List of Indians
This is a list of famous and notable people from India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.
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2 Business and Industry 3 Literature 4 Mass Media 5 Movies 6 Music 7 Politics 8 Sciences 9 Religion 10 Sports 11 Others |
Arts
- Birju Maharaj, Dancer
- Mallika Sarabhai, Dancer
- MF Hussain, Painter
- Raja Ravi Varma, Painter
- PC Sorcar, Magician
Business and Industry
- J.R.D. Tata, Industrialist, Tata Groups
- GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
- NR Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder Hotmail
- Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Vinod Khosla, co-founder Sun Microsystems
Literature
Also see Indian writing in English- Arundhati Roy
- Kalidasa
- Mirza Ghalib
- Rabindranath Tagore
- R.K. Narayan
- Salman Rushdie
- Vikram Seth
- V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize 2001 (of Indian descent, never an Indian citizen)
- Munshi Premchand
- Mahadevi Verma
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Khushwant Singh
Mass Media
- Aniruddha Bahal, writer and Tehelka journalist
- Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor and anchor, Doordarshan News
- M J Akbar, chief editor, Asian Age
- Prannoy Roy, president, NDTV
- Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, research coordinator, Doordarshan
- Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News
- Veer Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
Movies
Directors
- Ismail Merchant, Producer and director
- Mani Ratnam
- Manoj Night Shyamalan, Director
- Mira Nair
- Raj Kapoor, Actor and Director
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Satyajit Ray
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Subhash Ghai
Actors
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Amol Palekar
- Krishna Bhanji (Ben Kingsley)
- Dev Anand
- Manoj Kumar
- Naseeruddin Shah
- Om Puri
- Raj Kapoor, Actor and Director
- Raj Kumar
- Rajesh Khanna
- Aamir Khan
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Ajay Devgan
- Akshay Khanna
- Akshay Kumar
- Anil Kapoor
- Arjun Rampal
- Bobby Deol
- Dharmendra
- Dilip Kumar
- Dino Morea
- Fardeen Khan
- Govinda
- Hrithik Roshan
- Jackie Shroff
- Jeetendra
- Jimmy Shergill
- John Abraham
- Madhavan
- Manoj Bajpai
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Priyanshu
- Rajendra Kumar
- Rakesh Roshan
- Rishi Kapoor
- Saif Ali Khan
- Salman Khan
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Shahrukh Khan
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Sunil Dutt
- Sunil Shetty
- Sunny Deol
- Tushar Kapoor
- Vinod Khanna
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Oberoi
Actresses
- Aishwarya Rai, Miss World '94
- Amisha Patel
- Asha Parekh
- Bipasha Basu
- Dimple Kapadia
- Divya Bharati
- Diya Mirza
- Esha Deol
- Hema Malini
- Jaya Bachchan(Bhaduri)
- Jayaprada
- Juhi Chawla
- Kajol
- Kareena Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Madhubala
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mahima Chaudhary
- Mala Sinha
- Mandakini
- Manisha Koirala
- Meena Kumari
- Meenakshi Seshadri
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Nandita Das
- Nargis
- Neelam
- Nutan
- Padmini Kolhapure
- Pooja Batra
- Pooja Bhatt
- Poonam Dhillon
- Preity Zinta
- Raakhi
- Rani Mukherjee
- Rati Agnihotri
- Raveena Tandon
- Rekha
- Sadhana
- Saira Banu
- Shabana Azmi
- Sharmila Tagore
- Shilpa Shetty
- Smita Patil
- Sonali Bendre
- Sridevi
- Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe, 1994
- Tabu
- Tanuja
- Tina Munim
- Urmila Matondkar
- Vyjayantimala Bali
- Waheeda Rehman
- Zeenat Aman
Music
- A.R. Rahman, Composer
- Hemant Kumar
- Ilayaraja, Composer
- Kishore Kumar, Bollywood Playback singer
- Lata Mangeshkar
- MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
- Mohammad Rafi
- Mukesh
- Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
- Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
- Mahendra Kapoor
- Manna Dey
- Talat Mahmood
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar
- Udit Narayan
- Kumar Sanu
- Abhijit
- Babul Supriyo
- Anu Malik
- Asha Bhosle
- Geeta Dutt
- Noorjehan
- Shamshad Begum
- Suraiya
- Suman Kalyanpur
- Alka Yagnik
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Sadhana Sargam
Politics
Also see President of IndiaSciences
- Aryabhatta
- Bhaskaracharya
- Sir C.V.Raman
- Hargobind Khorana
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Birbal Sahni
- Acharya P.C. Roy
- S. Bhagvantam
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Raja Ramanna
- P.K. Sent
- Jagjit Singh
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Meghnad Saha
- E.C. George Sudarshan
- J.J. Rawal
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- Jayant V. Narlikar
- Harish Chandra
Religion
- Adi Sankara
- Mata Amritanandamayi
- Sri Aurobindo
- Gautama Buddha
- Guru Nanak
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Lord Mahavir
- Osho Shree Rajneesh
- Ramakrishna Paramhansa
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Samartha Ramdas Swami
- Sant Tukaram
- Sant Namdeo
- Swami Vivekananda
Sports
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Baichung Bhutia, Football
- Dhyan Chand, Hockey
- Kapil Dev, Cricket
- Karnam Malleswari, Weight-lifting
- Leander Paes, Tennis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- Milkha Singh, Athelete
- Mohammed Azharuddin, Cricket
- Prakash Padukone, Badminton
- P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist
- Sachin Tendulkar,Cricket
- Sania Mirza, Junior Wimbledon Girls champion
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
- Pargat Singh, Hockey
- Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
Others
- Amartya Sen, Economist
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Kalpana Chawla, first Indian woman astronaut (Born Indian, later American citizen)