Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
, the largest state in India. This is a list of notable people from Kanpur, this includes, people born in or associated with the city.
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Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari is an Indian playback singer, live perfomer ,music director, composer. His career began upon meeting Pradeep Sarkar where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background music for television programmes. Subsequ ...
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Abhay Bhushan
Abhay Bhushan Pandey (; born 23 November 1944) is an Indian computer scientist. Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol (which he started worki ...
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Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Deputy Director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics ...
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Subhashini Ali
Subhasini Ali (born 29 December 1947) is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She is the President of the All India Democratic Women's Association and former Member of Parliament from Kanpur.
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Altaf Raja
Altaf Raja (born 15 October 1967) is an Indian Qawwali singer. In 1997 Altaf gained recognition with his debut album ''Tum To Thehre Pardesi''. His most recent song is ''Ae Sanam''. He used ttps://ekajanbee.in/2023/01/altaf-raja-shayari.html ...
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...
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Surinder Amarnath
Surinder Amarnath Bhardwaj (born 30 December 1948) is a former Indian cricketer who played international as well as domestic cricket for India. He is the eldest son of Lala Amarnath.
Described as a "schoolboy prodigy" and a "classy left-hander ...
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Abhishek Avasthi
Abhishek Avasthi (born 17 March 1982) is an Indian actor, choreography, choreographer, dancer and Model (person), model.
Biography
Abhishek Awasthi was born in Kanpur, India.
He, along with Rakhi Sawant, an Indian model and actress, partic ...
Baji Rao II
Shrimant Peshwa Baji Rao II (10 January 1775 – 28 January 1851) was the 13th and the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. He governed from 1795 to 1818. He was installed as a puppet ruler by the Maratha nobles, whose growing power prompted him ...
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Aparnaa Bajpai
Aparna Bajpai is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam language films. She is best known for her role in the 2010 film, ''Easan'', directed by Sasikumar.
Early life
Bajpai was born to Ramesh and Sushma Bajpai, and h ...
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet Bhattacharya (born 30 October 1958), better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer. Abhijeet has sung 6034 songs in over 1000 films.
Personal life
Abhijeet was born to a Kanpur-based Bengali businessman turned editor Dhir ...
James Bush (sportsman)
James Arthur Bush (28 July 1850 – 21 September 1924) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and represented England at rugby union.
Family
Bush, the son of Major Robert Bush and his w ...
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Harcourt Butler
Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler (1 August 1869 – 2 March 1938) was an officer of the Indian Civil Service who was the leading British official in Burma for much of his career, serving as Lieutenant-Governor (1915–17 and 1922–23) and later Gov ...
Cecil Clementi
Sir Cecil Clementi (; 1 September 1875 – 5 April 1947) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1930, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements from 1930 to 1934.
Early lif ...
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Sibyl, Lady Colefax
Sibyl Sophie Julia, Lady Colefax (''née'' Halsey; 1874 – 22 September 1950) was an English interior decorator and socialite in the first half of the twentieth century.
Biography
Colefax was born at Wimbledon, third but only surviving daughter ...
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Chaudhary Harmohan Singh Yadav
Chaudhary Harmohan Singh Yadav (or Chaudhary Sahab) (18 October 1921 – 25 July 2012) was an Indian educationist, social worker, Indian independence movement, independence activist,
Poonam Dhillon
Poonam Dhillon (born 18 April 1962) is an Indian actress and politician. A former Femina Miss India (1977), she is best known for her 1979 film ''Noorie.'' Some of her well-known films include '' Red Rose'' (1980), '' Dard'' (1981), ''Romance'' ...
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Ashwni Dhir
Ashwni Dhir (born 23 September 1968) is an Indian film director and scriptwriter. He has also written and produced various TV serials for SAB TV
He has directed films like ''One Two Three'' (2008), ''Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?'' (2010), ''Son Of S ...
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Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (26 October 1890 – 25 March 1931) was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He was an important figure in the non-cooperation movement and the freedom mo ...
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Rohan Gavaskar
Rohan Sunil Gavaskar (born 20 February 1976) is an Indian former cricketer.
He played in 11 One Day Internationals. He was a middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler.
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Anirvan Ghosh
Anirvan Ghosh ( bn, অনির্বাণ ঘোষ) is an American neuroscientist and Biotech executive.
He served as the Global Head of Neuroscience Discovery at F. Hoffmann-La Roche from 2011 to 2016 and as founding CSO of E-Scape Bio fr ...
Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
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Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet (6 August 1830 – 30 December 1897) was a British soldier and politician. 'Allan' in the surname was added in March 1880.
Early life
Havelock was born in Cawnpore, India on 6 Au ...
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Jan Holden
Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson (9 May 1931 – 11 October 2005) was an English actress known as Jan Holden, using her mother's maiden name as a stage name. In theatre she was known for her performances in light comedy and appeared in several telev ...
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Adrian A. Husain
Adrian A Husain (born Syed Akbar Husain) is a Pakistani poet, Shakespearean scholar, and literary journalist. He was also founder Chairman of the civil rights think tank ''Dialogue: Pakistan'' prior to the return of democracy in 2008.
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Shazia Ilmi
Shazia Ilmi (born 1970) is an Indian politician. She was previously a television journalist and anchor at Star News. She led a media campaign for an anti-corruption bill (to institute an ombudsman popularly known as the Jan Lokpal Bill). She ...
Rashid Jahan
Rashid Jahan (25 August 1905 – 29 July 1952) was an Indian writer and medical doctor known for her Urdu literature and trenchant social commentaries. She wrote short stories and plays and contributed to ''Angarey'' (1932), a collection of ...
Sunil Jogi
Sunil Jogi is an Indian author. He is a poet of comic verses and the ex-president of the Hindustani Academy, a post holding the rank of a Minister of State in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is also a Hindi adviser to the Ministry of Rail ...
Ajay Kapoor (politician)
Ajay Kapoor (born 21 February 1967) is an Indian politician from Kanpur. He won the Assembly elections for the first time in 2002 from Govind Nagar with a margin of 53,000 votes as the INC candidate, he again won the elections in 2007 from Gov ...
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Abul Khair Kashfi
Muhammad Abul Khair Kashfi (Urdu: سید محمد ابو الخیر کشفی) was a Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics.
Career
He remained associated with the University of Karachi as ...
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Vinay Katiyar
Vinay Katiyar (born 11 November 1954) is a politician and
the founder-president of Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in India. He has served as an All India General Secretary of the B ...
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Hard Kaur
Taran Kaur Dhillon (born 29 July 1979), known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer; as well as playback singer and actress in Bollywood.
Early life
Hard Kaur was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 29th July ...
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Azimullah Khan
Azimullah Khan (17 September 1830 — 18 March 1859), also known as ''Dewan Azimullah Khan'', was initially appointed Secretary, and later Prime Minister (hence the prefix ''Dewan'') to Shrimant Nana Saheb Peshwa II. He is also known as the ...
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Gaurav Khanna
Gaurav Khanna (born 11 December 1981) is an Indian television actor and model. He is known for his roles of Neil in ''Jeevan Saathi'', Inspector Kavin in ''CID'' and Akshay in '' Tere Bin''. He currently portrays Anuj Kapadia in Star Plus's '' ...
Sucheta Kriplani
Sucheta Kripalani (''née'' Majumdar; 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.
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Dev Kumar
Dev Kumar (born 4 February 1972) is a Dalit writer and dramatist from India. A member of the Bhangi community, he established the Apna Theatre in April 1992. This has performed in Kanpur
Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (hel ...
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Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav (born 14 December 1994) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a bowling all-rounder who bowls Left-arm Unorthodox spin bowler is and a capable Lower order batter who plays for India and for Uttar Pradesh in domestic crick ...
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Mina MacKenzie
Jemima "Mina" MacKenzie (August 18, 1872 – January 27, 1957) was a Canadian Christian medical missionary to India.
Life
A daughter of farmers Simon and Ann (Murray) MacKenzie, she was born August 18, 1872, in Waterside, Pictou County, Nova Sco ...
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Ajai Malhotra
Ajai Malhotra is a former Indian career diplomat who served as Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation. He is the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva.
Diplomatic career
He joined the ...
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Alice Marval
Alice Marietta Marval (26 January 1865 – 4 January 1904) popularly known as Dr Alice Marval of Cawnpore, was an English people, English Physician, doctor and nurse who built a hospital in India to serve women and children who were excluded ...
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Amit Sadh
Amit Sadh (born 5 June 1983) is an Indian actor. He is known for his roles in films like ''Kai Po Che'' (2013), ''Guddu Rangeela'' (2015), and ''Sarkar 3'' (2017). He began his acting career with the teen drama ''Kyun Hota Hai Pyarrr'' and late ...
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Amit Mishra (cricketer, born 1991)
Amit Mishra (born 11 November 1991) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Uttar Pradesh cricket team in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm Medium-Fast bowler who was a member of the Rajasthan Royals squad for 2014 Indian Premier League. He has ...
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Satish Mishra
Satish Chandra Mishra (born 9 November 1952) is an Indian politician who was the cabinet minister in Mayawati ministry in Uttar Pradesh, India, and a part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He is a lawyer by profession. He was a member of Rajya Sabh ...
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Bal Chandra Misra
Bal Chandra Misra (born 17 July 1942) is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Life
He was elected four times as MLA from Govind Nagar (Assembly constituency), Govind Nagar assembly seat of Kanpu ...
Mohammad Kaif
Mohammad Kaif () (born 1 December 1980) is a former Indian cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He made it to the national team on the strength of his performances at the Under-19 level, where he captained the India national under-19 cricke ...
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Narendra Mohan
Narendra Mohan (10 October 1934 – 20 September 2002) was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Jagran Prakashan, the publisher of an Indian newspaper published in Hindi, ''Dainik Jagran'' (Hindi: सबसे बि ...
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Haseena Moin
Haseena Moin (20 November 1941 – 26 March 2021) was a Pakistani dramatist, playwright and scriptwriter. She wrote several plays for stage, radio, and television. She was the recipient of the Pride of Performance award for her services to the ...
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Henry Montgomery (bishop)
Henry Hutchinson Montgomery (3 October 184725 November 1932) was an Anglican bishop and author. Family and education
He was born in 1847 at Cawnpore, India, the second son of the colonial administrator Robert Montgomery, Lieutenant Governor of ...
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Robert Montgomery (colonial administrator)
Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI, KCB (2 December 1809 – 28 December 1887), was a British administrator and civil servant in colonial India. He was Chief Commissioner of Oudh during the period of 1858 to 1859 and later served as Lieutenant Governo ...
Fanny Parkes
Fanny Parkes or Parks (née Frances Susanna Archer) (1794–1875) was a travel writer from Wales, known for her extensive journals about colonial India, where she lived for 24 years. These are recorded in her memoirs ''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in ...
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William Peel (Royal Navy officer)
Captain Sir William Peel Victoria Cross, VC Order of the Bath, KCB (2 November 1824 – 27 April 1858) was a British naval officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the ...
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Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community ...
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Raja Ram Pal
Raja Ram Pal (born 20 November 1960) is an Indian politician with the Samajwadi Party, and was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha from Akbarpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Earlier, as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), he had been a member o ...
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Raju Srivastava
Satya Prakash Srivastav (25 December 1963 – 21 September 2022), known professionally as Raju Srivastav and often credited as Gajodhar, was an Indian comedian, actor and politician. He had been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 201 ...
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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Iri ...
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Clement Daniel Rockey
Clement Daniel Rockey (4 September 1889 – 15 August 1975) was a bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1941.
Biography
He was born in Cawnpore, India, a son of the Noble Lee Rockey, an American missionary pioneer in India. Clement entere ...
John Forbes Royle
John Forbes Royle (10 May 1798 – 2 January 1858), British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore) in 1798. He was in charge of the botanical garden at Saharanpur and played a role in the development of econom ...
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John Ryan (VC 1857)
John Ryan VC (1823 – 4 March 1858) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Details
He was about 34 y ...
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Saket Kushwaha
Saket Kushwaha is an Indian educationist and agricultural economist. He is the vice chancellor (VC) of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh and former VC of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Bihar. He is a professor of agricultural econom ...
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Lakshmi Sahgal
Lakshmi Sahgal () (born Lakshmi Swaminathan; 24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012) was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. La ...
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Nana Sahib
Nana Saheb Peshwa II (19 May 1824 – 24 September 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire, aristocrat and fighter, who led the rebellion in Kanpur (Cawnpore) during the Great Revolt of 1857. As the adopted so ...
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Satish Mahana
Satish Mahana (born 14 October 1960) is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Currently, he is serving as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He is a seven time MLA from Kanpur Cantt, having served sinc ...
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Kratika Sengar
Kratika Sengar, also known as Kratika Sengar Dheer is an Indian actress who mainly appear on Indian Television. She made her debut in 2007 with '' Kasautii Zindagii Kay'' playing the role of Prerna Gill and also appeared in '' Kyunki Saas Bhi ...
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Gopal Sharma
Gopal Sharma (born 3 August 1960) is a former Indian cricketer who played in five Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals from 1985 to 1990. He was an off-spinner but was overshadowed by the spinners of the day for a place in the interna ...
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Jagatvir Singh Drona
Captain (Retd.) Pandit Jagat Vir Singh Drona (born 23 July 1939) is the former mayor of Kanpur and a former member of the 10th Lok Sabha, 10th,11th Lok Sabha, 11th and 12th Lok Sabha, 12th Lok Sabha.
He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He ...
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Anand Shukla
Anand Shukla (15 January 1941 – 2 February 2015) was an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket for a number of teams in India from 1960 to 1978.
Playing career
For Uttar Pradesh
In his third first-class match in his debut seaso ...
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Rajeev Shukla
Rajeev Shukla (born 13 September 1959) is an Indian politician, former journalist, political commentator and the former chairman of Indian Premier League. In 2015, he was re-appointed unanimously as the Chairman of IPL by the BCCI. On 18 Dec 202 ...
Rishabh Shukla
Rishabh Shukla (''R̥ṣabha Śuklā'') is an Indian film and television actor and a voice-dubbing artist, who speaks Hindi as his mother tongue language. On television he is most known for his role of King Shantanu in ''Mahabharat'' (TV serie ...
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Amit Sial
Amit Sial (born 1 July 1975) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi cinema. He has also worked in various series like Maharani, Jamtara - Sabka Number Ayega, Kathmandu Connection and Inside Edge.
Early and personal life
He mov ...
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Anurag Singh Anurag Singh may refer to:
* Anurag Singh (cricketer, born 1975), Indian-born cricketer who played in English county cricket during the 1990s and 2000s
* Anurag Singh (cricketer, born 1990), Indian cricketer for Madhya Pradesh
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Ram Swaroop Singh
Ram Swaroop Singh was an Indian politician and a former member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He also worked as Minister of State in the Mayawati
Kumari Mayawati (born 15 January 1956) is an Indian politician. She has served fo ...
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Irfan Solanki
Haji Irfan Solanki (born 5 June 1979) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh, affiliated with the Samajwadi Party. He is the member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Sisamau Kanpur Nagar.
Incidents of hooliganism
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Raju Srivastav
Satya Prakash Srivastav (25 December 1963 – 21 September 2022), known professionally as Raju Srivastav and often credited as Gajodhar, was an Indian comedian, actor and politician. He had been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 201 ...
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Tanmay Srivastava
Tanmay Manoj Srivastava (born 7 November 1989) is an Indian former cricketer. Srivastava was a member of the Indian U-19 cricket team that won the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup tournament played in Malaysia. He scored 262 runs in six matches in t ...
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Virendra Swarup
Virendra Swarup (25 July 1923 – 26 February 1980) was an educator and a former chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He was elected four times as MLC from Kanpur division graduates constituency.
Legacy
The Dr. Virendra Swarup ...
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Shamim Bano
Shamim Bano (also commonly termed 'Shamim' or 'Bano Begum') (29 July 1920 – 23 October 1984), was a film actress and singer in Indian and Pakistani Cinema. She starred alongside Dilip Kumar in his debut film '' Jwar Bhata''.Not to be con ...
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Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
Pandit Laxmi Ganesh Tewari (born 8 September 1938) is a Hindustani vocalist from India. He is an exponent of the Gwalior gharana (tradition) of vocal music. After studying with Lalmani Misra at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, he pursued ...
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Mowbray Thomson
General Sir Mowbray Thomson (April 1, 1832 – February 25, 1917) was an officer in the British East India Company.
Thomson was born in "Bhurtpore" (modern day Bharatpur, Rajasthan), India on April 1, 1832. He was educated in England and atten ...
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Aseem Trivedi
Aseem Trivedi (born 17 February 1987) is an Indian political cartoonist and activist, known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption. He is a founder member of Save Your Voice, a movement against internet censorship in India. ...
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Ragini Trivedi
Ragini Trivedi (born 22 March 1960) is an Indian classical musician performing on vichitra veena, sitar and jal tarang. Daughter of the vichitra veena player and musicologist Lalmani Misra, she is an exponent of Misrabani and is the creator of a ...
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Maharishi Valmiki
Valmiki (; Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि, ) is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. The epic ''Ramayana'', dated variously from the 5th century BCE to first century BCE, is attributed to him, based on the attribution ...
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (26 October 1890 – 25 March 1931) was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He was an important figure in the non-cooperation movement and the freedom mo ...
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Salil Vishnoi
Salil Vishnoi (born 9 July 1955) is an Indian politician from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh who is the state vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. He was former member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Vierendrra Lalit
Vierendrra Lalit (born in village Dhimahi, Bulendshehr, U.P, on 16 March 1969 ) is an Indian-born cinematographer and film director. He has worked in Indian Hindi and Telugu film industries as well as in Malaysian cinema. He owns two film p ...
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Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Veena Sahasrabuddhe (14 September 1948 – 29 June 2016) was an Indian vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music from Kanpur. Her singing style had its roots in Gwalior gharana, but it also borrowed from Jaipur and Kirana gharanas. ...
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Nushoor Wahidi
Hafeez-ul-Rehman – , known by his pen name Nushoor Wahidi ( ur, ; sometimes spelled Nushoor Wahedi or Nushoor Vahidi), was an Indian Urdu poet.
Early life
Born in 1912 in the village of Sheikhpur, Ballia District, United Province (renamed as ...
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Bob Woolmer
Robert Andrew Woolmer (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an English cricket coach, cricketer, and a commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and six One Day Internationals for the England cricket team and later coached South Africa, Warwick ...
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Sheila Wright
Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright (22 March 1925 – 5 July 2013) was an Indian-born British Labour Party politician.
Early life
Shelia Wright was born in March 1925 in Cawnpore, India, where she was also raised. Her father was an inspector gen ...
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Abhishek Yadav Abhishek Yadav may refer to:
* Abhishek Yadav (footballer) (born 1980), Indian retired professional footballer
* Abhishek Yadav (Nepalese politician) (born 1985), Nepalese politician
* Abhishek Yadav (cricketer) (born 1995), Indian cricketer
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Kanpur
Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...
Kanpur
Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...