Hindi poets

Harivansh Rai Srivastava alias Bachchan (27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003) was a noted Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature.

Meera, also known as Meera Bai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

Keshavdas Mishra (1555 – 1617), usually known by the mononym Keshavdas or Keshavadasa, was a Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet, best known for his Rasik Priya, a pioneering work of the riti kaal (procedure period) of Hindi literature.

Prem Kishore Patakha (प्रेम किशोर 'पटाखा') (born 27 October 1943) is a Hindi author of comedic poetry (hasya kavi).

Rajesh Joshi (Hindi: राजेश जोशी) (born 1946) is a Hindi writer, poet, journalist and a playwright, who was the recipient of 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his anthology of poems - 'Do Panktiyon Ke Beech' (Between Two Lines), given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

Ram Vilas Sharma (10 October 1912 – 30 May 2000) was an eminent progressive literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker.

Ramkumar Verma (born 15 September 1905) was a leading Hindi poet who published one act-plays and several anthologies of his work.

Vibudh Shridhar or Vibudha Shridhara (विबुध श्रीधर) (wrote during Vikram Samvat 1189-1230) was an accomplished Apabhramsha writer and poet in North India.

Jagdish Chaturvedi was an Indian poet of Hindi literature.

Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1933–2010) was an Indian poet, lyricist and a former Features Editor of the Navbharat Times.

Animesh Mukharjee is an Indian documentary film-maker, writer and Hindi poet.

Kavi Pradeep (6 February 1915 – 11 December 1998), born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi, was an Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song 'Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo' written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country during the Sino-Indian War.

Sudama Pandey "Dhoomil" (सुदामा पांडेय 'धूमिल') (November 9, 1936 – February 10, 1975), most commonly called Dhoomil, was a renowned Hindi poet from Varanasi, who is known for his revolutionary writings and his "protest-poetry", along with Muktibodh.

Kedarnath Singh (born July 7, 1934) is one of the most prominent modern poets writing in Hindi.

Vrind (1643–1723) was an Indian saint and poet in Hindi language from Marwar, in present Rajasthan.

Sohan Lal Dwivedi (1906–1988) was an Indian poet, Gandhian and freedom fighter, known for his patriotic poems such as Tumhe Naman, a poem on Mahatma Gandhi, Ali Racho Chand, Khadi Geet, Giriraj, Nayanon ki Resham Dori se, Mathrubhumi, Prakriti Sandesh, Jay Rashtra Nishan, Re Man, Vandana and Himalay.

Prakash Chandra Pandey (born 25 October 1962), is a Hindi poet and writer.

Neelabh Ashk (16 August 1945 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian Hindi language poet, journalist, and translator.

Balswaroop Raahi is a Hindi poet and lyricist of India.

Acharya Shivpujan Sahay was a noted Hindi novelist, editor and prose writer.

Dnyaneshwar Mulay – ज्ञानेश्वर मुळे (Jñānēśvar Muḷē), Consul General of India, New York, USA (former High commissioner of India in Maldives), the son of soil of Kolhapur and career diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) since 1983.

Ashok Vajpeyi (Hindi: अशोक वाजपेयी) (born 1941) is an Indian poet in Hindi, essayist, literary-cultural critic, apart from being a noted cultural and arts administrator, and a former civil servant.

Pandit Narendra Sharma (1913 - 12 February 1989) was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist in Hindi language.

Ashok Anjum (born 15 September 1966) is a Hindi author of comedic poetry (hasya kavi).

Balli Singh Cheema (born 2 September 1952) is a famous Hindi poet and currently politician of Aam Aadmi Party, contesting Indian general election, 2014 from Nainital Constituency.

Shabbir Ahmed is an Indian Bollywood lyricist, who wrote success stories with hit films like ‘Bodyguard’, ‘OMG! Oh My God’, ‘Khiladi 786’, ‘Bol Bachchan’, ‘Humshakals’ and Salman Khan sensation ‘Kick’.

Indira 'Indu' was a famous Hindi poet from Morena, Madhya Pradesh India

Bhagwan Datt Sharma(Hindi: भगवान् दत्त शर्मा ; 23 October 1935) is a well-known person in the field of English and Hindi literature specially of post World War II period in Madhya Pradesh and reforms in school education.

Bhawani Prasad Mishra (29 March 1913 – 20 February 1985) was a Hindi poet and author.

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध) (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964) was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayist, literary and political critic, and fiction writers of the 20th century.

Geet Chaturvedi (born 27 November 1977, Mumbai, Maharashtra) is a Hindi poet, short story author and novelist.

Gopal Singh Nepali (Nepali: गोपाल सिँह नेपाली ) (1902–1963) was an eminent Bihari Indian poet of Hindi literature and a famous lyricist of Bollywood.

Kedarnath Agarwal (also spelled as Agrawal and Aggarwal) (1911–2000) was a Hindi language poet and littérateur.

Kumar Vishwas (born 10 February 1970) is a Hindi-language performance poet and an Indian politician and National Executive of Aam Aadmi Party.

Shail Chaturvedi (29 June 1936 – 29 October 2007) was a Hindi poet, satirist, humorist, lyricist and actor from India, most known for his political satire in the 70s and the 80s.

Ramesh Singh Matiyani 'Shailesh', popularly known as Shailesh Matiyani (14 October 1931 – 24 April 2001), is a Hindi writer, poet, essayist from Uttarakhand, India.

Sumitranandan Pant (May 20, 1900 - December 28, 1977) was an Indian poet.

Agnishekhar or Agni Shekhar (born 1956) is a Kashmiri Pandit writer and political activist.

Narottam Das (Hindi: नरोत्तम दास, AD 1550-1605) was a poet from Village-Bari Sidhauli, Sitapur.

Nirmal Verma (3 April 1929 – 25 October 2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator.

Shyam Lal Gupta, popularly known as Shyam Lal Gupta Parshad, (1896-1977) was an Indian poet and lyricist.

Gopaldas Saxena 'Neeraj (popularly known as Niraj or Neeraj) (born 1925) is a poet and author of Hindi literature.

Raj Mahajan is an Indian Music Director, Composer, Actor, Singer, Poet and TV Show Host who work mainly in Music Videos, TV Shows and Music Albums.

Madan Mohan Malaviya ( (1861–1946) was an Indian educationist and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement and as the two time president of Indian National Congress. He was respectfully addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and also addressed as 'Mahamana'. Malaviya was one of the founders of Scouting in India. He also founded a highly influential, English-newspaper, The Leader published from Allahabad in 1909. He was also the Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946. His efforts resulted in the launch of its Hindi edition named Hindustan Dainik in 1936.

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती) (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India.

Krant M. L. Verma (born Madan Lal Verma, 1947) is an Indian poet, writer and verse translator, who writes in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and English under the pen name of Krant.

Sunil Jogi is an Indian author, poet of comic verses and the chairman of Hindustani Academy, a post holding the rank of a Minister of State in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Nemi Chandra Jain was an Indian poet, critic, theatre personality and the founder of Natarang Pratishthan, a charitable trust established in 1989 for the promotion of theatre, arts, literature and culture in India.

Suryakumar Pandey (born 1 January 1956) is a Hindi poet, humorist, satirist and writer from Lucknow, India.

Deepak Kumar Pandey (born 20 August 1985) is an Indian writer from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Maithilisharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets.

Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1890 – 15 November 1937) is one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.

Nand Chaturvedi (1923–2014) was a socialist, a well-known Hindi poet and a littérateur.

Professor Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma (1916–1961) was a professor of Hindi Literature in University of Patna.

Kaka Hathrasi (18 September 1906 – 18 September 1995) was a noted Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India.

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (16 August 1904 – 15 February 1948) was an Indian poet famous for Hindi poems composed primarily in Veer Ras, one of the nine Ras' (English: Flavour/Subgenre).

Raghuvir Sharan Mitra is an Indian poet, novelist and essayist of Hindi literature.

Hasrat Jaipuri (April 15, 1922 – September 17, 1999) was an Indian poet, who wrote in the Hindi and Urdu languages.

Hemant Shesh (born 28 December 1952 in Jaipur, Rajasthan) is a celebrated Indian Hindi writer, poet and civil servant.

Hemant Joshi (हेमन्त जोशी) is a Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism.

Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (April 4, 1889 – January 30, 1968), also called Panditji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature.

Mohan Rana (Hindi: मोहन राणा; born 9 March 1964) is a Hindi language poet from India.

Nathuram Sharma (Hindi: नाथूराम शर्मा), better known by his pen-name Shankar (Hindi: शंकर), (1859–1932) was a Hindi and Urdu poet from Harduaganj, Aligarh, North-Western Provinces (Now Uttar Pradesh), British India.

Nagarjun (Yatri, Baba Nagarjun, Vaidya Nath Mishra)(30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998) was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet.

Dinesh Bhramar is an eminent Hindi and Bhojpuri poet and writer from Bihar, India.

Hari Shankar Sharma (1891–1968) was a Hindi and Urdu poet from Harduaganj, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sandeep Nath is a Lyricist,Screenwriter, Director and Producer in Bollywood.