List of people from Telangana

Royalty

Rani Rudrama Devi

Prataparudra II

The Nizam of Hyderabad

Mir Ahmed Ali Khan

Mir Nizam Ali Khan

Mir Akbar Ali Khan

Mir Tahniyath Ali Khan

Mir Mahbub Ali Khan

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Bharat Ratna

Zakir Hussain

Padma Vibhushan

Zakir Hussain

Ravi Narayan Reddy (1992)

Kaloji (1992)

Cingireddy Narayana Reddy (2000)

Ali Yavar Jung

Padmaja Naidu

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Paidi Jairaj (1980)

Padma Bhushan

C. Narayanareddy

Harindranath Chattopadhyay

Haroon Khan Sherwani

Raja and Radha Reddy

Saina Nehwal

Sania Mirza

Jnanpith Award

C. Narayanareddy, for his Telugu poetic work Viswambara (1988)

Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu

Suravaram Pratap Reddy, for his social history book Andhrula Sanghika Charitamu (1955)

Daasarathi Krishnamacharyulu, for his Timiramotho Samaram 1974

Arjuna Award

Mohammad Azharuddin, cricket

Mithali Raj, cricket

Mukesh Kumar, hockey

P.V. Sindhu, badminton

Sania Mirza, tennis

Padmasri Award

Nerella Venu Madhav

Mohammad Ahmed Zaki

Mukesh Kumar

P. V. Sindhu

Sania Mirza

Gajam Anjaiah

Raja and Radha Reddy

Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri

Saina Nehwal

Bhatnagar Award

Suresh Venapally, in the field of mathematical sciences

Education

Prof. K. Venkata Ramiah, founder Vice-chancellor of Kakatiya University; former member of the UPSC

Arjula Ramachandra Reddy, distinguished biologist; founder Vice-chancellor of Yogi Vemana University; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

Chukka Ramaiah, MLC, educationist and Telangana activist

Film industry

Aditi Rao Hydari

B. Narsing Rao

Nithiin (actor)

C. Narayanareddy

Chakri - composer

Chandrabose

Dasarathi Krishnamacharya

Dil Raju

Harish Shankar

Kanta Rao

M. Prabhakar Reddy

N.Shankar

Nandini Reddy

Nikhil Siddharth

Paidi Jairaj

Shyam Benegal

Suddala Ashok Teja

Surender Reddy

Venu Madhav

Udaya Bhanu

Sampath Nandi

Dasharath

Siva Reddy

Vennela Kishore

Thagubothu Ramesh

Shabana Azmi

Farah Naaz

Tabassum Hashmi

Dia Mirza Handrich

Sampoornesh Babu

Rajnesh Domalpalli, Telugu film director

Nagesh Kukunoor, filmmaker and screenwriter

Posani Krishna Murali, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

Lawyers

Subodh Markandeya, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India

Military chiefs

Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, Chief of Staff, Indian Air Force, 1978–81

Air Chief Marshal Denis La Fontaine, Chief of Staff, Indian Air Force, 1985–88

Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, Chief of Staff, Indian Air Force, 2007–09

Poets

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Amjad Hyderabadi

Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Urdu poet and Marxist political activist of India

Krishnamacharyulu Dasaradhi (1925–1987), poet and political activist

Kaloji Narayana Rao (1914–2002), poet and political activist

Suddala Hanmanthu, poet, best known for the Telugu folk song "Palletoori Pillagada"

Gummadi Vittal Rao, balladeer and Naxalite activist

Goreti Venkanna, poet and folk singer

Rasamayi Balakrishna, folk singer, poet and political activist

Ampasayya Naveen

Fani Badayuni, noted Urdu poet

Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad, Urdu poet

Bulemoni Venkateshwarlu

C. Narayanareddy

Sunkireddy Narayana Reddy

Chandrabose

Gaddar

Kancherla Gopanna or Bhakta Ramadasu

Palkuriki Somanna

Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao

Suddala Hanmanthu

Suddala Ashok Teja

Suravaram Pratapareddy

Seshappa

Vajjala Shiva Kumar

Varavara Rao

Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao

Vattikota AlwarSwamy

Gona Budda Reddy

Waheed Akhtar, Urdu poet, writer and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the 20th century

Marana

Mallinātha Sūri

Agasthya Kavi

Andesri

Dasaradhi Rangacharya

Nandini Sidda Reddy

News writers

Vattikota Alwar Swamy (1915–1961), Telugu writer, human rights activist, communist leader, journalist and publisher

Suravaram Pratapareddy (1896–1953), social historian

Suddala Ashok Teja, Tollywood lyric writer

Arunodaya Vimala, balladeer and social activist

Politicians

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, First Chief Minister of newly carved Telangana State; founder of TRS; former central Minister,

P. V. Narasimha Rao, ex-CM of AP and ninth Prime Minister of India

Alimineti Madhava Reddy, ex-Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh

Owaisi brothers, MIM (politics)

Burgula Ramakrishna Rao, first elected Chief Minister of the Hyderabad State (Independent India)

P. Shiv Shankar, ex-MP, Union Law Minister - GOI

G. Sanjeeva Reddy, ex-MP Rajya Sabha,Ex-Minister of labour

Marri Chenna Reddy, ex-CM of Andhra Pradesh

Tanguturi Anjaiah, ex-CM of Andhra Pradesh

G. Venkat Swamy, ex-MP (14th Lok Sabha); ex- Minister, GOI

Linganna Pujari, Mumbai

Ponnala Lakshmaiah, President, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee; ex-Minister of AP

Tadur Bala Goud, Champion of the Backward Class community; former Minister, MLA; twice a MP in 8th and 9th Lok Sabha

V. Srinivas Goud, MLA, AP

Bandaru Dattatreya, MP (Lok Sabha) and Minister, GOI

Jaipal Reddy, ex-MP (13th, 14th and 15th Lokh Sabha); Minister, GOI

P. Muralidhar Rao, National General Secretary, BJP

Ponnam Prabhakar Goud, ex-MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Manda Jagannadham, MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Ramesh Rathod, ex-MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Gutha Sukender Reddy, MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, ex-MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Sabita Indra Reddy, ex-minister, Andhra Pradesh

Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, ex-minister, AP

Kunduru Jana Reddy, ex-Minister Panchayat Raj (2010), AP

Madan Mohan, MLA

K. T. Rama Rao, MLA

T. Harish Rao, MLA

K. Kavitha, MP; founder and President of Telangana Jagruthi Samithi

G. Kishan Reddy, MLA, President of the BJP, AP

Marri Shashidhar Reddy, MLA, member of the National Disaster Management Authority

Etela Rajender, MLA

Kadiyam Srihari, MP

Konda Surekha, MLA, ex-Minister, AP

Ramreddy Damodar Reddy, MLA

Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, MLA, Chief Whip for the Congress Party

Chukka Ramaiah, MLC, educationalist

G. Vivekanand, ex-MP (15th Lok Sabha)

Revanth Reddy, MLA, Kodangal

R.krishnaiah, MLA, national backward caste president; officially announced CM candidate from TDP party

Religious figures

Hinduism

Kancherla Gopanna

Islam

Khwaja Bande Nawaz

Sayyid Sahib Husayni

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Sportspersons

Mukesh Kumar, field hockey

Mohammad Azharuddin, cricket; Indian team captain

Mithali Raj, cricket; Indian women's cricket team captain

Sania Mirza, tennis

Mir Mohtesham Ali Khan, bodybuilding

Parupalli Kashyap, badminton

Saina Nehwal, badminton

V.V.S.Laxman, cricket

Jwala Gutta, badminton

Gagan Narang, shooting

P.V.Sindhu, badminton

Other notable people

Chakali Ailamma, revolutionary leader

Komaram Bheem, 20th-century freedom fighter

Suddala Hanumanthu, freedom fighter, writer, balladeer

Kothapalli Jayashankar, political activist and academic

K. Kavitha, political activist, founder and President of Telangana Jagruthi Samithi

Malik Motasim Khan, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

M. Kodandaram, political activist and chairman of All-Party Telangana Joint Action Committee

Vani Kola, venture capitalist, co-founder of Kalaari Capital

Nerella Venu Madhav, often regarded as the father of Indian mimicry

V. Prakash, political activist

Chukka Ramaiah, expert in IIT coaching in mathematics

Bholekar Srihari, painter, sculptor and printmaker

Suresh Venapally, Indian mathematician known for his research work in algebra