List of people from Jharkhand

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

National / international award winners

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^[1]
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey – 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer^[2]
• Ram Dayal Munda
• Simon Oraon

Sports

Archery

• Jhanu Hansda - world record holder^[3]
• Deepika Kumari
• Purnima Mahato

Boxing

• Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion

Cricket

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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

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^[4]
• 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^[5]

Art

Bollywood

• Imtiaz Ali - Director and Writer, Jamshedpur
• 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
• Imran Zahid - Actor, born in Bokaro

Military police

Albert Ekka

• Lance Naik Albert Ekka
• Randhir Prasad Verma

Writers and scholars

Journalists

• Dayamani Barla
• Anjana Om Kashyap

Writers

• Khagendra Thakur
• Ajitabha Bose, author, Jamshedpur^[6][7][8]
• Santosh Kiro, Ranchi (Author - The Eternal Mystery),^[9]

Poets

• Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi^[10]
• Ram Krishna Singh - has published seventeen poetry collections in English^[11]

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;^[12] poet with several publications

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

Birsa Munda

• 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

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

Amarpreet Singh Kale

• 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^[13]
• Ashwin Srivastava - Venture Capitalist
• Mahesh Poddar - Industrialist

Holders of high Constitutional offices

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

Yashwant Sinha

• 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

1. ↑ "Ranchi Express". Ranchi Express. 26 January 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2015. 
2. ↑ http://www.successcds.net/currentaffairs/list-of-padma-shri-awards-2012-12185.html
3. ↑ http://rediff.com/sports/2006/sep/09arch.htm
4. ↑ Kapadia, Novy. "Silver Jubilee of Tata Football Academy". SportsKeeda. Retrieved 5 January 2013. 
5. ↑ "On the top of the world - Steel city mom oldest Indian woman to scale Everest". The Telegraph (Kolkata). May 21, 2011. 
6. ↑ "Ajitabha Bose, alumnus of Gulmohur High School, writes world's shortest love story". The Telegraph. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016. 
7. ↑ "Jamshedpur boy sets national record". Hindustan Times. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2015. 
8. ↑ "ABig love stories in small packages". hindustantimes.com. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016. 
9. ↑ Kiro, Santosh. http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/kiro-packs-a-punch-of-mystery-romance-and-tragedy.html.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
10. ↑ https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html
11. ↑ http://issuu.com/kirim-tatar-kitaplari/docs/nazar_2013_09_online
12. ↑ http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=50527
13. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/7XUE.html