- Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (Hindi: IPA: [/mitab btn/], born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on October 11, 1942), is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, …
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Harivanshrai "Bachchan" Srivastava (हरिवंशराय बच्चन श्रीवास्तव) (November 27, 1907 - January 18, 2003) was a distinguished Hindi poet, perhaps best known for his early work Madhushala (मधुशाला). He is also the father of Bollywood film superstar, Amitabh Bachchan.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the third Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
- Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931) was the tenth Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
- Purushottam Das Tandon
Purushottam Das Tandon पुरुशोत्तम दास टंडन August 1, 1882 - July 1, 1962), was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India, of Khatri descent. He is widely remembered for his efforts in achieving the "Official Language of India" status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi (Etymology: Raja + Rishi = Royal Saint).
- Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi (born 12 August 1912; died 8 September 1960) was an Indian politician and journalist. He was a member of India's first parliament and the husband of Indira Gandhi [former Prime Minister of India and daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India)] and father of the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- Kamala Nehru
Kamala Kaul Nehru (1899-1936) was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. Kamala married Nehru on 8 February, 1916. Their marriage was arranged by his parents. Brought up in a traditional Hindu Brahmin family, she felt alienated amongst the more Westernized Nehru's. It was only with the involvement of the Nehru's in the national movement, did she emerge into the forefront.
- Nikhil Chopra
Nikhil Chopra (born December 26, 1973 in Allahabad) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. An ODI specialist, he was part of the Indian team at the 1999 Cricket World Cup, playing 39 ODIs in all and a solitary Test. After retiring from cricket, Chopra became a TV cricket analyst. He also participated in the ESPN-Star show "Cricket Crazy".
- Chandrasekhar Azad
Chandrasekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary and the mentor of Bhagat Singh. Chandrasekhar Azad is considered one of the most famous Indian revolutionaries, along with Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil, and Ashfaqullah Khan.
- Henri Pequet
Henri Pequet (1888-1974) was a pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18 1911. The 23 year old Frenchman, in India for an airshow, delivered about 6,500 letters when he flew from Allahabad to Naini, about 10 kilometers away. He flew a Sommer biplane with about fifty horsepower (37 kW), and made the journey in thirteen minutes. The letters were marked "First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition Allahabad 1911."
- Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal-Pradhan is a well-known female singer of both classical and popular Indian music.
- Asaf Ali
Asaf Ali (1888-1953) was an Indian freedom fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States of America. He also worked as the governor of Orissa. Educated in the St. Stephen's College, Delhi and called to bar from Lincoln's Inn in England, he entered the Indian independence movement and was imprisoned many times.
- Mohammed Kaif
Mohammed Kaif (born December 1, 1980 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian cricketer, more specifically a middle-order batsman. He is a tall and thinly-built cricketer who made it to the national team on the strength of his performances at the Under-19 level, where he captained the Indian team to victory in the Under-19 World Cup in 2000. He can be both defensive and aggressive, as variable strike rates in Test and ODI cricket suggest.
- Tej Bahadur Sapru
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru(1875-1949) was an eminent lawyer, political and social leader in India during the British Raj. He was knighted in 1922.
- Mahadevi Varma
Mahadevi Varma was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. She is widely regarded as the 'modern Meera. She was a major poet of the Chhayavaad generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry. She won the Jnanpith award in 1982.
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' (सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी 'निराला') (January 22, 1896-October 15, 1961) was one of the most famous figures of the modern Hindi literature. He was a poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer. He also drew many sketches.
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. Allahabad, July 1, 1938) is known internationally as a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is a former Indian federal minister and Bharatiya Janta Party leader.He was twice elected to Lok Sabha from Rampur. Born in Allahabad in 1957 he studied law and arts at Allahabad University. In 1998 he was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting with additional charge of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. He is currently national secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party and its national Spokesperson.
- Rewati Raman Singh
Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh (born 5 October, 1943) is an Indian politician for the Allahabad (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh.
- Dhyan Chand
Major Dhyan Chand Singh was a former Indian hockey player and is often regarded as the greatest player ever to play the game. He was part of the Gold winning Indian team in three Olympic Games (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, in 1956. He got the title "Chand" or (moon) from his first coach, Pankaj Gupta, who had predicted that he would one day shine like a "chand" or moon.
- Sumitranandan Pant
"'Sumitranandan Pant, socialist and humanist poems. Pant received Jnanpith Award for collection of his most famous poems, titled "Chidambara". He was awarded "Nehru Peace Prize" by Soviet Union for "Lokayatan. Pantji's childhood house, in Kausani, has been converted into a museum. This museum displays his daily use articles, drafts of his poems, letters, his awards etc.
- Dharamvir Bharati
Dr. Dharamvir Bharati , was an Indian writer. Dr Dharamvir Bharati made a deep impact on Hindi literature and is considered to be one of the most renowned Hindi poet and writer of India. His novel “Gunahon ka Devtaa” became an evergreen classic. Andha Yug, his drama set in the time immediately after the Mahabharata war, is another classic that is enacted very often in public by various drama groups. Dr.
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904-1948) was an Indian poetess famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs. She was born in a village called Nihalpur in Allahabad District. After her marriage to Thakur Laxman Singh of Khandwa in 1919, she moved to Jabalpur. She joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 and was the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur. She was jailed twice for her involvement in protests against the British rule.
- Shyama Charan Gupta
Shyama Charan Gupta (born 9 February, 1945) is an Indian politician for the Banda (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit (विजयलक्ष्मी नेहरू पंडित) was an Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly. In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit. She was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post.
- Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal (मणीन्द्र अग्रवाल) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Dr. Somenath Biswas. He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, …
- William Muir
Sir William Muir, was a Scottish Orientalist. He was born at Glasgow and educated at Kilmarnock Academy, at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, and at Haileybury College. In 1837 he entered the Bengal Civil Service. He served as secretary to the governor of the North-West Provinces, and as a member of the Agra revenue board, and during the Mutiny he was in charge of the intelligence department there. In 1865 he was made foreign secretary to the Indian Government.
- Megh Nad Saha
Megh Nad Saha (October 6 1893 - February 16 1956) was a Bengali Indian astrophysicist. He was born on 6 October, 1893 in Shaoratoli village near Dhaka in current day Bangladesh. He studied in Dhaka Collegiate School, and later in Dhaka College. He was a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata; a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938 and thereafter a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta until his death in 1956.
- Abhinn Shyam Gupta
Abhinn Shyam Gupta (born in Allahabad October 22, 1979) is a male badminton player from India. Presently he lives in City of Allahabad and was national champion Gupta played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Park Tae-sang of Korea.
- V. N. Khare
- Mohammed Fazal
Mohammed Fazal (born July 2, 1922) was the Governor of Maharashtra from October 10, 2002 to December 5, 2004. He is known for his controversial suggestion to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sushilkumar Shinde to legalise prostitution. Born in a well-known zamindar's (landlord's) family, he studied at the Allahabad University and later at the London School of Economics at the University of London. In 1977, he was appointed the Secretary of Industrial Development, …
- Keshari Nath Tripathi
Keshari Nath Tripathi is a former speaker of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly and president of Uttar Pradesh state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Y. P. Varshni
Y.P. Varshni (born 1932) is a scientist in the areas of physics and astrophysics. Varshni studied at Allahabad University, where he obtained his B.Sc in 1950, his M.Sc. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1956. He published his first research paper in 1951 at the age of 19. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Dept., Allahabad University for the period 1955-60. Varshni immigrated to Canada as a postdoctorate fellow at the National Research Council, Ottawa, …
- Ziauddin Ahmed
Dr. Sir Ziauddin Ahmed 'Zuberi' (February 13, 1878 - December 23, 1947) was an eminent scholar and Rector of Aligarh Muslim University, India.
- Shailendra Kumar
Shailendra Kumar (born 25 July, 1960) is an Indian politician for the Chail (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh.
- Mustafa Zaidi
Syed Mustafa Hussain Zaidi (Urdu: سید مصطفی حسین زیدی was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He has the honor of having first published collection of ghazals and nazms at age 19.
- Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa was a Hindu philosopher and Mimamsa scholar from Prayag (Now Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India). Little is known about his biography, but he is famous for many of his seminal theses on Mimamsa, such as "Mimamsaslokavarttika". His arguments against Buddhism, and in particular its attack on the Vedic sacrificial system, may have contributed in some part, to the decline of Buddhism in India.
- Anshuman Singh
Anshuman Singh is a former governor of Indian state of Rajasthan. He was governor of the state from January 1999 to May 2003. Earlier he was governor of Gujarat state in 1998. Born in 1935 in Allahabad he studied arts and law and first become the advocate in Allhabad district court in 1957. He was appointed judge of Allahabad High Court in 1984 and later became acting chief justice of Rajasthan High Court.
- Nargis
Nargis (Hindi: नर्गिस, Urdu: نرگس), June 1, 1929 - May 3, 1981, was an Indian actress best known for her role as Radha in the Oscar-nominated film "Mother India". She was the wife of actor Sunil Dutt (who appeared in "Mother India" as her son) and her son Sanjay Dutt is currently a very successful actor in the industry.