List of people from Punjab, India

This is a list of notable Indian people from Punjab.

1 Military leaders
- 1.1 Indian Armed Forces
2 Military Gallantry Award Winners
- 2.1 Indian Armed Forces
  - 2.1.1 Param Veer Chakra (PVC)
  - 2.1.2 Maha Veer Chakra (MVC)
- 2.2 Early Modern era
3 Business
4 Artists
5 Educators and Scientists
6 Astronauts
7 Bollywood
- 7.1 Families
- 7.2 Individual artists
  - 7.2.1 Visual Effect Artist
- 7.3 Documentary Film Makers
- 7.4 Directors
- 7.5 Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)
8 History
9 Folklore
10 Religious and spiritual figures
- 10.1 The Ten Gurus of Sikhism
- 10.2 Sikh
- 10.3 Related to Sikhism
11 Writers
- 11.1 Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu
- 11.2 English
12 Journalists
- 12.1 Print
  - 12.1.1 India
- 12.2 Electronic/Broadcast
  - 12.2.1 India
13 Tamil cinema
14 Models
15 Musicians
- 15.1 Classical
- 15.2 Bollywood
- 15.3 Ghazals
- 15.4 Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk
  - 15.4.1 India
- 15.5 Pop and Rock
  - 15.5.1 India
16 Revolutionaries
17 Politicians
- 17.1 India
18 Sportspersons
- 18.1 Tennis
- 18.2 Cricket
  - 18.2.1 India
- 18.3 Hockey
  - 18.3.1 Field hockey
  - 18.3.2 Ice hockey
- 18.4 Athletics
- 18.5 Golf
- 18.6 Wrestling
- 18.7 Fighters
- 18.8 Shooting
- 18.9 Billiards
- 18.10 Cycling
- 18.11 Soccer
- 18.12 Basketball
- 18.13 Roller Skating
19 See also
20 References

Military leaders

Indian Armed Forces

Airforce

Marshal Arjan Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.,^[1] Only Marshal in the History of Indian Air Force
Air Chief Marshal Surinder Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Satish Sareen, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.
Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, Former Chief of Indian Air Force.^[2]
Harita Kaur Deol, first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force, on a solo flight .

Army

Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, Western Army Commander and War Hero 1965 Indo-Pak War. The outstanding leadership of Lt. Gen Harbaksh Singh had played a key role in boosting the morale of a defeated army turning it into a striking force within just three years of the Chinese encounter.
Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora, Eastern Army Commander during Liberation of Bangladesh, 1971.
Lieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat, Victoria Cross.
General Pran Nath Thapar, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Om Prakash Malhotra, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Ved Prakash Malik, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Nirmal Chander Vij, Former Indian Army Chief.
General Joginder Jaswant Singh, Former Indian Army Chief.^[3]
General Deepak Kapoor, Former Indian Army Chief.
Lt General Punita Arora, first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to don the second highest rank of Lt General^[4] and the first lady to become the Vice-Admiral of Indian Navy.^[5]

Navy

Admiral S.N Kohli, Former Chief Of Indian Navy
Admiral S.M Nanda, Former Chief Of Indian Navy who became famous as The Man who Bombed Karachi.'

Military Gallantry Award Winners

Indian Armed Forces

Param Veer Chakra (PVC)

Lance Naik Karam Singh, Military Cross, Sikh Regiment Indian Army.
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria, Gorkha Rifles Indian Army.
Subedar Joginder Singh, Sikh Regiment Indian Army.
Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, Armoured Corps Indian Army.
Flying Officer Nirmaljeet Singh Sekhon, 18 Squadron Indian Air Force.

Maha Veer Chakra (MVC)

Brigadier Sant Singh, MVC (Bar) Indian Army.
Subedar Nand Singh, Victoria Cross, Sikh Regiment Indian Army.
Major General Rajinder Singh Sparrow, Armoured Corps Indian Army.
Lieutenant General Ranjit Singh Dayal, Parachute Regiment Indian Army.
Lieutenant General Zorawar Chand Bakhshi, Gorkha Rifles Indian Air Force.

Early Modern era

Business

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Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of the Bharti Telecom.

Sunil Bharti Mittal]] Chairman and managing director of the Bharti group
Sachin Bansal Flipkart
Binny Bansal Flipkart
Aroon Purie India Today group
Lovish Grover Phoenix International
Kanwal Rekhi One of the first India Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
Mohan Singh Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels^[6]
Gurbaksh Chahal
Trishneet Arora
Jay Sidhu, Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Malvinder Mohan Singh, Ranbaxy/Fortis Group
Reuben Singh, entrepreneur
Vikram Chatwal, Hotelier
Tom Singh Founder, New Look fashion chain
Avtar Lit Founder, Sunrise Radio
Sanjiv Sidhu, Founder and President of i2 Technologies
Gaurav Dhillon
Hemant Lamba
Bob Singh Dhillon
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail.
Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways

Artists

Educators and Scientists

Satish Dhawan
Har Gobind Khorana Nobel Prize Winner
Megh R. Goyal Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico
Narinder Singh Kapany

Astronauts

Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra

Bollywood

Families

The Kapoors – 1^[7]

The Kapoors – 2

Surinder Kapoor

File:Shekhar Kapur.jpg
Shekhar Kapoor is a well known Indian director.
Boney Kapoor
Anil Kapoor
Sanjay Kapoor
Sonam Kapoor

The Kapoors – 3

The Malhotras

The Sahnis

The Anands

The Chopras

The Deols

The Dutts

The Tullis

The Puris

The Khannas – 1

The Khannas – 2

The Roshans

The Bedis

The Kapurs

Pankaj Kapur
Shahid Kapoor

Indian actor Shahid Kapoor.

The Devgans

The Oberois

The Paintals

The Aroras

Individual artists

Kareena Kapoor

Celina

Deepak Parashar

File:SonamKapoor.jpg
Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actor.
David Dhawan
Deepti Naval
Dara Singh
Divya Dutta
Gul Panag
Govinda
Gulshan Grover
Gracy Singh
Honey Singh
I. S. Johar
Juhi Chawla
Juhi Babbar
Jimmy Shergill
Jimmy Sharma
Kapil Sharma
Kamini Kaushal
Kanwaljit Singh
Karan Singh Grover
Kunal Kapoor
Kunal Kohli
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kiran Juneja
Kirron Kher
Karan Johar
Manoj Kumar
Mangal Dhillon
Mukesh Khanna
Mandira Bedi
Monica Bedi
Neha Dhupia
Navin Nischol
Om Prakash
Poonam Dhillon
Prem Chopra^[11]
Pran
Parmeet Sethi
Parminder Gill
Pooja Batra
Pooja Bedi
Priyanka Chopra^[12]

File:Priyanka Chopra.jpg
Priyanka Chopra is an Indian film actor.
Ruby Bhatia
Ranjeet
Raj Babbar
Rati Agnihotri
Raveena Tandon
Raageshwari
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rajat Kapoor
Rahul Roy
Rajit Kapur
Rubina Shergill
Simone Singh
Shiny Ahuja
Suraiya
Simi Garewal
Saeed Jaffrey
Shakti Kapoor
Simran Mundi
Sonu Walia
Sunny Gill
Sunny Leone
Tamannaah (Tinsel Randhawa)
Tara Sharma
Urvashi sharma
Vinod Mehra
Yogeeta Bali

Altamash Khan [going to be an actor in future]

Visual Effect Artist

Harprit Singh Kang^[13]

Documentary Film Makers

Jaspal Bhatti

Directors

Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)

History

Porus and Alexender

Folklore

Religious and spiritual figures

The Ten Gurus of Sikhism

Sikh

Related to Sikhism

Sri Chand, son of Guru Nanak Dev ji

Writers

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu

Giani Gurdit Singh

Bhai Gurdas
Giani Gurdit Singh
Bulleh Shah
Waris Shah
Hashim Shah
Mian Muhammad Baksh
Shah Mohammad
Shardha Ram Phillauri
Nanak Singh
Dhani Ram Chatrik
Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Bhai Vir Singh
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Damodar Das Arora
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Sahir Ludhianvi
Shareef Kunjahi
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
Mohammed Iqbal
Saadat Hasan Manto
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

English

Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist.

Journalists

Print

India

Electronic/Broadcast

India

Tamil cinema

Simran Bagga, Punjabi Hindu
Sonia Agarwal, Punjabi Hindu
Jyothika, Punjabi Muslim

Models

Waris Ahluwalia American model,endorses a clothing brand -GAP
Karen Malhotra, more commonly known as Sunny Leone, an Indian actress.
Jesse Randhawa, a Bollywood model
Manmeet Singh

Musicians

Classical

Bollywood

Ghazals

Ghulam Ali

Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk

India

Jay Sean

Pop and Rock

India

Revolutionaries

Politicians

India

Sportspersons

Tennis

Shikha Uberoi

Cricket

India

Harbhajan, pictured here bowling in the nets

Hockey

Field hockey

Ice hockey

Manny Malhotra

Athletics

Milkha Singh
Ajmer Singh (1940–2010), Olympian and 1966 Jakarta Asian Games gold medallist sprinter^[17]
Rupa Saini
Kamaljeet Sandhu
Baljinder Singh (born 1986), race walker

Golf

Wrestling

The "Great" Gama

The Great Khali, (real name Dalip Singh Rana) an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and former powerlifter
The Great Gama
Dara Singh
Jinder Mahal
Premchand Dhingra
Tiger Jeet Singh
Gurjit Singh
Sonjay Dutt (real name Ritesh Bhalla), a TNA wrestler
Ayushmoy Roy, infamous flat 79 corridor wrestler and proud bearer of 15 inch super biceps.
Ghuller Pehlwan
vijay kumar- real name as Billa pehalwaan, Rustam e hind As Bharat kesari and also win the title of Sitaare – e – Punjab. he has won the both titles at the same day can be recorded in the Indian history of the world wrestlers.
Sohan Singh- he has also won the many titles and works at the coach at amritsar (Goal bagh stadium) as the professionalist .
Maddi- He has also won the title of sitaare – e – Punjab and also won many titles by punajb sports organisation.

Fighters

Akshay Kumar-real name Rajeev Bhatia, black belt in Karate, is an Indian film actor now.
Veeru Devgan-father of Ajay Devgan, action and stunt designer.

Shooting

Abhinav Bindra 1st individual Olympic Gold Medalist
Gagan Narang – the only Indian to win two medals at a World championship
Avneet Sidhu – Commenwealth Games Medalist, Arjun Awardee

Billiards

Geet Sethi

Cycling

Alexi Grewal, American-Sikh won gold medal in Olympics

Soccer

Basketball

Sim Bhullar-Canadian-Sikh who became the first player of Indian descent to play in the NBA in 2015 for the Sacramento Kings
Satnam Singh Bhamara-drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the 52nd pick in the 2015 NBA draft , making him the first person of Indian descent to be drafted into the NBA

Roller Skating

Jodh Singh- An international player (born 1985) in Ludhiana represented Team India in 2005 World Inline Speed Skating Championship held at Suzhou,China. In May 2006 Laurie Hastie Cup, at Palmerston North, New Zealand. In September 2006, 37th World Roller Hockey Championship held at Montevideo, Uruguay.

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References

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List of people from Punjab, India

Contents

Military leaders

Indian Armed Forces

Airforce

Army

Navy

Military Gallantry Award Winners

Indian Armed Forces

Param Veer Chakra (PVC)

Maha Veer Chakra (MVC)

Early Modern era

Business

Artists

Educators and Scientists

Astronauts

Bollywood

Families

Individual artists

Visual Effect Artist

Documentary Film Makers

Directors

Crossover directors and actors (Hollywood)

History

Folklore

Religious and spiritual figures

The Ten Gurus of Sikhism

Sikh

Related to Sikhism

Writers

Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu

English

Journalists

Print

India

Electronic/Broadcast

India

Tamil cinema

Models

Musicians

Classical

Bollywood

Ghazals

Bhangra and other Punjabi Folk

India

Pop and Rock

India

Revolutionaries

Politicians

India

Sportspersons

Tennis

Cricket

India

Hockey

Field hockey

Ice hockey

Athletics

Golf

Wrestling

Fighters

Shooting

Billiards

Cycling

Soccer

Basketball

Roller Skating

See also

References

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