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.
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2 Business and Industry 3 Literature 4 Mass Media 5 Movies 6 Music 7 Politics 8 Sciences 9 Religion 10 Sports 11 Others |
Arts
Business and Industry
Literature
Also see Indian writing in English
Mass Media
Movies
Also see: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
Directors
Actors
Actresses
Music
Politics
Also see President of India
Sciences
- Aryabhatta
- Bhaskaracharya
- Sir C.V.Raman
- Hargobind Khorana
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Raja Ramanna
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Birbal Sahni
- Acharya P.C. Roy
- S. Bhagvantam
- Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose
- P.K. Sent
- Jagjit Singh
- Meghnad Saha
- E.C. George Sudarshan
- J.J. Rawal
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- Jayant Narlikar
- Harish Chandra
Religion
- Adi Sankara
- Mata Amritanandamayi
- 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
Sports
- Anil Kumble, Cricket
- Baichung Bhutia, Football
- Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
- Dhyan Chand, Hockey
- Kapil Dev, Cricket
- Karnam Malleswari, Weight-lifting
- Leander Paes, Tennis
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
- Milkha Singh, Athelete
- Mohammed Azharuddin, Cricket
- Pargat Singh, Hockey
- Prakash Padukone, Badminton
- P. T. Usha, Athlete, Asian Games medallist
- Sachin Tendulkar,Cricket
- Sania Mirza, Junior Wimbledon Girls champion
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Viswanathan Anand, Chess
Others
- Amartya Sen, Economist
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
- Kalpana Chawla, first Indian woman astronaut (Born Indian, later American citizen)
