List of Awadhi-language poets

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This is a List of Awadhi language poets.

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• Gosvāmī Tulsīdās तुलसीदास, also known as "Tulasī Dāsa" and "Tulsidas" (11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623) Awadhi poet and philosopher.{{cite journal | first=Swami | last=Rambhadracharya | title=श्रीरामचरितमानस में वृत्त मर्यादा | editor-first=Surendra Sharma | editor-last=Sushil |trans-title=Prosodic propriety in Ramcharitmanas | volume=14 | issue=7 | journal=Shri Tulsi Peeth Saurabh | publisher=Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas | language=hi | place=Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | date=December 2010 | pages=15–25}}Prasad 2008, p. xix, footnote 3.{{cite web | publisher=Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas | title=Metres in the Rāmacaritamānasa | url=http://jagadgururambhadracharya.org/pdfs/NM2011RamacaritamanasaProsody.pdf | access-date=15 September 2011 | date=14 August 2011 | last=Miśra | first=Nityānanda | archive-date=6 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506091215/http://jagadgururambhadracharya.org/pdfs/NM2011RamacaritamanasaProsody.pdf | url-status=dead }}
• Narottama Dasa, a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint who was responsible for spreading Vaishnava bhakti throughout Odisha in and outside Bengal in India. He had worked in Awadhi.{{cite journal

| author = Dimock, E.C. Jr

| year = 1963

| title = Doctrine and Practice among the Vaisnavas of Bengal

| journal = History of Religions

| volume = 3

| issue = 1

| pages = 106–127

| doi = 10.1086/462474

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• Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1477–1542) poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect, known for his work Padmavat.[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V02_465.gif Padmavat] from The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, v. 2, p. 430.Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition by Aditya Behl, Oxford university Press (2012)Hayate Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani by Syed Waheed Ashraf published 1975
• Rambhadracharya (b.14 January 1950)[β] is a Hindu religious leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist.Shastry, Devarshi Kala Nath. "अलौकिक प्रतिभा को श्रद्धार्घ्य [A reverential offering to a superhuman talent]" (in Hindi). In Sharma, Sushil and Shrivastav (2011), pp. 643–648.Dinkar 2008, p. 175.
• Jumai Khan Azad (b.5 August 1930, d.29 December 2013) a poet.{{cite news

|url=http://www.amarujala.com/news/states/uttar-pradesh/pratapgarh/Pratapgarh-32506-10/

|title=धर्मवाद की डोर तोड़ रही 'आजाद' की सोच

|date=5 August 2011

|work=Amar Ujala

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|title=Poetry by Jumai Khan Azad

|work=awadhi.org

|language=hi

|access-date=19 July 2014

|archive-date=31 July 2013

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731182555/http://awadh.org/tag/%e0%a4%9c%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%88-%e0%a4%96%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%86%e0%a4%9c%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a6/

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• Ramai Kaka aka Chandra Bhushan Trivedi popular for Akashvani play 'Bahire Baba' in Awadhi language.