List of famous Indians
Armed forces
- General O.P. Malhotra, Ex-Army Chief, Governor of Punjab, Social Worker
- Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora (1917-2005)
- Lieutenant General Joginder Jaswant Singh
- Rakesh Sharma, First Indian astronaut
- Shashindra Pal Tyagi, Chief of Indian Air Force
- Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
Arts
- Amrita Sher-Gil, Painter
- K.M.Adimoolam, Modern painter
- B V Karanth, Musician
- Birju Maharaj, Dancer
- Girish Karnad, Playwright
- Jatin Das, Painter
- Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odissi Dancer
- M.F. Husain, Painter
- Mallika Sarabhai, Dancer
- Manick Sorcar, Animator/Director/Laserist
- P.C. Sorcar, Magician
- P.C. Sorcar, Jr., Magician
- Protima Bedi, Dancer
- Raja and Radha Reddy, Kuchipudi Dancers
- Raja Ravi Varma, Painter
- Sudha Chandran, Dancer
- Tyeb Mehta, Artist
Business and Industry
- See also: Influential businessmen of India
- Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
- Amar Bose, Founder Bose Corporation
- Anand Chandrasekaran, Founder Aeroprise Inc.
- Arjun Malhotra, co-founder, HCL Technologies
- Shiv Nadar, HCL Technologies & Forbes List of Billionaires
- Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro
- Dewang Mehta, ex-Chief of NASSCOM
- Sunil Mittal, Bharti Tele-Ventures
- Srichand Hinduja, Chairman & Patriarch, Hinduja Group
- J.R.D. Tata, Industrialist, Tata Group
- Ratan Tata, Tata Sons
- GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
- Kumaramangalam Birla, Industrialist, Aditya Birla Group
- T.V. Sundaram Iyengar, Founder & Chairman, TVS Group
- Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
- Adi Godrej, Godrej Industries
- T.T. Krishnamachari, Founder, TTK Group & 1st Finance Minister of India
- R.P. Goenka, RPG Group
- Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank
- Y.K. Hamied, Cipla
- M.A. Chidambaram, Madras-based Industrialist. Founder of SPIC
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto
- Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, Mittal Steel
- Arun Limaye
- Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman, Videocon India
- Y.C. Deveshwar, ITC Group
- Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder of Reliance Group
- Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Group
- Anil Ambani, Reliance Group
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
- Thakiyudeen Wahid, Aviator & Founder of East-West Airlines
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder Hotmail
- Pallonji Mistry, Shapoorji Pallonji Group
- P.R.S. Oberoi, Chairman, Oberoi Group of Hotels
- Jagdish Khattar, Chief Managing Director, Maruti Udyog
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
- Rakesh Jhunjunwala, India's biggest share broker
- Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways
- Verghese Kurien, Founder - Operation Flood
- Bobby Kishore, General Manager, Microsoft Corporation
- Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB group of companies
- Vinod Khosla, co-Founder Sun Microsystems
- Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro
- Rajeev Karwal, ex-CEO, Electrolux India
- Raghvendra Narendra Dhoot, CEO, Raghav's Picks
- Abdul Razak Allana, ARJ Allana Group
Cartoonists
- Abu Abraham, in The Guardian
- Ajit Ninan, in the India Today
- Bal Thackeray
- Jug Suraiya
- Kesav, in The Hindu
- Mario Miranda
- Ranga
- R. K. Laxman, in the Times of India
- Shanker, in the Illustrated Weekly of India, The Hindustan Times
- Yesudasan, in The Week
Economics
- Amartya Sen, Economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
- Partha Dasgupta, Economist
- Bimal Jalan, ex-Governor, Reserve Bank of India
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, Chartered Accountant
Fashion, modelling and beauty
- For a list of women who have won the Miss India titles see : Miss India
- For a list of Indian Models, see the Category
- Dino Morea, model and actor
- John Abraham, model and actor
- Madhu Sapre
- Manish Malhotra, designer
- Milind Soman, model and actor
- Nafisa Joseph, model and VJ
- Ritu Beri, designer
- Rohit Bal, designer
Literature
See also: Indian writing in English- Allama Iqbal Urdu poet
- Arundhati Roy - Booker Prize for The God of Small Things
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Dom Moraes, poet, author
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
- Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi Chhayavaadi poet, writer
- Jaspreet Singh, writer
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
- Kabir
- Kaifi Azmi, poet
- Kalhana
- Kalidasa, playwright, creator of Shakuntalam
- Kamala Markandaya, poetess
- Khushwant Singh, novelist
- Manil Suri novelist
- Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
- Maithilisharan Gupta, Hindi poet
- Mirza Ghalib, Urdu poet
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
- Nissim Ezekiel - poet, art critic
- Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize in Literature, composer of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh
- R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer
- Rohinton Mistry, Canadian writer
- Salman Rushdie - Booker Prize for Midnight's Children
- Shashi Tharoor - UN Diplomat & Author of The Great Indian Novel besides other books
- Subhash Kak, writer
- Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
- Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Hindi poet
- Tulsidas, poet, author of the Ramayana in Hindi
- Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
- V.S. Naipaul - Nobel Prize 2001 (Trinidad-born, grandson of an Indian, never an Indian citizen)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Malayalam novelist
- Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam poet
- Aditya Nitsure
Mass Media
- P. Sainath,award winning development journalist.
- Aniruddha Bahal, writer and Tehelka journalist
- Barkha Dutt, television journalist and anchor, NDTV
- Daljeet Dhaliwal, anchor CNN
- Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor and anchor, Doordarshan
- G.S.Pradeep,anchor of Aswamedham Kairali
- Khushwant Singh
- M. J. Akbar, chief editor, Asian Age
- Prannoy Roy, president, NDTV
- Arun Shourie, journalist
- Pritish Nandy
- Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, research coordinator, Doordarshan
- Saeed Naqvi
- Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News
- Sanjay Gupta, Anchor, CNN CNN Page on Sanjay Gupta
- Vir Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
- Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook
- Monita Rajpal, Anchor, CNN CNN Page on Monita Rajpal
Movies
See also: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
Actors
Actresses
- Main article: List of Indian movie actresses
Music
- Abhijeet - Singer
- Alka Yagnik - Singer
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Anil Biswas - Composer
- Anu Malik - Composer
- A.R. Rahman - Composer
- Asha Bhosle - Singer
- Babul Supriyo - Singer
- Bappi Lahiri
- Balamurali Krishna
- Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
- Freddie Mercury - Singer of band Queen(born in Zanzibar to Indian parents,later British citizen)
- Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao - Composer and Singer
- Geeta Dutt - Singer
- Hemant Kumar - Composer and Singer
- Himesh Reshamiya - Composer and Singer
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar - Composer
- Ilayaraja - Composer
- Ismail Darbar
- Kalyanji Anandji - Composers (Kalyanji Shah and Anandji Shah)
- Kartik Seshadri - Sitarist
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kay Kay - singer
- Khayyam - Composer
- Kishore Kumar - playback singer, actor
- Lata Mangeshkar - Singer
- Laxmikant Pyarelal - Composers (Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma]]
- Lucky Ali, singer
- Mahendra Kapoor, singer
- Manna Dey, singer
- MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
- Mohammad Rafi, singer
- Mukesh, singer
- Nitin Sawhney, composer
- Naushad, composer
- Noor Jehan, singer
- O.P. Nayyar, composer
- Rahul Dev Burman, composer
- Ravi, composer
- Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
- Sachin Dev Burman, composer
- Sadhana Sargam
- Salil Chowdhury, composer
- Shamshad Begum
- SP Balasubramanyam - Singer
- Sultan Khan
- Suraiya, singer
- Talat Mahmood, singer
- Talvin Singh, composer
- Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
- Upanishad Brahmam - Composer
- Usha Khanna - Composer
- Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
- Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
Organised Crime
Philosophers
- Akshapada Gotama
- Badarayana
- Charvak
- Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Kanada
- Kapila
- Madhva
- Bimal Krishna Matilal
- Ramanuja
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Shankara
- Tiruvalluvar
- Vallabha
Politics
- Presidents: President of India
- Dr.Rajendra Prasad,First president of India(1950-62)
- Prime Ministers: Prime Minister of India
- Chief Ministers (Tamil Nadu): List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
Religion
alphabetically:- A.C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada
- Adi Sankara
- Amir Khusrau
- Sri Aurobindo
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
- Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj
- Bhaktivinode Thakur
- Farid
- Gautama Buddha - the founder of Buddhism.
- Hazrat Makhdum Bukhari Jahanian Jahangasht
- Hazrat Mueen-ud-Din Chishti Ajmeri Khwajah
- Hazrat Sirhindi
- Hazrat Usmaan Pir Harooni
- J. Krishnamurti
- Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya of Kanchi
- Kabir
- Lord Mahavir
- Mata Amritanandamayi
- Meera
- Narayana Guru
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Nizaam-ud-Din Auliya
- Osho Shree Rajneesh
- Prem Rawat
- Ramakrishna Paramhansa
- Sai Baba of Shirdi
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Samartha Ramdas Swami
- Sant Dnyaneshwar
- Sant Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
- Sant Tukaram
- Sant Namdeo
- Six Gosvamis of Vrindavan
- Swami Vivekananda
- Tulsidas poet, author of the Ramayana in Hindi
- The Ten Gurus of Sikhism - the founders of Sikhism.
- Guru Nanak Dev
- Guru Angad Dev
- Guru Amar Das
- Guru Ram Das
- Guru Arjan Dev
- Guru Hargobind
- Guru Har Rai
- Guru Har Krishan
- Guru Teg Bahadur
- Guru Gobind Singh
Royalty
See also: List of Mughal emperors- Akbar the Great
- Ashoka the Great
- Aurangzeb
- Babur
- Bindusara
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Chandragupta II (Chandragupta Vikramaditya)
- Jahanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan
- Jehangir
- Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
- Mumtaz Mahal
- Rajendra Chola
- Raja Ravi Varma
- Samudragupta
- Shah Jahan
- Sher Shah Suri
- Shivaji
- Tipu Sultan
Sciences
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Acharya P.C. Roy
- Anil Kakodkar
- Aryabhata
- Ashesh Prosade Mitra
- Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
- Autar Singh Paintal
- Bhaskaracharya
- Birbal Sahni
- Brahmagupta
- C.N.R. Rao
- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
- C.V. Raman
- Colathur Gopalan
- Devendra Lal
- Satish Dhawan
- Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran
- Ganesh Prasad
- George Sudarshan
- Goverdhan Mehta
- Hargobind Khorana
- Harish Chandra
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Jagdish Chandra Bose
- J.J. Rawal, astrophysicist
- Jayant Narlikar
- Kalpana Chawla, first woman astronaut of Indian origin, Columbia astronaut
- Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad
- Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
- Gurdev Singh Khush
- Lagadha
- Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor
- Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
- M.G.K.Menon
- Madhava
- Madhu Sudan
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- G.Balakrish Nair
- Meghnad Saha
- Govind Swaroop
- Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
- Vandana Shiva
- Nilakantha Somayaji
- Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
- Panini
- [[Pingala]
- Prakash Narain Tandon
- Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
- Raja Ramanna
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Roddam Narasimha
- V.Radhakrishnan
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- S. Bhagvantam
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- C.S. Seshadri
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Obaid Siddiqui
- Yellapragada Subbarao
- Mriganka Sur
- U.R.Rao
- Prakash Narain Tandon
- Jamshed Rustom Tata
- Sir Mokshgundam Visvesvarayya
- Yajnavalkya
- Dr. Rajender Singh Sangwan
Social work
- Anna Hazare
- Arundhati Roy, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Baba Amte
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Mother Teresa, Missionaries of Charity
- General O.P. Malhotra, Ex-Army Chief, Governor of Punjab, Social Worker
- Sudha Murty, Infosys Foundation
- Sunderlal Bahuguna, Chipko movement
- Swami Keshwanand, Gramotthan movement
- Vinoba Bhave, Sarvodaya and Bhoodan movements
Sports
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Anju George, athlete
- Ashok Kumar, hockey
- Baichung Bhutia, Football
- Chandu Borde, Cricket
- Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
- Dhyan Chand, Hockey
- Geet Sethi, snooker
- Gopichand, badminton
- Harbhajan Singh, Cricket
- Javagal Srinath, Cricket
- Jeev Milkha Singh, golf
- Jyoti Randhawa, golf
- Kapil Dev, Cricket
- Karan Rastogi, Tennis
- Karnam Malleswari, Weightlifting
- Lakshmipathy Balaji, Cricket
- Leander Paes, Tennis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, cricket
- Milkha Singh, Athlete
- Mohammed Azharuddin, Cricket
- Mohinder Amarnath, Cricket
- Narain Karthikeyan, car racing
- P Harikrishna, chess
- Pargat Singh, Hockey
- Prakash Padukone, Badminton
- Pravin Thipsay, chess grandmaster
- P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist
- Ramesh Krishnan, tennis
- Rahul Dravid, Cricket
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Shooting
- Ranjitsinghji, cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
- Sania Mirza, Tennis
- Sourav Ganguly, Cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Syed Mohammed Hadi, Cricket and Tennis
- Vijay Amritraj, lawn tennis
- Virender Sehwag, Cricket
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
Others
- Abbé Faria, priest, revolutionary, mystic
- B.K.S. Iyengar, proponent of yoga
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun leader of "Red Shirt" movement; "Frontier Gandhi".
- Balbir Singh Sodhi, victim of September 11-related revenge violence
- Basava Premanand, Skeptic and debunker of gurus
- Irfan Habib, historian
- Jaishree Odin, teacher
- Madhur Jaffrey, actress, chef, food writer
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian nationalist, later founder of Pakistan
- Sir Cliff Richard, British singer and entertainer
- Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
- Pete Best, ex-Beatles drummer.
- Dadabhai Naoroji, First Indian MP in the British government and the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons
- Shapurji Saklatvala, British Communist MP
- Nain Singh
- George Orwell, Bengal-born English authour
- Rudyard Kipling, British authour born in India
- Noor Inyat Khan, World War II spy, born of an Indian father and descendant of Tipu Sultan
- Ben Kingsley, British actor ( half-Indian, born Krishna Bhanji; his father is a Kenyan-born Gujarati]]
- Romila Thapar, (born 1931), historian
- William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist born in Calcutta
- Rumaisa Rahman, smallest born baby in history, and her sister Hima, Indian-Americans
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, (born 1940), Chief Justice of India
- Sidhartha Basu, quiz master
- Dr V Mohan Reddy, cardiac surgeon
- Rajkumar Kishor Shah, American graphic designer
- Biswajit Sarangi, Audiologist & Speech Therapist
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