Academics, science, and engineering

• Manindra Agrawal – mathematician, engineer, recipient of Padmashree, Infosys Prize and Fulkerson Prize^[1]
• Ziauddin Ahmad – mathematician
• Amiya Charan Banerjee – mathematician
• John B. Chitamber – educational reformer
• Sorab K. Ghandhi – educational reformer^[2]
• Rajesh Gopakumar – theoretical physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[3]
• Raj Narain Kapoor – educational reformer
• Ravindra Khattree – statistician, author
• Chittaranjan Mitra – scientist
• Henri Pequet – pilot of the official airmail flight^[4]
• Zahoor Qasim – marine biologist
• Amitava Raychaudhuri – theoretical particle physicist at HRI; SSB Prize winner^[5]
• Ashoke Sen – string theorist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Milner Prize winner, theoretical physicist at HRI^[6]

Authors and writers

• Suryakant Tripathi Nirala – Hindi littérateur
• Meena Alexander – poet
• Akbar Allahabadi – poet
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan – poet, writer, born in and resident of Allahabad^[7]
• Aniruddha Bahal – journalist, novelist
• Dharamvir Bharati – author, poet
• Krishna Prakash Bahadur – writer
• Satish Chandra – writer, historian
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan – poet
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi – poet
• Harisena – poet
• Rafiq Husain – writer, poet
• Arvind Krishna Mehrotra – poet, anthologist and resident of Allahabad^[8]
• Sumitranandan Pant – writer, poet
• Vibhuti Narain Rai – novelist
• Ibn-e-Safi – novelist
• Allan Sealy – author, writer, recipient of Commonwealth Writers' Prize^[9]
• Julia Strachey – novelist, writer^[10]
• Vikas Swarup – novelist, diplomat^[11]
• Mahadevi Varma – poet
• Dhirendra Verma – critic
• Amarkant – writer
• Leema Dhar -Novelist/Poet/ Motivational Speaker

Business and philanthropy

• Abhay Bhushan – Computer engineer
• Amol Bose – "Grandfather of Indian advertising"
• Sarala Devi Chaudhurani – founder of Bharat Stree Mahamandal
• Jagmal Raja Chauhan – contractor, industrialist and philanthropist
• Imtiaz Alam Hanfi – banker, governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
• Sam Higginbottom – philanthropist, founder of Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences^[12]
• Neeraj Roy – managing director and CEO Hungama
• Mason Vaugh – philanthropist, educational reformer

Fine arts

• Mallika Chabba – painter
• Hariprasad Chaurasia – musician
• Ram Chandra Shukla – painter
• Shubha Mudgal – musician

Media

• Amitabh Bachchan – film actor, recipient of Padma Vibhushan, Knight of the Legion of Honour and resident of Allahabad^[13]
• Vijay Bose – theatre director and actor
• Sulochana Brahaspati – singer
• Hariprasad Chaurasia – composer, flutist
• Rakesh Chaurasia – flautist
• Tigmanshu Dhulia – director, producer, recipient of National Film Award
• Tanveer Zaidi – film actor, educationist, television presenter
• Aditya Srivastava – actor
• Deepraj Rana - actor
• Vikrant Chaturvedi – voice artist
• Nikhil Dwivedi – actor
• Jaddanbai – singer, actress
• Nidhi Singh - Actress
• Nalin Mazumdar – guitarist
• Prachi Mishra – former Femina Miss India Earth
• Indrani Mukherjee – actress
• Nargis – actress
• Kinsey Peile – playwright, actor
• Siddharth Nigam – actor
• Roshni Walia – actor
• Mudit Nayar – actor
• Pawan Shankar – actor, entrepreneur
• Faisal Malik- actor

Military

• Girish Bihari – IPS officer
• Norman Anil Kumar Browne – former Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force; India's ambassador to Norway; born in Allahabad^[14]
• George Nicolas Channer – recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Syed Ata Hasnain – Lieutenant General in the Indian Army
• Bhopinder Singh – Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Music

• Bholanath Prasanna - classical flautist
• Hariprasad Chaurasia – classical flautist
• Sahana Devi – singer, resident of Allahabad^[15]
• Shubha Mudgal – classical

Nobel laureates

• Rudyard Kipling – author, assistant editor at The Pioneer (Allahabad), Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)^[16]

Politics and law

Religion

• Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi – religious scholar
• Muhibullah Allahabadi -Sufi scholar
• Samuel H. Kellogg – Presbyterian missionary who played a major role in revising and retranslating the Hindi Bible; teacher at Allahabad Bible Seminary^[25][26]
• Kripalu Maharaj – spiritual leader
• Ramananda – reviver of the Ramanandi sect^[27]
• John Banerjee – Assistant bishop of Lahore for the Church of England

Royal and noble ranks

• Khusrau Mirza – Prince of the Mughal Empire
• Mirza Nali – Prince of the Mughal Empire

Sports

• Ali Murtaza – first-class cricketer
• Yash Dayal - Indian Cricketer
• Dayal
• Hyder Ali – first-class professional bowler
• Dhyan Chand – Olympic gold medalist^[28]
• Nikhil Chopra – first-class professional bowler
• Suresh Goel – badminton champion
• Sunil Gulati - president of the United States Soccer Federation; born in Allahabad^[29][30]
• Abhinn Shyam Gupta – Olympic badminton player
• Mohammad Kaif – first-class batsman in Indian Cricket Team^[31]
• Ashish Kumar – holder of silver and bronze Commonwealth Games medals
• Vivek Mishra – gymnast of Asian and Commonwealth games
• Danish Mujtaba – Olympic player
• Shalabh Srivastava – first-class professional bowler
• Jyoti Yadav – first-class batsman in UP Cricket Team
• Ashish Zaidi – first-class professional bowler
• Obaid Kamal – first-class professional bowler