Notable Yadav Personalities
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Politics Akhilesh Yadav
Politician / Member of Parliament
President of Samajwadi Party, Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kannauj MP
Politicians Aparna Yadav
Politician, classical singer and social worker
Indian politician, classical singer and social worker; contested Lucknow Cantt on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2017 and joined the BJP in January 2022; daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav
Politicians D. P. Yadav
Politician; founder-president, Rashtriya Parivartan Dal
Four-term Uttar Pradesh MLA who won Bulandshahr three times and Sahaswan once, served one term in the Lok Sabha from Sambhal and one in the Rajya Sabha, held office under five party labels, founded the Rashtriya Parivartan Dal in 2007, and was acquitted by the Uttarakhand High Court in 2021 in the 1992 Mahendra Singh Bhati murder case
Politicians Dharmendra Yadav
Politician, four-term Member of Parliament
Four-term Lok Sabha member; Samajwadi Party MP for Azamgarh since 2024; winner of the 2004 Mainpuri by-poll in Mulayam Singh Yadav's vacated seat; nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shivpal Singh Yadav
Politicians Dimple Yadav
Politician and Member of Parliament
Four-term Lok Sabha MP from Kannauj and Mainpuri; Samajwadi Party senior leader and daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav
Entertainers & Filmmakers Dinesh Lal Yadav
Actor, singer, film producer and politician
Bhojpuri film superstar known as 'Nirahua'; Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament for Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh (June 2022 to June 2024)
Politicians Dularchand Yadav
Politician and local strongman; described as a don-turned-politician by the Times of India, a muscleman by the Hindustan Times, a former RJD leader by the Indian Express and the Hindu, and a social worker by Tejashwi Yadav
A strongman of the Mokama taal in Patna district who contested the Bihar assembly on three tickets and lost every contest, and who was shot in the left leg and killed on 30 October 2025 during a clash between rival campaign convoys, in the first poll-related murder of the 2025 Bihar election
Entertainment Elvish Yadav
YouTuber / Content Creator / Singer / Television Personality
Digital Content Creation, YouTube Vlogs, Bigg Boss OTT Season 2 Winner
Entertainment Khesari Lal Yadav
Actor, singer, dancer and politician
Bhojpuri cinema superstar with 70+ films and 5,000+ songs; Bigg Boss 13 contestant; RJD's 2025 Chapra candidate
Cricketers Kuldeep Yadav
International Cricketer
Left-arm wrist spin bowling, multiple international hat-tricks, ICC T20 World Cup Champion
Cricketers Lalit Yadav
Cricketer, all-rounder (right-hand bat, right-arm off-break)
IPL 2022 breakthrough with Delhi Capitals against Mumbai Indians; maiden first-class century 177 vs Tamil Nadu; Goa's Ranji 2025-26 headline all-rounder
Politicians Lalu Prasad Yadav
Politician
Two-time Chief Minister of Bihar; Union Railway Minister; founder-president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and defining figure of OBC/'Bahujan' politics in North India
Cricketers Mangesh Yadav
Cricketer, left-arm fast-medium bowler
Uncapped ₹5.20 crore IPL 2026 RCB signing; Player of the Tournament at the 2025 Madhya Pradesh T20 League; Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26 debutant for Madhya Pradesh
Cricketers Mayank Yadav
International cricketer (right-arm fast bowler)
Indian T20I fast bowler; fastest balls recorded in IPL 2024 (155.8 and 156.7 km/h); best figures 3/29 on his 2026 Harare comeback; third Indian to bowl a maiden first over in a T20I; Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi pacer from the Sonnet Club
Politicians Mohan Yadav
Politician, advocate and author; Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
19th and current Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh; three-time MLA for Ujjain South; former State Education Minister; ABVP and RSS functionary turned cabinet chief
Politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav
Politician, former schoolteacher
Founder of the Samajwadi Party; three-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; Union Defence Minister; patriarch of the Yadav political dynasty of Uttar Pradesh
Cricketers Nandan Kumar Yadav
International Cricketer
Fast-medium bowling for Nepal, five-wicket haul in the Top End T20 Series, playing all four of Nepal's 2026 T20 World Cup group matches
Politicians Naveen Yadav
Politician; architect and real estate developer
Congress MLA who won the Jubilee Hills by-election on 14 November 2025 with 98,988 votes and a margin of 24,729, on his fourth attempt at the seat, one year after he filed an election petition against the previous member
Politics Pappu Yadav
Politician, Member of Parliament (Purnia, 2024–present)
Six-time Lok Sabha MP from Bihar; JD(U) president Sharad Yadav's 2014 conqueror at Madhepura; 2024 Purnia Independent winner; author of the Hindi memoir Drohkaal ka Pathik
Politics Prateek Yadav
Businessman (fitness, gym and real-estate interests); public figure of the Yadav family
Younger son of Mulayam Singh Yadav whose sudden death on 13 May 2026 (postmortem: pulmonary thromboembolism, against unproven public poisoning claims) became a national story
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Cricketers Radha Yadav
Cricketer, slow left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder
India's 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup winning squad member and 2026 Asian Games gold medallist; first five-wicket haul in the Women's T20 Challenge; joint-leading wicket-taker for India at the 2018 World T20
Cricketers Prince Yadav
International cricketer (right-arm fast bowler)
Indian limited-overs cricketer; ODI and T20I debuts in June 2026; hit a six off the first ball faced in T20I history as the third Indian after Suryakumar Yadav and Ramandeep Singh; Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler who reached the international game from tennis-ball cricket at seventeen and a two-year BCCI age-fudging ban
Sportspersons Radhika Yadav
Tennis player and coach
Haryana state-level tennis player and Gurugram coach whose killing by her father in July 2025 became a national reference point on violence against women athletes in India
Actors Raghubir Yadav
Actor, music composer, singer and set designer
Massey Sahib (FIPRESCI Venice 1986, IFFI Silver Peacock 1987); Chillum in Salaam Bombay!; actor in three Academy Award-nominated foreign-language films; Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne; Filmfare OTT Award for Panchayat; composer and singer of Lamh Tera and the MP tourism jingle
Entertainers & Filmmakers Rajkummar Rao
Film actor
National Film Award-winning Hindi film actor for Shahid (2013); star of Stree and Stree 2; born Raj Kumar Yadav
Entertainment Rajpal Yadav
Actor / Comedian
Iconic comic roles in Hungama, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Chup Chup Ke, Dhol, Phir Hera Pheri
Politicians Ram Kripal Yadav
Politician; holds law degree by his own article's account
Five-term Lok Sabha member from Patna and Pataliputra who left the RJD for the BJP in March 2014, beat Misa Bharti that year by 40,322 votes, lost to her by 85,174 in 2024, and is now a Bihar cabinet minister
Yoga Guru & Entrepreneur Ramdev
Yoga guru, ayurveda practitioner, entrepreneur, renunciant
Bringing yoga to mass television audiences since 2002; co-founding Patanjali Ayurved and building it into one of India's largest FMCG companies; leading the 2011 Ramlila Maidan anti-corruption hunger strike; born Ram Kisan Yadav
Athletes & Sportspersons Sachin Yadav
Athlete (javelin throw); police constable
Indian javelin thrower who finished fourth at the 2025 World Athletics Championships with a personal best of 86.27 m; 2025 Asian Championships medallist and Uttar Pradesh Police constable
Politicians Sanjay Yadav
Politician and political adviser; occupation declared as social worker in the February 2024 election papers
Political adviser to Tejashwi Yadav, credited by ThePrint and The Hindu with the strategy behind the RJD's 2015 and 2020 Bihar campaigns, returned unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar in February 2024
Mountaineers & Explorers Santosh Yadav
Mountaineer, expedition leader, instructor
First woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice (1992 and 1993); National Adventure Award (1994) and Padma Shri (2000) awardee; expedition leader on the Kangshung and East Faces and mountaineering instructor
Politicians Sharad Yadav
Politician; Member of Parliament
Seven-term Lok Sabha member and four-term Rajya Sabha member who won the 1974 Jabalpur by-poll from jail at 27, pressed the V. P. Singh government to implement the Mandal Commission report in 1990, held four Union portfolios, and built the Janata Dal (United)
Politics Shivpal Singh Yadav
Politician, MLA Jaswantnagar; Samajwadi Party General Secretary (National)
Younger brother of Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of Akhilesh Yadav; six-time MLA for Jaswantnagar; Public Works minister 2012-2016; founder and president of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) from 2018 until it merged back into the SP in December 2022; SP national general secretary since January 2023
Cricketers Suryakumar Yadav
International Cricketer
360-degree T20 batting, captaining India to the 2026 T20 World Cup and 2025 Asia Cup titles, ICC T20 Cricketer of the Year
Politicians Tej Pratap Singh Yadav
Politician; occupation declared as agriculture work and director in company in 2014 and as agriculture and business in 2024
Won the Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election at 26 in 2014 after Mulayam Singh Yadav kept Azamgarh, sat one term, was named and then un-named as the Samajwadi Party candidate at Kannauj in April 2024, and took the Karhal assembly seat in November 2024 after Akhilesh Yadav kept Kannauj
Politicians Tej Pratap Yadav
Politician, content creator, former Cabinet Minister of Environment & Forests, Government of Bihar
Former Bihar minister and two-time MLA; elder son of Lalu Prasad Yadav; expelled from the RJD in May 2025; president of the Jan Shakti Janata Dal and political content creator
Politics Tejashwi Yadav
Politician / Leader of Opposition
RJD leader, Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Youth Icon in Bihar politics
Cricketers Umesh Yadav
International cricketer (right-arm fast bowler)
Indian express fast bowler; member of the 2013 Champions Trophy-winning squad; India's highest wicket-taker at the 2015 World Cup; five-time IPL champion
Politicians Yogendra Yadav
Psephologist, political scientist, author and activist-politician
Psephologist who built the CSDS-Lokniti election-study programme; founding AAP strategist and later its expelled critic; founder of Swaraj India; Samyukt Kisan Morcha coordinator; national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan