List of people from Amritsar

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This is a list of notable people from Amritsar.

## Spiritual leaders

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* 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

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* Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter
* Madan Lal Dhingra, independence activist

## Defense personnel

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* Baba Deep Singh, General
* Bhagat Singh Thind,[1] US Sikh Leader
* Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
* Saurabh Kalia, soldier

## Sportspersons

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Abdul Hameed, writer
* Bhisham Sahni, Hindi writer
* Dalbir Chetan, Punjabi short-story writer[2]
* 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

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Shammi Rana, Indian sports executive and administrator

* 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

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* List of people by India state

## References

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1. ^ "South/Southeast Asia Library – UC Berkeley Library". Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
2. ^ "Readings | Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture | Global Studies and Languages | MIT OpenCourseWare". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.