Indian poets

Anandavardhana (820–890) was the author of Dhvanyaloka, a work articulating the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion".

Constanzo Beschi, also known under his Tamil name of Vīramāmunivar (Tamil: வீரமாமுனிவர்) or Constantine Joseph Beschi (in English) (8 November 1680 – 4 Feb 1742) was an Italian Jesuit priest, missionary in South India, and renowned poet in the Tamil language.

Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (30 April 1910 – 15 June 1983), popularly known as Sri Sri, was a Telugu poet and lyricist.

Sarojini Sahoo (Odia: ସରୋଜିନୀ ସାହୁ) (born 1956) is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winner Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by Kindle Magazine of Kolkata.

Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 AD) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir.

Padmanath Gohain Baruah (Assamese: পদ্মনাথ গোহাঞি বৰুৱা; 1871–1946) was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha and a prominent name in the early part of modern Assamese literature.

Valmiki(Sanskrit; /vɑːlˈmiːki/; Vālmīki) is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature.

Thiruvalluvar is a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher whose contribution to Tamil literature is the Thirukkural, a work on ethics.

Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala.

Samar Sen (Bengali: সমর সেন; (10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987) was a prominent Bengali speaking Indian poet and journalist in the post-Independence era.

Maanikavasagar was a 9th-century Tamil poet who wrote Tiruvasakam, a book of Shaiva hymns.

Bharatchandra Ray Gunakor (Bengali: ভারতচন্দ্র রায় গুণাকর; 1712–1760) was an 18th-century Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer.

Ravidas was a North Indian mystic poet-sant of the bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE.

Jiva Goswami (Sanskrit: जीव गोस्वामी, Jīva Gosvāmī; c. 1513 – 1598) is one of the most prolific and important philosopher and saint from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Vedanta tradition, producing a great number of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines.

Lalleshwari (Kashmiri: للء ایشوری) born;1320, died;1392, was a mystic of the Kashmiri Shaivite sect.

Vidyapati (1352 – 1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili) was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer.

Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar) is an Indian American computer scientist.

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.

Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, essayist, patriot and academic, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets.

Aśvaghoṣa (Devanagari: अश्वघोष) [əɕʋəgʰoːʂə] (c. 80 – c. 150 CE) was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family.

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.

Shaikh Abu al-Fazal ibn Mubarak (Persian: ابو الفضل‎‎) also known as Abu'l-Fazl, Abu'l Fadl and Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami (1551 – 12 August 1602) was the vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign in three volumes, (the third volume is known as the Ain-i-Akbari)and a Persian translation of the Bible.

Sarala Dasa or Sarala Das (Odia: ସାରଳା ଦାସ) was a 15th-century poet and scholar of Odia literature.

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay (born 1989 in India) was diagnosed in early childhood with severe or low functioning non-verbal autism.

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

This List of Indian poets consists of poets of Indian ethnic, cultural or religious ancestry either born in India or emigrated to India from other regions of the world.

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

Gummadi Vittal Rao, popularly known as Gaddar (born 1949), is a poet, pseudonym of a revolutionary Telugu balladeer and local Naxalite activist from the state of Telangana, India.