New Delhi ranks 149th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Genoa, Oakland, California, and Yerevan. Memorable people born in New Delhi include Shah Rukh Khan, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Deepak Chopra. Memorable people who died in New Delhi include Jawaharlal Nehru, B. R. Ambedkar, 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
Between 0 and 1993, New Delhi was the birth place of 67 globally memorable people, including Shah Rukh Khan, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Deepak Chopra. Additionaly, 53 globally memorable people have passed away in New Delhi including Jawaharlal Nehru, B. R. Ambedkar, and Indira Gandhi.
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 1
1775 - 1862
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 2
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 3
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 4
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 5
1728 - 1806
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 6
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 7
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 8
1946 - 1980
HPI: 48.40
Rank: 9
1914 - 2008
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 10
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 11
1941 - 2017
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 12
1935 - Present
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 23
1938 - 2021
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 25
1955 - Present
HPI: 36.14
Rank: 29
1956 - 1997
HPI: 35.94
Rank: 30
1955 - Present
HPI: 34.58
Rank: 32
1989 - Present
HPI: 28.17
Rank: 41
1983 - 2021
HPI: 25.07
Rank: 49
1966 - Present
HPI: 22.02
Rank: 55
1973 - Present
HPI: 19.03
Rank: 61
1988 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 67
1889 - 1964
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 1
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 2
1917 - 1984
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 3
1935 - 2020
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 4
1924 - 1988
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 5
1897 - 1969
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 6
1905 - 1977
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 7
1728 - 1806
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 8
1918 - 1999
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 9
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 10
1902 - 1987
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 11
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 12
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 10
1910 - 1967
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 25
1903 - 1970
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 34
1946 - 2020
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 39
1925 - 2021
HPI: 41.54
Rank: 43
1934 - 2021
HPI: 38.65
Rank: 50
1925 - 2020
HPI: 35.45
Rank: 53
Most individuals born in present day New Delhi were actors (29), politicians (16), singers (3), writers (2), and producers (2), while most who died were politicians (35), writers (6), social activists (4), religious figures (3), and actors (1).
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in New Delhi, including Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Saif Ali Khan. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day New Delhi, including Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Saif Ali Khan.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 11 globally memorable people born in New Delhi since 1700.