National / international award winners

Padma Bhushan

Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay-medicine and public health

Padma Shri

Deepika Kumari-Sports-Archery-2016

Simon Oraon-Environment Conservation-2016

Premlata Agarwal 2013 mountaineer to scale the Seven Summits

Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti[1]

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer[2]

Ram Dayal Munda Indian scholar and regional music exponent

Sports
Archery

Jhanu Hansda - world record holder

Deepika Kumari

Purnima Mahato

Boxing

Aruna Mishra - 2004 world champion

Cricket

Varun Aaron

Kirti Azad

Mahendra Singh Dhoni - captain of the Indian cricket team

Randhir Singh

Saurabh Tiwary

Ishan Kishan

Football

Sanjay Balmuchu - Indian footballer, plays as a midfielder for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League; 2012
graduate of the Tata Football Academy[4]

Lal Mohan Hansda - Indian footballer, plays as a forward for Prayag United S.C. in the I-League

Munmun Lugun - Indian footballer, plays as a defender for Pune in the I-League

Hockey

Michael Kindo

Birendra Lakra - born in Simdega

Jaipal Singh - captained the Indian field hockey team to win gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam

Sylvanus Dung Dung-former field hockey player from India.

Masira Surin

Kanti Baa

Sumrai Tete

Manohar Topno

Mountaineering

Premlata Agarwal - mountain climber; on May 21, 2011 became the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount
Everest, at age 45[5]

Art
Bollywood

Imtiaz Ali - director and writer, Jamshedpur

Meiyang Chang - actor, born in Dhanbad

Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, actress, born in Jamshedpur

Sriram Dalton - director

Zeishan Quadri-Bollywood Actor and writer

Tanushree Dutta - Miss India 2004

Raj Kumar Gupta - director, born in Hazaribag

Chetan Joshi

Akashaditya Lama - director and scriptwriter based in Bollywood, born in Ranchi

Madhavan - Jamshedpur

Mannara - actress, born in Bokaro

Shweta Prasad

Amrita Raichand

Meenakshi Seshadri - Miss India 1981, born in Sindri

Imran Zahid - actor, born in Bokaro

Vinay Pathak - Actor, born in Dhanbad

Military police

Lance Naik Albert Ekka: Param Vir Chakra

Randhir Prasad Verma Ashoka Chakra

Writers and scholars

Journalists

Dayamani Barla

Anjana Om Kashyap

Writers

Khagendra Thakur Maithili language

Ajitabha Bose, author -In Love with Shah Rukh Khan, Jamshedpur

Santosh Kiro, Ranchi (Author - The Eternal Mystery),

[9]

Amit Besra, Jamtara (Author - It's Dying Time, Be The Change)

Poets

Anuj Lugun - won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi [10]

Ram Krishna Singh - has published seventeen poetry collections in English[11]

Academics

Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born
in Jamshedpur in 1925

Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of
Mines, Dhanbad since 1976;[12]poet with several publications

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

Devendra Prasad Gupta

Birsa Munda - 15 November 1875, Ulihatu, Khunti, Birsa Munda died in Ranchi Jail on 9 June 1900 from cholera

Kanhu Murmu

Sido Murmu

Religious

Thakur Anukulchandra

Nirmal Baba

Father Kamil Bulke

Sister Nirmala Joshi - Mother Teresa's successor

Parshvanatha - twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism; achieved moksa at the age of one hundred
atop Shikharji, Giridih district

Telesphore Toppo

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 'Vidysagar' railway station in his honour

Business

Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006

Holders of high Constitutional offices

Governors of other states

Rameshwar Thakur- Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh

Bhishma Narain Singh- Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andman Nicobar Island

Chief Minister

Bhagwat Jha Azad - Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989; born at Kasba village
at Mehrama in Godda district

Raghubar Das

Binodanand Jha - Chief Minister of Bihar from February 1961 to October 1963

Madhu Koda

Babulal Marandi - first Chief Minister of Jharkhand born in Giridih P.S Tisri P.O Chandouri

Arjun Munda - born in Jamshedpur

Krishna Ballabh Sahay - ex-Chief Minister of Bihar

Hemant Soren

Shibu Soren

Politicians

Sudarshan Bhagat - Minister of State of India for Social Justice & Empowerment in the Narendra
Modi government

Kariya Munda - Deputy Chief of 15th Lok Sabha

Inder Singh Namdhari

Kartik Oraon

Subodh Kant Sahay - former cabinet minister, government of India

Bhishma Narain Singh

C.P.Singh - former speaker, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha

Jaipal Singh

Jayant Sinha - Minister of State of India for Finance in the Narendra Modi government

Yashwant Sinha - former cabinet minister, Government of India

Bidyut Baran Mahato

Sudesh Mahto

Rudra Pratap Sarangi

Shailendra Mahato

Ravindra Kumar Pandey - Member of the Indian Parliament, and currently represents Giridih (Lok Sabha
constituency)

Medical

Subhash Mukhopadhyay - created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation

Others

Rameesh Kailasam - governance reform and policy expert from India

Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime
Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi