This is a list of people from Punjab, India.
Nobel laureates Har Gobind Khorana
Rulers Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a founder of a Sikh Empire Porus the Elder was an ancient Indian King Banda Singh Bahadur was a commander of Khalsa army Nawab Kapur Singh was the organizer of the Sikh Confederacy and the Dal Khalsa. Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Sikh leader during the Sikh Confederacy, being the Supreme Leader of the Dal Khalsa. He was also Misldar of the Ahluwalia Misl from approximately 1716 to 1801. He founded the Kapurthala State in 1772 Charat Singh, the father of Mahan Singh, and grandfather of Ranjit Singh. He distinguished himself in campaigns against 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 Abd al-Samad Khan Zakariya Khan Bahadur Adina Beg Wazir Khan (Sirhind) Moin-ul-Mulk
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 Army chief General J. J. Singh, former Indian Army Chief General Pran Nath Thapar, former Indian Army Chief 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
Navy Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Admiral Karambir Singh
Military Gallantry Award winners British Indian Army Victoria Cross Karamjeet Singh Judge, 15th Punjab Regiment Gian Singh, Sikh Regiment Ishar Singh, 28th Punjabis; first Sikh to 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) Subedar 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 Army officer General Tapishwar Narain Raina, former Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army Nand Singh, also an Indian recipient of Victoria Cross Sukhjit Singh Major General Rajinder Singh Sparrow, Armoured Corps
Business
Trishneet Arora Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of 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 Manjit Bawa, modern artists from Punjab, later shifted to Delhi. Sohan Qadri, modern artists from Punjab, later shifted to Copenhagen. S. G. Thakur Singh, Punjabi artist who painted in oils, pastels and water colour. Satish Gujral, world known painter, sculptor and architect. Sidharth (artist), contemporary painter. Sobha Singh, oil painting master later shifted to Kangra. Gurpreet Singh, pro-people painting artist from Bathinda. Sarindar Dhaliwal Jas Kohli
Educators and scientists Megh R. Goyal, father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico Narinder Singh Kapany
Historians Hari Ram Gupta Ganda Singh Harjinder Singh Dilgeer
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 Sargun Mehta Mandy Takhar Sonam Bajwa Neeru Bajwa Himanshi Khurana Shehnaaz Gill
Bollywood Families The Anands Chetan Anand Dev Anand Vijay Anand Shekhar Kapur
The Chopras Baldev Raj Chopra Yash Chopra Ravi Chopra
The Deols Dharmendra Sunny Deol
The Devgans Veeru Devgan Anil Devgan
The Dutts Sunil Dutt Sanjay Dutt
The Oberois Suresh Oberoi Vivek Oberoi
The Paintals Paintal Gufi Paintal
The Puris Madan Puri Amrish Puri
The Sahnis Balraj Sahni Bhisham Sahni Parikshit Sahni
Individual artists
Amrish Puri 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 Khannahttps://web.archive.org/web/20071211120409/http://164.100.24.209/newls/Biography.aspx?mpsno=197 Parliamentary Biography Vinod Mehra Vicky Kaushal
Documentary filmmakers Jaspal Bhatti
Directors Harry Baweja Yash Chopra David Dhawan
Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood) Waris Ahluwalia Art Malik Deepa Mehta
History
Charaka
Folklore Puran Bhagat
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 Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad Mirza Nasir Ahmad Mirza Tahir Ahmad
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 Gulzar (full name Sampooran Singh Gulzar), Oscar winner 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 Print India Kuldip Nayar Arun Shourie Aroon Purie Tarun Tejpal Prabhu Chawla Tavleen Singh
Tamil cinema Sonia Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Models Waris Ahluwalia, American model, endorses the clothing brand GAP
Musicians Punjabi Folk and Classical Music Sardool Sikander Kamal Heer Gurdas Maan Kuldeep Manak Yamla Jatt Amar Singh Chamkila
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
Jaspinder Narula Jyotica Tangri Yo Yo Honey Singh Guru Randhawa Khushboo Grewal
Bhangra and other Punjabi people
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 Sohan Singh Bhakna, was an Indian revolutionary, the founding president of the 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 Kishan Singh Gargaj, Indian Freedom Fighter and Founder of militant Babbar Akali Movement against British rule Sadhu Singh Hamdard, well-known freedom fighter and the journalist of Punjab Dharam Singh Hayatpur, was an Indian revolutionary, he was a prominent member of the Sikh political and religious group the Babbar Akali Movement in India Kartar Singh Jhabbar, was an Indian revolutionary, he was a Sikh leader known for his role in the Gurdwara Reform Movement of the 1920s Sohan Singh Josh, was an Indian communist activist and freedom fighter Gulab Kaur Sardul Singh Kavishar Saifuddin Kitchlew Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, was a General of 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 Maya Singh Saini, was a soldier in the Sikh Khalsa Army during the Anglo-Sikh Wars and continued fighting British Rule after the Second war Teja Singh Samundri Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Independence activist and a Ghadr revolutionary Baba Gurdit Singh Baba Gurmukh Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter, a Ghadr revolutionary and a Sikh activist Baba Kharak Singh Baldev Singh, was an Indian independence movement leader and also the first Defence Minister of India Bhagat Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter and most common symbol of India's Freedom Struggle by any means and a Ghadr revolutionary Captain Mohan Singh, was an Indian military officer and also an Indian Independence 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