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List of Indians
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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. For important Native Americans, also known as Indians, see List of Native Americans
Armed forces
* General Rahul Bhattacharya, Army Chief, Governor of India, Social Worker
* Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora (1917-2005)
* General Joginder Jaswant Singh
* Rakesh Sharma, First Indian cosmonaut
* Shashindra Pal Tyagi, Chief of Indian Air Force
* Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
* Major Shaitan Singh, Param Vir Chakra
* Goyal, D C/FSGT. With Air Cadets in Canada, Has attained Power Pilot Scholarship
Arts
* Amrita Sher-Gil, Painter
* K.M.Adimoolam, Modern painter
* B V Karanth, Musician
* Birju Maharaj, Dancer
* Girish Karnad, Playwright
* Jatin Das, Painter
* Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire
* Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odissi Dancer
* M F Husain 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
* Aditya Rajkumar, Sitar player
Business and Industry
:''See also: Influential businessmen of India''
* Anil Ambani, Reliance Group
* Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder of Reliance Group
* Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Group
* Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto
* Sabeer Bhatia, founder Hotmail
* Ghanshyam Das Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
* Kumaramangalam Birla, Industrialist, Aditya Birla Group
* Amar Bose, Founder Bose Corporation
* M A Chidambaram, Madras-based Industrialist. Founder of SPIC
* Y C Deveshwar, Chairman ITC Group
* Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman, Videocon India
* Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
* Adi Godrej, Godrej Industries
* Ram Prasad Goenka, RPG Group
* Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways
* Yusuf Hamied Y.K. Hamied, Cipla
* Srichand Hinduja, Chairman & Patriarch, Hinduja Hinduja Group
* T V Sundaram Iyengar, Founder & Chairman, TVS Group
* Rakesh Jhunjunwala, India's biggest share broker
* Baba Kalyani, Kalyani group of companies
* Jagdish Khattar, Chief Managing Director, Maruti Udyog
* Naina Lal Kidwai, Deputy Chief Executive Officer HSBC-India
* T.T. Krishnamachari, Founder, TTK Group & 1st Finance Minister of India
* Verghese Kurien, Chairman of NDDB, Founder - Operation Flood
* Vinod Khosla, co-Founder Sun Microsystems
* Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
* Arjun Malhotra, CEO - Techspan, Co-founder, HCL Technologies
* Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB Group of Companies
* Dewang Mehta, ex-Chief of NASSCOM
* Pallonji Mistry, Shapoorji Pallonji Group
* Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, Mittal Steel
* Sunil Mittal, Bharti Tele-Ventures
* Om Prakash Munjal, Hero Honda
* N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
* Shiv Nadar, HCL Technologies & Forbes List of Billionaires
* P R S Oberoi, Chairman, Oberoi Group of Hotels
* Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro
* Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank
* Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
* Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro
* Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
* Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
* J R D Tata, Industrialist, Tata Group
* Ratan Tata, Tata Sons
Cartoonists
* Abu Abraham, in The Guardian
* Ajit Ninan, in the '' India Today''
* Bal Thackeray
* Jug Suraiya
* Kesav, in '' The Hindu''
* Mario Miranda
* R K Laxman 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 :Category:Indian_models Indian Models ''
* Dino Morea, model and actor
* John_Abraham_(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
* Tarun Tahiliani, 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 people Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
* Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi Chhayavaad 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 Varma, Hindi poetess
* Maithili Sharan Gupt, 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
* Rodney D. Ryder, lawyer, academician and author
* 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 literature Malayalam novelist
* Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam literature 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
News
* 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 Kapoor,Consulting Editor, Hardnews magazine
* Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News
* Sanjay Gupta, Anchor, CNN [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gupta.sanjay.html CNN Page on Sanjay Gupta]
* Vir Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
* Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook
* Monita Rajpal, Anchor, CNN
[http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/rajpal.monita.html CNN Page on Monita Rajpal]
* Shekhar Gupta
* Tavleen Singh
* Sucheta Dalal
* Swapan Dasgupta
* Chandan Mitra
Movies
''See also'': Dadasaheb Phalke Award Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
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Producers
* Amitabh Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. (ABCL)
* Aziz Mirza, Dreamz Unlimited
* Boney Kapoor, Narsimha Enterprises
* Dev Anand, Navketan Films
* Gulshan Rai, Trimurti Films
* Juhi Chawla, Dreamz Unlimited
* K C Bokadia
* K.T. Kunjumon, Gentleman Films
* Mira Nair, Mirabai Films
* Mohanlal, Pranavam Arts
* Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Films
* Pooja Bhatt, initially Pooja Bhatt Productions, Fish Eye Network
* Raj Kapoor, R.K. Films
* Ram Gopal Varma, Varma Corporation Ltd.
* Shahrukh Khan, Dreamz Unlimited
* Sooraj Barjatya, Rajshri Films
* Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts
* Subodh Mukherjee
* Sunil Dutt, Ajanta Arts
* Vidhu Vinod Chopra
* Yash Chopra, Yash Raj Films
* Yash Johar, Dharma Productions
* Bobby Bedi, Kaleidoscope Entertainment
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Actors
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* Aamir Khan
* Abhishek Chowdhury
* Abhishek Bachchan
* Aftab Shivdasani
* Amrish Puri
* Amitabh Bachchan
* Amjad Khan
* Ajay Devgan
* Akshay Khanna
* Akshay Kumar, Real Name: Rajeev Bhatia
* Amol Palekar
* Anil Kapoor
* Annu Kapoor
* Aman Verma
* Anupam Kher
* Arshad Warsi
* Ashok Kumar
* Balraj Sahni
* Biswajit
* Bobby Deol
* Chandrachur Singh
* Chiranjeevi
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* Dev Anand
* Dharmendra (born 1935)
* Dilip Kumar, Real Name: Yusuf Khan
* Dino Morea
* Farabee Hussain
* Fardeen Khan
* Feroze Khan
* Gemini Ganesan
* Govinda
* Guru Dutt
* Hrithik Roshan
* Jackie Shroff
* Jeetendra
* John Abraham
* Johnny Walker (actor) Johnny Walker, real name Badruddin Qazi
* Jimmy Shergill
* Kadar Khan
* Kamal Haasan
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* Madhavan
* Mammootty, Malayalam actor
* Manoj Bajpai
* Manoj Kumar
* Mehmood
* Mithun Chakraborty
* Mohanlal, Malayalam actor
* Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Telugu films
* Naseeruddin Shah
* Navin Nischol
* Om Prakash
* Om Puri
* Pankaj Kapur
* Pran
* Prem Nazir, Malayalam films
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* Rahul Bhattacharya
* Raj Babbar
* Raj Kapoor
* Rajendra Kumar
* Raaj Kumar
* Rajeev Kapoor
* Rajesh Khanna
* Rajini Kanth (Tamil Film SuperStar)
* Dr. Rajkumar (Kannada films)
* Rakesh Roshan
* Randhir Kapoor
* Rishi Kapoor
* Roshan Seth
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* Saif Ali Khan
* Salman Khan
* Sanjay Dutt
* Sanjay Kapoor
* Sanjay Khan
* Sanjeev Kumar (actor) Sanjeev Kumar
* Shahid Kapoor
* Shahrukh Khan
* Shakti Kapoor
* Shammi Kapoor
* Shashi Kapoor
* Shatrughan Sinha
* Sivaji Ganesan
* Sunil Dutt
* Sunil Shetty
* Sunny Deol
* Surya (actor) Surya Sivakumar
* Suresh Gopi
* Tusshar Kapoor
* Utpal Dutt
* Uttam Kumar
* Vinod Khanna
* Vinod Mehra
* Vivek Oberoi
Actresses
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Rani Mukherjee
Juhi chwla
aishwarya rai
sadhna
kajol
vidya sinha
Music
A-G
* Ali Akbar Khan- Sarod Legend
* Abhijeet - Singer
* Alka Yagnik - Singer
* Allarakha- Tabla Maestro
* Amjad Ali Khan
* Anil Biswas - Composer
* Anjan Chattopadhyay - Notable Sitarist
* Subhabnkar Banerjee - Tabla Musician
* Bikram Ghaosh - Grammy awardee Tabla musician and composer
* Anu Malik - Composer
* A.R. Rahman - Composer
* Asha Bhosle - Singer
* Babul Supriyo - Singer
* Bappi Lahiri
* Balamurali Krishna
* Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
* Devika Mathur - Singer, Radio Jockey and Voice Over Artist
* Freddie Mercury, rock musician and lead singer for Queen
* Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao - Composer and Singer
* Geeta Dutt - Singer
H-L
* Hariharan - Singer
* Hemant Kumar - Composer and Singer
* Himesh Reshamiya - Composer and Singer
* Hridaynath Mangeshkar - Composer
* Ilayaraja - Composer
* Ismail Darbar
* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji,composer
* Kalyanji Anandji - Composers (Kalyanji Shah and Anandji Shah)
* Kartik Seshadri - Sitarist
* Kavita Krishnamurthy
* Kay Kay - singer
* Khayyam - Composer
* Kishan Maharaj - Tabla Maestro
* Kishore Kumar - playback singer, actor
* Kumar Sanu - playback singer, actor, director, producer, love of my life
* Lata Mangeshkar - Singer
* Laxmikant Pyarelal - Composers (Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma]]
* Lucky Ali, singer
M-S
* Mahendra Kapoor, singer
* Manna Dey, singer
* MS Subbulakshmi, Classical ( Carnatic music Carnatic) Singer
* Mohammed Rafi Mohammad Rafi, singer
* Mukesh, singer
* Nitin Sawhney, composer
* Naushad, composer
* Noor Jehan, singer
* O.P. Nayyar, composer
* Pankaj Udhas, Singer and Ghazael Maestro
* Rahul Dev Burman, composer
* Ravi, composer
* Ravi Shankar (musician) Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
* Sachin Dev Burman, composer
* Sadhana Sargam
* Salil Chowdhury, composer
* Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer - Carnatic singer
* Shamshad Begum
* Shamtaprasad - Noted Tabla Maestro
* SP Balasubramanyam - Singer
* Sultan Khan
* Suraiya, singer
T-Z
* Talat Mahmood, singer
* Talvin Singh, composer
* Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
* Shivkumar Sharma, Santoor exponent
* HariPrasad Chourasia, Flute Exponent
* Anindo Chatterjee, Notable Tabla Musician
* Parthosarathy, Notable sarod player
* Birju Maharaj, Katthak Exponant
* Ajay Chakarabarty, Notable Singer
* Rashid Khan, Notable Singer
* Upanishad Brahmam - Composer
* Usha Khanna - Composer
* M.S. Viswanathan - Composer
* K. J. Yesudas Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
* Ustad Vilayat Khan, sitar legend
* Zakir Hussain (musician) Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
* Zubin Mehta, conductor
* Pradeep Menon, Metal Guitarist
* Nikhil Banerjee, sitar virtuso
Organised Crime
* Abu Salem
* Chhota Rajan
* Chhota Shakeel
* Dawood Ibrahim
* Ejaz Lakdawala
* Nirbhay Gujjar
* Sharad Shetty
* Veerappan
* Kamlesh Pattni
* Arun Gawli
* Tiger Menon
* Abu Azmi
* Goel, Deepak Crime Don of Saskatchewan
Philosophers
* Akshapada Gotama
* Badarayana
* Gautam Buddha
* Charvak
* Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
* Jiddu Krishnamurti
* Osho Rajneesh
* Kanada
* Kapila
* Madhva
* Swami Vivekananda
* Rabindranath Tagore
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Bimal Krishna Matilal
* Ramanuja
* Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
* Adi_Sankara Shankara
* Tiruvalluvar
* Vallabha
* Nagarjuna
Politics
:''Presidents'': President of India
:''Dr.Rajendra Prasad,First president of India(1950-62)
:''Prime Ministers'': Prime Minister of India
*'' Incumbent Indian Chief Ministers
:''Chief Ministers (Tamil Nadu)'': List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
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A-I
* Amar Singh (politician) Amar Singh
* Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab
* Amarsinh Chaudhary, (1941-2004) former Chief Minister of Gujarat
* Anuj Ashwin Shah
* Arjun Singh
* Arun Gandhi
* Arun Gawli
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* Bal Thackeray
* Baldev Ram Mirdha
* Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
* Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
* Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
* Charu Majumdar
* Chaudhari Kumbharam Arya
* Dasarath Deb
* E.K. Nayanar
* E.M.S. Namboodiripad
* Feroze Gandhi
* Ghulam Nabi Azad
* H D Kumaraswamy
* Indira Gandhi
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J-L
* Jagdish Tytler
* J Jayalalithaa, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
* Jaswant Singh
* Jayaprakash Narayan
* Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
* Jyoti Basu
* Lal Krishna Advani
* Laloo Prasad Yadav
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M-N
* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, '''Mahatma''' Father of the Nation, (1869-1948)
* M Karunanidhi, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
* Mani Shankar Aiyar
* Manik Sarkar
* Manmohan Singh
* Manohar Joshi, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
* Manohar Parrikar,former Chief Minister of Goa
* Mayawati
* MG Ramachandran, Popularly known as '''MGR''', Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
* MG Varghese, Popularly known as 'Netaji'(leader) in Gujarati tribal communitiy, Member of AICC
* Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
* Mulayam Singh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
* Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat
* Nathuram Mirdha
* Natwar Singh
* Nitish Kumar (born 1951)
* Nripen Chakroborthy
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P-R
* Raj Narain
* P Chidambaram
* P.K. Vasudevan Nair
* P. V. Narasimha Rao
* Pranab Mukherjee
* Pratapsinh Rane, Chief Minister of Goa
* R R Patil, Deputy chief minister Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
* Rabri Devi (born 1959)
* Rahul Gandhi, MP from Amethi
* Rajnath Singh,President BJP
* Raj Thackeray, (born 1968)
* Rajendra Prasad
* Rajiv Pratap Rudy
* Ram Vilas Paswan (born 1946)
* Ravi Shankar Prasad
S-Y
* S M Krishna
* Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950)
* Sharad Pawar (born 1940)
* Sheila Dikshit (born 1938)
* Shibu Soren (born 1944)
* Shivraj Patil
* Somnath Chatterjee
* Sonia Gandhi (born 1946)
* Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945)
* Suresh Kalmadi (born 1944)
* Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941)
* T. Nagi Reddy (communist revolutionary leader of Andhra Pradesh)
* Pt. Tarkeshwar Pandey
* Venkaiah Naidu, BJP
* Vilasrao Deshmukh
* Vinay Katiyar
* Yashwant Sinha (born 1937)
Religion
alphabetically:
* A.C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada
* Acharya Mahapragya( Terapanth Guru)
* Acharya Tulsi(Terapanth Guru)
* Adi Sankara
* Amir Khusrau
* Aurobindo 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
* Mahavira Lord Mahavir
* Mata Amritanandamayi
* Meera
* Narayana Guru
* Nisargadatta Maharaj
* Nizaam-ud-Din Auliya
* Osho Shree Rajneesh
* Prem Rawat
* Ramakrishna Paramhansa
* Sai Baba Sai Baba of Shirdi
* Sathya Sai Baba
* Samartha Ramdas Swami
* Sant Dnyaneshwar
* Gajanan Maharaj 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
* Lord Swaminarayan - the founder of Swaminarayan Sampraday.
** Guru Gunatit swami
** Guru Bhagatji Maharaj
** Guru Shashtriji Maharaj
** Guru Yogiji Maharaj
** Guru Hariprasad Swamiji
Royalty
{{see|List of Indian monarchs}}
{{see also|List of Maurya emperors}}
{{see also|List of Mughal emperors}}
* Akbar the Great, greatest Mughal emperor
* Ashoka the Great, greatest Maurya emperor, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya
* Aurangzeb, son of Shah Jahan
* Babur, founder of Mughal Empire
* Bindusara
* Chandragupta Maurya, founder of Mauryan Empire
* Chandragupta I Chandra Gupta I, founder of Gupta Empire
* Chandragupta II Chandra Gupta II (Chandragupta Vikramaditya)
* Hyder Ali, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore
* Jahanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan
* Jahangir (Shehzada Salim), son of Akbar the Great
* Lakshmibai, ''Rani'' of Jhansi
* Mumtaz Mahal
* Rajendra Chola
* Raja Ravi Varma
* Samudragupta
* Shah Jahan, son of Jahangir, builder of Taj Mahal
* Sher Shah Suri
* Shivaji
* Tipu Sultan, greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, son of Hyder Ali
Sciences
{{see also|List of Indian mathematicians}}
A-C
* A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
* A.Gioalakrishnan
* Acharya P.C. Roy
* Anil Kakodkar
* Dr. Anu T Singh
* Aryabhata I (Aryabhata the Elder), astronomer and Indian mathematics mathematician
* Aryabhata II, astronomer and Indian mathematics mathematician
* Ashesh Prosade Mitra
* Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
* Autar Singh Paintal
* Bhaskara I, Indian mathematics mathematician
* Bhaskara Bhaskar Acharya ( Bhaskara II), Indian mathematics mathematician and astronomer, inventor of differential calculus
* Birbal Sahni
* Brahmagupta, Indian mathematics mathematician and astronomer, first to document the modern place-value numeral system ( Hindu-Arabic numeral system)
* C.N.R. Rao
* Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
* C.V. Raman
* Colathur Gopalan
D-L
* Devendra Lal
* Satish Dhawan
* Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran
* Ganesh Prasad
* George Sudarshan
* Goverdhan Mehta
* Govind Swaroop
* Hargobind Khorana
* Harish Chandra
* Homi Jehangir Bhabha
* Jagdish Chandra Bose, pioneer of radio and wireless transmission
* 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
* Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire and first female physician to be trained in the European system of medicine in South Asia
* Krishnaswami Kasturirangan
M-S
* M.G.K.Menon
* Madhava of Sangamagrama, Indian mathematics mathematician, father of mathematical analysis
* Madhu Sudan
* Sisir Kumar Mitra
* G.Balakrish Nair
* Meghnad Saha
* Mriganka Sur
* Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
* Vandana Shiva
* Nilakantha Somayaji
* Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
* PÄ?ṇini Panini, Sanskrit grammarian, considered father of computers computing machines
* Pingala, Indian mathematics mathematician, inventor of binary numbers
* Prakash Narain Tandon
* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
* Raja Ramanna
* Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
* Roddam Narasimha
* Sudhir Divecha
* Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan
* Satyendra Nath Bose
* S. Bhagvantam
* Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
* C.S. Seshadri
* Obaid Siddiqui
* Subhash Mukhopadhyay
* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
* Prakash Narain Tandon
* Jamshed Rustom Tata
V-Z
* V.Radhakrishnan
* Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
* Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
* Vikram Sarabhai
* Yellapragada Subbarao
* U.R.Rao
* 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
* Syed Ahmed Khan Educator and founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Sports
* Anil Kumble, Cricket
* Anju George, athlete
* Ashok Kumar, hockey
* Baichung Bhutia, Football
* Chandu Borde, Cricket
* Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
* Dilip Vengsarkar, Cricket
* Dhyan Chand, Field Hockey Hockey
* Gagan Narang, Shooting
* 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
* Kunjarani Devi, 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
* Sushma Rana, shooting
* Syed Mohammed Hadi, Cricket and Tennis
* Tejaswini Sawant, shooting
* 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
* Sayyid Ahmad, Shiite religious scholar, grandfather of Khomeini.
* Ayatollah Khomeini,Iranian religious leader, Indian grandfather
* Basava Premanand, Skeptic and debunker of guru 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
* 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 people English author
* Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom British author 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
* Rodney D. Ryder, lawyer, academician and author
* 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
* Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, (born 1942), Chief Justice of India
See also
* List of people by nationality
* List of Indians by state
* List of Indian Americans
* List of British Asian people
* List of Indian monarchs
* List of Indian mathematicians
* List of Indians to appear on the cover of TIME magazine
* List of Indians commemorated in the editorial page of the New York Times
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