This is a list of some of the notable people either born or brought up in Jharkhand state, India. Award winners Padma Bhushan Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay - 2010, Social Activist, Gandhian Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2018, Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Kariya Munda - 2019, Indian politician and the former Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha Padma Shri Shashadhar Acharya - 2020, Chhau dancer Premlata Agarwal - 2013 Ashok Bhagat - 2015, social worker and secretary of Vikas Bharti Makar Dhwaja Darogha - 2011, Chhau Dancer Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 2009, Indian international cricketer Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey - 2012, Chhau dancer and choreographer Balbir Dutt - 2017, journalist Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - 2022, Literature Chutni Devi - 2021, social worker Digamber Hansda - 2018 Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh - 2020, folk singer Bulu Imam - 2019, activist Deepika Kumari - 2016, sports, archery Vasundhara Komkali - 2006, classical musician Mukund Nayak - 2017, folk singer Parasu Ram Mishra Ram Dayal Munda - 2010, Indian scholar and regional music exponent Simon Oraon - 2016, Indian environmentalist and social worker Shyama Charan Pati - 2006, Chhau Dancer Kedar Nath Sahoo - 2005, classical dancer Jamuna Tudu - 2019, environmental activist Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Chetan Joshi, flautist Mahavir Nayak, nagpuri folk singer Mukund Nayak, folk artist Jharkhand Gaurav Samman Lal Vijay Shahdeo - 2019, Film Director, Producer & Writer Nari Shakti Puraskar Chami Murmu - 2019, environmental activist Academics Bhuneshwar Anuj, scholar Gerald Durrell - naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter; born in Jamshedpur in 1925 Girdhari Ram Gonjhu - Literature and Scholar Shravan Kumar Goswami, Professor and Scholar Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari - educationist, writer, scholar Shakuntala Mishra, Professor and writer Ram Dayal Munda - former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University Ram Krishna Singh - teacher of English language skills and Indian writing in English at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad since 1976 Authors Miniya Chatterji, author Pankaj Dubey - author Aditi Gupta, author Bulu Imam - environmentalist, writer Shiv Khera - author, motivational speaker, activist Praful Kumar Rai, writer Nikita Singh - author Sahani Upendra Pal Singh, writer Khagendra Thakur Bureaucrats Subodh Kumar Jaiswal - Director of CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi; former Director of Prime Minister's office