List of Indians Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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, formerly also known as Indians, see List of Native Americans
Arts
Business and Industry
Cartoonists
Fashion, modelling and beauty
Literature
See also: Indian writing in English
- Allama Iqbal Urdu poet
- Arundhati Roy - Booker Prize for The God of Small Things
- Dom Moraes, poet, author
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
- Kabir
- Kaifi Azmi, poet
- Kalhana
- Kalidasa, playwright, creator of Shakuntalam
- Kamala Markandaya, poetess
- Khushwant Singh, novelist
- Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
- Mirza Ghalib, Urdu poet
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
- Nissim Ezekiel - poet, art critic
- Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize in Literature, composer of Indian national anthem
- R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer
- Salman Rushdie - Booker Prize for ''Midnight's Children
- Shashi Tharoor - Author of The Great Indian Novel besides other books
- Subhash Kak, writer
- Sumitranandan Pant, 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
Mass Media
- Aniruddha Bahal, writer and Tehelka journalist
- Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor and anchor, Doordarshan 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 Pugalia, director, STAR News
- Sanjay Gupta, Anchor, CNN CNN Page on Sanjay Gupta
- Veer Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
Movies
See also: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
Directors
Producers
Actors
A-D
F-O
P-R
S-V
Actresses
See List of Indian movie actresses
Music
Organised Crime
Philosophers
Politics
A-M
N-Y
Religion
Royalty
See also: List of Mughal emperors
- 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
- Aryabhata
- Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
- Bhaskaracharya
- Birbal Sahni
- Brahmagupta
- C.N.R. Rao
- C.V. Raman
- George Sudarshan
- Hargobind Khorana
- Harish Chandra
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Sardar Jagjit Singh
- J.J. Rawal, astrophysicist
- Jayant Narlikar
- Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan
- Lagadha
- Madhava
- Madhu Sudan
- Meghnad Saha
- Vandana Shiva
- Nilakantha Somayaji
- Panini
- Pingala
- Raja Ramanna
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- S. Bhagvantam
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Yajnavalkya
Social work
- Anna Hazare
- Arundhati Roy, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Baba Amte
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Mother Teresa, Missionaries of Charity
- Sudha Murty, Infosys Foundation
- Sunderlal Bahuguna, Chipko movement
- Vinoba Bhave, Sarvodaya and Bhoodan movements
Sports
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Anju George, athlete
- 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
- Leander Paes, Tennis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, cricket
- Milkha Singh, Athlete
- Mohammed Azharuddin, Cricket
- 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, Junior Wimbledon Girls champion
- Saurav Ganguly , Cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Vijay Amritraj, lawn tennis
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
Others
- Amartya Sen, Economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998
- Avinash Kak, professor
- Jaishree Odin, teacher
- B.K.S. Iyengar, proponent of yoga
- Balbir Singh Sodhi, victim of September 11-related revenge violence
- Basava Premanand, Skeptic and debunker of gurus
- Bimal Jalan, ex-Governor Reserve Bank of India
- Kalpana Chawla, first Indian woman astronaut (Born Indian, later American citizen), Columbia astronaut
- Nain Singh
- Noor Inyat Khan, World War II spy, born of an Indian father and descendant of Tipu Sultan
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, chartered accountant
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Ram Nath Kak, veterinarian
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, (born 1940), Chief Justice of India
- Sidhartha Basu, quiz master
See also
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