List of people from Jharkhand

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This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.

Award winners[]

Padma Bhushan[]

  • Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay - 2010, Social Activist, Gandhian
  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2018, Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
  • Kariya Munda - 2019, Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha

Padma Shri[]

Jharkhand Gaurav Samman[]

Academics[]

Authors[]

Business and industry[]

Cinema and theatre[]

Actors[]

Actresses[]

Cinematographer / Choreographers[]

Directors / Producers[]

Music / playback singers / Lyricist / Poet[]

Freedom fighters and revolutionaries[]

Journalism[]

Jurists and Lawyers[]

Medical[]

Gallantry Awards winner[]

Poetry[]

Politics[]

Activist[]

Governors of other states[]

Chief Minister[]

  • Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur, Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.
  • Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri
  • Bindeshwari Dubey - Chief Minister of Bihar from 12 March 1985 to 14 February 1988; was involved in a Trade Union Movement in Chotanagpur collieries and industries since 1944; played an important role in the nationalization of collieries in India, specially in Jharkhand; was 6 term MLA from Bermo constituency in Bokaro District and MP from Giridih in Jharkhand
  • Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963
  • Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district
  • Hemant Soren - currently Chief Minister of Jharkhand
  • Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
  • Madhu Koda - former chief minister of Jharkhand
  • Raghubar Das - former chief minister of Jharkhand
  • Shibu Soren

Others[]

Religion[]

Rulers[]

Social service[]

  • Jyoti Dhawale
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - spent the last 18 to 20 years of his life among the Santhals at Karmatar, Jamtara district; the station Karmatar has been renamed as 'Vidyasagar' railway station in his honour
  • Rajesh Thakur - social worker and President of Helping Hands in Bokaro

Sports[]

Archery[]

  • Deepika Kumari - Indian athlete who competes in archery status, currently ranked number 1 in the world.
  • Komalika Bari
  • Laxmirani Majhi
  • Madhumita Kumari - won the Silver Medal Asian Games 2018 in the Women's compound archery team event.
  • Mangal Singh Champia - Indian archer, who won multiple medals in several International event, including Asian Games.
  • Purnima Mahato - won the Indian national archery championships and a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

Boxing[]

Cricket[]

Association football[]

Hockey[]

Mountaineering[]

  • Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, at age 45[12]

Others[]

  • Atul Kochhar - Indian-born, British based chef, restaurateur, and television personality
  • Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi
  • Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India
  • Subodh Kumar Jaiswal - Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)

References[]

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  3. ^ Pioneer, The. "Balbir Dutt, Mukund Nayak bag Padma Shri". The Pioneer. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  4. ^ "Jharkhand's female tribal crusader, environmentalist and a poor man's doctor get Padma Shri". eNewsroom India. 2019-01-27. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  5. ^ "Padma Awards 2016". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  6. ^ "Jamshedpur author in India Book of Records 2022". www.telegraphindia.com.
  7. ^ Pioneer, The. "City writer to pen stories for Bollywood films". The Pioneer.
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  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-12. Retrieved 2014-11-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  11. ^ Kapadia, Novy. "Silver Jubilee of Tata Football Academy". SportsKeeda. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  12. ^ "On the top of the world - Steel city mom oldest Indian woman to scale Everest". The Telegraph (Kolkata). May 21, 2011.
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