List of people from Punjab, India
Nobel laureates
Rulers
- Maharaja Ranjit Singhwas a founder of a Sikh Empire
- Porus the Elderwas an ancient Indian King
- Banda Singh Bahadur was an commander of Khalsa army
- Dal Khalsa.[1]
- Misl from approximately 1716 to 1801. He founded the Kapurthala Statein 1772
- Ahmad Shah Abdali and split from the Singhpuria Misl to establish the Sukerchakia Misl.
- Maha Singh, the eldest son of Charat Singh and Desan Kaur, who became the second chief of the Sukerchakia Misl on the death of his father. His son Ranjit Singh succeeded him and established the Sikh Empire. He is known for his alliance with Jassa Singh Ramgarhia and for reducing the power of the Kanhaiya Misl
- Jassa Singh Ramgarhia was a prominent Sikh leader during the period of the Sikh Confederacy. He was the Commander of the Ramgarhia Misl
Other Notable Misl Rulers
- Jai Singh Kanhaiya was the founder of Kanhaiya Misl, he was one of the most powerful sikh rulers during Sikh Confederacies period
- Sada Kaur Mother-in-law of Ranjit Singh. She served as a chief of the Kanhaiya Misl from 1789 to 1821
- Hari Singh Dhillon one of the most powerful, admired in all the sikhs in 18th century. He was the Maharaja of Amritsar and Lahore and large area of central and western part of Punjab
- Baghel Singh was the chief of Singh Krora Misl
Mughal Governors
Military leaders
Indian Armed Forces
Air Force
- Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, former Chief of Indian Air Force, the only living Indian military officer with a five-star rank.
- Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, former Chief of Indian Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, former Chief of the Indian Air Force
Army
- General Bikram Singh, former Indian Armychief
- General J. J. Singh, former Indian ArmyChief
- General Pran Nath Thapar, former Indian ArmyChief
- Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, Western Army Commander and War Hero 1965 Indo-Pak War
- Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (retired), known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) by the Indian Army
Military Gallantry Award winners
British Indian Army
Victoria Cross
- Karamjeet Singh Judge, 15th Punjab Regiment
- Gian Singh, Sikh Regiment
- Sikhto receive Victoria Cross
- Nand Singh, 1/11th Sikh Regiment
- Parkash Singh, Sikh Regiment
- Sher Shah, 16th Punjab Regiment
Indian Armed Forces
Param Veer Chakra (PVC)
- Joginder Singh Sahnan, Sikh Regiment
- Gurbachan Singh Salaria, 1 Gorkha Rifles
- Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Indian Air Force
- Lance Naik Karam Singh, Sikh Regiment
Maha Veer Chakra (MVC)
- Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala
- Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian Army general and an administrator
- Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath, officer in Indian Air Force
- Major General Kulwant Singh Pannu, officer of Indian Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Dewan Ranjit Rai, senior Indian Armyofficer
- Nand Singh, also an Indian recipient of Victoria Cross
- Sukhjit Singh
- Major General Rajinder Singh Sparrow, Armoured Corps
Business
Bharti Telecom
.- Trishneet Arora
- Hotmail
- Gurbaksh Chahal
- Naresh Goyal, of Jet Airways
- Sunil Mittal, Chairman and managing director of the Bharti group
- Aroon Purie, India Today group
- Kanwal Rekhi, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
Artists
Educators and scientists
- Megh R. Goyal, father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico
- Narinder Singh Kapany
Historians
Astronauts
- Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space
Punjabi Cinema
Punjabi Actors
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Gurpreet Ghuggi
- Amrinder Gill
- Gugu Gill
- Gippy Grewal
- Gurdas Maan
- Yograj Singh
- Jimmy Sheirgill
- Ammy Virk
- Sidhu Moose Wala
Punjabi Actress
Bollywood
Families
The Anands
- Chetan Anand
- Dev Anand
- Vijay Anand
- Shekhar Kapur
The Chopras
- Baldev Raj Chopra
- Yash Chopra
- Ravi Chopra
The Deols
The Devgans
The Dutts
The Oberois
The Paintals
The Puris
The Sahnis
Individual artists
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- Amrish Puri[2]
- Anand Bakshi
- Akshay Kumar
- Bina Rai
- Diljit Dosanjh
- David Dhawan
- Deepti Naval
- Dara Singh
- Divya Dutta
- Geeta Bali
- Gul Panag
- Honey Singh
- I. S. Johar
- Jeetendra (Ravi Kapoor)
- Jimmy Shergill
- Kapil Sharma
- Kamini Kaushal
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kirron Kher
- Mangal Dhillon
- Mukesh Khanna
- Mandira Bedi
- Monica Bedi
- Mohammed Rafi
- Neha Dhupia
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Pankaj Kapur
- Poonam Dhillon
- Prem Chopra
- Parmeet Sethi
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bedi
- Ruby Bhatia
- Ranjeet
- Raj Babbar
- Rajendra Kumar
- Rati Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon
- Rajat Kapoor
- Rajesh Khanna
- Ranbir Pushp
- Rahul Roy
- Rajit Kapur
- Roshan
- Rubina Shergill
- Simone Singh
- Sidhu Moosewala
- Simi Garewal
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Vinod Khanna[3]
- Vinod Mehra
- Vicky Kaushal
Documentary filmmakers
Directors
Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
History
Folklore
Religious and spiritual figures
The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
- Guru Nanak
- Guru Angad
- Guru Amar Das
- Guru Ram Das
- Guru Arjan Dev
- Guru Hargobind
- Guru Har Rai
- Guru Har Krishan
- Guru Teg Bahadur
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Guru Granth Sahib
Sikh
- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- Giani Sant Singh Maskeen
Related to Sikhism
- Sri Chand, son of Guru Nanak Dev
Radha Soami Satsang Beas
- Baba Jaimal Singh
- Baba Sawan Singh
- Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh
- Maharaj Charan Singh
- Baba Gurinder Singh
Ahmidiyya Muslim Community
Writers
Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- Bhai Gurdas
- Giani Gurdit Singh
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Nanak Singh
- Dhani Ram Chatrik
- Ram Sarup Ankhi
- Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
- Devendra Satyarthi
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Pandit Lekh Ram
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- Damodar Das Arora
- Sahir Ludhianvi
- Amrita Pritam
- Oscarwinner for movie Slumdog Millionaire
- Jaswant Neki
- Pash
- Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
- Harbhajan Singh
- Munir Niazi
- Ajmer Rode
- Navtej Bharati
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal
- Hafeez Jullundhri
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
- Kulwant Singh Virk
English
- Khushwant Singh
- Vikram Chandra
- Kartar Singh Duggal
- Amrita Pritam
- Partap Sharma
- Susham Bedi
- Ahmed Rashid
- Vidya Dhar Mahajan
Journalists
India
Tamil cinema
- Sonia Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Models
- Waris Ahluwalia, American model, endorses the clothing brand GAP
Musicians
Punjabi Folk and Classical Music
Punjabi Pop and Hip Hop
- Sidhu Moose Wala
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Karan Aujla
- Amrinder Gill
- Guru Randhawa
- Yo Yo Honey Singh
- Jassi Gill
Bollywood
- Sardool Sikander
- Suraiya
- Shamshad Begum
- Mohammed Rafi
- OP Nayyar
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Madan Mohan
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Diljit Dosanjh
- Kamal Khan, Bollywood playback singer
Bhangra and other Punjabi people
- Jagmeet Bal
- Asa Singh Mastana
- Surinder Shinda
- Surinder Kaur
- Malkit Singh
- Manmohan Waris
- Kamal Heer
- Daler Mehndi
- Surjit Bindrakhia
- Babbu Mann
- Balkar Sidhu
- Lehmber Hussainpuri
- Hans Raj Hans
- Sukhwinder Singh
- Jaspinder Narula
- Kulwinder Dhillon
- Bombay Rockers
- Harshdeep Kaur
- Sukhbir
- Labh Janjua
- Sukhshinder Shinda
- Bally Sagoo
- Apache Indian
- Channi Singh
- Panjabi MC
- Jay Sean
- Hard Kaur
- Rishi Rich
- Juggy D
- Taz
- Harbhajan Mann
- Jazzy B
- Miss Pooja
Revolutionaries and Freedom Fighters
- Prithvi Singh Azad, Indian independence activist, revolutionary and one of the founder members of Ghadar Party
- Bhai Balmukund was an Indian revolutionary freedom fighter
- Ghadar Party
- Amir Chand Bombwal
- Diwan Mulraj Chopra
- Satyapal Dang
- Jathedar Bhai Tehal Singh Dhanju, Indian Freedom Fighter, Sikh leader and activist; planned The Lahore Conspiracies
- Madan Lal Dhingra, was an Indian revolutionary independence activist
- Babbar Akali Movementagainst British rule
- Sadhu Singh Hamdard, well-known freedom fighter and the journalist of Punjab
- Babbar Akali Movementin India
- Gurdwara Reform Movementof the 1920s
- Sohan Singh Josh, was an Indian communist activist and freedom fighter
- Gulab Kaur
- Sardul Singh Kavishar
- Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Akali Movement
- Mangu Ram Mugowalia, Indian freedom fighter, politician from Punjab and one of the founder members of the Ghadar Party
- Bhai Parmanand
- Darshan Singh Pheruman, Indian freedom fighter, Sikh activist and politician
- Jaswant Singh Rahi
- Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian Freedom Fighter, popularly known as Punjab Kesari
- Ram Rakha
- Lala Achint Ram
- Harnam Singh Saini
- Labh Singh Saini, Akali politician and notable Indian freedom fighter
- Anglo-Sikh Warsand continued fighting British Rule after the Second war
- Teja Singh Samundri
- Ghadr revolutionary
- Baba Gurdit Singh
- Sikhactivist
- Baba Kharak Singh
- Defence Minister of India
- Ghadr revolutionary
- Indian military officer and also an IndianIndependence Activist
- Ganda Singh, was a prominent member of the Ghadar Party
- Giani Ditt Singh
- Pandit Kanshi Ram, Was an Indian Revolutionary and Treasurer Of Ghadar Party
- Ram Singh, credited as being the first Indianto use non-cooperation and boycott of British merchandise and services as a political weapon.
- Ripudaman Singh, Indian revolutionary
- Sardar Ajit Singh, was an Indian revolutionary, he was the uncle of sardar Bhagat Singh and an alleged assassin for the Ghadar Party
- Udham Singh, Indian Revolutionary
- Teja Singh Swatantar
- Sukhdev Thapar, was an Indian Revolutionary
- Bhagwati Charan Vohra, was an Indian revolutionary, associated with Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Politicians
India
- Amarinder Singh
- Amrinder Singh Raja Warring
- Baldev Singh
- Bhagwant Mann
- Buta Singh
- Charanjit Singh Channi
- Darbara Singh
- Fateh Singh
- Gulzarilal Nanda
- Gurcharan Singh Tohra
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Inder Kumar Gujral
- Jagir Kaur
- Krishan Kant
- Laxmi Kanta Chawla
- Madan Lal Khurana
- Malik Umar Hayat Khan
- Manmohan Singh
- Chaudhary Nand Lal
- Parkash Singh Badal
- Partap Singh Kairon
- Partap Singh Bajwa
- Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
- Sardul Singh Kavishar
- Simranjit Singh Mann
- Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
- Surjit Singh Barnala
- Swaran Singh
- Tara Singh
- Zail Singh
Sportspersons
Cricket
- Yadavendra Singh
- Lala Amarnath
- Mohinder Amarnath
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Bhupinder Singh snr
- Gursharan Singh
- Yograj Singh
- Amarjit Kaypee
- Maninder Singh
- Rajinder Ghai
- Navjot Singh Sidhu
- Chetan Sharma
- Madan Lal
- Dinesh Mongia
- Harbhajan Singh
- Yuvraj Singh
- V. R. V. Singh
- Reetinder Sodhi
- Sunny Sohal
- Shubman Gill
Hockey
Field hockey
- Ajitpal Singh
- Balbir Singh Sr.
- Prithipal Singh
- Baljeet Singh Saini
- Gagan Ajit Singh
- Prabhjot Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Baljit Singh Dhillon
- Deepak Thakur
- Surjit Singh Randhawa
Athletics
- Milkha Singh
- Ajmer Singh (1940–2010), Olympian and 1966 Jakarta Asian Games gold medallist sprinter[4]
- Kamaljeet Sandhu
- Baljinder Singh (born 1986), race walker
- Inderjeet Singh, shot put athlete
Golf
Wrestling
- The Great Gama
- Dara Singh
- Jinder Mahal
- Premchand Degra
- Tiger Jeet Singh
- Gurjit Singh
- Sonjay Dutt (real name Ritesh Bhalla), TNA wrestler
Fighters
- Akshay Kumar, real name Rajeev Bhatia, black belt in karate; film actor
- Veeru Devgan, father of Ajay Devgan, action and stunt designer
Shooting
- Arjun Awardrecipient
- Harveen Srao, 2011 Summer Universiade medalist in 10m air pistol
Basketball
- NBA
Sports Executives and Administrators
See also
References
- ISBN 9781442236011.
- ^ "Amrish Puri- A tribute".
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20071211120409/http://164.100.24.209/newls/Biography.aspx?mpsno=197 Parliamentary Biography
- ^ "Olympian athlete Ajmer Singh passed away". The Times of India. Jan 27, 2010. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013.