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List of people from Jammu and Kashmir

This is an alphabetically arranged list of notable people from Jammu and Kashmir, India.


Academics and science

  • Amitabh Mattoo, thinker and professor
  • Lalit Gupta, art historian
  • Subhash Kak, American computer scientist
  • Sonam Wangchuk, engineer, innovator and education reformist
  • Vijay Mahajan, American Marketing Professor from Jammu

Administration and police

  • Masud Choudhary, ex IPS officer
  • Shesh Paul Vaid, IPS officer
  • Shah Faesal, first IAS topper from Kashmir
  • Abdul Rashid Khan, IPS, Ex Inspector General of Police and Member State Human Rights Commission.
  • Farooq Khan, ex IPS, politician, advisor

Artists

  • Krsna (rapper), rapper and actor
  • Allah Rakha, musician
  • Bhajan Sopori, musician
  • Dina Nath Walli, painter
  • Ghulam Rasool Santosh, painter
  • Kanish Sharma, music director/singer
  • KSHMR, EDM artist
  • Rahul Bhat, actor
  • Aamir Bashir,actor
  • Mir Sarwar, actor
  • Tochi Raina, singer
  • MC Kash, rapper and singer
  • Malika Pukhraj, singer
  • Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, musician
  • Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
  • Vibha Saraf, singer & musician

Comptrollers

  • V. N. Kaul, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Padma Bhushan

Defence forces

  • Bana Singh, PVC recipient
  • Chewang Rinchen, double MVC recipient
  • General Bikram Singh, ex Chief of Army Staff
  • Nirmal Chander Vij, ex Chief of Army Staff
  • Rajinder Singh, first MVC recipient
  • Nazir Ahmad Wani, first Ashoka Chakra recipient

Films and television

  • Aamir Bashir, actor
  • Abrar Qazi, actor
  • Anjali Abrol, film actress
  • Aly Goni, TV actor
  • Anupam Kher, actor
  • Ekta Kaul, TV actress
  • Hina Khan, TV actress
  • Sandeepa Dhar, actress
  • Jeevan, actor
  • Joanna Lumley, actress
  • K. K. Raina, actor, director
  • Kanchi Kaul, actress
  • Kiran Kumar, actor
  • KL Saigal, singer and actor
  • Kunal Khemu, actor
  • Leenesh Mattoo, TV actor
  • Loveleen Kaur Sasan, TV serial actress
  • M. K. Raina, actor, theatre director
  • Mir Sarwar , actor, former model
  • Iqbal Khan, actor
  • Mohit Raina, actor
  • Mukesh Rishi, actor
  • Mushtaq Kak, actor and theatre director
  • Om Prakash, character actor
  • Praneet Bhat, actor
  • Qazi Touqeer, singer
  • Raaj Kumar, film actor
  • Raj Zutshi, actor
  • Raj Singh Arora, TV actor
  • Reyhna Malhotra, TV actress
  • Sana Dua, model
  • Sanjay Kak, documentary film maker
  • Sanjay Suri, actor
  • Shaheer Sheikh, TV actor
  • Siddharth Kak, television producer and presenter
  • Sidhant Gupta, actor
  • Sumit Kaul, actor
  • Sunder, actor
  • Tej Sapru, actor
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra8
  • Vineet Raina, actor
  • Vinay Sapru, actor, writer, director
  • Waseem Mushtaq, TV actor
  • Husain Khan, Actor
  • Kanish Sharma, music director
  • Zaira Wasim, film actress
  • Nitin Sharma, model

Journalism & media

Law and justice

  • Adarsh Sein Anand, ex Chief Justice of India
  • Bilal Nazki, ex Chief Justice of Orissa and Chairman of Human Rights Commission of Bihar
  • Mehr Chand Mahajan, ex Chief Justice of India
  • Parvez Imroz, human rights activist and lawyer
  • T.S. Thakur, ex Chief Justice of India

Literature

  • Agha Shahid Ali, poet and finalist for National Book Award of United States in 2001
  • Basharat Peer, author and scriptwriter
  • Deen Bandhu Sharma, writer
  • Farooq Nazki, poet, broadcaster and media personality
  • Habba Khatun, 16th-century poet, known as "Nightingale of Kashmir"
  • Hakeem Manzoor, writer, poet
  • Lalleshwari, poet-saint
  • Moti Lal Kemmu, Kashmiri writer and social worker
  • Padma Sachdev, poet, novelist, first modern women poet of Dogri language
  • Jitendra Udhampuri, writer
  • Rafiq Anjum, poet, researcherPrf. Rahman Rahi Poet and Critic
  • Ram Nath Shastri, known as "Father of Dogri" as he brought Dogri language at national level, a Dogri poet

Politics

  • Altaf Bukhari, former Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Karan Singh, ex Sadar-e-Raiyasat
  • Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Mirza Mehboob Beg (1949-), politician.
  • Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg (d.1982) was the first deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. and former Home Minister of India
  • Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Prem Nath Dogra, founder of Praja Parishad Party
  • Shah Faisal, Independent politician, founder of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement.
  • Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Syed Mir Qasim, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Royalty

Social Activists

  • Parveena Ahanger, cofounder and chairman of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
  • Mushtaq Pahalgami, social activist, environmentalist

Sports

  • Ishfaq Ahmed, Indian Football Team
  • Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Indian Football team
  • Mithun Manhas, Indian Premier League player
  • Parvez Rasool, first J&K cricketer to represent India in International cricket
  • Abdul Samad, J&K cricketer, played IPL through Sunrisers Hyderabad
  • Shubham Khajuria, cricketer
  • Chain Singh, J&K's first Olympian, Asian Games 2014 Bronze Medal winner in shooting
  • Rasikh Salam, Indian Premier League player
  • Danish Farooq Bhat, Indian footballer plays as midfielder for real kashmir team
  • Iqra Rasool, Indian cricketer. Also known as Baramullah SupergirSupergir

See also

References

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