This article provides lists of famous and notable Bhojpuriya-sawb or Bhojpuri people in the Indian subcontinent and other countries like Suriname , Mauritius , Fiji , Guyana and people with Bhojpuri ancestry or people who speak Bhojpuri as their primary language.
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President
Presidents of India
Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India
Mohammad Hidayatullah , (20 July 1969 – 24 August 1969; 6 October 1982 – 31 October 1982), Acting President of India
Rajendra Prasad , (26 January 1950 – 13 May 1962), 1st President of India. He was born in Ziradei, a village in Chhapra , Bihar. Chhapra is a Bhojpuri speaking district.
Presidents of Seychelles
Presidents of Mauritius
Presidents of Guyana
Presidents of Suriname
President of Trinidad and Tobago
Prime Ministers
Prime Ministers of India
Prime Ministers of Mauritius
Prime Minister of Suriname
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Basdeo Panday , (9 November 1995 – 24 December 2001), 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Kamla Persad-Bissessar , (26 May 2010 – 9 September 2015), 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Chief Ministers
Chief Ministers of Bihar (India)
Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh (India)
Governor of Indian States
Politicians
Deputy Prime Ministers of India
Deputy Chief Ministers
Governors and Governors-General
Lok Sabha Speakers
Cabinet Ministers
Council Ministers
National and International Award winners
Ashok Chakra
Bharat Ratna
Magasaysay Award
Padma Shree
Freedom Fighters
Journalists
Scholars
Actors
Bhojpuri cinema
Main article: List of Bhojpuri actors
Hindi cinema
Main article: List of Hindi film actors
Actresses
Bhojpuri cinema
Main article: List of Bhojpuri actresses
Singers
Main article: List of Bhojpuri singers
Baleshwar Yadav , Bhojpuri folk singer
Bihari Lal Yadav , founder of Biraha genre
Chandan Tiwari , Bhojpuri singer
Hiralal Yadav , birha and kajri
Raj Mohan , Bhojpuri singer
Ramdew Chaitoe , Bhojpuri folk singer
Ritesh Pandey , Bhojpuri singer and actor
Sundar Popo
Krishna Kant Shukla , physicist, musician, poet, ecologist and educator
Rajan and Sajan Mishra , singers of the khyal style of Indian classical music
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra , Hindustani classical singer
Husna Bai , Thumri singer from Banaras
Rajkumari Dubey , playback singer worked in Hindi cinema of 1930-40s
Nirmala Devi , Indian actress, Hindustani classical vocalist and mother of Bollywood actor, Govinda
Rasoolan Bai , Indian Hindustani classical musician
Siddheswari Devi , legendary Hindustani singer
Girija Devi , Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas
Writers
Main article: List of Bhojpuri writers
Kabir , poet, saint and social reformer
Ravidas , poet, saint and social reformer
Lachhimi Sakhi , saint and poet
Dariya Saheb , saint, poet and the founder of Dariya or Dariyadasi sect
Dharani Das , Ramanandi saint and poet
Acharya Shivpujan Sahay , Hindi and Bhojpuri
Bhikhari Thakur , Bhojpuri dramatist and writer
Heera Dom , Bhojpuri writer and pioneer of modern Bhojpuri Dalit literature
Rahul Sankrityayan , Bhojpuri and Hindi
Raghuveer Narayan , Bhojpuri, English and Hindi
Ram Karan Sharma , Sanskrit and English
Teg Ali Teg , Bhojpuri writer
Rameshwar Singh Kashyap , playwright, screenwriter and professor
Premchand , one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent
Agyey , poet, literary critic, journalist and pioneer of the experimentalism movement in modern Hindi literature
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi , novelist, essayist, critic
Doodhnath Singh , poet, writer and critic
Amarkant , Hindi writer
Kedar Nath Pandey , CPI leader and writer
Atul Kumar Rai , novelist and screenwriter
Baldev Upadhyaya , Sanskrit writer
Viveki Rai , Bhojpuri writer
Namvar Singh , literary critic, linguist, academician, theoretician and founder of Centre of Indian Languages at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi)
Lyricist
Musicians
Dancers
Sports Persons
Cricketers
Footballers
Field Hockey
Athlete
References
"First President Rajendra Prasad instrumental in first Bhojpuri film" . The Indian Express .
"Indian-Origin Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth Has A UP Connect" . NDTV.com . Retrieved 2024-11-12.
"Ravish Kumar anchors in Bhojpuri on international mother language day" . NDTV .
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