List of Indian Americans
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This is a list of Indian Americans:
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder Hotmail
- Amar Bose, physicist and founder of Bose Corporation
- Brandon Chillar, professional American football player
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize, Physics, 1983
- Senator Chaudhary, first Asian American elected in Minnesota's history and the youngest State Senator in Minnesota
- Kalpana Chawla, astronaut
- Deepak Chopra, Personality development author
- Dinesh D'Souza, author and conservative political commentator
- Gururaj Deshpande, founder of Sycamore Networks
- Sanjay Gupta, CNN senior medical correspondent
- Rajiv L. Gupta, CEO of Rohm & Haas, a Fortune 500 chemical corporation
- Yash Gupta, dean of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
- Kamala Devi Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco, community activist
- Zakir Hussain, tabla maestro
- Dipak Jain, dean of the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- Bobby Jindal - Republican - former Louisiana gubernatorial candidate and current member of the U.S. Congress
- Norah Jones - singer, Grammy award winner 2003, half Indian
- Tony Kanal, Bass player for No Doubt
- Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1968)
- Vinod Khosla, general partner, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder, Sun Microsystems
- Jhumpa Lahiri - writer
- Mira Nair, filmmaker
- Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsico
- Tina Patel, entertainer, singer
- Kal Penn, actor
- Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian American ever elected to U.S. Congress 1956
- Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone
- Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, multiple Grammy winner, mentor to George Harrison
- Amartya Sen, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
- M. Night Shyamalan, filmmaker, actor
- Kim Thayil, guitarist for rock group Soundgarden
- Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International, author