Famous Personalities

Raja Todar Mal One of the Nouratna and revenue minister of Mughal emporer Akbar was born at Laharpur town of district Sitapur.
Kavi Narottam Das The writer of 'Sudama Charitra' and was contemporary of Tulsidas born at village 'Badi' in tehsil Sidholi of district Sitapur.
Acharya Narendra Dev was famous litrary and nationalist. He translated 'Ami Dharam Kosh' and 'Boudh Dharam Darshan' in hindi.
Maulana Fazle Haq Khairabadi He was the famous freedom fighter,philospher and learned person belongs to Khairabad town of district Sitapur. He passed a 'Fatwa of Jihad' against british government in 1857. He was imprisoned to Celluler Jail in Andman and Nikobar he diead there in 1861.Famous poet / writter Jannisar Akhtar and Javed Akhtar are from their family.
Muztar Wasim Khairabadi Known urdu poet from Khairabad was master (ustad) of famous urdu poet Firaq Gorakhpuri.
Riaz Khairabadi Famous writterand poet also blongs to Khairabad. He published many magzines and novels.
Jawala Parsad Warq He is amoung the creaters of modern urdu literature.
Pt. Madhu Sudan Dixit Famous doctor of Aurveda. The District Aurvedya Hospital is named after him.
Dr. Mahesh Parsad Mehre Founder of Sitapur Eye Hospital. This Eye hospital & its brach hospitals are surving all over U.P.
Rajshri Purushottam Das Tandan He encouraged to Pt. Kirishan Bihari Mishra to found the 'Hindi Sabha' in 1940.
Dr. Naval Bihari Mishra Has higher place in scientific story writting.
Captain Manoj Pandey The Param Veer Chakra holder Captain Manoj Pandey was born in Ruda village near Kamlapur town. He secrifised his life during Kargil War in 1999.
Other well known personalities in the field of literature
Urdu poetry Dr. Safdar Husain Aah, Ram Swaroop "Jabt", Suraj Narayan "Adab", Jigar "Biswani" and Wasi Sitapuri, Mayal Khairabadi, Aarif Sitapuri, Padmshree Qazi Abdusattar, Iliyaas Sitapuri, Hasan Abid, Dr. Airaz Naqvi, Shakeb Rizvi, Ahmad Wasi, Afsar Biswani, Rasheed Kausar Farukhi, Samar Biswani, Dabir Sitapuri, Mast Hafeez Rahmani, Wafa Sitapuri
Hindi Poetry Sant Baba Raghunath Das "Ram Sanehi", Dr. Ganesh Bux Singh, Pt. Nand Kishore Misra, Pt. Baldev Prasad Awasthi, Pt. Laxmi Narayan Sharma "Krapan", Lala Hardayal Singh, Girja Dayal Srivastava, Girish, Balbhadra Prasad Dixit "Padhees", Anoop Sharma, Pt. Bhagwan Deen "Deenji", Hanumant Dayal Awasthi "Hanumant", Uma Dutt Saraswat "Dutt", Laxman Prasad Misra, Dr. Kunwar Chandra Pratap Singh and Ramji Das Kapoor, Acharya Chaturbhuj Sharma, Dr. Shyam Sundar Madhup, Dr. Shyam Kishore Misra, Ram Swaroop Awasthi "Roopji", Madan Gopal "Mahendra", Dr. Ganesh Dutt Saraswat, Dr. Arun Trivedi, Luv Kush Dixit, Sant Pandey, Shyam Kumar Awasthi "Mayank"