(INFO) List of famous Indians

(INFO) List of famous Indians

Armed forces

• General O.P. Malhotra, Ex-Army Chief, Governor of Punjab, Social Worker
  
• Lieutenant General
  Jagjit Singh Aurora (1917-2005)
  
• Lieutenant General
  Joginder Jaswant Singh
  
• Rakesh Sharma, First Indian astronaut
  
• Shashindra Pal Tyagi, Chief of Indian Air Force
  
• Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal
  

Arts

• Amrita Sher-Gil, Painter
  
• K.M.Adimoolam, Modern painter
  
• B V Karanth, Musician
  
• Birju Maharaj, Dancer
  
• Girish Karnad, Playwright
  
• Jatin Das, Painter
  
• 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
  

Business and Industry

See also: Influential businessmen of India

• Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Limited
  
• Amar Bose, Founder Bose Corporation
  
• Anand Chandrasekaran, Founder Aeroprise Inc.
  
• Arjun Malhotra, co-founder, HCL Technologies
  
• Shiv Nadar, HCL Technologies & Forbes List of Billionaires
  
• Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro
  
• Dewang Mehta, ex-Chief of NASSCOM
  
• Sunil Mittal, Bharti Tele-Ventures
  
• Srichand Hinduja, Chairman & Patriarch, Hinduja Group
  
• J.R.D. Tata, Industrialist, Tata Group
  
• Ratan Tata, Tata Sons
  
• GD Birla, Industrialist, Birla Group
  
• Kumaramangalam Birla, Industrialist, Aditya Birla Group
  
• T.V. Sundaram Iyengar, Founder & Chairman, TVS Group
  
• Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, Godrej Industries
  
• Adi Godrej, Godrej Industries
  
• T.T. Krishnamachari, Founder, TTK Group & 1st Finance Minister of India
  
• R.P. Goenka, RPG Group
  
• Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank
  
• Y.K. Hamied, Cipla
  
• M.A. Chidambaram, Madras-based Industrialist. Founder of SPIC
  
• Jamnalal Bajaj
  
• Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Auto
  
• Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, Mittal Steel
  
• Arun Limaye
  
• Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman, Videocon India
  
• Y.C. Deveshwar, ITC Group
  
• Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder of Reliance Group
  
• Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Group
  
• Anil Ambani, Reliance Group
  
• N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder Infosys
  
• Thakiyudeen Wahid, Aviator & Founder of East-West Airlines
  
• Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder Hotmail
  
• Pallonji Mistry, Shapoorji Pallonji Group
  
• P.R.S. Oberoi, Chairman, Oberoi Group of Hotels
  
• Jagdish Khattar, Chief Managing Director, Maruti Udyog
  
• Sanjiv Sidhu, founder i2 Technologies
  
• Rakesh Jhunjunwala, India's biggest share broker
  
• Shantanu Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Kirloskar Group
  
• Subrata Roy, Sahara India Parivar
  
• Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways
  
• Verghese Kurien, Founder - Operation Flood
  
• Bobby Kishore, General Manager, Microsoft Corporation
  
• Vijay Mallya, Chairman, UB group of companies
  
• Vinod Khosla, co-Founder Sun Microsystems
  
• Vivek Paul, CEO of Wipro
  
• Rajeev Karwal, ex-CEO, Electrolux India
  
• Raghvendra Narendra Dhoot, CEO, Raghav's Picks
  
• Abdul Razak Allana, ARJ Allana Group
  

Cartoonists

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

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
  

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

• 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
  

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
  
• Manil Suri novelist
  
• Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poetess
  
• Maithilisharan Gupta, 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
  
• 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
  
• Aditya Nitsure
  

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

• Khushwant Singh
  
• M. J. Akbar, chief editor, Asian Age
  
• Prannoy Roy, president, NDTV
  
• Arun Shourie, journalist
  
• Pritish Nandy
  
• Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, research coordinator, Doordarshan
  
• Saeed Naqvi
  
• Sanjay Pugalia, director, STAR News
  
• Sanjay Gupta, Anchor, CNN CNN Page on Sanjay Gupta
  
• Vir Sanghvi, editor, Hindustan Times
  
• Vinod Mehta, editor Outlook
  
• Monita Rajpal, Anchor, CNN CNN Page on Monita Rajpal
  

Movies

Directors Adoor Gopalakrishnan Aditya Chopra Bimal Roy Boney Kapoor David Dhawan Dev Anand Farah Khan Farhan Akhtar Gulzar Gurinder Chadha Guru Dutt Hrishikesh Mukherjee Ismail Merchant K C Bokadia Kaizad Gustad Kamal Amrohi Karan Johar Mani Ratnam Manoj Night Shyamalan (born Indian, later American citizen) Mira Nair Mrinal Sen Nazir Hussain Raj Kapoor Rajkumar Santoshi Ram Gopal Varma Ritwik Ghatak Sai Paranjpe Satish Kaushik Satyajit Ray Shekhar Kapoor Shyam Benegal Subhash Ghai Subodh Mukherjee Shakti Samanta Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vijay Anand Vishal Bharadwaj Yash Chopra

Producers Amitabh Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. (ABCL) Aziz Mirza, Dreamz Unlimited Boney Kapoor, Narsimha Enterprises Dev Anand, Navketan Films Gulshan Rai, Trimurti Films Juhi Chawla, Dreamz Unlimited K C Bokadia K.T. Kunjumon, Gentleman Films Mira Nair, Mirabai Films Mohanlal, Pranavam Arts Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Films Pooja Bhatt, initially Pooja Bhatt Productions, Fish Eye Network Raj Kapoor, R.K. Films Ram Gopal Varma, Varma Corporation Ltd. Shahrukh Khan, Dreamz Unlimited Sooraj Barjatya, Rajshri Films Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts Subodh Mukherjee Sunil Dutt, Ajanta Arts Vidhu Vinod Chopra Yash Chopra, Yashraj Films Yash Johar, Dharma Productions Bobby Bedi, Kaleidoscope Entertainment

Music

• Abhijeet - Singer
  
• Alka Yagnik - Singer
  
• Amjad Ali Khan
  
• Anil Biswas - Composer
  
• Anu Malik - Composer
  
• A.R. Rahman - Composer
  
• Asha Bhosle - Singer
  
• Babul Supriyo - Singer
  
• Bappi Lahiri
  
• Balamurali Krishna
  
• Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar
  
• Freddie Mercury - Singer of band Queen(born in Zanzibar to Indian parents,later British citizen)
  
• Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao - Composer and Singer
  
• Geeta Dutt - Singer
  
• Hemant Kumar - Composer and Singer
  
• Himesh Reshamiya - Composer and Singer
  
• Hridaynath Mangeshkar - Composer
  
• Ilayaraja - Composer
  
• Ismail Darbar
  
• Kalyanji Anandji - Composers (Kalyanji Shah and Anandji Shah)
  
• Kartik Seshadri - Sitarist
  
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
  
• Kay Kay - singer
  
• Khayyam - Composer
  
• Kishore Kumar - playback singer, actor
  
• Lata Mangeshkar - Singer
  
• Laxmikant Pyarelal - Composers (Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma]]
  
• Lucky Ali, singer
  
• 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
  
• Rahul Dev Burman, composer
  
• Ravi, composer
  
• Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro
  
• Sachin Dev Burman, composer
  
• Sadhana Sargam
  
• Salil Chowdhury, composer
  
• Shamshad Begum
  
• SP Balasubramanyam - Singer
  
• Sultan Khan
  
• Suraiya, singer
  
• Talat Mahmood, singer
  
• Talvin Singh, composer
  
• Trilok Gurtu, Percussionist
  
• Upanishad Brahmam - Composer
  
• Usha Khanna - Composer
  
• Yesudas, singer, devotional and film songs, exponent of Carnatic music
  
• Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
  

Zubin Mehta, conductor