List of people from Delhi

This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.

Armed forces

 * Anuj Nayyar, Kargil Hero
 * General Pervez Musharraf, Former Army Chief, Pakistan Army & Former President of Pakistan

Arts and entertainment

 * Nandita Das
 * Chetan Bhagat
 * Tushar Raheja
 * Arjun Rampal
 * Amba Sanyal (b. 1945), stage actor and costume designer
 * Imran Zahid
 * Rahul Dev
 * Shahid Kapoor
 * Shakti Kapoor
 * Sunidhi Chauhan
 * Bipasha Basu
 * Esha Gupta
 * Minissha Lamba
 * Sudhir Tailang
 * Shah Rukh Khan, Actor
 * Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director

Politics

 * Arvind Kejriwal
 * 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
 * Rahul Sanghvi
 * Rajinder Goel
 * Raman Lamba
 * Robin Singh, Jr.
 * Salim Durani
 * Sanjeev Sharma
 * Sunil Valson
 * Surinder Khanna
 * Unmukt Chand
 * Vijay Dahiya
 * Vivek Razdan
 * Yogesh Nagar
 * Yuki Bhambri

Others

 * Ratish Nanda, Indian conservation architect
 * Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian
 * Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi{born 1950}, a great Institution builder and Chancellor of Several Universities
 * Laila Tyabji (b. 1947) co-founder Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)