The following is a list of notable people from or related to Ballia district, India

• Ibrahim Balyawi, Indian Islamic scholar
• Ganesh Prasad - indian mathematician
• Jagadish Shukla - meteorology scientist

• Bhrigu – Brahmin saint from Ballia district
• Chittu Pandey – activist of 1942 Quit India Movement
• Mangal Pandey – prominent soldier in the 1857 revolution of India
• Manzoor Alam Quraishi, Nationalist Indian Civil Service officer, joined India at the Partition of India 1947
• Rabindra Nath Upadhyay – Social worker and Padma Shri recipient

• Amarkant – writer of Hindi literature
• Bulaki Das - saint and Bhojpuri poet
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – novelist and literary historian
• Kedar Nath Pandey - writer and member of Bihar Legislative Council
• Suryakumar Pandey – poet and writer
• Atul Kumar Rai - Young novelist and Sahitya Academy Award
• Doodhnath Singh – Hindi language writer, critic and poet
• Kedarnath Singh – poet, critic, and essayist
• Baldev Upadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar, literary historian and essayist

• Siddhant Chaturvedi - Bollywood film actor
• Kamlesh Pandey - Bollywood Film writer
• Atul Kumar Rai - Bollywood Film writer

• Gulam Rasool Balyawi - Former Member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar and Member of the Former Bihar Legislative Council^[1]
• Ram Govind Chaudhary - politician of the Samajwadi Party, ex-Leader of Opposition.
• Murli Manohar – politician from Uttar Pradesh state, member of parliament in 1962 for the Ballia Lok Sabha constituency from the Indian National Congress
• Virendra Singh Mast - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, 17th Lok Sabha, Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Janeshwar Mishra – Ex MP Rajyasabha, Ex Rail Minister
• Jayaprakash Narayan – Independence activist and political leader
• Bacha Pathak - Indian National Congress - Member of Legislative Assembly. ( Constituency - Bansdih, Ballia), Two time Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh Government.
• Rajeev Rai - Samajwadi Party - 18th Lok Sabha, Ghosi (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Chandra Shekhar – 8th Prime Minister of India
• Neeraj Shekhar - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)
• Bharat Singh - Bharatiya Janata Party - Member of Parliament, 16th Lok Sabha, Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency), ex MLA
• Daya Shankar Singh - Minister of Transport, Government of Uttar Pradesh in the Second Yogi Adityanath ministry
• Harivansh Narayan Singh – Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha (2018)
• Manager Singh - political leader elected five times as the MLA from Doaba constituency.
• Umashankar Singh - BSP Rasara constituency
• Upendra Tiwari - BJP Phephana constituency