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, also known as Indians, see List of Native Americans This is a list of famous Native Americans (Indigenous peoples of the Americas). ...

Armed forces

• General Rahul Bhattacharya, Army Chief, Governor of India, Social Worker
• Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora (1917-2005)
• General Joginder Jaswant Singh
• Rakesh Sharma, First Indian cosmonaut
• Shashindra Pal Tyagi, Chief of Indian Air Force
• Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
• Major Shaitan Singh,Param Vir Chakra
• Goyal, D C/FSGT. With Air Cadets in Canada, Has attained Power Pilot Scholarship

Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ... Lt-Gen Jagjit Singh Arora (February 13, 1916 - May 3, 2005) was the Indian commander whose comprehensive defeat of Pakistan in 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh. ... General is a high military rank, used by nearly every country in the world. ... General Joginder Jaswant Singh is the chief of army staff of India. ... Rakesh Sharma is also an Omani cricketer. ... Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi, more commonly known as S P Tyagi is the current chief of the Indian Air Force. ... The Indian Air Force (भारतीय वायु सेना : Bharatiya Vayu Sena) is the air-arm of the Armed Forces of India and has the prime responsibility of conducting air-based warfare and securing Indian airspace. ... Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (born April 3, 1914) was the Indian Army Chief of Staff who led the Indian forces during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. ... Major Shaitan Singh Major Shaitan Singh, was born on December 1, 1942 at Jodhpur in Rajasthan. ... The Param Vir Chakra is an Indian military decoration given for valour in combat operations. ...

Arts

• Amrita Sher-Gil, Painter
• K.M.Adimoolam, Modern painter
• B V Karanth, Musician
• Birju Maharaj, Dancer
• Girish Karnad, Playwright
• Jatin Das, Painter
• Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire
• 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
• Aditya Rajkumar, Sitar player

Amrita Sher-Gil,( 30th January 1913, Budapest, Hungary – 5th December 1941), was an eminent Indian painter. ... Pandit Birju Maharaj (born February 4, 1937) is the current head of the Lucknow gharana of Kathak dance in India. ... Girish Karnad (born: May 19, 1938), is a contemporary Indian playwright in the Kannada language, in addition to being a movie actor and director. ... Jatindra Nath Das (also known as Jatin Das) (27 October 1904 - 13 September 1929) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ... Chandramukhi Basu, who was a Bengali speaking Christian from Dehradun, which was located in the (then known as) United Provinces of Oude, was one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in red, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra (January 8, 1926 - April 7, 2004) was a dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance. ... 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 devadasis. ... India Today Cover This article concerns M.F. Husain, the Indian artist. ... Mallika Sarabhai is one of the most renowned Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancers in India today. ... Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, engineer, and entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado. ... P. C. Sorcar P. C. Sorcar (Bangla: পি সি সরকার) (February 23, 1913 - January 6, 1971) was the stage name of Protul Chandra Sorcar, a famous Indian magician. ... P. C. Sorcar, Jr. ... Protima Bedi at Oslo International Poetry Festival, OIPF. © 1986 Robert E. Haraldsen Protima Bedi (1949 in Haryana) – August 17, 1998) was an Indian model and dancer. ... Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. ... Sudha Chandran is an Indian actress and former classical dancer who turned to acting following the loss of one leg in an accident in 1986. ... Tyeb Mehta is an Indian artist from Mumbai. ...

Business and Industry

See also: Influential businessmen of India

• Anil Ambani, Reliance Group
• Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder of Reliance Group
• Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Group
• Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto
• Sabeer Bhatia, founder Hotmail
• Ghanshyam Das Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
• Kumaramangalam Birla, Industrialist, Aditya Birla Group
• Amar Bose, Founder Bose Corporation
• M A Chidambaram, Madras-based Industrialist. Founder of SPIC
• Y C Deveshwar, Chairman ITC Group
• Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman, Videocon India
• Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
• Adi Godrej, Godrej Industries
• Ram Prasad Goenka, RPG Group
• Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways
• Y.K. Hamied, Cipla
• Srichand Hinduja, Chairman & Patriarch, Hinduja Group
• T V Sundaram Iyengar, Founder & Chairman, TVS Group
• Rakesh Jhunjunwala, India's biggest share broker
• Baba Kalyani, Kalyani group of companies
• Jagdish Khattar, Chief Managing Director, Maruti Udyog
• Naina Lal Kidwai, Deputy Chief Executive Officer HSBC-India
• T.T. Krishnamachari, Founder, TTK Group & 1st Finance Minister of India
• Verghese Kurien, Chairman of NDDB, Founder - Operation Flood
• Vinod Khosla, co-Founder Sun Microsystems
• Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
• Arjun Malhotra, CEO - Techspan, Co-founder, HCL Technologies
• Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB Group of Companies
• Dewang Mehta, ex-Chief of NASSCOM
• Pallonji Mistry, Shapoorji Pallonji Group
• Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, Mittal Steel
• Sunil Mittal, Bharti Tele-Ventures
• Om Prakash Munjal, Hero Honda
• N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
• Shiv Nadar, HCL Technologies & Forbes List of Billionaires
• P R S Oberoi, Chairman, Oberoi Group of Hotels
• Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro
• Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank
• Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
• Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro
• Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
• Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
• J R D Tata, Industrialist, Tata Group
• Ratan Tata, Tata Sons
• P.R.Ramasubramaniya Raja, Chairman, Ramco Group.

Indias biggest and most influential business families include: The Tatas : Jamshedji Tata, JRD Tata, Ratan Tata. ... Shri Anil D. Ambani is aged 46 years, Chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Infocomm and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy Limited. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Time magazine cover featuring the Ambani brothers. ... Bajaj Auto is a major Indian automobile manufacturer. ... Sabeer Bhatia is a co-founder of Hotmail. ... Hotmail is a free webmail e-mail service, which is accessible via a web browser. ... Image:Gdbirla. ... Birla could refer to Aditya Birla Group of companies Aditya Birla Birla family Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (born 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. ... The Bose Corporation is a privately held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment. ... Spic, also spelled spik, spick, or spig, is an ethnic slur used in the U.S. for a Spanish-American. ... Adi Godrej is the chairman of Godrej Group. ... Naresh Goyal is the founder Chairman of Jet Airways. ... Jet Airways is an airline based in India, serving domestic and international routes. ... Yusuf Khwaja Hamied is chairman of Cipla, a company founded by his father K. A. Hamied. ... Cipla is an Indian pharmaceutical company, best-known for manufacturing cheap anti-AIDS drugs. ... Babasaheb Nilkanth Kalyani did B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani and Masters from MIT. As a Chairman and Managing Director he led Bharat Forge Ltd. ... industry = Automotive=hiddenStructure Maruti Udyog Ltd is one of Indias leading automobile manufacturers. ... Naina Lal Kidwai (b. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dr Verghese Kurien Dr. Verghese Kurien (born November 26, 1921) is called the father of the White Revolution in India. ... Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... HCL Technologies is one of the leading global technology and IT enterprises that offers product engineering, technology and application services, BPO, infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of technology and telecom products in India. ... Dr. Vijay Mallya is a successful businessman and member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha since 2002) from India. ... Dewang Mehta was the NASSCOM head from 1991 to 2001. ... The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Indian chamber of commerce that serves as an interface to the Indian Software industry. ... Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, often described as media shy, is a construction tycoon from India. ... Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (also known as Lakshmi Niwas Mittal) is a billionaire industrialist of Indian origin currently residing in London. ... Mittal Steel Company N.V. (NYSE: MT) is the worlds largest steel producer. ... Sunil B. Mittal is a well-known Indian businessman. ... Bharti Telecom ,a Fortune 2000 company ,is among Indias largest mobile phone operator. ... Logo of Hero Honda Motorcycles Limited Hero Honda Motorcycles Limited is an Indian manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is a global information technology (IT) services, solutions and consulting major started in Pune in 1981 and is curretly headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. ... Shiv Nadar, is the CEO of Hindustan Computers Limited HCL,a large information technology company in India. ... HCL Technologies is one of the leading global technology and IT enterprises that offers product engineering, technology and application services, BPO, infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of technology and telecom products in India. ... Oberoi Hotels is a luxury hotel company extablished in 1934. ... Businessworld Cover Vivek Paul (born 1958), an alumnus of BITS Pilani, and until recently the Vice Chairman of Wipro Limited and CEO of Wipro Technologies in India, was declared among the best managers in the world by the Business Week in 2004. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wipro Technologies. ... HDFC Bank, one amongst the firsts of the new generation, tech-savvy commercial bank of India, was set up in January 1995, after the Reserve Bank of India allowed setting up of Banks in the private sector. ... Ajay Piramal is an Indian businessman. ... Azim Premji Azim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is an Indian businessman and Chairman of one of the largest software companies in India, Wipro Technologies (Bangalore). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Wipro Technologies. ... Subrata Roy is the chairman and managing worker of the Sahara Group of Companies based in India. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Tata may mean: Tata Group, a company in India Tata Steel, an important component of the group Jamshetji Tata, known as the father of Indian industry J. R. D. Tata, pioneer aviator and founder of companies Ratan Tata, present chairman of the Tata Group Tata Airlines, now Air India Tata... Ratan Tata Ratan N Tata (born in Mumbai December 28, 1937) is the present Chairman of the Tata Group. ...

Cartoonists

• Abu Abraham, in The Guardian
• Ajit Ninan, in the India Today
• Bal Thackeray
• Jug Suraiya
• Kesav, in The Hindu
• Mario Miranda
• R. K. Laxman, in the Times of India
• Shanker, in the Illustrated Weekly of India, The Hindustan Times
• Yesudasan, in The Week

Abu Abraham (b. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... India Today is one of the Indias best-selling and most widely circulated weekly magazines, and is run by Aroon Purie. ... Bal Keshav Thackeray, popularly called Balasaheb, (born January 23, 1927) is the founder and Pramukh (President) of the right wing Hindu party, Shiv Sena in India. ... Jug Suraiya Jug Suraiya is the Associate Editor of the Times of India, Delhi, an author and a cartoonist besides being a columnist. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... A book cover illustrated by Mario Miranda Mario Miranda is a well-known cartoonist based in Goa, India. ... The Common Man featured in a Commemorative stamp released by IndiaPost in 1988. ... The Common Man featured on a commemorative stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th Anniversary of the Times of India - 1988. ... The Hindustan Times is a leading newspaper in India. ... The Week is a weekly british magazine which covers the events and stories published in the various news publications throughout the world. ...

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

Amartya Sen Amartya K Sen (born November 3, 1933 in India), is an economist and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. ... An economist is an individual who studies, develops, and applies theories and concepts from economics, and writes about economic policy. ... The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge. ... Dr. Bimal Jalan (born 1941) was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India for two terms. ... The RBI headquarters in Mumbai The RBI office tower opposite the headquarters in Mumbai Entrance to the tower The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the central bank of India, and was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. ... Rajendra Singh Lodha is a chartered accountant by profession. ...

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 Indian Models

• 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
• Tarun Tahiliani, designer

Miss India are the winners of the Miss India beauty pageant held annually. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... John Abraham (born December 17, 1973) is an Indian actor and model. ... Manish Malhotra is a renouned Indian fashion artist. ... Milind Soman is an Indian supermodel and actor. ... Nafisa Joseph (March 28, 1978 - July 29, 2004) was an Indian model and MTV video jockey. ... VJ or veejay (from Video Jockey, by analogy with disc jockey or DJ or deejay) is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV and MuchMusic. ... Tarun Tahiliani is an Indian fashion designer. ...

Literature

See also: Indian writing in English It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Indian English 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
• Lalleshwari, Kashmiri poet-saint
• Manil Suri novelist
• Mahadevi Varma, Hindi poetess
• Maithili Sharan Gupt, 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
• Rodney D. Ryder, lawyer, academician and author
• 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

Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877-April 21, 1938) was an important Indian Muslim poet from the colonial era, a philosopher and thinker of Kashmiri origin. ... Arundhati Roy in Sydney to accept the Sydney Peace Prize. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... The God of Small Things is a semi-autobiographical novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy. ... Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. ... Dominic Francis Moraes (July 19, 1938 - June 2, 2004), popularly known as Dom Moraes was an Indian writer, poet and columnist. ... Harivanshrai Srivastav Bachchan ( November 27, 1907 - January 18, 2003) was a Hindi poet. ... Jayakanthan (born 1934) is a Tamil writer, essayist, journalist, pamphleteer, film-maker and critic. ... The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ... Jnanpith Award (pronounced Gyanpeeth Award) is the highest literary honour presented by the Government of India. ... Jaishankar Prasad (1889 - 1937) was one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature. ... Hindi (हिन्दी hind), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and West India, is one of the national languages of India. ... Chhayavaad refers to the romantic upsurge in the Hindi literature particularly poetry, which began in early 19th century. ... Jaspreet Singh is a writer. ... Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri (b. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Interpreter of Maladies, winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is a collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. ... Kabir (also Kabira, Hindi: , Punjabi: , Urdu: , 1440 - 1518) was an Indian mystic who preached an ideal of seeing all of humanity as one. ... Kaifi Azmi is an Indian lyricist. ... Kalhana (c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kamala Markandaya (? - May 16, 2004), born Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, was an Indian novelist and journalist. ... Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh (born February 2, 1915 in Punjab) is a popular Indian writer, writing exclusively in English language. ... In literature of India, Lalleshvari or Lalleshwari is also known as Lalla, and was a poet of the Kashmir valley. ... Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian mathematician and writer, most notable for his first and so far only novel, The Death of Vishnu. ... Mahadevi Varma (1907 - 11th September 1987) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. ... Maithilisharan Gupt (1886-1965) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. ... Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), The greatest poet of Urdu Mirza Asadullah Khan (مرزا اسد اللہ خان ), pen-name Ghalib (غالب, ġhālib) (1797 — 1869), was a renowned classical Urdu and Persian poet of India. ... Mulk Raj Anand (December 12, 1905 - September 28, 2004) was an Indian English language author, who depicted the lives of the billionaire castes in traditional Indian society. ... Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. ... Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel (December 24, 1924 - January 9, 2004) was a poet, playwright and art critic. ... রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর — Gurudev. ... The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... R.K. Narayan - 1906 - 2001 Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist. ... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... <RODNEY D. RYDER> <Rodney D. Ryder> heads the Technology Law Practice at a leading law firm. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... Midnights Children cover Midnights Children (ISBN 039451470X) is a 1980 novel by Salman Rushdie. ... Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) is an author of Indian origin who writes in English. ... Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947, Srinagar, Kashmir) is Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor in the Asian Studies and Cognitive Science Programs at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. ... Sumitranandan Pant (सुमित्रानन्‍दन पंत) (1900 - December 28, 1977) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. ... Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896-October 15, 1961) was one of the most famous figures of the modern Hindi literature. ... Goswami Tulsidas (1532-1623; Hindi: तुलसीदास) was a Hindi poet and philosopher. ... The Rāmāyana (Sanskrit: रामायण, march or journey (Āyana) of Rāma) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ... Vikram Seth (pronounced sayt), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, childrens writer, biographer and memoirist. ... Sir V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (born August 17, 1932), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a British novelist of Hindu heritage and East Indian ethnicity from Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, which was then a British colony. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (b. ... Literature written in Malayalam language. ... Vayalar Ramavarma (March 15, 1928 - October 27, 1975) was a modern Malayalam poet and lyricist. ... Literature written in Malayalam language. ...

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

News Palagummi Sainath (1954-) is an award winning Indian development journalist and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of Globalization in India. ... Aniruddha Bahal is the founder and editor in chief of Cobrapost. ... Tehelka. ... Barkha Dutt is a popular Television journalist with NDTV, India. ... NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) (founded in 1988) is one of Indias largest television production houses. ... The Cable News Network, usually referred to as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner[1] [2]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ... Doordarshan (दूरदर्शन) is a public broadcast terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India. ... G.S.Pradeep is the anchor of the Aswamedham program in Kairali TV which is a Malayalam channel. ...

• 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 Kapoor,Consulting Editor, Hardnews magazine
• 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 Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh (born February 2, 1915 in Punjab) is a popular Indian writer, writing exclusively in English language. ... Mubashar Jahangir Akbar (1951 - )is a leading Indian journalist and author. ... The Asian Age is a newspaper sold in the Indian city of Bombay. ... Prannoy Roy (born on October 15, 1949) is an Indian media figure. ... NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) (founded in 1988) is one of Indias largest television production houses. ... Arun Shourie at a press conference Arun Shourie (born 1941) is a prominent journalist, author and politician. ... Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is an Indian journalist. ... Doordarshan (दूरदर्शन) is a public broadcast terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India. ... Sanjay Kapoor Sanjay Kapoor (born 17 October 1965 in Mumbai, India) is a Bollywood actor and the brother of actor Anil Kapoor and producer Boney Kapoor and brother-in-law of actress Sridevi. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ... Dr. Sanjay Gupta, during a December 6, 2004, appearance on Paula Zahn Now. ... Vir Sanghvi is a leading Indian editor and television personality. ... The Hindustan Times is a leading newspaper in India. ... Vinod Mehta is the editor-in-chief of Outlook India, one of Indias leading English language magazines. ... Screenshot of Outlook 2003 Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office. ... Monita Rajpal currently works as a CNN news anchor person, based at their London office. ...

• Shekhar Gupta
• Tavleen Singh
• Sucheta Dalal
• Swapan Dasgupta
• Chandan Mitra
• Apurv Gupta, Business Correspondent, Business Standard, Chandigarh

Editor and now also part owner of the Indian Express group of newspapers (which also includes Financial Express and the Hindi daily Jansatta), Shekhar Gupta is today more known for his television programme, Walk the Talk, a blatant copy of John Simpson of the BBCs style of conducting in... Tavleen Singh is a noted columnist and political reporter. ... Sucheta Dalal Sucheta Dalal is a business journalist from Mumbai, India. ... Swapan Dasgupta is a prominent Indian journalist who used to be an editor of India Today and now is a columnist for the Pioneer. ...

Movies

See also: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. ...

Amitabh Bachchan (born October 11, 1942, in Allahabad, India) also known as Big B, is an iconic Indian actor whose Bollywood career has spanned four decades. ... Boney Kapoor is an Indian film producer. ... Dev Anand in Taxi Driver Dev Anand (born September 26, 1923) is an Indian actor and film producer. ... Gulshan Rai (1924 - October 11, 2004) was a producer and distributor for Hindi films. ... Trimurti Films P. Ltd. ... Juhi Chawla Juhi Chawla (born 13 November 1967 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is a popular Indian actress. ... K C Bokadia is an Indian filmmaker. ... Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is a New York-based Indian film director. ... Mohanlal in Company Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair (born May 21, 1960), simply known by the stage name Mohanlal, is an Indian actor of mainly Malayalam movies. ... Pooja Bhatt (born February 24, 1972), is an Indian film actress. ... Raj Kapoor Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 - June 3, 1988) was a legendary actor, director, and producer of Bollywood (Indian) movies. ... Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma (born April 7, 1962) is an Indian film director, writer and film producer. ... On National Geographic Cover February 2005 Shahrukh Khan (Devanāgarī: शाहरुख़ ख़ान);, a. ... Subhash Ghai is a Bollywood director whose most notable films include Khal Nayak (1994), Pardes (1997) and Taal (1999). ... Subodh Mukherjee (b. ... Sunil Dutt (June 6, 1929 - May 25, 2005), born Balraj Dutt was an Indian Bollywood actor and politician. ... Writer, Director, Producer and Actor in Bollywood movies. ... Yash Chopra (born 1932) is a writer, director and producer of Bollywood movies. ... Yash Raj Films is a company setup by Yash Chopra, an Indian film director and producer. ... Yash Johar (September 6, 1929 - June 26, 2004) was an Indian Bollywood film producer. ... Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. ...

Actors

Madhavan is an Indian actor. ... Mammootty Mammootty (b. ... Manoj Bajpai // Background Manoj Bajpai is a Bollywood actor. ... Manoj Kumar (born July 24, 1937) is an Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry. ... Mehmood Ali (1932 - July 23, 2004) popularly known simply as Mehmood, was an Indian actor, director and producer. ... Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (Bangla: মিঠুন চক্রবর্তী) (June 16, 1947) (original name Gouranga Chakraborty) is a leading actor in the Bollywood. ... Mohanlal in Company Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair (born May 21, 1960), simply known by the stage name Mohanlal, is an Indian actor of mainly Malayalam movies. ... A hagiographical writing on NT Rama Rao in Telugu Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (28 May 1923 – 18 January 1996), more commonly known as N.T. Rama Rao, NTR, or Anna garu, was an Indian film actor, director, producer and a Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. ... Naseeruddin Shah in the role of Mirza Ghalib Naseeruddin Shah aka Nasiruddin Shah (b. ... NAVIN NISCHOL A very popular Hindi film actor who made his debut with the film Sawan Bhadon. ... Om Prakash (19 December 1919; Lahore – 12 February 1998; Mumbai) was an Indian character actor active starting in 1947. ... Om Puri (born October 18, 1950) is an Indian actor. ... Pankaj Kapur is an Indian actor. ... Pran Sikand (born 12 February 1920), best known as Pran, is a veteran Bollywood actor. ... Prem Nazir (April 7, 1926 - January 16, 1989) born Chiriyinkil Abdul Kader in Chiriyinkil, Trivandrum, Kerala, India) was a hero in Malayalam films and achieved a Guinness record for acting in the largest number of films with the same heroine, Sheela. ... Malayalam cinema, or movies in Malayalam language, forms a significant component of the Cinema of India, both as a form of art and as mass medium. ... Raj Babbar (born June 23, 1952, Agra, India) is an Indian actor who has acted in several successful Hindi films since 1980. ... Raj Kapoor Raj Kapoor (December 14, 1924 - June 3, 1988) was a legendary actor, director, and producer of Bollywood (Indian) movies. ... Rajendra kumar was the bollywod icon of the 60s and 70s. ... Raaj Kumar (October 8, 1926 - July 3, 1996) was an actor in Hindi films. ... Rajesh Khanna (Born Jatin Khanna on December 29, 1942 in Amritsar) is an Indian Bollywood actor, now active in politics. ... Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, more popularly known as Rajnikanth, is an Indian film actor working mainly in the Tamil film industry. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Rakesh Roshan is a Bollywood film maker/director and was an actor. ... Randhir Kapoor is a bollywood actor of yesteryear. ... Rishi Kapoor (born September 4, 1952 in Mumbai) is an Indian Bollywood actor. ... Roshan Seth (born 17 August 1942) is a British-Indian actor. ...

S-V

• Saif Ali Khan
• Salman Khan
• Sanjay Dutt
• Sanjay Kapoor
• Sanjay Khan
• Sanjeev Kumar
• Shahid Kapoor
• Shahrukh Khan
• Shakti Kapoor
• Shammi Kapoor
• Shashi Kapoor
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Sivaji Ganesan
• Sunil Dutt
• Sunil Shetty
• Sunny Deol
• Surya Sivakumar
• Suresh Gopi
• Tusshar Kapoor
• Utpal Dutt
• Uttam Kumar
• Vinod Khanna
• Vinod Mehra
• Vivek Oberoi

Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan is an Indian film star who appears in Bollywood films and the son of the erstwhile Nawab of Pataudi // Biography Saif Ali Khan was born August 16, 1970 in New Delhi, India, into the family of the nawabs of Pataudi. ... Salman Khan Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan popularly known as Salman Khan (Devanāgarī: सलमान ख़ान, born December 27, 1965) is a Bollywood movie star. ... Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Dutt (born July 29, 1959) is a Bollywood megastar. ... Sanjay Kapoor Sanjay Kapoor (born 17 October 1965 in Mumbai, India) is a Bollywood actor and the brother of actor Anil Kapoor and producer Boney Kapoor and brother-in-law of actress Sridevi. ... Sanjay Khan is an actor in the Indian film Industry ( or Bollywood as it is known in the media) He started his career with a film called Dosti. ... Sanjeev Kumar (July 9, 1938 – November 6, 1985) was an Indian actor in Bollywood movies. ... Shahid Kapur Shahid Kapoor born February 25, 1981 in Mumbai, India is a Bollywood actor and model. ... On National Geographic Cover February 2005 Shahrukh Khan (Devanāgarī: शाहरुख़ ख़ान);, a. ... Shakti Kapoor is one of the most comic actors to grace the Bollywood screen. ... Shammi Kapoor (born October 21, 1931) is an actor in Hindi films. ... Shashi Kapoor in Sharmilee (1971) Shashi Kapoor (born Balbirraj Kapoor March 18, 1938) belongs to the Kapoors. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Ganesan in Thayaipola Pillai Noolaipola Selai, 1959 Sivaji Ganesan (October 1, 1927 - July 21, 2001) was a famous Indian actor and politician. ... Sunil Dutt (June 6, 1929 - May 25, 2005), born Balraj Dutt was an Indian Bollywood actor and politician. ... Sunil Shetty (born 11 August 1961) is an Indian actor. ... Sunny Deol Sunny Deol (born as Ajay Singh Deol on October 19, 1956 in New Delhi) is a Bollywood actor and son of legendary actor Dharmendra. ... Surya Surya Sivakumar, or simply Surya (born 23 July 1975 as Saravanan), is an Indian actor in the Tamil film industry. ... Suresh Gopi is a popular Malayalam actor famous for roles in police dramas. ... Tusshar Kapoor (born 20 November 1976) is an Indian actor. ... Utpal Dutt (March 29, 1929, Barisal, Bengal -- August 19, 1993, Calcutta, India) was an Indian actor, directory and writer. ... Uttam Kumar (Bangla: উত্তম কুমার ) was a famous Bengali actor. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Vivek Oberoi Vivek Oberoi, (b. ...

Actresses

Main article: List of Indian movie actresses

• Rani Mukherjee
• Juhi chwla
• Aishwarya Rai
• Kajol

|} This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian movie actresses. ... Rani Mukerji Rani Mukerji (born March 21, 1978 as Rani Mukherjee), is a successful Indian actress in Bollywood movies. ... Aishwarya Rai at the world premiere of Match Point at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. ... Kajol Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee (Devanagari काजोल देवगन) (born August 5, 1975), popularly known as Kajol, is a famous Bollywood actress. ...

Music

A-G

• Ali Akbar Khan- Sarod Legend
• Abhijeet - Singer
• Alka Yagnik - Singer
• Allarakha- Tabla Maestro
• Amjad Ali Khan
• Anil Biswas - Composer
• Anjan Chattopadhyay - Notable Sitarist
• Subhabnkar Banerjee - Tabla Musician
• Bikram Ghaosh - Grammy awardee Tabla musician and composer
• Anu Malik - Composer
• A.R. Rahman - Composer
• Asha Bhosle - Singer
• Babul Supriyo - Singer
• Bappi Lahiri
• Balamurali Krishna
• Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
• Devika Mathur - Singer, Radio Jockey and Voice Over Artist
• Freddie Mercury, rock musician and lead singer for Queen
• Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao - Composer and Singer
• Geeta Dutt - Singer

Ali Akbar Khan (born April 14, 1922) is one of todays most accomplished Indian classical musicians and known for his mastery of the sarod, a beautiful, 25-stringed Indian instrument. ... Abhijeet is a well-known Hindi playback singer. ... Alka Yagnik (the last name is pronounced Yaag-nik) is a playback singer in Bollywood, the Hindi language Indian movie industry. ... Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is one of the prominent sarod players in India. ... Anil Biswas (nick name Keru)(March 2, 1944, Karimpur, India - March 26, 2006, Kolkata, India) was an Indian politician. ... Anjan Chattopadhyay, Sitar Maestro was born in 1960 in a Bengali aristocratic family in Calcutta, India. ... Anu Malik is one of the biggest music directors in Hindi Film industry or Bollywood. ... A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman, born January 6, 1967 as A.S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, India, is a popular Indian film music composer. ... Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is widely regarded as one of Indias greatest and most popular singers of all time. ... Bappi Lahiri is one of the leading and famous music directors on Bollywood, India. ... Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar Chembai Vaidyanatha Iyer was one of the leading practitioners of Carnatic Music in the period usually referred to as the Golden Era. Old timers are enthusiastic in pointing out that he, along with Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar & Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer formed the Modern Trinity of Carnatic Music, the... Freddie Mercury - Live at Wembley 1986. ... Look up queen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ghantasala Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (1922-1974) was a singer and composer of Telugu film music. ... Geeta Dutt (November 23, 1930 - July 20, 1972) was a Hindi female playback singer of the 1950s and 1960s. ...

H-L

• Hariharan - Singer
• Hemant Kumar - Composer and Singer
• Himesh Reshamiya - Composer and Singer
• Hridaynath Mangeshkar - Composer
• Ilayaraja - Composer
• Ismail Darbar
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji,composer
• Kalyanji Anandji - Composers (Kalyanji Shah and Anandji Shah)
• Kartik Seshadri - Sitarist
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Kay Kay - singer
• Khayyam - Composer
• Kishan Maharaj - Tabla Maestro
• Kishore Kumar - playback singer, actor
• Kumar Sanu - playback singer, actor, director, producer, love of my life
• Lata Mangeshkar - Singer
• Laxmikant Pyarelal - Composers (Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma]]
• Lucky Ali, singer

Hariharan could refer to any of these people : Hariharan, Malayalam film director. ... Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee (1920 - 1989) was an Indian film playback singer, composer and producer. ... Himesh Reshammiya is an Indian film music composer and singer. ... Ilayaraaja Ilayaraaja (born June 2, 1943) is Indias most prolific film music composer, having composed for over 750 films over a career of more than 20 years. ... Ismail Darbar is a composer of music for Indian films also known as an Indian film music director. ... Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (August 14, 1892 – October 15, 1988) was a pianist, music journalist and composer of mixed Parsi and Spanish-Italian/Sicilian descent, who was born in and lived in Britain (Epping, Essex). ... Kalyanji Anandji was an Indian composer duo known for its work on Bollywood film soundtracks, particularly action potboilers in the 1970s. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument. ... Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian playback singer born Sharda Krishnamurthy in Delhi. ... -1... Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, better known as Khayyam is an indian music composer whose career spanned across 4 decades (1953 - 1990). ... Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 - October 13, 1987), born as Abhas Ganguly, was a Bollywood film playback singer (Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Oriya) and actor of Bengali Indian origin. ... Kumar Sanu alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya is a Calcutta born Mumbai based leading playback singer of Bollywood. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Laxmikant-Pyarelal (also known as LP or Laxmi-Pyare) was a popular Bollywood composer duo. ... Maqsood Mehmood Ali (born September 19, 1958), popularly known as Lucky Ali, is an Indian singer and celebrity. ...

M-S

• 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
• Pankaj Udhas, Singer and Ghazael Maestro
• Rahul Dev Burman, composer
• Ravi, composer
• Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
• Sachin Dev Burman, composer
• Sadhana Sargam
• Salil Chowdhury, composer
• Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer - Carnatic singer
• Shamshad Begum
• Shamtaprasad - Noted Tabla Maestro
• SP Balasubramanyam - Singer
• Sultan Khan
• Suraiya, singer

Mahendra Kapoor (born 1934) is an Indian playback singer, he was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Mumbai. ... Prabodh Chandra Dey, better known by his nickname as Manna Dey (Bangla: মান্না দে) (born 1920) is a popular playback singer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali. ... Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (popularly known as M.S. or M.S.S.) (September 16, 1916 - December 11, 2004) was a renowned carnatic vocalist. ... Timeline and Samples Genres Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Rock - Pop - Hip hop Awards Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards Charts Festivals Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Media Sruti, The Music Magazine National anthem Jana Gana Mana, also national song Vande Mataram States Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Andhra... Mohammed Rafi (December 24, 1924 - July 31, 1980) is one of the most popular Hindi/Urdu playback singers in Bollywood and probably the most successful ever. ... Mukesh Chand Mathur, (July 22, 1923, Delhi, India - August 27, 1976), popularly known simply as Mukesh, and was referred to as the man with the golden voice was a well-known Indian playback singer. ... Nitin Sawhney is a London-based composer and DJ of various styles of music, including jazz, drum and bass, hip hop, flamenco and modern orchestral compositions. ... Naushad Ali (born 1919) is one of the foremost music composers of Bollywood. ... Noor Jehan (Urdu: نور جہاں) (September 21, 1926 or 1929 - December 23, 2000) was a famous singer and actress. ... O. P. Nayyar was an Indian music director known for his peppy numbers. ... Pankaj Udhas is a pre-eminent Ghazal singer in India. ... Rahul Dev Burman, also known as Pancham or Pancham da (June 27, 1939 - January 4, 1994) was a music composer for Bollywood films. ... Ravi could refer to any of these : Ravi, a Hindu solar deity. ... Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro © www. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument. ... Sachin Dev Burman (1906 - 1975) was one of the most famous Bollywood music composers. ... Sadhana Sargam is one of the well-known singers from India. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Dr. Srinivasa Iyer (1908 - 2003) was one of the great Carnatic vocalists of the twentieth century. ... Shamshad Begum (1898? - August 14, 1998) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the film industry. ... SP Balasubramanyam, (Telugu: శ్రీపతి పండితారాధ్యుల బాలసుబ్రహ్మణ్యం / Kannada: ಶ್ರೀಪತಿ ಪಂಡಿತಾರಾಧ್ಯುಲ ಬಾಲಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯಂ) is a prolific Indian singer. ... Mir Sultan Khan (1905 - 1966) was generally considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. ... Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh (1929 - January 31, 2004) was a singer and actress in Indian films, and was popularly known as Suraiya in the film industry. ...

T-Z

• Talat Mahmood, singer
• Talvin Singh, composer
• Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
• Shivkumar Sharma, Santoor exponent
• HariPrasad Chourasia, Flute Exponent
• Anindo Chatterjee, Notable Tabla Musician
• Parthosarathy, Notable sarod player
• Birju Maharaj, Katthak Exponant
• Ajay Chakarabarty, Notable Singer
• Rashid Khan, Notable Singer
• Upanishad Brahmam - Composer
• Usha Khanna - Composer
• M.S. Viswanathan - Composer
• Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
• Ustad Vilayat Khan, sitar legend
• Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
• Zubin Mehta, conductor
• Pradeep Menon, Metal Guitarist
• Nikhil Banerjee, sitar virtuso

To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Talvin Singh (Matharu) (born in 1970 in Leytonstone, London, England) is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of classical Hindustani music and drum n bass. ... Trilok Gurtu is an Indian percussionist, widely acclaimed by his unique and awesome approach to music. ... Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (born January 13, 1938) is an Indian classical musician, working in the Hindustani classical music tradition. ... Pandit Birju Maharaj (born February 4, 1937) is the current head of the Lucknow gharana of Kathak dance in India. ... Upanishad Brahmam was a great saint poet, born in Kancheepuram town of the southern Tamil Nadu state in India. ... Usha Khanna who was born in the city of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh in India in 1942, was, and still is the only established female music director in Indian film industry. ... Dr. Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born January 10, 1940), is a noted South Indian musician and a leading playback singer for songs in many Indian languages. ... Vilayat Khan (Bangla: বিলায়েত খাঁ) (August 8, 1928–March 13, 2004) was an Indian virtuoso sitar maestro. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... a typical set of Tabla, black spots called Syahi The tabla is a widely popular South Asian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and religious music of the northern Indian subcontinent. ... Zubin Mehta, photo by Wilfried Hösl Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian-born conductor of European classical music. ... Nikhil Banerjee (Bangla: নিখিল ব্যানার্জী) (14 October 1931–27 January 1986) was one of Indias most prominent sitar players of the second half of the 20th Century. ...

Organised Crime

• Abu Salem
• Chhota Rajan
• Chhota Shakeel
• Dawood Ibrahim
• Ejaz Lakdawala
• Nirbhay Gujjar
• Sharad Shetty
• Veerappan
• Kamlesh Pattni
• Arun Gawli
• Tiger Menon
• Abu Azmi
• Goel, Deepak Crime Don of Saskatchewan

Abu Salem is an underworld don originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje, better known as Chhota Rajan, is an Indian don. ... Chhota Shakeel, an aide of Dawood Ibrahim who is emerging as a challenger has been involved into a series of police cases. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ejaz Lakdawala is one of the most wanted gangsters from Mumbai, India. ... Nirbhay Gujjar was the most wanted dacoit of Chambal, India. ... One of Dawood Ibrahim’s top aides, Sharad Shetty alias Anna, was shot dead at an Indian club in Karama, Dubai by rival Chhota Rajan henchmen on 19 January 2003. ... India Today Cover Koose Muniswamy Veerappan (c. ... Arun Gawli being taken to jail Arun Gawli, known to his followers as Daddy, is a notorious gangster from Mumbai, India. ...

Philosophers

• Akshapada Gotama
• Badarayana
• Gautam Buddha
• Charvak
• Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
• Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Osho Rajneesh
• Kanada
• Kapila
• Madhva
• Swami Vivekananda
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Bimal Krishna Matilal
• Ramanuja
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Shankara
• Tiruvalluvar
• Vallabha
• Nagarjuna

Akshapada Gotama (c. ... Rishi Veda Vyasa is a Hindu figure of yore, a divine guru, a luminary of spirituality whose status in Hinduism is equal to that of the gods and goddesses. ... Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE. Gautama Buddha was a South Asian spiritual leader who lived between approximately 563 BCE and 483 BCE. Born Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit, a name meaning descendant of Gotama whose aims are achieved/who is efficacious in achieving aims, he... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Debendranath Tagore (Bangla:দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Debendronath Å¢hakur)(May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was a Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India. ... Jiddu Krishnamurti(జిడ్డు కృష్ణమూర్తి in Telugu) (May 12, 1895 Madanapalle, India–February 17, 1986 Ojai, California), often written as J. Krishnamurti, was discovered as a teenager by C.W. Leadbeater in India on the private beach at the Theosophical headquarters at Adyar in Chennai. ... Kanada (also transliterated as Kanad and in other ways; Sanskrit कणाद) was a Hindu sage who founded the philosophical school of Vaisheshika. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Indian people stubs | Indian philosophers ... Madhva can refer to: Shri Madhvacharya, Vaishnavite saint and founder of Dvaita school of thought, at Pajaka, Udupi a person belonging to the Dvaita school of thought This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Swami Vivekananda (Bangla: স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ, Hindi: स्वामी विवेकानन्द) (whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta Bangla: নরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত, Hindi: नरेन्द्रनाथ दत्त) (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is considered one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the Vedanta philosophy. ... রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর — Gurudev. ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India, and the Indian independence movement. ... Bimal Krishna Matilal is regaded as one of the foremost Indian philosophers of modern times. ... Sri Ramanuja Acharya (traditionally dated 1017–1137 CE) was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of Sri Vaishnavism. ... Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (September 5, 1888 – April 17, 1975) is best known as the man who introduced the thinking of western idealist philosophers into Indian thought. ... Sri Adi Sankara Adi Shankaracharya or Adi Shankara (the first Shankara in his lineage), reverentially called Bhagavatpada Acharya (the teacher at the feet of Lord), Shankara (approximately 509- 477 BC (though some claim 788-820 CE)) was the most famous Advaita philosopher who had a profound influence on the growth... Tiruvalluvar was one of the greatest Tamil poets. ... Vallabhacharya (1479 - 1531) called his system of thought Shuddhadvaita (pure monism). ... A statue depicting Nagarjuna Nāgārjuna (నాగార్జునా in Telugu, 龍樹 in Chinese) (c. ...

Politics

Presidents: President of India

Dr.Rajendra Prasad,First president of India(1950-62)

Prime Ministers: Prime Minister of India

• Incumbent Indian Chief Ministers

Chief Ministers (Tamil Nadu): List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

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P-R

• Raj Narain
• P Chidambaram
• P.K. Vasudevan Nair
• P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Pranab Mukherjee
• Pratapsinh Rane, Chief Minister of Goa
• R R Patil, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Rabri Devi (born 1959)
• Rahul Gandhi, MP from Amethi
• Rajnath Singh,President BJP
• Raj Thackeray, (born 1968)
• Rajendra Prasad
• Rajiv Pratap Rudy
• Ram Vilas Paswan (born 1946)
• Ravi Shankar Prasad

P. Chidambaram is the finance minister of India in the Congress-led UPA government (2004-2009). ... P.K. Vasudevan Nair (b. ... Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (పాములపర్తి వెంకట నరసింహారావు in Telugu,[Malayalam], sathyam sivam sundharamformer actor and winner of national award of best actor golden globe award winner, Oscar award nominee,man of the match in the test series of 2004 with pakistan securing 4 wickets , bowled mushraff , clean, bowled on the leg stump... Pranab Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee (born December 11, 1935, West Bengal, India) is the Defence minister of India in the Manmohan Singh government. ... Pratapsinh Rane (also known as Pratapsing Rane or Prataphsin Rane), (born 1939) is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. ... The chief minister of Goa is the head of government of the state of Goa in India. ... R R Patil is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. ... Deputy chief minister is an optional post in some states of India second to the chief minister. ... Maharashtra (Devanagari: महाराष्ट्र, literally: Great Nation)( (help· info)) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... Rabri Devi Rabri Devi (born 1959) is the 30th chief minister of Bihar (Term: March 11, 2000 - 2005 (5 years)). She is from the Rashtriya Janata Dal. ... Rahul Gandhi (born June 19, 1970) is a rising Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India from the Indian National Congress. ... Amethi is a place in India, in the south-west part of Sultanpur. ... President, BJP Shri Rajnath Singh was born on July 10, 1951 in village Bhabhora, Tehsil Chakia of district Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in a simple farmer’s family of the Late Ram Badan Singh and the Late Gujarati Devi. ... Raj Thackeray (born June 14, 1968) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. ... Dr. Rajendra Prasad (December 3, 1884 – February 28, 1963) was the first President of India. ... Categories: Indian people stubs | Indian politicians ... Ram Vilas Paswan Ram Vilas Paswan (born July 5, 1946) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. ...

S-Y

• S M Krishna
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950)
• Sharad Pawar (born 1940)
• Sheila Dikshit (born 1938)
• Shibu Soren (born 1944)
• Shivraj Patil
• Somnath Chatterjee
• Sonia Gandhi (born 1946)
• Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945)
• Suresh Kalmadi (born 1944)
• Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941)
• T. Nagi Reddy (communist revolutionary leader of Andhra Pradesh)
• Pt. Tarkeshwar Pandey
• Venkaiah Naidu, BJP
• Vilasrao Deshmukh
• Vinay Katiyar
• Yashwant Sinha (born 1937)

Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, generally referred to as S M Krishna is an Indian politician. ... Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (October 31, 1875–December 15, 1950), popularly referred to as Sardar, was an Indian statesman, an important leader of the Indian National Congress and the deputy Prime Minister in the first cabinet of Independent India. ... Sharad Pawar Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (born December 12, 1940) is president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he formed in 1999 in India. ... Sheila Dikshit (sometimes rendered Dixit) (born March 31, 1938) is the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. ... Shibu Soren Shibu Soren (born January 11, 1944) is an Indian politician. ... Shivraj Patil is the Union Home Minister in the Manmohan Singh government. ... Somnath Chatterjee (Bangla: সোমনাথ চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (born July 25, 1929 in Tezpur, Assam) is a politician in India. ... Sonia Gandhi (सोनिया गाँधी) (born December 9, 1946), is an Italian-born Indian politician, the President of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. ... Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Subhash Chandra Bose (Bangla: সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু, or, Ŝübhāŝ Chãndrâ Bâŝü) (January 23, 1897 – August 18, 1945?note), also known as Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. ... Suresh Kalmadi (born May 1, 1944, Pune, Maharashtra) is an Indian politician and businessman. ... Sushilkumar Shinde Sushilkumar Shinde (born September 4, 1941, Sholapur, Maharashtra) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. ... Tarimala Nagi Reddy was a communist politician from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ... Andhra Pradesh: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్; Ä€ndhra Prādesh), is a state in Eastern India and is part of the linguistic-cultural region of South India but is also considered Eastern and sometimes even Central India. ... Pt. ... Categories: Indian politicians | Politics stubs ... BJP could mean one of Indias largest political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party British Journal of Photography British Journal of Psychiatry British Journal of Pharmocology This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Vilasrao Dadoji Deshmukh (born May 25, 1945) is an Indian politician from the Marathwada region of the state of Maharashtra. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Indian people stubs | Indian politicians ... Yashwant Sinha Yashwant Sinha (born November 6, 1937) is an Indian politician belonging to the BJP and a former finance minister and foreign minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayees cabinet. ...

Religion

alphabetically:

• A.C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada
• Acharya Mahapragya( Terapanth Guru)
• Acharya Tulsi(Terapanth Guru)
• 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
• Ram Dutt Joshi, Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• 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
• Lord Swaminarayan - the founder of Swaminarayan Sampraday.
  • Guru Gunatit swami
  • Guru Bhagatji Maharaj
  • Guru Shashtriji Maharaj
  • Guru Yogiji Maharaj
  • Guru Hariprasad Swamiji

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (September 1, 1896–November 14, 1977) was born Abhay Charan De, in Kolkata, West Bengal. ... Sri Adi Sankara Adi Shankaracharya or Adi Shankara (the first Shankara in his lineage), reverentially called Bhagavatpada Acharya (the teacher at the feet of Lord), Shankara (approximately 509- 477 BC (though some claim 788-820 CE)) was the most famous Advaita philosopher who had a profound influence on the growth... Abul Hasan Yaminuddin Khusrau (1253-1325 AD), better known as Amir Khusro Dehlavi, is one of Indias greatest poets. ... Śrī Aurobindo Śrī Aurobindo (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, Hindu mystic, Evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. ... Caitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST ) (Bangla ) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). ... Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, founder-acharya of the Gaudiya Math Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada (1874-1937), the well-known preacher of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, was born Bimal Prasad Dutta in the seaside pilgramge town of Jagganath Puri, Orissa, India. ... Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj at Tompkins Square Park August 24, 2001 Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami Maharaj was born in the village of Fulta, adjacent to the city of Berhampur in the state of Orissa, India in the year 1913. ... Bhaktivinode Thakur (1838-1914), a prominent figure among the Gaudiya Vaishnavas of Bengal, was born Kedarnath Datta in the town of Birangara, Bengal, India. ... Farid is a Persian and Arabic masculine personal name. ... Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE, Musée Guimet. ... Buddhism (Pāli Buddhadhamma or Sanskrit Buddhadharma) is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following his death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and... Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 11, 1895 Madanapalle, India - February 17, 1986 Ojai, California) was discovered as a young boy by C.W. Leadbeater in India on the private beach, that was part of the Theosophical headquarters in Adyar in Chennai. ... Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal (born July 18, 1935 as Subramanyam Mahadeva Iyer) is the 69th Shankaracharya (guru and head (Peetadhipathi) of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham), a Hindu religious order. ... Ram Dutt Joshi (16 November 1916 - 26 December 1976) was an Indian Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1968. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist, the largest mainline, and, after the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. ... Kabir (also Kabira, Hindi: , Punjabi: , Urdu: , 1440 - 1518) was an Indian mystic who preached an ideal of seeing all of humanity as one. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mata Amritanandamayi Mātā Amá¹›tānandamayÄ« Devi(माता अमृतानन्‍दमयी), also known as Amma, Ammachi or Mother (born September 27, 1953), was born Sudhamani in the small village of Parayakadavu, near Kollam, Kerala. ... Meera (1498 - 1547) was a Rajput princess who lived in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. ... Narayana Guru Nārāyana Guru (नारायण गुरु,നാരായണ ഗുരു) (1856 - 1928) was a great sage and social reformer of India. ... Nisargadatta Maharaj (April 1897 - September 8, 1981) was a seller of cigarettes in Mumbai (known formerly as Bombay) and was considered by many an enlightened being and a master of spirituality. ... OSHO, who used to be referred to as Rajneesh. ... Prem Rawat or Maharaji. ... Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa (February 18, 1836 - August 16, 1886) was a Bengali religious leader. ... This article is about the original, turn of the century Shirdi Sai Baba from Bombay state (now Maharashtra). ... Sathya Sai Baba (Born Sathya Narayana Raju with the family name of Ratnakaram [1], November 23, 1926 or October 4, 1929[2]) is a controversial South Indian guru described by his millions of followers as a Godman [3] [4] and as a miracle worker [5]. According to the Sathya Sai... Dnyaneshwar (1275-1296) was a Hindu saint and poet who lived in Alandi Maharashtra, India at the end of the thirteenth century. ... Gajanan Maharaj is considered by Hindus to be a saint with miraculous powers. ... The Six Gosvamis of Vrindavan consist of; the brothers Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, their nephew Jiva Gosvami, Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and Gopala Bhatta Gosvami. ... Swami Vivekananda (Bangla: স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ, Hindi: स्वामी विवेकानन्द) (whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta Bangla: নরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত, Hindi: नरेन्द्रनाथ दत्त) (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is considered one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the Vedanta philosophy. ... Goswami Tulsidas (1532-1623; Hindi: तुलसीदास) was a Hindi poet and philosopher. ... The Rāmāyana (Sanskrit: रामायण, march or journey (Ä€yana) of Rāma) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ... Sikhism was established by ten Gurus, teachers or masters, over the period 1469 to 1708. ... The Golden Temple is a sacred shrine for Sikhs Sikhism (Punjabi: , ), is a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of ten Gurus who lived in northern India during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... Guru Nanak Dev Guru Nanak Dev (Punjabi: ) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539), was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus of the Sikhs. ... Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji (Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ) (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552) was the second of The Ten Gurus of Sikhism. ... Sri Guru Amar Das Ji (Punjabi: ) (5 April 1479 – 1 September 1574) was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 26 March 1552 following in the footsteps of Guru Angad Dev, who died 29 March 1552. ... Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (Punjabi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮ ਦਾਸ ਜੀ) (24 September 1534 – 1 September 1581) was the fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 30 August 1574 following in the footsteps of Guru Amar Das. ... Guru Arjan Dev Ji (15 April 1563 - 30 May 1606) was the fifth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 1 September 1581 following in the footsteps of Guru Ram Das ji. ... Guru Har Gobind Ji (19 June 1595 - 03 March 1644) was the sixth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 25 May 1606 following in the footsteps of his father Guru Arjan Dev Ji. ... Guru Har Rai (Punjabi: ) (26 February 1630 - 6 October 1661) was the seventh of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 8 March 1644 following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Guru Har Gobind. ... Sri Guru Har Krishan Ji (Punjabi: ) (7 July 1656 - 30 March 1664) was the eighth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 7 October 1661 following in the footsteps of his father, Guru Har Rai. ... Guru Teg Bahadur (Punjabi: ) (April 1, 1621 - November 11, 1675) was the ninth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism, and he became Guru on March 20, 1665 following in the footsteps of his grand-nephew, Guru Har Krishan . ... Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (Punjabi: ) (Patna, Bihar, India, December 22, 1666 – October 7, 1708, Nanded, Maharashtra,India) was the tenth and last of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on November 11, 1675 following in the footsteps of his father Guru Teg Bahadur. ... Purna-Purushottam Lord Shree Swaminarayan The Lord is never born, although He may show that He is going through the process of human birth. ...

Royalty

Further information: List of Indian monarchs

• Akbar the Great, greatest Mughal emperor
• Ashoka the Great, greatest Maurya emperor, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya
• Aurangzeb, son of Shah Jahan
• Babur, founder of Mughal Empire
• Bindusara
• Chandragupta Maurya, founder of Mauryan Empire
• Chandra Gupta I, founder of Gupta Empire
• Chandra Gupta II (Chandragupta Vikramaditya)
• Hyder Ali, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore
• Jahanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan
• Jahangir (Shehzada Salim), son of Akbar the Great
• Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi
• Mumtaz Mahal
• Rajendra Chola
• Raja Ravi Varma
• Samudragupta
• Shah Jahan, son of Jahangir, builder of Taj Mahal
• Sher Shah Suri
• Shivaji
• Tipu Sultan, greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, son of Hyder Ali

... This page lists rulers of the Maurya empire, centred in Magadha. ... The following list of Indian monarchs is one of several Wikipedia lists of incumbents. ... Jalauddin Akbar Jalaluddin Muhammad Akb r, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, 1542 – 1605) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from the time of his accession in 1556 until 1605. ... The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... This article is about Ashoka, the emperor. ... Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), known to the Greeks as Sandracottus, was the first emperor of the Mauryan empire. ... Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), also known as Sandrokottos to the Greeks, was the founder of the Mauryan Empire. ... Aurangzeb (from Persian, اورنگ‌زیب meaning befitting the throne),(November 3, 1618 – March 3, 1707, also known as Alamgir I, was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1658 until 1707. ... Ghiyasuddin Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. ... Zahir-ud-din Mohammad Babur (Persian: محمد بابر) (February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530), (also spelled ), Emperor and Founder of the Mughal dynasty of India. ... Extent of Mughal empire in the late 1600s: the Mughals ruled all but the southern tip of the subcontinent. ... Bindusara was the second Mauryan emperor (297 - c. ... Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), also known as Sandrokottos to the Greeks, was the founder of the Mauryan Empire. ... The Mauryan empire (321 to 185 BCE), at its largest extent around 230 BCE. The Lion Capital of Asoka, erected around 250 BCE. It is the emblem of India. ... Italic textei peOpLe!! .. iF thiS is fOr uR a. ... The Gupta Empire in 400 CE (not including vassal states) The Gupta Empire was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India. ... The period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India. ... Hyder Ali or Haidar Ali (c. ... The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, which was founded about 1400 AD by the Wodeyar dynasty, who ruled the state until the independence of India in 1947, when the kingdom was merged with the Union of India. ... Shahzadi (Imperial Princess) Jahanara Begum (April 2, 1614–September 16, 1681) was the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. ... Ghiyasuddin Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. ... Nuruddin Jahangir (Persian: نور الدین جہھانگر) (August 31, 1569 – October 28, 1627) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until 1627. ... Jalauddin Akbar Jalaluddin Muhammad Akb r, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, 1542 – 1605) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from the time of his accession in 1556 until 1605. ... Rani Lakshmi Bai, the queen of Jhansi, a Maratha-ruled princely state of northern India, was one of the great nationalist heroes of the Revolt of 1857, and a symbol of resistance to British rule in India. ... Jhansi is a city of Uttar Pradesh state, India. ... Arjumand Banu Begum was born April 1593 in Agra. ... Rajendra Chola I was the son of Rajaraja Chola I, the great Chola king of South India. ... Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. ... Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (c. ... Ghiyasuddin Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. ... Nuruddin Jahangir (Persian: نور الدین جہھانگر) (August 31, 1569 – October 28, 1627) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until 1627. ... The Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal (Hindi: , Persian & Urdu: ) is a monument located in Agra in India, constructed between 1631 and 1654 by a workforce of more than twenty thousand. ... For the recipient of the Victoria Cross see Sher Shah (VC). ... Shivaji Bhonslé, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonslé (Marathi: छत्रपती शिवाजीराजे भोसले)( (help· info)) was the founder of the Maratha empire in western India in 1674 which was instrumental in the downfall of the Mughal Empire. ... A potrait of Tipu Sultan by Edward Orme (1774 -1822). ... The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, which was founded about 1400 AD by the Wodeyar dynasty, who ruled the state until the independence of India in 1947, when the kingdom was merged with the Union of India. ... Hyder Ali or Haidar Ali (c. ...

Sciences

The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus valley civilization and the Vedas to Modern times. ...

A-C

• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• A.Gioalakrishnan
• Acharya P.C. Roy
• Anil Kakodkar
• Dr. Anu T Singh
• Aryabhata I (Aryabhata the Elder), astronomer and mathematician
• Aryabhata II, astronomer and mathematician
• Ashesh Prosade Mitra
• Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
• Autar Singh Paintal
• Bhaskara I, mathematician
• Bhaskar Acharya (Bhaskara II), mathematician and astronomer, inventor of differential calculus
• Birbal Sahni
• Brahmagupta, mathematician and astronomer, first to document the modern place-value numeral system (Hindu-Arabic numeral system)
• C.N.R. Rao
• Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
• C.V. Raman
• Colathur Gopalan

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India), usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is the President of India. ... Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear scientist. ... Aryabhata (आर्यभट) Ä€ryabhaá¹­a) (476 - 550) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... Aryabhata II (920-1000) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the Maha_Siddhanta. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... Ashesh Prosad Mitra is a physicist who headed the National Physics Laboratory in Delhi, India. ... Ashoke Sen at Harvard Ashoke Sen is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on string theory. ... Autar Singh Paintal (b. ... Bhāskara, or Bhāskara I, (c. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... Bhaskara (1114-1185), also called Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya (Bhaskara the teacher) was an Indian mathematician-astronomer. ... Bhāskara (1114-1185), also called Bhāskara II and Bhāskarācārya (Bhaskara the teacher) was an Indian mathematician. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... Differential calculus is the theory of and computations with differentials; see also derivative and calculus. ... Birbal Sahni, FRS (1891-1949) Notable Indian palaeontologist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. ... Brahmagupta (ब्रह्मगुप्त) (598-668) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... The place value system is a method of writing numbers with a base 10 numerical system. ... A numeral is a symbol or group of symbols that represents a number. ... The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (also called Algorism) is a positional decimal numeral system documented from the 9th century. ... Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao (born June 30, 1934, Bangalore, India) is an Indian chemist. ... Calyampudi Radhakrishnan Rao (born September 10, 1920) is a famous Indian statistician and currently professor emeritus at Penn State University. ... Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (चन्द्रशेखर वेङ्कट रामन्) (November 7, 1888-November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist. ... Colathur Gopalan (1918-) is a top medical nutritionalist who has done pioneering work on nutritional deficiency. ...

D-L

• Devendra Lal
• Satish Dhawan
• Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran
• Ganesh Prasad
• George Sudarshan
• Goverdhan Mehta
• Govind Swaroop
• Hargobind Khorana
• Harish Chandra
• Homi Jehangir Bhabha
• Jagdish Chandra Bose, pioneer of radio and wireless transmission
• 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
• Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire and first female physician to be trained in the European system of medicine in South Asia
• Krishnaswami Kasturirangan

Prof. ... Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (8 October 1922 - 7 April 2001), is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, best known for creating the Ramachandran Map for understanding peptide structure. ... Ganesh Prasad is regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. ... E.C.G. Sudarshan (September 16, 1931, Pallam, in Kottayam district of Kerala) is a prominent Indian physicist and author. ... Dr. Govind Swaroop is an internationally renowned radio astronomer based in Pune, India. ... Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922) is a molecular biologist. ... See Harishchandra for the character in Hindu mythology Harish-Chandra (11 October 1923-16 October 1983) was an Indian terrorist , who did fundamental work in representation theory. ... Homi Jehangir Bhabha (October 30, 1909- January 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who had a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program. ... Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) Jagdish Chandra Bose (Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু)(November 30, 1858–November 23, 1937) was a leading Indian physicist of his age. ... Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph; now the term is used to describe modern wireless connections such as in cellular networks and wireless broadband Internet. ... The eminent astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was born in Kolhapur, in the state of Maharashtra, India on July 19, 1938. ... Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla (July 1, 1961 – February 1, 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. ... K. G. Ramanathan Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan (November 13, 1920 - May 10, 1992) was a front rank Indian mathematician of international reputation with distinguished and well-recognized achievements in number theory. ... Gurdev Singh Khush is a top rice scientist who has done pioneering work on rice genetics. ... Lagadha (लगध) is the author of Vedanga Jyotisha, the text on Vedic astronomy that has been dated to 1350 BC. This text describes rules for tracking the motions of the sun and the moon. ... Lewis Leigh Fermor was a British geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy. ... Kadambini Basu Ganguly (1861-1923) was the one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire and the first female physician of South Asia to be trained in the European system of medicine. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in red, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... This article is about the continent. ... South Asia or Southern Asia is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent. ... A brilliant space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organization until 2003 and is now a member of Indian Parliament. ...

M-S

• M.G.K.Menon
• Madhava of Sangamagrama, mathematician, father of mathematical analysis
• Madhu Sudan
• Sisir Kumar Mitra
• G.Balakrish Nair
• Meghnad Saha
• Mriganka Sur
• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
• Vandana Shiva
• Nilakantha Somayaji
• Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
• Panini, Sanskrit grammarian, considered father of computing machines
• Pingala, mathematician, inventor of binary numbers
• Prakash Narain Tandon
• Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
• Raja Ramanna
• Rakesh Sharma, first Indian astronaut
• Roddam Narasimha
• Sudhir Divecha
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• S. Bhagvantam
• Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
• C.S. Seshadri
• Obaid Siddiqui
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Prakash Narain Tandon
• Jamshed Rustom Tata

Madhava (माधव) of Sangamagrama (1350-1425) was a major mathematician from Kerala, South India. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... Analysis is the generic name given to any branch of mathematics which depends upon the concepts of limits and convergence, and studies closely related topics such as continuity, integration, differentiability and transcendental functions. ... Madhu Sudan (मधु सूदन) (b. ... Sisir Kumar Mitra [or Shishirkumar Mitra] (October 24, 1890–August 13, 1963) was an Indian physicist. ... G. Balakrish Nair is a top Indian microbiologist who has done pioneering work on cholera in Bangladesh. ... Meghnad Saha (मेघनाथ साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist. ... Brief biography: Mriganka Sur is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ... Nirmal Kumar Ganguly (born 1941) is a top Indian scientist currently heading the Indian Council for Medical Research. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Nilakantha Somayaji (नीलकण्ठ सोमयाजि) (1444-1544), from Kerala, was a major mathematician and astronomer. ... Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born August 7, 1925) is a Indian agriculturist and heads the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. ... (IPA ) was an ancient Gandharan grammarian (approximately 5th century BC, but estimates range from the 7th to the 3rd centuries) who is most famous for formulating the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology known as the . ... Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... Pingala (पिङ्गल) is the author of the Chhandah-shastra, the Sanskrit book on meters, or long syllables. ... The chronology of Indian mathematics spans from the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1500 BC) and Vedic civilization (1500-500 BC) to modern India (21st century CE). ... The binary numeral system represents numeric values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. ... Prakash Narain Tandon, born in 1928, was the doyen of Indian neuroscience. ... Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (born 1934) is the director of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India. ... Raja Ramanna (1925 - September 23, 2004), was an Indian nuclear scientist and was associated with the countrys first nuclear test in 1974. ... Rakesh Sharma is also an Omani cricketer. ... Ramanujan Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a groundbreaking Indian mathematician. ... Satyendra Nath Bose on an Indian stamp Satyendra Nath Bose /sɐθ.jin. ... Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar (1895 - 1955) was born in Bera, Punjab in 1895. ... Obaid Siddiqui (born 1933) is a neurogeneticist who has done pioneering work on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. ... Born and educated in Calcutta, India, the life and death of Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay has been the subject of countless newspaper reviews and a Bollywood film directed by Tapan Sinha entitled Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Death of a physician). ... This article is about the Indian-American physicist. ... Prakash Narain Tandon, born in 1928, was the doyen of Indian neuroscience. ...

V-Z

• V.Radhakrishnan
• Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
• Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
• Vikram Sarabhai
• Yellapragada Subbarao
• U.R.Rao
• Sir Mokshgundam Visvesvarayya
• Yajnavalkya
• Dr. Rajender Singh Sangwan

Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran on an episode of PBSs NOVA Television program. ... Vulimiri Ramalingaswami ( August 8, 1921 - May 28, 2001) was one of the most brilliant medical scientists India has produced in the last century. ... Dr. Vikram Sarabhai (from NASA archive) Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was a great Indian physicist. ... Yellapragada Subbarao (Subba Row or Subba Rao) (January 12, 1895-August 1948) born to a very poor family in South India, he remains in the views of many the most notable medical scientist to emerge from India. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Sage Yajnavalkya of Mithila (perhaps 1800 BC) advanced a 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon. ...

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
• Syed Ahmed Khan Educator and founder of Aligarh Muslim University

This article is actively undergoing a major edit for a short while. ... Arundhati Roy in Sydney to accept the Sydney Peace Prize. ... Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) (Save Narmada Movement) is a peoples movement that mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India. ... Murlidhar Devidas Amte (born December 24, 1914), or Baba Amte, as he is fondly known, was born in Wardha in a family of jagirdars. ... Cover of the book Jayaprakash by Lakshminarayan Lal. ... Known and loved by millions of villagers and city-folk of India and theworld over, Medha Patkar, founder of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and the National Alliance of Peoples Movements, was born on 1 December 1954 in Bombay. ... Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) (Save Narmada Movement) is a peoples movement that mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India. ... Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, OM (August 27, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was a Macedonian-born Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity. ... Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Nobel Peace Prize (1979) Winner Mother Teresa to tend to the sick and dying, especially, the poorest of the poor. Order has been founded in 1950. ... General O.P. Malhotra Born on August 6, 1922 in Srinagar (city), Kashmir, General Om Prakash Malhotra was the 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. ... Sudha Murty (born in Karnataka, India in 1950) is an Indian social worker and accomplished author. ... Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) (incorporated in 1992, in operation since 1981) is an India based global IT Services, IT Solutions and Technology Servicesminor. ... Sundarlal Bahuguna is a noted environmentalist who has fought for the preservation of the Himalayas. ... Swami Keshwanand (1883-1972) was an Indian freedom fighter and social reformer. ... Vinoba Bhave (September 11, 1895–November 15, 1982), born Vinayak Narahari Bhave, often called Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Acharya in Sanskrit means teacher) is considered as a National Teacher of India who has left his firm imprint on the religious, social and political consciousness of India. ... Sarvodaya (Sanskrit and Hindi: सर्वोदय) is a term meaning universal uplift or progress of all. It was coined by the Indian nonviolent activist Vinoba Bhave to refer to the struggle of post-independence Gandhians to ensure that self-determination and equality reached the masses and the downtrodden. ... Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Bahadur, born on October 17, 1817 at Delhi, died March 27, 1898 at Aligarh, was a Muslim educator, jurist, and author, founder of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College, which later became Aligarh Muslim University, at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Victoria gate, a prominent building at the university Aligarh Muslim University is a university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. ...

Sports

A-L

• Anil Kumble, Cricket
• Anju George, athlete
• Ashok Kumar, hockey
• Baichung Bhutia, Football
• Chandu Borde, Cricket
• Dhanraj Pillay, Hockey
• Dilip Vengsarkar, Cricket
• Dhyan Chand, Hockey
• Gagan Narang, Shooting
• 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
• Kunjarani Devi, Weightlifting
• Lakshmipathy Balaji, Cricket
• Leander Paes, Tennis

Anil Radhakrishna Kumble (pronounced COOM-bley) (born October 17, 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian cricketer and has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1990. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Anju Bobby George (born on April 19, 1977) is an Indian athlete. ... Ashok Kumar could be Ashok Kumar, an actor Ashok Kumar, a United Kingdom politician Ashok Kumar, Director - Operations for Prakash Electric Co. ... Baichung Bhutia (born December 15, 1976 in Tinkitam) is a football player from India. ... Chandu Borde (July 21, 1934-) is an Indian cricketer (batting allrounder) who was a member of the Indian national cricket team between 1958 and 1970. ... Dhanraj Pillay (born July 16, 1968) is a former field hockey player and captain of the Indian hockey team. ... Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar (born April 6, 1956 in Rajapur, Maharashtra) was an Indian cricketer. ... Commemorative stamp issued by the Indian post in 1980. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... Gagan Narang is an Indian shooter. ... Geet Sethi (born April 17, 1961) is an Indian billiards player who has dominated the sport of billiards throughout much of the 1990s. ... Pullela Gopichand (born on November 16, 1973 in Nagandla, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian Badminton player. ... Harbhajan Singh (born: July 3, 1980) is a cricketer (right arm off spin bowler) from India. ... Javagal Srinath (born August 31, 1969) is an Indian cricketer. ... Jyoti Randhawa (born May 4, 1972, New Delhi, India) is a professional golfer. ... Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj was the former captian of the Indian Cricket Team. ... Karan Rastogi (born October 8, 1986, Mumbai, India) is an Indian tennis player. ... Karnam Malleswari (born June 1, 1975) is an Indian Weightlifter. ... Kunjarani at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she won Gold. ... Lakshmipathy Balaji (born September 27, 1981, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian cricketer and member of the Indian cricket team since 2003. ... Leander Adrian Paes (born June 17, 1973) is currently one of the most successful players of the tennis Mens Doubles and Mixed Doubles circuits. ...

M-V

• 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
• Robin Uthappa, cricket
• Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
• Sania Mirza, Tennis
• Sourav Ganguly, Cricket
• Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
• Sushma Rana, shooting
• Syed Mohammed Hadi, Cricket and Tennis
• Tejaswini Sawant, shooting
• Vijay Amritraj, lawn tennis
• Virender Sehwag, Cricket
• Viswanathan Anand, Chess

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born June 7, 1974, Madras, India) is a professional tennis player from India. ... Mansoor (Mansur) Ali Khan, the 9th Nawab of Pataudi (Jr. ... Milkha Singh, a Sikh athlete who represented India in the 1960 Rome Olympics. ... Mohammed Azharuddin. ... Mohinder Amarnath is an Indian cricketer. ... Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan (born January 14, 1977, Chennai, India) is a Formula One driver. ... Grandmaster P Harikrishna is a chess player from India. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... Prakash Padukone (born June 10, 1955) is a famous badminton player from India. ... Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born June 27, 1964) is an Indian athlete. ... The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. ... Ramesh Krishnan (born June 5, 1961, in Madras, India) was one of Indias foremost tennis players. ... Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian cricket team. ... Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India) is an Indian shooter who won the first individual silver medal for the country in 2004 Summer Olympics. ... Aiyudda Robin Uthappa (born 11 November 1985 in Coorg, Karnataka) is an Indian Cricketer. ... Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer. ... Sania on a cover of India Today Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986 in Mumbai) is an Indian tennis player. ... Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (the first name occasionally spelt Saurav) is an Indian cricketer. ... Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 at Bombay, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. ... Sushma Rana is a professional Indian shooter. ... Syed Mohammed Hadis obituary in the Indian Express newspaper Syed Mohammed (S.M.) Hadi (b. ... Tejaswini Sawant (born: 12 September 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. ... Vijay Amritraj (born December 14, 1953) in Madras, India, is a former tennis champion and actor. ... Virender Singh Sehwag (born 20 October 1978, in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer (batsman) and member of the Indian national cricket team since 1998 (one-dayers) and 2001 (Tests). ... Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan Anand (IPA: ) (born December 11, 1969 in Chennai (then called Madras), India) is an Indian chess grandmaster. ...

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
• Sayyid Ahmad, Shiite religious scholar, grandfather of Khomeini.
• Ayatollah Khomeini,Iranian religious leader, Indian grandfather
• 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
• 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 author
• Rudyard Kipling, British author 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
• Rodney D. Ryder, lawyer, academician and author
• 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
• Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, (born 1942), Chief Justice of India

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See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of Indians by state
• List of Indian Americans
• List of British Asian people
• List of Indian monarchs
• List of Indian mathematicians
• List of Indians to appear on the cover of TIME magazine
• List of Indians commemorated in the editorial page of the New York Times