Category
page 1People from Ballia district
Mangal Pandey
India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)

Jayaprakash Narayan
Indian independence activist and political leader
Kedarnath Singh
Indian writer

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar from India

Amar Kant
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.
Ibrahim Balyawi
Indian Islamic scholar
Janeshwar Mishra
Indian politician (1933–2010)
Baldev Upadhyaya
Indian historian (1899–1999)