People list from UP:
Param Vir Chakra
- Abdul Hamid, Ghazipur
- Manoj Kumar Pandey
- Naik Jadu Nath Singh
- Yogendra Singh Yadav, of Orangabad, Bulandshaher; hero of Tiger Hill in Kargil war
Bharat Ratna
- tal Bihari Vajpayee, eleventh Prime Minister of India
- Bhagwan Das, philosopher and Freedom Fighter, Varanasi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, freedom fighter, former Prime Minister; belonged to Varanasi and Allahabad
- Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon, freedom fighter, Allahabad
- Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro, Ghazipur
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai Maestro, Varanasi
- Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Educationist and Politician, Founder of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
- Amitabh Bachchan, film actor
- Bhagwati Charan Varma, Hindi author
- Irfan Habib, historian
- Josh Malihabadi, poet
- Kishan Maharaj, tabla maestro
- Obaid Siddiqui, science
- Qurratulain Hyder, author
- Rahul Sankrityayan
- Ram Kinkar Upadhyay, scholar
- Srilal Shukla, Hindi writer
Padma Shree
Dada Saheb Phalke AwardBekal Utsahi poet, writer- Giriraj Kishore writer
- Gopaldas Neeraj, Hindi poet and lyricist
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, scholar of Unani medicine
- Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India
- K. P. Saxena, writer
- Kanhai Chitrakar
- Kapil Deva Dvivedi
- Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, hockey Olympian
- Mohammed Shahid, ex-captain of Indian hockey team, Varanasi
- Muzaffar Ali, film director
- Prakash Singh
- Praveen Chandra, Cardiac Surgeon
- Vidya Niwas Mishra, writer
- Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri awardee yogi; founder director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur
- Majrooh Sultanpuri, lyricist
- Naushad Ali, music composer
Gyananpith Awards
- Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
- Ali Sardar Jafri, writer and poet
- Amarkant
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet
- Mahadevi Verma, poet
- Qurratulain Hyder, writer
- Sri Lal Sukla
Magasaysay Award
- Rajendra Singh, water conservationist
- Sandeep Pandey
Arjuna Award
- Abhinn Shyam Gupta, badminton
- Ashish Kumar, gymnastics
- Jagbir Singh, hockey
- Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
- Syed Modi, badminton
People list from Bihar :
Bharat Ratna
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shree
- Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
- Mohan Mishra
- Narendra Kumar Pandey
- Janki Ballabh Shastri
- Sharda Sinha
- Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
Jnanpith award
Magasaysay award
Dada Saheb Phalke award
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