List of people from Jharkhand
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This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.
Contents
National / international award winners
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
- 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
Sports
Archery
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Deepika Kumari
- Jhanu Hansda - world record holder[3]
- Deepika Kumari
- Purnima Mahato
Boxing
- Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion
Cricket
- Varun Aaron
- Kirti Azad
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni - captain of the Indian cricket team
- Randhir Singh
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Shehbaj Nadim
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
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, actor, born in Jamshedpur
- Sushil Kumar Ankan - Shortfilm & Documentary maker, AIR Apporved Voice Artist
- Sriram Dalton - director
- Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004
- Raj Kumar Gupta - director, born in Hazaribag
- Chetan Joshi
- Akashaditya Lama - director and scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi
- Madhavan - Jamshedpur
- Mannara - actress, born in Bokaro
- Shweta Prasad
- Amrita Raichand
- Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri
- Sushant choudhary - bokaro steelcity
- Imran Zahid - actor, born in Bokaro
Military police
Writers and scholars
Journalists
Writers
Poets
- Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi[6]
- Ram Krishna Singh - has published seventeen poetry collections in English[7]
Academics
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Gerald Durrell
- 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;[8] poet with several publications
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
- Devendra Prasad Gupta
- Birsa Munda - freedom fighter and a folk hero; belonged to the tribal group of Munda people
- Kanhu Murmu
- Sido Murmu
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
- 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[9]
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[10][better source needed]
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
- 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
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
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- ↑ http://www.successcds.net/currentaffairs/list-of-padma-shri-awards-2012-12185.html
- ↑ http://rediff.com/sports/2006/sep/09arch.htm
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- ↑ https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html
- ↑ http://issuu.com/kirim-tatar-kitaplari/docs/nazar_2013_09_online
- ↑ http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=50527
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/7XUE.html
- ↑ Bhishma Narain Singh
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