singing…
• Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar was a world-renowned musician, composer, performer, and scholar of classical Indian music. He was one of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century whose accomplishments placed him as the leading figure of an important musical tradition. His long and distinguished musical career included numerous recordings…
• Naseeruddin Shah: Actor, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Jimmy Shergill: Shergill was born in a Sikh family in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He moved to Punjab, the place of his ancestors, in 1985 where he studied in Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and Bikram College Patiala. He learnt acting from Sri Harpal Singh, and then moved to Mumbai to work in the entertainment industry. He’s married to Priyanka Puri from Delhi and they have a son named Veer Shergill
• Lara Dutta: It is not a secret that Lara Dutta is a beauty with brains. This was demonstrated when she scored the highest possible marks in the history of the Miss Universe Contest. After this she was crowned Miss Universe 2000, making history as not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent young woman to wear this crown in the history of Miss Universe…
• Sahibzadi Zohra: Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan, better known as Zohra Sehgal, was born into a Sunni Muslim Rohilla Pathan family of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, on 27th April, 1912 in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India. However, unlike most other children of traditional households, Zohra Sehgal was a tomboy, who enjoyed climbing trees and playing games…

Musician

Independence fighters

• Bakht Khan, nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
• Begum Hazrat Mahal, widow of the last Nawab of Awadh; Indian independence fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857
• Mangal Pandey, one of the earliest independence fighters of 1857; subject of Bollywood film Ballia
• 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

 Later 19th and 20th centuries

• Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
• Asaf Ali, independence fighter
• Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, Indian independence fighter; member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association; close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad
• Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
• Chittu Pandey, independence fighter
• Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, independence fighter, journalist

Politician

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Morena, Gwalior from his ancestral village of Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh.
• Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father, Motilal Nehru (1861–1931), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.
• Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan (born 30 April 1952) is an Indian yoga guru and honoured by Padma Shri for literature and education in 1991. Born at Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), Bharat Bhushan is the first recipient of the coveted “Padmashri Award” given by the President of India for his contribution to yoga.

Writers

• Bhagwati Charan Verma was born on 30 August 1903 in Safipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he received his early education. He also spent some years living with his extended family at the ancestral home in Patkapur.
• Bekal Utsahi was a former member of Rajya Sabha. In 1976 he received the Padmashree Award in literature. 1 June 1924 Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, India.