Actors and actresses
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aamir Khan, Bollywood actor, parents are from U.P
- Lara Dutta,
- Pooja Batra,
- Jimmy Shergill,
- Saurabh Shukla,
- Rajpal Yadav,
- Javed Jaffrey,
- Dalip Tahil,
- Zohra Segal,
- Vivek Mushran,
- Raj Babbar,
- Tom Alter,
- Kumar Gaurav,
- Raza Murad,
- Chunky Pandey,
- Mandakini,
- Nivedita Bhattacharya,
- Arun Govil,
- Dipti Bhatnagar,
- Kamal Rashid Khan,
- Nandini Singh,
- Aditya Srivastava, actor and voiceover artist, CID
- Akshay Oberoi, actor
- Ali Fazal, actor
- Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001
- Anushka Sharma
- Ashutosh Rana, Indian film actor
- Chandrachur Singh, actor
- Disha Patani, actress from Bareilly
- Jaddanbai, actor
- K.N. Singh, actor
- Kadar Khan, actor
- Marc Zuber, actor
- Meenakshi Dixit, actress from Rae Bareli
- Naseeruddin Shah, actor; born in Barabanki district of Lucknow division, U.P.
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui, actor, Gangs of Wasseypur
- Nimmi, film actress in the 1950s
- Rajpal Yadav
- Ravi Kishan, Bhojpuri film actor
- Saurabh Shukla, Bollywood actor
- Shweta Tiwari, Indian television actress
- Achint Kaur, Indian television actress
- Sonal Chauhan, Bollywood actress
- Aditi Sharma, Bollywood actress
- Amit Sial, Bollywood
- Archana Puran Singh, actress
- Surinder Pal, actor
- Sushant Singh, actor
- Tanveer Zaidi, actor, educationist
- Tuntun, comedy actress
- Vedita Pratap Singh, model and actress
- Zakir Hussain, Indian film actor
- Zoya Afroz, Bollywood actress
- Urvashi Rautela
Directors/producers
- Abhinav Kashyap, director
- Abhishek Chaubey, director
- Anurag Kashyap, director
- Farhan Akhtar, director
- Gajendra Singh, editor, director and producer
- K. Asif, film director, film producer and screenwriter who worked on the Hindi epic motion picture Mughal-e-Azam
- Kamal Amrohi, director
- Prakash Mehra, director
- Prasoon Pandey, director
- Shaad Ali, film director
- Tigmanshu Dhulia, director
- Vishal Bhardwaj, Omkara director
- Zoya Akhtar, director
Singers
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya, singer
- Ankit Tiwari
- Anup Jalota
- Baba Sehgal
- Kavita Seth
- Begum Akhtar
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Kabban Mirza
- Kanika Kapoor
- Rajkumari Dubey
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Talat Mahmood
- Vidup Agrahari
Lyricists
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Anjaan
- Indeevar
- Javed Akhtar
- Kaifi Azmi
- Khumar Barabankvi
- Majrooh Sultanpuri
- Sameer
- Shakeel Badayuni
- Manoj Muntashir
Composers
- Anand Milind
- Naushad Ali
- Shantanu Moitra
- Vikash Maharaj, Indian sarod player and composer
Theatre
Cinematographers
Story/script/dialogue writers
- Javed Siddiqi, film script writer
- K. P. Saxena, dialogue writer of Lagaan, Swades
- S.Ali Raza
- Wajahat Mirza
Nawabs of Awadh
- Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, fourth Nawab, founder of modern Lucknow
- Wajid Ali Shah, poet, choreographer, the last King of Awadh
- Raja Todar Mal, Finance Minister and one of the Navratnas of Akbar
- Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Hindi poet and a Navratna of Akbar
Television
- Aditya Srivastava
- Gajendra Singh, conceived the concept of the reality show in 1992 with Antakshari and Sa Re Ga Ma
- Rahi Masoom Raza, dialogue writer of TV serial Ramayan
- Raju Srivastav
- Surendra Pal, famous for playing Dronacharaya in Mahabharat
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