People from Ballia district

India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)

Indian independence activist and political leader

Indian writer

Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar from India

Amarkant (1925 – 17 February 2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007, and Vyas Samman in year 2009. He was awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009. Amarkant is considered one of the prominent writers of the story writing tradition of Premchand but certainly is credited to add something better in that tradition by his own individuality.

Indian Islamic scholar

Indian politician (1933–2010)

Indian historian (1899–1999)