List of people from Madhya Pradesh

This is a list of famous and notable people from Madhya Pradesh, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is based on the extent of their popularity. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.

Freedom fighters

• Chandra Shekhar Azad
• Ravishankar Shukla

Scientists

• Narendra Karmarkar, Gwalior
• Anil Kakodkar, Barwani

Nobel laureates

• Kailash Satyarthi

Artists

• Wajid Khan

Craftspeople

• Mohammed Yusuf Khatri
• Mohammed Bilal Khatri

Sport medal winners

• Sita Sahu
• Varsha Varman
• Aditya Joshi

Medicine

• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Bhopal born scholar of Unani medicine
• Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey cardiologist

Chief Justices of India

• J.S.Verma
• Ramesh Chandra Lahoti

Governor of RBI

• Raghuram Rajan

Business tycoons

• Ramesh Chandra Agarwal

Hindi and Urdu literature

• Makhanlal Chaturvedi
• Nathuram Premi
• Ramkumar Verma
• Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
• Harishankar Parsai
• Sharad Joshi
• Rajneesh
• Bihari Lal
• Abdul Qavi Desnavi
• Rahat Indori
• Kaif Bhopali
• Uday Prakash
• Seth Govind Das
• Hari Krishna Devsare
• Nida Fazli
• anupam Mishra
• Balachandra Shastri
• Bhagwat Rawat
• vidya shah
• Mrinal Pande
• Vagish Shastri
• Khurram Murad
• Bhagwan Datt Sharma

Journalists

• Makhanlal Chaturvedi
• Nathuram Premi
• Mrinal Pande
• Prabhash Joshi
• Deepak Chaurasia

Bollywood

• Ashok Kumar
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Johnny Walker
• Salim Khan
• Salman Khan
• Sharat Saxena
• Kumar Pallana
• Jaya Bachchan
• Raghuvir Yadav
• Mamta Sharma
• Arjun Rampal
• Swanand Kirkire
• Govind Namdev
• Ashutosh Rana
• Rocky Verma
• Mukesh Tiwari
• Kartik Tiwari
• Shaan
• Sara Khan
• Himangini Singh Yadu
• Sharad Kelkar
• divyanka Tripathi
• Annu Kapoor
• S. Kumar
• Rajeev Verma
• Mushtaq Khan
• Razak Khan
• Sachin Nayak

Politics

• B.R. Ambedkar
• Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former PM of India
• Kailash Nath Katju
• Vijaya Raje Scindia
• Madhavrao Scindia, former Union Minister
• Arjun Singh, politician
• Vasundhara Raje
• Sharad Yadav
• Jaya Bachchan
• Sumitra Mahajan
• Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
• Prithviraj Chavan
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan, current chief minister
• Uma Bharti
• Digvijaya Singh

Hockey

• Roop Singh
• Ahmed Khan
• Aslam Sher Khan
• Shivendra Singh
• Shankar Laxman

Cricket

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
• Mushtaq Ali
• Chandu Sarwate, former India cricketer.
• Amay Khurasiya, former India cricketer.
• Narendra Hirwani, former India cricketer.
• Sanjay Jagdale
• Narendra Menon
• Sudhir Asnani
• Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer born in Indore.
• Amay Khurasiya
• Jai Prakash Yadav
• Naman Ojha
• Devendra Bundela
• Ishwar Pandey

See also

• List of people by India state