List of Hindus
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This a list of famous people of the past 150 years who are or were Hindu.
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Religious Figures / Philosophers
- Swami Vivekananda : Social reformer
- Sri Aurobindo : Mystic and philosopher
- Annie Besant : Theosophist and president of the Congress Party
- Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta : ISKCON founder
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya : Philosopher
- Swami Chinmayananda : Religious leader
- Ananda Coomaraswamy : Art historian
- Ram Dass : American spiritual leader
- Swami Dayananda : Religious leader
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa : Mystic
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan : Philosopher
- Ramana Maharshi : Mystic
- Ram Mohan Roy : Reformer
- Swami Sivananda: Yogi
- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami : Modern sage
- Paramahansa Yogananda : Yogi
- Nisargadatta Maharaj : Teacher
- Deepak Chopra : Personality Development Author
National Leaders / Politicians
- Mohandas Gandhi : National leader
- Gyanendra : King of Nepal.
- Balgangadhar Tilak : National leader
- Shivaji : Hindu Warrior
Business Leaders / Top Executives
- Lakshmi Mittal : 3rd Richest Man in the World
- Amar Bose : Founder of Bose Corporation
- Ajay Piramal, chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
- Vinod Khosla : Venture Capitalist, Co-founder Sun Microsystems
- Rajat Gupta : CEO, McKinsey
- Indra Nooyi : President, PepsiCo
- Arun Sarin : CEO, Vodafone
- Sanjay Kumar : CEO, Computer Associates International
- Dewang Mehta, ex-chief of NASSCOM
- GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Mukesh Ambani
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
- Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
- Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
- Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
- Bobby Kishore, General Manager Microsoft Corporation
- Vijay Mallya, chairman, UB group of companies
Writers
- Rabindranath Tagore : Writer, Nobel Prize Winner
- V.S. Naipaul : Writer, Nobel Prize Winner
- Eknath Easwaran : Keralan-American author
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
- Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
- Kalhana
- Kamala Markandaya, poetess
- Manil Suri novelist
- Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
- R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer
- Shashi Tharoor - Author of The Great Indian Novel besides other books
- Subhash Kak, writer
- Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
- Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
- Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam poet
- Arundhati Roy
Scientists / Inventors
- Jagdish Chandra Bose : Scientist
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Har Gobind Khorana : Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Erwin Schrödinger : Physicist
- Amartya Sen : Economist, Nobel Prize Winner
- J.D. Salinger : Novelist
- Aldous Huxley : Novelist
- Christopher Isherwood : Writer
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul : Novelist
- Sabeer Bhatia : Co-founder of Hotmail
Musicians
- Ravi Shankar : Sitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winner, mentor to George Harrison
- George Harrison : Musician
- Abhijeet, singer
- Alka Yagnik, singer
- Asha Bhosle, singer
- Babul Supriyo
- Balamurali Krishna
- Geeta Dutt, singer
- Hemant Kumar, composer and singer
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer
- Ilayaraja, Composer
- Kartik Seshadri,Sitarist
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kay Kay, singer
- Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- Mahendra Kapoor, singer
- Manna Dey, singer
- MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
- Mukesh, singer
- Nitin Sawhney, composer
- O.P. Nayyar, composer
- Rahul Dev Burman, composer
- Ravi, composer
- Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
- S.D. Burman, composer
- Sadhana Sargam
- Salil Chowdhury, composer
- Suraiya, singer
- Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
- Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
Film Producers / Directors
- Satyajit Ray : Film Director
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Bimal Roy
- Boney Kapoor
- David Dhawan
- Dev Anand
- Guru Dutt
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- K C Bokadia
- Kamal Amrohi
- Karan Johar
- Mani Ratnam
- Manoj Night Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen)
- Mira Nair
- Mrinal Sen
- Raj Kapoor
- Rajkumar Santoshi
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Sai Paranjpe
- Satish Kaushik
- Shekhar Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Subhash Ghai
- Subodh Mukherjee
- Shakti Samanta
- Vishal Bharadwaj
- Yash Chopra
Actors / Actresses
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aftab Shivdasani
- Amrish Puri
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Ajay Devgan
- Akshay Khanna
- Akshay Kumar
- Amol Palekar
- Anil Kapoor
- Annu Kapoor
- Aman Verma
- Anupam Kher
- Ashok Kumar
- Balraj Sahni
- Bobby Deol
- Dev Anand
- Dharmendra (born 1935)
- Dilip Kumar
- Govinda
- Guru Dutt
- Hrithik Roshan
- Jackie Shroff
- Jeetendra
- Kamal Haasan
- Madhavan
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Kumar
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Mohanlal, Malayalam films
- Navin Nischol
- Om Prakash
- Om Puri
- Pran
- Rajini Kanth
- Raj Kapoor (Actor and Director)
- Rajendra Kumar
- Raaj Kumar (Hindi actor)
- Rajeev Kapoor
- Rajesh Khanna
- Dr. Rajkumar (Kannada actor)
- Rakesh Roshan
- Randhir Kapoor
- Rishi Kapoor
- Roshan Seth
- Salman Khan
- Sanjay Dutt
- Sanjay Kapoor
- Sanjeev Kumar
- Shahid Kapoor
- Shakti Kapoor
- Shammi Kapoor
- Shashi Kapoor
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Sivaji Ganesan
- Sunil Dutt
- Sunil Shetty
- Sunny Deol
- Suresh Gopi
- Tusshar Kapoor
- Utpal Dutt
- Uttam Kumar
- Vinod Khanna
- Vinod Mehra
- Vivek Oberoi
Sports figures
- Vijay Singh : Golfer
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Ashok Kumar, hockey
- Baichung Bhutia, Football
- Chandu Borde, Cricket
- Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
- Dhyan Chand, Hockey
- Geet Sethi, snooker
- Gopichand, badminton
- Javagal Srinath, Cricket
- Jyoti Randhawa, golf
- Kapil Dev, Cricket
- Karan Rastogi, Tennis
- Karnam Malleswari, Weightlifting
- Lakshmipathy Balaji, Cricket
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- 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
- Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
- Saurav Ganguly, Cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
Others
- Kalpana Chawla : Astronaut
Others who believed in or were influenced by Hinduism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : Author, American Transcendentalist
- Amos Bronson Alcott : Author, American Transcendentalist
- Edwin_Arnold : British Poet, Journalist
- David Bohm : American Quantum Physicist
- Niels Bohr : Danish Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
- Joseph Campbell : American Professor, writer, orator
- Fritjof_Capra : Austrian born, American Physicist, author Tao of Physics
- Alain_Daniélou : French writer
- T.S. Eliot : Anglo-American author, Nobel Prize winner
- Herman_Hesse : German author, Nobel Prize winner
- Carl Jung : Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology
- Herman Melville : American author, poet
- Yehudi Menuhin : Violinist, exposed many Westerners to Yoga
- Max Muller : German Orientalist, created the discipline of comparative religion
- Friedrich Nietzsche : German philosopher, philologist, Atheist and psychologist
- Robert Oppenheimer : American physicist,Father of the Atomic Bomb
- Romain Rolland : French writer, Nobel Prize Winner
- Carl Sagan : American astronomer, science popularizer, Promoted SETI
- Arthur Schopenhauer : German Philosopher
- Erwin Schroedinger : Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Albert Schweitzer : German theologian, philosopher, physician, Nobel Prize winner
- George Bernard Shaw : Irish playwright, satirist, vegetarian, Nobel Prize winner
- Leo Tolstoy : Russian novelist, reformer, pacifist, moral thinker, vegetarian
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee : British historian
- Mark Twain : American humorist, writer and lecturer.
- Ludwig van Beethoven : German composer of classical music
- Nikola Tesla : physicist, mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer
- Henry David Thoreau : Author, American Transcendentalist
- HG Wells : British Science-Fiction writer, vegetarian
- John Archibald Wheeler : American theoretical physicist
- Alfred North Whitehead : British-American philosopher, physicist and mathematician
- Walt Whitman : American poet and humanist
- William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, public figure, Nobel Prize winner
- Rene Guenon : French philosopher
- Carlos Santana : Musician
See also: List of people by belief