Poets/Writers From Lucknow
Total: 79
Aalam Lakhnavi
1882 - 1952
- Domicile : Lucknow
Abdul Rahman Sufi
1748 - 1806
- Born : Balochistan
- Domicile : Lucknow
- Shrine : Lucknow
Adeeb Lakhnavi
1902
Adeeb Mustafabadi
1982
Afqar Mohani
1887 - 1971
Afsar Meerthi
1895 - 1974
Akhtar Gopamavi
1878 - 1938
Aman Lakhnavi
1898
Aminuddin Warsi
1927
Asad Ali Khan Qalaq
1820 - 1879
Aziz Lakhnavi
1821 - 1915
- Born : Jammu and Kashmir
- Domicile : Lucknow
- Shrine : Lucknow
Barq Lakhnavi
1790 - 1857
Basheer Farooqui
1939 - 2019
- Domicile : Lucknow
Bedam Shah Warsi
1876 - 1936
Celebrated Naat-poet famous for his Ghazal "Bekhud kiye dete hain andaz-e-hijaabana".
Behzad Lakhnavi
1900 - 1974
Bekhud Mohani
1873 - 1940
Faqeer Muhammad Goya
1784 - 1850
Prominent desciple of Nasikh who served in the armies of Maratha ruler Yashwant Rao Holkar at Indore and Ghaziuddin Haider, Nawab of Awadh
Gharqaab Nizampuri
1920 - 1979
Gopinath Aman
1898 - 1983
- Domicile : Malihabad
Hafeez Salmani
1930
- Domicile : Lucknow
Haneef Akhgar
1928 - 2009
- Domicile : Lucknow
Hasrat Mohani
1875 - 1951
Freedom fighter, member of constituent assembly which drafted Indian Constitution. He gave the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad" during freedom movement. He was a devotee of Shri Krishna. He wrote the famous ghazal "chupke chupke raat din".
- Born : Lucknow
Jafar Roomi
1741
- Shrine : Lucknow
Jigar Biswani
1871 - 1958
Josh Malihabadi
1898 - 1982
Kaukab Sandelvi
1894 - 1945
Khwaja Wazeer Lakhnavi
1795 - 1854
Makhdoom Shah Meena
1397 - 1479
- Domicile : Lucknow
Mirza Abu Jafar Kashfi
1893 - 1973
- Shrine : Lucknow
- Domicile : Lucknow
Muhammad Rafi Sauda
1713 - 1781
Munshi Amirullah Tasleem
1819 - 1911
Renowned later classical poet of Lucknow who had also written many oft quoted shers
