List of people from Lucknow

This is a list of notable people from or associated with the Indian city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Academics, education and science

• Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst
• S. P. Chakravarti, father of electronics and telecommunications engineering education in India
• Herbert V. Günther, professor of philosophy
• Mukesh Haikerwal, general practitioner and former federal president of the Australian Medical Association, Companion of the Order of Australia since 2011
• Asma Hussain, Uttar Pradesh's first fashion designer; head of the Asma Hussain Institute of Fashion Technology, Lucknow
• Kailas Nath Kaul, botanist and agricultural scientist
• Gopal Khanna, 5th director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Veena Talwar Oldenburg, professor of history
• Anil K. Rajvanshi, rural development expert Padma Shri 2022.
• Maqbool Ahmed Lari, services in literature and education (Urdu) Padma Shri 1971
• Kalbe Sadiq, Islamic scholar and educationist
• Abhishek Shukla, geriatrician and palliative care physician^[1]
• Shubhanshu Shukla, ISRO astronaut and Indian Air Force test pilot
• Dalip Kumar Upreti, lichenologist

Arts and culture

• Jafar Mir Abdullah, art enthusiast from the royal family of Awadh.
• Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet and lyricist; father of Javed Akhtar
• Muzaffar Ali, filmmaker
• Naushad Ali, film musician
• Amitabh Bhattacharya, Bollywood singer and lyricist
• Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre and television actress
• Ranveer Brar, chef, television host
• Pali Chandra, Kathak dancer
• Anup Jalota, classical singer and musician
• Cliff Richard, British singer and musician; now settled in Portugal and Barbados
• Mohammad Shakeel, contemporary artist
• Kavi Pradeep, poet and lyricist; known for writing patriotic songs

Actors and singers

• Deepti Sadhwani, actress
• Disha Patani, actress
• Urfi Javed, actress
• Aahana Kumra, actress
• Talat Mahmood, singer
• Sumona Chakravarti, actress
• Tia Bajpai, singer
• Sachet Tandon, composer, vocalist and lyricist; part of duo Sachet-Parampara
• Ali Fazal, actor
• Amit Mishra, singer
• Kanika Kapoor, singer
• Shantanu Moitra, music composer
• Gayatri Iyer, singer
• Baba Sehgal, singer
• Aditi Sharma, actress
• Kushal Tandon, actor
• Richa Panai, actress
• Zoya Afroz, actress, Miss India
• Anaika Soti, actress
• Nandini Singh, actress
• Amrapali Gupta, actress
• Surendra Pal, actor
• Kumar Gaurav, actor
• Arti Singh, actress
• Gungun Uprari, actress
• Cliff Richard, singer
• Amit Sadh, actor
• Anil Rastogi, actor
• Malini Awasthi, singer
• Roshan Abbas, television anchor
• Javed Akhtar, writer
• Vartika Singh, actress, Miss India

Activists

• Sehba Hussain, activist, former member of National Advisory Council
• Runa Banerjee, social worker and co-founder of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Writers, including journalists snd poets

• Mir Babar Ali Anis, Marsiya writer (poet)
• Chhannu Lal Dilgeer (Ghulam Hussain), Marsiya writer (poet)
• Iftikhar Arif, poet
• Brij Narayan Chakbast, poet
• Mirza Dabeer, Marsiya writer (poet)
• Altaf Fatima, novelist
• Muzaffar Ahmad Lari, Urdu write
• Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Lucknow historian
• Majaz, poet
• Josh Malihabadi, poet
• Rajesh Talwar, playwright, novelist
• Vinod Mehta, journalist
• Mir Taqi Mir, poet
• Amaresh Misra, historian
• Maulana Hasrat Mohani, poet
• Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Islamic historian
• Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Islamic scholar and writer
• Amritlal Nagar, novelist
• Suryakumar Pandey, poet
• Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, journalist
• Mirza Hadi Ruswa, poet
• Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar, novelist
• K.P. Saxena, poet
• Abdul Halim Sharar, Lucknow historian
• Gaura Pant Shivani, writer
• Sri Lal Sukla. novelist
• Shaukat Siddiqui, novelist
• Pratap Narayan Tandon, novelist
• Srijan Pal Singh, writer and advisor to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• Ruchita Misra, writer
• Bhagwati Charan Verma, writer
• Yashpal, novelist, freedom fighter
• Mohsin Zaidi, poet
• Masroor Jahan, novelist and short-story writer
• Zameer Akhtar Naqvi poet
• Yogesh Praveen, historian

Business and professionals

• Agha Hasan Abedi, Pakistani banker philanthropist, and convicted felon
• Manoj Bhargava, US-based entrepreneur; founder and CEO of 5-Hour Energy Drink
• Ved Rattan Mohan, MD of Mohan Meakin
• Prashant Pathak, Canadian investor and entrepreneur
• Rajesh Gopinathan, MD and CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
• Subrata Roy, businessman; worker director of Sahara India Pariwar, the world's largest employer^[2]
• Syed Safawi, entrepreneur

Military

• FS Hussain, PAF Air Commodore and legendary aerobatic pilot
• John Alexander, soldier
• John Coleman, soldier
• Edward Hilton, soldier
• William Stephen Raikes Hodson, British officer
• Henry Montgomery Lawrence, soldier
• Claude Martin, French major general who fought for the British; established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta
• Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general
• Manoj Kumar Pandey, 1st battalion, 11 Gorkha Rifles, Param Vir Chakra
• Arthur Skey, Royal Navy rear-admiral
• George Powell Thomas, British soldier, artist and poet

Politics

• Intezar Abidi, politician
• K. C. Singh Baba, Parliament
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
• Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh
• Sandeep Dikshit, Parliament
• Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Oudh
• Chandra Bhanu Gupta, three-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Amir Haider, Senior Congress Leader
• Mohammad Haleem, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Mohammad Hidayatullah, former acting President of India (1969–1969); former vice-president of India (1979–1984); 11th Chief Justice of India (1968–1970)
• Sheila Kaul, former Union Cabinet Minister in India
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health
• Marghoob Ahmad Lari, former state minister
• Begum Hazrat Mahal, Queen of Oudh
• Satish Mishra, lawyer
• Brajesh Pathak, politician
• Manzoor Alam Quraishi, former Indian Ambassador in Saudi Arabia (1976-1978)
• Ashok Kumar Rawat, politician
• Mohammad Yunus Saleem, lawyer
• Sayed, Nawab of Oudh
• Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, former president of India
• Kirti Vardhan Singh, Parliament
• Kaushal Kishore, politician
• Sarvraj Singh, politician
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister of India
• Anne Warner, Australian politician
• Lalji Tandon, politician
• Sudhanshu Trivedi, politician

Sports

• Afaq Hussain, cricketer
• Shahid Mahmood, cricketer
• Ravinder Pal Singh, hockey
• Apoorva Sengupta, cricketer
• Rinku Singh, professional wrestler signed with WWE's development territory NXT
• Suresh Raina, cricketer
• Arthur Skey, cricketer
• R.P. Singh, cricketer

Others

• Laxmi Singh, first woman police commissioner of U.P.
• Versha Verma, social worker