Bollywood
- Kamal Amrohi – Director, screenwriter and dialogue writer
- Kaifi Azmi - Lyricist
- Shabana Azmi - Actress
- Farah Naaz - Actress
- Muzaffar Ali - Padma Shri (2005) Rajah Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October 1944, Lucknow) is an Indian film-maker, an actor, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, and a social worker. He belongs to a Royal Muslim Rajput family of Kotwara. He directed and produced Gaman (1978), Umrao Jaan (1981) and many other films, Serials and Plays.
- Javed Jaffrey – Actor and comedian
- Akbar Khan – Actor, screenwriter, producer and director
- Fardeen Khan – Actor and son of Feroz Khan
- Feroz Khan – Actor, film editor, producer and director
- Sanjay Khan – Actor turned film producer and director
- Zayed Khan – Actor and son of Sanjay Khan
- Meena Kumari – Actress and Urdu-Hindi poetess
- Salim-Sulaiman – Music composer duo
- Aamir Khan -Actor and son of tahir hussain
- M. F. Husain-Painter and Bollywood filmmaker
- Emraan Hashmi - Actor
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