Kursath, Unnao, town in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
Kursath, Hardoi, town in Hardoi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
Aacharya Nand Dulare Bajpai (हिन्दी: आचार्य नन्ददुलारे बाजपेई ) was born in the village Magrair, Unnao.
Shiv Kumar Mishra (1916 - December 12, 2007) was born in Unnao, lived in Kanpur, and led the Uttar Pradesh State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) as a member of its Central Committee at the time of the outbreak of the Naxalite movement.
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', one of the most significant poets of modern Hindi, was born on February 21, 1896, in a Brahmin family of Midnapore in Bengal (originally from Unnao,Uttar Pradesh).
The only great river of the district is the Ganga which first touches the district near the village of Purwa Gahir, in pargana Bangarmau and flows south-eastward, separating this district from districts Kanpur and Fatehpur.