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List of people from Delhi

This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.

Advocates

  • Subodh Markandeya

Art

Armed forces

Writers

Business

  • Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur
  • Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur
  • Patu Keswani, entrepreneur
  • Surinder Mehta
  • Sunil Mittal, entrepreneur
  • Mohan Singh Oberoi, entrepreneur
  • Bharat Ram
  • Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur
  • KP Singh, entrepreneur

Film, television and entertainment

Actors

Actress

Directors, producers and writers

  • Atul Agnihotri
  • Shubhavi Arya
  • Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director[2]
  • Dev Benegal
  • Aditya Dhar
  • Amar Kanwar (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist
  • Rajat Kapoor
  • Anu Malhotra
  • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
  • Nisha Pahuja
  • Aanand L. Rai
  • Maneesh Sharma
  • Alankrita Shrivastava
  • Loveleen Tandan

Singers

  • KK (singer)
  • Sunidhi Chauhan
  • Javed Ali
  • Akriti Kakar
  • Prakriti Kakar
  • Sukriti Kakar
  • Harshdeep Kaur
  • Tulsi Kumar
  • Anushka Manchanda
  • Mukesh Chand Mathur, bollywood singer
  • Zascha Moktan (born 1981), German-Nepalese songwriter and singer
  • Bif Naked (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer
  • Peter Plate (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)
  • Honey Singh

Choreography

  • Shakti Mohan

Beauty Pageants

  • Koyal Rana

YouTuber

  • Bhuvan Bam
  • Amit Bhadana[3]
  • Ajey Nagar

Journalist

  • Gopinath Aman
  • Afshan Anjum
  • Vikram Chandra
  • Barkha Dutt
  • Sagarika Ghose
  • Sonal Kalra
  • Mayanti Langer
  • Charul Malik
  • Rajat Sharma
  • Prema Sridevi
  • Sabina Sehgal Saikia
  • Hari Shankar Vyas

Judiciary

  • Sanjiv Khanna

Medical

  • Daljeet Singh Gambhir
  • Hemlata Gupta
  • Jitendra Mohan Hans
  • Ganesh Kumar Mani
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Indira Nath
  • Abha Saxena
  • Krishna Gopal Saxena
  • Santosh Kumar Sen
  • Sujata Sharma
  • Noshir M. Shroff, Ophthalmologist
  • M. V. Padma Srivastava
  • Nikhil Tandon
  • Brihaspati Dev Triguna

Music

  • Madhup Mudgal

Poetry

  • Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet
  • Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet
  • Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet
  • Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
  • Nitin Soni

Politics

Rulers

Tomars

  • Anangpal Tomar, King of Haryana and Delhi

Sayyids

  • Muhammad Shah

Mughals

Scholar

Science

  • Diwakar Vaish, roboticist

Social Worker

  • Kiran Martin

Sports

Athletic

  • Arun Bhardwaj
  • Amoj Jacob
  • Lalit Mathur
  • Tejaswin Shankar
  • Sourabh Vij

Badminton

  • Damayanti Tambay

Billiards

  • Geet Sethi (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion

Chess

Cricket

Football

  • Jyoti Ann Burrett
  • Aayushmaan Chaturvedi
  • Aditi Chauhan
  • Dalima Chhibber
  • Rohit Kumar
  • Munmun Lugun
  • Tanvie Hans

Golf

Hockey

Martial art

  • Om Prakash Bhardwaj
  • Akram Shah
  • Narender Singh

Table tennis

  • Manika Batra
  • Indu Puri

Boxing

  • Gaurav Bidhuri, world boxing Bronze medal winner

Tennis

  • Ankita Bhambri
  • Prerna Bhambri
  • Yuki Bhambri
  • Divij Sharan
  • Ashutosh Singh
  • Jasjit Singh

Wrestling

  • Jyoti
  • Parkash Gian
  • Guru Hanuman
  • Sonika Kaliraman
  • Pawan Kumar
  • Sushil Kumar
  • Sujeet Maan
  • Malwa Singh
  • Satpal Singh

Others

  • Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian[4]
  • Ratish Nanda, conservation architect[5]
  • Laila Tyabji (born 1947), co-founder of Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)[6]

References

  1. ^ "AMBA SANYAL Akademi Award: Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing)". Sangeet Natak Akademi. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  2. ^ Gupta, Priya (28 February 2014). "Politics excites me as much as movies do: Vikas Bahl". Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. ^ "देश के सबसे बड़े यू-टयूबर ने वकालत की पढ़ाई कर सुनी दिल की बात और फिर बन गए स्टार". Patrika News (in Hindi). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ "India in the 1940s: The way we were". Hindustan Times. 10 August 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Lunch with BS: Ratish Nanda". Business Standard. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Business Standard". Business Standard. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
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