(INFO) List of famous Indians

(INFO) List of famous Indians

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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

• 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

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

• Abu Salem
• Chhota Rajan
• Chhota Shakeel
• Dawood Ibrahim
• Ejaz Lakdawala
• Nirbhay Gujjar
• Sharad Shetty
• Veerappan

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

• 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

• 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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