This is a list of notable people using Yadav surname.
Religion Swami Ramdev, born Ram Krishna Yadav
Freedom fighters Rao Gopal Dev, general in the army of Rao Tula Ram during the Indian rebellion of 1857 Mahendra Gop, freedom revolutionary
Academicians Usha Yadav
Civil servants and bureaucrats Vinod Kumar Yadav, Former Chairperson of the Railway Board, First Chief Executive Officer, Railway Board, Indian Railways and the ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India Bhupendra Yadav, IPS, former DGP of Rajasthan Police, chairman, Rajasthan Public Service Commission Gaurav Yadav, IPS, DGP of Punjab Police Jagmohan Yadav, IPS, Former DGP of Uttar Pradesh Police Manoj Yadava, IPS, DG/Chief of Railway Protection Force, former DGP of Haryana Police Meera Yadav, IFS, 22nd Ambassador of India to the United States Dinesh Kumar Yadav, IPS, Inspector General of Police Himachal Pradesh Neera Yadav, IAS, Former Chief Secretary Of Uttar Pradesh Pranjal Yadav, IAS Surendra Singh Yadav, IPS, DGP of Chandigarh Police, Former DGP of Andaman and Nicobar Police V.S. Yadav, IPS, DGP of Tripura Police Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, IPS, most decorated Police officer
Law Sanjay Yadav, former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Shekhar Kumar Yadav Surendra Kumar Yadav
Film and television Elvish Yadav Baba Yadav Dinesh Lal Yadav Khesari Lal Yadav Leena Yadav Manisha Yadav Narsing Yadav Neha Yadav Parul Yadav Pragya Yadav Rajkummar Rao Rajesh Yadav Raghubir Yadav Rajpal Yadav Ravi Yadav Shrikant Yadav Shyam Yadav
Folk singers Hiralal Yadav Baleshwar Yadav Bihari Lal Yadav, father of folk genre Birha, invented Khartal Instrument which is used in Folk songs
First in their fields Santosh Yadav, first woman to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face Dr.Raj Vir Singh Yadav, performed the first kidney transplant in India at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research at Chandigarh in 1973 Surekha Yadav, India's first female train driver (Loco Pilot) Bhakti Yadav, the first female MBBS from Indore, India Ram Baran Yadav, the first president of Nepal Vinod Kumar Yadav, First Chief Executive Officer, Railway Board, Indian Railways and the ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav, first chief minister of Delhi Ram Saroj Yadav, first deputy chief minister of Madhesh Province, Nepal
Politicians
Political Party Founders Yogendra Yadav - Swaraj India Mulayam Singh Yadav - Samajwadi Party Rao Birender Singh - Vishal Haryana Party Lalu Prasad Yadav - Rashtriya Janata Dal
Chief Ministers
PhotoNameState Bindheshwari Prasad MandalBiharDaroga Prasad Rai Lalu Prasad YadavRabri DeviRao Birender SinghHaryanaBabulal GaurMadhya PradeshMohan YadavRam Naresh YadavUttar PradeshMulayam Singh YadavAkhilesh YadavSaroj Kumar YadavMadhesh Province Krishna Prasad YadavSaroj Yadav
Ministers, MPs and MLAs
Athai Ram Yadav, former MLA from Handia, Prayagraj Akhilesh Yadav, Ex-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ajay Singh Yadav, former Union Minister Ajesh Yadav, AAP member for Badli in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi Annapurna Devi Yadav, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Anil Kumar Yadav, a politician from Bihar Anil Kumar Yadav, Minister of Irrigation(Water Resources) Government of Andhra Pradesh Anjan Kumar Yadav, former M.P. for Secunderabad Arun Subhashchandra Yadav, former Union Minister Baba Ram Adhar Yadav, former MLA from Allahabad North, Prayagraj Babulal Gaur Yadav, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh(BJP) Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav, Member of the Parliament and leader Telangana Rashtra Samithi party Balram Yadav, Samajwadi Party leader, UP Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhagabat Behera Yadav, former Cabinet Minister of Government of Odisha Brajendra Singh Yadav, BJP leader, Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Chandrajit Yadav, former Union Minister Ministry of Mines (India) & Ministry of Steel Chandrapal Singh Yadav, MP, Jhansi, SP Choudhary Awadh Bihari Yadav, Speaker, Bihar Legislative Assembly Chaudhary Harmohan Singh Yadav, SP Politician, Shaurya Chakra awardee Darshan Singh Yadav, former Rajya Sabha MP of Uttar Pradesh Dinesh Chandra Yadav, former Minister of Bihar and Member of Parliament Dinesh Yadav, former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly Deo Narayan Yadav, 12th Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly Devender Yadav, President Delhi Congress Committee, Indian National Congress Dharmananda Behera Yadav, former MLA of Choudwar-Cuttack (Odisha) Dharmendra Yadav, M.P., Samajwadi Party D. 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Yadav, leader of Rashtriya Parivartan Dal Gopal Das Yadav, former MLA from Allahabad West, Prayagraj Girish Yadav, State Minister, Uttar Pradesh, A BJP Leader Hukmdev Narayan Yadav, former Union Minister of State Hemchand Yadav, Former Cabinet Minister of Chhattishgarh Government Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav, former Union Minister of State for Water Resources Jawahar Singh Yadav, former member of Legislative Assembly from Nawabganj, Prayagraj Jawahar Yadav (Pandit), former MLA from Jhusi, Prayagraj Jokhu Lal Yadav, former MLA from Handia and Pratappur, Prayagraj Kailash Nath Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttar Pradesh Lalita Yadav, Minister of State of Madhya Pradesh Government Laxmi Narayan Yadav, M.P., Sagar, Madhya Pradesh Mahendra Singh Yadav, Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Dr. Mohan Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Madhusudan Yadav, former Lok Sabha MP and Mayor of Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation Manoj Kumar Yadav, MLA of Jharkhand Mitrasen Yadav, Communist Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav (Auraiya politician), former Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC) for 3 times(he is not the father of Akhilesh Yadav) Nagendra Singh Munna Yadav, M.L.A., Samajwadi Party, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh Nand Kishore Yadav, Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha Neera Yadav (politician), leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and the minister in government of Jharkhand. Om Prakash Yadav JDU, Bihar Pappu Yadav, Independent M.P. From Purnia Pradeep Yadav, 13th Lok Sabha MP and MLA of Jharkhand state Ram Harakh Yadav, Former Member of Parliament from Azamgarh (Lok Sabha constituency) Ramakant Yadav, Former Member of Parliament and MLA Ram Krishna Yadav, former Member of Parliament from Azamgarh (Lok Sabha constituency) Ramesh Prasad Yadav, former Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly Rampal Yadav, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav, Rajya Sabha member Ram Kripal Yadav, former Union Minister of State Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav, former member of Lok Sabha and Ex-MLA of Bihar Ram Naresh Yadav, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Former Governor of Madhya Pradesh, Former Governor of Chhattisgarh Ranjan Prasad Yadav, RJD politician, Bihar Rekha Yadav, Bharatiya Janshakti Party Malhara (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh Roop Nath Singh Yadav, politician and freedom fighter Sadhu Yadav, politician, Bihar Sharad Yadav, leader of Janata Dal (U) Shivpal Singh Yadav, former Cabinat Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shyamlal Yadav, Leader of Congress (I), Former Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Subhash Yadav, former Deputy Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Subhash Prasad Yadav, former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Bihar Sudha Yadav, BJP leader Sunil Kumar Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttar Pradesh Surendra Prasad Yadav, former Industrial Minister of Bihar & Jharkhand and Ex-MLA of Bihar he also served as an MP of 12th Lok Sabha Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Minister of State in Government of Telangana(Telangana Rashtra Samithi) Tejashwi Yadav, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar State Tej Pratap Yadav, Ex-Minister for Health, Bihar Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, M.P. for Mainpuri Umakant Yadav, former MP from Macchlishahr Uma Kant Yadav, Bihar Legislative Assembly Umlesh Yadav, former MLA for Bisauli Uttar Pradesh Vijama Yadav, MLA, Pratappur, Prayagraj Vijay Bahadur Yadav, MLA, Gorakhpur Rural
Literature Anand Yadav, a Marathi-language writer Kulpreet Yadav, Indian author and actor Lalai Singh Yadav, writer and playwright from UP Rajendra Yadav, a pioneer of the Hindi literary movement known as Nayi Kahani Ramashankar Yadav, Hindi poet K. C. Yadav (1936–2021), Indian historian
Military Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav, Param Veer Chakra Commodore Babru Bhan Yadav, Maha Vir Chakra, Leading Indian Navy officer In Operation Trident operation that attacked Karachi, Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Petty officer Chiman Singh Yadav, Maha Vir Chakra, Operation Cactus Lily, Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Brigadier Rai Singh Yadav, Maha Vir Chakra, Tiger of Nathu La, Hero of Nathu La and Cho La clashes Parachute Commando Kaushal Yadav, Vir Chakra Kulbhushan Yadav, Indian Navy officer Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala, Ashoka Chakra Commando Suresh Chand Yadav, Ashoka Chakra, Operation Vajra Shakti Sujjan Singh (soldier), Ashoka Chakra Captain Umrao Singh, Victoria Cross recipient in Second World War Lt. Gen. J.B.S. Yadava, former Deputy Chief of the Army Staff Air Marshal A.K.Bharti, Deputy Chief of Air Staff
Nepali politics Bijay Kumar Yadav Bodhmaya Kumari Yadav, Member of Parliament Chitra Lekha Yadav, former minister for Education Dinesh Chandra Yadav (Nepal) member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly Ganga Prasad Yadav, Governor of Sudurpashchim Province Gita Kumari Yadav K.P. Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhesh Province Mahendra Yadav, former Union Minister for Water Supply, Leader of Nepali Congress Mina Yadav, Member of Parliament, Leader of CPN Maoist (Centere) Mukta Kumari Yadav, Member of Parliament Omprakash Yadav Pradeep Yadav, Union Minister for Forests and Environment Ram Saroj Yadav, first Deputy Chief Minister of Madhesh Province Radhe Chandra Yadav, member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly Ram Ayodhya Prasad Yadav, member of the Second Nepalese Constituent Assembly Ram Sahaya Yadav, Vice President of Nepall Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, First President of Nepal Rekha Yadav Thapa, Member of Parliament Renu Kumari Yadav, Minister of Education. member of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Matrika Yadav, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, A Nepal Communist Party Leader Saroj Kumar Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhesh Province Sita Devi Yadav, Member of Parliament, National Treasurer of Nepali Congress Upendra Yadav, Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, chairperson, People's Socialist Party, Nepal (2020), Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal House Leader in Pratinidhi Sabha, Former External Affairs Minister of Nepal Government
Professionals Bhakti Yadav, Padma Shri awardee gynaecologist Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav, Leading Agriculturist, Padma Shri Awardee Raj Vir Singh Yadav, Kidney transplant surgeon, Padma Shri Awardee, 1982 Rahul Yadav, Ex CEO, Housing.com and founder of Intelligent Interfaces for e-commerce
Science and technology Jhillu Singh Yadav Rajpal Singh Yadav
Social workers Phoolbasan Bai Yadav Social Worker in Chhattisgarh, Padma Shri Awardee, Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awardee Kunwar Bai Yadav
Sports Virender Singh Yadav, wrestling Abhishek Yadav, football Abhishek Yadav, table-tennis Ajay Yadav, cricket Ajeet Singh Yadav, Silver Medalist in 2024 Summer Paralympics Akash Yadav, cricket Amit Raj Kumar Yadav, cricket Arjun Yadav, cricket Ashwin Yadav, cricket Avinash Yadav, cricket Bani Yadav, car rallyist, India's fastest women car racer Chinki Yadav, Indian sport shooter Dharmendra Singh Yadav, boxing