This is a list of notable people who self-identify as members of the
RajputA Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...
community of Northern India and
PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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Historical figures
- Banda Bahadur
Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh warrior and martyr. He became part of struggle against the Mughal Empire in the early 18th century, after meeting Guru Gobind Singh. Guru Gobind Singh gave him the new name of Banda Singh Bahadur...
, Sikh Minhas Rajput warrior against the Mughal Empire
- Bappa Rawal
Bappa Rawal , eighth ruler of the Guhilot Rajput Dynasty and founder of the Mewar Dynasty in present-day Rajasthan, India...
, First Gehlot king at Chitrakut(Chittor),who defeated Arabs after their capture of sindhSindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...
- Gogaji
Gogaji also known as Jahar Veer Gogga is a folk deity of Rajasthan state in India. He is an eminent warrior-hero of the region. He is also venerated as a saint and even as 'snake-god'.- Introduction :He is known as Goga among the Hindus...
, ChauhanChauhan, Chouhan or Chohan , , - is a clan who ruled parts of northern India in the Middle Ages. The clan is most famous for Rajput King Maharaja Prithviraj Chauhan...
Rajput and Local deity of Rajasthan.
- Vachra Dada
Vachra Dada also known as Bhatiji Maharaj is a folk deity of Gujarat state in India. He is an eminent warrior-hero of the region. Hindus and Muslims alike honor him....
, a SolankiThe Solanki was a royal Hindu Indian dynasty that ruled parts of western and central India between the 10th to 13th centuries. A number of scholars including V. A. Smith assign them Gurjar origin....
Rajput and folk deity of Gujarat.
- Maharaja Ganga Singh
His Highness General Sir Maharaja Ganga Singh GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GCStJ, GBE, KCB was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner from 1888 to 1943...
- Harsha Vardhana
Harsha or Harsha Vardhana or Harshvardhan was an Indian emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 AD. He was the son of Prabhakara Vardhana and younger brother of Rajya Vardhana, a king of Thanesar, Haryana...
- Maharaja Jaswant Singh
Maharaja Jaswant Singh was a ruler of Marwar in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He was a Rajput belonging to the Rathore clan. His father was Maharaja Guj Singh.-History:...
- Jai Singh Prabhakar Bahadur Ruler of princly state of Alwar
- Maharana Pratap
- Maharao Shardul Singh Ruler of Jhunjhunu
- Mira Bai
- Pabuji
Pabuji is a folk-deity of Rajasthan in India. He lived in 14th century in Rajasthan. He was one of four children of Dhadal Rathore of village Kolu, two boys and two girls...
Rathore (Local deity of Rajasthan)
- Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Ajmer
- Rai Bhoe Bhatti
Rai Bhoe Bhatti was the founder of Nankana Sahib, formerly known as 'Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi' a city in the province of Punjab. Located at 31°26'51N 73°41'50E - about 80 kilometres south west of Lahore and about 75 kilometres East from Faisalabad, with a population of almost 160,000, it is also the...
, Founder of Nankana SahibNankana Sahib , earlier known as Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, is a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is named after the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev, the central figure in Sikhism who was born here, so it is a city of high historic and religious value and is a popular pilgrimage site...
- Rai Bular Bhatti
Rai Bular Bhatti or Rai was a Muslim noble of the Rajput Bhatti clan during the latter half of the 15th century. The Bhatti clan founded the cities of Batinda and Jaisalmir, among others. The exact date of Rai Bular's birth is not known but records kept by bards date it c. 1425, in the city of...
, Son of Rai Bhoe Bhatti and heir to his estate of over 100000 acres (404.7 km²) of land in modern day Nankana Sahib District.
- Raja Bhagwant Das
Raja Bhagawant Das was a Kacchwaha ruler of Amber. One of his descendants Jai Singh II founded Jaipur.-Life:...
, King of Amber Rajasthan
- Ram Singh Pathania, Hero of revolts against British
- Rana Kumbha, Ruler at Chittor in 15th century
- Rana Sanga
-Historical Fact:Maharana Sangram Singh was the ruler of Mewar state, a region lying within the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, a desert region, between 1509 and 1527. He was a scion of the Sisodia clan of Suryavanshi Rajputs...
, Ruler of Mewar
- Rana Udai Singh II, Founder of Udaipur
Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...
- Rao Bika
Rao Bika was the founder of the city and principality of Bikaner in present-day Rajasthan. He was a scion of the Rathore clan of Rajputs. He was a son of Rao Jodha, founder of the city and principality of Jodhpur....
, Founded Bikaner
- Rao Jodha
Rao Jodha was a Rajput ruler of Mandore . He was the son of Rao Ranmal of the Rathore clan. He is known for founding the city of Jodhpur in 1459.-Ancestry:...
, Founded city of Jodhpur
- Rao Maldeo Rathore
thumb|Rao Maldeo RathoreRao Maldeo Rathore was a Rajput ruler of Marwar, which was later known as Jodhpur . He was a scion of the Rathore clan. His father was Rao Ganga and his mother was Rani Padmavati of Sirohi.The then Muslim historean Ferishta calls him as the "most Potent Prince of Hindustan"...
, Ruler of marwar 15 A.D.
- Rao Shekha
MahaRao Shekha was a Rajput chieftain belonging to the Kachwaha clan of Amer/Jaipur. He ruled over Amarsar, The Shekhawati gets its name from him, comprising the districts of Sikar and Jhunjhunu in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan...
, King of Amarsar
- Rawal Jaisal Singh, Founder of the city of Jaisalmer.
- Rawal Ratan Singh
Rawal Ratan Singh was the 42nd ruler of Mewar, a state that then covered part of the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He ruled from 1302-03 AD. Singh was a rajput belonging to the Guhilot clan.-Wars:...
, Husband of Rani Padimini, Sisodiya ruler of Chittor (13 a.d.)
- Sangat Singh Minhas
Sangat Singh Minhas was the first Doaba Sikh Rajput to join the army of Guru Gobind Singh. He came from the village of Padhiana in the Jalandhar district, and joined the Guru’s forces with his two brothers and many other Rajput chiefs...
- Vanraj Chavda
Vanraj Chavda was the most prominent king of the Chavda Kingdom or "Gurjar Chapa dynasty" , a Hindu Kshatriya dynasty which ruled Gujarat from 746 AD to 942 AD.- History :...
, Ruler of the Chavda DynastyThe Chavda Kingdom or Chapa dynasty also known as Gujar Chapas was an ancient Hindu Kshatriya dynasty which ruled northern Gujarat from 746 AD to 942 AD....
in Gujarat.
- Veer Kunwar Singh
- Jambhoji
- Jai Singh II, Founder and King of Jaipur
- Jai Singh I
Mirza Raja Jai Singh was a senior general of the Mughal Empire and a ruler of the kingdom of Amber . His father was Maha Singh the Raja of Garha, and his mother was Damayanti, a princess of Mewar.The great Raja Man Singh of Amber had several sons, the most capable of whom were the eldest Jagat...
, King of Amber
- Raja Amar Singh Rathore
Amar Singh Rathore was a Rathore Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar, and a courtier of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in seventeenth-century India. After he was disinherited and exiled by his family, he entered the Mughals' service...
- Raja Man Singh I of Amber
Raja Shri Man Singh Ji Saheb was the Kacchwaha King of Amber, a state later known as Jaipur...
, King of Amber, Rajasthan. General of Akbar
- Raja Pajawan or Pajjun, King of Amber
- Raja Drig Narayan Singh Ruler of Tulsipur who died as a Martyr during First War of Independence in 1857 AD
- Capt.Raghuvir singh,INA,Freedom Fighter from Teharki(Sardhana),Meerut(UP).
Politicians of India
- Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Devisingh Patil is the 12th President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President of India on 25 July 2007, succeeding Dr. A.P.J...
, President of India
- Arjun Singh
Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He was the Union Minister of Human Resource Development in the Manmohan Singh cabinet from 2004 to 2009....
, Senior Congress Leader.Former Minister for Human Resource and Development
- Dr. Karan Singh
Karan Singh is an MP in the Rajya Sabha, a senior member of the ruling Indian National Congress Party serving as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations , India's Ambassador to UNESCO, Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and of the Temple...
, Senior Congress Leader and 1st Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- Digvijay Singh, Former Chief Minister under Madhya Pradesh, General Secretary of the Congress Party
- Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th Vice-President of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant, until he resigned on July 21, 2007, after losing the presidential election to Pratibha...
, 11th Vice President of India. Also served Three times Chief MinisterA Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
Of Rajasthan from BJP party.
- Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh is a prominent Indian politician and who has served the country in many capacities. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a Cabinet Minister in the NDA regime and became the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the single largest Opposition party in India...
, former National President of BJP
- Thakur Sanjay Singh
Dr. Sanjay Singh/Sinh is a member of the Parliament of India, Lok Sabha from Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, earlier was elected from Amethi / Amethi in India from 1998 to 1999 and earlier a member of Rajya Sabha from 1990 to 1996. He has been a controversial political figure...
M.P from Sultanpur U.P and secretry A.I.C.C.
- Vishwanath Pratap Singh, The 10th Prime Minister of India. Former Finance Minister of India, also Served as Chief Minister Of Uttar Pradesh.
- Chandra Shekhar
Chandra Shekhar Singh was the eighth Prime Minister of India.-Early years:He was born on 1 July 1927 to a Rajput farming family in Ibrahimpatti - Ballia in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Chandra Shekhar Singh did his Master of Arts at Allahabad University. He was known as a firebrand in student politics...
, The 11th Prime Minister of India. Led Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
- Deep Narayan Singh
Deep Narayan Singh was an Indian politician, participant in the Indian independence movement, and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.He was born in Rajput family of Bihar. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as part of...
, 2nd Chief Minister of Bihar
- Dr.Anugrah Narayan Singh,Member Constituent Assembly of India
The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India, and following independence served as the nation's first Parliament.-Nature of the Assembly:...
& 1st Deputy Chief Minister of BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Madhav Singh Solanki
Madhav Singh Solanki is a leader of Indian National Congress party and a former External affairs minister of India. He was the four times chief minister of Gujarat.- Bofors :...
, Former Chief Minister of Gujrat
- Jagdambika Pal
Jagdambika Pal is an Indian National Congress leader and a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 3 days from 21 February 1998 to 23 February 1998....
, Former Chief Minister of Uttar PradeshUttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
and Member of Parliament
- Chandrashekhar Singh
Chandrashekhar Singh was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from August 1983 to March 1985. He also held a number of Cabinet Minister positions in the Cabinet of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi....
, Former Chief MinisterA Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
of BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Yashwantrao Chavan
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People...
, The 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India. 1st CM of Maharashtra
- Madhuri Singh, Former Member of Parliament from Purnea Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
Thakur jugal Kishore Sinha was an Indian politician. He was elected to the 1st Lok Sabha from Muzaffarpur North-West Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar in 1953 . He was part of the freedom movement and also known as the Father of cooperative movement in Bihar...
, Member of 1st Lok-Sabha
- Satyendra Narayan Singh,Rajput Chieftain,Member of Provisional Parliament,Member of 1st Lok-Sabha & Former Chief Minister
A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
of BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Ram Dulari Sinha
Ram Dulari Sinha is a former Indian parliamentarian and Union Minister. She was one of the few women Governors of India, and was appointed the role of Governor of Kerala from 23 February 1988 to 12 February 1990....
, Former Union Minister and Former Governor of Kerela
- Raghubansh Prasad Singh M.P from Vaishali Bihar and former cabinet minister.
- Bharatsinh Solanki
Bharatsinh Solanki is a prominent young leader of the Indian National Congress.Positions held :2009-2011, Union Minister of State of Power, Government of India 2006 -2008 - President, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee2004 - Secretary, A.I.C.C....
, Minister, Government of India
- Kishori Sinha
Kishori Sinha is an Indian politician and a former Two-term Member of Parliament from the Vaishali constituency and is married to the former Chief Minister of Bihar and prominent Congressman Satyendra Narayan Sinha , who was a seven-term MP,from the constituency of Aurangabad. Her son Nikhil...
,Freedom fighter & 1st woman Member of Parliament (LS) from Vaishalli Parliamentary Constituency in BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Virbhadra Singh
Virbhadra Singh is the current Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of India. He became the Union Minister of MSME of the United Progressive Alliance government, led by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on June 21, 2010 .His portfolio was changed from Ministry of Steeel...
, Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from Indian National Congress and current Union Cabinet Minister
- Harikesh Bahadur
Harikesh Bahadur is a national leader of the Indian National Congress and has represented Gorakhpur on the Congress Party ticket in 1977 and 1980....
, Senior Congress leader
- Madhurendra Kumar Singh, Senior leader of Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
Congress( Member A.I.C.C ),prominent student leader( N.S.U.I )during his Patna University days
- Tapeshwar Singh, Former Member of Parliament from arrah Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Nikhil Kumar
Nikhil Kumar is the currentGovernor of Nagaland. He was appointed Governor of Nagaland on 4 October 2009 by The President of India,Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing the Aurangabad constituency in Bihar as a member of the Indian National...
, current Governor of Nagaland
- Raman Singh
Raman Singh is the current Chief Minister of Chhatisgarh, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been chief minister since December 7, 2003.-Political career:Dr. Raman Singh holds a degree in Ayurvedic Medicine...
, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh from BJP party
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Rajiv Pratap Rudy is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar, India. He is a National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party...
, Former Union Minister.
- Bhanwar Jitendra Singh
Jitendra Pratap Singh Prabhakar Bahadur is the Minister of State in the central government Indian Member of Parliament representing the Alwar constituency of Rajasthan.Jitendra Singh is the grandson of Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar, the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Alwar...
, Secretary A.I.C.C, Member of Parliament from Alwar RajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
- Jagdanand Singh, Member of Parliament from Buxar Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Umashanker singh,Member of Parliament from Maharajganj Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Prabhunath Singh
Prabhunath Singh is a noted politician from Bihar, India, and was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Maharajganj of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal , political party of Lalu Prasad Yadav.According to the National Election Watch, Prabhunath Singh was...
, Former Member of Parliament from Maharajganj BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Gayatri Devi
Gayatri Devi , often styled as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, was born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar...
, former Maharani of JaipurJaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
- Jaswant Singh
- Career :He is one of the few Indian politicians to have been the Minister for Defence, Finance and External Affairs.He started the new government of Vajpayee, which lasted its full term, as the External Affairs Minister and later on switched his ministry to Finance with Yashwant Sinha...
, Leader of opposition, Rajya SabhaThe Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...
and Former Finance Minister of India
- N. K. Singh
Nand Kishore Singh is a former IAS officer and currently the Member Of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He belongs to the 1964 Bihar cadre.-Early life:...
, former Revenue Secretary of IndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
& Member of Parliament(Rajya Sabha)
- Sushil Kumar Singh (politician)
Sushil Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and is currently a Member of Parliament from Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency from Bihar. He has been elected as a Member of Parliament in the 12th Lok Sabha and the 15th Lok Sabha. He is a member of Janata Dal , which is an opposition party in the...
, Member of Parliament from Aurangabad BiharBihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Mrigendra Kumar Singh, Youth Congress Leader from Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
- Bhakt Darshan
Bhakt Darshan served Garhwal as Member of Parliament in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lok Sabha as well as a Deputy Minister and Minister of State in Lal Bahadur Shastri's and Indira Gandhi's governments.-Early life:...
, Former Union Minister Govt. of India
- Dharam Singh
Narayan Dharam Singh , , was the 17th Chief Minister of Karnataka state in India and a former Lok Sabha member. He was sworn into office on May 28, 2004, and left office on February 3, 2006. He represents Congress in the state. The coalition government formed by the Congress with the help of...
, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka
- Prem Kumar Dhumal
Prem Kumar Dhumal is an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from March 1998 to March 2003 and has been Chief Minister again since 1 January 2008.-Electoral career:...
, Chief Minister of Himachal Pardesh
- Bhagat Singh Koshiyari
Bhagat Singh Koshiyari is an Indian politician. He was the leader of the opposition of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2007. He had earlier served as the second Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, previously Uttaranchal under his administration.-Birth and early life:Bhagat Singh...
, Former Chief Minister
- Digvijay Singh
Digvijay Singh is an Indian politician, a former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party. He has been the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh state for two five-year terms...
, former railway minister
- Harish Rawat
Shri Harish Rawat a politician from Indian National Congress party and a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. Previously he was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttarakhand in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament...
, PCC Chief, Uttarakhand
- Maharaja Karni Singh
Maharaja Karni Singh , in full HH Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani Maharajah Sri Dr Karni Singh Bahadur, also known as Dr Karni Singh, was from 1950 the last ruler of the princely state of Bikaner, as part of India...
, Rajasthan Leader
- Tan Singh
Tan Singh was an Indian politician and a member of the Lok Sabha twice. He was from Barmer, Rajasthan, India. He was a Mahecha Rathore Rajput. A Bhuswami leader, he was also the founder of Shri Kshatriya Yuvak Sangh, a radical organisation for young Rajputs in modern times...
- Rameshwar Prasad Sinha
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha was an Indian statesman and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as its first Parliament as an independent nation. He was also a Member of...
Freedom fighter,Member of Constituent Assembly of IndiaThe Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India, and following independence served as the nation's first Parliament.-Nature of the Assembly:...
- Dilip Singh Judeo
Dilip Singh Judeo was the Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party led coalition government. He hails from the Royal family of Jashpur. He is at present Rajkumar of Royal family of Jashpur...
, Former Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests
- Shankersinh Vaghela
Shankersinh Vaghela was a Rajput member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India and served as the Union Cabinet Minister of Textiles from 2004 to 2009. He represented the Kapadvanj constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also Chief Minister of Gujarat from 1996 to...
, Former Chief Minister of Gujrat , Current Union Minister or Textile
- Nareshchandra Singh
Raja Nareshchandra Singh , former ruler of Sarangarh Princely State in Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh and Indian National Congress politician was a former Chief Minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh....
, Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from Indian National Congress
- Kalikesh Singh Deo
Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo is an Indian politician from Orissa and a leader of the Biju Janata Dal political party. He hails from the royal family of Bolangir. Currently, he is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing Bolangir constituency in Orissa. He was a member of the Public Accounts...
, Member of Parliament from Saintala Constituency
- Kalyan Singh Kalvi
Kalyan Singh Kalvi was a politician from the Indian state of Rajasthan. He hailed from a small village Kalvi in Nagaur District of Rajasthan. He was the cabinet minister in government of India in 1991 with energy portfolio. He died soon after. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1989 from Barmer Lok...
- Shyama Singh
Shyama Singh is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad and is married to theGovernor of Nagaland Nikhil Kumar , who was also elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from the same Constituency in Bihar.- Early life :She is daughter of eminent Indian Civil Service...
, First woman Member of Parliament (LS) from Aurangabad
- Amar Singh
Amar Singh may refer to:* Amar Singh , Indian test cricketer* Amar Singh , Indian politician* Amar Singh, son of Maharana Pratap...
, Member of Parliament Rajya sabhaThe Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...
- Uday Singh
Uday Singh has been a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India and is elected for a second term in the 15th Lok Sabha . He represents the Purnia constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party.His father was eminent ICS officer Sir T.P. Singh, the Finance...
,Member of Parliament from Purnea Bihar.
- Chhavi Rajawat,Female Sarpanch of Soda, Rajasthan, described as changing face of Rajasthan by Times of India.
Armed forces of India
- Gabar Singh Negi, awarded the Victoria Cross
- Darwan Singh Negi, awarded the Victoria Cross
- Admiral
Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
Vijai Singh ShekhawatAdmiral V S Shekhawat is a former Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy. He was 14th Chief of Naval Staff and served as Navy Chief from September-30 1993 to September-30 1996.-External links:...
, Chief of the Naval Staff
- Admiral
Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
Madhvendra SinghAdmiral Madhvendra Singh is a former chief of Indian Navy. Singh hails from Chomu in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. His father, Major General K. Bhagwati Singh was one of the first batch of the Indian Cadets passed out of the Indian Military Academy. Singh served as the 17th Chief of Naval Staff...
, Chief of the Naval Staff
- Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
Kanwar Bahadur SinghLieutenant-General Kanwar Bahadur Singh, MBE, was a senior officer in the Indian Army.-Early life and education:...
, MBEMBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...
, GoC-in-C, Central Command, Governor, Himachal PradeshHimachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
- Brigadier
Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....
MaharajaMahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
Sawai Bhawani Singh, MVCThe Maha Vir Chakra is the second highest military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air. It may be awarded posthumously. Literally Maha Veer means extraordinarily brave.-Appearance:The medal is made...
, Maharaja of Jaipur
- Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
ThakurThakur is an Indian feudal title in several Indian languages, literally meaning "lord". A Thikana is the state or estate of a Thakur. A Thakurani is the wife of a Thakur...
Nathu Singh RathoreLt. Gen. Nathu Singh Rathore was from Gumanpura, in the erstwhile state of Dungarpur in Rajasthan. It is well known that he was favored by Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck to be the first Indian Army Chief and had made his recommendation accordingly. But in conversations with the then Defence...
, former GoC-in-C, Eastern Army Command
- General Vijay Kumar Singh
General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC is the 26th General of the Indian Army and the current Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.- Early Life and education:...
, Chief of the Army Staff
- Company Havildar Major Piru Singh
Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat was a Shekhawat Kachwaha Rajput. He was soldier in the British Indian Army. He died in service during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947...
, awarded Param Veer Chakra posthumously for gallantry of highest order, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947The India-Pakistan War of 1947-48, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four wars fought between the two newly independent nations...
- Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
Rajyavardhan Singh RathoreColonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
, AVSM, Olympian
- Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
Hanut Singh, Strategician
- Major Shaitan Singh
Major Shaitan Singh was an Indian soldier, who was awarded Param Vir Chakra, the highest wartime gallantry medal, posthumously, for his leadership and courage during the Sino-Indian War of 1962.-Background:...
, awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest gallantry award posthumously during the 1962 Indo-China war.
- Gurbachan Singh Salaria
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria is a military war hero, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime military award. In the 1988 Television serial Param Vir Chakra by Chetan Anand, Captain G.S...
, awarded the Param Vir Chakra
- Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....
Sagat SinghSagat Singh was a General in the Indian army notable for his participation in liberation of Goa and later in Bangladesh. He held man prestigious command and staff appointments throughout his military career....
- Kartar Singh Taunque
Wing Commander Kartar Singh Taunque, then Hawai Sepoy 1st Class, became the first ever personnel of Indian Airforce to win a gallantry award. He won this award for a successful bombing raid during "Operations in Waziristan 1937-38". He was mentioned in despatches. Flt.Lt...
, first soldier of the Indian Air ForceThe Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
to win a gallantry award
- Uday Singh Taunque
Sergeant Uday Singh Taunque was the first soldier of Sikh descent to die fighting in the Iraq War as part of the U.S. Army. His death in Iraq was widely reported in the Indian and American media.-Early Years:...
, first Indian AmericanIndian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...
to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Karni Singh Rathore
Karni Singh Rathore was a member of the Indian Army and recipient of the prestiguous Kirti Chakra award.-Career:Rathore is a recipient of the prestigious Kirti Chakra award, the highest peace time award for gallantry, in 1985, while fighting insurgents.He served as a meritorious Officer in the...
- Saurabh Singh Shekhawat
IC-52871, Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat is the most decorated serving Colonel in the Indian Army today and is also an accomplished mountaineer. The officer belongs to Indian Army's elite 21st Battalion of The Parachute Regiment...
- Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
General Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja, DSO , also known as Kumar Sri Rajendrasinhji and K.S. Rajendrasinhji, was the first Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army, and the second Indian, after Field Marshal K. M...
, first Chief of Army Staff
- Shah Nawaz Khan Janjua
Shahnawaz Khan was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army during World War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946....
, Indian soldier with the Indian National ArmyThe Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
- Raja Sakhi Daler Khan
General Raja Sakhi Daler Khan was born in the village of Sarsawa, Kotli into the Mangral subgroup of the Rajput warrior caste. He led Pakistani troops and irregulars in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947...
, Kashmiri soldier with the Indian National ArmyThe Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
- Col. Rana Jodha Jung Bahadur, Commander-in-Chief Tripura State Forces, KCIO 1st King's Commissioned Officer
Politicians of Pakistan
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a Muslim lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum ....
, Founder of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah , was one of the figurative and pioneering woman figure in Pakistan Movement and was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. An active political figure in the movement for independence from the British Raj, she is commonly known in Pakistan as Khātūn-e...
, Mother of Pakistan
- Allama Mashriqi, Founder of the Khaksar Tehrik
- Malik Feroz Khan Noon, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Muhammad Khan Janejo, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
, Former Prime Minister of PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Manzoor Wattoo, Former Chief Minister of Punjab
- Mian Mumtaz Daultana
Mian Mumtaz Daultana he was the renown activist of "Teherek-e-Azadi" and one amongst the close friends of Quaid e Azam M Ali Jinah. His uncle Sir Shahab-ud-Din was the speaker of punjab assembly before separation of sub continent. and he was the 2nd Chief Minister of Punjab from 1951 to 1953, when...
, Former Chief Minister of Punjab
- Allah Bux Soomro
Allah Bux Muhammad Umar Soomro , or Allah Baksh Soomro, was a zamindar, government contractor, Indian independence activist and politician from the province of Sindh in British India. He is considered to be amongst the best premiers of the province...
, Former Chief Minister of SindhSindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...
- Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan
Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan born in Lalupur village, Gujranwala district on 10 December 1949, studied law and became a successful lawyer and then came into politics...
- Arbab Raheem, Former Chief Minister of Sindh
Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...
- Raja Mummtaz Hussain Rathore
Raja Mumtaz Hussain Rathore was the 3rd Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir. His tenure as a Prime Minister start from 29 June 1990 to 5 July 1991. He was from the village Pullangi Tehsil and District Hevali, AJK. His father was a landlord. His father died when Mumtaz Rathore was only five years old...
, Former Prime Minister of AJK
- Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan
Raja Muhammad Zulqarnain Khan is President of the political entity Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. He hails from the Dhamawa village of the area of Kas Gumma in Azad Kashmir...
, Former President of AJK
- Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan
Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was twice a former Prime Minister and President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He has been the longest serving Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir....
, Former Prime Minister of AJK
- Raja Farooq Haider Khan, Former Prime Minister of AJK
- Raja Saroop Khan
Lieutenant General Raja Saroop Khan is a career Pakistan Army officer who served as the Governor of Punjab from 1995 to 1996.Raja Saroop Khan of Jabot was commissioned in the 7th PMA Long Course from Pakistan Military Academy in 1953...
, Former Governor of Punjab
- Tikka Khan
General Tikka Khan, HJ, HQA, SPk, was a senior four-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as the first Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 3 March 1972 to 1 March 1976. Before his four-star assignment, Khan was a Martial Law Administrator of erstwhile East-Pakistan...
, Former Governor of Punjab
- Muhammad Mian Soomro
Muhammad Mian Soomro is a Pakistani politician who has been the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan since 2003. Soomro comes from a renowned political family of Sindh that has been active in public life since 1923...
, Chairman Senate of PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Raja Muhammed Sarfraz Khan
Raja Mohammed Sarfraz was a famous philanthropist, politician and a member of Pakistan Movement.-Political career:Raja Mohammad Sarfraz remained member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly for 29 consecutive years from 1929 to 1958. Raja Sarfraz Khan was a member of Allama Mashriqi's Khaksar Tehrik...
, a member of Pakistan Movement.
- Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar
Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar was a leading member of the All India Muslim League who was a politician in British India, a trusted lieutenant of Muhammad Ali Jinnah who served in the Interim Government of India of 1946 and later became a minister in the government of Pakistan and finally a...
, one of Pakistan's first Federal Ministers
- Farzana Raja
Farzana Raja is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. She is Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Program , a program which aids impoverished families in Pakistan. Although Farzana Raja was born in Gujrat but she belongs to a Shia Muslim family of the Gujar Khan, a tehsil of Rawalpindi...
, Secretary of Punjab Pakistan Peoples PartyThe Pakistan Peoples Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan...
- Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
Raja Pervez Ashraf was the Federal Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan in the Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet...
, Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan
- Rana Tanveer Hussain
Rana Tanveer Hussain is the former Minister of Defence Production in the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet. He is son of Haji Muhammad Anwer who died in 2008. He was elected from Sheikhupura-II NA-132 as a member of National Assembly from Pakistan Muslim League . He is a leading...
, Former Minister of Defence Production
- Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan
Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan was the 11th Finance Minister of Pakistan from October 22, 1974 to March 28, 1977. He was from the city of Sahiwal, which is in the Punjab province of Pakistan.-External links:...
, Finance Minister of Pakistan
- Rai Bashir Ahmad Khan Bhatti Former MLA 1951, MNA 1960 and 1993 (Nankana)
- Rao Sikandar Iqbal
-Biography:Born in 1943, Iqbal took his primary education in Quetta, after which he joined the Forman Christian College in Lahore. He held a LLB from Punjab University Law College, and he was the Secretary General of the Students Union of the University ....
, Defence Minister of Pakistan
- Iqbal Tikka
Iqbal Tikka is a Pakistani politician.-Family background:Tikka was born to Punjabi Muslim parents of Naru Rajput background, in a family of six brothers and three sisters, of whom he is the fifth eldest by order...
, Former Minister for Food & Agriculture Punjab Assembly
- Malik Adnan Hayat Noon
Malik Adnan Hayat Noon is a politician in Pakistan and a member of the Noon family of Pakistan. He is a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and is a grandson of Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon, former Prime minister of Pakistan.-References:...
, Former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Rahim Bux Soomro
Rahim Bux Soomro was a politician in Sindh, Pakistan. Rahim Bux Soomro was leader of the Soomro tribe and as the last surviving member of the 1946 Sindh assembly, the son of Allah Bux Soomro who was the first premier of Sindh after provincial autonomy was attained in 1935...
- Nisar Ali Khan, Opposition leader in the National Assembly
- Amir Gulistan Janjua
Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan....
, Former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
- Riaz Khokhar
Riaz Hussain Khokhar is the former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan serving from June 2002 to February 2005, when he was replaced by Riaz Mohammad Khan...
, Former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
- Raja Anwar
Raja Anwar is a Pakistani journalist and writer, and a former PPP political activist.- Personal life :Anwar was born into a Bhakral Rajput family of Darkali Sher Shahi a village, near Kallar Syedan in 1948...
, Former minister, journalist and writer
- Raja Nadir Pervez
Major Raja Nadir Pervez Khan is a Pakistani politician, ex-MP of the Parliament, and former Pakistan Army officer. A former member of the Pakistan Army's 6 Punjab Regiment, Parvez was a minister in the Nawaz Sharif government during the 1990s. He is the brother-in-law of the former Corps Commander...
, Politician, former federal minister and former Army officer
- M. Nawaz Khokhar
Haji Muhammad Nawaz Khokhar was a politician from Punjab, Pakistan. Nawaz Khokhar was elected the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Minister of Science and Technology.- Corruption :...
, Former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Rana Phool Muhammad Khan
Rana Phool Muhammad Khan is a Rajput Muslim Pakistani politician. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab , representing Bhai Pheru in 1971, 1977, 1985 and 1990....
- Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan
Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan is a Punjabi and Pakistani politician. Since 2008 he has been the speaker of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. Following the assassination of Salmaan Taseer on the 4th of January 2011, Khan became acting Governor of Punjab....
, Speaker Punjab Assembly −2008
- Tehmina Janjua
Tehmina Janjua , is a Pakistani diplomat currently Deputy Permanent Representative in United Nations.. On February 17, 2011, she replaced Mr. Abdul Basit to become the Spokesperson of the Pakistan Foreign Office.- References :...
, Deputy Permanent Representative in United Nations.
- Tehmina Daultana
Tehmina Daultana , is a Pakistani politician and former Member of the National Assembly of the Pakistan Muslim League party. Daultana joined the PML in 1987, becoming General Secretary of Women and Youth Wing of the PML and then Vice President of that wing...
, Minister for Science and Technology of PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Rana Khudadad Khan
Rana Khudadad Khan was a Pakistani politician, the President of Pakistan Muslim League . He was also co-founding Chairman of Rana Tractors with his brother Rana Allahdad Khan....
, Former President of Pakistan Muslim League (Punjab)
- Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan
Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan was a Pakistani politician and diplomat who stayed as the Member of Legislative Assembly 1945, Minister of Education, Minister of Industries 1950s, Federal Minister for Home Affairs , Ambassador to Sudan , Ambassador to Saudi Arabia ....
. Federal Minister for Home Affairs 1964–1966,
- Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan
Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan born in Lalupur village, Gujranwala district on 10 December 1949, studied law and became a successful lawyer and then came into politics...
- Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
Ch.Muhammad Sarwar Khan was a renowned and longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan. He served in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and National Assembly of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999. The first direct elections held in Pakistan after independence were for the Provincial...
- Dr.Iqbal Ahmed Rajput,Chairman Awami Rabta Party(Pakistan)
- Rao Rahat Ali Khan. Sec.Information (N.Punjab)Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf
Armed forces of Pakistan
- Tikka Khan
General Tikka Khan, HJ, HQA, SPk, was a senior four-star general in the Pakistan Army who served as the first Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 3 March 1972 to 1 March 1976. Before his four-star assignment, Khan was a Martial Law Administrator of erstwhile East-Pakistan...
, former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan ArmyThe Pakistan Army is the branch of the Pakistani Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The Pakistan Army came into existence after the Partition of India and the resulting independence of Pakistan in 1947. It is currently headed by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. The Pakistan...
- Asif Nawaz
General Asif Nawaz Janjua, NI, HI, SBt , afwc, psc , was a senior four-star general and the 10th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from August 16, 1991 till January 8, 1993. His tenure was cut short by his death after suffering a heart attack...
, former Chief Of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
- Muhammed Akbar Khan
General Muhammed Akbar Khan , OBE served as a British Indian recruit in the First World War and an officer in Second World War. Muhammed Akbar Khan was the first Muslim from the South Asia to become a General in British Army. At the time of independence of Pakistan, he was the most senior Muslim...
, first Muslim to become a General in the British Indian Army
- Raja Saroop Khan
Lieutenant General Raja Saroop Khan is a career Pakistan Army officer who served as the Governor of Punjab from 1995 to 1996.Raja Saroop Khan of Jabot was commissioned in the 7th PMA Long Course from Pakistan Military Academy in 1953...
, former Governor of PunjabThe Governor of Punjab is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the Prime Minister and is normally regarded a ceremonial post...
- Iftikhar Khan
Major General Muhammed Iftikhar Khan was an officer inherited by the Pakistan Army from British India. He had been nominated to become the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army after General Douglas David Gracey's retirement...
, first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army
- Iftikhar Janjua
Major General Iftikhar Khan Janjua, HJ & Bar, SPk, SQA, of the Pakistan Army is the most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in action. He is known in Pakistan as the hero of Rann of Kutch, as he was a brigadier in command of 6 Brigade, during the fighting in April 1965 prior to the...
, most senior Pakistani officer to have been killed in battle during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military conflict between India and Pakistan. Indian, Bangladeshi and international sources consider the beginning of the war to be Operation Chengiz Khan, Pakistan's December 3, 1971 pre-emptive strike on 11 Indian airbases...
- Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan
Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan was an Indian freedom fighter during British colonial rule of India, Rahman was an officer in the Indian National Army who was charged with "waging war against His Majesty the King Emperor". Along with Gen. Shah Nawaz Khan, Col. Prem Kumar Sahgal & Col...
, Secretary of Defense, Government of PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Amir Gulistan Janjua
Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. Brigadier Amir Gulistan Janjua was a former governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan....
, former Governor of the North-West Frontier ProvinceThe Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the appointed Head of State of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The governor is designated by the Prime Minister and is normally regarded a ceremonial post...
- Rao Qamar Suleman
Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, NI, SBt is the current Pakistan Air Force Chief of Air Staff who replaced Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed on 18 March 2009....
, Chief of Air StaffThe Chief of the Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, abbreviated as CAS, is typically the highest ranking 4-star rank officer in the Pakistan Air Force, unless a four-star officer is appointed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. The CAS is a senior and permanent member of the...
- Muhammad Sarwar
Raja Muhammad Sarwar Khan Bhati was born in Singhori village, Tehsil Gujar Khan, District of Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Muhammad Sarwar was a captain in the newly formed Pakistani Army. Commissioned: 1944, Punjab Regiment...
, Nishan-e-HaiderNishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
recipient
- Rashid Minhas
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Rashid Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer who received the highest valor for his actions...
, Nishan-e-HaiderNishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
recipient
- Major Shabbir Sharif, Nishan-e-Haider
Nishan-e-Haider or Nishan-e-Hyder is the highest military decoration given by Pakistan . It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic, however, it was instituted retrospectively from Independence in 1947...
recipient
- Khudadad Khan
Khudadad Khan, VC , was the first South Asian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces...
, Victoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
recipient
Sports
Cricket
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...
,Indian Cricket Captain & Famous Cricket World Cup 2011 Winning Team Captain . -- a Rawat Rajput .
- Raj Singh Dungarpur
Raj Singh Dungarpur was a former president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. He played first class cricket for 16 years and was in and out of the Board of Control for more than 20 years. He was a selector of the national team for two terms...
, former President of BCCIThe Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered at Mumbai, is the national governing body for all cricket in India. It's not the apex governing body in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu...
- Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer playing for the Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals is an Indian Premier League franchise based on the city of the Jaipur captained and coached by former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne.They were the champions of the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League...
in Indian Premier LeagueThe Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
- Wasim Raja
Wasim Hasan Raja , was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 57 Tests and 54 ODIs for the Pakistani national cricket team from 1973 to 1985. His younger brother, Rameez Raja, also represented Pakistan in Tests and ODIs, becoming captain of the national side...
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Pratap Singh Chauhan is a former cricketer who played 40 Test matches for India...
, Indian Cricketer
- Rameez Raja
Rameez Hasan Raja is a former Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket, who represented the Pakistan cricket team during the 1980s and 1990s. He also worked as captain of the national team...
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Vikram Solanki
Vikram Singh Solanki is an Indian-born English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Worcestershire. In 2007, he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. He also captained Worcestershire from 2005 to 2010, before resigning mid-season...
, British - Indian-Born Cricketer
- R. P. Singh, Indian Cricketer (Bowler)
- Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a cricketer who plays for the Pakistani Test and One Day International teams...
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Rajesh Chauhan
Rajesh Kumar Chauhan is a former Indian cricketer who played in 21 Tests and 35 ODIs from 1993 to 1998. He was part of the Indian spin trio of Kumble-Raju-Chauhan, in the 1990s....
, Indian cricketer
- Sajid Mahmood
Sajid "Saj" Iqbal Mahmood is an English cricketer of Pakistani descent...
Janjua, Pakistani Cricketer
- Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Pakistani Cricketer
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Indian Test cricketer
- Azmat Rana
Azmat Rana is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test and 2 ODIs in 1980....
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Shakoor Rana
Shakoor Rana was a Pakistani cricketer and umpire-Playing career:Shakoor Rana did not have a particularly distinguished playing career, making only 11 first class appearances and accumulating just 226 runs and 12 wickets...
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Hanumant Singh
Hanumant Singh was an Indian cricketer. He played in 14 Tests for the Indian cricket team from 1964 to 1969. He was later an International Cricket Council match referee in 9 Tests and 54 One Day Internationals from 1995 and 2002.Singh was born in Banswara, Rajasthan...
, Indian Test cricketer
- Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji Jadeja was a cricketer who played for England. He was educated at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot, India.-Career:...
, Indian Test cricketer
- Majid Haq
Rana Majid Haq Khan , better known as Majid Haq, is a Scottish cricket player of Pakistani descent. He is a left-handed batsman and an off spin bowler. He has represented Scotland at Under 17, Under 19 and Under 23 levels, making his debut for the senior side on 20 July 2002 in a European...
, Pakistani Cricketer
- Ajay Jadeja
Ajaysinhji Daulatsinhji Jadeja was born on 1 February 1971 in royal rajput family of Jamnagar, Gujarat. He was a regular in the Indian cricket team between 1992 and 2000, playing in 15 Test matches and 196 One Day Internationals. His cricketing achievements were overshadowed by a 5 year ban for...
, Indian cricketer and commentator
- Jaspal Rana
Jaspal Rana is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, and 2006 Asian Games. At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.- Early days...
, Indian sport shooter
- Omer Hussain
Rana Omer Hussain , better known as Omer Hussain, is a Scottish cricket player. He made his debut for the Scottish cricket team on 18 September 2005 in a C&G Trophy match against Warwickshire. He has played seven times in all for Scotland, including two One Day Internationals...
, Pakistani cricketer
- Saqlain Mushtaq
Saqlain Mushtaq is a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest off spin bowlers of all time.He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", which he employed to great effect during his career...
, Pakistani Cricketer
Hockey
- Kulbir Bhaura
Kulbir Singh Bhaura is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the gold medal winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...
, British hockey player, gold medalist at the Seoul Olympics 1988
- Rajyashree Kumari
Maharajkumari Rajyashree Kumari is a former shooter from India. She was conferred the Arjuna Award in shooting in 1969 when she was only 16 years old, the youngest age ever....
, sport shooter
- Dhyan "Chand" Singh, *Jaspal Rana
Jaspal Rana is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, and 2006 Asian Games. At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.- Early days...
,Shooter
- Deepak Thakur
Deepak Thakur Sonkhla is a hockey forward in Indian team.-Family:His father Nardev Singh is a Army Man and his mother Lalita Thakur is a house-wife.Deepak got younger sister Navita Thakur who is a national badminton player.-Junior level:Deepak became popular after his solo effort to help India win...
, field hockey player
- Devesh Chauhan
Devesh Singh Chauhan is a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in early 2000...
, field hockey player
- Roop Singh
Roop Singh Bais was an Indian hockey player. He was part of the celebrated Indian field hockey team which won gold medals for India at 1932 and 1936 Olympic Games.-Personal Life:...
, field hockey player
- Vivek Singh
Vivek Singh is an Indian shooter. He won the silver medal in the Men's Air Pistol, and gold in Men's 50m Pistol , with Samaresh Jung, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He also won the silver medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He received the Arjuna award by the...
, hockey player
- K D Singh Babu,field hockey player
Basketball
- Divya Singh
Divya Singh is former captain for the India women's national basketball team. Divya led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is one of the best women basketballers in India, known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and...
, basketball
- Prashanti Singh
Prashanti Singh is a shooting guard for the Indian national women's basketball team. She represented the team at 2006 Commonwealth Games...
, basketball, Captain of silver medalist national team in Asian Indoor Games 2009
- Akanksha Singh
Akanksha Singh current captain of India Women's National Basketball Team. She is the member of national women team since 2004 to till date. In 2010, Akanksha singh was awarded the Most Valuable Player in India’s first Professional Basketball league, MBPL 2010...
, basketball
Other Sports
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
, Olympic silver medalist
- Parimarjan Negi
Parimarjan Negi is a chess Grandmaster from India. In July 2005, he earned his third and final International Master norm at the Sort International open chess tournament in Sort, Spain...
, chess grandmaster
- Lokendra Singh
Lokendra Singh , is a former polo player from India. He was captain of the Indian Polo Team at the World Cup .He is son of Thakur Sahib Mahendra Singhi and Thakurani Saniba Pratap Kumari, of Ghanerao.He studied at Mayo College .Lokendra married Bhargavi, daughter of Arvind Singh Mewar, March 27,...
, Indian polo team captain
- Milkha Singh
Milkha Singh is an Indian athlete, who represented India in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo...
, athlete
- Jeev Milkha Singh
Jeev Milkha Singh is the first Indian professional golfer to become a member of the European Tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006.-Early life:...
, golfer
- Vishal Singh
Vishal Singh is a polo player from Rajasthan, India. He currently plays for Rajasthan Polo Club.Vishal Singh is one of the youngest polo players in India. He was awarded the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Award in 2001. He is also known for his role as Rishi in Kasamh Se...
, polo player
- Saurabh Singh Shekhawat
IC-52871, Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat is the most decorated serving Colonel in the Indian Army today and is also an accomplished mountaineer. The officer belongs to Indian Army's elite 21st Battalion of The Parachute Regiment...
, mountaineer
- Jaspal Rana
Jaspal Rana is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, and 2006 Asian Games. At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.- Early days...
,Shooter
- The Great Khali,Wrestler
Art, culture and cinema
- Kunwar Amar
Kunwar Amar is a contemporary dancer from India. He was the Dance Contestant of Zee TV's dance reality show Dance India Dance .He later appeared in Channel V India's Dil Dosti Dance ....
, famous hip-hop & bollywood style dancer.
- Diwakar Pundir, model
- Harssh Rajput
Harsh Rajput is an Indian actor who has been in the television series Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan and Dharam Veer.Rajput attended Mithibai College in Mumbai where he was a member to the school's drama team, dance team, and cultural team along with future co-star Mehul Vyas.Rajput's...
, actor
- Kiran Rathod
Kiran Rathod is an Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi and Tamil films.-Early life:Rathod was born on 11 January 1981 in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh into a Rajput family. She is a graduate of Mithibai College in Mumbai...
, actress
- Satinder Sartaaj
Satinder Sartaaj , also cited as Satinder Sartaj, is an Indian Punjabi singer and poet. Since then his popularity has seen a constant surge among the Punjabi diaspora with his shows being held in many countries across the world,...
, Punjabi Sufi singer
- Rajeev Singh
Rajeev Singh is an Indian male model and actor. He was the winner of Gladrags Super Model 2000 conest and the Manhunt International pageant held in Beijing, China in 2001. He is from Jaipur, Rajasthan. He has appeared in ads for Clinic All Clear, Liril, Close-up, Limca, London Pilsner, Vivaldi...
, model
- Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta is an Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi films of Bollywood, as well as Telugu, Punjabi and English language films. After graduating with a degree in criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se in 1998 followed by a role in Soldier the same year...
, actress
- Sonal Chauhan
Sonal Chauhan is an Indian fashion model and actress. She has won several beauty contests and made her acting debut in the movie Jannat directed by Kunal Deshmukh .-Early life:...
, Miss India
- Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....
, singer
- Kangna Ranaut
Kangna Ranaut is an Indian actress who appears mostly in Hindi films. She made her acting debut in 2006 with a leading role in Gangster. She won both a Filmfare and a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a troubled model in Fashion .-Early life:Ranaut was born to...
, actress
- Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian pop and playback singer, most known for his romantic ballads. He started his career singing Indian pop songs with the band Silk Route, which released two albums, Boondein and Pehchan. The song "Dooba Dooba" became a rave in the Indipop music scene. However, the band...
. singer (Silk Route lead vocalist)
- Chitra Mudgal
Chitra Mudgal is one of the leading literary figures of modern Hindi literature.-Biography:Chitra Mudgal was born in a Thakur family. family in Chennai, India on the 10th of December 1944. Educated in Mumbai, she has done her M.A. in Hindi Literature from the SNDT Women's University...
, Renowned writer
- Lashmi Kumari Chundawat
Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat is an author and a politician from Rajasthan, India.-Personal life:She was born in 1916, elder daughter of the Rawat of Deogarh, one of the major thikanas of the princely state of Mewar in Rajasthan...
, author and politician of Rajasthan
- Inayat Hussain Bhatti
Inayat Hussain Bhatti was a Pakistani singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature.- History :...
, artist
- Arunoday Singh
Arunoday Singh is an Indian film actor. Arunodoy Singh debut movie was Sikandar . He played the character of some Kashmiri Zahgeer Quadir in the movie Sikander...
, actor
- Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Rajput , born as, "Sushant Singh Rajput" is an Indian television actor best known for playing the role of Manav in Pavitra Rishta and also known for his dancing skills post Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.-Personal life:Sushant was born in Delhi on the 21st of January, 1986, in the Rajput family...
, actor
- Chandrachur Singh
Chandrachur Singh is an Indian actor, who appeared in Bollywood films.-Early life:Chandrachur Singh is a native of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 11 October 1968 in New Delhi, India. He belongs to a very affluent family. His father is an ex-MLA from Aligarh and his mother is the daughter...
, actor
- Chandrakant Singh
Chandrakant Singh is a Indian director and producer who has directed Hindi films such as Rama Rama Kya Hai Dramaaa. and Bin Bulaye Baraati. He is currently working on his next film, Be Careful, where he is the Director of the film....
, director
- Vishakha Singh
Vishakha Singh is an Indian film actress and model. She appeared in South Indian language films, before starring in noted Bollywood projects, the most prominently being Ashutosh Gowariker's 2010 period piece Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika...
, actress
- Ram Gopal (dancer)
Bissano Ram Gopal OBE was an Indian dancer who performed and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. The Polish critic Tadeus Zelinski called him "the Nijinsky of India"....
, British dancer