New Delhi
New Delhi ranks 164th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bratislava, Lagos, and Malmö. Memorable people born in New Delhi include Shah Rukh Khan, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Akshay Kumar. Memorable people who died in New Delhi include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi. New Delhi has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. New Delhi is located in India.
New Delhi is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court. New Delhi is a municipality within the NCT, administered by the NDMC, which covers mostly Lutyens' Delhi and a few adjacent areas. The municipal area is part of a larger administrative district, the New Delhi district. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 0 and 1997, New Delhi was the birth place of 73 globally memorable people, including Shah Rukh Khan, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Akshay Kumar. Additionaly, 59 globally memorable people have passed away in New Delhi including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi.
People Born in New Delhi
Go to all RankingsShah Rukh Khan
ACTOR
1965 - Present
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 1
Bahadur Shah Zafar
POLITICIAN
1775 - 1862
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 2
Akshay Kumar
ACTOR
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 3
Ajay Devgn
ACTOR
1969 - Present
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 4
Deepak Chopra
WRITER
1946 - Present
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 5
Shah Alam II
POLITICIAN
1728 - 1806
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 6
Shantanu
POLITICIAN
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 7
Michael Radford
FILM DIRECTOR
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 8
Vichitravirya
POLITICIAN
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 9
Mayawati
POLITICIAN
1956 - Present
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 10
Rahul Gandhi
POLITICIAN
1970 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 11
Saif Ali Khan
ACTOR
1970 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in New Delhi
Go to all RankingsAnupam Tripathi
ACTOR
1988 - Present
HPI: 34.53
Rank: 35
Anu Aggarwal
ACTOR
1969 - Present
HPI: 27.46
Rank: 52
Ashmit Patel
ACTOR
1978 - Present
HPI: 24.78
Rank: 56
Deepika Singh
ACTOR
1989 - Present
HPI: 20.18
Rank: 64
Kavita Kaushik
ACTOR
1981 - Present
HPI: 19.76
Rank: 65
Puja Gupta
ACTOR
1987 - Present
HPI: 17.51
Rank: 67
Agatha Sangma
POLITICIAN
1980 - Present
HPI: 14.54
Rank: 70
Yashaswini Singh Deswal
ATHLETE
1997 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 71
Luo Yadong
ATHLETE
1992 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 72
Shiv Kapur
ATHLETE
1982 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 73
People Deceased in New Delhi
Go to all RankingsMahatma Gandhi
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1869 - 1948
HPI: 87.82
Rank: 1
Jawaharlal Nehru
POLITICIAN
1889 - 1964
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 2
Indira Gandhi
POLITICIAN
1917 - 1984
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 3
Pranab Mukherjee
POLITICIAN
1935 - 2020
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 4
Zakir Husain
POLITICIAN
1897 - 1969
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 5
Kamala Sohonie
CHEMIST
1912 - 1998
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 6
Gulzarilal Nanda
POLITICIAN
1898 - 1998
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 7
Feroze Gandhi
POLITICIAN
1912 - 1960
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 8
Charan Singh
POLITICIAN
1902 - 1987
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 9
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
POLITICIAN
1905 - 1977
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 10
Dashrath Manjhi
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1934 - 2007
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 11
Shankar Dayal Sharma
POLITICIAN
1918 - 1999
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in New Delhi
Go to all RankingsFiraq Gorakhpuri
WRITER
1896 - 1982
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 29
Jagjivan Ram
POLITICIAN
1908 - 1986
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 33
Padmaja Naidu
POLITICIAN
1900 - 1975
HPI: 39.78
Rank: 56
Indu Jain
BUSINESSPERSON
1936 - 2021
HPI: 35.77
Rank: 58
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
POLITICIAN
1936 - 2005
HPI: 31.36
Rank: 59
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day New Delhi were actors (32), politicians (16), writers (3), singers (3), and athletes (3), while most who died were politicians (36), writers (7), social activists (5), religious figures (3), and chemists (1).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in New Delhi, including Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Ajay Devgn. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day New Delhi, including Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Ajay Devgn.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 8 globally memorable people born in New Delhi since 1700.