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In recent times, four celebrities claimed Bareilly as their home city:
Kishan Saroj ( world renowned Hindi poet )
Wasim Barelvi (world renowned Urdu poet)
Priyanka Chopra (former Miss World and famous Bollywood actress)
Imran Khan (won a gold medal for shooting in New Delhi at the 19th Commonwealth Games
Some other known people include -
Ahmed Raza Khan, founder of the Barelwi Islamic movement, which gets its name from the city.
A famous Ayurveda practitioner of the region was the Late Vaidya Narrottam Tripathi.
The place is also related to the late Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut at NASA. Her maternal grandparents live in the city
