List of people from Varanasi
Varanasi on the banks of the holy Ganges River
This is a list of notable people from Varanasi, India.
Arts, music and entertainment
- Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player, music educator, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1966)
- Girija Devi, singer Padma Bhushan
- Siddheshwari Devi, khayal singer, Padma Shri
- Sitara Devi, Padma Shri
- Bismillah Khan, shehnai player, Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan
- Birju Maharaj, kathak guru, Padma Vibhushan
- Kishan Maharaj, tabla player, Padma Vibhushan
- Channulal Mishra, Hindustani classical player, Padma Bhushan
- Shamta Prasad (Gudai Maharaj), tabla player, Padma Shri
- Ritwik Sanyal, singer, dhrupad
- Ravi Shankar, sitar player, Bharat Ratna
- Uday Shankar, dancer, Padma Vibhushan
Literature and academics
- Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic, Padma Bhushan
- Bharatendu Harishchandra, writer
- Devaki Nandan Khatri, writer
- Gopinath Kaviraj (1887–1976), Sanskrit scholar; Principal Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi (1923–1937); Padma Vibhushan (1964) [1]
- Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Genetics [2]
- Jaishankar Prasad, writer
- Kabir Das
- Premchand, Hindi writer
- Tulsidas
- Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit scholar, Tantric, linguist and grammarian
- Veer Bhadra Mishra, founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation; former professor and HOD of Civil Engineering at IIT (BHU), Varanasi[3]
Politics
- Devendra Nath Dwivedi, politician and the Governor designate of Gujarat
- Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of the Banaras Hindu University, Bharat Ratna
- Mahendra Nath Pandey, HRD Minister of state, Modi ministry
- Sri Prakasa, Governor of Assam
- Sampurnanand, freedom fighter; writer who became Chief Minister of UP and Governor of Rajasthan; responsible for renaming Benares to Varanasi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, former Prime Minister of India, Bharat Ratna
- Kamalapati Tripathi, writer, journalist, editor and freedom fighter
Royalty
- Maharaj Vibhuti Narayan Singh, last king of Varanasi
- Rani of Jhansi (born in Varanasi in 1828)
Sports
- Mohammed Shahid,hockey player
- Prashanti Singh, basketball player
Others
- Bhagwan Das
- Sanjaya Rajaram, plant scientist
- K. L. Shrimali, Padma Vibhushan
- Lahiri Mahasaya, yogi
- Rai Krishnadasa, Padma Vibhushan
- Ravidas
- Sameer, lyricist
- Sir James Brooke, founder of the White Rajah dynasty of Sarawak
- Sunil Bansal, Indian politician
References
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