This is a list of people from Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh also few parts of Bihar state of India.
Academics, science, and engineering
- Sushruta, father of plastic surgery
- Bishun Khare, Research Scientist
- Arvind Mohan Kayastha, Biologist
- Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian and yogi.
- Ziauddin Ahmad, mathematician
- Jhillu Singh Yadav, chemist
- Rajesh Gopakumar, theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
- Ganganath Jha, scholar, philosopher
- Raj Narain Kapoor, educational reformer
- Chittaranjan Mitra, scientist
- Prem Chand Pandey
- Zahoor Qasim, marine biologist
- Amitava Raychaudhuri, theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Milner Prize winner; theoretical physicist at HRI
- Obaid Siddiqui
Civil Servants
Armed forces
Artists
Entertainment and media
Actor
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Anjaan
- Baba Azmi
- Manoj Bajpai, actor
- Pankaj Tripathi, actor
- Parichay Das
- Vijay Bose, theatre director and actor
- Sudhir Dar, cartoonist
- Dinesh Lal Yadav, actor and politician
- Manoj Tiwari, actor and politician
- Vidisha Srivastava, actress
- Shanvi Srivastava, actress
- Amrapali Dubey, actress
- Girija Devi
- Kaifi Azmi
- Siddheshwari Devi
- Rajkumari Dubey
- Anshuman Jha, actor
- Anurag Kashyap, film director
- Ravi Kishan, Bollywood actor and Politician
- Chhannulal Mishra
- Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- Gopal Shankar Misra
- Lalmani Misra
- Indrani Mukherjee, actress
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Chunky Pandey
- Sudhanshu Pandey
- Kinsey Peile, playwright, actor
- Rahi Masoom Raza
- Jhanak Shukla
- Saurabh Shukla
- Supriya Shukla
- Vinay Shukla
- Kapila Vatsyayan
Singer
Musician
Entrepreneurs, Businessman and Tech office holders
Freedom fighters and kings
Politicians
President of India
Vice President of India
Prime Minister of India
Deputy Prime Ministers of India
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Chief Ministers of Bihar (India)
Governors of States
Deputy Chief Ministers
Deputy CM Uttar Pradesh
Deputy CM Bihar
Other
Chief Justice and Judges
National and International Award winners
Bharat Ratna
Magasaysay Award
Social activists
Spiritual leaders
Sportspeople
Badminton
Baseball
Cricket
Gymnastics
Hockey
Writers
- Premchand.
- Ramlochan Vishwakarma, Indian folk writer
- Meena Alexander, poet
- Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer
- Aniruddha Bahal, journalist, novelist
- Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
- Dharamvir Bharati, author, poet
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, poet
- Satish Chandra, writer, historian
- Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'
- Kapil Deva Dvivedi
- Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet
- Harisena, poet
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
- Rafiq Husain, writer, poet
- Ibn-e-Safi, novelist
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
- Shibli Nomani
- Jaishankar Prasad
- Munshi Premchand
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
- Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist
- Viveki Rai
- Rahul Sankrityayan
- Parichay Das
- Allan Sealy, author, writer
- Ramchandra Shukla
- Kedarnath Singh
- Julia Strachey, novelist, writer
- Sri Lal Sukla
- Baldev Upadhyaya
- Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
- Amish Tripathi
Scholar
Journalists
References