This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India.
Award winners
Padma Bhushan
Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay - 2010, Social Activist, Gandhian
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2018, Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Kariya Munda - 2019, Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha
Padma Shri
Shashadhar Acharya - 2020, Chhau dancer
Premlata Agarwal - 2013
Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti
Makar Dhwaja Darogha - 2011, Chhau Dancer
Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2009, Indian international cricketer
Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey - 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer
Balbir Dutt - 2017, journalist
Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - 2022, Literature
Chutni Devi - 2021, social worker
Digamber Hansda - 2018
Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - 2020, folk singer
Bulu Imam - 2019, activist
Deepika Kumari - 2016, sports, archery
Vasundhara Komkali - 2006, classical musician
Mukund Nayak - 2017, folk singer
Parasu Ram Mishra
Ram Dayal Munda - 2010, Indian scholar and regional music exponent
Simon Oraon - 2016, Indian environmentalist and social worker
Shyama Charan Pati - 2006, Chhau Dancer
Kedar Nath Sahoo - 2005, classical dancer
Janum Singh Soy - 2023, scholar and educationist
Jamuna Tudu - 2019, environmental activist
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Chetan Joshi, flautist
Mahavir Nayak, nagpuri folk singer
Mukund Nayak, folk artist
Jharkhand Gaurav Samman
Lal Vijay Shahdeo - 2019, Film Director, Producer & Writer
Nari Shakti Puraskar
Chami Murmu - 2019, environmental activist
Academics
Bhuneshwar Anuj, scholar
Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925 Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - Literature and Scholar Shravan Kumar Goswami, Professor and Scholar Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari - educationist, writer, scholar Shakuntala Mishra, Professor and writer Ram Dayal Munda - former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976
Authors
Miniya Chatterji, author
Pankaj Dubey - author
Aditi Gupta, author
Bulu Imam - environmentalist, writer
Shiv Khera - author, motivational speaker, activist
Praful Kumar Rai, writer
Nikita Singh - author
Sahani Upendra Pal Singh, writer
Khagendra Thakur
Bureaucrats
Subodh Kumar Jaiswal - Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office (PMO), New Delhi
Business and industry
Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207 by Forbes among the world's richest people in 2006 Atul Kochhar - Indian-born, British based chef, restaurateur, and television personality Mahesh Poddar - industrialist Ashwin Srivastava - venture capitalist