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.

Table of contents

1 Arts 2 Business and Industry 3 Literature 4 Movies 4.1 Directors 4.2 Actors 4.3 Actresses 5 Models 6 Music 7 Politics 8 Science 9 Religion 10 Sports 11 Others

Arts

• Birju Maharaj, Dancer
• Mallika Sarabhai, Dancer
• MF Hussain, Painter
• Raja Ravi Varma, Painter

• 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

• 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

• Ismail Merchant, Producer and director
• Manoj Night Shyamalan, Director
• Mira Nair, Director
• Raj Kapoor, Actor and Director
• Satyajit Ray, Director
• Shekar Kapoor, Director
• Shyam Benegal, Director
• Mani Ratnam, Director

• Amitabh Bachchan, Actor
• Krishna Bhanji (Ben Kingsley)
• Naseeruddin Shah, Actor
• Om Puri, Actor
• Raj Kapoor, Actor and Director
• Aamir Khan
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Ajay Devgan
• Akshay Khanna
• Akshay Kumar
• Amol Palekar
• Anil Kapoor
• Arjun Rampal
• Bobby Deol
• Dev Anand
• Dharmendra
• Dilip Kumar, The Legend
• Dino Morea
• Fardeen Khan
• Govinda
• Hrithik Roshan
• Jackie Shroff
• Jeetendra
• Jimmy Shergill
• John Abraham
• Madhavan
• Manoj Bajpai
• Manoj Kumar
• Mithun
• Priyanshu
• Raj Kumar
• Rajendra Kumar
• Rajesh Khanna
• 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

• 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
• Tabu
• Tanuja
• Tina Munim
• Urmila Matondkar
• Vyjayantimala
• Waheeda Rehman
• Zeenat Aman

• Sunny Leone

• A.R. Rahman, Composer
• Ilayaraja, Composer
• Kishore Kumar, Bollywood Playback singer
• MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
• Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
• Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
• Zubin Mehta, conductor
• Hemant Kumar
• Mahendra Kapoor
• Manna Dey
• Mohammad Rafi
• Mukesh
• Talat Mahmood
• Hridaynath Mangeshkar
• Udit Narayan
• Kumar Sanu
• Abhijit
• Babul Supriyo
• Anu Malik
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Asha Bhosle
• Geeta Dutt
• Noorjehan
• Shamshad Begum
• Suraiya
• Suman Kalyanpur
• Alka Yagnik
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Sadhana Sargam

• Indira Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi

• Aryabhatta
• C.V.Raman
• Dr. Hargobind Khorana
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Bhaskaracharya
• Birbal Sahni
• Acharya P.C. Roy
• Dr. S. Bhagvantam
• Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
• Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose
• Dr. Raja Ramanna
• Dr. P.K. Sent
• Dr. Jagjit Singh
• Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha
• Meghnad Saha
• Prof. Sudarshan
• Dr. J.J. Rawal
• Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
• Dr. Jayant Naralikar

• Adi Sankara
• 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

• 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
• Sachin Tendulkar,Cricket
• Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
• Viswanathan Anand, Chess
• Pargat Singh, Hockey
• Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey

• Amartya Sen, Economist
• Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
• Kalpana Chawla, first Indian woman astronaut (Born Indian, later American citizen)