Famous People
Mirza Rafi Sauda Ram Manohar Lohia was born in Akbarpur then in Faizabad. Mirza Rafi Sauda was also born in Faizabad. Barry Hay Olympiun and Arjuna Award winner Boxer Akhil Kumar and Rocstar pop singer Barry Hay were born in Faizabad.Legendary Hindi writer Mr. Radhika Prasad Tripathi was from this city. Akhtaribai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar, was born in Faizabad. She was a classical singer who performed ghazals, dadras, thumris, etc. Among other notable people from Faizabad are Mir Babar Ali Anis, a nineteenth century writer of Marsiya (elegies in Urdu) and Brij Narayan Chakbast, another nineteenth-century Urdu poet. Chakbast is credited to have translated the Ramayana into Urdu for the first time.
- Maulana Taqi-ul-Haideri - Principal Wasiqa Arabia College
- Raja Dwijdeo Mishra
- Mitrasen Yadav (Politician).
- Surya Nath Verma and Manoj Kumar Verma both are ebizer.
- Mangal Pandey ( Father of India's first war of Independence 1857, Born in Akbarpur tehsil)
- Mirza Rafi Sauda was born in Faizabad.
- Famous Urdu poet Bashir Badr was born in district Faizabad.
- Acharya Narendra Deva
- Arjun Award winner Boxer Akhil Kumar was born in Faizabad.
- Francis Quinton, an English cricketer, was born Faizabad.
- Rockstar Barry Hay a pop singer was born in Faizabad.
- Pooja Batra, the Bollywood actress was born in Faizabad.
- Indu Jain (Owner of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd,Times of India Group,Forbes India's top 20 richest person)
- Vinay Katiyar (Politician)
- Ravindranath Tewari (Politician)
- Satyendranath Tripathi (Politician)
- Sri Hanuman Shukla ( Great freedom Fighter in 1857)
- Sri. Radhika Prasad Tripathi ( Poet )
- Mir Babar Ali Anis a famous urdu poet
- Brij Narayan Chakbast (Poet writer of URDU Ramayana)
- Umrao Jaan(a Famous character named Umrao Jaan Ada)
- Hazrat Khawaja Naseeruddin Chirage Dehli
- Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, or Begum Akhtar
- Kunwar Narain (Poet)
- Meer Mehmoodul Hasan s/o Meer Sakhawat Ali Famous Zamindar (Landlord) of Abusarai, popularly known as "Meer Sahab",Abbusarai Faizabad
- Syed Shabi-ul-Hasan Ex-LandLord Abbusarai Secretory U.P Samajwaty Party (Minority Cell).Abbusarai Faizabad.
- Akhil Kumar ( Indian Boxer, Olympian)
- Anantu Tiwari (Veer Sewa medal winner, Indian Army, Died in Indo-Pak war)
- Rustomji Cama (Associated with Mahatma Gandhi)
- Pt. Kiran Mishra (Famous Lyrics writer Specially Devotional Songs)
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