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List of people from Jharkhand

This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.

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Padma Bhushan

  • Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay

    • Padma Shri

  • Deepika Kumari-Sports-Archery-2016
  • Premlata Agarwal - 2013
  • Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti
  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey – 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer
  • Ram Dayal Munda
  • Simon Oraon

    • Archery

  • Jhanu Hansda - world record holder
  • Deepika Kumari
  • Purnima Mahato

    • Boxing

  • Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion

    • Cricket

  • Varun Aaron
  • Kirti Azad
  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni - captain of the Indian cricket team
  • Randhir Singh
  • Prem Kumar Mahato
  • Saurabh Tiwary
  • Ishan Kishan
  • Sahbaaz Nadeem

    • Football

  • Sanjay Balmuchu - Indian footballer, plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League; 2012 graduate of the Tata Football Academy
  • Lal Mohan Hansda - Indian footballer, plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League
  • Munmun Lugun - Indian footballer, plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League

    • Hockey

  • Michael Kindo
  • Birendra Lakra - born in Simdega
  • Jaipal Singh - captained the Indian field hockey team to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
  • Sylvanus Dung Dung-former field hockey player from India.
  • Masira Surin
  • Kanti Baa
  • Sumrai Tete
  • Manohar Topno

    • Mountaineering

  • Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 45

    • Bollywood

  • Imtiaz Ali - Director and Writer, Jamshedpur
  • Imran Zahid - Actor, born in Bokaro
  • Meiyang Chang - Actor, born in Dhanbad
  • Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, Actress, born in Jamshedpur
  • Sriram Dalton - Director
  • Zeishan Quadri- Actor and Writer, born in Wasseypur
  • Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004, Actress, born in Jamshedpur
  • Raj Kumar Gupta - Director, born in Hazaribag
  • Chetan Joshi
  • Akashaditya Lama - Director and Scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi
  • R. Madhavan - Actor, born in Jamshedpur
  • Mannara - Actress, born in Bokaro
  • Shweta Prasad - Actress, born in Jamshedpur
  • Amrita Raichand - Actress, born in Dhanbad
  • Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri
  • Komal Jha - Actress, born in Ranchi

    • Military police

  • Lance Naik Albert Ekka
  • Randhir Prasad Verma

    • Journalists

  • Dayamani Barla
  • Anjana Om Kashyap

    • Writers

  • Tuhin Sinha (Best selling author of eight book, screenwriter and social commentator)
  • Khagendra Thakur
  • Ajitabha Bose, author, Jamshedpur
  • Santosh Kiro, Ranchi (Author - The Eternal Mystery),

    • Poets

  • Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi
  • Ram Krishna Singh - has published seventeen poetry collections in English

    • Sanidhya Shubham - famous poet from Ranchi, passed out from Manipal Institute of Technology as a Civil Engineer.

    Academics

  • Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925
  • Ram Dayal Munda
  • Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976; poet with several publications

    • Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

  • Devendra Prasad Gupta
  • Birsa Munda - freedom fighter and a folk hero; belonged to the tribal group of Munda people
  • Kanhu Murmu
  • Sido Murmu
  • Dhananjay Mahato
  • Bhagirath Manjhi
  • Raghunath Mahato
  • Jaipal Singh
  • Saikh Bhikhari
  • Radhu Kurmi

    • Religious

  • Thakur Anukulchandra
  • Nirmal Baba
  • Father Kamil Bulke
  • Sister Nirmala Joshi - Mother Teresa's successor
  • Parshvanatha - twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism; achieved mokṣa at the age of one hundred atop Shikharji, Giridih district
  • Telesphore Toppo

    • Social service

  • Amarpreet Singh Kale founder of a social and religious organization Har Har Mahadev Seva Sangh http://harharmahadevsevasangh.com
  • Jyoti Dhawale
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - spent the last 18 to 20 years of his life among the Santhals at Karmatar, Jamtara district; the station Karmatar has been renamed as 'Vidysagar' railway station in his honour

    • Business

  • Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006
  • Ashwin Srivastava - Venture Capitalist
  • Mahesh Poddar - Industrialist

    • Governors of other states

  • Rameshwar Thakur- Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
  • Bhishma Narain Singh- Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andman Nicobar Island

    • Chief Minister

  • Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
  • Raghubar Das
  • Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
  • Madhu Koda
  • Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
  • Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur
  • Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
  • Hemant Soren
  • Shibu Soren

    • Politicians

  • Amarpreet Singh Kale - Spokesperson, BJP Jharkhand & He was Vice President of Prime Minister 15 point programme implementation committee (Govt. of Jharkhand) in capacity of a state minister
  • Sudarshan Bhagat - Minister of State of India for Social Justice & Empowerment in the Narendra Modi government
  • Kariya Munda - Deputy Chief of 15th Lok Sabha
  • Inder Singh Namdhari
  • Kartik Oraon
  • Subodh Kant Sahay - former cabinet minister, government of India
  • Bhishma Narain Singh
  • C.P.Singh - former speaker, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha
  • Jaipal Singh
  • Jayant Sinha - Minister of State of India for Finance in the Narendra Modi government
  • Yashwant Sinha - former cabinet minister, Government of India
  • Bidyut Baran Mahato
  • Sudesh Mahto
  • Rudra Pratap Sarangi
  • Shailendra Mahato
  • Ravindra Kumar Pandey - Member of the Indian Parliament, and currently represents Giridih (Lok Sabha constituency)

    • Medical

  • Subhash Mukhopadhyay - created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation

    • Others

  • Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India
  • Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi

    • References

    List of people from Jharkhand Wikipedia
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