Jharkhand Personalities

Award winners
Padma Bhushan

Kariya Munda - 2019, Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2018, Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay - 2010, Social Activist, Gandhian

Jharkhand Gaurav Samman

Lal Vijay Shahdeo - 2019, Film Director, Producer & Writer

Padma Shri

Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti[1]
Balbir Dutt - 2017, journalist
Bulu Imam - 2019, activist
Deepika Kumari - 2016, sports, archery
Digamber Hansda - 2018
Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey - 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer[2]
Jamuna Tudu - 2019, also known as Lady Tarzan
Kedar Nath Sahoo - 2005, classical dancer
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - 2020, folk singer
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2009, Indian international cricketer
Makar Dhwaja Darogha - 2011, Chhau Dancer
Mukund Nayak - 2017, folk singer
Parasu Ram Mishra
Premlata Agarwal - 2013
Ram Dayal Munda - 2010, Indian scholar and regional music exponent
Shyama Charan Pati - 2006, Chhau Dancer
Simon Oraon - 2016, Indian environmentalist and social worker
Vasundhara Komkali - 2006, classical musician

Academics

Bindheswari Prasad Keshri - educationist, writer, scholar
Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925
Ram Dayal Munda - former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University
Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976

Authors

Bulu Imam - environmentalist, writer
Khagendra Thakur
Nikita Singh - author
Pankaj Dubey - author
Shiv Khera - author, motivational speaker, activist
Tuhin Sinha - best selling author of eight book, screenwriter and social commentator

Business and industry

Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006[3]
Ashwin Srivastava - venture capitalist
Mahesh Poddar - industrialist
Sanjeev Barnwal - listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Cinema and theatre
Actors

Ashok Gope - actor, born in Ranchi
Bibhu Bhattacharya - born in Jharia
Deepak Lohar
Dipankar De - born in Jamshedpur
Imran Zahid - born in Bokaro
Krishna Bharadwaj (actor) - born in Ranchi
Meiyang Chang - born in Dhanbad
Nikhil Pandey - born in Ranchi
Rajesh Jais - born in Ranchi
R. Madhavan - born in Jamshedpur
Sanjeev Jaiswal - born in Jamshedpur
Vikram Singh (actor) - actor and producer, born in Jamshedpur
Zeishan Quadri - actor and writer, born in Wasseypur

Actresses

Alisha Singh - actress, dancer and choreographer, born in Ranchi
Amrita Raichand - actress, born in Dhanbad
Auritra Ghosh - actress, born in Jamshedpur
Deeba - actress, born in Ranchi
Eenu Shree - actress, born in Jamshedpur
Ishita Dutta - younger sister of Tanushree Dutta, born in Jamshedpur
Komal Jha - actress, born in Ranchi
Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri
Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, actress, born in Jamshedpur
Pratyusha Banerjee - born in Jamshedpur
Pooja Singh - born in Jamshedpur
Rasika Duggal - actress, born in Jamshedpur
Reecha Sinha - actress, born in Hazaribagh
Shweta Prasad - actress, born in Jamshedpur
Simone Singh - born in Jamshedpur
Sumann - born in Jamshedpur
Supriya Kumari - actress, born in Ranchi
Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004, actress, born in Jamshedpur
Tania - Punjabi actress, born in Jamshedpur

Cinematographer / Choreographers

Aseem Mishra - cinematographer, born in Dhanbad
Alisha Singh - choreographer and actor, born in Ranchi

Directors / Producers

Akashaditya Lama - director and scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi
Amit Bose - director, born in Jamshedpur
Anurag Anand - director and producer in Hollywood, Hazaribag
Ashok Ghayal - director and composer
Biju Toppo - director and producer, born in Mahuadanr
Gul Bahar Singh - director, born in Pakur
Imtiaz Ali - director and writer, Jamshedpur
Lal Vijay Shahdeo - director, producer and writer based in Mumbai, born in Lohardaga
Prem Prakash Modi - director and writer, Dumka
Raj Kumar Gupta - director, born in Hazaribag
Rakesh S.P. Srivastava - producer and director, born in Ramgarh Cantt
Sanjivan Lal - director and writer, born in Jamshedpur
Shomu Mukherjee - director, writer and producer, born in Jamshedpur
Sriram Dalton - director, born in Daltonganj

Music / playback singers / Lyricist / Poet

Biswajit Roy Chowdhury - Hindustani classical musician and sarod player, Deoghar
Chandan Tiwari - folk singer, Bokaro
Chetan Joshi - flautist in the Hindustani classical music, Jharia
Karan Singh Arora - Indian singer, songwriter, rapper, music composer, music director, lyricist and model, Ranchi
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - folk singer, born in Ranchi
Monica Mundu - playback singer, also acted in film M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Nandlal Nayak - music composer
Payal Dev - playback singer
Ronkini Gupta - playback singer, born in Jamshedpur
Shilpa Rao - singer, born in Jamshedpur

Freedom fighters and revolutionaries

Bakhtar Say - freedom fighter, fought against British force in 1812
Birsa Munda - freedom fighter and folk hero; belonged to the tribal group of Munda people
Budhu Bhagat - freedom fighter
Dhananjay Mahato
Jagabandhu Patnaik
Kanhu Murmu
Mundal Singh - freedom fighter, fought against British force in 1812
Nilambar and Pitambar
Pandey Ganpat Rai
Raghunath Mahato
Raja Arjun Singh - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
Ram Narayan Singh
Sheikh Bhikhari - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
Sido Murmu
Telanga Kharia
Thakur Vishwanath Shahdeo - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
Tikait Umrao Singh - freedom fighter in 1857 rebellion
Tilka Manjhi

Journalism

Anjana Om Kashyap - executive editor of the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak
Balbir Dutt
Dayamani Barla

Jurists and Lawyers

Binod Bihari Mahato - lawyer, politician, political activist
Lal Pingley Nath Shahdeo - jurist and political activist
Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - lawyer, writer, political activist

Medical

Bharti Kashyap - ophthalmologist
Subhash Mukhopadhyay - created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation

Gallantry Awards winner

Albert Ekka - recipient of Param Vir Chakra
Randhir Prasad Verma - recipient of Ashoka Chakra
Rakesh Asthana

Poetry

Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi[4]
Dalel Singh, Nagpuri language poet
Ghasiram Mahli - Nagpuri poet
Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - Nagpuri poet
Raghunath Shah - Nagvanshi king and poet
Ram Krishna Singh - published seventeen poetry collections in English[5]

Politics
Activist

Bindeshwari Dubey - veteran trade union leader and politician
Bindheswari Prasad Keshri - educationist, writer
Binod Bihari Mahato - lawyer, politician, political activist
Jaipal Singh Munda, known as Marang Gomke - tribal leader who participated in making of Indian Constitution representing whole tribal community
Lal Pingley Nath Shahdeo - jurist and political activist
Lal Ranvijay Nath Shahdeo - lawyer, writer, political activist
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - songwriter, singer
Nirmal Mahto - political activist
Ram Dayal Munda
Sambit Patra - Indian politician and surgeon. Born in Bokaro Steel City, He is one of the official national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Shibu Soren - politician
Teklal Mahto - politician

Governors of other states

Bhishma Narain Singh - Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Rameshwar Thakur - Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh

Chief Minister

Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.
Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
Bindeshwari Dubey - Chief Minister of Bihar from 12 March 1985 to 14 February 1988; was involved in a Trade Union Movement in Chotanagpur collieries and industries since 1944; played an important role in the nationalization of collieries in India, specially in Jharkhand; was 6 term MLA from Bermo constituency in Bokaro District and MP from Giridih in Jharkhand
Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
Hemant Soren - currently Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
Madhu Koda - former chief minister of Jharkhand
Raghubar Das - former chief minister of Jharkhand
Shibu Soren

Others

Ajoy Kumar - former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer; elected as the MP (Member of Parliament) in the 15th Lok Sabha, from the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency; former President of Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee, in Aam Aadmi Party
Basant Narain Singh
Bidyut Baran Mahato - MLA from Jamshedpur
Kamakhya Narain Singh
Vijaya Raje
Shashank Manjari
Jayant Sinha
Kariya Munda
Kartik Oraon
Ravindra Kumar Ray
Subodh Kant Sahay - former cabinet minister, government of India
Sudesh Kumar Mahto - President of AJSU Party
Yashwant Sinha - former Union Cabinet minister, Government of India

Religion

Thakur Anukulchandra
Father Kamil Bulke
Parshvanatha - twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism; achieved mokṣa at the age of one hundred atop Shikharji, Giridih district
Telesphore Toppo

Rulers

Ani Nath Shahdeo
Bairisal
Bhim Karn
Dalel Singh
Durjan Sal
Kamakhya Narain Singh
Lal Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo
Phani Mukut Rai
Madhu Singh
Medini Ray
Pratap Karn
Raghunath Shah
Raja Arjun Singh
Ram Shah
Shivdas Karn
Thakur Vishwanath Shahdeo
Tikait Umrao Singh

Social service

Jyoti Dhawale
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - spent the last 18 to 20 years of his life among the Santhals at Karmatar, Jamtara district; the station Karmatar has been renamed as 'Vidyasagar' railway station in his honour
Rajesh Thakur - social worker and President of Helping Hands in Bokaro

Sports
Archery

Deepika Kumari - Indian athlete who competes in archery status, currently ranked number 1 in the world.
Laxmirani Majhi
Madhumita Kumari - won the Silver Medal Asian Games 2018 in the Women's compound archery team event.
Mangal Singh Champia - Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several International event, including Asian Games.
Purnima Mahato - won the Indian national archery championships and a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

Boxing

Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion
Diwakar Prasad - international boxer

Cricket

Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Kirti Azad
Monu Kumar
Pratyush Singh - made his first-class debut for Jharkhand in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 20 October 2016.
Rahul Tripathi
Rajesh Chauhan
Randhir Singh
Saurabh Tiwary
Shahbaz Nadeem
Shubhlakshmi Sharma - Indian female cricket player
Varun Aaron

Association football

Deepak Mondal
Lal Mohan Hansda - Indian footballer, plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League
Munmun Lugun - Indian footballer, plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League
Sanjay Balmuchu - Indian footballer, plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League; 2012 graduate of the Tata Football Academy[6]

Hockey

Bimal Lakra
Birendra Lakra - born in Simdega
Jaipal Singh Munda - captained the Indian field hockey team to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
Kanti Baa
Manohar Topno
Masira Surin
Michael Kindo
Nikki Pradhan
Pushpa Pradhan
Sylvanus Dung Dung - former field hockey player from India
Sumrai Tete

Mountaineering

Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 45[7]

Others

Atul Kochhar - Indian-born, British based chef, restaurateur, and television personality
Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi
Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India
Subodh Kumar Jaiswal - Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)

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