List of people associated with Kanpur

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 11th Prime Minister of India, is a DAV College alumnus
* Harish-Chandra (1923-1983), matematician, fellow of Royal Society, who worked in the field of Representation Theory.
* Poonam Dhillon, Hindi film actress, studied in Air Force School Kanpur for a few years.
* Shriprakash Jaiswal, Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Home Affairs
* Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (1890-1931), freedom fighter and journalist, after whom the medical college is named
* Apurva Agnihotri, film actor of Pardes fame.
* Lakshmi Sahgal (b. 1914), ex-officer of the Indian National Army, Minister of Women's affairs in the Azad Hind Government, and Padma Vibhushan recipient
* Subhashini Ali, politician who represented Kanpur in the 1991 Lok Sabha
* Raju Srivastava, film actor and stand-up comedian born and brought up in Kanpur
* Bob Woolmer, born in Kanpur, went on to play cricket for England and coached South Africa and Pakistan
* Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Bollywood singer, born and brought up in Kanpur
* Gopaldas Neeraj, poet and author, Padma Bhushan recipient
* Sir Peter de Noronha (1897-1970), businessman, philanthropist and civil servant of Kanpur. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 with the Order of St. Gregory the Great for his work for the Christian community in India.

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