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This is a list of famous and notable people from India The Republic of India, is the
second most populous country in the world and is the world's largest democracy,
with over one billion people speaking about 800 distinct languages. The Indian
economy is the fourth-largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity.
Republic of India
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. 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
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Kelucharan Mohapatra was born in Raghurajpur, a village near the temple town
of Puri, Orissa, India. He learnt to paint, sculpt and play the khol drum at an early
age. He started playing in folk theatre groups from the age of nine. He married
dancer Laxmi Priya with whom he often co-acted.
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, Odissi Odissi (or Orissi) is the traditional style of dance which originated in the
temples of the state of Orissa in Eastern India, where it was performed by the
devdasis. It is one of the oldest surviving forms of dance, with depictions of
Odissi dancing dating back as far as the 1st century BC.
Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, dancer and teacher, was one of the most popular
proponents of Odissi.
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dancer
• Mallika Sarabhai Mallika Sarabhai is one of the most renowned Kuchipudi and
Bharatanatyam dancers in India today. Multi-faceted Malika holds a MBA and a
doctorate from IIM Ahmedabad and has experience in acting, film-making,
editing and television anchoring.
, Dancer
• Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (born 1929) is an American-born Indian electrical
engineer. After receiving a Ph.D from MIT, he started doing research on speaker
technology, in 1956.
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Corporation is an American manufacturer of high end audio equipment,
particularly speakers. The company was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, a
professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Boston. As of 2003, the company employeed about 8,000 people worldwide and
had revenues of over $1 billion. Dr. Bose remains the CEO today.
The company is known for making small speakers with exceptional acoustic
characteristics.
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J.R.D. Tata was born to an Indian father and a French mother in Paris, France, and
was inspired by aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot. In 1929 Tata got the first pilot
licence issued in India, and became known as the father of Indian civil aviation.
He founded India's first commercial airlines, Tata Airlines, in 1932, which in
1946 became Air India.
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• GD Birla
Shri Ghanshyam Das "GD" Birla (April 10,1894 - January 11,1983) was a
close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He advised Gandhiji on economic policies.
Birla's grandfather Shiv Narayan Birla wanted to diversify from the traditional
marwari business of lending money against pawned items. He left Pilani, his
hometown in Rajasthan with a modest capital to Bombay to establish a business
in cotton dealership. The venture was successful and he came back to Pilani to
build a huge mansion (or Haveli), which still stands by the name Birla Haveli.
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N.R. Narayana Murthy (b. August 20, 1946, Karnataka, India) is a software
engineer and the founder of Infosys.
Seven IT professionals formed the company during the IT boom - N.R. Narayana
Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S.D. Shibulal and
K. Dinesh. Nandan Nilekani is the Managing Director, President and CEO.
Narayana Murthy is the Chief Mentor.
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He was born in Chandigarh, India. After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute
of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of
Technology where he received his Bachelor's degree. He received his Master's
degree from Stanford University, and worked briefly for Firepower Systems. He
then joined Apple Computer where he met Jack Smith, the other future co-
founder of Hotmail.
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, co-founder Hotmail Hotmail is one of the popular free 'webmail' email services,
which are accessible from anywhere on the planet via a standard web browser. It
was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995, and was commercially
launched on July 4, 1996, Independence Day in the U.S., symbolically
representing freedom from ISPs.
Jack Smith first had the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer
anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for
the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for
hotmail as it included the letters "HTML" - the markup language used to write
web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
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• Verghese Kurien Dr. Verghese Kurien (born November 26, 1921) is called the
"father of the white revolution" in India. He is credited with architecting
Operation Flood -- the largest dairy development program in the world. Dr.
Kurien, set up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development, engineered the
White Revolution in India, and made India the largest milk producer in the world.
Education
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• Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and
influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun
Microsystems and is currently a general partner of the venture capital firm
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, where he has been since 1986.
Sun's products include computer servers and workstations based on the SPARC
processor, the SunOS and Solaris operating systems, the NFS network file system,
the Java platform, and (together with AT&T) the standardization of Unix System
V Release 4. Its less successful ventures include the NeWS window system and
the OpenLook graphical user interface.
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• Vivek Paul Vivek Paul (born 1962 or 1961), A former BITSian, is the CEO of
Wipro Technologies in India. Azim Premji hired Paul from General Electric to
manage his Wipro.
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ten companies of India. It is listed at the Bombay Stock Exchange as well as New
York Stock Exchange. Wipro Technologies is the global services information
technology division of Wipro. =History= Wipro beginnings date to 1945 with the
incorporation of Western India Vegetable Products Limited in Maharastra state,
India. In the '70s Wipro embarked on an ambitious phase of expansion and
diversification. = = Wipro Limited has achieved a PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM
Level 5 certification as an IT Services Company. =Wipro Businesses=
Cartoonists
• Abu Abraham, in The Guardian The Guardian is a British newspaper published
by Guardian Newspapers Limited. It is a serious broadsheet newspaper with
relatively left wing politics. Until 1959 it was called The Manchester Guardian,
and the paper is still sometimes referred to by this name, especially in North
America. The Guardian has a daily circulation of around 400,000 (2002),
compared to 620,000 for The Times, 920,000 for the Daily Telegraph and 230,000
for The Independent. The paper is also sometimes known as the Grauniad, due to
the frequent typographical errors for which it became infamous, though which are
now uncommon.
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• Ajit Ninan, in the India Today India Today is one of the India's best-selling and
most widely circulated weekly magazines, and is run by Aroon Puri.
The India Today group was founded in 1975 and now includes includes 13
magazines, 3 radio stations, 2 TV channels, 1 newspaper, a classical music label,
book publishing and India's only book club.
• Bal Thackeray Bal Thackeray (born January 23, 1927) is the founder and
supremo of the political party Shiv Sena in India.
He started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal, Mumbai. His
cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
• Jug Suraiya
• Kesav, in The Hindu The Hindu is an Indian English language newspaper
published weekly since 1878 and daily since 1889. It has grown steadily to the
current circulation of more than 850,000 copies and a readership of over 3
million, both in India and abroad.
The Hindu enjoys considerable popularity, especially in South India, for its
traditionally moderate and independent editorial stand and for its reliable and
balanced presentation of the news, with a positive attitude that shuns
sensationalism.
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• Mario Miranda
• Ranga
• R. K. Laxman, in the Times of India The Times of India is India's leading
English language daily newspaper, subsidiary of The Times Group and the
world's largest circulated English daily broadsheet. It is published from ten cities
across India, has a circulation of over 2.14 million copies, and is read by over
4.42 million people.
It was founded in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, and
served the British residents of western India. It adopted its present name in 1861.
It is owned by India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, which
also publishes The Economic Times, the Navbharat Times, the Maharashtra
Times, Femina, and Filmfare.
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Literature
See also: Indian writing in English
Movies
See also: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
Directors
• Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• Dev Anand
• Gurinder Chadha
• Guru Dutt
• Ismail Merchant
• Kamal Amrohi
• Mani Ratnam
• Manoj Night Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen)
• Mira Nair
• Raj Kapoor
• Rajkumar Santoshi
• Ram Gopal Varma
• Sai Paranjpe
• Satyajit Ray - Oscar for lifetime achievement, 1992
• Shekhar Kapoor
• Shyam Benegal
• Subhash Ghai
• Shakti Samanta
• Yash Chopra
Producers
Actors
A-D
• Aamir Khan
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Amjad Khan
• Ajay Devgan
• Akshay Khanna
• Akshay Kumar
• Amol Palekar
• Anil Kapoor
• Annu Kapoor
• Anupam Kher
• Biswajit
• Bobby Deol
• Chandrachur Singh
• Dev Anand
• Dharmendra (born 1935)
• Dilip Kumar
• Dino Morea
F-O
• Fardeen Khan
• Feroze Khan
• Govinda
• Guru Dutt
• Hrithik Roshan
• Jackie Shroff
• Jeetendra
• John Abraham
• Johnny Walker, real name Badruddin Qazi
• Jimmy Shergill
• Kadar Khan
• Kamal Haasan
• Madhavan
• Manoj Bajpai
• Manoj Kumar
• Mehmood
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Mohanlal, Malayalam films
• Naseeruddin Shah
• Om Prakash
• Om Puri
P-R
• Pran
• Prem Nazir, Malayalam films
• Raj Kapoor (Actor and Director)
• Rajendra Kumar
• Raaj Kumar (Hindi actor)
• Rajeev Kapoor
• Rajesh Khanna
• Dr. Rajkumar (Kannada actor)
• Rakesh Roshan
• Randhir Kapoor
• Rishi Kapoor
S-V
Actresses
Music
• Abhijeet, singer
• Alka Yagnik, singer
• Amjad Ali Khan
• A.R. Rahman - Composer
• Anu Malik, composer
• Asha Bhosle, singer
• Babul Supriyo
• Balamurali Krishna
• Geeta Dutt, singer
• Hemant Kumar, composer and singer
• Hridaynath Mangeshkar, composer
• Ilayaraja, Composer
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Kay Kay, singer
• Khayyam
• Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor
• Kumar Sanu, singer
• Lata Mangeshkar, singer
• Lucky Ali, singer
• Mahendra Kapoor, singer
• Manna Dey, singer
• MS Subbulakshmi, Classical (Carnatic) Singer
• Mohammad Rafi, singer
• Mukesh, singer
• Naushad, composer
• Noorjehan, singer
• O.P. Nayyar, composer
• Rahul Dev Burman, composer
• Ravi, composer
• Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
• S.D. Burman, composer
• Sadhana Sargam
• Salil Chowdhury, composer
• Shamshad Begum
• Sultan Khan
• Suraiya, singer
• Talat Mahmood, singer
• Udit Narayan, singer
• Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
• Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
• Zubin Mehta, conductor
Organised Crime
• Chhota Rajan
• Dawood Ibrahim
• Ejaz Lakdawala
• Chhota Shakeel
• Abu Salem
• Veerappan
Philosophers
• Akshapada Gotama
• Badarayana
• Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
• Kanada
• Kapila
• Madhva
• Ramanuja
• Shankara
• Vallabha
Politics
Presidents: President of India Prime Ministers: Prime Minister of India Chief
Ministers (Tamil Nadu): List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
Religion
• Adi Sankara
• Amir Khusrau
• Baba Bullhay Shah
• Baba Ganj-e-Shakar
• Mata Amritanandamayi
• Sri Aurobindo
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
• 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
• Kabir
• Lord Mahavir
• Meera
• Narayana Guru
• Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Nizaam-ud-Din Auliya
• Osho Shree Rajneesh
• Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta
• Prem Rawat
• Ramakrishna Paramhansa
• Sai Baba of Shirdi
• Sathya Sai Baba
• Samartha Ramdas Swami
• Sant Tukaram
• Sant Namdeo
• Swami Vivekananda
• Tulsidas poet, author of the Ramayana in Hindi
• The Ten Gurus of Sikhism - the founders of Sikhism.
Royalty
See also: List of Mughal emperors
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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
• Ram Nath Kak, veterinarian
• Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, (born 1940), Chief Justice of India