This is a list of notable members of the Rajput community.

Saints

Painting of Saint Mirabai

Historical figures

Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Ajmer
Rana Sanga, king of Mewar
Maharana Pratap of Mewar, by Raja Ravi Varma
Durgadas Rathore, by Har Bilas Sarda

List of notable Rajputs during the pre-British era, ordered chronologically by reign.

Anti-colonialists

Company rule

Mutineers and rebels, Indian rebellion of 1857

An illustration of Veer Kunwar Singh in The History of the Indian Empire, c. 1858

British Raj

Rulers of princely states

List of notable Rajputs during the British era who hailed from royal families that ruled princely states, Thikanas, and Zamindars.

Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, hailed from the Dogra Dynasty of Rajputs

British Indian military people

Politicians of postcolonial India

V.P. Singh, former Indian Prime Minister
Jaswant Singh
Digvijaya Singh, veteran politician of the Congress party

Indian armed forces

Madhvendra Singh, former Chief of Indian Navy
Bipin Rawat, former Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army

Politicians and lawyers of Pakistan

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan
Humza Yousaf, head of the Scottish government

Pakistani armed forces

Film, television and entertainment

Sushant Singh Rajput (actor)
Preity Zinta
Disha Patani

Authors, academics, scientists

Sports

Athletics

Cricket

Hockey

Shooting and hunting

The last documented Asiatic cheetahs in India, three males from the same litter, were shot in 1948—while they were sitting together at night—by Maharajah Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo of Surguja State, Madhya Pradesh, who poses behind them with his rifle. His private secretary submitted this photo to the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.

Boxing

Wrestling

Criminals

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