List Of People From Madhya Pradesh
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This is a list of famous and notable people from Madhya Pradesh, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
- Rajesh Sharma, politician
- Arjun Singh, politician
- Ashok Kumar, actor
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former PM of India
- Kishore Kumar, singer
- Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary
- Guru Radha Kishan, independence activist
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- Digvijay Singh, chief minister, (1993-2003)
- Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of state (2003-)
- Osho Rajneesh, spiritual guru
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the TM school of meditation.
- Aslam Sher Khan, former India hockey player
- Habib Tanvir, theatre person
- Jaya Bachchan, Actor
- Madhavrao Scindia, of the Scindia family, erstwhile rulers of Gwalior, former Union Minister
- Raghuvir Yadav, actor
- Salman Khan, actor
- Kumar Gandharva, Hindustani classical singer
- Javed Akhtar, eminent writer and poet
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, ex president of India
- Kamta Prasad Guru, Hindi grammarian
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi, writer & Urdu scholar
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Bhopal born scholar of Unani medicine
- Pankaj Sharma, well known journalist
- Parasram Gurjar, (allegedly 10 October 1886 – 10 December 2011), 'oldest man in India', winner of the Shatayu Samman award
- Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi, activist for the rights of the victims of the Bhopal gas catastrophe
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