• Source: List of people from Amritsar

This is a list of notable people from Amritsar.




Spiritual leaders


Guru Hargobind, 6th Guru of Sikhs
Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs
Nawab Kapur Singh, Sikh leader
Sanaullah Amritsari, Islamic scholar of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement
Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, historian and writer




Freedom fighters


Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter
Madan Lal Dhingra, independence activist




Defense personnel


Baba Deep Singh, General
Bhagat Singh Thind, US Sikh Leader
Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
Saurabh Kalia, soldier




Sportspersons


Abhishek Sharma, cricketer
Bishan Singh Bedi, cricketer
Dara Singh, wrestler and actor
Ghulam Mohammad Baksh, wrestler
Madan Lal, cricketer
Ramandeep Singh, footballer
Ashok Malhotra
Gursharan Singh
Sarandeep Singh
Vinay Choudhary
Harvinder Singh
Sharad Lumba
Chandan Madan
Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)




Politicians


Manmohan Singh, 13th Prime Minister of India
Navjot Singh Sidhu, politician
Raghunandan Lal Bhatia, politician
Krishan Kant, 10th Vice-President of India
Raj Kumar Verka, politician




Entertainers


Akshay Kumar, actor
Amrinder Gill, Punjabi singer
Bharti Singh, Indian stand-up comedian
Chandan Prabhakar, comedian
Deepa Mehta, Indo-Canadian filmmaker
Deepti Naval, actress
Geeta Bali, actress
Gurpreet Ghuggi, Punjabi Comedian
Gurshabad, Playback Singer and actor
Jeetendra, actor
Kapil Sharma, comedian
Mahendra Kapoor, playback singer
Maurice Barrymore, (patriarch of the Barrymore acting family)
Mohammed Rafi, recording artist
Narendra Chanchal, singer
Pramod Moutho, Indian actor
Prem Dhillon, Punjabi singer
Rajesh Khanna, actor
Richa Chadda , actress
Sahila Chadha, actress
Shamshad Begum, classical singer
Sudesh Lehri, comedian
Veeru Devgan, director and producer of Hindi films
Vinod Mehra, actor
Vipul Mehta, singer
Wadali Brothers(singer)
Waris Ahluwalia, model, actor in US
Yash Johar, director and producer of Hindi films




Writers


Abdul Hameed, writer
Bhisham Sahni, Hindi writer
Dalbir Chetan, Punjabi short-story writer
Ghulam Abbas, writer
M. D. Taseer, Urdu poet
Rupa Bajwa, writer
Saadat Hasan Manto, writer
Vir Singh, Punjabi poet
Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari, Urdu poet and writer who proposed the name of Pakistan's new capital city Islamabad.




Others



Bhagat Puran Singh, environmentalist
Hans Raj Khanna, Judge at the Supreme court of India
Kiran Bedi, First woman IPS officer
Laxmi Kanta Chawla, politician
Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designer
Shammi Rana, Indian sports executive and administrator
Vikas Khanna, chef




See also


List of people by India state




References

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• Treaty of Amritsar (1846)
• Economy of Amritsar
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