The people listed below were all born in, residents of, worked in, adopted in or otherwise are closely associated with the city of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh and its surrounding suburbs.
List
People listed in bold were born in Allahabad (Prayagraj).
Academics, science, and engineering
Manindra Agrawal – mathematician, engineer, recipient of Padmashree, Infosys Prize and Fulkerson Prize Ziauddin Ahmad – mathematician Amiya Charan Banerjee – mathematician John B. Chitamber – educational reformer Sorab K. Ghandhi – educational reformer Rajesh Gopakumar – theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner Raj Narain Kapoor – educational reformer Ravindra Khattree – statistician, author Chittaranjan Mitra – scientist Henri Pequet – pilot of the official airmail flight Zahoor Qasim – marine biologist Amitava Raychaudhuri – theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner Ashoke Sen – string theorist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Milner Prize winner, theoretical physicist at HRI
Authors and writers
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala – Hindi littérateur
Meena Alexander – poet
Akbar Allahabadi – poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan – poet, writer, born in and resident of Allahabad
Aniruddha Bahal – journalist, novelist
Dharamvir Bharati – author, poet
Krishna Prakash Bahadur – writer
Satish Chandra – writer, historian
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan – poet
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi – poet
Harisena – poet
Rafiq Husain – writer, poet
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra – poet, anthologist and resident of Allahabad
Sumitranandan Pant – writer, poet
Vibhuti Narain Rai – novelist
Ibn-e-Safi – novelist
Allan Sealy – author, writer, recipient of Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Julia Strachey – novelist, writer
Vikas Swarup – novelist, diplomat
Mahadevi Varma – poet
Dhirendra Verma – critic
Amarkant – writer
Leema Dhar -Novelist/Poet/ Motivational Speaker
Business and philanthropy
Abhay Bhushan – Computer engineer
Amol Bose – "Grandfather of Indian advertising" Sarala Devi Chaudhurani – founder of Bharat Stree Mahamandal Jagmal Raja Chauhan – contractor, industrialist and philanthropist Imtiaz Alam Hanfi – banker, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Sam Higginbottom – philanthropist, founder of Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences Neeraj Roy – managing director and CEO Hungama Mason Vaugh – philanthropist, educational reformer
Fine arts
Mallika Chabba – painter
Hariprasad Chaurasia – musician
Ram Chandra Shukla – painter
Shubha Mudgal – musician
Media
Amitabh Bachchan – film actor, recipient of Padma Vibhushan, Knight of the Legion of Honour and resident of Allahabad Vijay Bose – theatre director and actor Sulochana Brahaspati – singer Hariprasad Chaurasia – composer, flutist Rakesh Chaurasia – flautist Tigmanshu Dhulia – director, producer, recipient of National Film Award Tanveer Zaidi – film actor, educationist, television presenter Aditya Srivastava – actor Deepraj Rana - actor Vikrant Chaturvedi – voice artist Nikhil Dwivedi – actor Jaddanbai – singer, actress Nidhi Singh - Actress Nalin Mazumdar – guitarist Prachi Mishra – former Femina Miss India Earth Indrani Mukherjee – actress Nargis – actress Kinsey Peile – playwright, actor Siddharth Nigam – actor Mudit Nayar – actor Pawan Shankar – actor, entrepreneur Faisal Malik- actor
Military
Girish Bihari – IPS officer
Norman Anil Kumar Browne – former Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force; India's ambassador to Norway; born in Allahabad George Nicolas Channer – recipient of the Victoria Cross Syed Ata Hasnain – Lieutenant General in the Indian Army Bhopinder Singh – Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Music
Bholanath Prasanna - classical flautist
Hariprasad Chaurasia – classical flautist
Sahana Devi – singer, resident of Allahabad
Shubha Mudgal – classical
Nobel laureates
Rudyard Kipling – author, assistant editor at The Pioneer (Allahabad), Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)