List of people from Delhi

This is a list of famous and notable people from Delhi, 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.

Armed forces

 * Anuj Nayyar, Kargil Hero

Arts and entertainment

 * Nandita Das
 * Chetan Bhagat
 * Arjun Rampal
 * Shahid Kapoor
 * Shakti Kapoor
 * Sunidhi Chauhan
 * Bipasha basu
 * Sudhir Tailang
 * Shah Rukh Khan
 * Salman Khan

Politics

 * Jagdish Tytler
 * Priyanka Gandhi
 * HKL Bhagat
 * Sahib Singh Verma
 * Kedar Nath Sahani
 * Rahul Gandhi

Poetry



 * Ghalib renowned Urdu/Persian poet.
 * Bedil Dehlavi, poet (1642–1720),
 * Bahadurshah Zafar Mughal king (Last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and acclaimed Urdu poet.
 * Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
 * Yaseen Anwer (born 1989) Poet, founder & managing editor, Poets' Corner Group, he is also founding member of Delhi Poetry Festival.

Sports

 * Ishant Sharma
 * Virender Sehwag
 * Warren Lee (cricketer)
 * Gautam Gambhir
 * Virat Kohli
 * Amit Mishra
 * Ashish Nehra
 * Shikhar Dhawan
 * Mithun Manhas
 * Ajay Jadeja
 * Mohinder Amarnath
 * Amit Bhandari
 * Atul Wassan
 * Chetan Chauhan
 * Kirti Azad
 * Manoj Prabhakar
 * Nikhil Chopra
 * Pradeep Sangwan
 * Rahul Sanghvi
 * Rajinder Goel
 * Raman Lamba
 * Salim Durani
 * Sanjeev Sharma
 * Sunil Valson
 * Surinder Khanna
 * Swaroop Kishen
 * Vijay Dahiya
 * Vivek Razdan
 * Yogesh Nagar