List of people from Jammu and Kashmir

This is an alphabetically arranged list of notable people from Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Royalty

• Gulab Singh, Maharaja
• Hari Singh, Maharaja
• Karan Singh, Maharaja
• Pratap Singh, Maharaja
• Ranbir Singh Maharaja

Academics and science

• Amitabh Mattoo, thinker and professor
• Idrees ul haq, young innovator
• Subhash Kak, American computer scientist

Arts

• Allah Rakha, musician
• Bhajan Sopori, musician
• Dina Nath Walli, painter
• Ghulam Rasool Santosh, painter
• Malika Pukhraj, singer
• MC Kash, rapper and singer
• Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, musician
• KSHMR, EDM artist

Defence forces

• Bana Singh, PVC recipient
• Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh warrior and martyr
• Chewang Rinchen, double MVC recipient
• Nirmal Chander Vij, ex Chief of Army Staff
• Rajinder Singh, first MVC recipient
• General Bikram Singh, ex Chief of Army Staff

Law and Justice

• Bilal Nazki, ex Chief Justice of Orissa and Chairman of Human Rights Commission of Bihar
• Adarsh Sein Anand, ex Chief Justice of India
• Mehr Chand Mahajan, first Chief Justice of independent India
• Parvez Imroz, human rights activist and lawyer
• T.S. Thakur, incumbent Chief Justice of India

Literature

• Agha Shahid Ali, poet and finalist for National Book Award of United States in 2001
• Basharat Peer, author and scriptwriter
• Deen Bandhu Sharma, writer
• Farooq Nazki, poet, broadcaster and media personality
• Habba Khatun, 16th-century poet
• Hakeem Manzoor, writer, poet
• Javaid Rahi, writer, activist
• Lalleshwari, poet-saint
• Moti Lal Kemmu, Kashmiri writer and social worker
• Padma Sachdev, poet, novelist
• Rafiq Anjum, poet, researcher

Politics

• Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
• Farooq Abdullah, former Cabinet Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
• Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Cabinet Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
• Karan Singh, ex Sadar-e-Raiyasat
• Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
• S.Darshan Singh Azad, Provincial Vice President JKNC and Chairman Of Judicial committee of RS PURA
• Shamma Jain, Ambassador of India
• Sheikh Abdullah, former Prime Minister and Former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir

Social Activists

• Sushil Pandit , Kashmiri Pandit Social Activist
• Mushtaq Pahalgami, social activist, environmentalist

Comptrollers

• V. N. Kaul, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Padma Bhushan

Films and television

• Jeevan, actor
• Sidhant Gupta, actor
• Iqbal Khan, actor
• KL Saigal, singer and actor
• Manju Kak, writer and film maker
• Mohit Raina, actor
• Vineet Raina, actor
• Mukesh Rishi, actor
• Vidyut Jamwal, actor
• Ekta Kaul, TV actress
• Hina Khan, TV actress
• Shaheer Sheikh, TV actor
• Waseem Mushtaq, TV actor
• Mohammed Iqbal Khan, TV actor
• Mushtaq Kak, actor and theatre director
• Muzammil Ibrahim, actor and model
• Om Prakash, character actor
• Sanjay Kak, independent documentary film maker
• Sanjay Suri, actor
• Siddharth Kak, Indian documentary maker, television producer and presenter
• Sunder, actor
• Vidhu Vinod Chopra, filmmaker
• Anjali Abrol, TV actress
• Anupam Kher, actor
• Kiran Kumar, actor
• K. K. Raina, actor, director
• M. K. Raina, actor, theatre director
• Vivek Mushran, actor, singer
• Tej Sapru, actor
• Ali Goni, TV actor
• Loveleen Kaur Sasan, TV actress
• Qazi Touqeer, Singer
• Joanna Lumley, Actress
• Raj Singh Arora, Actor

Journalism & media

• Nidhi Razdan, newscaster

Sports

• Chain Singh, Indian national shooting team
• Ishfaq Ahmed, Indian Football Team
• Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Indian Football team
• Mithun Manhas, Indian Premier League player
• Parvez Rasool, Indian International Cricket Team
• Shubham Khajuria, Cricketer
• Suresh Raina, Indian International Cricket Team

See also

• List of Kashmiri people
• List of Indians by state

References