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This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.

Architect

Ratish Nanda, conservation architect^[1]

Author

Anurag Anand
Asloob Ahmad Ansari
Chetan Bhagat
Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet
Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet
Kiran Desai
Madhur Jaffrey
Meenakshi Jain
Ritu Lalit
Jaishree Misra
Amrita Pritam
Aman Nath
Tushar Raheja
Nattal Sahu, writer during Tomara reign
Gaurav Sharma
Shobha Deepak Singh
Nitin Soni
Vibudh Shridhar, writer in medieval period
Sudhir Tailang, Cartoonist
Valmik Thapar
Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet

Business

Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur
Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, entrepreneur, Paytm
Analjit Singh, entrepreneur, Max Group
Vikram Lal, entrepreneur, Eicher Motors
Jawed Habib, hairstylist, entrepreneur
Patu Keswani, entrepreneur
Surinder Mehta
Bharat Ram
Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur
Ajay Singh, businessman, sports administrator, bureaucrat and investor

Education

Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian^[2]
Deepak Gaur, molecular biologist, and professor
Anil Grover
Partha Sarathi Gupta
Champat Rai Jain
Hakim Ajmal Khan
Syed Ahmad Khan
Madhu Khanna
Sunil Kothari
Sushil Kumar Saxena
Malati Shendge
Sampat Kumar Tandon

Journalist

Law and judiciary

Medical

Military

Anuj Nayyar, Indian army captain
Pervez Musharraf, 7th Army Chief of Pakistan.

Performing arts

Actors

Actress

Directors, producers and writers

Atul Agnihotri
Shubhavi Arya
Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director^[4]
Dev Benegal
Aditya Dhar
Amar Kanwar (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist
Rajat Kapoor
Bhushan Kumar
Divya Khosla Kumar
Gulshan Kumar
Anu Malhotra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Nisha Pahuja
Aanand L. Rai
Maneesh Sharma
Alankrita Shrivastava
Loveleen Tandan

Singers

KK (singer)
Sunidhi Chauhan
Javed Ali
Akriti Kakar
Prakriti Kakar
Sukriti Kakar
Harshdeep Kaur
Tulsi Kumar
Madhup Mudgal
Anushka Manchanda
Mukesh Chand Mathur, Bollywood singer
Bif Naked (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer
Peter Plate (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)
Honey Singh

Choreography

Shakti Mohan

Philanthropists and social workers

Kiran Martin

Politics

Paddy Ashdown (1941–2018), British politician
Ramesh Bidhuri
Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
Michael Bennet (born 1964), American politician
Sheila Dikshit, former Chief minister
Gautam Gambhir
Maneka Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi
S. Jaishankar
Arun Jaitley
Arvind Kejriwal, Chief minister
Meenakshi Lekhi, Cabinet minister
Chaudhary Bharat Singh^[5]
Ajay Maken
Pervez Musharraf (born 1943), Pakistani politician
Kedar Nath Sahani
Kanwar Singh Tanwar
Harsh Vardhan
Sahib Singh Verma
Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma

Rulers

Rajputs

Anangpal Tomar, King of Haryana and Delhi
Prithviraj Chauhan, King of much of North India

Sayyids

Muhammad Shah

Lodi

Ibrahim Lodhi

Mughals

Science

Diwakar Vaish, roboticist

Sports

Athletic

Badminton

Damayanti Tambay

Billiards

Geet Sethi (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion

Chess

Aryan Chopra
Sahaj Grover
Parimarjan Negi (born 1993), Indian chess player
Tania Sachdev

Cricket

Football

Golf

Hockey

Martial art

Skiing

Neha Ahuja, Winter Olympian
Shailaja Kumar, Winter Olympian

Table tennis

Boxing

Gaurav Bidhuri, world boxing Bronze medal winner

Tennis

Wrestling

Miscellaneous

Gita Bhartiji (born 1944), Hindu guru.
Ravi Gulati (born 1974), social activist.^[6]
Laila Tyabji (born 1947), co-founder of Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)^[7]

References

^ "Lunch with BS: Ratish Nanda". Business Standard. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
^ "India in the 1940s: The way we were". Hindustan Times. 10 August 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
^ "AMBA SANYAL Akademi Award: Allied Theatre Arts (Costume Designing)". Sangeet Natak Akademi. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
^ Gupta, Priya (28 February 2014). "Politics excites me as much as movies do: Vikas Bahl". Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Members Bioprofile". loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^ "Extraordinary Indians: Ravi Gulati".
^ "Business Standard". Business Standard. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

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